Optimizations

• Optimized Growth
  
• Optimized Autoshields
  

Fixes

• Solo leveling no longer triggers if you had more than 1 building
  
• The tooltip on the end screen should show up correctly
  

Changes

• Lag reports are now shorter, only showing worst and average frames from the last 10 seconds
  
• Lag reports now contain tags to encapsulate them in both discord and steam community posts
  

Fixes

• Fixed timeout victories happening when the game is paused
  

Fixes

• Fixed being able to survive after selling your first building
  
• Fixed a crash that happened when alt-tabbing sometimes
  
• Fixed time menu frame being bigger than the menu itself
  

Additions

Top Left UI


Features a pause button and toggles for auto-upgrade and auto-level





Auto Upgrade


Enabling this will allow you to obtain upgrades automatically.
To select which upgrades you want to obtain, right-click them on the list below.
To remove upgrades from the auto-upgrade list, ctrl+right-click them.
Multiple clicks increase or decrease the priority




New Steam Achievements


12 new additions, with 1 of them being hidden
They are harder than the previous ones, but nothing impossible

Balance Changes

Buffed Supply Drop


Now has a lower bound of 1% of your level per stack of the upgrade





Nerfed Level based experience gains


They are now reduced by 1% per level, with a resulting reduction of 63% for every 100 levels
These are also not affected by experience increase equipment anymore
Affects passive experience upgrade and the reworked Supply Drop active upgrade




Nerfed AoE growth for active upgrades


They no longer scale linearly in radius, instead, they scale linearly in area




Building Regen sources are now max HP based


This affects the Barrier Regen upgrade and the Regeneration equipment




New Enemy Target Acquisition Algorithm


They no longer focus on one target, instead, they spread their attack to optimize DPS
This algorithm is also way faster than the one before it




Reduced cost increase by extra buildings in half




Clone Factory no longer replaces active skills

Quality of Life Changes

Profiler Changes


Profiler is always on by default, it does not use the console anymore
When the game TPS goes below 15(75% real-time speed), it generates a lag report
You can click the notification to copy it to the clipboard





Timeout Victory


When the game TPS goes below 5(25% real-time speed), it offers you a victory by timeout.
You can refuse it by extending it normally, and it will be offered again every 60 seconds(real-time) if the conditions are met.




Radar Equipment no longer leaves blank spots behind




Upgrade numbers are now right-aligned




Ruins Buildings are colored slightly gray

Optimizations

Map Generation Optimized


It now generates in chunks rather than tile by tile
This has the side effect that data centers can generate and thus ping the player from farther away





Minor Optimizations



• Death Mark stops if it isn't dealing damage anymore
  
• Several internal functions that were called often were rewritten and now include caches
  
• There is now a hard cap on smoke particles (3k)
  

Fixes

• Objects no longer show on the edge of the fog war rendering
  
• Clone factory no longer clones "recycle" upgrades when forfeiting upgrades
  
• Data Centers no longer notify the player if their spawn fails
  
• Fixes machine gun stretching (for the second time, these guys really like to stretch)
  

Additions

• New Mission selection screen

  
  Now there are 8 missions per planet, rather than 8 missions total
  This change is here to allow both more planets and more mission types in the future
  Changed Deconus difficulty from 1-50 to 1-64
  Changed Yunuus difficulty from 51-100 to 32-96
  
  
  

Changes

Fixes

• Fixed some crashes when the player would attempt to sell a building
  
• Fixed costs of special buildings being 0 in some situations
  
• Fixed a NaN-caused crash
  

Fixes

• Fixed building costs sometimes getting stuck at 0.00 and not allowing to build anything
  
• Fixed resources being spent and buildings not being placed
  
• Fixed several inconsistencies with the bottom right part of the UI
  

Additions

Reworked Ruins


⬡ Ruins now contain parts of deactivated bases, ready to be reclaimed
Some deactivated bases contain buildings never seen before, keep an eye on those!
They host the once forgotten Data Centers, which contain special equipment that you can obtain if you finish a mission after reclaiming them





Database


This a place where you can find a ton of information about enemies, biomes, and planets




