The release of the first version of the remaster is here! This is a rather bare-bones version, however there's still quite a bit to mess around with in this current version. Things should speed up quite a bit now that the game is out.

New Content

• Actual in-game patch notes

• Save Slots, allowing for up to 3 separate saves to exist at once

• New settings menu, alongside a ton of new settings

• New tier 3 upgrades for all towers, only 1 tier 3 can be purchased on a tower

• Level up progression system

  • Start with only Crossbow, however you unlock another tower of your choice every 2nd level

• Tower rank progression system

  • Towers now gain XP, similar to player XP, however it's split amongst the amount of towers on the field

    • For example, if there's 1 of one tower and 2 of another, the 1st tower gets 33% of the XP and the 2nd tower gets 67% of the XP

  • Towers start with only tier 1 upgrades, but gain the next tier of upgrades per rank

  • Tower ranks are currently capped at rank 4

• Icons for every tower upgrade, ability, and buff

• Visual effects for tower inflicted debuffs

• Brand new saved game preview

• New "Hollow Priority" targeting for towers with hollow detecting upgrades

Returning Content

• 4 returning towers: Crossbow, Oceanic Ship, Magic Orb, Brewing Station

• 17 returning enemies: Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, Pink, Black, White, Purple, Metal, Striped, Rainbow, Shelled, Easy Crusher, Medium Crusher, Hard Crusher, Hollow Crusher, Extreme Crusher

  • Shelled is renamed from Brown

• 1 returning map: Plains

• 8 returning gamemodes: Sandbox, Easy, Medium, Hard, Extreme, No Income, Half Cash, Ramped Up

• 1 returning round set: Standard

• 1 returning currency: Stones

  • Stones are renamed from C

• 2 returning map borders: Brown and Gold

  • Gold borders require all 7 medals for the map

General Changes

• Tower UI menu has been changed rather heavily, it's a bit experimental at the moment

• New sprites for quite literally everything

• Revamped XP systems

  • XP gain reduced significantly

  • Player level XP requirements reduced even more significantly

• Enemy movement heavily reworked

  • Stutter movement has been obliterated

  • Enemies are no longer locked to 4 directions at a time

Specific Changes

Game Modes

• Sandbox

  • No longer has a medal display, instead being located in the top bar

  • Now requires player level 10 to unlock

• No Income

  • Renamed to "Last Stand"

  • Now ends at round 80 instead of 100, however starting cash reduced from $50k to $30k

• Half Cash

  • Now ends at round 80 instead of 100

Crossbow

• Faster Firing

  • Attack cooldown increased from 0.6s to 0.675s

• Faster Arrows

  • Renamed to "Faster Launches"

  • Attack cooldown increased from 0.45s to 0.54s

• Bonus Range

  • Price reduced from $150 to $100

  • Range reduced from 225 to 200

• Hollow Detection

  • Grants "Hollow Priority" targeting

  • Range reduced from 270 to 250

Oceanic Ship

• Hollow Radar

  • Price reduced from $350 to $300

  • Grants "Hollow Priority" targeting

  • Range increased from 468 to 480

• Shard Shot

  • Price increased from $600 to $650

  • Shard projectile count increased from 4 to 5

• Flaming Arrows

  • Price increased from $500 to $550

• Stronger Cannons

  • Price reduced from $300 to $250

• Even Stronger Cannons

  • Price reduced from $750 to $500

• Take Down ability

  • Take Down skull now passes through enemies that aren't the target

  • Take Down skull now follows targeting priorities

Magic Orb

• Base

  • Price increased from $500 to $550

  • Homing rotation degrees per second reduced from 360 to 180

• Intensive Thought

  • Renamed to "Improved Spells"

  • Homing rotation degrees per second reduced from 540 to 180

  • Homing range reduced from 180 to 120

• Stronger Magic

  • Renamed to "Intense Spells"

  • Homing rotation degrees per second reduced from 900 to 270

  • Homing range reduced from 240 to 180

  • Attack cooldown increased from 0.6s to 0.75s

• Explosive Magic

  • Renamed to "Fire Magic"

  • Price reduced from $500 to $400

  • Fireball explosion pierce capped at 20

    • Cap is increased to 30 with Improved Spells

• Burnt Magic

  • Renamed to "Scorching Flames"

  • Price reduced from $750 to $600

  • Fire debuff now has an animated flame visual

• Full Sense

  • Renamed to "Arcane Sight"

  • Price reduced from $500 to $400

  • Grants "Hollow Priority" targeting

• Filled Range

  • Renamed to "Nature's Sight"

  • Reveal aura pierce capped at 200

    • Only hollow enemies take up pierce

Brewing Station

• Base

  • Price increased from $500 to $550

  • Potion splash pierce capped at 15

• Boosting Blast

  • Moved to 2/x/x

  • Renamed to "Stimulating Boosts"

  • Stimulation attack cooldown increased from 6.25s to 8s

  • Stimulation no longer has targeting options

    • Defaults to the closest tower in range instead of a random tower in range

  • Stimulation now only targets 1 tower maximum

  • Buff stats readjusted

    • Pierce boost increased from +1 to +2

    • Range boost increased from +7.5% to +10%

• Better Boosts

  • Moved to 3/x/x

  • Renamed to "Enhanced Stimulation"

  • Buff stats readjusted

    • Pierce boost increased from +2 to +3

• Faster Brewer

  • Moved to x/x/2

  • Renamed to "Faster Brewing"

  • Increases Enhanced Stimulation target cap to 2

• Longer Effects

  • Moved to x/x/1

  • Potion debuff duration boost changed from +2s to +25%

Enemies

• Metal

  • Can now get Shielded, providing 4x HP instead of 2x HP

• Shelled

  • Visual damage phases reduced from 10 to 5

Now, at the end of the patch notes, I'll show the current plans for v0.2 (which you'll also be able to see in the in-game patch notes)

Note that these may change at any time

Alpha Roadmap - Update v0.2

New Content

• Map Progress System

  • Completing any gamemode on a map will now grant a key

  • Keys are equal to the difficulty of the map itself, and can be used to unlock maps that are at most 1 difficulty higher

    • For example, an intermediate key can unlock an intermediate or advanced map.

  • All beginner maps are unlocked automatically

• Modified enemy speed in certain gamemodes

  • Reduced speed in Easy but increased speed in Hard and Extreme

• A new system to ensure players don't miss out on newly added content unlock through level ups

• A new tutorial

  • Lasts until player level 6, allowing players to start with 4 towers and 300 Stones

  • Can be skipped, automatically granting the missed player XP

Returning Content

• 3 returning towers: Octogon Shooter, Drill Sniper, and Power Charger

• 1 returning hero: Aerial Blaster

• 2 returning maps: Twist n' Turn and Grid

• 3 returning powers: Round Send, Boosting Totem, and Auto-Ability

• Shop menu