The Speedrunning Update is NOW available for Towerbolt! (V1.01.00) This is a free update that brings the following features below to the game, all focused around speedrunning quality of life and making it easier for folks to go for fast times throughout the game!
🏁 Global Leaderboards For Each Ranked Floor - Compete for the world's best time throughout most floors of the Tower!
👻 Player Ghosts - Race against a ghost of your fastest playthrough of any ranked floor.
🔄 Repeat Level Mode - Want to rapidly replay a level over and over to practice it or to push up your score on the leaderboards? Use the new Repeat Level Mode to repeatedly play a level infinitely, toggleable at any time during gameplay.
Along with these larger features, a collection of various bugfixes and adjustments have been applied to this update of the game. Among the notable changes:
More aggressive adjustments to the visuals of the game while Reduce Flashing is enabled. More objects are dimmer, flash less, and the game's global Post FX are disabled.
New file reset options that allow you to keep your previous best floor completion times and player ghost data when starting a new game.
By design, Pressing "X" to restart a level used to only work in levels with a kill laser. Restarting this way will now work across any level in the game.
The demo for Towerbolt also carries all of these changes with this update, but do note that Global Leaderboard and Player Ghost functionality are disabled in that version of the game.
To the folks who have been playing the game fast, I sincerely hope these features enable you to play your best help make speedrunning the game more fun!
Thanks for checking out this update, and I hope to see you on the climb! o7
-Brandon (bordenary)