Tiny update - Fix a few potential bugs with roguelite mode stuff - Add some extra logs to get more info in roguelite mode bugs - Add and change a few roguelite effects
Tiny update
- Fix a few potential bugs with roguelite mode stuff
- Add some extra logs to get more info in roguelite mode bugs
- Add and change a few roguelite effects
Hello! Another small patch, fixing some bugs, and adjusting some upgrades. Bullets no longer instantly-explode in the overworld Players now sort correctly, and in roguelite mode it no longer just lets player 2 get all the rewards Upgrades should now be cleared when hitting the re
Hello! Another small patch, fixing some bugs, and adjusting some upgrades.
Tiny update fixing a few bugs from the new blitz game mode! More fixes and improvements will be coming soon. Fix text said "round failed" at the start of blitz mode before game has been played Fix possibility that online players could see rewards in a different order, which could
Tiny update fixing a few bugs from the new blitz game mode! More fixes and improvements will be coming soon.
Hello everyone! I'm very excited to bring this deathmatch update in the new year. It majorly enhances the deathmatch experience, fixes bugs, and provides (what I think) is a very fun new way to play deathmatch. It also brings a number of quality of life fixes to the early access
Hello everyone! I'm very excited to bring this deathmatch update in the new year. It majorly enhances the deathmatch experience, fixes bugs, and provides (what I think) is a very fun new way to play deathmatch. It also brings a number of quality of life fixes to the early access roguelite mode.
A number of changes have been made to improve the roguelite flow, this affects both the deathmatch Blitz mode, and the normal roguelite mode. The new effects added may still need some tuning and adjustments that will come in future updates
If you find any bugs, issues, or even just a suggestion on how to make the game better, there's lots of ways to chat with us! Feel free to contact us through any of the following listed ways, whether its to report something, or just talk about the game.
If you encounter a bug, or crash, it would be great if you could send us the logs! You can find the logs by going to the settings menu, and hitting the "Open logs folder" in the bottom right. This will open the path to the logs folder, which contains logs for all of your game sessions. Pick the log (or logs) for the times/dates you played when you encountered the issue and send it over to us in Discord!
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Another quick patch before work on the next large update begins. Logs now have the date at the start Fixed an issue with the camera zooming incorrectly when playing in first person through Crowd Control Fixed some misc errors with AI Fixed a broken teleporter in Arborgreen Temple
Another quick patch before work on the next large update begins.
Small update today! Balance Change: The missile/turquoise tank had its reload time increased from 2 to 3, and its chance to randomly shoot was increased from 0% to 10% More multiplayer code was added to help support the roguelite mode working in multiplayer. It hasn't been extens
Small update today!
Hello, small little patch with a few notable bug fixes Fix a bug with Crowd Control that caused Halloween Mode to be infinite Play Random Sound Crowd Control effect now works for everyone, if your settings are set that way Fix Roguelite bug where the game would freeze when going
Hello, small little patch with a few notable bug fixes
Hello, relatively small patch today for the Crowd Control update. A few of these changes (particularly price changes, and durations) will take a day or so to come into effect when the Crowd Control team is able to update! Changes: Adjust random chance for raining props to spawn a
Hello, relatively small patch today for the Crowd Control update. A few of these changes (particularly price changes, and durations) will take a day or so to come into effect when the Crowd Control team is able to update!
Changes:
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Hey all! Excited to share a new Crowd Control update that improves a bunch of things! When I first added Crowd Control support I wasn't nearly as familiar with it, so this both includes new effects, but also a general rebalancing of effect prices, durations, etc. If you're unsure
Hey all! Excited to share a new Crowd Control update that improves a bunch of things! When I first added Crowd Control support I wasn't nearly as familiar with it, so this both includes new effects, but also a general rebalancing of effect prices, durations, etc.
If you're unsure what Crowd Control is, it rules! Check it out, it's a tool for streamers to interact with viewers directly!
Also, completely unrelated to Crowd Control, I have added a new hat! Thanks Seth! The new hat is a squid hat, and is found in Copperfield Manor.
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Hey there! A small update today before I get started on bigger stuff. Error Handling We have a new error handling system! A lot of people had issues when trying to find and report their logs, so I overhauled the system a tiny bit to hopefully make it easier and more stable. Remin
Hey there! A small update today before I get started on bigger stuff.
