Jun 9, 2015

Dungeon Of The Endless Meets Team Fortress 2 Characters

Team Fortress 2 - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alice O'Connor)

Meet the aliens.

That rag-tag gang of mercenaries from Team Fortress 2 are at it again, “it” being “appearing in other games made by other people.” This time they’ve popped up in Dungeon of the Endless [official site], the really very good roguelikelike tower defence game by Amplitude Studios.

The free Australium update launched yesterday, adding the TF2 Pyro, Medic, Heavy, and Engineer to Dungeon’s lineup of playable characters. But wait, there’s more! It also added five new TF2-y items. The game’s on sale too.

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Jun 9, 2015

Dungeon of the Endless gets a free TF2-themed update

Dungeon of the ENDLESS™

The other day, I found myself fondly remembering that strange period where a game's pre-order bonuses consisted mostly of Team Fortress 2 hats. Instead of exclusive missions or trinkets, players were instead treated to virtual headwear for another developer's game. It was fun extra, and not one that would overly penalise those who—entirely sensibly—thought that pre-ordering was for chumps.

Alas, those days are seemingly over. But Team Fortress 2 hasn't entirely left the collective consciousness of PC gaming at large. Consider this: the Australium update that's now live in Dungeon of the Endless.

The Australium update adds a variety of TF2-based accoutrement to Amplitude's roguelike tower-defence game. For starters, there are four new Heroes: the Pyro, Medic, Engineer and Heavy. And for seconds? Five new passive items, including a Tower of Hats, Gas Mask, Dove, jPad and Sandvich.

This is all a result of DotE's recent Steam free weekend, and Amplitude's successful community challenge to get people playing their games.

Dungeon of the Endless is an extremely tactical (and particularly challenging) dungeon crawler. It combines team management with exploration and the building and upgrading of towers. For more details, check out our review.

Thanks, PCGamesN.

Jun 8, 2015

[1.0.70] Australium Free Update

Dungeon of the ENDLESS™ - Steph.(✿◠‿◠)

Hey everyone,

If you watched the stream this afternoon, you probably know what's coming to Dungeon of the Endless: the Australium update! It is free and will available today on Steam to everyone who owns Dungeon of the Endless.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/365940/
This Australium update for DotE is one of the rewards that you've unlocked during the recent Steam Free Weekend: it includes 4 new heroes and 5 new items from Team Fortress 2, Valve's famous cooperative game gone free to play.

Note that you can grab Dungeon of the Endless on Steam at 33% off!

RELEASE NOTES

"Taking a break after a particularly brutal gravel war, these four mercenaries are prospecting for the rare element Australium in the hopes of using their battle-honed skills to actually make some money. It is rumoured that there are extensive lodes of Australium across Auriga so they are exploring and tunnelling, trying to find this precious resource."

Added 4 new heroes
- Pat Bates (Pyro): nobody knows where this thing came from, what it thinks, or why it does what it does. Eager researchers who interview Bates tend to either quickly change their area of study -- or go mad themselves.
- Kaspar Herab (Medic): Kaspar did, at some point, receive some form of medical training. The duration, sobriety, and quality of that training -- and whether or not it pertained to human beings -- is highly questionable. Herab's eagerness to demonstrate it, however, is not.
- Dell Bradford (Engineer): Dell is a misplaced transdimensional copy of a non-existent being from a pseudo-reality. Fortunately, he is also a skilled engineer with at least eleven hard science PhDs so minor questions concerning the nature of reality don't bother him much.
- Misha Cherny (Heavy): Misha comes from a very cold gulag in a very cold place; much of his reputation stems from the fact that though he and his sisters escaped, none of the guards did. This experience has not affected the warmth of his personality, though it should be noted that the degree of warmth is directly proportional to the number of dead enemies.
Added 5 new items with passive skills (Sandvish, Gas Mask, Dove, jPad, Tower of Hats)
- Tower of Hats: tarnish it notte, presumptuous one.
- Gas Mask: a highly effective defence against anything from flatulation to the most toxic nerve gas. The only drawback is that the mask’s active ingredient causes idyllic, pastoral hallucinations.
- Dove: the only flying animal not yet eaten by the dungeon inhabitants, Archimedes stays safely in the pocket of whoever is carrying it.
- jPad: one letter better than its famous predecessor, this hand-held marvel contains optimised solutions for the materials, project plans, and techniques of module construction.
- Sandvich: not considered edible by most sentient beings, this snack requires teeth capable of chewing gravel. On the plus side, it tastes like vodka.
Improved memory use
Fixed an issue where the operator lost his bonus during an attack in multiplayer
Fixed an issue where the floor could not be finished

WARNING: in Singleplayer mode, you might have to restart at the beginning of your floor. In Multiplayer mode, you might have to restart the whole run/pod. If you want to finish your game in MP, we suggest you use a previous version of the game. To access that version, you will have to select in the Steam properties of Dungeon of the Endless, the 'Betas' tab, then select the [1.0.63] version.

Now go and have fun! :)

Sincerely,
~Amplitude

Jun 8, 2015

[1.0.70] Australium Free Update

Dungeon of the ENDLESS™ - Steph(✿◠‿◠)

RELEASE NOTES

Added 4 new heroes
- Pat Bates (Pyro): nobody knows where this thing came from, what it thinks, or why it does what it does. Eager researchers who interview Bates tend to either quickly change their area of study -- or go mad themselves.
- Kaspar Herab (Medic): Kaspar did, at some point, receive some form of medical training. The duration, sobriety, and quality of that training -- and whether or not it pertained to human beings -- is highly questionable. Herab's eagerness to demonstrate it, however, is not.
- Dell Bradford (Engineer): Dell is a misplaced transdimensional copy of a non-existent being from a pseudo-reality. Fortunately, he is also a skilled engineer with at least eleven hard science PhDs so minor questions concerning the nature of reality don't bother him much.
- Misha Cherny (Heavy): Misha comes from a very cold gulag in a very cold place; much of his reputation stems from the fact that though he and his sisters escaped, none of the guards did. This experience has not affected the warmth of his personality, though it should be noted that the degree of warmth is directly proportional to the number of dead enemies.
Added 5 new items with passive skills (Sandvish, Gas Mask, Dove, jPad, Tower of Hats)
- Tower of Hats: tarnish it notte, presumptuous one.
- Gas Mask: a highly effective defence against anything from flatulation to the most toxic nerve gas. The only drawback is that the mask’s active ingredient causes idyllic, pastoral hallucinations.
- Dove: the only flying animal not yet eaten by the dungeon inhabitants, Archimedes stays safely in the pocket of whoever is carrying it.
- jPad: one letter better than its famous predecessor, this hand-held marvel contains optimised solutions for the materials, project plans, and techniques of module construction.
- Sandvich: not considered edible by most sentient beings, this snack requires teeth capable of chewing gravel. On the plus side, it tastes like vodka.
Improved memory use
Fixed an issue where the operator lost his bonus during an attack in multiplayer
Fixed an issue where the floor could not be finished