This small patch focuses on enemy balance with wave progression and fixes a small issue with projectiles. ENHANCEMENTS - Enhance enemy balance and scale for wave progression. FIXES - Fix issue with projectiles occasionally moving towards the wrong target.
This patch includes updates to the balance and difficulty settings, adds a level to 2 towers and includes various enhancements and fixes. ENHANCEMENTS - Updated and enhanced balance for all enemies and scale of stats such as health and worth. - Added a 4th level to the Rotospark and Novabolt towers. FIXES - Fixed ballistic projectiles occasionally traveling to the wrong target location. - Fixed…
This patch brings a few big changes to the WISP, adding two new actions: SCOUT and SENTRY. These will put the WISP into an automated mode to assist in illuminating enemies or defending the base! The WISP will actively seek out enemies on the map and track them, illuminating the path they are on until they are destroyed or complete an attack on the base. Targeting Priority: STRONG The WISP will…
This patch addresses some minor issues and enhancements made during Next Fest. ENHANCEMENTS - Speed up camera transition when loading map. - Set default button click audio for all buttons, menus, WISP actions, etc. NOTE: These are placeholders and will be replaced with various SFX soon. - Enhance keyboard navigation throughout all non-gameplay scenes. - Update header text fade in/out delay to m…
This patch addresses some minor issues and enhancements made during Next Fest. ENHANCEMENTS - Reduced fade-in/fade-out times to speed up wait time between scene loads. - Add currency icon to tower shop menu items. - Add Tactical UI with info box explaining Intensity. - Update Tutorial page menu buttons for consistency. - Update Tutorial page content to make things easier to understand and added…
The June Next Fest was incredible and we want to thank you for your support and interest in Hardlight! We hope you enjoyed this sneak peek of what is coming this Fall. We especially want to thank all those who provided such great feedback. Our team is energized and working hard to include new planned enhancements, along with new features based on your suggestions, so for now, we are taking the…
Experience Hardlight 's intense gameplay live and get insights from our developers on what makes this game stand out in the tower defense genre. Watch as we play through the Hardlight demo, demonstrating the strategic depth and action-packed battles that define our game. We'll discuss our design choices, development process, and future plans.. Don't miss the chance to see our unique tower and e…
Experience Hardlight 's intense gameplay live and get insights from our developers on what makes this game stand out in the tower defense genre. Watch as we play through the Hardlight demo, demonstrating the strategic depth and action-packed battles that define our game. We'll discuss our design choices, development process, and future plans.. Don't miss the chance to see our unique tower and e…
Experience Hardlight 's intense gameplay live and get insights from our developers on what makes this game stand out in the tower defense genre. Watch as we play through the Hardlight demo, demonstrating the strategic depth and action-packed battles that define our game. We'll discuss our design choices, development process, and future plans.. Don't miss the chance to see our unique tower and e…
Experience Hardlight 's intense gameplay live and get insights from our developers on what makes this game stand out in the tower defense genre. Watch as we play through the Hardlight demo, demonstrating the strategic depth and action-packed battles that define our game. We'll discuss our design choices, development process, and future plans.. Don't miss the chance to see our unique tower and e…
Experience Hardlight 's intense gameplay live and get insights from our developers on what makes this game stand out in the tower defense genre. Watch as we play through the Hardlight demo, demonstrating the strategic depth and action-packed battles that define our game. We'll discuss our design choices, development process, and future plans.. Don't miss the chance to see our unique tower and e…
This is a minor patch to address an issue with the Feedback Form which may have been preventing some feedback reaching us. FIXES - Fix Feedback Form request issue
This is the final update before going live for Next Fest June 2024! Some final tweaks to balance based on feedback from our amazing and supportive community and friends! Thank you all for helping us to make the Hardlight Demo even better! Please watch our live streams during Next Fest (from our Steam Page): Tuesday June 11 @ 5 PM EST Thursday June 13 @ 6 PM EST ENHANCEMENTS - Update Achievement…
After some more feedback, we've added the ability to decrease the game speed as well as increase, by right-clicking on the speed icon or pressing "Y" on the keyboard. Also, the controls in Settings now display more binding information. ENHANCEMENTS - Add ability to decrease game speed by right-clicking icon or pressing "Y". FIXES - Update Controls on Settings to reflect all the controls. - Add…
So for those of you following our updates on Steam, we paused posting Path Notes while we made major changes to the UI, gameplay, lore and everything in between. Hardlight development has been progressing very well and will be a part of Steam Next Fest (June 10-17) which we are all very excited for. In preparation, we have a Hardlight Demo that has been going through some testing and will be ma…
This build is focused on enhancing the Torchblade tower to improve it's targeting, enemy impacts, and make it easier to visualize the damage area while it's attacking. ENHANCEMENTS - Updated VFX for Torchblade to enhance visibility and better indicate the sweep range and power of the energy blade - Adjusted the Torchblade collider used to detect which enemies are in range to make it more accura…
This build contains various improvements to tower targeting and damage, which particular focus on the Plasma and Disc towers. Damage should be better and more consistent, and hopefully a lot more satisfying. ENHANCEMENTS - Instantiated hit objects, such as the Plasma splat, now take advantage of pooling which should improve performance slightly. - Updated VFX for Plasma splat for better renderi…
A few quality and visual enhancements are included in this patch, along with some currency and intensity scaling fixes. Translation: We screwed up some math but it's all better now. ENHANCEMENTS - Updated rendering settings for multiple levels of quality, ensuring visual effects for illumination work on more platforms. FIXES - Previously-saved audio settings are now applied correctly when game…
This patch addresses a few issues that were brought to our attention by our alpha testers, particularly focusing on the Portal and Pulse Shield abilities, along with some related fixes and enhancements. FEATURES - Added range indicator for Portal ability to display range from "in" portal location to "out" portal. ENHANCEMENTS - Updated Pulse Shield timer to extend the attack timer if the tower…
Alpha Build 0.3 has been pushed out to our Alpha testers and comes with numerous fixes and enhancements, particularly to how the end of the level is handled. A tutorial has been added to the Level Select screen which should help with onboarding our newest Alpha testers and, in addition, there is a new setting for automated error reporting which is turned off by default but can be enabled by goi…
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