New Content

• New Enemy Spawn System

  
  
  • Every enemy in the game now has at least 3 variant versions of itself
    
  • Not every enemy variant will be available for the game to spawn right from the start, instead, the spawning algorithm will unlock one new variant every 15 permanent difficulty
    
  • Once a new variant is detected, the narrator will announce its presence if it spawns outside of your camera vision
    
  
  
  

• Synergies

  
  
  • When two special buildings are placed adjacent to each other, they have a chance of triggering a synergy when they fire.
    
  • About 50% of the possible combinations are valid synergies, have fun finding them all, some are quite strong, some not that much, but every synergy is an upgrade from the original building.
    
  
  
  

• Steam Achievements

  
  
  • Now every unlock in the game has its respective steam achievement.
    
  • If you had some unlocks before this patch, getting any new unlock or finishing a run should update it.
    
  
  
  

• New Unlocks:

  
  
  
  • Aggressive Mob
    
    
    • Have 120 enemies alive at the same time
      
    • Unlocks Unusual Lubricant Upgrade
    
    
    
  • Build them all
    
    
    • Unlock 8 different special buildings
      
    • Unlocks Minefield Deployer Special Building
    
    
    
  • I'm in Danger
    
    
    • Survive 1 minute with temporary difficulty on
      
    • Unlocks Supply Drop Active Skill
    
    
  
  
  

• Minefield Deployer Special Building

  
  
  • Unlocked by "Build Them all"
    
  • Fills its range with mines, causing damage when enemies come close to them
    
  
  
  

• Unusual Lubricant Upgrade

  
  
  • Unlocked by "Aggressive Mob"
    
  • Purple Tier upgrade
    
  • Whenever an enemy is killed, reduce all your active skills cooldowns by 1 second each
    
  
  
  

• Supply Drop Active Skill

  
  
  • Unlocked by "I'm in Danger"
    
  • Yellow Tier Active Skill
    
  • When activated, spawns 1 upgrade drop in the selected location
    
  • Further stacks increases the average rarity of the drop
    
  • Cooldown: 90 seconds
    
  
  
  

Balance Changes

• Temporary Difficulty

  
  
  • When a building of yours is broken as well as when several other triggers happen, the game enters a mode called "Temporary Difficulty", shown by orangeish/red borders on the screen
    
  • While the temporary difficulty is on, the difficulty is increased and enemies spawn more frequently.
    
  
  
  

• Drop Changes

  
  
  • Now every drop from the same spiral will have the same rarity.
    
  
  
  

• Tree Changes

  
  
  • Trees are now always vulnerable, but they are not targeted by your buildings by default
    
  • When destroyed, they increase the temporary difficulty
    
  • Their visual was completely redone, should fit a little bit more with the thematic of the game
    
  
  
  

• Laser Cannon Special Building

  
  
  • Now increases the damage its target takes from all sources until it dies
    
  • The effect stacks with itself and can lead to monstrous damage numbers
    
  • This effect applies to its synergies as well
    
  
  
  

• Tesla Tower Special Building

  
  
  • Reduced damage from 100% of its shield to 50%
    
  • Reduced self-damage from 50% of its shield to 25%
    
  
  
  

• Nuke Active Skill

  
  
  • Unbuildable area is now temporary and deals damage over time to enemies that walk over it
    
  • AoE is much bigger than it was, but full damage AoE remains the same.
    
  • The crater now has new graphics and a tooltip with how much time it will remain unbuildable
    
  
  
  

• Organic Growth Upgrade

  
  
  • Now prioritizes building adjacent to non-organic buildings
    
  
  
  

Quality of Life

• World Map:

  
  
  • Now when you hold TAB, you can see a quick drawing of the entire map
    
  • By right-clicking into the said map, you can move your camera there.
    
  
  
  

• Initial Pause

  
  
  • Game will now start paused and will unpause when the player does any significant action
    
  • There is a sound indicator to tell the player that the clock is now running
    
  
  
  

• UI Changes:

  
  
  • Basic tile and analyse are now included in the bottom-right part of the UI
    
  • The current prices for every building are now also included in the bottom-right part, rather than in the top-right
    
  • When holding alt, a map of the possible blueprint locations is also shown, the next blueprint is guaranteed to be in one of the 10 cells highlighted
    
  
  
  

• Camera Movement Options

  
  
  • You can now also move the camera using arrow keys and +/-, this is especially helpful when the player is using a laptop
    
  
  
  

"Removed" Content

• Mobile Wasphouse

  
  
  • This one was the most problematic enemy in the game in a sense of performance, since it wasn't a boss, several of them could spawn at the same time, each of them spawning dozens of wasps over their lifetime.
    
  • I plan on reintroducing the Mobile Wasphouse as a boss on the next update, I will have to rework it to have more interesting attack patterns since it will take most of your attention once one spawns.
    