We have a new error handling system! A lot of people had issues when trying to find and report their logs, so I overhauled the system a tiny bit to hopefully make it easier and more stable. Reminder that sending me logs when you encounter an issue is extremely helpful!
Logs are now stored for every game session in unique files. You can easily find and access these files in the settings menu. There's a new button "Open logs folder" in the bottom right of the screen.
Reminder you can send me these logs in our Discord if you encounter an issue!
We now have some (rough) control remapping! In the settings there is now a controls section that pulls up a list of all the controls of the game for keyboard, mouse, and controller. You can tap on it to change controls.
This screen is visually pretty rough, and additionally does not currently support controller/keyboard navigation. I want to try and adjust this in the future, but it's going to be a lot of work, and I figured having a rough version of this was better than nothing at all!
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Hey there, mostly bug fixes here The return to Crowd Control popup on the main menu no longer continually shows up even if you're already connected to Crowd Control Another guess fix at the deathmatch freeze bug, and added more logging and wait time fallbacks Added missing hallow
Hey there, mostly bug fixes here
Hey there! This build has some bug fixes, as well as some Halloween surprises that will drop October 1st! A Haunted Halloween Starting October 1st, in addition to the free Halloween hats from last year, I've added a slew of unique Halloween focused updates, only available in Octo
Hey there! This build has some bug fixes, as well as some Halloween surprises that will drop October 1st!
Starting October 1st, in addition to the free Halloween hats from last year, I've added a slew of unique Halloween focused updates, only available in October!
If you want to leave it as a surprise, I'll be hiding the patch notes below
I hope you enjoy! Reminder there is a beta branch called "Previous" if you ever want to play the game without the Halloween additions.
- Multiplayer boss health scaling reduced from 270% to 210%.
- When having trouble connecting in multiplayer, the game should now time you out and return you to the main menu instead of freezing the entire game. Additional logging has also been added in this area.
- There's now UI that shows up when a player respawns in a boss battle in multiplayer.
- There's now a UI that shows "waiting for other players" when players are still loading in multiplayer.
- When playing online deathmatch, pausing no longer pauses everyone.
- When having been playing with Crowd Control previously, when returning to the game it will prompt you if you'd like to continue using Crowd Control.
- Fixed an issue where all sleeping tanks weren't enabled properly.
- Fixed an issue where certain Crowd Control effects were crashing the game in boss fights.
- Fixed an issue where bullets that split into multiple were splitting extra times when playing online multiplayer.
- Fixed a UI overlay where Crowd Control would overlap the objective overlay.
- Fixed an issue where the artillery bombs Crowd Control effect would crash deathmatch.
- Fixed an issue where enemy templates could be seen on screen too soon.
- Fixed an issue where tank portraits were the wrong sizes.
If you find any bugs, issues, or even just a suggestion on how to make the game better, there's lots of ways to chat with us! Feel free to contact us through any of the following listed ways, whether its to report something, or just talk about the game.
If you encounter a bug, or crash, it would be great if you could send us the logs! The logs are named "Player.log" and can be found at C:\Users[YOUR WINDOWS USERNAME]\AppData\LocalLow\Dreamfire Studios\Battle Tracks (for Windows) or ~/Library/Application Support/com.DreamfireEntertainment.BattleTracksDreamfire Studios/Battle Tracks (for Mac).
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Hello all, it's your local friendly game developer here, Cory. It's been a little while since I've posted an update to Battle Tracks. Lots been going on! I published another game Luminus ! Roguelite Early Access Battle Tracks has had the roguelite mode in open beta for a while no
Hello all, it's your local friendly game developer here, Cory. It's been a little while since I've posted an update to Battle Tracks. Lots been going on! I published another game Luminus!
Battle Tracks has had the roguelite mode in open beta for a while now, which has also made it difficult to work on adding new features, bug fixes, etc. at the same time. The scope I have planned for the roguelite mode is pretty large, and is likely going to be something that will slowly improve with time.
It's for that reason I decided to just entirely move the mode to early access, live on the same branch build. I've disabled the old branch, but you should still be able to play, including any save files, on the main game now.
