Updates from the News Frontier - April 30th 2020

[Ceeg_LOTB]

Welcome to this week's News Frontier!

This week the team has released an update that is expressly targeted at improving our server stability. It has been available on Android for most of the day and Apple is on its way (maybe already released at the time of posting this thread)!

Please let us know if you see anything out of the ordinary with this recent update.

Search Function Improvements

We were happy with the reception of the search functions added to the My Team section and we were grateful for all your feedback. So now you can also filter by equipped and unequipped Talismans! On that topic, what are some Quality of Life features that are most important to you in the game? What would you like to see added or improved?

May Events!

A couple of our Events got moved around to help facilitate increased stability to the servers, thanks for understanding when we needed to do that, it definitely made it an easier decision when the Community was behind the team that needed to make the changes to the schedule!

That being said, here is the list of May Events! Hopefully they get to stay in their rightful place.

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Viking Invader Eddie

We released some concept art of Viking Invader Eddie earlier this week! He was taken from an old Iron Maiden t-shirt and I was wondering, do any of you own this shirt?

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That’s it from me this week. But I wanted to see if anyone has been working on any Fan Art recently? I will even allow Ragnar memes if you have them.

Signing off!

^ Ceeg

[hugoW]

That’s it from me this week. But I wanted to see if anyone has been working on any Fan Art recently? I will even allow Ragnar memes if you have them.

Signing off!

^ Ceeg

I know nothing. (https://forum.ironmaidenlegacy.com/showthread.php?13470-Ragnar-Teeth/page1)

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[Natasmai]

Search Function Improvements

We were happy with the reception of the search functions added to the My Team section and we were grateful for all your feedback. So now you can also filter by equipped and unequipped Talismans! On that topic, what are some Quality of Life features that are most important to you in the game? What would you like to see added or improved?

^ Ceeg

I appreciate this addition. However, I would love to see "equipped" "unequipped" and "all" as a third option so we can see how many of a talisman you own.

I also would like to see an "unequip" option when you select a specific equipped talisman.

[Azile]

You are asking for QoL suggestions? OK how about disabling "autoplay" being "on" when you enter a raid? This is so annoying to deal with. You already have this feature for arena where it is automatically set to "off" when you start a match. Please make this feature how raids work.

Next QoL feature: remove the stupid popup to buy the garbage deals for 475 ironite that popup every 10 minutes. Nobody wants to buy those...ever. They are so annoying and I will gladly take any other popup offering deals for real money in their place.

I will go a step further, and make you a deal. When both these things are dealt with, I will spend $100 in the store to celebrate.

[Puntwothree]

It would improve my personal quality of life if "Yellowed Fangs" worked as advertised. It consistently applies Invincibility when you attack into Golden Effects, but no power is generated.

I'm a nut for power generation effects. I don't know if you noticed my one-man Pharaoh Dog crusade...

[Puntwothree]

Also, have a peek at my thread "Danger: Odin in the Red!" If you would kindly...

[thealchemist]

The ability to swap/equip entire talisman sets in one touch. Whether thats by being able to select multiple talismans at a time (touch and drag feature perhaps?) and then select equip/swap or something else altogether. But having to select and swap every individual talisman has been getting old since the 6 talisman sets were introduced.

Good luck trying to run 3 dungeons in the one month again. We all know how that worked out last time. I look forward to the compensation pack that will be the side effect of pushing ahead with that idea :P

[Nicko]

The ability to swap/equip entire talisman sets in one touch. Whether thats by being able to select multiple talismans at a time (touch and drag feature perhaps?) and then select equip/swap or something else altogether. But having to select and swap every individual talisman has been getting old since the 6 talisman sets were introduced.

This x 100

[Maiden]

Thank you for posting Ceeg, and again thks to the team for finally make the talisman searching function available! Could we have that searching option also available for Cosmic talismans pls? (they are not found through the searching option)

Here some other improvements that we have been waiting:

-Option to move and remove the whole talisman set in one move. Maybe keeping pressed/clicked one talisman for more than 1 sec allows you the option to equip/unequip a whole set.

-Filter cosmic talismans in augmentations (having all +15h together for example)

-Navigation into the interfaces is obsolete (Store, Char Selection, Book of souls, etc) the filtering option reduces the navigation issues with the interface but the more items/chars/talismans/etc you have, the more is the surf for them. We could have 2 rows of items/chars instead of one in the char selection screen or something similar to the items at the store.

-In the same line of thinking, the redevelopment of BoS it is also needed, at least separating into lines keys from souls it would be helpful.

