Creeping Dusk news & patch notes

🌵 Desolate Plateau (endless) Adjustments

- Difficulty of the first ~30 waves has been lowered - Music now changes every 10 nights

🥇 Friends Leaderboard

- Every location now shows highscores of your Steam friends - Campaign locations show how much time it took to complete the location - Desolate Plateau (endless) shows how many nights the player managed to survive

🔨 Improvements

- Fade-in and fade-out animations have been added to the tooltips

Discord server has been created for the game. If you want to leave feedback, suggest an improvement, report a bug or ask a game related question - you're welcome. A link to the server may be found on Credits screen or Steam Store page. https://discord.gg/53tDMJ4fAB

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Campaign overhaul

• Campaign has been split into 3 parts (locations)
• Blueprints from previous location are available in the next one from start
• Separate location for endless mode has been added

Complete re-balancing

• Amount of XP required to earn upgrade points on higher levels has been reduced
• Exploration - Chance to find a PoI in the fog has been increased - Number of cells explored with Explore card has been increased to 2 (3 for Explorer)
• Ossuary and altars - Amount of skulls required by altars has been reduced - Altar buffs: Altar - Bounty, Altar - Repair, Altar - Anatomy - Skull price has been increased to 2 gold
• Upgrades - Town Gate upgrades now reduce repair cost during the day - Immobilizing Shot, Searing Shot, Explosive Formula upgrades now become active immediately, no need to purchase them in the Laboratory - Buffs: Searing Shot, Explosive Formula, Spikes
• In-game Upgrades - Prices are reduced for: Laboratory and its upgrades, Library and its upgrades, Town Gate upgrades, Spikes, Last Resort, Mortar Tower specs, Raised Platform - Laboratory - Burn upgrade has been buffed and no longer scales with Cannon Tower damage
• Some of the monster changes - Bosses are less tanky but have more speed and deal more damage - Overall buffs: Arsonist, Ghoul, Archer, Bomber, Arbalist - Overall nerfs: Glutton, Battering Ram, Knight - Auras: Dissipation aura has been buffed, Protection aura has been nerfed

Steam cloud saves

• Game progress is now saved to Steam cloud and can be transferred between machines as well as between Windows and Linux

Fixes & Improvements

• General - Frame rate drops caused by some of the assets being lazy-loaded for the first time are fixed - Altars now show an indicator when an upgrade becomes available - Number of upgrade points has been made always visible on the Upgrades screen - Purchasing a defense tower upgrade requiring population now shows "-X population" text above the Gold Mine - Searing shot now has its own unique battle text - Result screen has been animated - Status card - game speed translation issue has been fixed - Issue with XP bar getting stuck at full for a moment after receiving an upgrade point has been fixed - Treasure I PoI battle text position has been fixed - Flag height of a defense tower on a raised platform has been fixed
• Sound - New sounds: tree destruction, double gold drop (Luck Totem), Tactician reward, 2nd repair sound, Refinery upgrade, Armory upgrade, Laboratory upgrade, Library upgrade, Watch Tower shooter upgrade, Cannon Tower upgrade, Mortar Tower upgrade - Sounds moved to 3D space: tree sounds, PoI sounds, demolish sound, exploration sound, gate reinforce and repair, building sounds, gold sounds

Achievements

• Role-based achievements are now granted for completing any location for specific role
• Tower-based achievements are now granted for defeating Titan using specific tower, you can use any tower for monsters other than Titan

Thank you for your feedback!

Patch Notes:

• Add buttons to speed up time
• Increase number of points of interest hidden in the fog at the start of the game
• Display information about new monsters in the morning
• Bind Tab key to switch focus between towers of the same type
• Show help messages on loading screen and pause menu
• Warn about upcoming boss fights - "Blood moon" nights
• Change Combustion mechanic: reduce interval between hits instead of less hits and more damage
• Lower the amount of skulls required by altars, reduce Ossuary capacity
• Nerf Grave Digger. Buff Archer, Bomber and Arbalist
• Nerf Mortar Tower Shockwave upgrade
• Upgrade to Godot v4.3
• Other bug fixes and balance tweaks