Heroes of Steel v4.4.1 - Major Story Update

[fallen]

Apr 24, 2017 13:11:40 GMT -5 matrim said:

I haven't played it yet, just assumed because of where we are heading. I will cover it up!

Lol sorry, I wasn't talking about the crab's quip.

Just a general warning about actually big story deals. One or two got posted to the forum this morning into threads and I had to mark the thread (spoiler) to try to avoid ppl getting their surprises ruined!

[zagtooth]

You guys are absolutely amazing. I started playing last night. Love the crabs and jelly fish and crawdad things. Great fun. In one sense I can't wait to get to the end but will be most sad when I do hit end. Oh well, I will just have to start over and do it again. Yipeee.
Thank you, Trese Brothers.

[fallen]

Apr 25, 2017 10:35:07 GMT -5 zagtooth said:

You guys are absolutely amazing. I started playing last night. Love the crabs and jelly fish and crawdad things. Great fun. In one sense I can't wait to get to the end but will be most sad when I do hit end. Oh well, I will just have to start over and do it again. Yipeee.
Thank you, Trese Brothers.

You're welcome! Always excited to see new, especially nasty types of monsters coming in.

The Patreons have been drooling over previews of these for some time -- now live!

[sandman68]

little update:
i played the new content until the "end" of it. What comes to my mind is, that the ratkin, the Orcs and the Trolls in the last fights are a little bit incurious fighting the Harbingers.
One question comes to my mind for the two new "talents" : how can they be trained to higher levels now....

[matrim]

sandman68

SPOILER: Click to show

I respecced my Tamilin and Vincent to take advantage of the new talents. I especially love Tamilin's talent, she is a critting machine and the crit damage % coupled with +56 damage is hitting crazy levels (I've hit some Javelineers for 800 with 1 AP throwing knives!). It adds stealth so I took points out of Blacknight to make it happen, worth imo but Selen might be a bit harder to squeeze talents in.

fallen Cory Trese I would just like to congratulate you guys on what an excellent story this game is. It is a gem. You never cease to amaze me with the narrative, the choices, and the gameplay. I'd be lying if I said I was totally patient waiting for this update but it did not disappoint. Thanks for all your hard work!
Lifelong fan
Matrim

[fallen]

matrim - many, many thanks! That is all I ever want to hear lol. Especially on the story front, I am glad to hear we are doing justice to the epic of Heroes of Steel. Once everyone has had a chance to play thru, I am sure going to want to see some spoiler threads about what folks decided to do

sandman68 - they level and respec just like normal Talents! The next update fixes an issue where they are counting and can cause -1 Talent Level for your characters in the leveling screen.

[phaze]

Oh man. Since iOS hasn't updated yet, I've been curious as to the new content. Color me intrigued as to what this actually entails I'm taking a new party through ironman that will best my old score if it makes it and have several parties waiting at Freeport to run through once the content hits. Can't wait for the continued story. Also, new talents are a mechanism I simply did not expect!

[cowboypete]

I'm a bit disappointed to find that gholla outlook still has no dialogue to address what happened in the COD.
I feel a bit guilty about it and I want to talk to the Baron.

[fallen]

Apr 27, 2017 15:10:55 GMT -5 cowboypete said:

I'm a bit disappointed to find that gholla outlook still has no dialogue to address what happened in the COD.
I feel a bit guilty about it and I want to talk to the Baron.

Sorry, this is an on-going bug. I have a saved game that I am trying to pin down the cause. Something about the series of choices you made up to this point has caused the story arc in Gholla to not be available. We're working to resolve it. There is content there, and some players get it, some don't. Why? Not sure, pending bug.

[cowboypete]

Oh. Well in that case I'll look forward to the resolution!

[matrim]

phaze You will have to tell me your score at the end of current content. My best group (and only one so far) has 2.09 B right now with maybe 3-5 fights that I cannot access due to a bug. They kept their ironman status but there were some crazy fights, especially the last big one of the update. I am sure you won't be disappointed. The story is gold, tons of heart wrenching moments and one of the choices caused me to pause for about 10 minutes before I decided on what to do.

Btw half way to level 56 with the group, don't think the last couple of fights will change that much unless there are new guys in them.

[Erik]

Am I bugged I can't get out of ember city ruins . From what I gather this is not the end of the current story update but it says it's is when I try to leave

[sandman68]

for now, it is the end.

[phaze]

matrim

Started the new content with an old party. And by old, I mean pre-lvl 20 skills patch and increased Ep 1 exp. I am killing well enough but the bevy of high damage ranged attackers caught me by surprises and nearly took out non-Kincaid characters. Thankfully this iron man party is not my high scoring one.

Since I only have enough crystals left for one respect each, I am waiting for the ''new talents'.

One major change I will make is to dump CA for Imm as a go to curse. With PS and DS and FU, accuracy is high enough without CA. The -26 armor no longer suffices compared to the added Crit chance for better damage. Enemies have too high armor and HP for the extra 13-26 dam to matter much compared to the extra hundreds a crit can do.

This party feels underpowered given it is so old, but it gets the job done so far which bolds well for my more improved parties.

Edit - And down goes Selen. An off screen wave striker doing 840 dam nailed her twice and rolled high.

I think with all the equipment changes, old parties may not be tooled correctly to manage the jump in damage dealers. So glad I used a test party first.

[Erik]

Ok I'll stay patient thanks for clarification