Developer Stream - Wednesday 5 September - Questions, Feedback & Suggestions thread

[Noontide]

Darkest greetings Underlord,

Last week we sat down in the latest addition to our dungeon, the Streaming Chamber, to host our very first developer Livestream since 2015. After facing down and resolving a bedevilling affair of emergent technical difficulties we’re pleased to say it was a roaring success and a brilliant opportunity to interact with our fans and have a gutturally evil, laugh together.

You can catch a recording of the stream over on twitch[www.twitch.tv] if you missed it. Needless to say, we’re keen to put what we’ve learned to the test. So to that end…

Streaming to Steam on Wednesday 5 September

Following on from last week’s success we decided to host another one sooner than first intended. In fact, it’s in just a few days starting this Wednesday at 5:30PM UK Time.[www.timeanddate.com] Mark the date in your calendar’s Underlords! (Click here for the start time in your Time Zone[www.timeanddate.com])

The Stream will be live on the Steam Store and Broadcast pages!

Cian and Lee will once again be hosting and exploring some great User Created maps and then diving right into our latest campaign, The Under Games! Wrapping up with a session of My Pet Dungeon and Q&A.

As before we’re eager to answer your questions, both throughout the stream and from below. So leave us some comments, we’ll be sure to answer every question we deem appropriate or ones that tickle our fancy.

Let us know if there are any custom maps you’d like us to take a look at and also which Underlord you think we should play as in The Under Games.

We’ll see you on Wednesday!

Cheers,

– Brightrock Games Team

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[Biervampir [AUT]]

Question 1:
When will be the next Patch?

Querstion 2:
Could we see Project Aftercare next year or in 2020?

[K84]

Question 3:
If you had to script a new single-player level using either MightyScript or MightyQuest, which would you choose?

[JVC]

Question 4: can you give any kind of teaser info about Project Aftercare?

[Titan]

Question 5: Will you raise the cap on crucible (>500)?

Question 6: I once heard EA were willing to relinquish the rights to populous the beginning once for £25k, would that tickle your fancy?

Question 7: Is it better for you guys to buy your content through humble (bundle) store or steam?

[Crythor]

Originally posted by Titan:

Question 5: Will you raise the cap on crucible (>500)?

Question 6: I once heard EA were willing to relinquish the rights to populous the beginning once for £25k, would that tickle your fancy?

Question 7: Is it better for you guys to buy your content through humble (bundle) store or steam?

How is crucible capped at wave 500? Before the 2.0 reset i was on over wave 1000. After that my cpu didnt go further xD

[nutter666]

Originally posted by Titan:

Question 6: I once heard EA were willing to relinquish the rights to populous the beginning once for £25k, would that tickle your fancy?

Where did you hear that!? I'd pay £25K just to get the rights out of EA's hand! (If I had that kinda spare cash lying around)

[Crythor]

Question 8: Some maps with artifacts seem to be broken like Golden River, some artifacts are suddenly random artifacts or not mirrored artifacts anymore for some reason. Will this get fixed?

[Titan]

Originally posted by Crythor:

Originally posted by Titan:

Question 5: Will you raise the cap on crucible (>500)?

Question 6: I once heard EA were willing to relinquish the rights to populous the beginning once for £25k, would that tickle your fancy?

Question 7: Is it better for you guys to buy your content through humble (bundle) store or steam?

How is crucible capped at wave 500? Before the 2.0 reset i was on over wave 1000. After that my cpu didnt go further xD

The jump from wave 500-501 is unbeatable, try it on the most recent version

[Titan]

Originally posted by nutter666:

Originally posted by Titan:

Question 6: I once heard EA were willing to relinquish the rights to populous the beginning once for £25k, would that tickle your fancy?

Where did you hear that!? I'd pay £25K just to get the rights out of EA's hand! (If I had that kinda spare cash lying around)

Long time ago on Populous Reincarnated, I beleive the small fanbase actually tried to organise a collection to buy the rights

[Titan]

Can anyone provide a link? Ta

[Biervampir [AUT]]

Question/request: Will you upload your broadcasts somewhere?
So that someone can watch it later?

[Tist]

"too many thread" issue still not fixed, whats going on?

[Noontide]

Originally posted by Titan:

Can anyone provide a link? Ta

No VOD for this stream due to twitch falling over. To answer your questions:

Question 5: Will you raise the cap on crucible (>500)?

Question 6: I once heard EA were willing to relinquish the rights to populous the beginning once for £25k, would that tickle your fancy?

Question 7: Is it better for you guys to buy your content through humble (bundle) store or steam?

There's no hard cap on the Crucible it simply scales up until the point where it is unbeatable. If you've reached that point you can consider it won. We never expected anyone would get that far. :)

Sounds unlikely that EA would be willing to part with an IP for such little cost. These kinds of rumours fly around all the time. Fact is if EA were will to part with the Populous IP for such a small cost you'd have seen someone snatch it up. If they were willing to part with for so little I'd snatch it up personally. ;)

If you want to support us directly the best place is via our own store[store.brightrockgames.com].

Originally posted by Biervampir AUT:

Question/request: Will you upload your broadcasts somewhere?
So that someone can watch it later?

I have the first stream and was planning to upload it on Youtube. It is available on twitch now though. The second stream, unfortunately, we do not have a recording of.

This is a summary from our Discord from ZuWhoWho:

Twitch broke on it, so they were unable to record the stream.
So I'm afraid the content was lost to the ether
Let me try to remember a recap....
New Dungeon themes aren't happening in the fureseable future becauae they're so art and animation intensive, new worker skins are a possibility though, they hinted a new one is incoming to tie into a future event.
The next patch is coming soon and will give out more voice acting to minions currently lacking in it, like the beast master and necromancer.
The mighty script tutorials are still a month or two away, they are likely going to be voiced by Dante who voiced Volta (words out on if he'll be doing it in character or not)
If you want merch from them that's not in their store and are willing to pay a reasonable price for their effort, you can totally contact them and they'll consider it
(an example they gave is an art book, there currently isn't one, but if you contact them and are willing to pay for it they'll make one for you)
Project Aftercare hasn't got an announcement time frame yet,
The company is finatually stable (hooray!)
They discussed the difference between mighty script and their in house tool mighty quest. Saying that the latter sacrifices a lot of user friendliness and all debugging ability to give them more power, but won't be made avaliable to the public because it's literally possible to break the steam workshop with it.(edited)
Oh, they lamented that it wasn't labour effective to give every unit dancing animations.
They said they wanted to make the streams be every two weeks.
Oh they talked a fair bit about the 3D printed models they commissioned way back during the kickatarter. They still have them, but they're very fragile and not suitable for shipping. They only time they'd ever sell them is in person at a convention. Even so, they say they were disappointed with the quality because the surface isn't varnished.
They have company tee-shirts and hats that aren't avaliable at the store, because they were a Christmas gift from the company to the staff.
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What else did they say.... Uhhh....
Yeah Toilet Dungeon Theme #Confirmed.
Oh, and micro piglets have a back flip animation that plays very rarely.

Originally posted by Tist:

"too many thread" issue still not fixed, whats going on?

I'm afraid I've not seen that crash in years. Sorry to hear you're suffering from it though, best bet is to get in touch via our support site[brightrockgames.userecho.com]. Try running through those steps first then log a bug report.

You can also email us to log a report via [e-mail]

Hope we can help you out.

[ZuWhowho]

See? Toilet Dungeon Theme confirmed by Noontide himself in writing.