Update 1.8

New features and QoL changes

• Replays can now be started through the Statistics screen
• Added Crusher tower
• Added more info to the Detailed map mode - towers XP level, available upgrade points in Cores etc
• Added "Ultimate" and "Powerful" (XP LVL 20) abilities to towers, see "Towers" section
• Redesigned ability buttons in the menu of a tower to fit 5th and 6th ability
• Lost coins (when a bounty mod is placed near the the tower and it kills someone) are now being reflected on the tower menu
• Added detailed in-game statistics panel for gained score and coins. Statistics will be compared to your best run on the same map in real time to make it easier to search for the best source of coins/score and see if your current run goes better than the previous one
• Damage stat line is now capped (won't grow in width if damage exceeds 10,000) and has an exponential nature - low damage should now be visible
• Now it is possible to purchase or unpack 5 chests at once by holding the unpack button.
• Added additional info for tiles in the inventory
• "Portals and bases" item category is now divided into "Portals" and "Bases". Added separate tabs to the map editor inventory menu
• Translations are now dynamic - the game will try to download the latest translations from infinitode.prineside.com for the selected language when you switch to other language / start the game
• New ability - Overload. A risky one, allows to speed up miners and get much more score, makes enemies tougher and faster for a short period of time. May be useful for bonus / limited in waves levels
• Now you can double tap and drag to change zoom (right / bottom = closer, up / left = further)
• Explosions and XP orbs are now less opaque in the detailed mode
• Max research level added to the research menu
• Loot icons and Realtime statistics can be turned off in Settings
• Easy & Endless mode will not send replays to the leaderboards
• Added Achievements
• Levels 6.1 - 6.4 with custom scripted mechanics
• Volume sliders now have larger touch area - should be easier to drag
• Source tiles now have the amount of resources on their icons
• Anti-aliasing can now be turned off in settings
• Map is now zoomed to fit the screen at the start of a game
• UI safe zone size can now be precisely adjusted in Settings
• Made Sign in form fields larger
• 3rd game speed is now x4 instead of x3, on every platform. Game optimisations now allow it, so why not
• Added "unsaved progress" hint to the list of cloud saves when there are unsaved local changes (new items from packs / purchases / ad rewards / finished research etc)
• Added Google Play Games achievements on Android - you should be signed in with Google
• Replaced screen flashing with HP label animation when an enemy passess to the base
• Map zooming now should not depend on the screen resolution - tiles should be 0.6 inches in size on max zoom and zooming out should allow you to see 125% of the map's size
• Added tile position to the tile menu (upper right corner of the menu)
• Lucky shot: now contains x2/x3 sectors and can be re-spinned few more times
• Hotkey editor on PC version of the game
• Cores can now contain upgrades that can be installed for coins
• Added player profile pictures, badges and profile levels. Players who reach level 30 can now exchange 30 levels for a higher level of the "Of Merit" badge. If you are at level 30, all excess XP will be saved but not shown to you (for example: you've reached level 30 and got extra 1500 xp. After you get the badge, you'll instantly get level 2 with 500/1000 xp). At badge level 5 it is possible to get 30+ level shown for your account.
• Added lots of new effects that affect abilities of the towers, score calculation, coins generation, speed of the enemies and many other things - you can find them in new research nodes and on the levels of Stage 6. Now maps can change more than 520 different parameters to heavily affect the gameplay
• Cores can now give many different bonuses, give abilities and coins, have bonuses that can be upgraded multiple times. Maps can now contain multiple Cores (custom maps are still limited to 1 Core)
• Added 35 new teleport colors (will not appear as regular loot)
• New settings: auto save interval, graphics anti-aliasing, adjustable screen safe zone, slow motion pause, statistics pane visibility
• Added Zeraco and MarshallUA to the About screen

Balance (general)

