May 13, 2022

Fatal Core - Panarchy

With this update, we are buffing a large number of underused cards (list below)

Prisoner's Mana Magnet space is being restricted - Prisoner will no longer be able to use this space to chain Mana Magnets turn after turn. At the end of a turn, if Mana Magnet was triggered on this space, it will now require a full turn to recharge. This change means Prisoner players will have to make more impactful decisions, rather than falling back on a game plan of chaining Magnets after gaining a lead. This restriction should pave the way for buffs to Prisoner's cards

Strime, The Brewmaster has been removed and replaced by Cymon, Head of Security. The new card keeps the same ability, but his stats have been set to 4/5.

Fixed a bug with Lydia, where she would sometimes summon two Corpses instead of one!

Balance Changes:
NEUTRAL
S
• Baraghast -> Success: Remove this ability and gain +0/+5
• Behemoth, Void's Curse -> Slow 7
• Haraban -> Erase -> Kill
• Divine Favor -> Redraw 2
A
• Callous Mage -> 4/6
• Clowder -> 4/5
• Fractal Pawn -> 2/4
• Lapis Deva -> 3/10
• Ombranix -> Initialize: If you control at least 2 creatures with 1 Power or less, gain 'Each Turn: Give all friendly creatures +1/+1'
• Starborn Horror -> End of Turn: ... Success: +1/+1
• Warpbinder -> 2/6 Each Turn: Gain +4/+1 if you played a spell
• Zankuja Highpriest -> 4/3
B
• Bound Siren -> 0/7
• Crystal Coat -> +2/+5
C
• Overloaded Psion -> 3/4. Success: Lose this ability.

JEDO
A
• Disrupted Sage -> 3/5

JEDO & MALDEVA
S
• Galt -> [Replace Initialize with] Presence: Friendly Summoned creatures have +1/+1. Opposing Summoned creatures have -1/-1.
B
• Leyline Stag -> 3/5 Each Turn : Gain +1/+1 if a friendly creature is Soulless
• Leyline Wolf -> 2/4 Initialize : Gain +1/+0 for each friendly Soulless creature in play.
C
• Flame-wrought Psion -> 3/4. Success: Field Change +3/+2
• Frost-forged Psion -> 3/4.
X
• Knight of Misfortune: 5/6 End of Turn: If the combined power of creatures in this column is 5 or above, gain -1/-0.

MALDEVA
C
• Sphere of Madness -> -3/-3 and -1/-1 per soulless in play.

PRISONER
A
• Millicent: Cleaner -> Each Turn: Erase your corpse, End of Turn: Summon opp corpse.
C
• Lost Tech Savant -> 3/4
• Mad Scientist -> +1/+1

PRISONER & HUSH
• Crazed Mutant -> Field Change : Rage 1. Each Turn : TS... Slow 7. End of Turn : Gain +0/+1 if there is a card with Slow in your opponent's hand.

HUSH
C
• Dead Man's Coin -> Fill all empty spaces on your board with Corpses. Success: Gain 2 Life for each Corpse on your board. Redraw 3.

JOANNE
A
• Star-Sent Sage -> Resolve 1
B
• Emerge -> Redraw 2

JOANNER & KAHAR
B
• Devout Lightcrafter -> 3/7 Spellscarred 1
• Reader of the Leaves -> Resolve 1

KAHAR
S
• Tryvar -> Success: Remove this ability
C
• Frostreign Storyteller -> 1/8
• Ironsong -> +0/+6

May 13, 2022

Patch 0.4.7.5.13

Few Nights More - info

Hello everyone, our new patch is out!

Bug Fixes:

Block stacks would be lost even when upcoming damage was mitigated with armor. Block now only triggers if HP damage is prevented.
Plated armor was causing some skills to not work properly( ex: ferocity didn't gain any momentum on attacks dealt on plated armor) This should be fixed.
Fixed an issue where lifesteal would cause players to remain alive as "invisible" after death. You should die properly now.
Fixed an issue where everytime theres a new skill or trinket or room choice, all 3 choices would be totatly different then previous choice. This would cause unintented difficulty on upgrading skills or rooms by getting multiple copies of them. Its now fixed to where the choices are fully random.
Blood Lance would not gain any recast when affected by immortal lineage and blood gained from left over AP. This is now fixed.
Fixed an issue where everytime Blood Missile would gain a recast, it would gain it as initial recast instead of normal. It now gains recast properly
Fixed an issue where Rupture did not gain recast properly.
During Victory screen, pressing "continue" button before the screen shows up caused crashes or caused skiping nights entirely. This is fixed.
During Victory screen, going back to main menu then pressing continue would cause game to skip an entire night, this is also fixed.
Fixed an UI issue where area of effect skills caused dead enemies to have damage number text on them as if they are still alive.
Fixed an UI issue where after gaining 15 skills in skillbook the next page button wouldnt appear until next night.
Fixed an issue where Tab and Haste skills could multicast even though they are cooldown skills. They no longer can multicast.
Fixed an issue where room choices sometimes came as blank placeholders.
Invasion turn was not saved properly after loading the game back during invasion. This caused some issues with hunter waves movements, it should be fixed now.
Fixed an issue where Healing Station decor and Harp healed again if players reloaded the game during base preparation screen.

