- In Survival on Normal or Hard difficulty, certain enemy structures may now appear
- Structures are more likely on Hard difficulty or when playing in co-op
- On Hard, structures will also be placed in more advantageous positions for the enemy
- Structures are more likely on Hard difficulty or when playing in co-op
- Improved performance in Campaign Chapter 7 and Chapter 9
- Fixed some objectives displaying the wrong number of controlled points in certain cases
- Fixed an issue that caused Chapter 5 to be more difficult than intended
- Fixed an issue that caused some dialogue lines in Chapter 15 to not be translated when playing in languages other than English
- In controller mode, fixed damage/buff/debuff Glyphs not automatically hovering a valid target if the player has insufficient Energy
- Increased range of the shifted (fast) camera speed option
- Added a tutorial message when creating a public Survival match clarifying that join-in-progress is supported for that mode
- When returning from a public match, the match type will no longer reset to private
- In controller mode, on the campaign/trials screens, pressing the right analog stick button will now open a quick deck selection list
- Fixed an issue that could sometimes prevent unit or building previews from displaying in the background of the Forge
- Fixed the Creeping Battlement’s firing audio being heard at full volume regardless of camera location
Golem Gates
Update Notes 7/1/2019
Update Notes 5/30/2019
- Fixed a rare issue where the next campaign chapter might not unlock after winning when saving and reloading multiple times
- Fixed a rare issue in multiplayer custom or survival games where client players might not realize the game is paused
- Fixed an issue where if a player has all Glyphs unlocked and also almost all alternate art variants, sometimes the collection would not display all the variants that were available
- Fixed a crash that could occur if a player disconnects their PC from the Internet while loading into a multiplayer game
- Fixed some networking error edge cases where the game returned to the main menu without displaying an error message
- Fixed misc minor issues with controller input
- Fixed various localization issues
Update Notes 11/16/2018
New Features
- Added support for French, Italian, German, and Spanish.
- Added full controller support.
- Note: Currently Xbox button icons will be displayed regardless of the connected controller.
- Note: Currently Xbox button icons will be displayed regardless of the connected controller.
- Added 6 new achievements.
Fixes and Improvements
- Drastically improved performance on low detail settings.
- Improved light and shadow quality in various levels on high detail settings.
- Reduced startup time.
- Reduced the size of campaign saves.
- Improved text scaling, particularly at 720p and at certain nonstandard resolutions.
- Improved unit pathing in cases where a stationary unit is obstructing moving units.
- Improved unit behavior when many units are attacking a single enemy.
- After playing or cancelling a Glyph, units that were selected previously will be reselected if they are still on screen. If the played Glyph summons units, those units will be added to the existing selection.
- This behavior can be disabled in the Options menu, which will revert to leaving nothing selected after playing or cancelling a Glyph.
- This behavior can be disabled in the Options menu, which will revert to leaving nothing selected after playing or cancelling a Glyph.
- Reduced delay time when starting a match if other players are connected or the match type allows join in progress (Survival)
- Reduced loading screen time when starting a match while connected as a client.
- Improved the initial orders bots give to units when summoning them under pressure.
- Fixed some edge cases where joining via the Steam overlay was not possible when it should be.
- When playing with another player in a match, they should now properly appear in the recent players list.
- Fixed a bug that prevented certain connection errors from being displayed correctly.
- Quickmatch matchmaking is now properly cancelled if the connection to Steam is lost.
- In Chapter 4, the resource node below the player starting position now starts out as owned.
- In Chapter 10, the boss now has Siege.
- In Chapter 15, the boss's basic attacks now deal AoE damage, the cooldown-based ability is more consistent, and the info card has been updated to be more understandable.
Update Notes 5/26/2018
- Clicking on unit/structure/trap Glyphs in the Forge will now display a preview.
- Added an explicit UI button to view models in the Archive/Forge. (Clicking on the background still works as well)
- Adding units to a squad that isn't controllable will no longer cause the squad to restart its path from the beginning.
- Fixed effects that grant a Glyph copy on death not consistently working on Decaying Horde.
- Spider Master's minion stats are now displayed wherever unit or Glyph stats are displayed.
- In the trial "Huddled Together" friendly units will now properly engage enemies encountered while idle if they are within sight granted by structures or the Harbinger.