• Many changes were made to the score calculation, towers, towers abilities, modifiers, usable abilities and enemies - see corresponding sections for more details
• New explosion mechanics - enemies absorb part of the blast wave, which reduces damage to enemies that are behind them
• Removed that tiny part of score which was based on the amount of coins
• Amount of green papers given on custom maps is now less dependent on the score (to address the new score rebalancing)
• Towers loose the green sell button if already gave any damage
• Tower XP generation now depends on its upgrade level. Tower doesn't generate XP passively on upgrade level 0. Added this stat to the tower menu
• Early wave call now give coins even if no enemies were killed. In previous versions it was calculated as "time left * coins gained for killed enemies", now it is "time left * (coins gained for killed enemies * 80% + sum coins of the whole wave * 20%)
• Bosses are immune to killshots
• Modifiers can only be sold for 0 coins if they were built recently
• Abilities use shared pool of energy, max 10 energy, restores every 45s
• Added additional effects to abilities, can be viewed in the ability selection overlay (amount of coins enemies drop / bonus damage to affected enemies / next wave delay). Replaced effects of trophies to match the new bonuses
• Bounty - price depends on difficulty of map
• Ignited enemies can now be frozen. Burning enemies freeze 3x slower and max freezing percentage is reduced by 33%
• Miners on custom maps will not stop mining resources when they dug all of them from the source. Still give limited amount of resources at the end of a game

Score

• Starting bonus for early called waves increased 8% => 10%
• Mined resources give 10-30 score points instead of 50-90 (-66% score for mined resources)
• Score for killed enemies: +75%
• Score for early wave calls: +100%
• Score for completely destroyed wave: +300%
• Amount of Green Papers given for score +40%

Towers

• Towers XP generation reduced by ~30-50%
• Slightly reduced range of some towers in research tree
• Added 6th Powerful ability for every tower which multiplies their PWR by 110%, can be unlocked at XP level 20
• All of the towers abilities can now be upgraded with Research
• PWR affects all stats of towers except Range and the special ones (yellow)

  Basic

  • Projectile speed reduced (3.0 -> 2.8)
  • Large caliber ability: damage increased
  • Foundation ability: same as before + projectiles have a chance to ricochet on another enemy
  • Ultimate ability: Clones one random tower standing close to it with part of tower's upgrade level and transfers all experience gained to it - if no other towers nearby will clone itself.

  Sniper

  • Max crit chance = 90%
  • Damage increased (35 -> 46), attack speed reduced a bit (0.3 -> 0.28)
  • Aiming speed reduced (100 -> 90)
  • Crit chance decreased (20% -> 15%)
  • Damage increased by 10-110% depending on the upgrade level
  • Piercing shots now inherit critical damage. Critical shot chance reduced a bit
  • Killshot ability: triggers every 4 kills instead of 3
  • Ultimate ability: Deals great damage at max range, gradually decreases to normal closer to the tower. Enemies explode if killed with a critical shot close to the tower

  Cannon

  • Rotation and projectile speed were reduced (50 -> 40, 2.4 -> 2.2)
  • Damage increased (12.5 -> 14.0)
  • Explosions: enemies absorb part of the blast wave, which reduces damage to enemies that are behind them
  • Slightly reduced range of explosions. Max range is 2.5 tiles
  • Foundation ability: same as before + explosions become better at piercing through the enemies
  • Ultimate ability: Places mines on a nearby empty tiles

  Freezing

  • Fixed bug - Freezing percentage being carried with the weaker freezing towers
  • Freezing percentage has been slightly reduced (stock 20% -> 15%) and capped at 65%
  • Snowball ability: Duration of stuns depends on the upgrade level of the tower. Increased stun duration on the higher upgrade levels
  • Ultimate ability: Creates snowballs even if there are enemies in range and snowballs generate faster

  Antiair

  • Damage now scales much better with Upgrade Level, up to 2x the damage of 1.7's antiair at max rank
  • Will search for new target if the current one got ignited (venom style)
  • Projectile speed decreased (2.3 -> 2.2)
  • Targets Burned by Antiair are slowed by 40%
  • Heavy weapons ability: Damage increased
  • Foundation ability: Rotation and projectile speed increased
  • Aimed drop ability: Damage greatly increased
  • Ultimate ability: Aimed drop places a mine instead of exploding the enemy instantly, mines deal additional damage

