We're proud to announce that Axon TD: Uprising will be releasing onto Early Access on Wednesday, August 2nd for $19.99! That's right, it's less than 2 weeks away!
For any of you with Special Early Access to the game, there'll be a new build tonight that unlocks the rest of the game, Campaign included. We'll post up Version 0.0.7 Patch Notes alongside it when it's ready.
For everyone else, read on to find out what you should expect from the Early Access release!
What's that inactive button on the bottom row?
Tutorial
Start with the basics here!
Anyone that played our previous game, Element TD 2, knows that we love making games with lots of depth. This is still true in Axon TD, but this time, we decided to make learning the game a lot easier. In general, we sought far more intuitive mechanics and tower designs. It's much less APM intensive, and you've got unlimited time between waves to figure out what you want to do.
Oh, and on top of that, there's an actual Tutorial in the game.
Now with 120% more pop-up ads dialogues!
Campaign
Characters and a story? In a Tower Defense? Nonsense!
One of the things we wanted to focus on in Axon TD: Uprising is to tell an actual story. No, not "a great darkness has befallen the land, and only you can stop the hoardes of minions and stop the great evil".
Instead, it's "robots have taken over the world, and only you can stop them".
In the Campaign, you play as Patricia Jones, a defense contractor that's called to Planet Mega-451 to stop a "minor incursion". Of course, things are a whole lot worse than the request let on. Your ship is shot down (spoiler!), and you find yourself stranded on a planet infested with robotic enemies called Axons.
Ignore the fancy debug options in the corner, they're not real, and neither are we.
Build up your Loadout, progress through Tech & Upgrade Trees, and tackle the first 2 Chapters of this campaign, encompassing 15 Missions. Meet other characters, learn to love/hate robots, learn to love/hate mankind, and learn some of the truth behind this war.
Quick Play
This may or may not be the most optimal way to handle this map. Experiment to your heart's desire!
A mode where you can skip the progression and jump right into it! Select your loadout from among the game's 32 Towers/Traps/Mines and 8 Overloads, try to beat the level, and get the highest score you can on the leaderboards! You can even turn on modifiers like Random Loadout and Rush Mode for some extra challenge.
12 Maps will be available from the start!
Co-op Mode
You can see (and judge) everyone's loadouts before you all ready up!
It's like Quick Play, except up to 4 Players work together to defend against the Axons on much larger Co-op maps! Coordinate with your team using contextual pings, and send resources as you need to. This mode supports maps for 2, 3, or 4 Players!
That's a big map. We're gonna need a bigger boat... or bigger towers?
Survival Mode
This outcome is just one of many possibilities...
Survive against 30 Waves of increasing difficulty in this Roguelite Mode. Tack on whole islands, build your loadout over time through a selection of randomized rewards, and if you beat the gauntlet, compete on the leaderboards!
If the first map wasn't challenging enough for you, there's even a second one...
Early Access Features
- 32 Towers, Traps, and Mines
- 8 Overload Abilities
- 25+ Unique Enemies & Bosses
- An actual Tutorial
- 15 Mission Partial Campaign
- 12 Quick Play Maps of varying difficulties
- 9 Co-op Maps that support up to 4 Players
- 2 Survival Mode Maps
- Leaderboards for Survival, Co-op, and Quick Play Modes
- And 34 Achievements!
And of course, we have plans to expand just about all of the above throughout Early Access into Full Release. Once we release on August 2nd, look forward to our Roadmap!
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