Patch 1.8: Act 3, Planet Destruction, Turret balance.
Patch 1.8 New Features: Act 3 wave set. Planet Destruction & Game over VFX. Turret Balance. +Planets now have dynamic effects associated with game over mechanics. +Turret stacking has been removed and all bugs associated with it have been fixed. -Upgrading with hot keys cause
Patch 1.8
New Features:
Act 3 wave set.
Planet Destruction & Game over VFX.
Turret Balance.
+Planets now have dynamic effects associated with game over mechanics.
+Turret stacking has been removed and all bugs associated with it have been fixed.
-Upgrading with hot keys caused build panel to disappear but buttons could still be activated without the UI, this is no longer possible.
-Turrets that are upgrading can no longer be selected in their previous form during the 5 second upgrade window.
+Fighter Class ships now again appropriately attack the planet before in orbiting range. Fighter fire ranges have been improved.
+All ships activated by Formation or Squad mechanics can now correctly switch between Strafe Fire mechanics and standard Orbiting Fire.
+Strafe Firing now has more functionality.
+Most ships have received significant speed boosts while performing strafe fire runs and in formations.
Planet Shield dissolve effect updated.
Boss Carrier hit locations now read the correct shield values and update each other with the real time value.
-This corrects issues with turrets featuring multi targeting mechanics. Destabilized Plasma (I&II) can now correctly fire on non standard hit locations.
Easy difficulty description has been removed from the Level Select menu.
Difficulty buttons split from Act buttons.
Fighters T2, T3, and Medium Carrier rejoin the fight over your planet in Act 3.
Known bugs:
Audio balance and missing sounds. Overhauling audio is next on the list of updates.
In game menu button occasionally breaks and refuses to be clicked.
Next Wave UI output can occasionally lose synchronization with its timers by a few seconds.
Ion Turret does not work. Rework coming soon.
Laser Defense Array (I & II) needs rework.
Turret Balance changes:
Laser T1:
+Cooldown from 0.6s to 0.4s
+Range updated from 600 to 700.
Laser T2-1 {Dual Photon I}:
+Cooldown from 0.5s to 0.35s
+Range updated from 800 to 900
Laser T2-2 {Rapidfire}:
+Damage tool tip updated to 30
+Range updated from 600 to 700
+Internal Cooldown between each shot reduced from .1s to 0.035s. Cooldown between 4 shots is still 0.1s
Laser T3-1 {Dual Quad Photon}
+ Scrap cost from 60 to 40
+Range tooltip updated to 1000
+Cooldown tooltip updated to 0.2s
Laser T3-2 {Laserized Plasma}:
+Damage reduced from 1000 to 600
+ Cooldown updated from 1s to 2s
+ Now fires a variable amount of shots, 1-4.
+ Range increased from 1200 to 1400
Flak T1:
+Cooldown from 4s to 3s
+Duration from 4s to 6s
+Area damage from 10 to 15
Flak T2-2 {Magnetized Flak}:
+Duration from 6s to 8s
+Area Damage from 25 to 30
Flak T3-1 {Flak III}:
+Cooldown from 5s to 2s
+Duration from 15s to 20s
+Tooltip damage to 200
+Cloud damage fixed - previously bugged did not test for radius.
Flak T3-2 {High Velocity}
+ Scrap Cost from 50 to 100
+Base Damage - 50 to 125
+Cloud damage - 15 to 35
+Delay from 0.4 to 0.5
+Updated Cloud VFX
+Cloud now has falloff damage over distance.
Plasma T3-2 {Supercharged Plasma}
+Tooltip damage corrected to 1000
+Plasma Rate from 1.0 to 0.5s (From 1 to 2 ticks)
Plasma T2-2 {Destabilized Plasma}
+Damage from 40-75 to 125-150
Plasma T3-3 {Destabilized Plasma II}
+Damage from 100-150 to 225-300
Plasma T3-4 {Reactive Plasma}
+Tooltip updated to reflect 10% damage increase
+Base Damage from 10-75 to 75-125
+Bounce links now correctly damage both targets
+Source beam now correctly aligned with turrets firing socket.
+Tooltip updated to reflect that the beam is ineffective against shields.
Some may have noticed development had stalled beyond a few bug fix patches for most of this year.
This patch officially kicks off the resumed development over the last 2 months and hopeful outlook that we can continue to deliver more content.