  Splash

  • Accuracy reduced by 0.2 on max upgrade level (1.2 -> 1.0)
  • Damage reduced (14.0 -> 11.9)
  • Can't attack Regular enemies
  • Ultimate ability: Killed enemies launch spikes in different directions with a percentage of the damage of the spike that killed them, which may cause powerful chain reaction of killed enemies

  Blast

  • Each enemy can only be stunned 10 times with any tower, each next stun is reduced in duration by 10% (100%, 90%...10%)
  • 4th ability (Special) depends on the upgrade level (0.5 tiles on Lvl 0, 1.5 tiles on Lvl 10 - previously 1 tile on any level)
  • Reduced stun chance (15% -> 10%)
  • Damage improved (18 -> 27)
  • Attack speed reduced (0.5 -> 0.35)
  • Stun duration reduced (2.0 -> 1.5)
  • Heavy shell ability: Damage increased (1.5 => 2.0)
  • Stopping force ability: Effect depends on the upgrade level of the tower
  • Ultimate ability: Enemies receive much more damage while being thrown back, effect depends on the upgrade level of the tower

  Multishot

  • Slightly reduced projectile count on higher XP levels
  • Deals more damage to Strong and Heli
  • Damage and attack speed reduced (5.7 -> 4.3, 1.1 -> 1.0)
  • Penetrating bullets ability: Damage increased
  • Counter attack ability: Damage increased
  • Ultimate ability: Shoots one projectile backwards which deals huge damage

  Minigun

  • Damage increased (9.2 -> 13.6)
  • Fixed 30+ attack speed (endless mode)
  • Attack speed increased by 5-30% depending on the upgrade level
  • Acceleration reduced (18%/s -> 15%/s)
  • Foundation ability: now also improves damage of the Hot bullets ability
  • Ultimate ability: periodically creates a microgun on a random empty road in tower's range which inherits a portion of the tower's stats

  Venom

  • Deals more damage to Basic enemies
  • Damage increased (12.2 -> 14.6)
  • Hard shells ability: Damage increased
  • Fast shells ability: Same as before + projectiles will find another target if current one is dead
  • Poisonous cloud ability: Range increased
  • Ultimate ability: debuffs enemies with Chain Reaction for a few seconds which gives them a chance to spread their debuffs to the enemies nearby on death. Effect depends on the upgrade level of the tower

  Tesla

  • Lightnings always cause at least 10% of the tower's damage - makes chain lightnings more effective on high lengths
  • Damage increased (5.0 -> 8.85)
  • Attack speed reduced (1.5 -> 1.2)
  • Chain lightning damage and length reduced (50% -> 45%, 5.0 -> 4.0)
  • Increased voltage ability: Same as before + chains always deal at least 20% of tower's damage
  • Ultimate ability: When the tower deals as much damage as needed to kill a certain amount of enemies, starts a Ball lightning ability scaling with the damage of the tower

  Missile

  • Explosions: enemies absorb part of the blast wave, which reduces damage to enemies that are behind them
  • Slightly reduced range of explosions. Max range is 2.5 tiles
  • Upgrade price increased (+10-50%)
  • Vertical launch ability: Same as before + projectiles rotate faster
  • Anti-air system ability: Same as before + tower has no min range
  • Ultimate ability: Undamaged enemies (those with 100% HP) receive much greater damage from this tower. If tower has Compact weapons ability, it will aim multiple enemies at once

  Flamethrower

  • Damage increased (5.0 -> 7.5)
  • Plasma ignition ability: Damage increased (1.25 => 1.5)
  • Napalm ability: Bonus freezing percentage increased (5% -> 15%)
  • Burning time decreased (3.5 -> 3.0)
  • Ultimate ability: Instantly kills enemies in direct fire who have less than certain % of HP left. Killed enemies drop Green Papers. Effect scales with upgrade level of the tower

