Dev July15 2022

## Raiders Dev Stream!

* Fan Art + Captain Skins
* Marbles invasion check in!
* Roadmap / Updates
* Dungeon 9
* Versus Prize Drawings
* New Event!
* Q&A
* Skin Giveaways

## Roadmap / Updates

July:

* Marbles Founders Pack
* Versus
* Community & Streamer Designed Bosses
* Performance Improvements!

The Future:

* New Event
* Dungeons 9!
* Shinobi Unit!
* Unit Souls!
* A Castle in Streamlandia

(Kermond tricked Nick into taking his spot in the Dungeons)

### **Game Size**

The Wednesday Update Prior to Dev Stream had a repackage of the game, which caused the update to be longer but overtime will make new updates shorter. This will increase preformance.

### **Captain Bosses**

These new Captain Bosses will be added next event!

#### TOKOZOONA Berserker

Once every 10s, the next kill will fear nearby enemies for 5s, causing them to run away.

"IT'S ALL ZOONA NOW!!!"
#### KenAKAFrosty Artillery

The unit slows nearby enemies as they approach. The slow grows stronger the closer the enemy gets, up to a 70% movement speed reduction.

 "Eat your veggies!"
#### CocoJobro Barbarian

"Are you ready for a FIRE-works show? You're about to go down in a BLAZE of glory! And if you can't take the HEAT, stay outta my kitchen, er, battlefield! RAWR!!"

This unit gains 10% damage and 10% attack speed on kill. Stacks up to 5 times.
#### ZealousZam Berserker

"You want your army original, or extra crispy?"
#### **How to Create a Captain Boss!**

1. Earn the Captain Boss unlock via Skinathons!
2. Select a skin! The selected skin will determine the core behavior of the unit (e.g. flying status, class, etc.)
3. Select an ability! Each of the 5 classes will have 3 abilities to choose from.
4. Reach the Captain Boss node in any campaign map and see your boss in action!

### **Captain Boss Map!**

* Play the new **Captain Boss** map! (Sometimes featuring Shooty!)
* Earn the new **Loyalty Scroll Chest**!
* A new way for players to earn scrolls for your **Uncommon Units**! (You asked for it!TM)

### **Dungeons 9 Hype!**

Coming August 4th\*

New Shinobi Skins!
Shin-Oak-Bi, Dai-Meow, Pyro-Ichi, and the Epic Cursed Oni
### **August Versus Changes**

For the August VS events we will be trying out 2 changes:

* Win streak power modifiers will be removed. Winning/losing battles will no longer additionally impact power limits for the next battle.
* Matchmaking bands will be widened to allow for shorter matchmaking times.

### **New Event**

*Learn More on Swords & Sweetery*
New Trailer was dropped and can be watched here.

## Q&A

Chat can ask ctv\_River & ctv\_Kermond questions. They'll pick various questions and answer them. Below is a list of all the questions and answers given during the Dev Stream.

