Good news, everyone! This is the last big patch of the early access phase before the Steam release. There was a lot of work under the hood like Steam achievements and cloud saves, which are in this patch but not yet visible to you until I send out the Steam keys to all itch.io owners – which I’m going to do some time next week, so you can test the Steam version before it’s publicly available.

But there also is a lot you actually can see already, like the new alternative primary colors which you now unlock by beating the game at Overload 5, 10, 15 and 20:

Lately the executioner combo was too strong, which is why I’m following up the Executioner nerf of the last patch with a new mob, the DEFIANT, which is immune to all status effects:

I’ve also tuned all boss waves to include additional side mobs which makes boss waves a little harder and more stylish:

Aaand I’ve become so annoyed at trying to find the right keyboard shortcuts for my abilities that I’ve separated the shortcuts for buildings and abilities; and while I was at it I also made those shortcuts configurable:

That’s not all of course, so here are the full patch notes for this last beta patch:

Added

• Added Chinese (simplified) translation
• Added Defiant, a mob which is immune to status effects!
• Added Salvage module, which grants a random upgrade when you skip a reward!
• Alternate primary colors are now unlocked on beating Overload 5, 10, 15 and 20
• Keyboard shortcuts are now customizable and separated between towers and abilities
• Manual control towers can now be fired with the corresponding keyboard shortcut

Changed

• Bigger mobs now have the same movement speed as the small ones
• Boss waves are now a little bigger and harder
• You now get one more tower to choose from at the start of a run
• The fullscreen mode is now toggled with the F11 key
• In windowed mode there now is a title bar
• The game now properly saves the windowed state, size and position
• The achievement Singularity now only unlocks if you have exactly one tower.
• Repeater tower now gains attack speed for every kill
• Repeater Damage upgrade limit 15 🡆 25, damage 10 🡆 7
• Repeater Speed upgrade removed
• Sniper tower now deals more damage the farther away the target is, base damage 150 🡆 75
• Sniper Damage upgrade damage 40 🡆 20
• Melter Armor Reduction upgrade limit 5 🡆 3, reduction 2 🡆 5
• Repeater Speed upgrade removed
• Keep cool module rarity uncommon 🡆 common
• Heal ability range 1.25 🡆 1.5
• Shield ability range 1.25 🡆 1.5
• Disruptor base range 1.5 🡆 1.25, status duration 3s 🡆 1s
• Disruptor Range range increase 0.2 🡆 0.1, stacks 5 🡆 15
• Disruptor Duration upgrade removed

Fixed

• The confirm dialog properly translates “yes” and “no” buttons
• The achievement Keep ’em coming can now be unlocked
• Fixed several bugs regarding the rotation interface for the ion cannon
• Healing in-between waves is now properly added to healing statistic
• Fixed movement speed calculation for status effects
• The compendium now shows the correct amount of discoveries