  
  

• Sandworms

  
  
  • This one was the second on this list because of how unfair they feel when playing against them, often they took several buildings even after being killed and there was not much the player could do to fight back.
    
  • I plan on reintroducing the Sandworms but completely reworking them in the process, the invulnerability aspect of them will be probably limited to a variant at most.
    
  
  

• King Lurker

  
  
  • The King Lurkers themselves had no design issue but were temporarily removed just due to the lack of a proper boss mechanic within the game.
    
  • I plan on introducing a boss system where the player has some agency about when to spawn a boss, as it will be part of the steps necessary in order to properly finish a run
    
  
  

Optimizations

• Object Pooling:

  
  
  • An attempt to minimize the time that the garbage collector spends running
    
  • This should reduce the frequency and intensity of the lag spikes within the game
    
  
  
  

• Streamlined Sound Source Management:

  
  
  • Now sources should be recycled as often as possible to ensure minimal memory usage
    
  • This should reduce how much RAM the game uses in the later stages of a run
    
  • This should also reduce the frequency of the silent crashes since they were usually related to LuaJIT's 2GB ram limit
    
  
  
  

Verde's Comments

Verde's Comments

New Content

• Blueprints and Advanced Buildings
  
  
  • You can now find blueprints in the map, they unlock upgrades for the base cannon
    
  • The upgrade remains unlocked only for the current run
    
  • They form a path from the spawn, so the position of the next one is somewhat predictable
    
    
  
  
• 8 New Buildings:
  
  
  

  • Behemoth:

    
    
    • Deals 20 times more damage than the regular cannon
      
    • Has a massive AoE
      
      
    • Very slow projectile
      
    • Cannot fire at enemies too close to it
      
    • Low Attack Speed
      
    
    
    

  • Flamethrower:

    
    
    • Deals continuous damage
      
    • Hits everything within an arc, which gets wider with AoE improvements
      
      
    • Does not benefit from attack speed
      
    
    
    

  • Laser:

    
    
    • Deals enormous continuous damage
      
      
    • Only hits a single enemy at a time
      
    • Has a delay to change targets, which is reduced by attack speed
      
    
    
    

  • Machine Gun:

    
    
    • High base attack speed
      
    • Attack speed gets higher as it fires continuously
      
      
    • Low base damage and AoE
      
    • Accuracy dimishes as it fires continuously
      
    
    
    

  • Missile Launcher:

    
    
    • High damage and AoE projectiles
      
    • Missiles track and always hit their target
      
    • Missiles can change target if their old target is dead
      
      
    • Projectile Path may be difficult to predict
      
    
    
    

  • Sawblade Launcher:

    
    
    • Shoots Sawblades that may hit enemies multiple times
      
    • Hits every enemy along its path
      
    • Hit Frequency scales with attack speed
      
      
    • Cannot fire again until the sawblade is back
      
    
    
    

  • Sniper:

    
    
    • Has a very high range and scales twice with range upgrades
      
    • Hits the enemy instantly, no projectile required
      
    • Deals high damage
      
      
    • Has no AoE and does not benefit from AoE upgrades
      
    • Low base attack speed
      
    
    
    

  • Tesla:

    
    
    • Deals its current shield as damage
      
    • Its range scales with how many shields are affecting it
      
    • Fires instantly once its shields are full
      
    • If the hit overkills, it hits another target with the remaining damage
      
      
    • Does not benefit from most cannon upgrades
      
    • Drains shield in order to attack
      
    • Cannot attack if the shields protecting it are under attack.
      
    
    
    
  
  
• Narrator System
  
  
  • The old "flash on the screen" system got replaced with a robotic narrator
    
  • It will tell you when you are damaged or a boss is about to spawn
    
  
  
  

Changes

• Spawning Algorithm Changes
  
  
  • Enemy cap was increased from 100 to 200
    
  • Enemy spawns due to base destruction cannot happen if the enemy cap is more than 80% filled
    
  
  
  
• Balance changes
  
  
  • Emergency Batteries no longer affect shields
    
  • Confort Zone now happens once per second instead of continuously, it also has a particle effect
    
  • Shield Inductance now uses 1%(linear) of all shield instead of 3% of the strongest 1(linear) shields generators
    
  
  
  
• "Removed" content
  
  
  • Tesla tower is no longer a wild building, instead it is a cannon upgrade.
    
  • Flamethrower is no longer an active skill, instead it is a cannon upgrade.
    
  
  
  
• Quick Building is now default
  
  
  • There is now an UI element on the bottom right to show what what key does
    
  
  
  

Quality of Life

• Buildings no longer tick, instead they are 100% reactive, so base size no longer affects FPS.
  
• Holding ALT now pauses the game, so you can read your tooltips in peace.