Version 0.56 has arrived, complete with a Status Bar, Achievements for the Campaign, a Wave Browser, some new Cosmetics, various GPU optimizations, less desyncs, cloud save for the campaign, and lots of bug fixes!
Features
- Status Bar added! Select a tower or creep, and now you'll be able to see their Buffs/Debuffs.
- You can even see stacks of stuff like Poison, Wisp, & Cursed, as well as their duration remaining.
- 18 Campaign Achievements have been added!
- Each Mission has its own Achievement, which you can see on the Campaign screen itself.
- There's also Achievements for clearing each Chapter, and for getting 4 Stars on everything.
- There's now a pair of arrows next to the Creep Preview, allowing you to browse past/future waves!
- Note, on Chaos, you won't be able to check out future waves.
- 5 New Cosmetics have been added:
- New Builder - Necro Mage
- New Builder - Drone
- New Trail - Dark Spiral
- New Wings - From Heaven and Hell
- New Wings - Power Overwhelming
Improvements
- Optimizations have been made, FPS & GPU Usage should both be improved.
- You can now toggle Anti-Aliasing off in the Graphics Options.
- If you still have issues with FPS/GPU, we recommend turning it off.
- There should be considerably less Desyncs now! For real this time.
- Synchronizing Pauses should also be less frequent.
- Campaign Progress is now saved both locally and to the cloud.
- Towers and Creeps are now 25% easier to select.
- Adjusted how Elemental Bosses spawn on Atlantis.
- Adjusted the difficulty of Missions 8 & 9 in the Campaign.
- Total Chatbox Entries are now capped at 100.
- Chatbox Entries now have a character limit of 500.
- Sorry folks, no more breaking the chatbox with the Bee Movie Script.
- If you back out to menu to the point where you have "Are you sure?" on your screen, and then hit "Esc", it'll now close the pop-up instead of keeping it plastered on your screen while the game resumes.
- When trying to select Multiplayer, Leaderboard, or Profile while you're offline or disconnected from Steam, it'll now block you and display a message saying "You are not online".
- In the Lobby List, if there's no games found, instead of displaying "No Match Found", it'll say "No games found. Host a game to notify other players."
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug where creeps remained on the screen after dying.
- Fixed a bug where you could get stuck in the loading screen indefinitely.
- Fixed a bug involving the game randomly freezing.
- Fixed a bug where the Chatbox would sometimes become transparent.
- Fixed a bug where the Lobby Chatbox would automatically scroll to the bottom each time someone sent a message.
- Fixed a bug in Campaign, where having the Level 2 Singles would automatically unlock the respective Level 2 Duals & Triples.
- Same for having Level 3 Singles.
- Fixed a bug where, if you're playing Solo Online, pausing the game wouldn't detract from the pause cap.
- Fixed Level 3 Singles selling for more than intended.
- Fixed Tower/Creep Select Previews not having proper post-processing.
- Fixed path indicators not showing up in some missions.
- Fixed some creeps oriented incorrectly when spawning in some missions.
- Fixed tooltip errors on Fire, Solar & Flooding Towers.
That's the list for this patch! We're still working on Ranked Mode, so that'll be another few weeks at least. In the meantime, we're also working on another balance update, plus the usual batch of bug fixes and the like. Enjoy Version 0.56!