Greetings Tower runners; welcome to the third Early Access patch for Tower Song! This update includes some rebalancing tweaks to player-inflicted status effects, some quality of life improvements to crafting, and the usual assortment of bug fixes to make Tower Runs go that much smoother.
As always, a big thank you to our fans and players for your diligence in finding and reporting these problems to our development team! Props to the following bug hunters this go round:
- fairburrito
- Tortalius
- Vorticia
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Major Changes
Missing Achivements
Fight as One and Fully Loaded can now be properly completed.
This was a big oops on our part, but we have rectified the issue. As a bonus to players who should have received these achievements, players who load a valid safe file will automatically receive this achievement! This includes players who load their post-credits save game. Give it a shot! We're excited to see our first 100% completions roll out!
Save files made in earlier chapters of the game, when these achievements are not possible, will not unlock the achievement.
New Option: Enemy HP display
Players can now disable these for added immersion or difficulty. (Boss HP will still appear.)
Some players like hiding information for their own reasons, either to increase immersion or difficulty. This feature adds a little extra option for these players.
Status Effect Tweaks
Player barriers can no longer be bypassed by certain enemy skills.
Confusion and Charm are no longer removed when the victim takes damage.
Player stances can no longer be disrupted by certain enemy skills. (Control and stun effects will still remove them.)
This is major quality of life improvement for players who depend on crowd control abilities to manage combat, as well as making the mines chapter way more enjoyable for Tali and Jiji players.
Complete Patch Notes
Read on for a full list of changes made in this patch, both big and small!
New Features
- New Game Opening Dedication & New Closing Tribute: Jiji deserves to be honored when you first begin the game, and we have created a special dedication to another very good boy from our team for the end credits.
- New Option: Enemy HP Display - Players can now disable these for added immersion or difficulty. (Boss HP will still appear.)
Classes
Cosmic Witch
- Updated Tarot card spell icons for readability
Gatamancer
- Nekoward: Renamed => Ward; no longer restores MP; now costs 15 MP.
Mana Knight
- Mana Strike: No longer players a cast animation.
Combat
General
- Barrier: Player barriers can no longer be bypassed by certain enemy skills.
- Blood Mark: Renamed => Hunted; new icon.
- Control: Confusion and Charm are no longer removed when the victim takes
damage. - Stance: Player stances can no longer be disrupted by certain enemy skills. (Control and stun effects will still remove them.)
Prologue
- Errant Flame: HP reduced by 50%; DEF increased by 50%.
- Preparation: Purge - Now properly removed when the user is stunned, confused or charmed.
- Stone Harbingers: No longer refresh their barriers.
Chapter 2: Moldlight Mines
- Errant Soul: New passive (Blessed Resistance); no longer immune to Soul damage.
- Soul Knights: Will no longer use Bash on their first turn.
- Foundry Encounter: Now possible to avoid if players are successful at stealth.
Chapter 3: Vistham
- Naga Bloodflight: Will now prefer their Bow over a Slam attack.
Chapter 6: Final Area
- Lower Spawning Pool: Encounter is now easily avoidable unless players go after their treasure.
Equipment
- Crafting Materials: Icons updated to follow a visual pattern based on their use.
- Ashes: Renamed => Impure Stone
- Echo Armor: Renamed => Echo Ingot
Quest
- Creche pools are now a little more naturally placed and do not block movement when they appear they shouldn't
- Creche ceilings now appear more naturally above players and objects
Bug Fixes: Achievements
- Fight as One: Can now be properly completed. Players who load a valid safe file will automatically receive this achievement.
- Fully Loaded: Can now be properly completed. Players who load a valid safe file will automatically receive this achievement.
Bug Fixes: Classes
- Lichsoul: Now activates on KO even if the Blood Mage is stunned.
Cosmic Witch
- Meteor: Description now properly wraps.
Elementalist
- Boon of the Phoenix: Now activates on KO even if the Blood Mage is stunned.
- Elemental Spirits: No longer lose access to the spirit when revived from unconsciousness.
- Gale Force: No longer occasionally deals MP damage to enemies.
Street Fighter
- Crack: Now properly removes enemy Preparation states.
- Snap: Now properly removes enemy Preparation states.
Technomancer
- Mode: Techlance/Exosuit: Can no longer be used if the technomancer does not have resources in the other mode, preventing a softlock situation.
Blood Mage
Bug Fixes: Combat
- Fixed a bug where a shaking effect would last for the entire encounter.
- Adjusted several enemy portraits so their intent icon is more clearly visible.
- Chapter 1 Boss: Battle is no longer interrupted by dialogue.
- Chapter 3 Boss
- Boss HP gauge is now displayed correctly.
- The Combustible Mist no longer persists if it cannot be activated by the boss.
- The Combustible Mist now properly dissipates after a certain number of turns.
- The campfire in the Creche no longer appears alarmed when you trigger the nearby battle
Bug Fixes: Equipment
- Failnaught: Benefit no longer lost when taking the Knight's Aid mod
- Fire Armor: Description updated to reflect actual stats.
- Forged Blade: Description updated to reflect actual stats.
- Interlocutor: Description now properly wraps.
- Katana: No longer crashes the game if Counter triggers while Akeno does not have an active Spirit.
- Regulator: The Wound effect no longer damages Neat outside of combat.
Bug Fixes: Quest
- Moldlight Mines: You can no longer reach the trapped miner without fighting the nearby enemies.
- Moldlight Mines: The inner foundry door is now correctly placed on the wall.
- Moldlight Mines: Solace now correctly appears next to Neat in the post-
Guardian cut scene - Jiji no longer appears in Deso scene without Tali
- Military HQ kitchen and barracks are now properly navigatable
- Players no longer see the spawning pod cut-scene until they defeat the nearby enemies.
- Quest text in the final dungeon no longer wraps off-screen
- Players no longer clip through a pillar in the final dungeon
- Kiran can now obtain level 15 and unlock his 5th tier of skill mods in the final chapter.
- Jiji can now be interacted with in the final camp scene, and no longer floats
- You can no longer sequence break to get to the final boss, from the pre-
confrontation area
Bug Fixes: UI
- Guide (Heat): Fixed typo.