Fixes and changes for update 0.5.3

- The friendly wizard now will keep on providing you items for shards after wave 100!
- The critical strike damage of Head hunter now works with lightning tower scaling (and all other scaling)
- Adjusted the scaling in endless mode. Wave 1000 should be much harder to reach
- All endless enemies with the modifier Regeneration should heal now
- Changed the descriptions of some achievements where the description still said some old information
- Changed the description of the gold amulet achievement. The items have to be in the tower inventory! (that's how it worked but I but a wrong description in the achievements)
- Resolution of items in tower inventory is restored back to before previous update
- Fixed a bug where you did not get the achievement of unlocking all modifiers if you first beat two-lane hardmode, then one-lane hardmode (while having all requirements met)
- Fixed a bug where the game would freeze for seconds to minutes when unlocking either the lightning tower abilities, or the spike tower ability
- Fixed a bug where if you had too many lightning towers and used the Lightning Focus recipe, the amount of lightning strikes would be too much which resulted in an error
- Fixed a bug where an error would occur if the friendly wizard's shop would display a highest rarity item
- Fixed an issue where pressing Escape in the main menu screen would generate an error
- Fixed the naming of the items to be more consistent with the previous items (Uppercase consistency)
- Fixed a bug where the damage calculations of Damage releaser was incorrect.
- Fixed a bug which introduced some minor number inconsistencies in the post game screen

- Buffed Overpowered mace 375% -> 425%
- Buffed Damage releaser 600% -> 750%
- Nerfed Head hunter 400% -> 375%

Thanks for all the bug reports on both the discord and the steam forums!

• Fixed some item unlock conditions not working properly (for example the 10 lightning towers condition)
  
• Corrected certain achievements, now they all should show/work properly!
  
• No more level continue when getting defeated
  
• Fixed a bug where the endless popup kept showing up when loading a game in wave 50 or higher
  
• You can now decrease the range of a tower to 0 and in turn unlock the Sunflower item when reaching range 1
  
• Fixed the flamethrower tower bird causing errors
  
• Increased the resolution of the question mark of unrolled items

Some quick fixes

• Made the endless scaling scale more exponential
  
• Made some item text descriptions more clear
  
• Golden Lootbag unlock condition should work now

Fixed a couple of small bugs and a buff to Motion Sensor and Location Radar

• Fixed a bug where custom maps did not get to go into endless mode (an error happened when getting 1 of the new achievements, which resulted in more weird bugs like not being able to go into endless mode)
  
• Buffed the Motion sensor and the Location radar. Also made their description more clear
  
• Golden lootbag now works as per description

Thank you all for the bug reports!

There was a small bug in the leaderboard and the achievements where not properly setup

Finally after too many months I can proudly announce a new update. The update is a bigger one than previous updates :)

Why did it take me this long? There are a couple of reasons: studies, some personal things, had to fix some garbage code to add new features (first time bigger game code and all...), scraped things after building them(they did not make sense, either based on the content or based on balancing) and because certain things took more time than I had anticipated.


The damage numbers now look better and show little icons to better understand what damage is being dealt. The damage number system is also made using a very efficient method allowing me to spawn lots and lots of damage numbers without impacting the fps much/at all!

Certain towers had abilities that did not feel good to use(like the tornado on the rain tower). I gave these towers new abilities and hope they feel better/ feel like they have more impact.

Magical shots for the projectile tower
Previously there was only 1 map, the green one. I decided to add more variety to the maps including different mechanics per map. I have not described these in the handbook yet (maybe never? Intentionally of course).

Defeated the 4 new maps and want a different challenge? Custom maps! There are currently 2 custom maps available with more to come

Defeated the 4 new maps AND/OR the custom maps and want a different challenge? Try the run modifiers and see if you can beat the maps on these modifiers (also try to complete the achievement related to the modifiers :) )

A much requested feature was being able to lower the amount of visual noise the visual effects created. An option has been added to the Video Options in game. You can either show all, which is default and normal, partially reduced which shows the most important ones (like the attacks of towers), or all reduced.

I removed the mysterious force because I did not really like it. Now instead you can trade your items in the main base to get other items. Go try it out! (you still get shards, now by killing the bosses. So the friendly wizard still sells you items).

The 4 maps + the custom maps now all have endless mode. After defeating wave 50 you get a prompt whether you want to end it, or keep on going in endless mode. How far can you come?

Made the UI more consistent and better looking.

Lightning focus, Path missile, Fire storm and Laser support

Certain towers can now be aimed manually at a certain location.

and some less screenshot-able changes

• 10 new achievements
  
• New and fresh leader boards
  
• Added 30+ new items with a new item tier (also retired and reintroduced some items)
  
• Lots of balancing changes to both items and towers
  
• Lots of bugs fixed (and I probably introduced some new bugs as well which I will work hard on the next couple days/weeks to fix!)
  
• Lots of optimization updates. The game should run smoother for most people now!

In the coming days/weeks I will be mostly working on the bugs that people will find, some balancing and some QOL changes.
After that I will be working on the 1.0 update.
I have a bunch of ideas for towers, items, progression, and an additional map.
I've been working on additional language support which will be finished for the 1.0
And of course I will be reading some of the suggestions you guys make :)

If you find bugs or weird things, please do tell me! I will try to fix them asap. You can either message me on discord (you can place it in the server or dm me/@ me) or fill in the bug form which you can find a link to in the game main menu.
I also made a new entry on the steam forum where you can submit it

I want to say sorry for not responding too much on the steam forums/discord. As time went on I found it difficult to respond to people because I couldn't really show/announce new things that I had been working on (because progression was slow by the aforementioned reasons). Thank you all for the nice words, support and reviews. They do really help me with the development of the game :)

I was implementing localization, not finished yet, but I didn't know it automatically used it when a system was on that language. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Fixed the bug with the strange force and white squares. Also fixed another bug with the strange force and saving/loading

A small hotfix with tower inventory sort