The weekend balance update is here! I will try to have weekly balance updates (released on the weekend) to keep the game fresh, and to generally improve the balance. Feature updates will obviously be less frequent now, or smaller, but there’s not as much left to do now before the full release.

Balance Changes

• Non-boss enemy health reduced. Fast enemies (yellow) have been significantly reduced.
• When an enemy gets to the end of the path, you gain gold. This amount was buffed for all non-boss enemies and you now get more gold than you would if you just killed the enemy. This should give you that little extra bit of gold that might allow you to survive one more wave.
• Rotation speed for Shooter and Laser was increased, which should help them to follow their current target
• Waves for all levels have been reworked. Loop level also now has 20 waves, different from the 15 of Prototype, Polygon and Hexagon levels.

Bug Fixes

• The game now asks for your username on launch.
• The Leaderboard button now displays leaderboard rather than info, after swapping back to the level selection from the leaderboard.

New Known Issues

• Tabbing out of the game can cause weird behaviour. This isn’t an easy thing to fix, so will likely get fixed for next week’s balance update, or 1.1-alpha.6

Other Changes

• Camera pan speed on touchscreen was reduced slightly
• Camera zoom speed on mouse was reduced slightly.

If you’ve got any queries or problems, don’t forget to reach out! The community Discord’s doors are always open!