NEW Season / NEW Banner System / Patch 1.0.5

Version 1.0.5

With this patch, we're delivering several milestone elements from our planned roadmap (see below), including:

1. launch a new season!
2. add a new banner system
3. deliver significant QoL and bug fixes!

New / Changes

• GENERALIST BANNER SYSTEM: Choose 2 banners from 5 different tower types and earn a powerful specialization as a reward!
• NEW SEASON: A new season has begun – many things have changed. You can still view the results of the last season.
  The following badges are awarded for the previous season:
  
• Endless Mode Scaling Modifiers: Enemies gain special resistance scaling over time. In turn, spell base damage now scales as well.
• Shadow Tornados (Tornado x Shadow Fusion) now trigger Darkness (Shadow Banner effect), but no longer trigger Overdose (Shadow Banner)
• Frost spells now override Frost Tower effects (and cannot be overwritten by Frost Towers)
• Reroll function for Hero Choice added via a new Hero Tower Meta Perk
• Added button to open chests (for cases where visibility is blocked)
• City-building icons now change color based on the upgrade completion of their respective building

Major bug fixes

• Fixed special case of invisible chests
• Fixed bug preventing spells from being triggered
• Improved savegame stability
• Fixed rare bug in later waves where bosses could become immortal
• Fixed rare bug in later waves where health bars disappeared

Adjustments

• Doom Scattering (Raven x Tornado Fusion):
    Initial: 20% → 30%
    Banner upgrades: 6/8/14% → 9/12/21%
• Clinking Mastery (Raven x Frost Fusion):
    Initial: 200% → 300%
    Banner upgrades: 60/80/140% → 90/120/210%
• Precision Shots (Arrow x Mortar Fusion):
    Initial: 90% → 120%
    Banner upgrades: 30/40/70% → 40/55/95%
• Shadow Tornado (Tornado x Shadow Fusion):
    Duration: 200 → 130
    Banner Duration: 20/30/40 → 9/12/21
    Damage: 400% → 200%
    Banner Damage: 120/160/280% → 60/80/140%
• Squall (Tornado Banner):
    Initial: +73/87/130 → +90/120/210%
    Upgrades: +43/57/100 → +60/80/140%
• Stormbringer (Tornado Banner): +18/24/42% → +21/28/50%
• Wide Blast (Volcano Mortar Banner): +15/20/35% → +20/27/47%
• Runestone Tower Fire Rate: 7 → 6
• Scorching (Runestone x Tornado Fusion):
    Initial: 40% → 30%
    Banner upgrades: 12/16/28% → 9/12/21%
• Spiral of Pain (Shadow x Tornado Fusion):
    Initial: 30% → 40%
    Banner upgrades: 9/12/21% → 12/16/28%
• Prism damage transfer from previous towers: 70% → 60%
• Frost Tower:
    Max Slow Amount: 80% → 75%
    Freeze immunity after being frozen: 0.5s → 1s
• Frost Magician Global Cooldown: 15s → 20s
• Auto-banish of irrelevant perks after entering Endless Mode (e.g. more branching possible)
• Removed downside from Guild Obligation (no longer disables Goldmine)
• Removed downside from The One Standard (Fusions/Uniques no longer restricted)
• Best Selection (University, Luck Tree): Chance for banners in chests: 5x → 10x
• Path of Bounty: Next Boss HP Boost: 30% → 50%
• Hero Tower Specializations now grant more of the original spell damage: 50% → 70%
• Greedgem (Rare Relic): +100% → +200%
• Seal of Constancy and Golden Incentive (Common Relics) have swapped downsides
• Mill Specializations buffed: +4 Wheat per Worker, +20 passive Wheat production
• All other Resource Building Specializations buffed: +2 per Worker
• Buffed University Perks:
    Luck Tree: Market rerolls: 2 → 3
    War Tree: Enemy Analysis: +80% → +100% crit damage
    Economy Tree:
    - Trade Networks: 2 → 3 gold per ship
    - Golden Era: 60 → 80 gold per wave
    - Conservation: 20% → 30% worker cost reduction
    - Honey Ale: 40% → 60% beer bonus productivity
• Starter Bonuses to choose, when you start a new run:
    Wheat: 40 → 50
    Stone: 50 → 55

Improvements

• Performance optimization (especially with Runestone–Prism chains)
• Trade stack size in the Trading Post can now exceed 100
• Forges now display which towers are being buffed
• Specialized Workshop now directly shows which tower will be affected
• Improved perk refresh timing
• Fixed bug where Enemy Bane achievement didn’t count on all difficulties
• Clearing Master (Workshop Spec) now shows its effect when hovering over build resources
• 0-gold tower upgrades are now purchasable even when using Final Rags (debt relic)
• VFX reduction setting now affects all visual effects
• Message now appears if no more offers can be made due to empty loot pool (UI fades out)
• Fixed bug where DPS of last wave in leaderboard was capped at 2.1b
• Corrected Focus Rune (Runestone Banner) calculation
• Holding right-click to move the map no longer cancels spells/tower/outpost placement
• Improved visibility of high levels in Outpost heatmap
• Fixed bug where Artifact of Determination expiration removed auto level-up on some towers
• Fixed visual inconsistency where towers had no color difference on medium graphics
• Adjusted relic counter position/size to avoid overlap
• Fixed bug where chest drop tiles could block future frost/burn fields
• Fixed cloning issue with tower level-up groups
• Improved translations
• Mouse buttons can now be assigned in keybindings

Roadmap Update

This also allows us to update our roadmap - the yellow ticks visualize topics for which we have already partially delivered the scope of the planned content with the patch - but as you can see, there's more to come:

Thanks again to all the valuable feedback from the community - we read everything, whether Discord, Review, Youtube comment or Steam Discussion post: THANK YOU! Also thanks to all the feedback from the beta - Reminder: If you want to help us test the next upcoming content: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3028310/view/506198441910601078

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