NEW Season / NEW Banner System / Patch 1.0.5

Version 1.0.5

With this patch, we're delivering several milestone elements from our planned roadmap (see below), including:

1. launch a new season!

2. add a new banner system

3. deliver significant QoL and bug fixes!

New / Changes

• GENERALIST BANNER SYSTEM: Choose 2 banners from 5 different tower types and earn a powerful specialization as a reward!

• NEW SEASON: A new season has begun – many things have changed. You can still view the results of the last season. The following badges are awarded for the previous season:

  

• Endless Mode Scaling Modifiers: Enemies gain special resistance scaling over time. In turn, spell base damage now scales as well.

• Shadow Tornados (Tornado x Shadow Fusion) now trigger Darkness (Shadow Banner effect), but no longer trigger Overdose (Shadow Banner)

• Frost spells now override Frost Tower effects (and cannot be overwritten by Frost Towers)

• Reroll function for Hero Choice added via a new Hero Tower Meta Perk

• Added button to open chests (for cases where visibility is blocked)

• City-building icons now change color based on the upgrade completion of their respective building

Major bug fixes

• Fixed special case of invisible chests

• Fixed bug preventing spells from being triggered

• Improved savegame stability

• Fixed rare bug in later waves where bosses could become immortal

• Fixed rare bug in later waves where health bars disappeared

Adjustments

• Doom Scattering (Raven x Tornado Fusion): Initial: 20% → 30% Banner upgrades: 6/8/14% → 9/12/21%

• Clinking Mastery (Raven x Frost Fusion): Initial: 200% → 300% Banner upgrades: 60/80/140% → 90/120/210%

• Precision Shots (Arrow x Mortar Fusion): Initial: 90% → 120% Banner upgrades: 30/40/70% → 40/55/95%

• Shadow Tornado (Tornado x Shadow Fusion): Duration: 200 → 130 Banner Duration: 20/30/40 → 9/12/21 Damage: 400% → 200% Banner Damage: 120/160/280% → 60/80/140%

• Squall (Tornado Banner): Initial: +73/87/130 → +90/120/210% Upgrades: +43/57/100 → +60/80/140%

• Stormbringer (Tornado Banner): +18/24/42% → +21/28/50%

• Wide Blast (Volcano Mortar Banner): +15/20/35% → +20/27/47%

• Runestone Tower Fire Rate: 7 → 6

• Scorching (Runestone x Tornado Fusion): Initial: 40% → 30% Banner upgrades: 12/16/28% → 9/12/21%

• Spiral of Pain (Shadow x Tornado Fusion): Initial: 30% → 40% Banner upgrades: 9/12/21% → 12/16/28%

• Prism damage transfer from previous towers: 70% → 60%

• Frost Tower: Max Slow Amount: 80% → 75% Freeze immunity after being frozen: 0.5s → 1s

• Frost Magician Global Cooldown: 15s → 20s

• Auto-banish of irrelevant perks after entering Endless Mode (e.g. more branching possible)

• Removed downside from Guild Obligation (no longer disables Goldmine)

• Removed downside from The One Standard (Fusions/Uniques no longer restricted)

• Best Selection (University, Luck Tree): Chance for banners in chests: 5x → 10x

• Path of Bounty: Next Boss HP Boost: 30% → 50%

• Hero Tower Specializations now grant more of the original spell damage: 50% → 70%

• Greedgem (Rare Relic): +100% → +200%

• Seal of Constancy and Golden Incentive (Common Relics) have swapped downsides

• Mill Specializations buffed: +4 Wheat per Worker, +20 passive Wheat production

• All other Resource Building Specializations buffed: +2 per Worker

• Buffed University Perks: Luck Tree: Market rerolls: 2 → 3 War Tree: Enemy Analysis: +80% → +100% crit damage Economy Tree:

  • Trade Networks: 2 → 3 gold per ship
  • Golden Era: 60 → 80 gold per wave
  • Conservation: 20% → 30% worker cost reduction
  • Honey Ale: 40% → 60% beer bonus productivity

• Starter Bonuses to choose, when you start a new run: Wheat: 40 → 50 Stone: 50 → 55

Improvements

• Performance optimization (especially with Runestone–Prism chains)

• Trade stack size in the Trading Post can now exceed 100

• Forges now display which towers are being buffed

• Specialized Workshop now directly shows which tower will be affected

• Improved perk refresh timing

• Fixed bug where Enemy Bane achievement didn’t count on all difficulties

• Clearing Master (Workshop Spec) now shows its effect when hovering over build resources

• 0-gold tower upgrades are now purchasable even when using Final Rags (debt relic)

• VFX reduction setting now affects all visual effects

• Message now appears if no more offers can be made due to empty loot pool (UI fades out)

• Fixed bug where DPS of last wave in leaderboard was capped at 2.1b

• Corrected Focus Rune (Runestone Banner) calculation

• Holding right-click to move the map no longer cancels spells/tower/outpost placement

• Improved visibility of high levels in Outpost heatmap

• Fixed bug where Artifact of Determination expiration removed auto level-up on some towers

• Fixed visual inconsistency where towers had no color difference on medium graphics

• Adjusted relic counter position/size to avoid overlap

• Fixed bug where chest drop tiles could block future frost/burn fields

• Fixed cloning issue with tower level-up groups

• Improved translations

• Mouse buttons can now be assigned in keybindings

Roadmap Update

This also allows us to update our roadmap - the yellow ticks visualize topics for which we have already partially delivered the scope of the planned content with the patch - but as you can see, there's more to come:

Thanks again to all the valuable feedback from the community - we read everything, whether Discord, Review, Youtube comment or Steam Discussion post: THANK YOU! Also thanks to all the feedback from the beta - Reminder: If you want to help us test the next upcoming content: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3028310/view/506198441910601078

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