Time Wasters is a space shooter roguelite. Equip and upgrade weapons, destroy swarms of enemies, and collect Time Cubes to bend the timeline to your advantage.
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Time Wasters is a space shooter roguelite. Equip and upgrade weapons, destroy swarms of enemies, and collect Time Cubes to bend the timeline to your advantage.
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Time Wasters is a space shooter roguelite. Equip and upgrade weapons, destroy swarms of enemies, and collect Time Cubes to bend the timeline to your advantage.
Easter Event
Easter Egg Hunt
In case you missed it last year, the Holiday Events loop yearly!
Zones 1-100 will be filled with colorful Easter eggs (at least 5 per zone).
Find & collect eggs to permanently unlock bunny outfits for the Soldier, Drone & Turret.
The Easter Event will go from April 8 through April 18.
Holiday Achievements
Collect 100 eggs to permanently unlock the Soldier's bunny outfit.
Collect 500 to unlock the Drone's bunny ears and 1,000 for the Turret's ears.
Unlocks are per save profile, and outfits can only be unlocked during the Easter event.
Outfits
Change outfits by hovering over a teammate.
Hover over a teammate for the outfit selector.
Each Build Preset can have a different outfit, so you can be a speed running bunny and an idle soldier.
Want to check out your new outfit, comma (,) is the default key to toggle 3rd person.
Collecting Eggs
Active players can collect eggs by running around or using the Free Roam Camera.
Eggs respawn every minute so idle players can literally sit on an egg to collect them.
Other Changes
Fixed immediate crashing on some AMD Phenom CPUs.
2022 Holiday Events
Here's the 2022 Holiday Event schedule:
Easter - April 8 - 18
Find & collect eggs to permanently unlock bunny outfits.
Halloween - October 1 - 31
Collect Candy, launch it at Pumpkins to unlock Halloween costumes.
Christmas - December 1 - January 5
Unwrap the floating Christmas Presents to earn bonus Weapon Cubes, Time Cubes, Maximum Damage, Gold & unlock holiday Outfits.
Christmas Event!
In case you missed it last year, the Holiday Events loop every year!
Starting on December 1st, unwrap the floating Christmas Presents to earn bonus Weapon Cubes, Time Cubes, Maximum Damage & Gold. This limited time event ends on January 5.
Presents
Presents will appear around the Turret every 5 - 10 minutes.
They will float around for 30 seconds before disappearing.
Collect Presents by shooting them, using the free roam camera or manually collecting them.
Blue Present = Time Cubes
This present only appears after completing your very first Time Warp.
Each present will give you the Time Cubes Per Zone x Multipliers / 4.
Green Present = Weapon Cubes
This present only appears after you've collected your very first Weapon Cubes.
Each present will give you Weapon Cubes Per Zone x Multipliers / 4.
White Present = Maximum Damage
This present appears as long as you have bought at least one Active Ability on your current timeline.
Each present will give you bonus Energy based on your Maximum Damage Research.
Yellow Present = Gold
These presents can always appear and will give you your Gold Per Min x 5.
Outfits
Collecting Presents also unlocks permanent holiday Outfits.
Soldier & Hover Bike
Hover Bike Outfits are attached to the selected Soldier skin so.......
Select the Soldier's Elf Outfit to use the Reindeer Hover Bike.
Select the Soldier's Santa Outfit to switch to the Hover Bike Sleigh.
Drone
Turret
Christmas Missions
All of the Christmas Event Missions can be found in the Holiday Achievements screen.
Happy Holidays!
Halloween Event
Halloween Event
In case you missed it last year, the Holiday Events loop every year!
Starting on October 1st, Zones 1-100 will be filled with candy & pumpkins.
Collect Candy, launch it at Pumpkins to upgrade & unlock permanent Halloween costumes for the Soldier, Drone & Turret.
The Halloween Event will start at 12:00 am MST, and run through October 31.
Candy Pickups
There are 9 candies per Zone.
Collected candies respawn every minute.
Collect candies by actively running around, using the Free Roam Camera, or idly sitting on one.
Or unlock the Candy Magnet and let the candies come to you.
Candy Launcher
Once unlocked, the Candy Launcher can be used to blast candies at Pumpkins for rewards.
The Candy Launcher is exclusively for the Soldier (Drone or Turret can't equip it).
You'll definitely want to use your Automatic Fire & Dual Wield Abilities, but just a heads up, Perks & Critical shots are disabled on the Candy Launcher.
To equip it, hover over the Soldier & select it from the Weapon Types.
Candy Launcher UI
When the Candy Launcher is equipped the Soldier info changes to show all the important Halloween event stats.
Candy Per Click Pumpkin
This pumpkin increases how many candies the Candy Launcher fires with one click.
Find the Candy Per Click Pumpkin in Zones 10, 40 & 70.
Candy Per Pickup Pumpkin
This pumpkin increases how many candies you get with each piece of candy you collect.
Find the Candy Per Pickup Pumpkin in Zones 20, 50 & 80.
Candy Magnet Pumpkin
This pumpkin increases how quickly candy is pulled towards you.
Find the Candy Magnet Pumpkin in Zones 30, 60 & 90.
Public World Pumpkins
If there are multiple people in a Pumpkin Zone, everyone in that Zone will be credited for the candies other players feed to the Pumpkins (using your Candy Per Click stat).
Other player's candy bullets are never hidden, so you'll always know when someone is launching candy at a pumpkin.
Halloween Costumes
The Soldier, Drone & Turret are getting into the Halloween spirit with unlockable permanent costumes.
