Question 1

How do I install the extension on Twitch?

Accepted Answer

You can find and install the Expeditions: Rome Tribune extension here.
 
Navigate to your Creator Dashboard on Twitch by clicking your profile picture in the upper right-hand corner and clicking "Creator Dashboard". Click "Extensions" on the left side of the window. Use the search box to look up "Expeditions: Rome Tribune". Find the correct extension, with the Rome helmet logo, and click "Install".

Question 2

How do I connect the extension with my game?

Accepted Answer

Once you have the Expeditions: Rome Tribune extension installed on Twitch, navigate to your Creator Dashboard and click "Extensions" on the left side bar. Navigate to "My Extensions" at the top of your window and you will find all the extensions you have installed and activated. Find the Expeditions: Rome Tribune extension under the "Installed" column and click the cog wheel in the lower right-hand corner. A new window will come up and show you the configuration options for the extension.
 
At the top of the configuration, you will see a number of asterisks, this is your custom PIN (do not show it uncovered on your stream). Use the copy button just to the right of the PIN to copy it.

Start up your Expeditions: Rome game if it is not already running. From the main menu of the game, click the "Options" button. At the top of the menu you will see a button for "Twitch". On this menu, click “Link to Twitch” and paste your PIN in the box provided, then click ‘Confirm’. It should say "Authenticated" at the top of the menu and you’re good to go!

Question 3

How do I make the extension appear on my stream?

Accepted Answer

Go to your Creator Dashboard on Twitch and navigate to the Extensions menu. Click "My Extensions" and find the Expeditions: Rome Tribune extension. Click "Activate" and select "Set as Overlay 1".

You may be asked to replace an extension in Overlay 1 if you already have one activated there. Click "Replace" to activate the Expeditions: Rome Tribune extension instead and then click "Done".
The extension will only appear on your stream when your stream is set to the Expeditions: Rome category.

Question 4

Where should I position my camera to stream with this extension?

Accepted Answer

The best location for your camera is the lower left corner of your stream. Currently, extension elements for viewers appear toward the upper and center left of the screen during combat and the lower right side of the screen.

Question 5

How do I explain the extension to my audience?

Accepted Answer

This extension was designed specifically for Expeditions: Rome to allow viewers an unprecedented level of access to a streamer’s game session on Twitch. Viewers can control a multitude of aspects of the game live while it is being streamed.

NPC characters can be named after viewers
The combat log allows viewers to catch up on actions that have taken place in the game session
Viewers can grief or help the streamer in various ways during combat 
Viewers can send care packages to help the streamer during the broader campaign.
 
We encourage you to walk your viewers through the extension by showing yourself viewing your own stream on screen and clicking different buttons on the extension, so they know where to go easily.

Question 6

What can I set in the Twitch Configuration?

Accepted Answer

We’ve put a lot of effort into adding in-game controls to help streamline your streaming experience with the extension. There are also some settings that made more sense to control via the Twitch Creator Dashboard. 
 
For the Creator Dashboard settings, you can navigate to the Extensions section of your Creator Dashboard and click "My Extensions". Find the Expeditions: Rome Tribune extension and click the cog wheel to open an Extension Configuration window. Here you can select from the following categories: Renaming, AI Targeting, Dialogue Voting, Status Effects, and Care Packages.
Enemy Renaming: You can turn enemy renaming on or off and set a Denarii amount to decide how much a viewer would need to spend to rename an NPC.
Status Effects: Here you can set the denarii cost for each status effect a viewer can use. Some are more powerful, such as full heal or knocked down, so you’ll want to set those costs higher.
Care Packages: Here you  can set the amount of Denarii a viewer must spend to send you a particular package. The benefit of each care package (amount of food sent, medicine given, etc.) is random and cannot be selected by you or your viewers.
Passive Denarii: There are two ways your viewers can get denarii: when they join your stream and for the amount of time they spend on your stream. Here you can toggle off or on the ability to give viewers denarii when they join (101 denarii, locked) and the ability to passively earn denarii (20 denarii every 10 minutes). Denarii is the currency your viewers can use to manipulate gameplay in the extension.
Note: You can update the denarii amounts at any point in gameplay and an alert will be shown to your viewers along with the updated denarii amounts.

Question 7

What can I configure in-game?

Accepted Answer

We wanted to make the process of changing extension settings as streamlined as possible, but it did make more sense to have some settings directly in-game rather than the Twitch Creator Dashboard. In-game, we set up more discrete controls for game actions while the extension configuration largely handles denarii. You can change these settings at any time during your gameplay by navigating to the options menu in-game.

What do the configuration settings in-game do?
 
Dialogue Voting: 
Polls start automatically will automatically trigger a chat vote in-game. When this is toggled off, you can manually select to start a vote.
Enforce Winning Poll Choice: You have the option to have the game automatically select chat’s choice for you or you can toggle off this setting and choose to take chat’s choice or not.
Duration: This is the length of time that your poll runs for. You can also choose to end a poll whenever you want.
Care Packages: You can toggle off or on each of the different options for care packages (food and water,medicine, denarii, legion reinforcements)
Combat Actions: Here you can set the combat actions off or on. Combat actions are all or nothing; either you have them turned on or off. Combat actions include: full heal, knock down, rename. re-target, savage, rallied, weakened, and disarm.
Notification Sounds: get notified when people send you care packages in-game.

Question 8

What is Denarii and why would I want to change the Denarii price of certain actions?

Accepted Answer

Since we keep bringing up denarii, it’d help to explain what it is: denarii is an in-extension currency used to perform non-free actions in the extension.
 
