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Can we get an update on the Sword Coast Adventures?

charononuscharononus Member Posts: 5,715 Arc User
edited December 2013 in General Discussion (PC)
Just wondering if we can get an update on when the Dev's would like to have this released. Is it looking like the next patch, another month, another couple months, etc? I know we can't get a fixed eta as that would be locking things down too far but a news update on this would be welcome.
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  • ukspawnukspawn Member Posts: 426 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    Second this.
  • giggliatogiggliato Member Posts: 446 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    Id like mobile/tablet support.
  • charononuscharononus Member Posts: 5,715 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    giggliato wrote: »
    Id like mobile/tablet support.

    What do you mean? I access the gateway on my ipad all the time with no problems.
  • sylvialynnsylvialynn Member Posts: 160 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    Just because you can log into gateway on your phone or tablet (with reduced features) doesn't mean Sword Coast Adventures will run on them.
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  • reagenlionel1reagenlionel1 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    yeah I've been awaiting for this too.
  • ryugasiriusryugasirius Member Posts: 996 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    I'd like to know as well, it's the feature of Module 2 i was most excited about... except it's not actually released in Module 2... :(
  • melodywhrmelodywhr Member Posts: 4,220 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    sylvialynn wrote: »
    Just because you can log into gateway on your phone or tablet (with reduced features) doesn't mean Sword Coast Adventures will run on them.
    charononus wrote: »
    Just wondering if we can get an update on when the Dev's would like to have this released. Is it looking like the next patch, another month, another couple months, etc? I know we can't get a fixed eta as that would be locking things down too far but a news update on this would be welcome.
    giggliato wrote: »
    Id like mobile/tablet support.

    SCA is supposed to be coming soon as in a few weeks kind of soon. maybe sooner than that.

    also it is designed to work on smartphones and tablets so you and your companions can adventure on the go. :)
  • ladymythosladymythos Member, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 637 Bounty Hunter
    edited December 2013
    This is probably a stupid question, but are those four companions based on character or account? So if I have four characters in the game, who all have one companion, can I pick all those four companions? Or do I first pick one character, then that character's companion and hire the remaining three? Sorry, I just never heard of SCA before. *blush*
  • dardovedardove Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    ladymythos wrote: »
    This is probably a stupid question, but are those four companions based on character or account? So if I have four characters in the game, who all have one companion, can I pick all those four companions? Or do I first pick one character, then that character's companion and hire the remaining three? Sorry, I just never heard of SCA before. *blush*

    It is by character, not account. So one character will need 4 companions.
  • xellizxelliz Member Posts: 955 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    It seems to me that SCA is gateway only. If this is the case, WHY? When I am playing Neverwinter I want to do things like this inside the game. I don't want to play part of the game outside of the game itself. The gateway is tool for Neverwinter, but SCA is part of the game...IMO anyway.
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  • caloriencalorien Member Posts: 177 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    Note that if you have less than 4 companions on your character, you can still do adventures in SCA; a number of mercenaries will be added to your party to round it out, but these will be weak and any experience a companion would have earned for encounters where they are used will be lost. (Companions in idle slots as well as active slots can be used in SCA.)

    They're probably waiting until the smartphone versions are ready to roll out before enabling it again; the initial test versions only worked on PC (and Mac?) browsers.
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  • ryugasiriusryugasirius Member Posts: 996 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    ladymythos wrote: »
    This is probably a stupid question, but are those four companions based on character or account? So if I have four characters in the game, who all have one companion, can I pick all those four companions? Or do I first pick one character, then that character's companion and hire the remaining three? Sorry, I just never heard of SCA before. *blush*

    You can easily get all 5 white companions for a total 8g (one you get for free, other 4 are 2g each), if you are high level it takes just a few quests/dailies to max 'em to lv. 15 :)
  • ladymythosladymythos Member, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 637 Bounty Hunter
    edited December 2013
    ryugasirius wrote: »
    You can easily get all 5 white companions for a total 8g (one you get for free, other 4 are 2g each), if you are high level it takes just a few quests/dailies to max 'em to lv. 15 :)
    Thanks. Fortunately money isn't really an issue for me. I was just wondering if I should buy four companions, or if I could use four I alreadyd have (spread over several characters). :) I'm not rich or anything, but I think Neverwinter is one of those games worth investing money in. :)
  • zelstrom74zelstrom74 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    xelliz wrote: »
    It seems to me that SCA is gateway only. If this is the case, WHY? When I am playing Neverwinter I want to do things like this inside the game. I don't want to play part of the game outside of the game itself. The gateway is tool for Neverwinter, but SCA is part of the game...IMO anyway.

    I would not want to spend time playing a SCA style game if I had the opportunity to log into the actual game. No thanks.
  • cpendletcpendlet Member Posts: 42
    edited December 2013
    As far as I know, all the companions have to be on the same character to use them together. At least I could not find a way to do it on the test server.
  • goatsharkgoatshark Member Posts: 23 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    cpendlet wrote: »
    As far as I know, all the companions have to be on the same character to use them together. At least I could not find a way to do it on the test server.

    Correct. All companions must be on the same character to use them together.

    And to answer another question that's come up in a few places: if you own between 1 and 3 companions, you can still play SCA with the aid of temporary companions. These temporary companions are weak (rank 1 equivalent) and take their share of companion XP, but they do allow you to play through adventures and collect other rewards.

