Demo update is live!
Temporal Titans has been nominated for Best Design at the Taipei Game Show Indie Game Awards, and in honor of the nomination, a new update to the demo is live now! Check out all the great games taking part in the event by clicking here!
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Changelog
Mission Types
- Salvage Mission: Power Ups are hidden in various buildings. Demolish buildings and collect them all to get the full rewards for the mission.
- Rescue Mission: Survivors will flee from buildings periodically. You are provided with a special "bunker" support asset that can hold 4 survivors. Build a bunker and survivors will run to it. But both survivors and bunkers can be killed if attacked. Survivors will attack from inside the bunker.
- Titan Sighted: Standard mission with a Titan at the end.
Mech Upgrades and Power-ups
- Mech weapons are now only upgradable via weapon upgrade power-ups, which appear as blue boxes.
- The other power-up is a Gunner Drone that follows the mech and attacks nearby enemies for light damage.
- More power-ups will be added as development continues.
Enemies and Mission Scaling
- New enemies appear depending on the challenge rating of a level.
- The level of each zone determines what rating of levels becomes available.
- As zones level up, resistant enemies and special enemy types will also appear (specific to each zone).
New Enemies
- Broodmother: Lays eggs that spawn swarms of small enemies
- Stinger: Fires a projectile at nearby targets when killed
- Armored Raptid: New visuals for armored enemy
New Assets
- Chem Factory: Adds chemical damage to explosive weapons (stacks with other factories).
Damage System Changes
- Elemental damage now causes "buildup" which can apply status effects associated with that element.
- Repeated or high amounts of fire damage will "ignite" an enemy, burning them for extra damage for a short duration.
- Repeated or high amounts of chemical damage will "poison" an enemy, damaging them a small amount over a long duration.
- Repeated or high amounts of electric damage will "shock" an enemy, causing them to damage themselves and nearby allies periodically for a duration.
- Regular elemental damage is blocked by resistances and reduced somewhat by armor.
- Status effect damage passes through armor, but is blocked by resistance.
- Shields still block all damage and status effects, but are reduced with each hit.
- Elemental damage types can stack onto the same impact. So a bullet can do physical, fire, chem, and electric damage in one hit if all are applied to it. The visuals should hint at this (multi-element attacks will have multiple colors).
- All damage boosts are now a percent based off the base weapon's damage.
Damage Numbers
- Better readability, optimized spawning, more interesting animation, now shows color of dominant damage type with each impact.
- There will be an option to disable these numbers in the future.
Other Polish
- Enemy death animations
- Titan dissolve VFX
- Calldowns are more responsive
- New armor visuals (Golem enemy and Raptid - more armored and shielded enemies coming soon)
- Shield Generator has VFX to show when it activates (each round)
- New music system (each level picks a "non-combat" track and sticks with it for a session. It resumes playing after combat is finished. Combat music is still different each wave.)
- Line of sight fixes for turrets and mechs
- Range indicators for support assets
- Various bug fixes