[h4]UI[/h4]

Fixed an issue with Claw's empowered version description would not fit the UI.
Clan Sandreanni's 4th trinket slot now has hotkey "R".
Heart of Corrondum now has an icon.
Veteran Paladin and Grand Marshal Pentarei had some missing sound effects, they have been added.

Balance Changes:

[h4]Blood[/h4]

Devastation: is now multicastable.
Calling: now also gives two recast to blood lance on use.

[h4]Ferocity[/h4]

Outsmart: Extra damage gained from intelligence is now 1 instead of 2.
Exploit Weakness: Now gives strenght equal to 1.5 times of intelligence instead of 2.

Rooms

Living room: level 3 now gives 20 experience per boss kill instead of heritage.

Traps

Bear Trap: On all rarities this trap now deals percentage damage(of enemies maxHP) instead of direct damage.
Javeline Launcher: On all rarities this trap now deals percentage damage(of enemies maxHP) instead of direct damage.
New Trap Spike Pit: Deals direct damage to a single target.
Spike Wall: Deals direct damage to all enemies.

May 13, 2022

Update for Default Branch 5/13/2022

HereSphere VR Video Player - HereSphere

Synchronized Peripherals:

Funscripts are natively supported for the Handy. This is an experimental feature, so please report any issues you come across on the HereSphere discord channel.
In the user settings, input your Handy Connection Key and then enable the "Synchronized Periphals" toggle. If the connection is successful, then you should see "Connected" next to the toggle. If you see "Firmware Update Required", then you need to update the Handy firmware. If you see "Invalid Connection Key", check your connection key and make sure the Handy is in wifi mode with accesss to the internet.
The player will first look for funscript files in the same directory as the video being played or will load the script provided by XBVR. If no funscript files are found, then the player will look in the fallback directory. The default fallback directory is "C:/Interactive", but you can change it in the user settings under synchronized peripherals.
It may take several seconds for funscript files to be downloaded to the Handy when a video is opened. An icon that looks like a play button with radio waves is located above the seek bar, and changes color based on the connection status of the handy. A red icon indicates a connection error; a gray icon indicates no script can be found; a yellow icon indicates the script file is being uploaded; orange icon indicates the script upload failed; blue icon indicates the script upload succeeded; purple icon indicates the script is playing. If the script doesn't seem to be playing or has sync issues, you can try reopening the file or refreshing the connection by hitting the reconnect icon next to the Synchronized Peripherals toggle. You can also toggle play/pause or seek to resync the video.

DeoVR/XBVR API:

All of the DeoVR/XBVR lists are now scanned into the media library, including unmatched videos.
The list names are shown at the top of the webstreaming view. Click on the list name to display each list. Use the thumbstick up/down to scroll the list of names horizontally.
Funscripts are loaded directly from links provided by XBVR, so there's no need to use a fallback directory.
The tag "Synchronized Script" will be added to videos that are mark scripted by XBVR.

Other Changes:

The seek bar now lists timestamped tags if there are multiple tags in the first tag track. Timestamped tags are also read from the DeoVR/XBVR API. Clicking on these timestamped tags will seek to the start time of the tag.
Added file name recognition for the Canon RF5.2mm fisheye lens. If the filename contains "_RF52", then the player will load fisheye settings with a linear lens (the RF52 is very linear) at 190 FOV.
Changed the recenter button on the main menu to recenter the rotation instead of just resetting all values back to 0.
Fixed an issue where the menu size and transparency were being incorrectly loaded at startup.
Changed timestamp offset to use milliseconds instead of seconds.
Changed playback error message to mention that VP9, MPEG2, and Dolby Audio codecs should also be manually installed.
The locked menu position now gets updated when the player orientation is recentered. This means the locked position is relative to your currently centered orientation, rather than the world position.
The "Drag Rotation" keybinding now uses the motion controller rotation instead of your head orientation to drag the video. If you prefer to use your head orientation, there is a "Drag Rotation With Head" toggle in the user settings.
Added a "Auto Play After Delete" toggle in the user settings that controls whether a video is automatically played after the currently opened file is deleted.