Viewers can get denarii in three ways:
When they join your stream; 
Passively by continuing to watch the stream;
And in exchange for bits.
Note: The denarii they earn and acquire exists in your channel. 
 
Viewers can purchase numerous actions with Denarii during your Expeditions: Rome streams. This can get incredibly chaotic (and fun!) during your streams and create great audience moments. But it’s not always the right time to have chat light the entire battlefield on fire. Luckily, you can change the Denarii cost of actions easily at any time from the Twitch Creator Dashboard. Any costs you change will automatically update live to the extension, meaning your viewers will immediately see the changes you’ve made.

Question 9

How do I change the Denarii price of certain actions?

Accepted Answer

Go to your Creator Dashboard on Twitch and navigate to the Extensions menu. Click "My Extensions" at the top and find the Expeditions: Rome Tribune extension. Click the cog wheel to enter the configuration menu. From here you can select a category and customize features from there.
 
The only actions that can be assigned a Denarii amount are Renaming, Status Effects, and Care Packages. You can set these amounts to anything you like, including 0 for no cost(this displays as “free” in the extension). Remember that Denarii and Twitch Bits are 1:1, so if an action costs 500 Denarii, that would be 500 Bits or $5.00 USD.

Question 10

How do I adjust the dialogue voting settings?

Accepted Answer

We’ve added a number of options to help you automate how dialogue voting works. We did this so those who would like to leverage votes frequently can create a process that works best for them. 
 
You can only change Dialogue Voting settings from in-game under the Options>Twitch menu. Settings include: Automatic Poll Start, Enforce Winning Poll, and Duration. Automatic poll start will automatically trigger a chat vote in-game. When this is toggled off, you can manually select to start a vote.
 
Enforce Winning Poll Choice will have the game automatically select chat’s choice for you as opposed to giving you reign to take or leave the audience choice.
 
Setting the duration for longer will allow your audience more time to vote on the options, which may increase the amount of division between options and a harder choice.

Question 11

How do I activate Twitch Drops for my channel?

Accepted Answer

There will be an active Twitch Drops campaign for Expeditions: Rome from January 20th at 7AM Pacific to January 31st at 4AM Pacific! We’re running this campaign to add even more rewards and excitement to your channel during the launch window. These Drops are open to anyone streaming Expeditions: Rome between 1/20-1/31.
 
To access drops:
 
Navigate to your Creator Dashboard on Twitch and click "Viewer Rewards". This will prompt a dropdown menu, select "Drops" from that menu. Make sure you have a purple checkmark where it says "Enable Drops" at the top of the window. Note that if you had Drops disabled on your channel and then enable them, it could take up to five minutes for your enabled status to change on your stream. 
Scroll down to see all active Drops campaigns available to you. Find the Expeditions: Rome campaign and click to see more details about the campaign. To ensure this works, make sure your Twitch and game accounts are connected. 
Under "What You Need to Do" you should see a prompt to connect your Twitch account with the account for Expeditions: Rome. Click the "Connect" hyperlink and follow the steps to make sure your accounts are properly connected.
Go back to the Drops tab on Twitch to see the details on the Expeditions: Rome Drops campaign. At the bottom of this dropdown window, you will see a "Connect" button. Click this to activate these drops on your stream.

Question 12

What are the available drops in the Twitch Drops campaign?

Accepted Answer

Here is an outline of what Drops will be available and how long viewers will need to watch Expeditions: Rome streams to receive these Drops.
 
Drop #1 – 2 Hours
THQ Nordic Color Scheme

Drop #2 – 5 Hours
THQ Emblem

Drop #3 – 8 Hours
THQ Nordic Trophy

Drop #4 – 10 Hours
Dark Rose Color Scheme

Drop #5 – 12 Hours
Imperial Eagle Emblem

Drop #6 – 14 Hours
Speculator Trophy Bundle

Question 13

What are the updates from Extension Updates from v1.0.1 (beta) to v1.0.3 (launch)?

Accepted Answer

Combat:
Users can now initiate combat actions by selecting a unit on the mini-map, the ability to initiate actions from the action bar remains.
Unit info frame that is displayed when selecting a target on the mini-map now a list displays active skills for the selected unit.
Renamed units will now also display their updated names on the mini-map as well as in-game.
Renamed units can not renamed again until the next encounter.
Renamed units will no longer keep their new name on unit death.
Added tooltip info and modified unit icons for incapacitated units on the mini-map
Added icons for tiles that are on fire.
Action specific styled cursors added for combat bar action application
Combat log now displays user combat actions taken with the Twitch username of the user that performed it.
Added notification for when combat action denarii values are updated.
Denarii:
New users will be granted 100 Denarii when they share their Twitch ID with the extension.
Users that have shared their Twitch ID will now receive a small amount Denarii at regular intervals for watching the stream.
Added Denarii configuration settings.
Added indicators when users receive awarded Denarii.
Denarii panel now displays a list of user’s Denarii balances on all channels where they have Denarii.
Dialogue:
Dialog vote UI updated to make the voting more prominent (new animation, call to action and slight dimming the surrounding area).
Improved display of options text, accommodating more characters.
Other:
Quest log is now available. Users can see quest descriptions and objectives.
Party roster updated to differentiate active encounter party members visually from the rest of the listed roster.
Care Packages have been updated with new descriptions of their in game effects.
A new care package has been added, users can now send reinforcements to Legio Afrorum once that legion has been unlocked in game.
Care packages are no longer purchasable during combat.
Broadcasters can now set the Denarii value of combat actions and care packages to zero.
Broadcaster extension configuration has been streamlined on the configuration page.
Reduced opacity of extension to make it less prominent when user isn’t interacting with it.
Miscellaneous performance and behavior fixes and updates.