Hello all,

right now I'm spending a lot of time integrating some new mechanics and level for the next level. Some improvements also affect the existing levels. For this reason, here is a last update for this year.

Improvements

• Player ability: Brand - creates burning ground under the mouse cursor. The ability, percentage damage based on the life of the opponent in ticks for a short time. The cooldown is 100 enemy kills.
• All sounds are now outsourced from the game and are no longer processed using Game Maker's internal functions. This should result in all sounds working on Linux as well.
• Small improvements in the Twiggelpedia - better description of enemies added
• If the height is not equal to the width of a map, then the creep target and spawn(1) will always align to the longest side
• Splash Damage does less damage the further the target is from the center
• Changed design of enemy spawns and waypoints
• Revised visualization of slowed creeps
• Towers now have a health system and can be destroyed by effects. (is more important for the new level)

Artifact System

• The variety of artifacts has been increased - 7 new types have been added
• new types are -Tower health, more EXP after building, Fog resistance, Crit, Slow, Splash, Venom
• Damage/range and rate artifacts now have a percentage impact on base stats
• Added explanations to abilities in the weapon factory
• Found artifacts are no longer saved directly, but only when leaving the level. This prevents short memory lags

Fixes

• Marking barricades is now also available in the English version
• Weapon factory: display error for already attached items fixed
• Hotkeys for the build buttons now work even if no tower is selected and no other builder is active
• Performance optimization of ward buff mechanics
• Map editor: creator settings - checkbox "editable by others" - fixed
• intro scene: "joykey" bug - fixed
• tower target info changed - G/A to ground and/or air
• some small fixes

I wish you a lot of fun with the update and all a nice christmas time.

M. Steguweit