Patch 1.7 features many under the hood improvements that further our capability to do more with our resources.
The main features of this patch are numerous undocumented & listed bug, crash, performance, and architecture fixes over most of the year.
A new level wave set with Act 2 and a rebalanced Act 1.
Improved squad mechanics and 4 new bomber types with new art and animations.
Act 3 and 4 out for testing in the next month.
Patch Notes 1.7
New Features:
Act 2 has arrived! This wave features 4 newly designed bomber type ships featuring new attack types and art.
Act 1 reworked to improve scrap and difficulty curve.
Classic Mode removed: The difficulty scaling on this wave set will come back in another form but we're bringing this back to the drawing board for a future Act.
Unit system code redesigned to allow more flexibility and common behaviors to be generalized to most unit types.
Ships re-categorized by type.
Four new ship types added:
Bomber Tier 2: Rapidly drops bombs in sets of 3.
Bomber Tier 3: Unloads arc connected bombs that gain speed and damage as they travel.
Bomber Tier 4: Charged bombs with slow reload.
Bomber Tier 5: Mini-boss with dual attack type and animation. Attack mode 1: Rapidly drop bombs that increase in damage and size, vulnerable to attack. Attack mode 2: Gains armor and speed while dropping Charged bombs with moderate reload.
Improved squad mechanics.
All ship units can now utilize squad gameplay mechanics.
Replaced VFX:
Plasma, Concentrated Plasma I, Concentrated Plasma II.
Fixed performance issues with projectiles performing tracing significantly more often than needed against shields.
Some projectiles are now instanced to improve performance with many on screen.
Misc fixes:
Placement bug causing buildings to no longer be deselected or constructed is now fixed.
Corrected wave icons for units with multiple components.
Ships could occasionally get stuck moving towards orbit, this should happen at a reduced frequency but is still on the known issue list.
Fixed rare issue that could cause the player to experience defeat after they had won the game.
Fixed issue causing some projectiles to revert location to origin.
Ships should now properly disappear when the game ends.
Fixed issue with Concentrated Plasma II not selecting the correct target.
Fixed rare issue with beam weapons causing a crash.
Fixed issues with some enemy projectiles not using correct planet shield damage interface.
Fixed issues with some units teleporting after reaching initial planet destination.
Thank you to everyone that has supported the game so far. A lot of progress has been made bringing Exo TD up to higher standards, we still hope to deliver a dynamic and fun game that brings its own style of Tower Defense.
Thanks to our players for being patient as we continue to develop and update Exo TD. We're passionate that we can achieve a better experience to players and will continue to work hard to deliver on expectations.
Highlights:
- New revised UI. More revisions and additions coming soon.
- Resolved crashing issues.
- Updated Art
- Significant performance improvements across all aspects of the game. More performance updates planned coming soon.
- AI behavior improvements.
- Turret Command Attack.
- Destructibility.
Patch Notes:
- Resolved crashing issues.
- Performance improvements across all areas of the game.
- Gauss Turret performance improvements.
- Revamped UI – Removed the old build & upgrade menu – Now an all-in-one layout.
- Removed build & upgrade icons from center of Planet Shield health UI, center now only contains shield health percentage.
- Revised tooltip menu now gives more information.
- Turret tooltip stats can now be accessed by clicking on an active turret.
- Updated Boss 1 Carrier model and texture.
- Added new attacks.
- Updated Light Carrier model and texture.
- Updated Medium Carrier model and texture.
- Now has 2 new variations.
- Updated Medium Carrier Fighter model and texture. Added wing fold animation on deployment off ramp.
- Updated Spawn Portal model and texture.
- Added Spawn Portal Open an Close animation for wave spawns.
- Added animation to Scrap Collection Drones.
- Improved performance of Scrap Collection Drones
- Scrap piles revised to now only hold 1 scrap value, additional scrap will randomly be distributed nearby.
- Several AI behavior fixes.
- All enemy ships now have visual destruction effects when destroyed.
- Enemy ships will now dynamically fragment into several pieces on destruction.
- Updated Planet ground and water textures effects.
- Updated Communications Tower particle VFX.
- Revised turret accuracy formula.
- Added ability for players to select turrets and right click on enemies to manually select attack target.
- Revised turret placement formula. Formerly placement was constrained to a small window, can now place turret anywhere valid that is currently visible to the player.
