Steam News14 July 202628d ago

Demo v 0.1 out now! New looks AND new features!

Hello Everyone! I'm back with a sneaky demo update even earlier than the promised early August! It’s a chonky one so let’s get straight into it and focus on the major things, since a lot has changed.

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changedHello Everyone!I'm back with a sneaky demo update even earlier than the promised early August! It’s a chonky one so let’s get straight into it and focus on the major things, since a lot has changed.

addedChangelog:Performance improvements: The game should now deal *much* better with late game madness. I’ve added lots more effects and you can now build bigger towers - but the game now also tracks performance and will respond to FPS dips by scaling down purely cosmetic features. So hopefully the worst thing you’ll notice is a somewhat reduced collapse VFX. Do let me know if the game still struggles on your machine!

addedChangelog:New Looks: Blocks, backgrounds, UI, VFX have all been evolved by the fantastic Under_Silva.

changedChangelog:UI Do-Over: I’ve rearranged the in-game UI pretty significantly. Gone is the building popup - the block selection is now always accessible. To make space for this, some info, like wave composition, is now on-hover.

changedChangelog:Special Blocks: Every few waves you get to choose one of three blocks. These can be powerful weapons (e.g. anti-air gun, hot oil), support blocks that give a bonus to their neighbours (e.g. repair, cooldown reduction), building aides (e.g. pillars you can place anywhere) or other special blocks (e.g. traps, explosives, resource generators).

addedChangelog:Lightning Blocks: A new weapon type that replaces Murder Holes in the standard rotation. Powerful against groups of enemies and fast fliers - but fairly short ranged.

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changedI'm back with a sneaky demo update even earlier than the promised early August! It’s a chonky one so let’s get straight into it and focus on the major things, since a lot has changed.

addedPerformance improvements: The game should now deal *much* better with late game madness. I’ve added lots more effects and you can now build bigger towers - but the game now also tracks performance and will respond to FPS dips by scaling down purely cosmetic features. So hopefully the worst thing you’ll notice is a somewhat reduced collapse VFX. Do let me know if the game still struggles on your machine!

addedNew Looks: Blocks, backgrounds, UI, VFX have all been evolved by the fantastic Under_Silva.

changedUI Do-Over: I’ve rearranged the in-game UI pretty significantly. Gone is the building popup - the block selection is now always accessible. To make space for this, some info, like wave composition, is now on-hover.

changedSpecial Blocks: Every few waves you get to choose one of three blocks. These can be powerful weapons (e.g. anti-air gun, hot oil), support blocks that give a bonus to their neighbours (e.g. repair, cooldown reduction), building aides (e.g. pillars you can place anywhere) or other special blocks (e.g. traps, explosives, resource generators).

Hello Everyone!

I'm back with a sneaky demo update even earlier than the promised early August! It’s a chonky one so let’s get straight into it and focus on the major things, since a lot has changed.

As always, join the Discord for questions, feedback and to brag about your towers.

Changelog:

Performance improvementsThe game should now deal *much* better with late game madness. I’ve added lots more effects and you can now build bigger towers - but the game now also tracks performance and will respond to FPS dips by scaling down purely cosmetic features. So hopefully the worst thing you’ll notice is a somewhat reduced collapse VFX. Do let me know if the game still struggles on your machine!
New Looks: Blocks, backgrounds, UI, VFX have all been evolved by the fantastic Under_Silva.
UI Do-Over: I’ve rearranged the in-game UI pretty significantly. Gone is the building popup - the block selection is now always accessible. To make space for this, some info, like wave composition, is now on-hover.

Special Blocks: Every few waves you get to choose one of three blocks. These can be powerful weapons (e.g. anti-air gun, hot oil), support blocks that give a bonus to their neighbours (e.g. repair, cooldown reduction), building aides (e.g. pillars you can place anywhere) or other special blocks (e.g. traps, explosives, resource generators).
Lightning BlocksA new weapon type that replaces Murder Holes in the standard rotation. Powerful against groups of enemies and fast fliers - but fairly short ranged.

New Boss: The Airship has moved to a different biome, but something else stirs…
Economy: There was a bug in how block cost was calculated, fixing that should generally take care of the issue where folks would have plenty of one resource but be soft-locked on another.
RNG: I gave the random generator a whack with the hammer, now it should give you a much nicer spread of options.

UpgradesA bunch of upgrades have been added/removed/moved around. It should make for a very different playthrough experience - with roughly similar scope.
Quality of life:
- You can now zoom in the game view and pan the camera up and down. Make those towers even larger!
- When placing a weapon block you’ll now get a preview of its range.

Keep the feedback coming! I hope the above shows that I'm listening :)

Ben

The Tower Must Fall

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