This update (v0.50) for Keep Defending includes a new level called Salt Town Docks which has a number of new game features.
Salt Town Docks is a gate defense level featuring an attack on two fronts. Overwhelming numbers of enemies are approaching the town gate over land, while another force is attacking from the sea!
The enemies have acquired some pirate vessels to deliver their forces to the docks alongside the ground enemies. Even worse the ships fire cannons at your forces. A direct hit is instant death!
Fortunately you have the means to repel them. New cannon units of your own can be placed in support portals to reinforce your defenses.
Salt Town Docks has double the number of defense portals available in previous levels and so features a new wider portal interface for you to assign your allies:
With so many enemies, and allies to fight them, the resulting conflict can be furious:
Here's a list of the headline features in the v0.50 update:
- New Salt Town Docks (Gate Defense mode) map.
- New Cannon ally unit.
- New enemy unit: Ship Transport.
- Implemented support for carrier units (the Ship Transports) that can spawn other enemies when reaching a destination.
- Implemented a wider portal interface to support larger maps that feature more than 12 portals (up to 32).
- Steam achievements and leaderboard setup for Salt Town Docks.
- Tweaks to audio sound levels for many of the FX in game.
- Increased the distance that audio effects can be heard from.
- Increased lighting range on Wizard fireballs and enabled shadow casting.
- Fixed the crystal colours not matching their base lighting colour in Crystal Caves.
- Numerous other fixes.
You can see a better quality (and longer) video showing Salt Town Docks footage here on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCTY5dJQWeM
I've done a thorough test of all the levels to make sure I haven't introduced any breaking changes with this latest update. However, if you spot something amiss then please leave feedback in the discussion groups or by replying to this post.
Thanks for playing Keep Defending! :)