    As for when SCA will be available on live, pending no major problems, we are going to launch it on the same day as the winter event: December 19th! Exciting! :)
  • dardovedardove Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    So when it launches will it have special adventures for the winter event?
  • melodywhrmelodywhr Member Posts: 4,220 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    goatshark wrote: »
    Correct. All companions must be on the same character to use them together.

    And to answer another question that's come up in a few places: if you own between 1 and 3 companions, you can still play SCA with the aid of temporary companions. These temporary companions are weak (rank 1 equivalent) and take their share of companion XP, but they do allow you to play through adventures and collect other rewards.

    As for when SCA will be available on live, pending no major problems, we are going to launch it on the same day as the winter event: December 19th! Exciting! :)

    all excellent news! thank you!

    also i just noticed in-game on my companion's stats tab, there is SCA information about my companions and a button that takes me to the gateway. cool stuff!
  • xellizxelliz Member Posts: 955 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    zelstrom74 wrote: »
    I would not want to spend time playing a SCA style game if I had the opportunity to log into the actual game. No thanks.
    So you would rather stop playing the Neverwinter to load a mini game elsewhere instead of being able to do that in game? I guess if thats the way some people like it...but I dont.
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  • ladymythosladymythos Member, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 637 Bounty Hunter
    edited December 2013
    xelliz wrote: »
    So you would rather stop playing the Neverwinter to load a mini game elsewhere instead of being able to do that in game? I guess if thats the way some people like it...but I dont.
    I would love to play SCA on my iPad when watching TV, rather than being stuck playing it in-game. :)
  • syka08syka08 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    goatshark wrote: »
    Correct. All companions must be on the same character to use them together.

    And to answer another question that's come up in a few places: if you own between 1 and 3 companions, you can still play SCA with the aid of temporary companions. These temporary companions are weak (rank 1 equivalent) and take their share of companion XP, but they do allow you to play through adventures and collect other rewards.

    As for when SCA will be available on live, pending no major problems, we are going to launch it on the same day as the winter event: December 19th! Exciting! :)

    I guess you all are planning on doing a seperate announcement for it, since this didn't make it into the Winter Festival Preview Announcement? Because I feel a bit bummed out that I only found this out on accident now XD.
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  • syka08syka08 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    xelliz wrote: »
    So you would rather stop playing the Neverwinter to load a mini game elsewhere instead of being able to do that in game? I guess if thats the way some people like it...but I don't.

    You can run both of them together, actually. Access to gateway runs quite nicely in parallel with having the game open and running.
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  • ladysylvialadysylvia Member Posts: 946 Bounty Hunter
    edited December 2013
    SCA in the current state = waste of time. The encounter of T4 is really hard and the benefit for them are lvl 30-40 like. Except to run gateway out of pc using, SCA is not advisable.
  • syka08syka08 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    ladysylvia wrote: »
    SCA in the current state = waste of time. The encounter of T4 is really hard and the benefit for them are lvl 30-40 like. Except to run gateway out of pc using, SCA is not advisable.

    We don't know if they've made any modifications to it yet based on our feedback, though. They've kept it down for bug testing, true, but that's not to say they couldn't have dialed the difficulty down a notch or two from the near 11 out of 10 they had it set at.
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  • charononuscharononus Member Posts: 5,715 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    xelliz wrote: »
    So you would rather stop playing the Neverwinter to load a mini game elsewhere instead of being able to do that in game? I guess if thats the way some people like it...but I dont.

    It's a diversion for when you can't log into the game. There are many times where I can have the gateway up and running but can't log in at the same time due to things going on at home. A few mins of web browsing time is far different than game time.
  • kattefjaeskattefjaes Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users Posts: 2,270 Bounty Hunter
    edited December 2013
    melodywhr wrote: »
    SCA is supposed to be coming soon as in a few weeks kind of soon. maybe sooner than that.

    also it is designed to work on smartphones and tablets so you and your companions can adventure on the go. :)

    Not very well designed, then :D

    On iPad Safari on iOS 7, trying to add chars to a party fails miserably.. Clicking gives you "hover over", and there is no obvious way to just click. I can't even start a single adventure for this reason.

    This is probably one of the most obvious and common browser configurations, and so maybe it would have been nice if just this once, something had been actually tested.
  • melodywhrmelodywhr Member Posts: 4,220 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    kattefjaes wrote: »
    Not very well designed, then :D

    On iPad Safari on iOS 7, trying to add chars to a party fails miserably.. Clicking gives you "hover over", and there is no obvious way to just click. I can't even start a single adventure for this reason.

    This is probably one of the most obvious and common browser configurations, and so maybe it would have been nice if just this once, something had been actually tested.

    hmm... perhaps i was a little premature in that statement.

    here are some official posts for you:

    posted on 11/1/13
    badbotlimit wrote: »
    • in your browser (Currently Chrome & Firefox will give you the best experience) navigate to: gatewaytest.playneverwinter.com
    • A Mobile is currently not available. To play you will need to use a desktop, laptop or device that can show full size html (portrait mode might work for some devices)

    posted on 11/2/13
    badbotlimit wrote: »
    While Sword Coast Adventures is currently not working on Mobile devices we are working on that now.

    so there's been no official announcement that this is currently working on mobile devices. soon, perhaps. :D
  • kattefjaeskattefjaes Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users Posts: 2,270 Bounty Hunter
    edited December 2013
    Ha, thanks, melody. Fingers crossed!
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