-Daily keys are awesome, but their awesomeness is only compared with the unbelievable chore of opening more than one time after 3 fast fights. At least, if we open a Key Dungeon we should have the option of going straightaway into that dungeon from the Bos.

Right now we open the key and we have to press, then we have to press ok again, then we have to go out from the Bos, and then we have to go into the rift and theeeeeeeeen we have to look for the Dungeon and theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeenn we finally are able to click-in into the dungeon. If I´m opening a limited time key is because I want to play it right away :D

-Ability to see whats talismans/effects are equipped in a char from their info screen. It is super helpful when you are about to enter Gauntlet / Odin, if we saw what talisman we have on we could avoid going into the char selection to swap talismans. Also, there is a lot of wasted space in that Info screen for non-Eddie chars, Past/future skills are of course always empty.

-It would be amazing to have an option to do a video of arena/gauntlet fights. If we recorded a fight in our own devices it would be way easier to report a bug uploading a video of the ight in question. Or understand what happened or just share it in here. Yes there are tons of third-company apps to allow this. But a built into the game option it would be better maybe.

[Maiden]

Btw by listening to the community, you make Ragnar smile again! so thank you!!!

[slauki]

the talisman search feature is nice.

another qol suggestion: it would be nice if you could include talisman effects in the encyclopedia effect section. this would make the "do x effect 1000 times" much easier. sometimes i just forget all the talisman effects.

oh btw: these essays on all the talismans and chars are kinda annoying. even players that play since day 1 and who still care a lot about the game are not fully aware of all the different kind of stuff with all these chars and talismans. it would be nice if you could make it a little less complex with all these interactions. in the good old days freeze talis had a chance to freeze an opponens 20% of the time, plain and simple. nowadays i need to have a phd to understand and memorize the gazillion of effects in ONE talisman set ;)

and what was mentioned before the daily keys and some others like mayan should stack. throwing them in every time sucks hard

[IronMaster]

I simply post this here:)
https://forum.ironmaidenlegacy.com/showthread.php?13188-Talisman-management-system

[dragonmat89]

Can the equipped/unequipped be translated to characters at all? It's be handy to see at a glance which characters have talismans on and are ready to go and which ones don't.

[ritchbe]

Let it not go unnoticed... such a suitable app version for such a fundamental feature!8295

[slauki]

one more qol idea: skipping the fury of a char with a click would be nice ....

[URock]

"What would you like to see added or improved?"

- Continued autoplay after death of my Eddie/Team
- Popupblocker
- Team save & load option
- bigger fonts in talisman/skill descriptions
- auto delete of useless/outdated fragments after event is over
- description/name of what fragment is needed in shop (picture is not enough)

[scimitar]

Talis. While still slower than it was

[Salchotron]

If i can add a QoLb suggestion: the game needs a system for converting and or acquiring desired specific evo runes.
Drop rates are evidently non equal in some 1 and 2 star colored evo runes, and its even worse trying to farm for 2* colorless evo runes.
Eventually we should be able to exchange for an amount of other evo materials that we accumulate
...that or make the drop rates better !

[AndyCatzo]

First of all, thank you for that talisman search feature improvement! That will save a lot of time when fighting in the gauntlet.

Qol suggestion: work on your in game translations, they are really bad and looks like you are running the Google translator or something. I'm from Mexico and don't have any problems by playing the game in English since I understand it but I have seen screenshots from my clan mates with horrible translations to Spanish and some times you don't even translate everything and you leave some words in English so it is a mix between Spanish and English and sometimes you put phrases that doesn't make sense at all and honestly that makes you look like you don't care about your players that speaks other languages (at least this is happening for the Spanish language)

[Bobby2613-8511]

I'll give you one QoL... Everytime you reboot your servers without 24h notice, you should give back the key of dungeon the player that was playing.... You time those dungeons, you sell those keys for FC but your constant unnoticed reboot are always stealing ressources from us. :mad: (Yes, it happened AGAIN)

[Fudjo]

In the Clan Raid feature, show who's currently battling the Raid Boss. That way if the Raid Boss's heath meter is below 100%, we know someone's currently fighting them so we're not sitting around waiting for nothing.

[IronMaster]

Battle with Odin X must always starts with 100% HP.
And turn off autoplay in the start of battle with Odin (like in arena mode)

[Highace]

Searching both unequipped and equipped talismans has definitely been one of the most useful QoL updates I've seen in a long while. Just 2 things that are bothersome with it:
1) You can't search for specific cosmics like Echo, Redemption etc. It'd be a perfect search function if this was added.
2) The update seems to have made unequipping and equipping talismans super laggy, although that shouldn't be a hard fix.