This patch is the first of several major planned content updates. We're introducing 6 new turrets, each with many upgrades options.
- New Game Modes: Endless Invasion
Endless Invasion: Enemy forces will continuously spawn to attack, gradually spawning faster, stronger, and better ships. This mode will keep score and allow you to more easily try out strategies in a faster pacing than the scenario modes.
(Note: This mode is still heavily in balancing, significant performance updates will be included in the next major patch, the performance results will largely dictate overall design balance moving forward.)
- Six new baseline unique attack type towers, each with multiple upgrades.
- Gamma: Focuses strong gamma beams at enemies causing them to accumulate radiation, taking damage over time. Can stack twice, each hit refreshes the effect, deals additional damage and extends the max duration.
- Arc Reactor: Energized particles run through the conduit producing high voltage electrical arcs that can attract and arc to nearby targets. Deals randomized damage, arcs to 2 additional nearby available targets.
- Artillery: Fires heavy ballistic shells that explode on impact dealing additional damage in a small radius. Explosion damage based on distance, fires at random targets.
- Gauss: Rapid-fire rounds, fires at nearest target. Has a 50% chance for projectile to ricochet to a nearby target.
- Rail: Energy is concentrated to propel a specialized heavy projectile to enormous speeds. Deals heavy damage with a 25% chance to ignore armor and shields each shot. Requires a significant cooldown period between each shot.
- Comm: Satellite-ground communication has been established, relays power and provides a bonus to satellites depending on type. Extends shield satellites max duration by 10 seconds.
New upgrades:
-Gamma-
Gamma II: Max radiation upgraded to 3 stacks. Improved recharge rate and damage.
Gamma III: Max radiation upgraded to 4 stacks. Improved recharge rate and damage.
Saturated Gamma: Can fully penetrate ships allowing for an unlimited potential for radiation damage. No stack limit. Each stack increases damage and causes permanent radiation damage over time.
Gamma Burst: Focuses targets already afflicted with gamma radiation. Causes the target radiation effect to burst for damage equal to 2x the total potential remaining damage of the existing radiation effect.
Gamma Burst II: Focuses targets already afflicted with gamma radiation. Causes the target radiation effect to burst for damage equal to 3x the total potential remaining damage of the existing radiation effect.
Irradiate: Intensified beam of radiation that focuses critical ship systems. Enemy ships drop additional scrap after beam duration is completed. Additional scrap based on % health remaining for unit type.
-Arc Reactor-
Arc Reactor II: Arcs to up to 3 additional nearby targets.
Arc Reactor III: Arcs to up to 4 additional nearby targets.
Arc Cannon Tether: Two energized fields are each launched at a random nearby target. When both fields reach their targets they form a connection dealing increasing damage over distance.
Arc Cannon Tether II: Increased damage and fire rate.
Arc Cannon Chain Reactor: Arc fields now briefly chain to all available nearby targets in a small radius from the impact location.
-Artillery-
Penetrating Shells: Increases damage and fire rate, has a 10% chance to deal 2x impact damage to the target. Each additional shot against the same target adds +5% chance.
Penetrating Shells II: Increases damage and fire rate, has a 10% chance to deal 3x impact damage to the target. Each additional shot against the same target adds +10% chance.
Explosive Feedback: Enemies caught in and destroyed by the initial explosion also explode themselves.
-Gauss-
Gauss II: Concentrating fire allows each consecutive shot to deal slightly more damage each hit on the same target. 50% chance on hit to ricochet to a nearby target. Fires at nearest target.
Recoil Rounds: Specialized projectiles that ricochet more frequently. 75% chance on hit to ricochet to up to 2 nearby targets. Fires at nearest target.
-Comm-
Satellite Communications II: Targets satellites and provides a bonus effect. Shield Satellites: Each charge adds 20s to max duration.
Signal Hack: Attempts to hack vulnerable enemy ship systems. Disables flight and forces ship targeting systems to lock on and attack nearby enemy ships.
Many minor bugs and fixes have been addressed this patch.
Whats Next?
Many planned turret upgrades did not make it into this patch, these additional upgrades are coming soon to be delivered by minor patch on a much quicker release cycle.
The next major patch will add many more upgrades and will feature the addition of expanded satellites into the game.
Major performance improvements!
Revised Scenario balance.
and more.
Thank you for playing Exo TD, we look forward to showing you much more of what's to come!