Hello Riftbreakers!
While discovering the secrets of the Galatean Swamp, you will have to face several challenges. Apart from the wildlife trying to push you away from their natural habitat, you will have to contend with limited building space. Bases in The Riftbreaker can get pretty huge. All the factories, power plants, and storage buildings take up a lot of space. However, dry land is a luxury in the Swamp, requiring you to change your building habits and make the most of every square meter available to you. You will need to find savings everywhere - and we want to help you with that. Let’s take a look at the floating defensive towers.
All three levels of the Floating Immolator Tower. By the way - they don't get smaller with each level. It's just the perspective and my lack of Photoshop skills.
Perfect protection for your pipelines.
Stumbling upon a row of towers like this one should make your enemies think twice. It should, but it doesn't, which is good, because it means that the twoers will get the chance to get busy.
Resources in the Swamp biome are scattered on small islands with very limited building space. It is quite likely that your new outposts will span across several such islands. Floating towers will help you defend such structures. The first tower you will get access to is the Floating Immolator Tower. It’s a rapid-firing tower that shoots flaming projectiles which explode on impact. Any creature hit by the tower will be set on fire, receiving additional damage over time. The Floating Immolator Tower has three advancement levels, each one more powerful than the last. However, the sheer firepower is not the key feature here.
These towers do not need any additional power sources. Thanks to this, you can set up traps in the middle of nowhere!
What makes the Floating Immolators a prime choice for the Swamp biome is their portability and ease of use. As the name suggests, these towers have to be placed on a liquid pool of any type (yes, even magma will do - though fighting fire with fire is not the best idea). They also need AI cores and a steady supply of liquid ammo, but that is all! No need to provide them with power, no need to build complicated piping networks, or anything else, really. As long as you place them in a liquid pool they are ready to go. This gives you the ability to surround all your islands with a perimeter of powerful defensive towers that are sure to give the creatures of the Swamp a headache.
Always support your Immolators with artillery. Let the fireworks begin!
As great as these towers are, they do not come without drawbacks. The first and the most obvious one is their vulnerability. Their placement on liquid pools, away from walls or any other defenses, makes them a juicy target for enemy artillery and more tanky units, who can take several salvos and actually get up close. Remember to always support your Floating towers with batteries of Artillery back on dry land. It is also advisable to build the Floating Immolators in very large numbers. The sheer number of these towers can make up for their fragility and will keep the damage output steady, even if you lose several towers in an attack. That’s where the second drawback comes in - these towers are quite expensive. Keep your Carbonium and Ironium production up - protecting your base is not going to be cheap.
No one will destroy this pipeline under our watch! By the way, it's a sneaky preview of a new resource - resin. Any guesses what it can do?
The Floating Immolator Tower is not the only one that you will be able to place directly on water. As many of you suggested on our Feature Upvote board, The Riftbreaker needs more heavy-hitting giant towers. We already added a couple on the previous World Expansions. WE III will continue that trend and then some! This expansion will add three truly powerful 3x3 towers. One of them will be a water-based tower, shooting massive, piercing projectiles that deal cryo damage on impact. We don’t have any visuals or a name for that tower yet, but when it arrives, we will definitely preview it on www.twitch.tv/exorstudios during our developer stream. Follow us there so as not to miss it!
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