As for other QoL improvements, I'd love to see the evo pack popups banished as there have been a few times when I've almost bought one on accident. And as Fudjo suggested, being able to see if anyone is fighting Odin would also be appreciated.

[Ancient Mariner]

[SIZE=6]What would you like to see added or improved?

I'm glad you asked, cause there's something i'm willing to ask for a while and now after ths update it became critical:

let the navigation menu stay where it was the last time we did something! I mean, when buying something in stores like fragments but also when managing talismans...don't make it go back at the start every freaking time, it's annoying :(

When i buy fragments or any other item in the stores, i'm supposed to remain at the point the items are, not going at the menu start after every transacion and swipe dozens of times to go back where i was! please consider changing this as soon as possible cause it would be so appreciated

I appreciate the new feature that finally allows us to find the talis around the toons roster, but first of all it became waaay slower now, and also it changed the way it shows the talis while equipping/removing them:
indeed as i said it goes back to a specific talis class everytime and you have to swipe all the way back to those you were selecting every single time, while before this update the system showed always the last talis you were selecting in the previous actions (how it should be)

Hope you can do something about this!

[Muzzleloader]

Please give a numerical Odin health status on the initial screen. I know of circumstances that he is at 99%. You go in thinking he is full health, but he is not.

[Beddie]

For Odin, could you also add a little note or annotation saying weather someone is raiding Odin

[iPoop]

More talisman slots, please!

[Cefiar]

First idea: If you go are about to run a raid (or battle in the Arena or Gauntlet), select some toons and then select "My Team" to move some talismans onto those toons, put those selected toons at the start of the character list, no matter what the selection is set to (like you do with awakened characters). This will make it much easier to know WHO you want to put the talismans on, especially when you have a bunch of dupes.

In the meantime, after I use a duplicate toon (especially when I have a LOT of that toon), I remove the talis, give them one crappy cosmic (cos I have way too many cosmics) and leave them there so I know who I've used. If I put the talis on the wrong one, at least then I can find them. Each time clans resets, I remove all the crappy cosmics from the toons so I don't get confused. It's a real hack and the above would save a lot of time.

Second idea: Break Book of Souls into Standard souls and Key souls. Scrolling through all the keys I have takes forever. You could probably add more than just standard souls and key souls, but that would be more than enough for me.

Third idea: Allow us to sort the list of Troopers when we're about to do a Cosmic/Time Rift/Dungeon/Skull Quest by Eddie/Non-Eddie, and also by Class (don't need anything else). I tend to use all my Non-Eddie troopers in skull quests (where possible), and they're always spread throughout the list of troopers. I tend to run the skull quests first, so I have to scroll through everyone, spot who is running a non-Eddie, choose who matches what skull quest level, then select them. Of course, during the day, troopers can change as well, so been caught out when I run more things later only to see I still have more Non-Eddies I didn't see. Same goes for Class, especially when running special dungeons that require certain Eddies (eg: going for the Max Awakened Thor or Max Awakened Viking Eddie achievement when running non-class-restricted dungeons). Being able to sort Eddie/Non-Eddie and by Class is MORE than enough to make this significantly easier.

[Cefiar]

Fourth idea: When selecting toons to battle with, you can select and hold to bring up an Info screen. Please add to the Info screen at least 6 coloured circles showing the 6 talisman slot colours the toon has (has to be all 6 as some toons have more than 3 colours locked, like Lucifer). Ideally it'd be nice to see the talisman sets currently equipped, but know what slots are on a toon when selecting is a BIG boon when trying to figure out who to use (especially in Raid/Gauntlet and sometimes Arena, when you'll most likely need to equip them specific talisman sets prior to battle).

[Azagthor]

Second idea: Break Book of Souls into Standard souls and Key souls. Scrolling through all the keys I have takes forever. You could probably add more than just standard souls and key souls, but that would be more than enough for me.

This would be nice, and might help with BoS inventory limits too. Made a quick mock-up:
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[...] if we open a Key Dungeon we should have the option of going straightaway into that dungeon from the Bos [...]

This could be a nice addition to a split BoS/Keys feature. Another quick mock-up:
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[Yup]

Fourth idea: When selecting toons to battle with, you can select and hold to bring up an Info screen. Please add to the Info screen at least 6 coloured circles showing the 6 talisman slot colours the toon has (has to be all 6 as some toons have more than 3 colours locked, like Lucifer). Ideally it'd be nice to see the talisman sets currently equipped, but know what slots are on a toon when selecting is a BIG boon when trying to figure out who to use (especially in Raid/Gauntlet and sometimes Arena, when you'll most likely need to equip them specific talisman sets prior to battle).

