Developer posts and news about this game.
GUI updates - Able to inspect tower upgrade trees from the commander selection menu - Tidied up the tower menu (the one which opens when clicking on a tower) Gameplay mechanics - All commander towers have received proper upgrade trees! - Added Physical and Magic as proper magic t
New Metaunlock system! After each run you receive Glory based on how well you did and what difficulty you played on. Glory can be used to unlock new features and special tiles in the game. The Tree of Life (healing tile), shop and challenges are now part of this meta progression.
New gameplay mechanics Endless mode! Upon completing the final act you now have the ability to continue indefinitely in endless mode. Balancing as of yet not guaranteed, enter at your own peril! New mechanic: Reroll Rewards, challenges and shops are now able to reroll using a lim
Tinkerer rework Power Pylon: Summons a Pylon at a tower tile which will connect to other nearby pylons. Towers and traps become stronger the more pylons which are nearby (up to 4 pylons) Forge Summons a forge at a tower tile which generates Scrap at the end of the wave (amount in
Building reward rework Towers no longer deal damage to buildings, but instead occupy all buildings within range. Buildings have three states: Not occupied, Partially occupied and Fully occupied, which give bonuses at the end of the wave depending on how many towers occupy them. M
Tower and trap overhaul Balance overhaul for all of the traps and towers New and updated upgrade trees for all of the traps and towers New artifacts & modules 19 new artifacts 1 new module (don't worry, more will come later!) Stats menu overhaul Added drill down functionality
Fixed a bug where the Exposed buff could accidentally make an invader invincible. The building UI is now shown when pressing ALT, even if it was previously hidden.
⚖️ Difficulty Balance At difficulty 5, the first map intersection now starts one step later to better match the intended challenge curve. 🐞 Bug Fixes Fixed a bug from the previous release that greatly reduced randomization — runs now feel varied again. Fixed an issue where loadi
New Features Map seeds now have a greater impact on gameplay randomness. (A seed selection option will be added in a future update.) All towers now display the total gold they’ve generated in their stats menu. Towers can now be assigned primary, secondary, and tertiary targeting
Fixed a bug which caused the tutorial map to end up in dead ends, softlocking the game.
New feature: Difficulties Complete the game with a Commander to unlock the next difficulty for that Commander, Up to 5 difficulties, New feature: Empowered tiles Empowered tiles have a small chance of appearing in each chunk, which makes towers put on top of them stronger, Rune o
New commander: Abyss Isolates enemies to which he deals increased damage Ability 1: Shadow Realm Ability 2: Into the Abyss Ability 3: Call of the Void New tower: Desolator Starting tower of Abyss. Mid range tower which automatically critically hits isolated invaders. Minor change
New commander: Blizz Chills invaders until they are frozen solid, which he can then shatter. Ability 1: Snowstorm Ability 2: Snap Freeze Ability 3: Shatter New tower: Obelisk of Winter Starting tower of Blizz. Low damage tower which applies chill to all invaders within range. Cha
New commander: Tinkerer Utilizes gathered scrap to tinker with modules and towers. Ability 1: Reforge module Ability 2: Craft module Ability 3: Adds a module slot to a tower or trap New tower: Bolt Blaster Starting tower of the Tinkerer. Fires 3 projectiles per shot in a scatter
Minor changes: Almost all floating texts are now using the new particle solution, improving performance Floating texts now animate differently depending on if it's a normal hit, critical hit or a heal Mesh and effect update to Tower of Midas, Bombardment Tower, Displacement Tower
Major change: Optimization overhaul Optimized skeletal mesh performance Optimized widget rendering Optimized particle effect performance Optimized widget update performance Optimized destructible mesh performance Minor changes: Fixed a bug causing Cult Leader to disappear, softlo
Minor changes: Small optimizations
Bug fix: Fixing projectiles not spawning sometimes
Major changes: Added a new commander: Ember (unlocked by completing the game as Orc Chieftain) Added a new tower: Tornado Tower (starting tower for Ember) Minor changes: Added a more interactive and guiding tutorial Increased GUI clarity when gaining artifacts, modules and towers
Major changes: Reworked the code framework for tower upgrades (sadly nothing which is directly visible in the game, but you will notice it since we now can add awesome upgrades even more quickly to the game!) Minor changes: Tower projectile effects now changes according to their