Devs/Community stance on some issues

[AndrewTilley]

Below are the most relevant developer responses concerning the various subjects that I could find.

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(1) Persisting instances, ie, if you port out of an area and return, loot is still there, monster states (dead/alive/etc) are still the same.

This is a technical limitation EHG has yet to overcome and is unlikely to be resolved prior to 1.0, which you can read here.

(2) Affix/Glyph/Rune auto-pickup and/or auto-transfer.

@EHG_Mike2

We believe that it’s important for the feel of the game loop to have enemies fairly frequently drop items that you want to take an active action to pick up, but which you don’t have to take time to inspect to work out whether it’s good for you. However there are times where it feels bad at the moment, especially when it’s just one shard, so we’re planning to have them drop slightly less frequently and in larger groups on average. We’re also planning to add more of a sink for shards you don’t want, so that it feels less futile to have picked up a shard that you aren’t planning to use and already have hundreds of.

We will be looking to new feedback after these changes are implemented.

EHG implemented the first of these changes in patch 0.9.1:

@EHG_Kain

• Changed crafting items (runes, glyphs, and shards) to drop in larger clumps on average, and never drop one at a time in level 12+ zones. This does not change the number of crafting items that drop overall.

The second of these changes, a shard sink, has yet to be added.

(3) Idol crafting, any form of giving us control over some affixes, not necessarily the same system as for gear.

Mike discusses being excited about the prospect of eventually adding idol crafting to the game during this dev stream. Additions to the idol system are a design space they’ve purposely left open for after launch.

(4) Some maps have stuff like trees or walls covering the screen and you can’t see the fight. Is this a feature or will it be fixed?

May 2, 2023
Q: Can we talk about how some maps are really bad about obstructing the player’s view with terrain?

Judd: We’re aware and we’re spot treating when time permits. There’s been talks of redeveloping the hideable system all together as adjustments individually are taking a decent amount of time. At best, we remake the hideable system, and at worst you’ll see much less of these in the future as we tackle them individually and are more mindful of the issue when making new areas.

Source: Reddit Link

(5) Replacing a +1 skill with another gear that has the exact same +1 skill still refunds the point. Seems to me that if you end up with the exact same number of points, nothing should change.

While I understand it doesn’t make much sense in your example, it likely still does this because of the following:

July 31, 2023
Q: Any plans on fine tuning skill point allocation for skill point’s you get through gear?

It’s very hard to track when you remove an item that gives you additional points where it has been removed from, cause it doesn’t seem to be where you put that additional point, correct me if I’m wrong. Not sure if its feasible to have the game track your skill point allocation order, would be nice though.

Mike: It very intentionally doesn’t remove the point you added with the item as this creates an exploit case. When you open you skills panel after removing an item which granted +skills to that skill, it flashes the affected nodes red several times. This might be too subtle and I could see a more obvious notification for that. We have no plans to change the mechanics of how it selects which node is to be removed though.

Source: Discord Link

(6) Not being able to use traversal skills in the various towns.

June 8, 2023
Q: Is it still a possibility to have stripped-down traversal skills available in towns eventually?

Mike: Extremely unlikely. I think a more likely thing is for us to reduce some of the longer town walking sections by changing spawn points.

Source: Discord Link

(7) Not having the chest when you change monoliths. Why not move us to the same room where we go to when we’re done with a node? Almost all the time, when I change monoliths, I end up just going in whichever node and immediately porting out so I can use the chest, especially because it’s usually after a longer session in the previous one and I have gear to dump, including uniques from boss drop.

I couldn’t find a developer response specific to this request, but you could always leave this as feedback.

(8) Summoning minions/totems sometimes fails to do so, presumably cause it’s targeting some obstacle or something like that. However mana is still spent. Working as intended or will it be changed?

October 20, 2022
Q: Hey Mike, so i was curious about the Grove Mind node under Thorn totems. It seems most of the time when i cast this skill directly or via alternate methods like Tempest strike, more often then not it doesn’t summon the maximum amount of totems, sometimes less, sometimes none at all, but if casted will use the mana regardless. Is this a bug?

Mike: Sometimes the location that the totem would be placed is not available so it is not placed. In a situation like this, the yellow dots wouldn’t be placed because their target location is non-accessible.

Source: Discord Link

You’ll have to visit the link above for Mike’s example image of this made in paint.