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Steam News9 January 20251y ago

Music Changes, Keybindings, Balancing

Hi everyone! I hope you are all enjoying the game! This update changes a few things, most notably replaces every music track in the game.

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  • Events
  • UI and audio
  • Balance
changedThis update changes a few things, most notably replaces every music track in the game. All the tracks are now made specifically for Mineral Defense, and content creators can now make videos without fear of the previously licensed music causing Copyright ID issues!
addedThe update also adds a keybind menu, some extra QOL features, and some balancing changes.
addedEndless mode is much harder now, and should provide a challenge for players until the new content additions are finalized.
changedChangelog:Added: - New music tracks - A keybinding menu in the "Gameplay" section of the options menu. - Camera navigation controls now on both keyboard and mouse. WASD to pan, QE to rotate, ZX to zoom. Hold right mouse button to pan, Hold middle mouse button to rotate, and scroll the mouse wheel to zoom. These are now remappable in the options! - Keyboard navigation controls added to the research menu. WASD to pan, ZX to zoom. Also remappable in the options. - Added a "Close" button to the floating menu for selected structures. - Added an "Explore" button to the game over menu, allowing you to move the camera around and view your game. - Added the held cards display to the game over menu, this was previously only in the pause menu.
changedChangelog:Changed: - Increased the price of Laser Tower upgrades - Reduced the Laser Tower base damage, but increased its sustained damage multiplier to 200%. - The Laser Tower will now have a longer duration before its sustained damage multiplier starts to go down. - Increased the cost of additional Optimizer towers. - Increased the cost of additional Slow towers. - The Slow tower will no longer do any damage. - Drastically increased the enemy health scaling after wave 50, in endless mode. - Clamped the enemy movement speed scaling multiplier to +500%.
changedChangelog:Fixes: - Numbers in the minerals and energy UI widgets will no longer overflow out of their container. - Structures height bonus or debuff will now save and load correctly. - Fixed the formatting of negative values in the structure stat list.

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changedThis update changes a few things, most notably replaces every music track in the game. All the tracks are now made specifically for Mineral Defense, and content creators can now make videos without fear of the previously licensed music causing Copyright ID issues!
addedThe update also adds a keybind menu, some extra QOL features, and some balancing changes.
addedEndless mode is much harder now, and should provide a challenge for players until the new content additions are finalized.
changedAdded: - New music tracks - A keybinding menu in the "Gameplay" section of the options menu. - Camera navigation controls now on both keyboard and mouse. WASD to pan, QE to rotate, ZX to zoom. Hold right mouse button to pan, Hold middle mouse button to rotate, and scroll the mouse wheel to zoom. These are now remappable in the options! - Keyboard navigation controls added to the research menu. WASD to pan, ZX to zoom. Also remappable in the options. - Added a "Close" button to the floating menu for selected structures. - Added an "Explore" button to the game over menu, allowing you to move the camera around and view your game. - Added the held cards display to the game over menu, this was previously only in the pause menu.
changedChanged: - Increased the price of Laser Tower upgrades - Reduced the Laser Tower base damage, but increased its sustained damage multiplier to 200%. - The Laser Tower will now have a longer duration before its sustained damage multiplier starts to go down. - Increased the cost of additional Optimizer towers. - Increased the cost of additional Slow towers. - The Slow tower will no longer do any damage. - Drastically increased the enemy health scaling after wave 50, in endless mode. - Clamped the enemy movement speed scaling multiplier to +500%.

Hi everyone!

I hope you are all enjoying the game!

This update changes a few things, most notably replaces every music track in the game. All the tracks are now made specifically for Mineral Defense, and content creators can now make videos without fear of the previously licensed music causing Copyright ID issues!

The update also adds a keybind menu, some extra QOL features, and some balancing changes.

Endless mode is much harder now, and should provide a challenge for players until the new content additions are finalized.

Changelog:

Added: - New music tracks - A keybinding menu in the "Gameplay" section of the options menu. - Camera navigation controls now on both keyboard and mouse. WASD to pan, QE to rotate, ZX to zoom. Hold right mouse button to pan, Hold middle mouse button to rotate, and scroll the mouse wheel to zoom. These are now remappable in the options! - Keyboard navigation controls added to the research menu. WASD to pan, ZX to zoom. Also remappable in the options. - Added a "Close" button to the floating menu for selected structures. - Added an "Explore" button to the game over menu, allowing you to move the camera around and view your game. - Added the held cards display to the game over menu, this was previously only in the pause menu.

Changed: - Increased the price of Laser Tower upgrades - Reduced the Laser Tower base damage, but increased its sustained damage multiplier to 200%. - The Laser Tower will now have a longer duration before its sustained damage multiplier starts to go down. - Increased the cost of additional Optimizer towers. - Increased the cost of additional Slow towers. - The Slow tower will no longer do any damage. - Drastically increased the enemy health scaling after wave 50, in endless mode. - Clamped the enemy movement speed scaling multiplier to +500%.

Fixes: - Numbers in the minerals and energy UI widgets will no longer overflow out of their container. - Structures height bonus or debuff will now save and load correctly. - Fixed the formatting of negative values in the structure stat list.

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Steam News / 9 January 2025

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