May 13, 2022

Version 1.6 - New Maps!

Element TD 2 - Tower Defense - WindStrike

It's Friday the 13th, and you know what that means? That's right, it's patch time! New Maps, Map Variants have Leaderboards, Ranked now has a Tower Ban Phase, some overdue Lobby UI updates, tons of bug fixes, the usual balance shenanigans, some love for War Mode, and more!

New Maps

Cave

That's right, we actually added a simple spiral map, which surprisingly was not in the game already.

Cave Variant

This map actually comes courtesies of our #map-ideas channel on our Discord! With some tweaks, of course.

Space

Element TD 2... in space?

Space Variant

Do I want to know how this map even works?

Lowlands Co-op Map

What a calm, peaceful map! Would be a shame if it was covered in creeps.

Map Variants Updated

Variants now have their own Leaderboards! And the map selection UI has been improved to help highlight their existence.

That's a lot of leaderboards. Start climbing!

Additionally, two of the existing Map Variants have been switched out for better versions from the Campaign, adapted for FFA/Teams.

Temple Variant

It's like someone took the Temple Map from Mission 20 and lopped off the sides.

Wasteland Variant

4 separate paths in a FFA Map? Can you even cover everything on the first wave?

Co-op Boss Versions

You'll notice that instead of Co-op Map Variants, we now have Co-op Boss Variants. Each of these has their own wave order, including some Campaign-only creeps. Additionally, at the start of every 5th wave, a Boss will precede the wave.

And yes, these also have their own Leaderboards.

Transference is here to make everyone suffer.

Engage Warp Speed!

Yes, even this diabolical boss has been added on some maps.

Ranked Ban Phase

At the start of a Ranked Pick or Ranked War match, there's now a 1 minute ban phase:

Both players choose 3 towers to ban, 1 minute to select bans
Singles & Support Towers cannot be banned (1st, 3rd, and 5th rows on Tower Table).
Once both players have chosen their bans (or after a minute has passed), it'll reveal the towers that are banned.
Note, it is possible for both players to ban the same tower. Banning is also optional. That said, 0 to 6 towers can be banned.
A banned tower cannot be built or upgraded to.

Additionally:

Ranked now requires both players to accept the match within 30 seconds
Some backend adjustments have been made, which should reduce the chance of desyncs.
In Ranked, if a game desyncs, it'll now compare networths between both players. If the difference in networths is below 1%, it won't kill the game and should instead keep going.

Now if a tower is OP, you can just ban it. All our balance problems solved! ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Improvements

Lobby & Lobby List UI updates:
- Selecting a map pulls up its own menu.
- There is now a magnifying glass icon on the map preview, letting you Zoom In.
- Co-op Map Previews show each players' paths as colored lines.
- Map previews actually update when you turn on Advanced Paths. Doesn't apply to Co-op.
- Lobby List cleaned up, allowing for all Settings to be properly visible now.
When placing a tower on a spot where another tower already exists, an indicator will tell you that you can't build there.
Co-op Portals now have a different color glow around them, dependent on the player color they're supposed to match.
If a player disconnects, their builder should now vanish.
When viewing a replay, there's now a UI for switching player perspectives.
Ranked Replays should now end when the game ends instead of going further. This includes when a desync happens in the original game.
MMR Search Range no longer scales by games played, everyone gets to search everyone within 375 MMR.
Leaderboards now only show 50 entries instead of 100, halving the load time.
Adjusted how creeps scale visually over time. Should be more consistent than before, and in Chaos in particular, they'll actually grow properly instead of be all over the place.
Campaign adjustments:
- Insane Difficulty option added
- Inferno Boss fireball now has a max range of 2000
- Halved the number of bosses in the last 5 waves of Mission 25 to account for Inferno Boss no longer being cheesable
War Mode adjusted:
- Elemental Bosses are freebies, meaning you don't have to kill the bosses
- As a result, there's no longer 30 second breaks every 4 waves
- Additionally, you can't get Level 2 Elements until the 4th Pick, Level 3 Elements until the 8th Pick, and Essence Upgrade until the 10th Pick
- Non-damage effects no longer affect allied creeps

Wait, there's a second row of maps? Since when were these in the game?

