Improvements:

• Added an (*) to the lobby overlay and chat tab that indicates when new chat has arrived but hasn’t yet been read.
  
• Profanity filter is a bit less aggressive. Also added an option in the settings menu to disable it.

Tuning:

• Bank bribe amounts changed to 20/25/30
  
• Bank bribe range per level reduced
  
• Bomb bots no longer do reduced damage vs. Fortified Mines
  
• Bomb bots now cost 60 instead of 55 and cooldown set back to 17/18/19
  
• Increased level 2 Cannon Tower cost to 60 from 55
  
• Increased mountain maker cooldown to 19/21/23 from 18/19/20
  
• Decreased Prince heal rate to 6hp/10s from 7hp/10s
  
• Increased King shield ring cooldown to 35s from 30s
  
• Increased Taskmaster cooldown to 50s
  

Fixes:

• Attempt fix the crash where no error dialog appears - let me know if you have any crashes where it says "Cannon Brawl has stopped working" this after updating!
  
• Fixed some crashes in nightmare mode
  
• Fixed some crashes in lobby chat and scrolling through users
  
• Fixed crash if you played for a long time and made too many mountains
  
• Fixed issue where chat window couldn’t be closed if opened after opponent left the game
  
• Fixed issue where the initial building spot count was different for red and blue on the Forest map

Features:

• First pass on the activity lobby. Press J to join it from the main menu, from here you can see who is online, chat to them, and start the quickmatch search. While the quickmatch search is running you can hide the lobby and do other stuff like play the campaign until a match is found! This is still using placeholder art a lot about it could be changed in future updates. There are probably some lingering bugs with this feature, so let me know if you find any.

Tuning:

• Level 1 drill costs 65 instead of 60
  
• Flamethrower no longers destroys extra ground when it dies
  
• Shields block mountain maker shots
  
• Level 1 sheilds now cost 50 from of 45
  
• Reduced demolisher cooldown to 16/17/18 from 17/18/19
  
• Reduced demolisher level 1 cost to 55 from 60
  
• Banks now generate gold even when on cooldown
  
• Increased bank buyout progress to 20/30/40 per shot from 10/15/20
  
• Banks now have a range that is upgradeable per level
  
• Reduced hitbox sizes for lightning rod and accelerator and changed their life to 7 to help reduce ‘clock-blocking’

Fixes:

• Attempt fix drill bug where drills could stay on the screen sometimes with a high latency connection
  
• Fixed bug where you could build inside a diamond mine on Southern Coast without having dug it out first
  
• Fixed some rare crashes
  
• Fix a bug where the HQ could be damaged on the final boss without killing the hands first
  
• Fixed some network bugs

Features/Improvements:

• Added the Knight pilot. Every 45s the knight can heal a building for 5 life and increase it’s maximum life by 5. His buildings will be hard to beat if you stack them with floating platforms and repair centers! He’s waiting in the armory to be unlocked.
  
• Added the Lightning Rod building. This is a territory balloon replacement that bestows flames, shots, and lasers a damage bonus if they pass through the lighting rod’s area of effect. The bonus also stacks, so you can set up a path of lightning rods for lots of extra damage. These combo with the missile towers for devastating effect. We’ll likely need a lot of tuning feedback on this one! The Lightning rod is also in the armory.
  
• Added Monthly Ranking leaderboard. This leaderboard tracks players ranking activity for the current month. This uses a monthly elo, which separate from your all time ranking. Each month this will reset and the monthly leaderboard will be cleared so you can start anew at staking your claim as the top brawler.
  
• Lots of visual tweaks
  
• Added a few new sound effects
  
• A new quest is now generated immediately after a current quest is completed
  
• Added a new quest: Flank the Shields - Destroy shield towers while their shields are active
  
• Added a new quest: Three by Three - Win a multiplayer game or Battle vs. AI (insane) with at least three fully upgraded towers remaining. (Thanks to QQTastic for this one).

Fixes:

• Changed the way sounds settings are saved. This will cause everyone’s volume levels to reset once when they get the new build, but they should save normally afterwards.

Features/Improvements:

• Big overhaul on the mainmenu, awesome all new art and animated intro sequence to the title screen. This give some added atmosphere before you even get into the game.
  
• New terrain art half of the puzzle levels
  

Fixes:

• Gamepads should now work on mac (attempt #2)
  
• Fixed bug where you could build in the ground on the forest map
  

Features/Improvements

• You can now scroll individually through the leaderboard and press A or Spacebar to open up to that users steam profile page.
  
• Various performance improvements

Fixes:

• Fixed bug on mac where game could hang after campaign missions
  
• Fixed bug on mac where game could hang after first quest screen
  
• Upgraded to MonoGame version 3.2 for the mac build, which fixes other various issues.
  
• Gamepads should now work on mac
  
• Reworked shot network multiplayer code to help fix divengent behavior when shots impact shields right as it goes up. This ended up changing a lot of code, there could be more issues still, let me know if you find any.
  
