Version 1.6 - New Maps!

It's Friday the 13th, and you know what that means? That's right, it's patch time! , have , now has a , some overdue updates, tons of bug fixes, the usual balance shenanigans, some love for , and more!




















now have their own ! And the map selection UI has been improved to help highlight their existence.




Additionally, two of the existing have been switched out for better versions from the , adapted for FFA/Teams.








You'll notice that instead of , we now have . Each of these has their own wave order, including some -only creeps. Additionally, at the start of every 5th wave, a will precede the wave.

And yes, these also have their own .












At the start of a or match, there's now a 1 minute ban phase:

• Both players choose 3 towers to ban, 1 minute to select bans
  
• Singles & Support Towers
  cannot be banned (1st, 3rd, and 5th rows on Tower Table).
  
• Once both players have chosen their bans (or after a minute has passed), it'll reveal the towers that are banned.
  
• Note, it is possible for both players to ban the same tower. Banning is also optional. That said, 0 to 6 towers can be banned.
  
• A banned tower cannot be built or upgraded to.
  

Additionally:

• Ranked
  now requires both players to accept the match within 30 seconds
  
• Some backend adjustments have been made, which should reduce the chance of desyncs.
  
• In
  Ranked
  , if a game desyncs, it'll now compare networths between both players. If the difference in networths is below 1%, it won't kill the game and should instead keep going.
  

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• Lobby & Lobby List UI
  updates:
  • Selecting a map pulls up its own menu.
    
  • There is now a magnifying glass icon on the map preview, letting you
    Zoom In
    .
    
  • Co-op Map Previews
    show each players' paths as colored lines.
    
  • Map previews actually update when you turn on
    Advanced Paths
    . Doesn't apply to
    Co-op
    .
    
  • Lobby List
    cleaned up, allowing for all
    Settings
    to be properly visible now.
    
  
  
• When placing a tower on a spot where another tower already exists, an indicator will tell you that you can't build there.
  
• Co-op Portals
  now have a different color glow around them, dependent on the player color they're supposed to match.
  
• If a player disconnects, their builder should now vanish.
  
• When viewing a replay, there's now a UI for switching player perspectives.
  
• Ranked Replays
  should now end when the game ends instead of going further. This includes when a desync happens in the original game.
  
• MMR Search Range
  no longer scales by games played, everyone gets to search everyone within 375 MMR.
  
• Leaderboards
  now only show 50 entries instead of 100, halving the load time.
  
• Adjusted how creeps scale visually over time. Should be more consistent than before, and in
  Chaos
  in particular, they'll actually grow properly instead of be all over the place.
  
• Campaign
  adjustments:
  • Insane Difficulty option added
    
  • Inferno Boss
    fireball now has a max range of 2000
    
  • Halved the number of bosses in the last 5 waves of
    Mission 25
    to account for
    Inferno Boss
    no longer being cheesable
    
  
  
• War Mode
  adjusted:
  • Elemental Bosses
    are freebies, meaning you don't have to kill the bosses
    
  • As a result, there's no longer 30 second breaks every 4 waves
    
  • Additionally, you can't get Level 2 Elements until the 4th Pick, Level 3 Elements until the 8th Pick, and Essence Upgrade until the 10th Pick
    
  • Non-damage effects no longer affect allied creeps
    

• Potentially fixed mid-game spontaneous disconnects, particularly in laggy co-op games
  
• Fixed an issue where people would desync at the start of the game, causing some players to look like they've gone AFK and die immediately
  
• Fixed an issue where the game pausing caused people to get stuck between the loading screen and the game
  
• Fixed a bug in
  Ranked
  where the end-screen wouldn't show up
  
• Fixed a rare bug where a
  Ranked Game
  could somehow be set to Normal Difficulty
  
• In the off-chance a
  Ranked Game
  doesn't load properly, it should no longer count as a win/loss
  
• Fixed an issue where you could see who your ranked opponent is before the match locks in, which allowed you to Alt+F4 and dodge a guaranteed loss vs. HD
  
• Fixed a bug in
  Boss Hunt Length
  where the speed multiplier would decrease over time
  
• Fixed a bug where you couldn't kick someone in lobby under specific circumstances
  
• Fixed FFA lobby settings carrying over into
  War Mode
  
  
• Fixed Advanced Paths, No Interest, & No Sell not showing up as settings in the
  Lobby List
  
  
• Fixed
  Ronalds
  somehow spamming the log
  
• Fixed nullref error on
  Tropical
  
  
• Fixed the
  Tower Table in Menu
  bugging out if you did 11 element picks and pressed reset
  
• Fixed "Aftersock" tooltip
  

• Income Upgrade
  has been removed from the game
  • Rather than being an "interesting choice" alongside the
    Element Picks
    , it's just money with no real downside. We tried various iterations of it, but as the balance kept shifting, trying to get this right was a real pain. Ultimately, we decided to gut it from the game, in favor of "do something more interesting with that 11th Element Pick".
    