Any updates to this mode I'll just post to the main game at this point like any other update. Please feel free to continuing giving me feedback on the mode, what you think of it, and what improvements you'd like to see (as well as bugs). I have ideas for it, but it'll take time.
That said there are still some notable bugs with the roguelite mode.
When we launched, deathmatch mode was a fairly small feature (it still is) that didn't get a lot of extensive play or testing. Recently after watching some folks play, I've made some improvements to it to make the flow a bit better and fix some general issues.
Thanks to Pizza_Zah_Hutt and his community for testing out deathmatch more, and inspiring these changes.
In addition, theres been a variety of general improvements.
One note, as a failsafe measure, I've added a new beta branch called "previous" this will always contain the last update. That way if there's something game breaking in the current update, you can easily revert back until I can fix it.
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Hello! We've been working on an exciting new update that will allow you to customize the way you play Battle Tracks! As part of that update, we are introducing a roguelite mode. In this mode, you go through randomly chosen levels, getting upgrades and new abilities along the way.
Hello!
We've been working on an exciting new update that will allow you to customize the way you play Battle Tracks! As part of that update, we are introducing a roguelite mode.
In this mode, you go through randomly chosen levels, getting upgrades and new abilities along the way. There are tons of brand new never before seen upgrades, abilities and powers created just for this mode!
Our goal is to get some early playtesting on the feature, so that we can improve it as we add to it.
I have put access up for the game as a branch. In order to change over to the special roguelite branch, you'll have to right click on the game in your Steam library, and select "Properties...". Then go to the Betas tab on the left. From there, there should be a dropdown allowing you to swap to roguelite mode. This will then update the game to the newest version.
I DO recommend you make a backup of your save game as well. While I don't believe there should be any corruption that could happen, given this is such a large change, it would be better to be proactive.
To back up your game you will need to navigate to C:\Users[YOUR WINDOWS USERNAME]\AppData\LocalLow\Dreamfire Studios\Battle Tracks (for Windows) or ~/Library/Application Support/com.DreamfireEntertainment.BattleTracksDreamfire Studios/Battle Tracks (for Mac).
There you will want to simply make copies of BattleTracksSaveData1 - 3
Playing should be pretty straight forward. Once you load up the game, start a new save file. It will ask you which game mode you'd like to play. Select the roguelite mode, and you're off!
There are several ways you can help contribute to this playtest and give feedback! We welcome all sorts of participation, and there are several areas you can let us know how you feel.
There are many ways to give feedback, here's some info
Changes - Added a new taco hat Bug Fixes - Heavy controller improvements, should overall be much smoother and more intuitive to use - Should fix some issues with the loading screen acting strangely (there are still a few issues I'm trying to work out) - Fix bugs with the incorrec
Changes
- Added a new taco hat
Bug Fixes
- Heavy controller improvements, should overall be much smoother and more intuitive to use
- Should fix some issues with the loading screen acting strangely (there are still a few issues I'm trying to work out)
- Fix bugs with the incorrect skin/hat showing up in the level editor
- The camera now snaps into place in the overworld when loading back in
- Fixed issues with typing when saving a level with the level editor
Get exclusive winter holiday hats, now available all through december! Just open the game and unlock them forever.
Get exclusive winter holiday hats, now available all through december! Just open the game and unlock them forever.
- Fix a bug where you were receiving far too much health from gates when unlocking them
- Fix a bug where you were receiving far too much health from gates when unlocking them
Little update today. Just adds a few small missing things from the base game. - When gaining achievements for finishing a world on a specific difficulty, it will now also give you the achievements for finishing the easier difficulty version of that achievement - Added backups to
Little update today. Just adds a few small missing things from the base game.
- When gaining achievements for finishing a world on a specific difficulty, it will now also give you the achievements for finishing the easier difficulty version of that achievement
- Added backups to save files in case one is accidentally deleted. Simply delete the "_backup" part in the files name and it will load that file instead.