Over a year ago...

https://forum.ironmaidenlegacy.com/showthread.php?11510-Display-Talismans-on-Character-Info-screen&highlight=talisman

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Why just "colors"? It shouldn't be that much trouble to show the actual talismans a character is wearing.

[thealchemist]

While I do appreciate the new search feature for talismans, problem is now the game has a habit were it seems to default to particular talismans when you are talisman swapping. For instance, trying to put ragnarok set onto a warrior eddie, I swap one ragnarok talisman onto Eddie then for some reason the game switches from warrior talismans to cosmics? Then I have to select warrior talismans again, scroll to find ragnaroks and do the whole thing again, and again, and again. Or trying to put say Sentinel or Gunner talismans on an Assassin character, it defaults back to Assassin talismans after each swap. So again I have to find the talismans I want after each swap. Or if swapping out low level talismans it defaults back to maxed talismans. With the increased lag of talisman swapping (which was bad enough before) its already doing my head in. I swear this is 1 step forward and 2 steps backward overall after this update.

Ive mentioned this before and others are making current suggestions about the BoS. But personally a simple sort feature for souls would be nice, between commons, rares, epics, legendary, mystics, keys. With fragments it would be good if I could select between frags you have the most of and the least of, instead of always having to scroll to the end to get to the ones you have the least of. Oh and more variation in the appearance of souls and their fragments, too many are not only the same fragmented shape but same colour(s) too. This is going to continue to be brought up until its fixed.

[Esquatcho]

Thank you so much for the filter to include chars! :cool:

Heaps of good ideas already for others, but Ill put more backing on:

- Iron out the few bugs with the search engine (eg sometimes when searching for talismans, it things you are searching for chars etc)
- Be able to search for certain types of cosmic (now that we have so many of them!)
- Keep menus in the same place. Using frags, or dropping souls, its annoying having to rescroll every single time
- Raids do not start auto (like arena)
- Some identifier when someone is in Odin (and who if possible!)
- Some way of knowing Odins HP while you are in the char menu. The number of times you go in with him 100%, set up your team, then go in and he's at 10% and vice versa where he's at 3% and then you go in with a quick team and someone has cleared is super annoying during busy times.
- Keys taken out of BoS into their own area (or at least not counting towards the soul limit and segregating them somehow!) - which I think you mentioned was in the works already

Anyways, thats it from me for now. Super, duper, awesome update with the searching for chars and talismans (and equipped talismans too!)

[R1ck]

While I do appreciate the new search feature for talismans, problem is now the game has a habit were it seems to default to particular talismans when you are talisman swapping. For instance, trying to put ragnarok set onto a warrior eddie, I swap one ragnarok talisman onto Eddie then for some reason the game switches from warrior talismans to cosmics? Then I have to select warrior talismans again, scroll to find ragnaroks and do the whole thing again, and again, and again. Or trying to put say Sentinel or Gunner talismans on an Assassin character, it defaults back to Assassin talismans after each swap. So again I have to find the talismans I want after each swap. Or if swapping out low level talismans it defaults back to maxed talismans. With the increased lag of talisman swapping (which was bad enough before) its already doing my head in. I swear this is 1 step forward and 2 steps backward overall after this update.

This........

[hugoW]

I am so annoyed just by the fact that the talisman or character roaster does not memorize the place where i am while equip talismans, equip 1 blue talisman from a 6 set i need to do all the steps again, and scroll to there, even with search option it gets all messed up after equipping the talisman since it goes back to character roaster.
To me its slower to change talismans now than it was before, and i have everything organized.


This is the most urgent thing to fix right now in the game, arena event soon and i dont want to deal with it the way it is right now.

[hugoW]

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based on real life events.

[Madrik]

The biggest issue is fixing the ODIN bug where players get locked out.. keep hearing it because you sac'd a toon you've used for raids...which is utter crap it's every saturday i get locked out takes my toons and SOB but won't actually start the battle...

[MuzakMaker]

The biggest issue is fixing the ODIN bug where players get locked out.. keep hearing it because you sac'd a toon you've used for raids...which is utter crap it's every saturday i get locked out takes my toons and SOB but won't actually start the battle...

I have to second this. It's very hard to care about this brand new big feature of the game when I get locked out of it EVERY WEEK. I haven't sacced, I haven't swtiched talismans around on the toons I've used. There is no toon that locks it for me. It appears to be completely random.

