Several Bug Fixes and Improvements

We've uploaded update v. 1.16.3.14 with various bug fixes across stages, heroes, towers, enemies, navigation, and UI to improve overall gameplay stability and experience.

Read the full changelog:

Bug fixes

Level and Stage Fixes

• fixes taunt positions in stages 32, 37, 41
• fixes tower ember lords terrain hover
• prevents fog pseudo-towers from being hovered/focused
• fixes stage 41 secondary paths 2,3,4 missing
• fixes stage 41 gold steal parrot position
• fixes stage 16 and 19 taunt balloon position
• fixes stage 11 freeze hover image missing
• fixes stage 11 left cave mask width
• shows loading background 1 when opening tutorial
• fixes texture detail in stage 37
• fixes disappearing holder banners
• fixes desktop stage art glitches stages 6 and 10
• fixes stage 41 masks offset and zorder with holders

Hero and Tower Fixes

• fixes Snow Golem removal recovering nearest tower in stages 20-22
• fixes Arcane Magus using teleport when possessed by Lucerna
• Lucerna is no longer affected by Master Architects
• Sandworm and Ignis Altar are now affected by Master Architects
• fixes Beresad ult display
• fixes oloch ultimate moving when casted in path 3
• fixes Blazing Gem's Unstable Power upgrade scaling
• fixes Oloch buffing Sarcophagus
• fixes Ignis Altar not being affected by damage multipliers
• fixes Goblirangs Angry Bee not attacking flying enemies
• fixes Burning Fuel's damage
• fixes Wicked Sisters targeting Carnival Dragons with Froggification
• fixes HeroTank crash when spawning soldiers near path start
• fixes tower worm damage in encyclopedia
• fixes Winter Queen tower block not focusable
• some desert eagle fixes

Enemies

• fixes Stonebeard Geomancer and Bullshark Dasher size modifier
• fixes Risen Cutthroats summoned by the fog from dead allied units giving gold
• fixes units summoning on unopened level 41 paths

Navigation and Focus

• customizes tower nav overrides
• fixes crash in FocusNav
• fixes dismissing map rooms help with controller
• fixes tower room equipped towers navigation
• prevents equipping a locked tower in tower room
• fixes focus when popping hero/tower room help
• fixes hero/tower room help tooltip positions
• refactors wave flag tooltips positioning using anchor points
• fixes navigation overrides in upgrades room
• changes widget navigation distance calculation to use dyn nav algorithm
• nav override in hero room done/reset buttons
• disables mouse listener that reverts pointer
• focus nav override for briefing difficulty button
• fixes navigation in options down from slider
• fixes undoing tower selection after a build/upgrade of another ends
• re-enables navigation after end cutscenes
• fixes unreachable top item in quickmenu for level 4 towers
• fixes tower rally snapping outside range
• fixes quickmenu not showing tooltip on second opening

Encyclopedia and UI

• removes borders from comic 15 images (pirates dlc)
• fixes enemies health in encyclopedia with current difficulty
• fixes instakill missing in encyclopedia for Polyx and Hanged Captain
• fixes missing shadows in encyclopedia, green dots in some towers
• now shows instakill in infobar instead of None
• adds missing instakill damage to deep king info

Sound

• fixes tower sell sounds not working when using keys/controller
• increases worm_nest_buy_skill sound
• adds limit_instances to bucaneer range attack sounds

General and Stability

• fixes several issues in data files
• fixes windows plist malformed in notifications/tips
• fixes page background glitches
• adds proxies for scramInfobar and others in KRGameplayScene
• fix stun id modifiers
• recovers from broken save game with empty tips key in notifications

Controller and Input Handling

• controller: fixes “Press any button” not reacting to most buttons
• controller: restores pointer behaviour when selecting hero with keys
• controller: changes how pointer behaves when selecting hero with shoulder buttons

Improvements

• implements dynamic navigation mode for stages where towers are removed during the fight and overrides cannot be used (stages 20-22)
• improves encyclopedia navigation, changes page change sound
• improve navigation by making dyn nav distance wider
• improves navigation in tower and hero rooms
• avoids jumping to the other side when there is nothing to focus towards the selected direction
• improves mouse pointer tracking speed with joystick
• heavy refactor of pointer handling when switching between mouse/joystick/keyboard
• enables map flags panning with focus change
• hammerage melee attack can no longer be silenced
• Spectro now bleeds in violet instead of red