Game Updates
Pathing & Targeting
- Units are now faster to attack acquired targets (Increased bandwidth for issuing new orders)
Granddaddy
- Fixed a bug where Reconstructive Exoskeleton wasn’t disabled when attacking
Minibosses
- Now spawn in the center of the wave (but they may still walk to the side if blocked). Affects Giant Scorpion (Wave 5), Giant Quadrapus (Wave 15), Legion King (Wave 21).
Summoned Pets
- Pets are now summoned a maximum of 200 range in front of the summoner. Affects Gateguard, Harbinger, Lord of Death, Hades.
Wave 21
- Fixed a bug where the Mythium Received message was incorrect after the first wave of wave 21
3v3 Games
- Fixed a bug where mercenaries were being sent to the wrong player
Custom Games
- Fixed a bug where the Mercenaries Received message wasn't appearing in games with less than 8 players
King
- Slightly improved King AI after casting Judgment (now resorts targets after casting Judgment)
Matchmaking Updates
New Player Ratings
- Players with less than 30 Normal games are considered “new” players
- New players now gain/lose 2x rating points per game
- Non-new players who are *partied* with a new player now gain/lose 0.5x rating points per game
These changes should accomplish a few things: (1) new players will get to their correct rating faster, (2) smurf boosting is punished, because smurfs will climb faster, and the boosted account will gain much less rating, (3) high skill players can play for fun with lower skill newer players and not fear losing too many rating points, which hopefully helps introduce friends to the game.
Party Ratings
- Increased the penalty to parties with high rating variance (e.g. an 1800 duoing with a 1200)
- Now shows green/red +/- in loading screen
This change also punishes smurf boosting. For details on party rating adjustments, check out the Rating & Matchmaking Guide.
Matchmaking
- Duos will now always be lined up positionally against other duos, if possible. (Added a post-processing step that sorts parties within a team by their party size). This means a duo will always send to a duo.
- Now accelerates faster, so it's less likely that you will wait 15+ minutes for a match. This usually only happens to very low or very high rated players.
Play vs. AI
- Fixed a bug where it would display the incorrect (D), (T), (F) suffixes
Rating Decay
- Now more severe (lose 3 rating points per day, if you haven’t logged on in a month)
In the future, we will make it based on last game played, rather than last login time.
Client Updates
Stability
- Fixed some crash issues (upgraded PopcornFX library from v2.9p2 → 2.9p9)
- Fixed an infinite loading issue (now checks for duplicate hotkeys and unbinds any duplicates)
Spectate
- Fixed a bug where the HUD wasn't fully hidden (some parts were visible)
- Fixed a bug where you would get AFK detected while spectating
As a reminder, spectate is an experimental feature only available to a few people and it only works in custom games.
Reconnecting
- Added a message that says when an allied player reconnects
Debugging
- Added a “income X” debug command to set your income to X
Game Balance
Cross / Dual Building
Shared Workers
Workers are now shared between you and your cross partner.
- This means if you have 6 workers and your partner has 2 workers, you will each gain mythium as if you have 4 workers.
- “Half” workers are supported, so if you have 4 workers and your partner has 3 workers, you’ll each gain mythium as if you had 3.5 workers.
- Worker sharing for the cross partners only applies when at least one player builds in the middle
This removes a major frustration point when playing against cross (defending against the “incomer” who had 3 workers on wave 1 and 10 workers by wave 7).
Haste
- Attack speed: 18% -> 15%
Having shared workers is significant nerf to cross, so we’re reducing Haste to compensate. We're approaching cross balance conservatively and iteratively so we don't unleash a firestorm of rage.
King
Giant Slayer
- Max health damage: 3.5% -> 5%
The king is now stronger, especially against high health targets, such as Granddaddy and Drill Golem. This change also nerfs long/all-in saves by reducing gold from Pillage and risk of lethal.
Element
Disciple
- DPS: 77.2 -> 77.3
- Damage: 71 -> 75
- Attack speed (attacks per second): 1.09 -> 1.03
Now clears wave 1 + Snail
Starcaller
- DPS: 165 -> 164.9
- Damage: 150 -> 160
- Attack speed (attacks per second): 1.1 -> 1.03
Making attack speed consistent with Disciple
Forsaken
Fire Archer
- Attack speed (attacks per second): 1 -> 0.97
Nightmare
- Health: 1100 -> 1120
Grove
Ranger
- Health: 450 -> 430
- Damage: 28 -> 29
Mech
Bazooka
- DPS: 29.5 -> 29.4
-- Damage: 46 -> 35
-- Attack speed (attacks per second): 0.64 -> 0.84
Now perfectly 3-shots wave 1
APS
- DPS: 48 -> 48.1
-- Damage: 48 -> 50
-- Attack speed (attacks per second): 1 -> 0.96
Now clears wave 1 + Snail
MPS
- DPS: 127 -> 126.9
-- Damage: 127 -> 132
-- Attack speed (attacks per second): 1 -> 0.96
Making attack speed consistent with APS
Berserker
- Health: 1780 -> 1800
Leviathan
- Aerial Command: Range: 200 -> 225
Mercenaries
Brute
- Damage: 46 -> 48
Waves
(5) Scorpions
- Scorpion King: Health: 1320 -> 1240
- Scorpion: Health: 330 -> 310
Now more situations where you can push 4 workers before wave 5
(20) Maccabeus
- Health: 60000 -> 62000
(21) Legion Lords
- Legion King: Health: 30000 -> 33000
- Legion Lord: Health: 5000 -> 5500