The Summer Sale Bounty Hunt got off to a strong start, with over 2 million creeps defeated by the HERO DEFENSE community and thousands of players participating.
Congrats to everyone who has managed to claim a Razer™ ticket, and those of you who have managed to earn a Steam Key for your friends.
With prizes totalling over $5,000 in value, it’s time to provide an overview of ‘Beat the Devs’ when Happy Tuesday will be online to battle with you. Times listed are UTC / CEST.
Monday 27 June, 5-6pm
Wednesday 29 June, 5-6pm
Thursday 30 June, 4-6pm
Friday 1 July, 5-6pm
You can watch us live on Twitch from our studio in Berlin. Please tune in and feel free to shoot us your feedback and questions.
Now is the time to grab your friends, team up and work together to maximize your chances of success and experience multiplayer!
A global HERO DEFENSE ‘Bounty Hunt’ event begins for the full duration of the Steam Summer Sale, culminating with a Razer™ raffle with prizes of $5,000 in value.
You are tasked with around-the-clock global challenges. Trigger rewards for everyone just by playing Campaign or Multiplayer, participate in ‘beat the devs’ matchups and earn Steam Keys.
HERO DEFENSE is available with a 70% discount for 4,49 USD/EUR in Europe and North America during the Steam Summer Sale. Tell your friends today to take advantage!
Event Rules:
Each completed bounty triggers a global raffle
Stay active to claim rewards!
Earn rewards by visiting Campaign mode
Bounty Hunt loot:
Gold Collect Stars (World Map) to increase your fortune.
Gems Earn gems for every completed bounty.
Runes Each bounty has a chance to trigger a Legendary Rune!
Steam Key Loot a Steam Key! Winners announced in the Steam news feed.
Razer Ticket Collect Razer Tickets to triumph in the lottery (Date TBA):
// UPDATE: On Friday at 6pm UTC, a dev stream will commence with Kevin and Friedrich from Happy Tuesday. Tune in at http://www.twitch.tv/herodefense //
BOUNTY HUNT
HAPPY TUESDAY!
There's not gonna be a patch today, but there will be one on Thursday, launching in sync with our SUMMER BOUNTY HUNT.
You will have the chance to achieve community goals and group rewards - such as powerful ingame items, Hero Defense Keys and gear from Razer.
Stay tuned for more info - coming Thursday.
Hotfix 1.1.1 & Devstream
We've just released a hotfix which fixes an issue where some players were unable to spend gold - thanks to those that reported it!
Also - we will do a Dev stream tomorow at 6pm CET where will play some Co-op! Follow us on TWITCH to get notified!
Patch 1.1.0 - Co-Op Mode released!
We have released the first version of the new Co-Op mode! You can now get together with a friend and try to beat as many waves as possible on the new SKULLRIVER map.
Jump right in and let us know how far you got and how you like it!
Tactical Pause
One long awaited feature has finally arrived! You can now pause the game to give you some breathing room and reposition your heroes.
The standard hotkey for this is Left Ctrl and of course it only works in Singleplayer.
Golddrop cooldown
There is now a short cooldown on dropped gold in PvP before it can be collected by the enemy. With this, we want to give you a chance to see the gold before it drops - however, the time frame is small, so you still have to be quick.
Also - if you manage to kill the last creep in an enemy wave, the gold will belong to you.
If you want to see some Dev on Dev co-op action, join in to our Devstream on Friday, 6pm CET - Follow our TWITCH CHANNEL
Update 1.0.1 & Co-op
HAPPY TUESDAY! Many of you will be very happy to hear that we are currently working on a Co-op mode for Hero Defense, except something on this front soon!
For now - here's a teaser on the new Co-op map:
We are also releasing Patch 1.0.1 today, bringing in some changes.
IMPORTANT NOTICE - Due to a server issue, players from germany might have trouble downloading the newest patch, changing the "Download Region" of Steam to the U.S will fix this
Pure skill competitive multi player
We are changing the way a multi player season works - from now on, you will start with an already big pool of runes and skill points, but will not get any more with more matches.
This means that you will no longer be pummelled by players who just played more than you did, it all comes down to your skill, rune builds and heroes.
Creeps on multi player maps will still drop gold - this can be used to buy spells directly on the map.
Additionally, we are introducing the Hall of Fame - with each season you participated in, you receive Fame, increasing your rank on this leader board.
Cheater general amnesty
With the new pure skill system, we are doing a general amnesty for every cheater that has been banned so far. If these individuals (you know who you are) are detected again as cheaters, it will result in a life-long ban from Hero Defense.
Zoom
Use the mouse wheel to zoom to get a better overview of the map and see everything!
Bugfixes
We also did a bunch of bugfixes - we've fixed the tooltips being offset, some issues in the intro sequence, and we also added the missing translations of Italian and Portuguese
As always, you can find the full Release notes HERE
EPIC LEAUGE OF SLAYERS done!
The EPIC LEAGUE OF SLAYERS is done! Congratulation to our Winners Private Spigge, Babochka2000 and Valt - Thanks to DasEimer for waiving his winning to the other players!
The winners should please contact us so they can get their keys!
Thank you all for participating!
EPIC LEAGUE OF SLAYERS started!
The next Epic League of Slayers started! Starting now, you have 30 hours to compete for the highest Leaderboard ranks.
The first one on Sunday 23.59 CET will win 5 Hero Defense Keys.
How to compete? * "Select Season" in the Main Menu.
* Select "Epic League of Slayers".
* Join the Battle!
EPIC LEAGUE TOURNAMENT
We will do another EPIC LEAGUE OF SLAYERS event this weekend. In this 30 hour long event, everybody will start with EPIC runes, so you can immediately jump into the action and bring out your most hardcore strategies.
And not only that - the first 3 ranks will WIN SOMETHING - 5 HD keys for Rank #1, 3 keys for Rank #2 and 1 key for rank #3 - so you can bring all your friends in as well!
The next EPIC LEAGUE OF SLAYERS will start this Saturday, at 6pm CET and run for 30 hours until Sunday, 12pm CET. See you on the battlefield, Slayers!
FULL RELEASE!
IT'S A VERY HAPPY TUESDAY! Hero Defense is now out of the Early Access program and officially released.
Again we want to say thanks to our community - thank you for your time, your feedback and your love!
Today's patch not only marks our transition from Early Access to full release, it also gives you a super big update with lots of amazing things!
Overhauled Tutorial Experience
After a lot of feedback, user testing and your input, we went ahead and completely overhauled the tutorial experience. The new tutorial is more story driven and provides you with much more excitement when entering Haunted Island for the first time.
Even if you already know how the game works, the new tutorial is definitely worth checking out.
Improved Multiplayer GUI
We've added the "OPPONENT VIEWER" to the multiplayer mode, perfectly showing you your enemies' weaknesses to exploit.
Additionally, we've added better feedback to show why you won or lost a game.
More Features!
There's a ton of small stuff being added to the game as well - more music, more languages, multiplayer achievements, more endless mode maps, etc, etc.
And because that is not enough, we've been very busy with obliterating every bug we could find on the island. For a complete list, see our PATCH NOTES.
