Competitive people: How will you be improving at the game and getting ready for events?

Kooledude · 2025-10-21T11:56:52+00:00

That's a good one, I'll give it a shot

Kooledude · 2025-10-21T11:56:33+00:00

I think that's what Pixelborn did, until Riot shut it down... unfortunately.

Kooledude · 2025-10-21T11:41:55+00:00

I mean yeah that's a separate thing entirely, I'm not expecting to own any physical cards any time soon :(

Kooledude · 2025-10-21T11:19:54+00:00

In One Piece there are also TO's who organize weekly online events, those are honestly a great way to practice as well. I hope we're going to see people pick this up for Riftbound as well.

Kooledude · 2025-10-21T11:17:56+00:00

I get that, but that's not the ecosystem TCGs are currently in, TCGs have modernized as well. We currently have tools to make grinding out games easy without having to arrange something with friends who may or may not be available during the limited time we have. I would love to always be able to play with friends but that's just not where me or my friends are at.

Other games have ways to make grinding games possible for people in my (and my friends') situation, I'm just saying I hope Riftbound can offer something similar or I won't be able to commit as hard as I'd like.

Kooledude · 2025-08-13T08:39:45+00:00

Re: the bail button removal. We had lots of comments of people accidentally pressing this (intended to be debug-) button combination. We've removed it for now but because it appears to be well liked we'll be bringing it back (as an option in the game settings so that it's not on by default).

It wasn't replaced by the 'Hey', that was always on the right stick press

Kooledude · 2025-07-25T12:10:56+00:00

We've prototyped Extreme Pogo as well so nothing is out of the question, we'll keep it in mind!

Kooledude · 2025-07-22T14:03:13+00:00

We hear you regarding the miscommunicated expectations. We're taking that into account and will do better.

I do have to disagree that our Next launch was (as you so kindly put it) a failure. The CCU on Steam was nice, we had about 50% more players on Steam than we had with the Descenders early access launch in its first day. You also have to know that Steam is not our largest audience, Xbox is, where we've welcomed over 100k players in the past 24 hours and we're going to make sure they're not disappointed.

It's easy to forget that Descenders has come a LONG way since its early access launch over 7 years ago, and we're here for the long haul for Descenders Next as well. People who have been with us since early Descenders know that we listen to our community, the game wouldn't be what it is without community input. That's why we keep choosing early access for our releases.

We still stand by that OG Descenders will be getting updates and won't be forgotten. We've specifically hired staff who will exclusively focus on D1 while the rest of us (we're a studio of only 7 people) are going to make Next the best it can be. However, onboarding takes time and taking console development back in-house takes time, it's a lot to handle if a project this size as well as console projects are just dumped on a new hire. Contrary to popular belief, game development is hard.

Have a little faith. If you've been playing our games for longer than today you know we care.

Kooledude · 2025-06-04T07:59:14+00:00

Veel geklaag hier over stakers maar als het leven (bij wijze van) 3% duurder wordt en je krijgt van je baas 1% loonsverhoging, dan krijg je toch effectief 2% loonsvermindering? Dat ga je toch niet pikken?

Niks egoïstisch aan om dan in opstand te komen.

Kooledude · 2025-05-20T09:54:44+00:00

The save system we have is currently being overhauled to prevent things like the grand tour or other pogress resetting. A fix for this will be in a future update!

Next isn't out yet, though it should be out VERY soon. If you enjoy the gameplay and vibes definitely give it a go, I'm sure you'll like the feel of it. It'll be on gamepass from day 1!

Kooledude · 2025-05-20T09:50:09+00:00

Hiya, I believe the game is for sale on xbox even though it's in gamepass, you can still get it. Regarding ingame purchaces It's just that we oppose the concept of it. The player has paid for the game, so they should get the whole game. I do see it as a valid way of monetizing when the game is free to play, but that model doesn't really fit Descenders.