Even with the new talisman sorting bugs have arisen(I have to back out of "My Team" after EVERY talisman switch) that make it barely worth my effort. With each new update, I'm not asking "I wonder how much fun I'll have" instead I find myself wondering "how will this be unplayable, or less efficient".

As far as a QOL update that I want that I haven't seen: I would love to be able to auto play skull quests. But honestly, I would rather have all of the bugs fixed, especially Odin, before I see any new content.

[Maiden]

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based on real life events.

Will he be joining the Killer Beast and Lucifer Club?

[Rain88]

The update should have been really good if the talisman screen doesn't constantly freeze... It's taking longer to swap Talisman.

Since we are all sharing suggestions, might as well go for my (broken record) suggestion:
Instant battle (use sand of time to instantly get the reward) for cosmos, time rift and event dugneons (but not frontier) instead of autoplay.


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based on real life events.
Are you saying that Gimli is weak? How dare you!

[Azagthor]

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Why just "colors"? It shouldn't be that much trouble to show the actual talismans a character is wearing.

Oh hey, nice mock-up! That look good!

[Cefiar]

Over a year ago...

https://forum.ironmaidenlegacy.com/showthread.php?11510-Display-Talismans-on-Character-Info-screen&highlight=talisman

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Why just "colors"? It shouldn't be that much trouble to show the actual talismans a character is wearing.

That would of course be ideal, assuming that the ring around each talisman slot was the colour of talisman that could be equipped (esp. if nothing is equipped).

I suggested colours cos it would by far be the most useful aspect for Raids/Gauntlet/Arena due to the constant need to swap talismans around, and should be exceedingly simple to implement.

[Yup]

Yes colors would be good! Basically teh same rings as in the talismans tab.. but viewable on the info screen. No more guess work a to what talismans a character is wearing or not.

[ElvisIsDead]

This update is terrible. Swapping talismans now is more cumbersome that it has ever been.

The last set of changes to the inventory system were like 2 steps forward, 1 step back, but this is like 2 steps forward, 10 steps back. It's unbearable.

[Phoenix-7282]

One thing I noticed about "talisman selection reverting back to cosmics instead of specific color" is that it only happens when I am equipping from inventory. It doesn't happen when I am equipping it directly from another character. Hopefully developers find this detail useful.

[Cefiar]

One thing I noticed about "talisman selection reverting back to cosmics instead of specific color" is that it only happens when I am equipping from inventory. It doesn't happen when I am equipping it directly from another character. Hopefully developers find this detail useful.

It actually defaults back to the current class of character selected for character filtering.

eg: Select an Assassin character, then change the character filter on the left side for characters to Sentinel (do not click on another character). Go into talismans for the Assassin character and it will default to Sentinel talismans, unless you select a class-specific talisman slot.

Basically, the character type filter is being inherited by the talisman filter.

If you don't select a character filter, the default is "all" which equates to "cosmic" in talisman terms.

Note:
- Equipping direct from another character bypasses that filter it seems.
- Regardless, it always resets to the start of that selected talisman filter when you choose a new talisman slot.

[Esquatcho]

While annoying with the reverting, it basically just forces you to filter for whatever talisman you want. That locks fine. So while it should still be fixed, it just means a little more type and/or remembering the name of the talismans!

[Yup]

Locks fine? If I'm loading a Magus Talisman and I have it set to show blue talismans.. as soon as I apply one to a (colorless) slot and click the next (colorless) slot.. it jumps to purple talismans.

[Cefiar]

yup: That's cos you're filtering on an Assassin character (as per my post).

Yes it's a bug. Pretty sure they're working on it. And you've got a work-around (change that character filter).

Not perfect, but better than nothing.

[Muzzleloader]

I an unable to swap any talisman. They wont stay where I put them. It doesnt matter if it is from either the equipped or unequipped list. The seven deadly sins have reappeared.

Reinstalling the game fixed the issues.

[Azile]

Quit shilling for NF people, it will get you nothing. Hard to believe there are actually fanboys here defending such a horrible update to the Talisman system. It is terrible...period. Old system was far better than what they added and was clearly not tested before being implemented.

It should be removed immediately until they can put a system in place that is not broken. Nice delay when equipping a Talisman etc...3 seconds "pause" of lag every time. Horrible system from a horrible company...as usual. Why would we expect more though...

[fantomz]

Hey,on the bright side,at least we have a instagram filter :D

[scimitar]

Talis. What they suggested works. It's slow but not terrible

[dukat]

Whenever there's a connection error (and there are aplenty!) do an auto retry. Why do we have to babysit the grinds?