Introducing LOTB's Lead Designer + Upcoming Features and Fixes

This all sounds fantastic. Kaz, you are our knight in shining iron. There has been a lot of panic going around these forums in the past few weeks. This is because this community loves this game very much - and they don't want to see it wither and die. Your latest update is like an oasis in the kingdom of the sands - and it addresses most of the concerns that we all have - the primariy concern being "does this game have a future?".

The answer: YES... and this future looks pretty damn exciting.
Thanks for touching base with us. We look forward to seeing how this incredible game evolves.

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Thanks a lot for the update. Seriously... it sounds almost too good to be true. :cool:

Hurray~⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐


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Sounds good thank you for the update and the sneak peak.

Great news all around, a much appreciated update on the status of development.

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Originally Posted by Kaz_LOTB

Hi I'm Kaz, the lead designer on LOTB.

A little about me, I've been in the industry about 12 years and have worked on a wide variety of projects, from smaller mobile and indie games like Profit Motive and Spy Wars to large scale console titles, such as the Prototype franchise. As I mentioned in a post yesterday, our team continues to work on overall game health and bug fixing. Here are some details:

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[*]Tuning: Within the next few weeks we will be releasing a build focused on character tuning and balancing as well as reward drop rates. The goal there is to increase the viability of many underpowered characters and fix the abuse cases of certain effects in the game (such as Accuracy). We are also looking to give players better access to higher tier evolution materials so they have more opportunity to build out a greater variety of teams.

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Thanks for the update!

I, myself, would like to see changelogs posted somewhere for new builds. For example, I'd rather read first that some significant stats have been changed for a character vs jumping into a battle and losing a bunch of sands of time because I didn't know a specific stat had been changed.

Plus, it would give those who (thanks to you who do!) track and list stats an easy way to update their charts/etc.

For the sake of transparency, I'm going to point this out here and now about the drop rates: I did a rough estimate of a rare talisman drop post August update and a rare talisman was approximately 1 out of 100 talismans. The good talismans are located in kingdom of sands and there are 11 in total. If you'd like a matched set of thief talismans for example, the odds are 1:11 every time a rare talisman drops, or approx 10% of the time a rare talisman drops it will be of the variety you are looking for. That's a rate of 1/1000ish every time a talisman drops. Now what is the rate that which talismans drop versus games played? Idk exactly but I'm guessing it's 1/5ish. In short, on average, that's 5000 matches in kingdom of sands to come up with a single thief talisman of a particular variety. A matched set is 15,000 matches.
Granted, if you played 15,000 matches in kingdom of sands, you should come up with matched sets of all rare talismans, but if you're looking for one set in particular those are my guesstimate odds. One set has become mythical: the assassin barrier, I've only seen a handful total in the game out of all the players combined, and I'm guessing the majority were found prior August update.
Not a great investment of time imo. Even if I'm underestimating the drop rate by a factor of 10, that's still 1500 games played to match a set of rare talismans ->which still need to be upgraded to 5 stars at like 1,000,000 gold each and 9 3 star rainbow runes each. They might as well not exist.
Maybe I'll post numbers on the rainbow shards and runes at another time.

Thanks of your explication and description of what we will have in a future, Aur0ra and Kaz!
That's sounds great!
Any idea if we will have a trade market to change characters and some stuffs with the community?

thanks a lot for the update, we are all looking forward to the changes you have mentioned. Seems, that you listen to the community, and this feels pretty good.

thank you for the news ! the game is on the good way (and still hope the IOS crashes will be fixed soon :)) thank you )