On Windows find it under %userprofile%\AppData\LocalLow\C:\Users\funny\AppData\LocalLow\Dreamfire Studios\Battle Tracks
On Mac find it under ~/Library/Application Support/Dreamfire Studios/Battle Tracks
On Linux find it under $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/unity3d OR $HOME/.config/unity3d
- Added a way to see a levels objectives in the Overworld. When moving onto a level, the objectives (as well as which you've completed) will show up in the bottom right.
Online Multiplayer is Here After about 5 months of work, online multiplayer is finally here! This update was a huge amount of work (Thank you to James, Courtney/Saki, Nicholas for helping me fix things, or test things in this update). This update will now provide support for onli
After about 5 months of work, online multiplayer is finally here! This update was a huge amount of work (Thank you to James, Courtney/Saki, Nicholas for helping me fix things, or test things in this update).
This update will now provide support for online multiplayer, allowing you to connect with your friends and play the game together. This functions through an invite code you can generate and send to your friends, allowing them to connect to your game.
There are a couple types of multiplayer you can expect to experience within the game, that being the cooperative campaign (up to 2 players), and the deathmatch (up to 4 players).
On the main menu there is a brand new addition at the bottom left of the screen. It has options for inviting a friend, or joining a friend. Press the large + button next to your profile picture, and it will generate a code.
Share this code with your friend! You can also click on the code and it will copy it to your keyboard!
Your friend can then select Join a Friend, and it will give them the option to input the code. Once they've entered the code, and confirmed, they will be connect to your game. From here you can select one of your existing campaign save slots, or make a brand new one. The game will support being able to drop in and out of a campaign at any point within a save file.
Once playing, you can explore the overworld separately, or together. One player triggering a level, or moving to another world will move all players to that same world. Your objectives are combined for each of you, though some requirements have been adjusted if you're playing online to make it more fair.
Another option is deathmatch. It previously existing for local multiplayer, but that now also works in online multiplayer! The host of the game should enter the deathmatch menu (found under the game modes button). From here, they can select Host Online Lobby.
Similar to cooperative play, this will generate a code you can copy and send to a friend. They can join through the same Join a Friend button on the main menu as before.
There is also online multiplayer support for up to 2 players in endless mode! Similar to deathmatch mode, you can enter the endless menu, and generate a code for a friend to join you.
Crowd Control works with online too! You have the power to decide how you would like some effects to trigger. Some effects will be shown to both players regardless (such as artillery bombs, smoke bombs, etc). But for the effects that would normally affect a single player, there is a new option under the Livestream settings menu, called Multiplayer Single Effects Mode. This will allow you to choose between effects affecting just you, hitting everyone, or hitting a random player.
This update also brings a brand new feature: seasonal hats! Starting off, we introduce the Halloween hats, available to you by opening the game any time in October. These include a witch hat, a jack-o-lantern, a butchers knife, and a bubbling cauldron.
These hats will be added to all current, and future game save files, and are unlocked forever once you've claimed them!
Bugs
Thanks for reading! This update was the most ambitious one yet, and it took a lot of work. This game is made and maintained by a single developer (That's me, 7ark, hello!), and as such it takes a lot. This update affected almost every single part of the game, and was a massive undertaking.
There have been a lot of playtests on this version in an attempt to find as many bugs as possible, but as said previously, this is made by a single developer, and that makes testing things like online multiplayer even harder!
If you find any bugs during your play, please report them, it is a ton of help!
You can report bugs on our Discord, or through the Steam Discussion Forum.
If you find any bugs, issues, or even just a suggestion on how to make the game better, there's lots of ways to chat with us! Feel free to contact us through any of the following listed ways, whether its to report something, or just talk about the game.
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A quick patch - Vsync should now be on by default when downloading the game for the first time - Fix bosses not moving or working when Invisible Enemies CC effect was active. This should be the last update for 1.3 (pending any critical issues). The next efforts are all focused on
A quick patch
- Vsync should now be on by default when downloading the game for the first time
- Fix bosses not moving or working when Invisible Enemies CC effect was active.
This should be the last update for 1.3 (pending any critical issues). The next efforts are all focused on Battle Tracks' upcoming online mode! Please feel free to check out the beta now, and let us know if there are any bugs. It is in its final bug fixing stages, and work is being done to integrate this Crowd Control update into it. Any future Crowd Control updates, bug fixes, etc. will come in or after the Online Update.