Good Day, fellow Keepers!
Today we are happy to introduce yet another new Tower Type: the mighty Defender!
This new Tower Type is, in fact, a very different version of the familiar and well-known Shield Tower: Defender has the same 2 health points, requires energy, can face both cardinal and diagonal directions... But here comes an important difference: while Shield tower protects itself from a given direction, Defender covers one nearby friendly tower instead, whatever it may be: a Keep, a Reactor, a Wall, a Soldier, etc.
This allows for flexibility level unbeknownst beforehand since this new tower can be used both to quickly shield important nearby ally that's being pressed and to expand into the territory attacked by the opponent just as well. Indeed, the only thing important to keep in mind is that the Defender tower simply requires the allied tower to exist and have substance to it (so, it won't protect the Domain tower at all) and the energy to be provided.
While we might feel like the new tower is a bit too powerful, the future balance changes shall happen as a result of your feedback rather than our own shenanigans - so we're really looking forward to your opinion on the matter. Please try it out and comment here, under this post, or send us the feedback on our Discord Server.
AI Enhancements
It's so relieving to finally announce a pack of major upgrades to the existing AI after a fair bit of development time! First of all, several tower types that were not available for the AI before are now enabled and you'll hopefully have a great time playing against them!
So, the following tower types are now enabled:
1. Repair
2. Builder
3. Domain
4. Sapper
All of those are automatically available in the Quick Match mode as well as for selection during local multiplayer AI battles. We are especially proud to implement a rather complex and elaborate system supporting the Builder usage, as that tower is immensely powerful in the right hands.
Likewise, quite a few smaller AI bugs have been addressed too, hopefully making the whole experience more smooth and human-like - which will help you get around if not finding a worthy multiplayer opponent for yourself.
Meanwhile, stay cool... and Keep the Keep!
Talk to you in a couple of weeks!
Always yours,
Nebulate.me team