Evolution Tag 2

New Hero for the Undead Team!

• Hydra - can be built as AP or tank. Can push enemies around with it's massive size and water spells.
  
• Evolution Path: Evil Turnip -> Lizion -> Lizel -> Liziant -> Warrior of the Deep -> Hydra -> Hydra UU
  

Bug Fixes / Optimizations:

• Reworked and optimized AI for creeps that actively hunt enemies. Affects both classic and survival mode.
  
• Fixed bug where enemies with slow animations would occasionally cancel their attacks/spells midcast when hunting.
  
• Fixed bug where ghosting could walk through buildings/trees
  
• Fixed a bug where unit could get stuck if ability cancelled manually
  
• Fixed bug where projectiles and dying units were preventing building
  
• Improved accuracy of building placement (which tiles you can build on)
  
• 2x2 buildings collision now 7% smaller
  
• Lowered volume of level up
  
• Increased damage text size
  
• Made a few optimizations especially in edge case scenarios but building may feel a bit more buggy. May revert this later.
  
• Fixed bug where wind archer rapid fire ability would fire from the wrong location when knocked back
  
• Fixed bug for "on next attack" spells where evolving or dying while spell is active would cause SFX to not appear again
  
• Fixed bug where damage number text would not show properly if too many attacks hit the target at same time.
  
• Fixed bug where using hold position could allow units to attack over cliffs
  
• Fixed bug where ranged auto attacks and homing projectiles would target underneath buildings
  
• Fixed bug where deflecting certain projectiles would make the projectiles invisible
  
• Fixed bug where projectiles were affecting navigation
  
• Various minor optimization
  
• Fixed navigation issues around ring of trees/rocks at beginning for classic mode
  

Stat changes:

• Disabled movement acceleration for most units so changing direction will not slow you down
  
• Wraith now has permanent ghosting (can move through units)
  
• Buffed black hole spell slightly and reduced cooldown
  
• Slightly buffed Gust ability
  

UI Changes:

• You can now still control your main character while selecting an enemy or ally. The other unit's stats/inventory will be displayed while the main character's abilities and evolution options will remain shown.
  
• Main character will now automatically be selected in addition to any enemy or ally selection.
  
• Shop menu can now be toggled with "P" hotkey
  
• Esc hotkey now also closes the shop if it is currently open.
  
• Updated default camera zoom to max
  

Survival Mode:

• Lowered giant bear armor and HP
  
• Goat Damage reduced 2->1 and attack speed increased sightly
  
• Turtle thorns armor damage reduced 3->2 and armor reduced by 10
  
• Wraith (Level 20) can now cast black hole and CDR changed from 40% -> 50%. Cast frequency increased by approx 25%
  
• Added slight HP regeneration to human base towards the later levels
  
• Added 3 additional levels. These should be much more challenging and require 2+ people.
  
• Starting from levels 20+, levels award much more lumber for perks and next level only starts when the boss is defeated.
  

Monster Tag:

• Note: this map currently seems to have fps issues :(
  
• EXPERIMENTAL: Navigation tile size reduced from 19->5 so it might have a pretty bad impact on performance
  
• The reason for above change is at higher tile sizes, the building grid doesn't quite match up
  
• Completely reworked the custom monster tag AI.
  
• When monsters can't reach you, they will now attack whatever is closest instead of trying to get closer to you first
  
• While above isn't ideal, monsters no longer get stuck/jitter and pathing is much smoother
  
• Removed cage at beginning of game
  
• First monsters now spawn after 30 seconds
  
• Scaled down dwarf warrior, walls, and grumb slightly. Scaled up basic tower slightly.
  