  Laser

  • Damage greatly improved (41.3 -> 120)
  • Does not pierce enemies (without abilities)
  • High frequency ability: allows tower's lasers to pierce through the enemies and reduces its damage
  • Large batteries ability: same as before + allows tower to rotate while shooting
  • Ultimate ability: every killed enemy increases the damage of the tower for a couple of seconds, effect stacks

  Gauss

  • Can be unlocked to play on any level, can be upgraded with Research
  • Can only rotate when fully discharged. Will be forced to shot first if already started to charge
  • Every next level of Gauss's bonus damage requires a bit more XP
  • Ultimate ability: Every killed (or severely damaged with Nanoparticles) enemy increases the duration of double mining speed to the miners near this tower

  Crusher

  • Can be unlocked to play on any level, can be upgraded with Research
  • Catches enemies and damages them before releasing them. Released enemies may avoid further Crushers
  • Other towers can continue to damage and debuff the enemies that are being held by the Crusher
  • Debuffs enemies with "XP bonus" which greatly increases the amount of XP given for damaging the enemies with Crusher or any other tower
  • Heavy vice ability: greatly increases tower's damage
  • Increased capacity ability: allows to hold more enemies at the same time
  • Careful processing ability: improves "XP bonus" buff
  • Disorientation ability: has a chance to force an enemy to walk towards a random Portal, dealing damage to enemies on the way. Disoriented enemies deal damage equal to 300% of their remaining HP
  • Ultimate ability: disorientated enemies give some coins for each tile they were able to walk. Effect depends on the upgrade level of the tower

Enemies

Regular

• Completely immune to Splash (was 25%)
• Now have their HP reduced on higher waves
• More vulnerable to Venom tower (100% -> 150%)

Fast

• Completely immune to Missile (was 25%)

Strong

• Completely immune to Multishot (was 25%)

Heli

• More immune to Multishot (50% -> 25%)

Healer

• Regenerates 5% max hp of nearby enemies, value is capped by 5% of healer's max hp (useful for the bosses); Constructor can spawn Healers again

Toxic

• Now completely invulnerable to poison damage and "Poisoned" debuffs (Venom tower, Minigun's ability, Poison cloud ability)

Icy

• Can't be stunned
• Completely immune to Laser (was 25%)
• Fully immune to Blizzard and snowballs if have armor left (blue hp line)
• Freezing tower does not slow it down

Fighter

• Completely immune to fire damage and "Burning" debuff (Flamethrower / Minigun ability / fiery abilities)
• Completely immune to Minigun (was 25%)

Light

• Immunity to the last damage type decreased a bit (80% => 75%)

Bosses

• HP and speed were balanced - bosses become a bit easier in general
• All bosses are immune to the Killshot (Sniper's ability), Stun (Blast / Gauss's ability) and snowballs (Freezing tower ability)
• Broot became slower and its "rage" stage became longer & regenerates less HP
• Broot: immune to Freezing / Blizzard debuffs, has 90% immunity to Ball lightning ability
• Stakey: immune to Throw back debuff (Blast's ability / Windstorm), has 90% immunity to Ball lightning ability and takes 400% damage from LOIC
• Constructor: immune to Throw back and Freezing debuffs, has 90% immunity to Ball lightning ability
• Mobchain: fixed spawnkill bug; became slower and is now immune to Throw back / Freezing / Blizzard debuffs
• Metaphor: immune to Throw back / Freezing / Blizzard debuffs, doesn't receive Healing buff (from Healer enemies)
• Mobchain: immune to Throw back / Blizzard debuffs, has 90% immunity to Ball lightning ability

Abilities

• New visuals for Nuke, Blizzard and Windstorm
• All abilities got new distinctive sounds
• All abilities use a shared pool of energy which restores over time

  Fireball (2 energy)

  • Increased explosion range (3 -> 4 tiles)
  • Increased damage and burn duration (+30%, +50%)
  • Killed enemies drop bonus coins (research required)

