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CNE_Treavor

All right - that's going to wrap up this week's Reddit Q&A! Thank you all so much for joining me and bringing your questions! I'll be sure to swing by later today to collect all the suggestions/reports and to answer any lingering questions. As a quick reminder Community Q&A is off this week - but we'll pick up with Idle Insights and Dev Insights later today. See you all same time same place in two weeks!


KaiBarnard

Trials are nearing their birthday and other than the 'fix' to make them much harder not a lot's been done, it's such an important part of late progress and yet is a complete mess ​ Also with Briv nerf a time chewing chore even to best of us - plus finding a group....and leachers Where is this on the 'to be spruced up' or in this case 'maybe made fit for purpose' list?


CNE_Treavor

Hi KaiBarnard, We don't currently have anything to announce as far as when an update will be happening for Trials - BUT, I can tell you that it is currently being worked on and from the conversations I've heard good stuff is happening. We'll let yall know more when we have info to share :)


Prairie_Scum

Instead of releasing new content on wednesdays, how about releasing bug fixes instead. The game gets more unplayable by the week. Network connection issues, dissappearing gui, etc. Every content update brings more problems, with the content update schedule greatly outpacing the bug fix schedule. Most of the discussion on discord now is asking if its normal to have to reset the game 10 times a day.


CNE_Treavor

Hello there! We do apologies for the recent spree of bugs - we know these ruin enjoyment of the game and that is the last thing we want to happen. The team is working hard on getting these bugs fixed and have grown the QA team to help with finding them and fixing them before they become a problem.


Prairie_Scum

Thanks for the response. On the positive side, some of the new content is awesome and I think the dismantle event was an amazing opportunity for players to rework their champs and give some new life to their game. Those nerfs everyone lost their minds over are barely noticeable now. However it does often feel that the bug release schedule outpaces the bug fix schedule. Will look forward to any fixes and improvements you guys can get to.


Ragesapien

Any interest or discussion on allowing the purchase of or crafting from components specific modron pipes in the future? The pity timer does help getting rarer quality pieces but doesn’t help with having 40 of every turn except for only have 6 up-left handed turns for example.


CNE_Treavor

Hello there Ragesapien, I haven't heard anything about something like this - but it sounds like a really cool idea! I'll be sure it makes its way to the devs with the rest of the suggestions :)


SFKz

Why aren't new feats being added to the game, also mentioned in the change logs? Why aren't the new blessings being released, also mentioned in the change logs?


CNE_Treavor

Hey SFKz, I'm not sure - I haven't been part of conversations that talk about the change log (other than recently getting it up and running on the discord again). But, I can for sure bring this up to the team and see if mentioning these things in the change log in the future is something we can do.


SFKz

Why are there so many discrepancies/disparities? These things aren't high priority they just don't make the game look as polished / give the impression that a lot of care went into displaying certain information/items/etc For me, it isn't a big deal but it just shows a little more care and professional polish. In the scheme of things, and this is just my opinion, it isn't important but, yeah, the consistency. e.g. Potion art direction goes from Small/Med/Large/Huge with the potions angled; NW/NE/NW/NW so there is a weird break in the art with all Med potions leaning a different direction, but also all speed potions break this pattern and angled NE/NW/NE/NW which is even more jarring While we are on the topic of potions; they are Small/Med/Large/Huge in increasing rarities, but contracts are Tiny/Small/Medium/Large/Huge. The rarities/sizes could/should be adjusted to follow the same patterns, perhaps. I'm not asking for a tiny potion, which would arguably be useless, just a nice name change to add consistency. On the topic of disparities; only three champions have their subclasses called out, and why do they not match each other in how they are displayed? Korth - Fighter (Samurai) Spurt - Rogue (Inventor) - although Inventor isn't a Rogue subclass... D'Hani - Kensai Monk D'Hani should probably be Monk (Way of the Kensai) there are champions that have their subclasses mentioned in descriptions or just how they operated (Krond is clearly an Eldritch Knight) but they aren't called out. "Nrakk is a masterful Kensai monk whose kensei weapon Naginata is a force to be reckoned with on the battlefield." So Nrakk is a Kensai Monk who only gets called Monk. I also noticed in Nrakks description that it says he is a masterful KensAi monk whose kensEi weapons. Another small disparity/mistake. Capitalisation on Kensei is inconsistent throughout also.