- Fixed a bug where attempting to join a friend in-game when the game wasn't currently running would launch the game but not join their session.
- Improved bot usage of clear vision granted from special sources (buffs, map features, etc)
- Tweaked bot deck construction.
- Tweaked bot 1v1 and FFA early game behavior.
Content Update 5/1/2018
New Features and Content
- Added 2 new Versus maps. These maps are suitable for either 2 or 4 players and have a new center map objective point that attacks the enemy while it is held.
- Added 3 new Trials. The new Trials are difficult but offer alternate Glyph skins as rewards.
- Added a Survival version of Vision with unique enemy spawn mechanics where enemies can appear over more and more of the map as the game progresses.
- The Glyph Draw Rate setting for Skirmish games (both online and AI) now has a "Pickups" option. When this option is selected, players do not draw from a timer but instead pickups appear all over the level that must be touched by friendly units to draw Glyphs.
- Added many more cosmetic skins to collect.
Fixes/Enhancements
- The first half of the campaign has been adjusted to provide a smoother difficulty curve. In particular, the first part of Chapter 4 is easier and in general early mission enemies will use one or zero legendary Glyphs.
- Various minimap icons have been updated to be easier to recognize at a glance.
- Improved font size and readability at 4k resolution.
- If the player buys all the cards in the store, it restocks the next time they enter regardless of time.
- Clicking on a structure proxy in the fog of war will now display any permanent status effects that were on the structure when it was last seen.
- Glyphs that don't require a target can now be cast by double clicking on them.
- Fixed self-targeted AoE attacks (Flame Turret, Vacuum Turret) activating when the nearest enemy is somewhat outside the range at which the ability deals damage.
- Reanimate (Decaying Horde, Spider King), Duel (Duelist) and Buff Stealer (Cipher) are now correctly disabled if the user is Silenced.
- Fixed Energy Collectors' Suppress ability not auto activating correctly.
- Fixed an issue in Vision where the global vision area's activation timing would depend on how long the game lingered in the prematch state.
- Fixed a rare issue where certain units with a Skill requiring an enemy unit as a target could get stuck attempting to use that Skill on a target that is no longer valid, preventing them from returning to normal attacks.
- Fixed bots not properly using the Echo unit when dead in an allied game.
Balance Changes
<*>In Versus and Survival the maximum Energy capacity is now 1000. After reaching this value, Energy expansion increases base draw speed instead, to a minimum of 3 seconds.
<*>Stone Boots: Now provides 5 Armor in addition to its other effects.
<*>Lesser Regeneration: Reduced regeneration amount from 20 to 15; added a 50 point instant heal on cast.
<*>Basic Turret: Increased health from 1100 to 1250.
<*>Flame Turret: Increased health from 1300 to 1500.
<*>Pulse Cannon: Increased health from 1500 to 1600; Increased construction time from 20 to 25 seconds.
<*>Vacuum Generator: Increased health from 1000 to 1100.
<*>Twin Blades: Increased regeneration from 10 to 15.
<*>Spider King: If all minions are destroyed, it can now resummon its initial two. This effect has a 60 second cooldown.
<*>Mimic: Increased health from 2500 to 2700.
<*>Creeping Battlement: After teleporting, gains 3 seconds of Impenetrable.
Update Notes 4/13/2018
Fixes/Enhancements
- Improved functionality while paused via the Pause key to allow more camera control and to continue to draw unit paths.
- Adjusted the tutorial to improve flow and fix a few minor issues.
- Fixed camera position bindings not being saved correctly.
- Fixed Techswallower (Energy Collectors) heal not consistently working.
- Corrected the material on the back of the Bannermen when using the alternate art.
- Fixed case where bots would use scry techs on a location they can already see.
- Fixed various rare edge cases where units would be summoned under the level.
- Fixed some aspects of alternate art units not being displayed correctly in the Archive.
- Fixed a bug that caused crowd control effects to stack duration.
- The duration will now be set to either the current value or the duration of the incoming effect, whichever is higher.
- Fixed a bug that sometimes caused some minimap elements to draw during cinematics.
- In Survival, the buff Sight Beacon will no longer appear on units that cloak, since that effect negates stealth.