  Blizzard (2 energy)

  • Enemies spawned while Blizzard is active will receive 100% Freezing buff which'll last till the ability has done its work
  • Debuffed enemies take additional damage from any source

  Windstorm (3 energy)

  • Now affects enemies only in a range of 5 tiles
  • Constantly applies "Throw back" debuff to every enemy in range
  • Delays next enemy wave

  Thunder (1 energy)

  • Killed enemies give lots of bonus coins

  Smoke bomb (3 energy)

  • Duration increased (22 -> 30s)
  • Killed enemies drop fewer coins

  Firestorm (3 energy)

  • Killed enemies drop fewer coins

  Magnet (2 energy)

  • Killed enemies give bonus coins
  • No longer affects MDPS

  Bullet wall (2 energy)

  • Killed enemies give bonus coins

  Ball lightning (1 energy)

  • Killed enemies give bonus coins

  LOIC (3 energy)

  • Increased damage and duration
  • Killed enemies give bonus coins

  Nuke (4 energy)

  • Killed enemies drop fewer coins
  • Damage increased (+30%)

  Overload (1 energy, new ability)

  • Increases HP and speed of enemies for a short period of time, killed enemies give bonus score. Effects multiply if called again while being active
  • Increases mining speed of all miners while active

Modifiers

Balance

• Can be upgraded with XP to pump more XP per second (up to 100xp/s, was hard-capped at 5xp/s in the earlier versions)

Search

• Gives bonus range to the towers nearby
• Now works properly with Flamethrower

Power

• No longer affects range of the towers

Bounty

• Price depends on the difficulty of the map (Average portal %)

Experience

• Will not generate XP from miners that don't have enough resources; now has a menu for convenience
• Gives 30% less XP

Research

• Added 191 new research nodes with 500+ levels:
• Added Gauss tower research branch. Gauss can be unlocked through the completion of Stage 6 levels
• Added Crusher tower research branch. Crusher can be unlocked through the completion of Stage 6 levels
• Added research for all abilities of all towers
• Added new research for stars:
  • Enemies speed
  • Explosions piercing
  • Abilities energy generation rate
  • Loot frequency
  • Coins generation
• Added Coins generation upgradeable global research
• Added "Loot slots" and "Max upgrade level" research for every miner
• Added "Range" upgrade for Search modifier
• Added Overload ability research branch
• Added "LSTM network" story line research which increases Cores XP generation rate
• Added crafting-related research (reduced crafting time / increased crafting item stack)
• Increased max level of endless research. New levels will grow in price linearly, some research became a bit cheaper
• Added new endless-only research:
  • Max amount of abilities energy and abilities energy generation rate
  • Number of Basic's ultimate ability tower copies (can copy more than 1 tower on level 20)
  • Sniper's killshot interval and ultimate ability explosion range
  • Amount of splinters produced by Cannon's Shrapnel ability
  • Max amount of Freezing towers that can be stacked for Cold evaporation ability bonus damage
  • Amount of splinters shot by Splash's ultimate ability
  • Number of microguns that can be placed by Minigun with it's ultimate ability
  • Amount of damage required to cause Tesla to start the Ball lightning ability
  • Amount of missiles shot by Missile tower with Compact weapons ability
  • Number of lasers shot at the same time with Laser's Mirrors system ability
  • Amount of HP the Gauss leaves for its victims with Nanoparticles ability
  • Amount of enemies that can be held by Crusher simultaneously

Visuals and sound

• Added muzzle flash effects for some towers and made them a bit brighter
• Graphics interpolation for smoothness
• New graphical effects - screen shake, slow motion and new visuals for the abilities
• Replaced Green paper loot icon with custom particles
• Abilities now have unique sounds, some abilities got new visuals
• New visuals for game over scenario and some of the bosses
• Shooting sounds are now being played more frequently and naturally, Android got new implementation of sounds for better performance
• Important sounds should not be cut off less frequently
• Added enemy death sounds