Fixes

Potentially fixed mid-game spontaneous disconnects, particularly in laggy co-op games
Fixed an issue where people would desync at the start of the game, causing some players to look like they've gone AFK and die immediately
Fixed an issue where the game pausing caused people to get stuck between the loading screen and the game
Fixed a bug in Ranked where the end-screen wouldn't show up
Fixed a rare bug where a Ranked Game could somehow be set to Normal Difficulty
In the off-chance a Ranked Game doesn't load properly, it should no longer count as a win/loss
Fixed an issue where you could see who your ranked opponent is before the match locks in, which allowed you to Alt+F4 and dodge a guaranteed loss vs. HD
Fixed a bug in Boss Hunt Length where the speed multiplier would decrease over time
Fixed a bug where you couldn't kick someone in lobby under specific circumstances
Fixed FFA lobby settings carrying over into War Mode
Fixed Advanced Paths, No Interest, & No Sell not showing up as settings in the Lobby List
Fixed Ronalds somehow spamming the log
Fixed nullref error on Tropical
Fixed the Tower Table in Menu bugging out if you did 11 element picks and pressed reset
Fixed "Aftersock" tooltip

Now you can walk away for 30 minutes and return without a loss!

Balance

General

Income Upgrade has been removed from the game
- Rather than being an "interesting choice" alongside the Element Picks, it's just money with no real downside. We tried various iterations of it, but as the balance kept shifting, trying to get this right was a real pain. Ultimately, we decided to gut it from the game, in favor of "do something more interesting with that 11th Element Pick".
- To clarify, the version that's in the Campaign still exists.
Periodic damage reduced from 55000 to 52000
FFA Base HP increased from 120 to 125
Co-op Base HP increased from 150 to 160
War Base HP increased from 125 to 150
The backend adjustments made to reduce desyncs affected the accuracy of range and AoE. It's relatively minor, but you may notice towers clipping spots a little easier than before.

Duals

Atom damage reduced from 330 to 310
Poison duration increased from 16 to 17 seconds
Disease reworked:
- Damage increased from 95 to 150
- Old Effect: Deals more damage the lower the target's HP is. Formula = [(Max HP/Current HP) + 1]
- New Effect: Deals 2.5% / 3% / 4% more damage per 1% HP the target is missing
Vapor damage increased from 1100 to 1150
Ice damage increased from 825 to 850
Solar damage-per-second reduced from 120 to 110
Infernal damage increased from 700 to 750
Howitzer damage increased from 195 to 200
Geyser damage increased from 1050 to 1100
Blacksmith, fixed a bug where its buff wouldn't affect certain towers:
- This includes Corrosion, Doom, Plague & Obelisk
Trickery adjusted:
- Damage increased from 325 to 450
- Range and cast range reduced from 1150 to 900
- Clone now deals 100% damage regardless of Level
- Duration adjusted from 20 seconds to 10 / 20 / 60 seconds
- Clones now carry manual/autocast settings over from the original
- Clones can no longer be manually sold

Triples

Astral damage increased from 2000 to 2100
Ethereal damage increased from 850 to 900
Flooding damage increased from 420 to 440
Impulse damage increased from 2700 to 2850
Quake adjusted:
- Shockwave trigger count required reduced from 8 to 5
- Shockwave damage reduced from 2600 to 1750
Money passive gold rate increased from 5 to 6 gold every 15 seconds

Quads

Quad Element Tower cost increased from 4000 to 4250
Singularity damage reduced from 15000 to 13000
Doom adjusted:
- Damage increased from 0 to 1000
- Attack speed reduced from 1.5 to 1
- Doom stack damage increased from 7000 to 9000
- Doom stack damage growth increased from 4% to 5% per second
- Doom stack duration increased from 10 to 20 seconds
- Explosion AoE reduced from 100 to 0
- Damage will now cap out at 25200 damage per stack
- Default priority changed from Near to Strong
- Fixed an issue where it was trying to hit the "center" of the creep instead of the pivot, meaning it could sometimes "miss" a physically large creep
- On the Creep UI Status Icon itself, it'll tell you both the stack count & the current % increase
- On the Creep UI, where HP is listed, next to it will list the total Doom damage, in purple
Crystal Spire adjusted:
- AoE reduced from 100 to 0 (Note, its AoE previously didn't work, so effectively, this part is the same)
- Max spirits increased from 9 to 11
Tsunami shockwave damage increased from 20k, 50k, 85k, 130k to 23k, 55k, 95k, 145k
Rage adjusted:
- Damage-per-second increased from 3600 to 4000
- Damage amp reduced from 30% to 25%
- Movespeed reduced from +60% to +50%
Archdruid adjusted:
- Damage increased from 20000 to 25000
- AoE reduced from 400 to 300
Life Altar damage/attack speed buff reduced from 45% to 40%
Tesla Tree nerfed:
- Damage reduced from 8000 to 7500
- AoE reduced from 100 to 0
Gravity Cannon adjusted:
- Damage increased from 4000 to 12400
- Attack speed reduced from 3 to 1
- Speedup/Slow durations increased from 0.2 to 0.5 seconds
- Default priority changed from Front to Back
Shredder adjusted:
- No longer speeds up split creeps by 5%
- Split creep HP increased from 50% to 55%
- Creeps split by Shredder now only count for half a kill each for Life Altar
Nuclear adjusted:
- Damage reduced from 15000 to 10000
- Max slow reduced from 40% to 30%
- % HP damage-per-second increased from 0.25% to 0.35%
- Effect no longer applies to Elemental Bosses
- Fixed a bug with its damage-per-second applying inconsistently within its AoE. This should be an increase compared to before.

