Good news everyone, after four weeks of squeezing in an hour here and there the new patch for Core Defense is finally done! Four weeks are not exactly the patch schedule I’m aiming for, but Corona takes its toll on all of us, so I hope you can excuse the long wait for this new version. Especially because there’s a whole bunch of cool stuff in it.

Most of the changes in this patch are more or less based on community feedback and I’m very thankful to have so many inspired and enthusiastic people on the Discord server who hunt bugs and come up with the coolest ideas for this game! The community was wishing for a manual control tower for example: behold the ION CANNON, which reloads very slowly but fires a massive AOE beam when you do finally activate it:

The new tower is a strong one, which is why I’ve added a new mob as well that counters it: the SPLITTER splits into two parts upon death:

I’ve also tweaked the visuals a bit so the rest of the game can keep up with the hefty new tower:

And this is just the tip of the iceberg – I’ve added new features, did some balancing and fixed several bugs, so without further ado, here are the full patch notes for the new version:

Added

• Added Ion Cannon: manually fire this tower’s massive beam weapon!
• Added Splitter: this minion splits in two upon death!
• Added fullscreen toggle to the settings
• Added option to turn off tips to the settings
• Added list of all tips to the compendium
• Added error screen on systems without WebGL2 support
• Added wall layout to highscore cards
• The last played overload level is now the default when starting a new game
• You now get a bonus reward in your next run for the first boss you kill
• You now get a bonus reward in your next run if you win the run
• Added icons for all achievements
• Added try again button at the end of the demo
• Added Spanish translation (thanks to uperesito, KnightMare_XL & Salburual123)
• Added Italian translation (thanks to MakinDay, mykys, TyKonKet, godhurIA, Nancy, frankieorabona, ricina)

Changed

• Animations for AOE attacks are now slower and have a new particle effect
• Removed 4x game speed and increased all previous speeds
• Reduced mob damage and movement speed increase across all overload levels
• Reordered overload levels, moving some harder modifiers to later levels
• Waves now only roll ranged mobs 60% of the time
• Disruptor Duration: duration upgrade 1s 🡆 0.5s
• Executioner Speed: upgrade limit 10 🡆 5
• Hammer: base actions per second 0.25 🡆 0.5, base damage 375 🡆 175
• Hammer Damage: upgrade damage 100 🡆 50
• Sniper: base actions per second 0.2 🡆 0.3, base damage 200 🡆 150
• Sniper Speed: ugprade stacks 10 🡆 5, actions per second 0.03 🡆 0.05
• Sniper Damage: damage 65 🡆 40
• Healer: base actions per second 0.1s 🡆 0.2s
• Healer Speed: upgrade stacks 4 🡆 3
• Giant Regenerator: regeneration 5% 🡆 3%
• Autoshields: module stacks 1 🡆 5, shield amount 1% 🡆 2%
• Nanobots: module stacks 3 🡆 5, heal amount 1% 🡆 2%
• Refine: module stacks 10 🡆 5, damage bonus 2% 🡆 4% (incorrectly displayed 4% before)
• Quicken: module stacks 10 🡆 5, heal amount 1% 🡆 3% (incorrectly displayed 2% before)

Fixed

• You can now unlock the achievements Eternal, Excellence, Pacifist, Immortal
• The game no longer generates empty waves
• The game now properly scales to full screen on Mac
• Discovered rewards and mobs are now correctly counted in the compendium
• Freezer range now upgrades properly
• Damage numbers are now properly rounded
• Switching profiles now properly applies settings