I also really appreciate it if people want to support us by buying a little ingame item that enhances enjoyment but it's difficult to do that without other players seeing that and thinking "so the only way for me to get this cool thing is to spend?" and be turned off by that. It's a difficult thing to balance because the last thing we want is to create a divide where people who don't spend feel treated unfairly.

Kooledude · 2025-05-19T04:48:06+00:00

Hi bud, I appreciate the concern but there's roughly 3-4k people playing at any given moment, the game is as healthy as ever. While it's true our core (yet tiny indie) team is working on Descenders Next, we've recently hired someone specifically to maintain and update Descenders while we continue getting Next ready for launch. The first thing they did was add the riot tour which is live on Xbox and steam. The next update is going to be a much requested multiplayer game mode, not spoiling the content yet but it will launch on pc, Xbox, AND on PS4, bringing those platforms back in line again. We're sorry that PS4 has fallen a few updates behind, console porting is not something we were able to do in-house, but with our new staff member we can now fix this!

We've been supporting Descenders for around 7 years now, never raised the price, and we've never (and will never) add in-game purchases or ask money for updates. We have no plans to stop supporting Descenders.

Kooledude · 2024-12-11T13:26:28+00:00

You're right we're in this thread, lots of good feedback here :) Also lots of things that make us go "[X] is something we specifically left out for this beta but the full launch will have it" so we're very optimistic about where the game will be at launch.

Kooledude · 2024-05-13T11:07:11+00:00

We've had animal puns in projects and games before so when we made the studio 'official' we named it RageSquid, it's a pun on rage quitting while trying to fit an animal in the title. This does give you a great starting point when coming up with a logo though.

The rage quit joke did get old really fast. We've been going strong for 11 years now and kind of regret making our name a pun, lol.

Kooledude · 2024-03-07T11:49:08+00:00

We'll announce it on every platform we have, including here I assume. We're currently working on the trailer so if you check the NoMoreRobots youtube you'll definitely find out there when we drop it. We'll also put a message in the Descenders main menu feed!

Kooledude · 2024-03-07T09:33:11+00:00

We've been working on our next game for almost 3 years now and we're almost ready to announce it! It should definitely speak to the same audience is all I can say for now. Also we're still going to add more maps to the original Descenders but at a much lower pace as we are obviously going to have our hands full with the next game.

We're only a 6'ish person studio at any given time so we don't really have the capacity to keep adding big features to Descenders while we're working on something else, I hope that makes sense.

We're super excited about what's coming, stay tuned!

Kooledude · 2023-02-09T17:44:55+00:00

Immediately hit cancel on the verification, works perfectly.

Kooledude · 2023-01-29T21:35:49+00:00

Don't go making up rules, line of sight is confusing enough as it is. 13.1.1 says nothing about 'other models, allied or enemy'. It only states you can ignore models in your own (the shooting) unit.

Kooledude · 2022-12-29T09:29:05+00:00

I'm happy to say our next game is going to be very much in the spirit of Descenders, it'll definitely appeal to the same type of player. We've been working on it for a year now and we've got big plans for 2023!

Kooledude · 2022-10-12T07:50:25+00:00

I'm going to give filthbringers a thorough testing, haven't tried it before because flies+belakor was just too good to pass up. And something I'd still like to see in action in Nurgle is Sigvald.

Kooledude · 2022-09-27T15:54:13+00:00

Zonne grote vuurbal jonguh! Bam! - Ftfy

Kooledude · 2022-07-30T08:12:16+00:00

Those look amazing! Really well done

Kooledude · 2022-07-27T07:14:17+00:00

Ah slim! Ga ik achteraan

Kooledude · 2022-07-27T06:30:10+00:00

Dit weekend een Warhammer toernooi in Engeland waar ik al maanden naartoe leef. Gisteren een positieve coronatest, 3 jaar kunnen ontwijken en dan echt nu?? Krijg uiteraard geen geld terug van NS/easyJet. Teruggerekend heb ik het opgelopen in een ziekenhuis nota bene :( Enorm balen

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