CNE_Treavor

Hello again SFKz, Those are all very valid points! I don't currently know what decisions went into choices, but I can 100% bring these up and get a conversation started about possibly getting these all to line up better with one another. Thank you for the feedback!


Savage_X

You should just hire this dude.


KC_Hammer101

A clarification about spurt, the character when played was just a kobold inventor from one of the books Volo's maybe? So I'm guessing they just picked a class within the structure.


CPUnique

"Kensei" is the correct spelling


Bruce_Flash

Do we have an ETA on the game getting stuck at loading when trying to handle "Multiple Resets"?


CNE_Treavor

Hey Bruce\_Flash, Hoping to get a fix out here in the next few hours! The team is working on it as we speak :)


Odd_Check322

Is there any ETA on bug fixes for non-advancement after boss kills and calculations not finishing after login? Is there an ETA for everyone on Epic Games getting the new shop?


CNE_Treavor

Hello again! Okay, so the team is working hard on a fix right now. No current ETA, but it is top priority. As far as the New Shop goes, nothing to announce yet - but I'm hopeful we'll be rolling out more in the next month :)


CNE_Treavor

Hey there Odd\_Check322, I'll check with the team and reply back when I have an answer :)


xskarma

I hope the log in issue gets fixed soon. I had to restart twice while logging in first thing today. And both times I had to sit there for 5 min wondering if it would finish or not. Very aggrevating.


SFKz

Is Black Viper getting a rework/rebalance/big old buff?


CNE_Treavor

Hey SFKz, I mentioned in another reply that we currently don't have anything to announce for upcoming Champion reworks - but I also asked what that player would want to see in a rework so I'll ask that here as well; what specifically would you hope to see in a rework for Black Viper?


Lithuim

Her base damage is just too low, in most of the formations a support champ in the same column will pick up most of the same buffs and do more damage so you’re better off using no DPS at all.


CNE_Treavor

I'll be sure to let the team know this feedback! Thank you!


gentlebim

Do you think there's a world in which we ever get characters from Critical Role? I know they're not set in the DnD universe, but I also know they have close ties to DnD. And they're super cool. LOL


CNE_Treavor

Hey gentlebim, Unfortunately I am not a seer of worlds (oh huh, that's actually kinda a cool title) so I can't say for sure what will happen between Idle Champions and Critical Role. I do know that those folks are working hard 24/7 and are extremely busy, so I'm not sure if schedules could ever line up for us.


gentlebim

I don't even care about the answer after that "seer of worlds" line. Natural 20 for cool one liners.


CNE_Treavor

Being a fantasy writer and a community manager sometimes makes for cool combinations lol


Baldrakh

Hey :) What can I do, when I cannot login anymore? Just bought the Prudence costume while on sale. I don't have this Champ btw. Got a mail from Steam that the purchase succeeded but I didn't have her ingame. So I restarted and now I can't fully login into the game. There is a popup saying 'Calculating Offline Progress' and behind this popup there is another one that I can't read 'cause it's behind the first one. ​ Hope you can help me. Thanks in advance.