• Added a stone block base under each building to look better on ramps
  
• Rotated tower to show door
  
• Hero's attacks now deal damage instantly instead of waiting for animation to finish
  
• Added 2 new monsters: Zilzork, Cyclope
  
• Added 3 new buildings: stone block, poison tower, lightning tower, base
  
• Adjusted spawn times for each monster and removed periodic creep level up
  
• Added 3 new abilities for dwarf warrior. Can get R ability at level 3
  
• Fixed bug if monster has very slightly more movement speed than builder it can't attack
  
• Further increased movement speed of all units
  
• Disabled periodic gold income for monster tag
  
• Fixed bug where navigating to edge of map may not have circle of vision centered over the unit properly
  

General Changes:

• Increased effectiveness of movement speed so all units now move 10% faster
  
• Using a targeted ability or attack order on a specific unit now briefly flashes the selection circle to indicate which target
  
• Icons updated for: rabbits, goats, boars, bears, wolves, satyrs, orc riders/warriors, dragon, turtles, spiders, skeleton minions, skeleton captain, skeleton mages, skeleton/giant skeleton warrior, human, builders, worker, armored militia, mage, ice wizard, human warrior
  
• Paladin ultimate upgrades now have different skins
  
• Wind Archer rapid fire spell can now crit for 40% of crit damage per arrow
  
• UU Wind archer rapid fire spell AD scaling increased 25% -> 28%
  
• Increased building range from 50->90 to make spamming buildings more smooth
  
• Increased precision of navigation slightly for 1x1 units
  
• Fixed bug where certain invisible objects (regions) were affecting pathing and causing units to walk in weird paths
  
• Started work on new hydra hero which will be for undead team / extra survival mode boss level
  
• Slightly increased size of return resources text
  
• Survival Mode Dragon fireball damage 350 -> 200. Breath of Fire base damage 90 -> 50
  

Monster Tag Changes:

• Added intial testing map with trees and cliffs (will be replaced by much bigger map later on)
  
• Increased all units move speed by atleast 15% (+10% from move speed effectiveness buff)
  
• Move speed of monsters now varies by +/- 15%
  
• Spawned monsters now passively get stronger/faster every 3 minutes
  
• Adjusted unit stats to be more reasonable
  
• Added support for mining from goldmines
  
• Updated model for arrow tower
  
• Added new placeholder for base building which can train workers
  
• Added new placeholder for tiny monsters which spawn every 5 minutes
  
• Added win condition
  
• Monsters now respawn after a while once killed
  
• Monsters now spawn every minute
  
• Fixed material for hero
  

Minor updates to survival mode:

• Made alot of enemies weaker especially in early game.
  
• Each additional player will now also increase creep XP bounty by about 55%.
  
• Extreme difficulty mode will also give more XP bounty.
  
• Increased time in between certain mid-game waves to allow more time for shopping, reading abilities, and building a base.
  

Ultimate Upgrades:

Item Updates:

• 5 new items, 2 of which are temporary
  
• Boots of haste dodge and CD removed. Move speed increased slightly and gold cost reduced by 150
  
• Pre-alpha orbs (t2 items) now have required item components
  
• Increased Ambers Bow burn chance 12% -> 14%
  
• Reduced effectiveness of dark sword (t4) but made it slightly cheaper
  
• Staff of focus cost reduced slightly
  

Unit Changes:

• Cryomancer Ultimate Ice Defense Spell is now not cancellable since it can be confusing whether the spell is beginning to be cast
  
• Re-enabled collision for wraith due to being able to move through walls
  
• Reduced Paladin HP per level from 75 to 60
  
• Reduced AD scaling on paladin Q spell
  
• Reduced HP per level from shield master from 150 to 100
  
• Made Undead Berserker R spell animation faster and fixed issue where berserker could not do anything until animation fully completes
  
• Wraith W spell now only silences for the first 2.35 seconds instead up to 5 seconds while inside the circle
  
• Wave 20 Wraith (Survival Mode) now summons a giant skeleton captain with more HP and ghosting.
  

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed issue where certain projectiles disappear if passing through a unit or object (visual bug)
  

Known Issues (new):

• Certain projectiles go invisible when they are deflected
  
• Undead Citadel does not seem to attack anymore