Complete Missions to unlock the….
Soldier's Frankenstein & Skeleton Outfits
Drone's Mummy & Green Dragon Outfits
Turret's Turtle & Red Dragon Outfits
Halloween Missions
All of the Halloween Missions can be found in the Holiday Achievements screen.
Easter Event
Easter Egg Hunt
In case you missed it last year, the Holiday Events loop every year!
Zones 1-100 will be filled with colorful Easter eggs (at least 5 per zone).
Find & collect eggs to permanently unlock bunny outfits for the Soldier, Drone & Turret.
The Easter Event will go from March 26 through April 5.
Holiday Achievements
Collect 100 eggs to permanently unlock the Soldier's bunny outfit.
Collect 500 to unlock the Drone's bunny ears and 1,000 for the Turret's ears.
Unlocks are per save profile, and outfits can only be unlocked during the Easter event.
Outfits
Change outfits by hovering over a teammate.
Hover over a teammate for the outfit selector.
Each Build Preset can have a different outfit, so you can be a speed running bunny and an idle soldier.
Want to check out your new outfit, comma (,) is the default key to toggle 3rd person.
Collecting Eggs
Active players can collect eggs by running around or using the Free Roam Camera.
Eggs respawn every minute so idle players can literally sit on an egg to collect them.
Christmas Event!
In case you missed it last year, the Holiday Events loop every year!
Starting on December 1st, unwrap the floating Christmas Presents to earn bonus Weapon Cubes, Time Cubes, Maximum Damage & Gold. This limited time event ends on January 5.
Presents
Presents will appear around the Turret every 5 - 10 minutes.
They will float around for 30 seconds before disappearing.
Collect Presents by shooting them, using the free roam camera or manually collecting them.
Blue Present = Time Cubes
This present only appears after completing your very first Time Warp.
Each present will give you the Time Cubes Per Zone x Multipliers / 4.
Green Present = Weapon Cubes
This present only appears after you've collected your very first Weapon Cubes.
Each present will give you Weapon Cubes Per Zone x Multipliers / 4.
White Present = Maximum Damage
This present appears as long as you have bought at least one Active Ability on your current timeline.
Each present will give you bonus Energy based on your Maximum Damage Research.
Yellow Present = Gold
These presents can always appear and will give you your Gold Per Min x 5.
Outfits
Collecting Presents also unlocks permanent holiday Outfits.
Soldier & Hover Bike
Hover Bike Outfits are attached to the selected Soldier skin so.......
Select the Soldier's Elf Outfit to use the Reindeer Hover Bike.
Select the Soldier's Santa Outfit to switch to the Hover Bike Sleigh.
Drone
Turret
Christmas Missions
All of the Christmas Event Missions can be found in the Holiday Achievements screen.
Happy Holidays!
Halloween Event
Halloween Event
In case you missed it last year, the Holiday Events loop every year!
Starting on October 1st, Zones 1-100 will be filled with candy & pumpkins.
Collect Candy, launch it at Pumpkins to upgrade & unlock permanent Halloween costumes for the Soldier, Drone & Turret.
The Halloween Event will start at 12:00 am MST, and run through October 31.
Candy Pickups
There are 9 candies per Zone.
Collected candies respawn every minute.
Collect candies by actively running around, using the Free Roam Camera, or idly sitting on one.
Or unlock the Candy Magnet and let the candies come to you.
Candy Launcher
Once unlocked, the Candy Launcher can be used to blast candies at Pumpkins for rewards.
The Candy Launcher is exclusively for the Soldier (Drone or Turret can't equip it).
You'll definitely want to use your Automatic Fire & Dual Wield Abilities, but just a heads up, Perks & Critical shots are disabled on the Candy Launcher.
To equip it, hover over the Soldier & select it from the Weapon Types.
Candy Launcher UI
When the Candy Launcher is equipped the Soldier info changes to show all the important Halloween event stats.
Candy Per Click Pumpkin
This pumpkin increases how many candies the Candy Launcher fires with one click.
Find the Candy Per Click Pumpkin in Zones 10, 40 & 70.
Candy Per Pickup Pumpkin
This pumpkin increases how many candies you get with each piece of candy you collect.
Find the Candy Per Pickup Pumpkin in Zones 20, 50 & 80.
Candy Magnet Pumpkin
This pumpkin increases how quickly candy is pulled towards you.
Find the Candy Magnet Pumpkin in Zones 30, 60 & 90.
Public World Pumpkins
If there are multiple people in a Pumpkin Zone, everyone in that Zone will be credited for the candies other players feed to the Pumpkins (using your Candy Per Click stat).
Other player's candy bullets are never hidden, so you'll always know when someone is launching candy at a pumpkin.
Halloween Costumes
The Soldier, Drone & Turret are getting into the Halloween spirit with unlockable permanent costumes.
Complete Missions to unlock the….
Soldier's Frankenstein & Skeleton Outfits
Drone's Mummy & Green Dragon Outfits
Turret's Turtle & Red Dragon Outfits
Halloween Missions
All of the Halloween Missions can be found in the Holiday Achievements screen.
New Patch: March 2020
Changes:
- Added Time Cube & Weapon Cube stats to Live Leaderboard & Convoy Widget
- Added Chat Time Stamp (toggle in Chat Settings)
- Improved performance when auto-upgrading after Time Warping
- Automatically detects & unsticks stuck Zones
- Added additional 'Stat Best' stats to some Missions
- Removed specific currency reference from the Time Cube & Weapon Cube Sell tooltips
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