CNE_Treavor

Hi Baldrakh, The Calculating Offline Progress is an unfortunate bug that the team is currently working hard on to get fixed. Apologies for this happening! As for the Prudence skin, reach out to our support team here [http://help.idlechampions.com/](http://help.idlechampions.com/) and they can see if they can help :)


thirdbasscode

I have two questions actually: \- Is there an ETA on the offline progress rewrite? I know this is a major issue for a lot of players, myself included. \- Is there a reason I can't find the new *redacted future dlc* on Steam? It's showing up in the ingame store, but it won't load a Steam page to buy it. I also can't find it on the store page itself directly in Steam. The other four packs where no issue. If also filled a ticket for this, just fyi Edit: response from Shawn on my ticket: it's a pack to be released in the future, and was unintentionally being showed in at least my store. It will be take down their for the time being, until it's actual release


CNE_Treavor

Hey there thirdbasscode, I haven't heard anything about an offline progress rewrite, but I do know that is a piece of feedback that players give often. I'll see if I can get a conversation started about it internally. I'm not completely sure why that would be happening. I'll see if I can talk to the right people about that later today and get that solved - though the support team might beat me to it lol


Fast-Pumpkin-9811

The fact that you don't know about the rewrite of the most bugged and expected feature by the players leaves me absolutely speechless


Emmeriss

Dave and Justin discussed the offline progress rewrite on Dev Insights. They're apparently rebuilding it from scratch.


CNE_Treavor

See, this is what happens when I miss Dev Insights lol


KabReg

Suggestion on feats for Briv: 1. Make Wasting Haste also work for 9-skipping Briv, or make a separate feat for that purpose. 2. Make a feat for Briv, which disables jumping completely. As a compensation, it should probably convert skipping percentage into a bonus to healing or damage reduction. 3. Make a feat for Briv, which forces jumping on bosses in freeplay missions. It should fix his compatibility issues with Blooshi and Nova. Also, add z50 missions in events and z50 and z75 missions in time gates to the list of missions with free jumping. Do you *really* believe there are many people with properly jumping Briv who cannot handle z75 boss?


SFKz

Probably signifncatly harder to program, but you should just have to actually fight the last ~z100 of uncompleted variants and still be able to Briv skip the early chaff levels.


CNE_Treavor

Hey KabReg, I will be sure to put these in with the suggestions for devs to look at later today. As far as z75 goes, I would say that's a good question for Dev Insights as I'm just the talking dude :)


KabReg

Unfortunately, I don't use Twitch for anything other than getting the codes. Are there any ETA for fixing random reset glitch and for making the new shop available for all Steam users?


orc26

Is Farideh getting a rework/rebalance/rejiggering any time soon? I'm asking for myself.


CNE_Treavor

Hey orc26, We don't currently have anything announce about any upcoming reworks for Champions. When we have a better idea of who and when we will be sure to let everyone know :) Was there anything specific you were hoping to see in a rework?


CPUnique

I'm going to go out on a limb and say MOAR POWER(?)


CNE_Treavor

Is that a Tim Taylor MOAR POWER or a Home Depot Commercial MOAR POWER?


CPUnique

If I grunted, would it answer your question? ;)


orc26

Current ideas for Farideh (All of them would probably be too much) \>>Some way for her Hellish Rebuke ability to set BUD. (All the champions with DPS tags that have a special ability that doesn't effect BUD are in the subpar range, farideh is no exception) \>>Make her Pact Family gear apply once PER tiefling instead of once. (Supposedly this is how it is supposed to work, but it has been years since that was said and it has never been 'fixed') \>>Give her an ability or two that interact with the other Brimstone Angels. \[Ideaception: +#% hellish rebuke damage if Havilar is under attack, Always hellish rebuke when Mehen or Havilar are attacked regardless of distance, +#% Damage directly inverse to the number of Grumpy stacks Mehen has.\] \>>Maybe another scorching ray or two, maybe in the next soft cap increase. \>>And as CPUinque said MOAR POWER!!!!!


CNE_Treavor

I'll be sure the team sees these - thanks for taking the time to type that out!


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CNE_Treavor

Hey makos1212, The slow roll out is a process of taking feedback and fixing bugs on the platforms it currently appears on so that there is an easy roll out for the other platforms. For example the team added a Dark Mode after player feedback, and when do eventually have it - it will start with that option there. As far as time goes - we absolutely don't want to keep players waiting too long. I don't have a confirmed time, but I'm hoping within the next month it will be available to more players.


og17

Why do the two shops even have different inventories? Doesn't seem like it'd take much to add these few items to the "old" shop.


