Crystal Guardians TD news & patch notes

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!

Fixes and changes

• 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

Hello all!

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.

Now onto the update and what changed:

Damage numbers got a rework

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! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43677874/80fdb022ba1eefd13b9f59ccf10382584457b615.jpg {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43677874/e2eb2d6295522aae97cef924f7cda83b3a29c395.jpg

Tower ability changes

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 {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43677874/a6bb972bf2b784897e82e35c4e41f040c3586adb.jpg

Made new maps with new map mechanics

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). {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43677874/f28a828da60f9142123ee05c13c09f1538470464.jpg

Custom maps

Defeated the 4 new maps and want a different challenge? Custom maps! There are currently 2 custom maps available with more to come {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43677874/c222497255a558e291ff346c5e329f877ff2b5e1.jpg {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43677874/a3b7baa40bc01c70c59dc6a9b58c43ba00941057.jpg

Run modifiers

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 :) ) {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43677874/51eb0715939a0a1df12b61b2fe306354732b04e0.png

VFX visibility noise settings

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. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43677874/c0d01c42e451b6d0a3fe2f65df8cfbf71188af7f.jpg {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43677874/094696f5fde7b75d7404fb44593721097665692c.jpg

New method for obtaining items

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). {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43677874/fbc60cb94944c156c16cc1df87519b503dfcd3ef.jpg

Endless mode

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? {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43677874/7612aac22e357ff0c937a1179013138974f6189b.jpg

UI changes

Made the UI more consistent and better looking. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43677874/63863811b122fc861133979a2c0f12c64882b06f.jpg

Added 4 new item recipes

Lightning focus, Path missile, Fire storm and Laser support {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43677874/470bade35f1ee712161406b0f6255457023a55fb.jpg

Custom targeting for certain towers

Certain towers can now be aimed manually at a certain location. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43677874/774469b98b3983aa5d413247820424c002c258a1.jpg 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!

Future of updates

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 :)

Bug reports

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

End note

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

I took a break the past week and finally have the following update that addressed hopefully most of the bugs that you all encountered :). Also a small tweak to boulder damage and fire money earning. Will post another update in a week that will contain more bigger changes! - Fixed a bug where you could level a tower cheaply by using a tower without a crystal. Thanks for the user reporting this bug! - Fixed a bug where the wizard appear text appeared in the bottom left of the screen - Fixed a bug where the burn of towers would not credit them with the kills the burn made - Fixed a bug where inventory slots where not visible when saving and loading the game - Fixed the visual bug of the Meteor item - Fixed various bugs that could cause an error which would result in a bunch of other errors (like incorrect stats in end screen, no leaderboard entries etc.) - Added two buttons to the tower inventory, 1 to sort the inventory and 1 to move all items to the main inventory - Wizard shop can't be re-rolled when saving and loading the game - The strange force shouldn't take your items without giving shard in return when saving and loading the game - Stones in the sea will now stay consistent when saving and loading the game - Timer will now also show times from over 1 hour - Changed the item Enchanced attack from every 6 seconds 1 attack deals more damage to every 6 seconds deal more damage for 1 second - Made the visual of Chain lightning item more visible - Added sound to the explosive missile - Right clicking twice in a row closes all open inventories and shops - Made a bunch of performance enhancing changes. - You can now use the escape key in all sections in the main menu to go back to the main menu - Made the boss fight with the King skeleton summoner a bit brighter to see what is going on - Made the water-beam and upgraded arcane nova transparent - The wizard won't take your shard anymore if you do not have any inventory space - Missiles from missile drones now also get enhanced by the Missile enhancer Re-balanced earth crystal progression tree: EarthDamage 40% -> 15% EarthArmorDamage 15% -> 5% EarthRange 2 -> 1 Buffed Fire Generate Money 1% -> 5%

- Made an optimization to make the map load faster (so starting and restarting should be a bit faster), this is also a stepping stone for implementing endless mode - Added new cursor colors so you do not lose them anymore in intense situations :) - Added the option to disable disable water reflection (This one will improve FPS a decent bit!) - On larger screens the reset all text will not be super small anymore - UI scale will not reset to 100% anymore when starting up the game - When putting speed mode on speed 4, it will remember last mode and fall back to that one when an enemy gets damaged New cursor colors: https://i.imgur.com/fGxqKhc.png

