Version 1.0.5

Premium card rebalance + tooltip pass

Pass driven by player feedback. No new cards.

Stacking math reworks (multiplicative → additive, matches player intuition):

• Hot Loaders: per-copy -10% attack interval (additive, cap -80%). 3 copies = -30%.

• Overclock Doctrine: per-milestone -6% interval (additive). 6 milestones = -36%.

• Cold Circuit: per-copy +0.15 slow strength (additive). 3 copies = ×1.45.

Specialization Bonus rework:

• New formula: +10% damage per duplicate modifier (+40% on a tower with 4 duplicate mods)

• Max copies of Specialization Bonus lowered 5 → 3 (max bonus +120% on a fully-duplicate tower)

Damage curve tuning:

• Compound Interest: 2.0% → 1.5% per wave per copy (wave-80 ceiling 320% → 240%)

• Escalation Engine: max copies 4 → 3 (wave-80 ceiling 360% → 270%)

• Crosslink Array: 2% → 3% damage per unique type per copy (wave-80 ceiling 36% → 54%)

• Deep Slotting: amplification 20% → 50%

Thermal Runaway coverage fixes (card claimed coverage that code wasn't doing):

• Blast Core splash damage now gets the Thermal Runaway multiplier

• Rift mine final pops now get the multiplier

Premium card tooltip fixes

• Kinetic Calibration: tooltip stops reading the volatile flat field; now computes actual per-mod bonus from copies × tier × base

• Singularity Core: tooltip shows how many towers currently have all mod slots filled

• Deep Slotting: tooltip lists which mods actually qualify; shows live count of benefiting towers

• Monomania: rewritten to say "EACH dominant tower" instead of aggregate-sounding total; card text adds a copies-stack worked example

• Cold Circuit: card text now shows the full stack progression (30 → 34.5 → 39 → 43.5) so multiplicative scaling is explicit

• Per-modifier DPS annotations (Blast Core, Wildfire, Chain Reaction, Split Shot) on tower tooltips now factor in the live Thermal Runaway multiplier

• New chill icon row on tower tooltips showing effective slow strength + duration

Endless waves balance

Endless mode (wave 21+) was spawning hundreds of low-HP enemies that towers shredded into a boring stream. Retuned so waves favor fewer, tougher, clumpier enemies.

• Enemy count growth per wave: 5% → 3.5% (-30% growth)

• Per-enemy HP growth per wave: 4% → 5%

• Tier HP step bonus: 22% → 25%

• Walker pack groups now start at wave 27 (was wave 31)

• Spawn-interval shrinkage decoupled from count growth (new EndlessSpawnIntervalScalePerWave = 0.025)

• Net effect at wave 40: ~25% fewer enemies, ~27% more basic-walker HP, packs of 4 walkers from wave 27

Late-game crash fixes

• Hard cap on simultaneously-alive enemies (300) so pile-ups can no longer crash the game

• Accordion's backward pull capped per pulse so leaders can no longer be held indefinitely (stalemate-proof)

• Latch parasite crash fixed (ObjectDisposedException when a host was freed via certain paths)

Accordion feel tuning

Backward-pull reference interval widened to 2.3s so compression is fully visible in normal play; cap only kicks in for extreme late-game pile-ups