Bug fixes and performance optimizations

• Now the game saves the current state of the game which increases games loading speed (continue games) dramatically. If the game fails to save its state / load it when "continue" is pressed, it will fall back to the old version of loading
• Attack speed is now fixed (30 per second cap removed)
• Fixed: Magnet ability affected MDPS
• Optimized some code of the Freezing tower
• Sound manager performance improvements
• Fixed DPS counters of towers
• Sniper's piercing shots now give proper 75% damage instead of 50%
• Fixed invalid XP generation of the predefined Cores
• Mobchain - fixed spawnkill bug
• Fixed tutorials
• Replays are now saved as a separate binary files on disk - should fix periodical lags and use less memory/storage space
• Fixed: particles appeared at 0:0 point of the map
• The game will not remove abilities from the inventory if they were given by the map (in daily quests / on maps with "no abilities" base)
• Reduced (fixed) Scalar miner mining speed research price in the endless mode
• Fixed Accelerator description, removed Double gain shard sell button if there's no permanent Double Gain
• Green paper packs contain much more papers (amount depends on your progression)
• Fixed huge lags caused by mass selling of items in inventory
• Reduced memory usage by UI
• Added "item cell streamer" to deal with performance issues of the inventory filled with thousands of tiles - item icons are not created until they are first drawn (icons are not being drawn until you scroll down to them). Invisible icons should unload themselves if the game runs low on memory
• Towers ability description should now fit completely into the popup on the side of menu
• Enemy path rendering optimized
• Reduced overall memory usage
• Optimized enemy searching, should be ~x2.5 faster
• Freezing buff - reduced memory usage. Now lasts for a short period of time, which should fix some of the related bugs
• Optimized explosions - should search for enemies much faster
• Towers are now being updated on a different time intervals to greatly reduce their performance impact
• Now it should not be possible to pause the game after it is over to prevent item loss
• Abilities description and tower stats will now update instantly after the difficulty is changed
• Optimized explosion visuals and Flamethrower's flame particles
• Faster game loading (starting with the 2nd run of the game)
• Amount of mined resources is now saved in the tile instead of the miner and now should be visible even if miner is replaced with some other miner
• Fixed Tutorial 0.4
• Fixed: Gauss gave wrong damage and somehow managed to pierce through an enemies
• Fixed: Gauss made Stakey invulnerable in some scenarios
• Fixed Source tiles given as a quest rewards (those with 0% density)
• Fixed item selling, now should not allow to select huge amount of items and exceed integer size
• Fixed music playback on pause (sometimes music started to play from the beginning when the game is paused)
• Fixed paths rendering in map editor
• Fixed: Flamethrower's projectile spray visual does not scale with arc.
• Fixed: Flamethrower Animation is stuck when the tower is disabled
• Fixed: Search mod isn't working on Flamethrower
• Fixed: Cake trophy not being given when doing 100% prestige (when Accelerators are used to skip quests)
• Towers won't shot faster than 30 shots per second. Instead, on attack speed 30+ projectile damage will start to grow. This should heavily reduce performance demands of Endless still keep the same efficiency of towers (if you are concerned about buffs: they were not added multiple times per frame before)
• Fixed Anti-air aiming, also added per-enemy aiming priority (for scripted levels)
• Removed unused textures, optimized tower textures for better graphics performance
• Added Updates Per Second to the FPS counter. Game speed now should change instantly even when the game lags
• Sounds were converted into the other format to reduce their size / memory footprint
• Textures were compressed into Basis Universal format. Should reduce memory usage, reduce apk size and improve graphics performance
• Improved server's security, just in case
• Game now saves every 3 minutes instead of every 5 waves. Auto-save interval can be adjusted or disabled in Settings. This also made the game more stable
• Fixed - amount of stars on the Research screen now should update correctly
• Lucky shot should now be completely deterministic to prevent cloud save abuse
• Fixed - rewarding ads were giving case keys depending on the amount of research
• Fixed many other bugs

Dev mode and modding