- Fixed bug when towers hit max level it allowed you do to all kind of crazy things - Fixed a bug with leaderboards showing incorrect data when pressing global and friends sections - Fixed the Boxing glove, didn't work properly - Fixed the Pike, also didn't work properly - Fixed StartCaptial and buffed it a bit from 100 -> 333 - Fixed Arcane progression ArcaneIncome, now gives you the money at the end of each wave - Fixed an issue where the wave would sometimes not end since it said that an enemy was still alive - Fixed a weird bug that would happen when upgrading a tower and selecting a tower ability, then removing the crystal and than saving and loading the game up again - Fixed a bug where arcane attack speed would keep increasing without having the skill unlocked - Increased the difficulty from bosses from wave 60 to wave 100 - Increased the amount of progression gained from wave 25 to wave 100

- Fixed issue with two-lane hardmode not working as intended. You can now properly play two-lane hardmode - Fixed issue with attack speed going above max - Re-balanced the progression exp amount a bit - Burning poison should now translate 100-100, previously poison got reduced based on enemy armor, this is not the case anymore - Changed the path generation algorithm a bit to have a higher chance of splitting later - Added two new leaderboards, timing for two lane normal and timing for two lane hardmode!

Hello all, Very excited to share with you that the game has been released into early access!!! (for 1 day now)

Differences between Prologue/Demo and early access

New and upgraded visuals

https://i.imgur.com/ce60XWH.png https://i.imgur.com/vcyuyhJ.png

4 Modes, 2 with 2 lanes and the hardest going up to wave 100!

https://i.imgur.com/sUXa9Mq.png Can you beat the final boss in hard-mode at wave 100?

Explore 30 new items

https://i.imgur.com/xKOzh8v.png Explore new OP combinations and find your best build!

Explore the bigger and improved progression menu

https://i.imgur.com/MOAOnwE.png Many new paths and builds to explore and try out

Defeat the 6 new bosses

https://i.imgur.com/CYpblwP.png https://i.imgur.com/A9kEv6s.png

Enemies have new capabilites, modifiers and abilities

https://i.imgur.com/Z7jSlL3.png And much more to come with regular updates planned! Leave feedback in the discord (link) or steam discussion page. New ideas about improvements or new content are also appreciated! :) Hopefully you have a great time playing the game - Tim

- Resolution is the main menus should be a bit better - Added a new speedup button that speeds more up until damage is taken by an enemy. This should help in long maps where the enemy takes ages to get to the middle. The enemy won't gain more speed which was the case in the previous version. - Fixed typos - Achievements for hardmode and normalmode + two lanes are now achievable

- Fixed issue with wave not ending - Change version number to 0.1.2 - Too many items were distributed

- Fixed an issue with the last boss that prevented you from winning - Hardmode two-lane enabled after fixing the in that difficulty - Order of crystals now coincides with the shortcuts - Progression tree lightning branch fixed - No more item duplication - Rebalanced a couple of items - Gunner drone not unlocking bug - Reworked amount of experience gain a bit, your level should change a little bit when starting the game - Rebalanced a couple of waves/enemies (Gilbert twin is now harder and the waves leading up to him are also more difficult, same goes for the waves leading up to the final boss)

- Middle mouse button rotation camera - Added some more info in the handbook (about poison and the wizard and mysterious force) - More slots in mysterious force - Wizard shop a bit cleaner - Can close progression menu with escape now - All achievements should work properly now

- Fixed achievements, that didn't work before. Now they should work - Now you also submit some stats in the leader boards if you do not win the game. - Two-lane mode now is won at wave 60, was bugged before - Shards from the mysterious force should now be consistent - Critical mace gives critical strike damage on poison crystals now - Some smaller UI fixes

Hey all, First and foremost, I encountered some problem with my build and have to unfortunately delay the launch until Friday the 15th. I'm also sorry for the lack of communication on my part. I should've been more transparent/communicative. Will be working on that since this is important for me. Thanks for everyone who is showing interest! Sorry again! Stay tuned for this Friday! The launch will be same time as was planned for today(20:00 CET) Until then, let me show you some screenshots! https://i.imgur.com/uQtIpTQ.png https://i.imgur.com/TTdNvS9.png https://i.imgur.com/OiFEK8T.png https://i.imgur.com/AoIONcF.png

Come join me on my stream as I try to beat normal of my own game. Hopefully you guys enjoy the game(play)!

Come join me on my stream as I try to beat normal of my own game. Hopefully you guys enjoy the game(play)!

I will be streaming on how to beat wave 40 (This is a test stream)