  • To clarify, the version that's in the
    Campaign
    still exists.
    
  
  
• Periodic
  damage reduced from 55000 to 52000
  
• FFA Base HP
  increased from 120 to 125
  
• Co-op Base HP
  increased from 150 to 160
  
• War Base HP
  increased from 125 to 150
  
• The backend adjustments made to reduce desyncs affected the accuracy of range and AoE. It's relatively minor, but you may notice towers clipping spots a little easier than before.
  

• Atom
  damage reduced from 330 to 310
  
• Poison
  duration increased from 16 to 17 seconds
  
• Disease
  reworked:
  • Damage increased from 95 to 150
    
  • Old Effect
    : Deals more damage the lower the target's HP is. Formula =
    
  • New Effect
    : Deals 2.5% / 3% / 4% more damage per 1% HP the target is missing
    
  
  
• Vapor
  damage increased from 1100 to 1150
  
• Ice
  damage increased from 825 to 850
  
• Solar
  damage-per-second reduced from 120 to 110
  
• Infernal
  damage increased from 700 to 750
  
• Howitzer
  damage increased from 195 to 200
  
• Geyser
  damage increased from 1050 to 1100
  
• Blacksmith
  , fixed a bug where its buff wouldn't affect certain towers:
  • This includes
    Corrosion, Doom, Plague & Obelisk
    
    
  
  
• Trickery
  adjusted:
  • Damage increased from 325 to 450
    
  • Range and cast range reduced from 1150 to 900
    
  • Clone now deals 100% damage regardless of Level
    
  • Duration adjusted from 20 seconds to 10 / 20 / 60 seconds
    
  • Clones now carry manual/autocast settings over from the original
    
  • Clones can no longer be manually sold
    

• Astral
  damage increased from 2000 to 2100
  
• Ethereal
  damage increased from 850 to 900
  
• Flooding
  damage increased from 420 to 440
  
• Impulse
  damage increased from 2700 to 2850
  
• Quake
  adjusted:
  • Shockwave trigger count required reduced from 8 to 5
    
  • Shockwave damage reduced from 2600 to 1750
    
  
  
• Money
  passive gold rate increased from 5 to 6 gold every 15 seconds
  

• Quad Element Tower
  cost increased from 4000 to 4250
  
• Singularity
  damage reduced from 15000 to 13000
  
• Doom
  adjusted:
  • Damage increased from 0 to 1000
    
  • Attack speed reduced from 1.5 to 1
    
  • Doom stack damage increased from 7000 to 9000
    
  • Doom stack damage growth increased from 4% to 5% per second
    
  • Doom stack duration increased from 10 to 20 seconds
    
  • Explosion AoE reduced from 100 to 0
    
  • Damage will now cap out at 25200 damage per stack
    
  • Default priority changed from Near to Strong
    
  • Fixed an issue where it was trying to hit the "center" of the creep instead of the pivot, meaning it could sometimes "miss" a physically large creep
    
  • On the Creep UI Status Icon itself, it'll tell you both the stack count & the current % increase
    
  • On the Creep UI, where HP is listed, next to it will list the total Doom damage, in purple
    
  
  
• Crystal Spire
  adjusted:
  • AoE reduced from 100 to 0 (Note, its AoE previously didn't work, so effectively, this part is the same)
    
  • Max spirits increased from 9 to 11
    
  
  
• Tsunami
  shockwave damage increased from 20k, 50k, 85k, 130k to 23k, 55k, 95k, 145k
  
• Rage
  adjusted:
  • Damage-per-second increased from 3600 to 4000
    
  • Damage amp reduced from 30% to 25%
    
  • Movespeed reduced from +60% to +50%
    
  
  
• Archdruid
  adjusted:
  • Damage increased from 20000 to 25000
    
  • AoE reduced from 400 to 300
    
  
  
• Life Altar
  damage/attack speed buff reduced from 45% to 40%
  
• Tesla Tree
  nerfed:
  • Damage reduced from 8000 to 7500
    
  • AoE reduced from 100 to 0
    
  
  
• Gravity Cannon
  adjusted:
  • Damage increased from 4000 to 12400
    
  • Attack speed reduced from 3 to 1
    
  • Speedup/Slow durations increased from 0.2 to 0.5 seconds
    
  • Default priority changed from Front to Back
    
  
  