- Easy bots will now more realistically "waste" techs on low value targets.
- In the trial Zombie Apocalypse, fixed a bug that caused certain special unit types to be raised when they shouldn't (like Holograms)
- Also in Zombie Apocalypse, raised zombies will now more consistently be assigned to the same squad as other nearby zombies, making squad-based techs and attacks more effective.
- The Survival post-game graphs will no longer display an extra red line for a non-existent player.
- Added a new context sensitive tutorial when the player moves the Harbinger around too much that explains how that pauses drawing more Glyphs.
- Adjusted the chase range for Arcanists to fix some cases where they were not properly responding to normal ranged unit attacks when idle.
- A red X icon is now displayed over objects that will prevent casting a tech due to Techshield.
- Globally broadcast status effects (such as All Seeing Eye, Hibernate, the buffs from buff control points, etc) are now displayed just over the minimap for the player that possesses them.
- When Hibernate is cancelled due to damage, the icon will now properly be removed from the player status display.
- Fixed an incorrect Glyph icon for the alternate art Decaying Horde.
Balance Changes
- Shock Tower: Increased cost from 220 to 230 and reduced health from 1500 to 1300.
- Cacophony of Voices: Reduced Energy cost from 60 to 50.
- Vacuum Turret: Increased minimum range from 200 to 250.
Update Notes 3/31/2018
Fixes/Enhancements
- Fixed a bug that caused the tutorial to stop giving direction after discovering the enemy Harbinger.
- Fixed an issue that prevented the lava bursts in Perdition from appearing consistently.
- Fixed an issue where matchmaking could get stuck on "Finding best game server"
- Fixed a bug that prevented some alternate art Glyphs from dropping.
- Fixed the music volume setting not affecting all music.
- Fixed the campaign 100% completion achievement not unlocking under the correct conditions.
- If the correct conditions have already been achieved it will unlock at startup.
- In the Trial "Big Boned" the enemy will no longer use Glyphs that create squads of more than 4 units.
- In "Into the Box" fixed a bug where the Gatekeeper could end up on top of a building.
- In Chapter 14, fixed an issue that could cause a long delay before proceeding after enemies are defeated.
- Fixed a collision issue near stairs in Stronghold.
Balance Changes
- Pulse Cannon: Increased range by 10%
- The sight radius hasn't changed so in general this only affects its ability to return fire against long range units.
- Summon Trap: Trigger radius increased from 100 to 200.
- Flame Turret: DPS increased from 45 to 50.
Release Version Update Notes
New Content and Features
- Added Book 3 of the campaign with the final 5 campaign missions.
- Various aspects of the previous campaign missions have been polished with additional art and dialogue lines.
- Increased the brightness of most maps.
- Added 10 new Trials.
- Added additional alternate art/skin Glyphs.
- Added a new Survival map.
- Added cyclones to the Desert Survival map that drag in and throw units to random map locations.
Fixes/Enhancements
Golem Gates Will Be At PAX East!
We will be showing the game at PAX East April 5th through 8th as part of the Indie Megabooth!
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If you're going to be at PAX East make sure to visit us to play and talk about the game!
Update Notes 3/7/2018
- Added voice for Tetra.
- Improved the Chapter 10 ending cinematic.
- Fixed a bug in Chapter 7 that sometimes caused the enemy to become inactive for long periods.
- Fixed a bug in Chapter 8 that sometimes caused the enemy to fixate on the center objective even if the sides were left undefended.
- Slightly increased the difficulty of Chapter 10.
- Fixed an AI bug on Colossus where the AI would assign military strength to the force fields and therefore be hesitant to attack the right hand side of the map.
- Bots retreat more consistently when their units are unable to attack due to targeting restrictions (e.g. Arcanists when there are only buildings nearby)
- Bots are more aware of being scried, particularly when they know the enemy has long ranged attacks.
- Fixed issues with Spymaster Skill usage when it is set to Auto.
- Fixed Perfect Golem pathing issues.
- Added an alternate explosion effect for the alternate skin Artillery Cannon.
Balance Changes
- Shock Tower: Reduced the Stun Skill damage from 200 to 100.
- Spymasters: The scry effect displayed at the target location now roughly indicates the direction towards the squad projecting the vision.