Update 1.20a

Foreword

The long awaited update is finally ready and i am very happy to release it today. In my opinion this is a really important update and makes the game much more rounded in a lot of ways. Thanks a lot for the continued support in form of positive reviews and constructive feedback. It certainly plays a big part in shaping the game and also keeping me motivated. That said, keep the feedback coming and have fun with the new content!

New Maps

• Boar Mane Arena (Arena-like map)

• Abandoned Trail (Default map)

• Bridgeway (Default map)

• Mountain Retreat (Default map, a bit larger)

• Frozen River (Default map, a bit larger)

• City of Magonia (Default map, a bit larger)

• Arena of Magonia (Arena-like map)

Arena-like maps are a bit different compared to normal maps. They greatly increase in difficulty from wave to wave, and the waves are more unique, packed with champions and bosses.

New Features

• Progress Display under playerstats, including map completion times and total play time Playerstats can now also be opened from the mainmenu for each profile, by clicking on the exclamation mark

• Hardcore Mode including a graveyard with stat display of dead players

• Burn DoT effect - similar to the poison DoT

• New Bonfire effects"Lifesteal" and "Damage Block"

• Bonfire Properties which can strengthen additional spawned enemies E.g. Spiders can lay eggs which spawn additional spiders, Tanks share some of the damage they receive

• Enemy crowd control resistance E.g. Frozen enemies get resitance to freeze, for some time – to counter balance, buffed freeze

• Timed Quest Condition Complete a map in a certain time to get the quest reward Bounty Hunter quests can have time condition

• Relic system Relics are dropped on specific maps and are gathered for all players There are a total of 3 per tower type + 8 general relics, so 32 relics in total Relics can be unlocked by relic points and should have a stronger effect than a skill

• More Music at home, main menu and graveyard

• 6 Item Sets, with a total of 21 new epic items Set items give additional boni when equipped from the same set Added Set item to quest rewards

• New Postprocessing Stack Including some settings like brightness, contrast, sharpening, outline, in the options (settings only apply ingame)

• New Skills - 5 new General skills and 3 new Specialization skills per Tower Type

• Controls Added keyboard layouts to options (QWERTY, AZERTY) Camera can now be controlled by "wasd" / "zqsd" Moved Spell Hotkeys to shift-1 to shift-6 Moved Tower upgrade hotkeys to F1 - F4

Other Changes

• Removed skill requirements of specialization skills at larger nodes This greatly increases the possibilities since not all previous skills need to be unlocked

• Gold popup over enemy

• Items on towers are now displayed when a tower is selected

• Scrollspeed of scrollable frames is increased

• Item equip sound ingame

• Siege wagons no blood effect

• Game data saved after each wave

• Added Damage Block stat to enemy info

• Added sound effect to freeze effect

• Better visibility of slow, freeze and poison effects

• Better visibility of priests heal spells, effect scales with healing power

• Camera movement now possible while game paused

• Towerbases scale on mouse hover (Feedback)

• Cycle through towers by tab click

• If Transmuter wont work because of not enough coal or the limit is reached, a popup appears

• Increased size of Priest towers slightly and added Pedestal at their feet

• Changed shared stash icons

• Unit lifesteal now also counts as heal and is displayed as such at the end of a game

• Optimized instantiation of Towers a bit (frame freeze)

• Enemy and Tower preview cameras now only active if necessary (optimization)

• Aura range indicator only active if tower has aura

• AdjustedOvergrown Templechanged item level from 3 -> 4 and increased difficulty slightly

• Changed visuals of world entries (normal and bonfire world, in main menu)

Balancing

• Reduced Poison duration stat of all items slightly

• Dot duration tower upgrade reduced from 25% -> 20%

• Lion Default cleave damage 0%->10%

• Normal enemies (not champions or bosses) only deal 70% areal damage

• Animal Den units default 5% lifesteal

• Animal Den units increased dmg by ~7%

• Increased XP gained from killed enemies by 5%

• Decreased damage penalty for Plague Bringers Hermit skill from 7% -> 6% per tower nearby

• Increased reward of first Investment Option (Gold pile): 150 g -> 175 g

• Increased third investment option (Bet wave 8) from 400 g -> 500 g

• Lifesteal stat of all items reduced between 15-20%

• Level 5 Animal Den skill reduced lifesteal 7% -> 5%

• Changed Bonfire Modifier "Regeneration": Enemies now gain 2 health regeneration per wave

• Slime hp increased by 10%

• Patron and Bishop both have the same crit chance of 20%

• Adjusted item quality distribution curve of dropped items masterwork quality was almost not possible to get via loot

• Incinerators afterburn effect now a higher damage burn effect

• Incinerator increased projectile speed, fires a bit ahead of target

• Incinerator flame duration also applies to afterburn duration

• Limited bonfire modifiers "fast walkers" and "Woundable" to a maximum rank of 1

• Effect of Permafrost Upgrade of Frostqueen from 7% freeze chance to 10% and 0.1 s freeze dur to 0.2 s per rank

• Frostqueen base freeze dur 0.5s -> 0.75 s

• Item Deepfreeze duration 0.1s -> 0.15s

• Mushrooms of Sporelord now also apply a DoT effect, based on Sporelords gold value Mushrooms damage now also scales with DoT dmg increases

• Tesla range from 5.5 -> 5.4

• Tesla second target upgrade 45% -> 40%

• Added 10% freeze chance for 1second to ice hail spell from items

• Plaguebringer range 6 -> 6.5

• Improved units engagement behaviour

• Mortars shrapnel also get aoe effect bonuses, but with slightly reduced effectiveness

• Reduced epic and unique item dropchances slightly

• Spell strength per level skill from 0.7% -> 0.6%

• Increased item droprate of champions and all champions can now drop items

• Common and rare item drops have a chance to be 1 tier higher

• Discharge tower damage per wave upgrade 90g -> 100g

• Item strenght scaling with itm tier is reduced slightly

• Cleave angle of units is now also scaled with AoE radius increases

• Manacost of a spell increases by 10% for each upgrade

• Artillery price 200 -> 180g

• All animal den units get default 2 damage block

• Added Cleave Damage mitigation stat to Units All units get default 15% cleave damage mitigation, animal den units 20%

• Decreased difficulty of Map 1-4 (Maple Forest, Lakeside Meadows, Rocky Coast, Battlement)

• Decreased Difficulty of Veteran mod by decreasing enemy movement hitpoints increase by 5%

• Decreased poison damage accumulation "speed" a bit

• Increased aoe radius of all cannon towers by 0.1

• Golden Seed Skill: 200g -> 150g (Start Gold, level 25)

• Archer Towers Stinger and Ballista animals (Boar, Stag) HP From 170 -> 160

• Frostsphere aoe dmg per pulse 10 -> 15, Icicle dmg 12 -> 13

Bugfixes

• If Profile doesnt exist, delete Button wont do anything

• After deleting a profile, delete button will update

• Army of the dead achievement fixed

• Empty item slots on towers now dont block mouse interaction

• Fixed calculation error for elemental bonus damage attribute of items

• fixed bug were summoned enemies would have too large Health bars

• Frozen enemies now cant attack

• Fixed achievement were a full inventory of items is required

• All item icons of dropped items have the same size

• Fixed description of stingers range support skill

• Initial UI Scale setting now set at load of scene

• Fixed alignemnt of item mouse interaction with item icon sprite of reforged items

• Units dont stack on top of each other anymore, when idle

• Fix in the damage calculation of units