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Research Update

AbsurdPonchosteam_community_announcements

223d ago

Hello Mineral Defenders!

This update brings a large collection of unique upgrades for the buildable towers.

These upgrades can be unlocked in the research menu, granting additional card draws to be utilized in game to add unique upgrades to your towers. These upgrades will enable new, more interesting builds and the potential for powerful combinations.

The upgrades are as follows:

Gatling Tower:

Fire Rounds: Duplicate projectiles that will deal fire damage, extra strong against health. Will inflict the "Burn" status effect on enemies affected by "Sticky Oil".
Corrosive Rounds: Duplicate projectiles that will deal corrosive damage, strong against armor.
Ice Rounds: Duplicate projectiles that will deal ice damage and has a chance to inflict the "Brittle" status effect. Strong against armor.
Electric Rounds: Duplicate projectiles that will deal electric damage, strong against shields.
Ricochet: Projectiles have a chance to ricochet to multiple enemies. Deals reduced damage per bounce.

Cannon Tower:

Fire Rounds: Duplicate projectiles that will deal fire damage, extra strong against health. Will inflict the "Burn" status effect on enemies affected by "Sticky Oil".
Corrosive Rounds: Duplicate projectiles that will deal corrosive damage, strong against armor.
Ice Rounds: Duplicate projectiles that will deal ice damage and has a chance to inflict the "Brittle" status effect. Strong against armor.
Electric Rounds: Duplicate projectiles that will deal electric damage, strong against shields.
Concussive Rounds: Projectiles have a chance to inflict the "Concussive" status effect, causing enemies to have reduced movement speed.

Missile Tower:

Volley: Has a chance to spawn additional missiles when firing.
Napalm Payload: Deals extra damage as fire damage, strong against health.
Acid Payload: Deals extra damage as corrosive damage, strong against armor.
Electric Payload: Deals extra damage as electric damage, strong against shields.

Acid Tower:

Sticky Acid: Has a chance to apply the "Acid" status effect on hit, causing additional damage over time.
Corrosive Formula: Deals extra damage against armor.
Biological Formula: Deals extra damage against health.
Conductive Formula: Deals extra damage against shields.

Laser Tower:

Efficient Capacitors: Reduces power usage and increases the laser's charge rate.
Calculated Reflections: Bounces the laser to multiple additional enemies. Deals reduced damage per bounce.

Electric Tower:

Sparky: Deals additional damage as fire damage.
Chain Lightning: Has a chance to chain to additional enemies, dealing reduced damage per chain.

Railgun Tower:

Optimized Magnetics: Reduces power usage.
Inertia: Reduces the damage loss per enemy penetrated.

Sniper Tower:

Precision Computing: Increases critical chance and damage.
Titanium Rounds: Allows the sniper projectile to penetrate through additional enemies. Deals reduced damage per enemy hit.

Ice Tower:

Shards: Ice projectiles have a chance to spawn additional projectiles on hit, targeting additional nearby enemies. Shards deal reduced damage but still inflict the "Brittle" status effect.

Volt Lance:

High Frequency: Greatly increases the damage dealt against health. Increases power consumption.
Careful Targeting: Greatly increases the damage dealt against armor. Increases power consumption.

Bomb Tower:

Bouncing Boy: Bombs have a chance on hit to bounce, allowing them to explode multiple times. Deals reduced damage per bounce.

Flame Tower:

Sticky Napalm: The flame has a chance to inflict the "Burn" status effect, dealing additional damage over time.
Superheated: Deals additional damage towards armor.

Oil Tower:

Sticky Oil: Any fire damage dealt to enemies inflicted with the "Oiled" status effect have a chance to get a "Burn" status effect, dealing additional fire damage.
Highly Flammable: Enemies inflicted with the "Oiled" status effect will take additional fire damage.
Volatile Oil: Enemies inflicted with the "Oiled" status effect will have a chance to take additional fire damage upon taking electric damage.

Mineralistic Mondays #1

AbsurdPonchosteam_community_announcements

408d ago

Hello Mineral Defenders!

I hope you have all been well.

"Mineralistic Mondays" is a news announcement talking about progress on Mineral Defense, and also possibly discussing ideas and suggestions when needed.

Thanks to ETG from the MD Discord Server for the suggestion to do such a format!

A new Mineralistic Monday update will be posted on a weekly or bi-weekly occasion.

Upcoming Features:

The main focus of the upcoming update is a complete overhaul and improvement of the game's UI, new end game balancing and features, and new endless research possibilities, among other small adjustments and changes.

The idea is to cap the world generation at 200 total tiles - but allow the player to continue playing the game beyond wave 200. This will be done though having enemy "Rifts", portals through which they arrive to attack your base. Rifts will appear at the end of paths and spawn enemies in the standard Mineral Defense fashion, but additionally to this they will appear at end tiles, continuing to spawn enemies until the player disables the rift through the use of a "Rift Breaker" structure!

A mockup (not final version) of the new in-game UI:

The entire game's UI is being remade in this style. Hope everyone enjoys the new style!

