0.33.2b Patch Notes

New Version Available for Download: https://www.streamdefense.com/stream-defense-is-in-alpha/

• New Item: Ammo Crates: Adds 40 ammo to a tower
• The Supply Chest at the beginning of each game will now include 5 Ammo Crates
  • Hopefully this will make the first few waves a little more beginner-friendly
• The “Map Vote” screen in the lobby now shows the high score for each map in Competitive Mode
• New Menu: Competitive Mode Options
  • Can be found in the game lobby Main Menu > Season Options > Competitive Mode Options
  • New option: Choose number of starting familiars/relics
  • New option: Enable Round Rewards
    • This will add a reward vote after each round in Competitive (similar to the end-of-round votes in Adventure). If there are unlocked familiars and relic drops, the first option will always be a familiar or relic. The second option (and 1st when all familiar/relics have already been unlocked) will be a “Supply Drop”: a large one-time reward such as 5 Power Potions or 150 seconds of Haste.
  • New option: Difficulty Scaling
  • The bottom of the menu will show you the “estimated difficulty”: a guess as to how hard the game will be with your selected options.
    • I’m still trying to figure out how many options to provide to streamers. This entire menu will likely change dramatically, but for now I wanted to give streamers as much freedom as possible. Be careful: If you change the difficulty mid-season (without doing a high score reset), you could end up harming the integrity of your leaderboards.
    • Feedback on this menu is much appreciated!
• New Option: Streamer can now set the default average and high scores for Competitive mode when resetting high scores.
• New Game Options:
  • The streamer can now select who’s allowed to play highpriest: 
    • Subs only
    • Subs or players who hold the high score on the current map
    • Anyone
    • No one
  • The streamer can now disable the repeating “Ready to Play” messages in the lobby
• The chat messages when players rank up have been consolidated as to not cause as much chat spam.
• There’s a new window in Competitive mode, showing which familiars and relic drops have been unlocked
• Familiars will now move to a new random tower as soon as the boss wave ends (instead of when the new round begins)
  • This is to give players some time to move towers before the next round begins
• Streamers can now use mouse and keyboard commands to control players
  • Click on a class in the left-hand class panel to join the game
  • Click on any nameplate (yours or another player’s) to select a unit
  • Right click on any building to move the selected unit
  • Press “P” to power up the selected unit
  • Press “L” to enable power-lock for the selected unit
  • Press “O” to power down the selected unit
  • I plan on adding many more mouse and keyboard commands as well as a better user interface for the Streamer (or players who want to play solo). I wanted to get these basic commands in as soon as possible to let you play around with them and provide feedback to inform future updates.
• Clutch Kills will now only reward XP or Power runes
  • This is to limit the effectiveness of sitting in the barracks and hopping out at the last second to get a clutch kill which was encouraged by the stacking damage and rapid runes
• The end-game score screen will now show the final wave reached
• The “Challenge Altar” on the map “Dune Gauntlet” no longer drops Power Potions. The difficulty of the map has been reduced by 27%
  • The altar felt mandatory and was therefore unfriendly to beginners
• While the game is paused, the sound will now also pause
• Added a Victory sound effect when beating a level or beating the average score on an endless map
• Added a sound effect when a Challenge Wave begins
• Added a sound effect when the Elemental Guardian or Competitive Round Reward grants all players one level
• Lowered the volume of bomber and firemage attacks
• The game will now show the first wave enemy type before a player joins
• Added a !help command which will prompt the bot to post the “how to play” link
• Nerfed Bombermage ever so slightly
  • Bomber attack period increased from 1.3 seconds to 1.5 seconds
  • Mine duration increased from 12 seconds to 15 seconds
  • Powering up now increases attack speed by 100% and damage by 100% instead of increasing attack speed by 100% and increasing bomb chance to 100%

Bug Fixes

• The AFK setting should no longer revert back to the default
• Some streamers were experiencing a bug where players couldn’t join the game until they replaced one of the game files. This seems to have been resolved.
• Fixed a bug where players could get the high score without beating the default high score
• Fixed a bug where tutorial windows would remain when the streamer manually ended a game
• Fixed a bug where the timer would keep going if the player manually selected the game mode
• Fixed a bug where the Adventure level tracker was showing during the game mode selection screen
• Fixed a bug where the ignite talent icon fill wasn’t updating