Greetings valourous folks,
Time for yet another weekly update for Keep the Keep!
This time, we are proud to present you with a new Tower Type: the mighty Thunder Tower!
This Tower has, by far, the longest shooting range in the game: it shoots diagonally up to 6 cells away, which encapsulates the whole game field. We have added Thunder Tower for several balance reasons (in the following order):
- Cannon and Catapult towers were deemed too strong by the players, allowing for a very effective opponent enclosing tactic - they needed a counter
- Shield and Repair towers were barely used in a regular play, due to their very circumstantial usefulness (Repair requires to pick Towers that have more than 1 Health, Shield requires energy to work and a Builder to be set in a way to overcome blocked lines)
- Every shooting tower in the game is oppressively blocking the cells it shoots upon, leaving very limited options for the player
- Diagonal area control can be very strong in Keep the Keep, as the infrastructure like Reactors and Repairs tend to be placed in diagonal patterns
Henceforth, we decided to create a Tower to attack the opponent in a very special way: Thunder tower has to aim at its target for one turn before actually starting to shoot it. One could say, that severely reduces its efficiency, and be quite correct about it - it's hard for the Thunder to single-handedly deal with the opponent's base. However, its everlasting presence can be extremely annoying and destructive, provided you support it well.
As usual with incoming Towers, a new encyclopedia entry and a set of 4 extra campaign levels dedicated to the Thunder tower usage are included. Overall, we hope you'll have a lot of fun with the new mechanic and get to use it in multiplayer as well.
Besides this vital change, we have addressed several important bugs over the course of last week:
- Tower Health being updated to 0 before it's actually destroyed
- Multiplayer server colour changing issues
- Obscure multiplayer bug whenever surrendering with a new Tower being built resulted in a crash
- Weird tower connectivity issues after tower destruction
Also, balance patch: the Shield Tower will protect you from Sapper, provided it's supplied with energy and is facing the adversary.
If you'd like to give us feedback and find yourself a worthy opponent, you're always welcome to join our Discord Server. Also, free key giveaways!
Wishing you many great games,
And see you next week,
Nebulate.me