• Shredder
  adjusted:
  • No longer speeds up split creeps by 5%
    
  • Split creep HP increased from 50% to 55%
    
  • Creeps split by
    Shredder
    now only count for half a kill each for
    Life Altar
    
    
  
  
• Nuclear
  adjusted:
  • Damage reduced from 15000 to 10000
    
  • Max slow reduced from 40% to 30%
    
  • % HP damage-per-second increased from 0.25% to 0.35%
    
  • Effect no longer applies to
    Elemental Bosses
    
    
  • Fixed a bug with its damage-per-second applying inconsistently within its AoE. This should be an increase compared to before.
    

• Changed the advanced path layout for
  Desert Variant
  
  
• Autumn Variant
  side paths now have reduced HP instead of reduced speed
  
• Winter Variant
  HP reduced by 20% on both paths
  • On Advanced, only the long path is reduced by 20% HP
    
  
  
• Volcano
  adjusted:
  • Short Paths 2 & 6 sped up by 15%
    
  • Long Paths sped up 20-30%, HP lowered by 10%
    
  • Middle mountain finally removed, replaced with build spots
    
  
  
• Tundra
  lower-left mountains pushed back, build spots added in that area
  
• Pinnacle
  adjusted:
  • Short Paths changed from +10% HP / +10% Movespeed to just +10% HP
    
  • Long Paths sped up 20-30%, HP lowered by 10-20%
    

Some of these were updated in , we just failed to note them or update the tooltips properly, so the following list notes changes from both .

• Water Spec 1
  bounce range increased from 300 to 500
  
• Water Spec 2
  bounce damage reduced from 75% to 70%
  
• Lightning Spec 2
  bounce count reduced from 6 / 8 / 10 to 5 / 7 / 9
  
• Vapor Spec 1
  adjusted:
  • Old
    : Damage reduced by 40%. Bonus damage per creep increased to 6% / 9% / 12%.
    
  • New
    : Range reduced to 750. Bonus damage per creep increased to 5% / 10% / 15%.
    
  
  
• Vapor Spec 2
  bonus damage per creep increased from -9% / -6% / -3% to 0%
  
• Ice Spec 2
  cannot be stunned cooldown reduced from 2 to 1.5 seconds
  
• Well Spec 1
  range increased to 1500
  
• Blacksmith Spec 1
  range increased to 1500
  
• Trickery Spec 1
  adjusted:
  • Old
    : Range increased to 1500. Clone deals 32% / 96% / 288% damage.
    
  • New
    : Range increased to 1500. Clone duration reduced to 8 / 16 / 48 seconds.
    
  
  
• Trickery Spec 2
  adjusted:
  • Old
    : Range reduced to 250. Clone deals 50% / 150% / 450% damage for 20 seconds.
    
  • New
    : Range reduced to 250. Clone duration increased to 12 / 24 / 72 seconds.
    
  
  
• Laser Spec 1
  damage gain per nearby creep increased from 500 / 2000 to 1000 / 4000
  
• Haste Spec 2
  attack speed gain reduced from 5% to 3%
  
• Quake Spec 1
  adjusted:
  • Old
    : Trigger count reduced to 4 attacks, Shockwave Damage reduced by 40%.
    
  • New
    : Trigger count reduced to 3 attacks, Shockwave Damage reduced by 30%.
    
  
  
• Quake Spec 2
  adjusted:
  • Old
    : Shockwave Damage increased by 60%.
    
  • New
    : Shockwave Damage increased by 150%.
    
  
  
• Money Spec 2
  bonus damage based on Unspent Gold increased from 25% / 50% to 30% / 60%
  
• Windstorm Spec 2
  AoE reduced from 400 to 300
  

As per usual, have been reset.






If you didn't know, we actually have an . Go into greater depth on each map, tower, specific mechanics, and even version history! Big shoutout to a few specific members of our for creating and maintaining the :

• draktok
  
  
• Sacropedia
  
  
• SilverDeath
  
  

Somehow, this patch ended up being larger than . Despite that, there's a few things we ran out of time to add. in , but no 5-star score thresholds? New maps, but no new ? No fancy new cosmetics?

Fret not, everything we missed this patch will be coming in , set to release in . This'll also act as an interim patch while the ever mysterious is being developed. We still don't have a more specific time frame on it or details to show you yet. We'll start showing off when we're ready.

In the meantime, we hope you enjoy the new maps, the you didn't know existed due to poor UI, and all the other juicy additions!