• Fix bug where players online was always 0, even if more people were online. This is actually due to a steam sdk call failing (it’s very rare there are ever 0 people online). Valve fixed their issue so it should now work again.
  
• Fixed possible crash on warship level
  
• Fixed bug where options buttons were showing on top of leaderboard UI
  
• Fixed bug where gamepad would control the game when the steam overlay was up

Features/Improvements

• Added 10 optional puzzle levels into the campaign. Removed the ‘challenge levels’ menu option, since they are now integrated on the campaign map to help improve pacing. Instead of 20 intense battles in a row you’ll get some puzzle levels sprinkled in between (you’ll notice the puzzle levels as new purple dots on the map). Beat them to unlock XP to spend in the armory. Let us know what you think!
  
• New UI pass on player status and ready states during army selection
  

Tuning:

• Increased driller cooldown to 75 seconds
  
• Decreased driller blast radius
  
• Decreased grenade launcher range
  
• Increased grenade launcher cooldown to 16 from 14
  
• Increased building platform health to 7 from 5
  
• Decreased frost dmg down by one per level
  
• Lowered frost tower range slightly
  
• Decrease king shield regen time to 30s from 35
  
• Increased cooldown bonus reach range on accelerator
  
• Reduce’s uncle damage back to 7, lower cooldown to 35s

Fixes:

• Fixed shift not working on mac
  
• Error messages on crashes will now show up on mac
  
• Fixed a crash in nightmare mode

Features/Improvements

• Added a new pilot, the Driller, who can destroy a chunk of ground around their airship every 60s as an active ability. Use this pilot to drop enemy buildings that are sitting on precarious edges, or use them to make edges more precarious! This pilot is unlocked in the campaign, if you’ve already beat the campaign you’ll automatically have access.
  
• Added a new pilot, the Banker, who gains 1g per 5 seconds per economy building out on the map. Stack them with gold mines and banks for maximum gold output. The Banker can be unlocked from the Armory.
  
• Added a new building, the Fortified Mine, it costs more than a regular mine, but has additional health and heals buildings around it over time. The fortified mine can be unlocked from the armory. This one could be tough to balance, so let me know what you guys think after you’ve tried it in battle.
  
• AI will now try to use Prince, King, Task Master, and Minionette powers actively
  
• Improved AI target selection (it now prefers not to attack targets that require lots of digging to get to)
  
• Improved AI higher level decision making regarding building vs upgrading

Tuning:

• Pilot active abilities can not be used within a small radius of the enemy HQ.
  
• Adjusted gold mines on The Lava Desert multiplayer map such you can no longer zone out the enemy diamonds by building on the exact center build spot.
  
• Reduced building platform health to 5 from 10
  
• Increased range on all levels of the mountain maker
  
• Increased Uncle’s damage to 10, and his ability recharges in all territory, increased cooldown from 35 to 40
  
• Increased Prince’s heal rate from 5hp/10s to 7hp/10s
  
• Reduced cannon costs to 45/55/90 from 45/60/95
  
• Minion now does 50% more terrain damage (up from 35%) and takes 75% less fall damage (up from 50%)

Fixes:

• Fixed bug where if you upgraded a laser while firing it would not do the correct amount of shield pulses
  
• Fixed bug where shot whistle continued while shots went off screen
  
• Fixed bug where quest UI would stay on the screen if it was visible while accepting a friend invite
  
• Fixed bug where in rare cases a building built on top of a just destroyed building platform could also be destroyed
  
• Fixed issue where AI would stall out trying to dig to a diamond mine with a cannon that couldn’t reach it

New Features:

• New Pilot, the Smuggler. Ever wish you could have just one more building? Now you can! The smuggler can bring one extra building type into battle and starts out with 50 extra gold. Head over to the armory to unlock him, try him out, then let us know what you think balance-wise.
  
• More UI polish, this time the character select screen the level map ui get a nice facelift.
  
• In game sound effects now have stereo placement
  
• Final boss gets a new art pass and is looking really awesome

Fixes:

• Building on a damaged floating platform gives the new building a health bonus scaled by the the about of health left on the floating platform (instead of the floating platform’s maximum health).
  
• AI will no longer target walking demolishers with their warheads
  
• Quest display is hidden after returning to the main menu
  
• Mountain maker terrain blobs better match the biome they are a part of
  
• Fixed bug where one side occasionally started slightly early in networked multiplayer
  
• Fixed a bug where the grenades would occasionally move strangely after bouncing
  
• Warheads no longer keep the health bonus from floating platforms after being launched
  

Tuning:

• Increased quest rewards on harder quests to 150xp.
  
• You now must be playing ranked or unranked quickmatch to complete most multiplayer quests
  
• Demolisher now do half damage to mines
  
• Tuned nightmare speed medal times
  
• Increased grenade damage AOE to 85 from 45
  
• Increased floating platform cost to 30 from 25