Greetings, Crusaders!

Just in time for the first weekend of March, we have some new talents, tweaks, and changes that are sure to help you earn more crafting materials and make the most of your missions.

Check out the official blog!

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0.188 Title: Talents on Show

Features:
- Added 5 new Talents
- Topped up all players’ free respecs


Changes:
- The “Spend It All”, “Upgrade Them All”, and “Speed Looter” talents have been removed

- Buying max levels/upgrades is now available upon clearing area 100 for the first time

- Opening multiple chests is now available after opening 50 chests

- The “Surplus Cooldown” and “Set Bonus” talents have swapped tiers (and costs.) This makes “Set Bonus” more accessible to new players, who aren’t at the cooldown cap

- All Free Plays have been made to roughly match World’s Wake in difficulty. Formations with more slots scale in difficulty more quickly.

- Updated the descriptions on a number of Tier 4 Merci's Mix-Up objectives that were missing explicit details.

- Final update to the mobile build was released this week.

- (Feb 15) Added Healers to the allowed Crusaders on the Tier 4 Valentine's objective "I Put a Cantrip on You."


Fixes:
- (Mobile) Fixed a small memory leak from abilities which activate when the formation is attacked

- (Feb 15) Fixed the Moon Dancing objective.

- The Incredibly Talented achievement is now counting properly again.

- (PC) Reduced the amount of redundant data when saving the game.

- Fixed Yogscast Golden Epics occasionally being available in Flash Sales, and unavailable in the Challenge shop.

- Minor text fixes. Thanks for catching them!

I got the message about new talents, so I restarted the game.

Now the game seems broken.
The screen is black (all the UI elements are there, but the game background is black) and only one of my active crusaders is showing up. The others are there (I can mouse of them, but they aren't displayed).

Do I need to restart the objective?
...
Nevermind, I can't restart.
I click Mildred's reset, and the popup doesn't appear.
I try to select a new objective, but the popup disappears before I can get to the "see all objectives" button.

my attack and click damage are both set to 99,999B.
I was around area 780.

The area display is showing areas 1-5, but the "back" button is clickable and shows the upper 700 areas when I click the left back button.

.. Now I'm getting an error when starting the game.

Primary game file did not load.
Please report the checksum below to support!

ExternalByteResourceLoader: Error, Retrying: Bad Checksum 2318987 http://idle.djartsgames.ca/~idle/swf/CrusadersSteam.swf?dl=1497 2322057
0000002129: ExternalResourceLoader: Calling Load (isDisplayData == true) (mode == 0) http://idle.djartsgames.ca/~idle/swf/CrusadersSteam.swf

@ Teschio: Yup, we'll be updating the mission system at some point this year.

@ Joe, Alex: If you try to load the game now, the issue is fixed.

I need a refresher, what did “Spend It All”, “Upgrade Them All”, and “Speed Looter” do? Did I lose that functionality?

“Surplus Cooldown” and “Set Bonus” talents have 'swapped tiers'; do they still cost the same to max out as they did when I first maxed them out?

"All Free Plays have been made to roughly match World’s Wake in difficulty. Formations with more slots scale in difficulty more quickly." Does this mean freeplays with more slots now earn less idols overall than they did before?

Thanks for answers...

Ah Thank you Erika

I'm curious how Anubis thinks the button that takes up 1/44th the width of the screen (I know, I measured) adds any "clutter".

I would HATE to be that sensitive.

Yeah, I haven't seen an increase in jeweled chests as well, but it may just be bad luck. I'm gonna wait a little longer before drawing any conclusions.

Anna, keep in mind that jeweled chest drops are already pretty rare. There's a 50% chance (25%, maybe, but I'm being optimistic) that a chest will drop at all, and if one does, THEN there's a 1% chance that chest will be jeweled. So there's effectively only a 0.5% chance per boss area to get a jeweled chest. Maxing the talent doubles that to 1%, but that's still just a 1% chance.

Due to how anything involving chance/luck works, the results will not be consistent on a trial-to-trial basis. That is why the Law of Large Numbers is a thing to calculate averages of probability. Maxing the talent does not GUARANTEE you will get a jeweled chest, it just doubles the odds. But the odds were already pretty low o begin with. The best way to figure out if the talent actually works would require doing a bunch of full runs and noting how many jeweled chests you got from each of them both with and without the talent. For example, 20 runs WITHOUT the talent where you stop at area 2000, then 20 runs WITH the talent maxed where you stop at area 2000. The amount of jeweled chests you get from the latter should be approximately double what you got from the former, give or take 2 or 3 because, again, probability isn't exact.