Posted February 01, 2019 by Clockwork Origins
#Patch
Wow, already reached the second month of the year. Time passes really fast, so here we go with a new update for Elemental War.
As usual we have some version highlights we want to present you besides the full changelog. Besides a status update on the multiplayer progress, we have the following for you.
This update contains the first 10 achievements. We added some that are not too hard to achieve, but others will really hard to reach. We hope you enjoy them. There will be more in future updates, but they have no top priority at the moment.
This update's big balancing change affects all towers with status changes. Each of these towers now has a maximum of targets that can get the status. This maximum counts per tower type, so e.g. all Stun towers together can only Stun x enemies at once. This change it meant to stop players from permanently slow/stop all enemies and be able to stay alive forever in Survival and Hero Mode. The limits aren't too low to affect normal games though. If you still encounter issues with that, please let us know.
Multiplayer made good progress too. We're now able to load multiple fields (one for each team) and synchronize tower building and most tower abilities. Still a lot to do though, see below for details.
Enhancements:
Balancing:
Fixes:
As mentioned in the highlights, the multiplayer made good progress. Until the next update we're going to synchronize also monsters, tower upgrades and some other minor stuff. When that's done we should have a working base and we just need to improve, test and fix a lot.
While testing today's update I found some interesting CPU activities in the profiler. Most of them are related to the UI, which is updated way too often (or too much is updated too often). I'll try to reduce these updates to save CPU time and so increase the framerate. There are also some small improvements already contained in this update, but I don't think that they'll have a noticable effect.
As there was the wish to support saving and loading of randomly generated maps we're going to add support for that in the next update. In the first step you will be able to save, load and play maps and have an official leaderboard for each of them. You also can share them with each other by sending the level file to someone else, but there'll be better ways for that in future updates. You can also modify the paths in the level files afterwards, if you like. Some kind of level editor will follow in the future, too, so you can see how your path will look like as the format is very simple.
We hope you enjoy the new update and are looking forward to get your feedback, either here in the discussions or in our Discord at https://discord.gg/bwnuXq9.