December 2017 Tuning Discussion - PRELIMINARY

[druid138]

Sparton - any chance that we'll see an increase to character slots soon? I know there are some technical issues related to it, and I appreciate the recent increases. But, new characters are coming fast and furious lately.

[Sparton_LOTB]

Sparton - any chance that we'll see an increase to character slots soon? I know there are some technical issues related to it, and I appreciate the recent increases. But, new characters are coming fast and furious lately.

Yeah, based on my last count (which counts some upcoming characters that aren't available yet), we're at 205 collectable characters, but only 200 max slots. Thankfully, the last increase in max inventory sizes hasn't caused problems so far, so we'll be upping the max character inventory slots you can get in this next update.

[druid138]

Yeah, based on my last count (which counts some upcoming characters that aren't available yet), we're at 205 collectable characters, but only 200 max slots. Thankfully, the last increase in max inventory sizes hasn't caused problems so far, so we'll be upping the max character inventory slots you can get in this next update.

Hallelujah, man! Best news of the week!

[Dank Brew]

That's awesome news! Finally more character slots! Hoarders unite!

[Yup]

Talilgunner Laugh and Roar --- "Ability Skill Level Added" -- Does that mean an additional skill shard for those abilities? Just curious My Tailgunner is maxed.... will it NOT be after the tuning, requiring 2 more skill shards?


Also.. any thoughts on adding to Navigator's Fury? Fury is supposed to be a max hit surpassing all other abilities is it not? Navigator's fury is terribly underpowered.

[JJJ428]

Spartan not sure if this would be considered giving anything away but do you consider all the idol and hearts as collectible characters? If that's the case we have two new characters coming or if you don't consider that means we have eight on the horizon.

[R1ck]

Yeah, based on my last count (which counts some upcoming characters that aren't available yet), we're at 205 collectable characters, but only 200 max slots. Thankfully, the last increase in max inventory sizes hasn't caused problems so far, so we'll be upping the max character inventory slots you can get in this next update.

For curiosity, which characters you consider collectable?
Also, will be a fix for counter attacks not triggering shields. Example: I attack with a character who gains void shield for my team, the opposite team has a counter that attacks back, example wrath, when he hits my shield it doesn't remove the beneficial effects from his team. It happens to any shield when is attacked by counters.

[slauki]

I don't suppose you happen to recall when approximately you tipped over to 999 on a stack, do you? Seeing that in your transaction history may help with eliminating some possibilities for how the bug is occurring.

i can tell you pretty exactly when that happened because i complained about in on a chat... it was tuesday around 20:30 german time (11:30 pst i think) i had two crashes very close to each other (4 or 5 rounds difference). after that i upgraded 3 toons to L100 and went on farming. game never crashed again since then.

Holy crap man. Did you play in your sleep or what?! Lmao

thank god i have a very fast autofarming team and a lot of ironite to burn i rarely refill at all, but this time i needed (or wanted to store) some evo material and figured this might be the right spot to go for it

[Ezz]

Just to confirm, did that match conclude around the time you posted that?

Yep, just moments before I posted.

[Sparton_LOTB]

Talilgunner Laugh and Roar --- "Ability Skill Level Added" -- Does that mean an additional skill shard for those abilities? Just curious My Tailgunner is maxed.... will it NOT be after the tuning, requiring 2 more skill shards?

Yeah, it'll take one more skill shard to max out the indicated skills. The game saves how many skill shards you've invested for any given character, not how far away you are from max level.

Also.. any thoughts on adding to Navigator's Fury? Fury is supposed to be a max hit surpassing all other abilities is it not? Navigator's fury is terribly underpowered.

A Fury is meant to be something that can cause a turning point in a match, but that doesn't necessarily mean it'll always do extremely high damage. In Navigator Eddie's case, his Fury will grant his entire team Class Advantage (which can greatly increase their damage output, depending on the normal class advantages/disadvantages they would have), and will also Blind all enemies to make it more likely they'll have no effect, so it is serving the purpose we intend for him.

Spartan not sure if this would be considered giving anything away but do you consider all the idol and hearts as collectible characters? If that's the case we have two new characters coming or if you don't consider that means we have eight on the horizon.

For curiosity, which characters you consider collectable?.

I'm considering a "collectable character" as anything you can get in your character inventory that is unique from another character in terms of name, stat scaling at a given rarity, etc.

So yeah, your starting Eddie is a collectable character, the achievement-earnable Grim Reaper Eddie is a collectable character, and pretty much anything you can get from any kind of soul would be considered a collectable character (which includes all different variations of Sacrificial Heart, Strong Sacrificial Heart, etc).

Examples of non-collectable characters would be characters like Horus or the Dragon King (bosses in Kingdom of the Sands and the Brave New World respectively), as they're not collectable at this time.

Also, will be a fix for counter attacks not triggering shields. Example: I attack with a character who gains void shield for my team, the opposite team has a counter that attacks back, example wrath, when he hits my shield it doesn't remove the beneficial effects from his team. It happens to any shield when is attacked by counters.

I believe that's a knock-on due to a fix that stopped infinitely reflecting damage from reflect shields. That still needs to be looked into.

i can tell you pretty exactly when that happened because i complained about in on a chat... it was tuesday around 20:30 german time (11:30 pst i think) i had two crashes very close to each other (4 or 5 rounds difference). after that i upgraded 3 toons to L100 and went on farming. game never crashed again since then.

Good to know; I'll add that info to our internal ticket for the issue.

Yep, just moments before I posted.

What's your full username?

(You can PM me it if you don't want to post it on the forum.)