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New Event! Blood Bowl!

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Link to post - Posted January 27th 2016 at 11:27 AM
Last Edited January 27th 2016 at 11:42 AM
Erika/Alyniana


As the single biggest sports fan of the group, Jim the Lumberjack is beside himself with excitement for the major sports event in the Crusader calendar: The Blood Bowl.

Rounding up the fellow Crusaders he decides to throw a tailgate party ahead of the big game. Unfortunately for Jim, it all goes wrong very quickly and soon the Crusaders have to destroy swathes of monsters before he and team can enjoy the sporting festivities.

More info on the blog!

62 Posts
Link to post - Posted January 27th 2016 at 11:41 AM
Roku
You guys are on fire this week! Thank you for the updates!

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Link to post - Posted January 28th 2016 at 4:42 AM
NoOneOnEarth
Ooh, whoa. Are you guys on some kind of adrenaline or something? These updates are amazing!

692 Posts
Link to post - Posted January 28th 2016 at 6:21 AM
Teschio
For those who don't know what Blood Bowl is, I strongly suggest you look it up (it's on Steam as well)

3620 Posts
Link to post - Posted January 28th 2016 at 11:00 AM
Erika/Alyniana
Glad you guys are enjoying the updates!

They just all happened to be ready at the same time. :)

273 Posts
Link to post - Posted January 28th 2016 at 12:42 PM
TsukasaWM
Thank you for not making any of the achievement or objectives time based.

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Link to post - Posted January 28th 2016 at 2:39 PM
Krrak
Is it just me, or is the drop rate of the helmets much lower than the last few events - seems to take an inordinate amount of time to get enough for reset to next quest.

5565 Posts
Link to post - Posted January 28th 2016 at 2:40 PM
Raymond
2 per minute
did you use a lot of warps last time?

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Link to post - Posted January 28th 2016 at 2:56 PM
Erika/Alyniana
Hi Krrak,

Sorry to hear you feel like you're not getting enough tickets.

The drop rate is the same. It may not be as obvious if you're online to get them, as when you've closed the game and then come back again.

You can also gain more event currency from using Warps.

Erika

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Link to post - Posted January 28th 2016 at 3:39 PM
Last Edited January 28th 2016 at 3:51 PM
bigfat-and agry ranting-rasta
i too feel the drop rate beeing lower than usual. How is it calculated? is it really constant (2/min as metioned above) or is there a dropchance /killed monster?
BFR

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Link to post - Posted January 28th 2016 at 3:42 PM
Krrak
@Erika,

I have NEVER played the game offline. I am only offline in the few seconds it takes to refresh, so have no idea of the offline rate.

@Raymond

Are you sure about the 2/minute statistic? Is this an average or hard-coded?

273 Posts
Link to post - Posted January 28th 2016 at 4:29 PM
TsukasaWM
Are you just going off the starting amount? Maybe there's a chance we started with fewer since it seems like it's been a shorter amount of time since the last event then usual? I almost feel like it started later in the day too but I haven't paid enough attention.

3620 Posts
Link to post - Posted January 28th 2016 at 4:31 PM
Erika/Alyniana
If you use a warp, you'll note you get 60 event currency for a Delorean, 480 for a Time Turner and 960 for a Quantum Leap.

If you're online while killing, it's 2 a minute, but they can drop anytime in the 30 seconds, so they could be back to back.

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If you sleep your computer at all, while the game is open, the game doesn't realize it was asleep and you won't have any gains from that time period.

273 Posts
Link to post - Posted January 28th 2016 at 4:33 PM
TsukasaWM
"If you sleep your computer at all, while the game is open, the game doesn't realize it was asleep and you won't have any gains from that time period."

Does that count just the screen saver coming on, or does it have to be a full sleep/hibernation that you have to use the power button to turn the computer back on?

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Link to post - Posted January 28th 2016 at 4:43 PM
Erika/Alyniana
Screen saver is fine, just the full sleep where you need to wake it up with the power button.

5565 Posts
Link to post - Posted January 28th 2016 at 5:22 PM
Raymond
offline 153 minutes, got 306 tokens...

273 Posts
Link to post - Posted January 28th 2016 at 6:31 PM
TsukasaWM
Btw, which dev is the Drizzt fan?

62 Posts
Link to post - Posted January 29th 2016 at 5:52 PM
Last Edited January 29th 2016 at 6:23 PM
Roku
There's an extremely bad bug in the halftime event. The enemies were basically invincible in floor one causing me to wipe repeatedly until I reloaded the game.

Edit: Once I got it to work, it was one of my favorite events. Please add a freeplay version of this!

3620 Posts
Link to post - Posted February 1st 2016 at 11:47 AM
Erika/Alyniana
@ Tsukasa: I believe it was an unintentional reference.

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@ Roku: Thank you for the report. There was an issue, that refreshing fixed.

Anyone who loaded a fresh version of the game after 11am PST on Friday should hopefully not encounter that error.

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Link to post - Posted February 10th 2016 at 9:59 AM
bigfat-and agry ranting-rasta
As the survey only provided minimal space i try to elaborate here:

1. "timing!": while it was of course timed and named after the sporting event, i felt the timing of the event was a bit unlucky. You had just brought out the imo very good set of talents and completely revised crusader-abilities. This was itself a kind of event. It certainly required a great deal of ivolvement. By releasing the Event so close after, you robbed yourself of the merited appreciation.

2. "Bad luck vs usefullness" I barely managed to finish the new crusaders 3 equipment challenge. But that was not for lack of trying or opened chests. (well over 6 jeweled and countless silver). I still ended up with common equipment in most spots.
Becouse of their abilities greatly hinging on their buffing by items, they are effectively now useless with only common equipment! (at least compared to the standart crusaders.) This is a problem i encountered in past events as well and probably will in future ones too.
I like the idea of broadening the field of possible tactics with new abilities, but with the limited time to aquire rare or even epic items to fully boost those, the new crusaders will always be inferior to the established ones.
-> make items for the new crusaders available in the regular chests after a period of time.

3. Technical issue: this is a known problem, but still might be fixable. If the runing computer goes into sleep-modus, the game does not register time past. This impacts heavily the event's drops.

Overall I like your events. But as i am trying to help to further improve, please forgive my rather lengthy post.