Notifications


⬡ The game now notifies you when a large wave spawns or when you find a data center




Map Mode


If you zoom away far enough, the game will enter the map mode, so that you can see the shape of your enormous bases




New Equipment


New equipment is found if you win a game with a Data Center alive, these include:


• ⬡ More Slots
  
• ⬡ Rerolls
  
• ⬡ Upgrade Rarity
  
• Double Specialization
  
  



New Upgrades




Tombstone



• Purple upgrade
  
• When an enemy is killed, there is a 10% chance of a building being put there
  
• Toggleable
  




Jack of all Trades



• Purple upgrade
  
• Every 15 seconds, generate a random white upgrade
  



Pandora's Box



• Yellow active upgrade
  
• Unleashes a random calamity into the selected area.
  
• 15 seconds cooldown
  



Airborne static



• When hit, enemies have a chance of electrifying other enemies around
  



Eletronic Cooling



• Yellow upgrade
  
• When an enemy hits your building, it has a chance of being slowed.
  



Frostbite



• Slowed enemies take damage every second
  



⬡ Accelerated Projectiles



• White upgrade
  
• Increases projectile speed by 40%
  





New Music


2 new tracks were added and will play randomly as the game progresses

Balance Changes

Equipment Changes



• Buffed passive experience and resources equipment to scale with your level
  




Upgrade Changes



• ⬡ Upgrade rarities now match the level-up bar color
  
• Smite now deals 1% of the sum of all barriers per stack as damage
  
• Smite cooldown reduced from 30s to 15s
  
• ⬡ King of the Hill now affects damage, attack speed, projectile speed, and turn rate
  
• ⬡ King of the Hill now only dispels the buff from buildings that have an identical neighbor
  
• Scan now can always be launched if the central tile is revealed
  
• Nuke now can always be launched if the central tile is revealed
  
• Stronger Gears now also affects building reclaim speed
  
• Death mark no longer affects rocks and ice spikes
  



Enemy Changes



• Spawn waves now try multiple times before failing
  
• Reduced enemy health growth from 20% to 15% per level
  
• When the enemy count is near the mobcap, enemies can spawn enlarged or hasted to make up for the missing enemies
  
• Reduced enemy resource gain
  
• The enemy level is now always shown on the UI, along with the current time
  



Building Changes



• Ghost buildings are no longer enough to prevent you from losing
  
• Ghost buildings now show the icon of the building they are supposed to be
  
• ⬡ Selected Buildings always show their tooltip
  
• ⬡ Increased behemoth maximum range from 1 to 1.25
  

QOL/Aesthetic changes

• Smite upgrade now uses a forked lightning instead of several bolts of lightning coming from the same point
  
• ⬡ End screen is now instant
  
• Changed telescope description to always tell about the extra range
  
• Lag reports should now be nicer to look at. To generate these, it is still ctrl+p
  

Optimizations

• Added a limit to smoke particles
  
• Capped auto-cast internal radius to 15
  
• Reduced auto-cast attempt frequency from 1/frame to 1/tick
  
• Reduced draw times for when the camera is zoomed too far back
  
• Big explosions no longer use a heatmap to determine hits
  
• Optimized large-scale rendering
  
• Optimized turret and missile target acquisition
  
• Ice spikes now form in clusters of 7 tiles instead of one by one
  
• Heavily optimized damage numbers
  
• Removed tile entities from enemies which did not need that(looking at you, ice spikes and rocks)
  
• Barrier drawing further optimized
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed unusual lubricant not updating smite cooldown
  
• Fixed unusual lubricant sometimes nuking your own buildings
  
• Fixed nuke acting unpredictably if you hit your own buildings with Out With A Bang
  
• Rocks and trees can no longer spawn on top of buildings
  
• Fixed a bug where the level 1 upgrade would not account for your equipment
  
• Fixed turrets stretching back with high enough attack speed
  
• Fixed placeholder text on the sell building icon
  

Optimizations

• Optimized barrier tile grid drawing by a lot
  

Changes:

• Fixed a crash when the game would quit an match with a >60hz monitor
  
• Added a temporary toggle to disable damage numbers while I can optimize them