Map Tweaks

Changed the advanced path layout for Desert Variant
Autumn Variant side paths now have reduced HP instead of reduced speed
Winter Variant HP reduced by 20% on both paths
- On Advanced, only the long path is reduced by 20% HP
Volcano adjusted:
- Short Paths 2 & 6 sped up by 15%
- Long Paths sped up 20-30%, HP lowered by 10%
- Middle mountain finally removed, replaced with build spots
Tundra lower-left mountains pushed back, build spots added in that area
Pinnacle adjusted:
- Short Paths changed from +10% HP / +10% Movespeed to just +10% HP
- Long Paths sped up 20-30%, HP lowered by 10-20%

Specializations
Some of these were updated in Version 1.5, we just failed to note them or update the tooltips properly, so the following list notes changes from both 1.5 & 1.6.

Water Spec 1 bounce range increased from 300 to 500
Water Spec 2 bounce damage reduced from 75% to 70%
Lightning Spec 2 bounce count reduced from 6 / 8 / 10 to 5 / 7 / 9
Vapor Spec 1 adjusted:
- Old: Damage reduced by 40%. Bonus damage per creep increased to 6% / 9% / 12%.
- New: Range reduced to 750. Bonus damage per creep increased to 5% / 10% / 15%.
Vapor Spec 2 bonus damage per creep increased from -9% / -6% / -3% to 0%
Ice Spec 2 cannot be stunned cooldown reduced from 2 to 1.5 seconds
Well Spec 1 range increased to 1500
Blacksmith Spec 1 range increased to 1500
Trickery Spec 1 adjusted:
- Old: Range increased to 1500. Clone deals 32% / 96% / 288% damage.
- New: Range increased to 1500. Clone duration reduced to 8 / 16 / 48 seconds.
Trickery Spec 2 adjusted:
- Old: Range reduced to 250. Clone deals 50% / 150% / 450% damage for 20 seconds.
- New: Range reduced to 250. Clone duration increased to 12 / 24 / 72 seconds.
Laser Spec 1 damage gain per nearby creep increased from 500 / 2000 to 1000 / 4000
Haste Spec 2 attack speed gain reduced from 5% to 3%
Quake Spec 1 adjusted:
- Old: Trigger count reduced to 4 attacks, Shockwave Damage reduced by 40%.
- New: Trigger count reduced to 3 attacks, Shockwave Damage reduced by 30%.
Quake Spec 2 adjusted:
- Old: Shockwave Damage increased by 60%.
- New: Shockwave Damage increased by 150%.
Money Spec 2 bonus damage based on Unspent Gold increased from 25% / 50% to 30% / 60%
Windstorm Spec 2 AoE reduced from 400 to 300

As per usual, Score Leaderboards have been reset.

Where we're going, we don't need roads... just endless space.

Element TD 2 Wiki

If you didn't know, we actually have an Element TD 2 Wiki. Go into greater depth on each map, tower, specific mechanics, and even version history! Big shoutout to a few specific members of our Discord Community for creating and maintaining the Wiki:

draktok
Sacropedia
SilverDeath

What's Next?

Somehow, this patch ended up being larger than 1.4's Quad Element Patch. Despite that, there's a few things we ran out of time to add. Insane in Campaign, but no 5-star score thresholds? New maps, but no new Achievements? No fancy new cosmetics?

Fret not, everything we missed this patch will be coming in Version 1.7, set to release in July. This'll also act as an interim patch while the ever mysterious Mazing DLC is being developed. We still don't have a more specific time frame on it or details to show you yet. We'll start showing off Mazing when we're ready.

In the meantime, we hope you enjoy the new maps, the Variants you didn't know existed due to poor UI, and all the other juicy additions!