KaiBarnard

This - just add them now - it's silly barring people for no good reason when the fix is that uncertain in when and who it covers


kbrown13245

>but I'm **hoping** within the next month it will be available to **more** players. I've bolded the problematic words here. I've previously voiced my displeasure regarding the ever widening divide with the game and the various platforms you all now support. Saying that you "hope" this will be available to "more" players in a MONTH while also holding users back from purchasing a hero based on what has become a comedy of errors at this point for this store front makes no sense. Why are you punishing your player base by withholding access to this content while you spend (waste) time on redoing a store front for a game currently crippled with bugs. Yet again, I question this team's priorities and the long term health of the game with these types of decisions.


Compromisedthrowaway

Are there any plans of reworking old achievements(e.g. Briv's and all those kill 10k enemies) as they seem quite pesky compared to newer ones, which all can be completed more organically. Furthermore right now when I click on achievements there're four tabs(all, earned, in progress, events) could you maybe split event achievements into separate tabs(earned/in progress) as well


CNE_Treavor

Hi there! I haven't heard anything about achievements being reworked - but I can for sure talk to the team and see if that's something they are interested in doing. I'll be sure to put the second part in with other suggestions from today for the devs to see :)


Compromisedthrowaway

Thanks Treavor, honestly those specific champion achievements probably don't need much rework rather than adjusting/dumping down those numbers a bit. Not sure how many players or even veterans bother completing them, but you guys sure have some data on that.


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KaiBarnard

Here, have a snickers


Compromisedthrowaway

Trust me I'm calm dude. Just don't need a random internet Joe to downvote my suggestion, which I think is totally valid if you compare most old champion achievements to recent ones. Then tells me to properly read the achievement, when I already know how it works.


KaiBarnard

If I recall right that one self refrences what a PITA it is, I think that was a jovial way of pointing that out, but fair point PC/con players can just leave it running a lot easier the problem is real Don't think the orginal poster ment to come off sounding pompus, just the limitations of the written word can leave tone up in the air


Compromisedthrowaway

> fair point PC/con players can just leave it running a lot easier the problem is real Yup, one can easily tell that the game was later ported to mobile, since the whole game economy isn't well suited for it(e.g.. gem shop). There's no way to let gem farm run for 24/7 unless you use an emulator, but at that point why play an inferior version on PC. Not to mention that offline progress isn't working as it is supposed to(we might see a change in the future according to dev insights) >Don't think the orginal poster ment to come off sounding pompus, just the limitations of the written word can leave tone up in the air Could be a case of lost in translation, but I at least refrain from downvoting a comment and don't use one-liner ending in ellipsis, when I genuinely try to be helpful.


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Emmeriss

Hey Trevor, Are you in a position to be able to give us some clues for the Hidden Combinations. Shawn's clue yesterday (that I heard from someone else) was it's lore based - and I know literally nothing about Widdle apart from her in-game bio. And the other code we don't have - we believe is for Trials - but we've not had a single clue about that so can't be sure. (The hidden codes we have: [https://www.reddit.com/r/idlechampions/comments/szwnef/hidden\_combinations\_series\_5\_2022\_edition/](https://www.reddit.com/r/idlechampions/comments/szwnef/hidden_combinations_series_5_2022_edition/) )


CNE_Treavor

Hey Emmeriss! Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh >.> I think if I said anything Dylan would kick down my door lol I'm going to stay tight lipped on this one


Emmeriss

I saw a tweet from someone asking him and he never replied to it - so... if we can't get clues from him. We need all the help we can get.


CNE_Treavor

I'll poke him and see what I can do :)


Emmeriss

Okie. Ta.


Gaarawarr

When Dylan makes these lists, he expects them to take the whole year to discover everything. So until it gets closer to the end of the year, I personally don't expect many hints.