Update 1.25a

Foreword

I am happy to finally announce another quite big upgrade to the game.

This upgrade includes mayor reworks of some maps which were not received that well by the community. I think these maps are now in a much better spot.

It also includes new home scenes, making your journey a bit more immersive.

Further there are new challenges, enemies, new special set items, skills and more stuff for you to explore.

In general with this update i tried to improve the game with feedback from the community, by for example changing some maps, adding skills, or locking some towers for a map, when challenging the "Holy crusade".

For the brave there is now also a "Lock out" mode, which locks 2 random towers for each map, forcing you to be more flexible with your playstyle.

Thanks again for all the constructive feedback and i hope you have fun with this update. <3

Maps

• Reworked Map "Murky Marsh"

• Reworked Map "Forgotten Ruins"

• Reworked Map "Dragons Ascent"

• Reworked Map "Lone Hill"

• Reworked means a major rework, with a total new paths and tower bases setup

• Extended the Map "Wildboar Arena" from 10 waves to 16

• Added a new lategame Arena Map with 16 waves, called "The Grand Ladder"

• Worldmap is now zoomable and has some clouds over it

Homes

• Added new homes, depending on the last played map

• Arctic Home

• Forest Home

• Canyon Home

• Temple Home (Previous home)

• Added a chapter popup, when progressing into a new part of the game

• Added some new music

Item System

• Unique items now drop less prior to level 30, increasing gradually

• The inventory can now be increased to 10 slots, via additional quest rewards

• Added unique greatsword which increases units areal damage

• Tower type requirement on some items (e.g. Slow themed items, require Ice tower)

• Added 4 new item sets, containing 4 items each. These sets are themed around the 16 T4 towers.

  These items only drop after defeating the game in the normal world.

Towers

• Changes to the lightning network. The wires now have a central orb, which hits nearby enemies.

• Added a lockout system, which locks some towers under certain conditions for a map, for example when challenging the "Holy Crusade" or playing on "Lock out" mode.

Enemies

• Some healers stop moving when healing a fighting ally, and get increased heal power in that stance

• All damage increasing effects of enemies now also increase their heal power

• Added some more properties to some bonfire enemies

• Some healers can now decrease poison stacks on heal, or remove slow effects

• Added a bonfire property which increases the damage of each tower which has another tower in proximity

• Added a new challenge Option on each map, which spawns the "Holy crusade", adding extra waves to a map with new enemies, and locking 2 towers.

Skills & Spells

• Added a spell which allows you to move a tower, and some upgrades with it

• Added a trader which allows you to trade coal for items

• Increased the max level of some spells and skills

• Added some new skills which are unlocked via a quest

Balancing

• Decreased gold gain in arena maps

• Changes to the bonfire system

• Cannon Tower explosion on kill nerfed

• Plague bringer corpse explosion buffed

• DoT Damage now deals half the damage to shields

• Bounty Hunter quests now always have the challenge as quest goal

• Decreased lifetime of emerald mines placed on the ground from 180 sec to 360 sec

• Reduced dropchance of health pots

• Decreased the start mana, mana reg and also increases per level

• Reduced the reload time of frostsphere from 3.8 to 3.5, aoe 2.1 -> 2.2, child dmg 13 -> 14

• Sporelord reload time from 3.3 to 3.5 and poison duration from 7.2 to 7

• If a cannon tower attacks an air unit, the projectile now follows it

• Some waves of a few maps were too hard, nerfed them (e.g. Magonia)

• Nerfed aura items

• Buffed items which cast a spell on projectile hit slightly

• Nerfed shield of bonfire enemies

• Increased gold cost of spores range upgrade 120 -> 150

• When reforging or trashing an item, the chance to get coal now also depends on the item tier

• If all items are set items and the reforged item would be epic, it will be a set item

• The hit and poison damage of crows now also scales with improvements of its parent towers (items, skills)

• relic drop chance increased

Misc

• Music fades at the end and there is a break before the next song

• Health and Shield bars now have dividers, giving an indication about the health amount

• Option in the main menu to delete the relic unlock progress

• In Hardcore mode if you quit game via alt F4, you will lose 5 HP, also the game quit and restart buttons are disabled

• Lion upgrade now kill lioness and spawns lions

• If the game is paused ingame or at home, the gametimer will also pause

• Shield barriers on units can now stack