*Some of these Answers have been paraphrased*

**Q:** Bitwave\_: does that say "Run up that Bill" ?
**A:** No, That says "Run up that hill"
*This question was in reference of River's sign*
**Q:** ArticSkoll: with the new changes potentially coming for august versus whats that going to do for imbalanced pairings that could potentially happen for fresh captains getting paired up with people they have no possible to way to beat them cause thats not fun
**A:** It is possible to be more likely to go against captains which may cause either getting longer win streaks or longer losing streaks. With that, if there is more Captains playing, it can reduce this from happening. TLDR: More people playing = more fun
**Q:** Flosszyy: Will any pass bosses come out as skins we can purchase? I miss Wally from the Anime event
**A:** CTV has been keeping track of skins that people want or enemies people want as skins to come back as skins. The best place to let CTV know what skins/enemies is the feedback channel in the StreamRaiders' Discord.
**Q:** vorfinia: Anymore sponsers coming up?
**A:** That would be something Thomas & Brad would talk about on the Captain Dev Stream
**Q:** Bucknut805: When will see a cart for skins? Buying bulk is panful
**A:** Now that CTV are on the new payment system, they haven't been looking into investment on carts. Kermond does agree it is painful. It is on the backlog, no ETA.
**Q:** Goldninja100gn: Gift Cards!!! I want to ask my grandma for CaptainTV Giftcards!!
**A:** Product codes do exist, manufacturing cards would the difficult part. Kermond just wants a CaptainTV Gift card in his wallet.
*Goldninja100gn responded with some ideas around manufacturing, which include digital gift cards. This just opens the idea for people to be able to gift skins or battlepasses to players of the game without requiring a Twitch/CaptainTV account.*
**Q:** MythicPriest: Are the VS going back to 3 tickets a win or do we just have to grind out the 2s?
**A:** The original reason why it was changed was because people were getting to 45 tickets too quickly causing there to be less captains playing after they reached 45 tickets. Overall that concern is still present, so it will be left as is for now.
**Q:** Luna\_\_Auroras: any timeline on if or when skin randomise option will come to mobile?
**A:** No, it is not on the timeline. The Mobile Lite client is *lite* and such, won't have all of the features as their web/windows counterparts.
**Q:** lockmastah: Is the team working on bug fixes / improvements for skin code generator tool?
**A:** The bug wasn't able to be reproduced in-house, but they are eye-balling it and still working on a fix. CaptainTV has a back-up by manually creating skin codes for captains who were having issues.
**Q:** xRagnaroxx: @CaptainTV so the power limit for pvp will solely rely on the power you have put on the field in past matches? matchmaking wont affect the power bar at all?
**A:** Matchmaking still affects it, but wins/losses now won't. If you beat a captain, and then match with them again, your power bar won't be restricted more due to your win.
*Kermond stated this help solves the feel-bad problem with Versus where not everyone can participate due to a win. Basically, if a captain won against another captain and got paired with them again, they wouldn't be punished for winning. This does make the match a little unfair for the other captain, but overall this is good since more placers = more fun.*
**Q:** Flosszyy: ZealousZam asks: will loyalty scroll chests have a limit? how many scrolls are we looking at? is it the same level of super boss chests?
**A:** They will have a limit just like all the other loyalty chests. Kermond doesn't know the exact number but believes it is likely to be higher then the Super Boss chest.
*The Loyalty Super Boss chest has a limit of 30, the Uncommon Loyalty chest will likely be higher then 30.*
**Q:** ZealousZam: @ctv\_kermond specifically. I am going grocery shopping shortly, what kind of snacks should I get that aren't sweet so I can cleanse my palette before candy event?
**A:** Celery, raw Brussel Sprouts, red Radish, and non-flavored Rice Cakes
**Q:** xRagnaroxx: @CaptainTV this is a must. Please PLEASE please add a IN GAME timer/announcement/notification for Updates/maintenance!!
**A:** CTV hasn't invest time into the tech for that, but they are aware of it. Currently these announcements are made in discord, but not everyone is in there to see them. River keeps bring it up in the feedback meetings.
**Q:** civilgrenade: Can tomorrow be a double token day!?
**A:** No. The Marbles Invasion event ran an extra week long and there wasn't any major outages.
**Q:** Hahaenigma: Any hints to the theme of the next Versus skin set?
**A:** Nope, not yet.
**Q:** DiamondForce3: Sorry to ask if its already been asked. How long does it take for full skins to be done please?
**A:** Ideal is a 3-4 week turn around time. Currently it is over double that right now. This is a concern of CaptainTV and they have been working on it, between hiring more artists and working on improvements to the hub where communication can be more organized. Currently it depends on too many factors to give an exact time.

## Giveaway

The Giveaway Keyword was "!sweet" via Nightbot

Marble Healer Skin Giveaway:

* SassyBubblesTV
* ctv\_kermond
* Goldninja100gn
* AeroGarfield29
* tatsuchan90
* thenanbeast
* heatherqtt
* KageKitsune\_

## Trivia

* ctv\_river decided to specialize the CaptainTV account's Warrior Unit. She opened a poll between Vengeful, Raging, and Rally. Vengeful won.
* ctv\_kermond's favourite candy is Take Five.
* They have been joking about how Tooth-related skins will be underpowered next event.
* Nightbot messed up and accidentally had StreamCaptainBot win the giveaway.
* They Raided ItsSmokieFTW

## *Sources*

1. ↑ ctv\_nick's response to a question (screenshot)
2. ↑ Loyalty Super Boss Chest from the StreamRaiders wiki (link)