After this update is ready, focus will move on to creating the assets for the next world players can embark to - a currently unnamed (taking suggestions!) jungle planet scattered with ancient ruins from an old primitive civilization. Tiles will already exist on the planet, and be uncovered through the removal of tree clusters, rather than rising through the liquid under-bottom of the map.

A major goal of the Jungle Planet update is to prepare and release variations of all existing turrets, allowing players to unlock and customize them after upgrading the base turrets to level 5, transforming them into new, powerful variations with potential elemental effects and synergies.

Thoughts:

I have been experimenting with different types of structures, most notably being the "Carrier Drone".

The Carrier Drone is a 3x3 drone that allows the player to place structures in a 2x2 zone atop the drone, then select the drone and give it move orders RTS style! The idea behind the drone is to allow the player to quickly move around parts of their base without sacrificing minerals to the cost of selling and rebuilding. Carrier Drones will also provide structures with a height bonus, rivaling that of a full stack of platforms.

The Drone idea is interesting to explore, and I've thought about adding a combat drone, which will be configurable between 3 different damage modes and will automatically attack targets within its landing pad's range using its landing pad's target preference. The combat drones could also have the same RTS order system, allowing the players to manually target specific targets such as bosses or enemies that have leaked through your main defenses.

Final:

If you got this far, thank you for taking the time to read the news. If you have ideas, suggestions or questions, please feel free to post them in the comments here in Steam, or join the discussions in the Mineral Defense Discord server. Thanks, happy drilling!

Optimizations Update

AbsurdPonchosteam_community_announcements

459d ago

Hello Mineral Defenders! This update brings huge optimizations and performance fixes. The game should run much smoother, especially in the late game. Many of the performance killing issues have been squished! It also introduces the "Round Summary" menu where you can view the aggregated statistics of many things throughout your run, including tower damage, mineral income, damage per second, and many more! Now you can optimize your builds much easier! You can open the round summary via the in game pause menu. As always, suggestions and feedback are much appreciated. Discussions for suggestions and bugs are mostly held in the Discord server, it's a great place to chat if you want to see some changes! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45283061/8672b9af9af44906f0dfb19af9a94fb3f81e7576.png

Changelog:

Added: - Added new code using the Unreal Engine Niagara Data Channel system to draw particle systems much faster and more efficiently. Most particle effects are now using this new system, leading to much better framerate. - Added multi threaded code for many things, such as target acquisition and power generation. - Added options of view distance for enemy health bars, damage numbers and structure indicators. - Added the "Round Summary" menu. - Added extra caching of components. Changed: - Disabled collision on structures, slight performance improvement since they didn't need collision anyway. - Actually removed the max stat cap for tower damage and range (Optimizer will still have a max range of 1000). Fixed: - Fixed the acid tower having inconsistent targeting. - Fixed memory leaks due to some particle effects never ending. - Fixed the missile doing a strange rotation when exiting the missile tower. - Fixed the music tracks occasionally not resuming at the correct time. Also a special thanks to "ErrandBoy" from the Discord server for providing their late game save file, used for performance profiling and to generate the screenshot for this update!

Ice and Fire!

Filthy Casualsteam_community_announcements

503d ago

Hi Mineral Defenders! This is the first major update to Mineral Defense. It introduces a new, more difficult icy world with a new set of enemies to defeat and structures to unlock!

Major Additions:

Ice World Glacian:

Disembark from the familiar hot world of Infernis and set your ship's warp drive to Glacian, the brand new Ice World! Glacian features a new soundtrack, and an all new set of enemies ranging from polar bears, mutated fish, ice golems and many more! Progression on Glacian will unlock new structures to strengthen your arsenal and make you more powerful whilst you are defending your minerals. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45283061/3cad4fc3b865d2eec0f6a192a9676aed95eb674f.png

New Structures:

New structures have been added that play into the idea of the upgraded elemental system with direct synergies! Oil Tower - Sprays blobs of oil that stick to the ground, slowing all enemies that walk through it, and inflicting them with an Oiled debuff that greatly increases the damage from Fire elemental damage. Ice Tower - Launches area damaging Ice projectiles that are strong against armor, inflicting the Brittle debuff. Enemies inflicted with Brittle have a high chance to do an enormous critical damage bonus from Heavy Kinetic weapon types, which not only increases the damage by multiple times, but also makes it effective against health as well as armor! Bomb Tower - Lobs an area damaging bomb, this bomb can be configured at any time between Explosive, Fire, Corrosive or Electric elemental types, changing the specialty of the bomb tower to deal with different enemies! The Explosive specialization will deal less damage than the other options, however is effective against both Health and Armor. The other specializations do much more damage, but are only effective against Health, Armor or Shields, respectively. (The Bomb Tower in Fire mode will of course synergize with Oiled!) Flamethrower - Sprays a stream of deadly Fire, damaging all enemies inside its cone of effect. Directly synergizes with the Oiled status effect to deal greatly increased damage!

Solid defined Elemental types for weapons:

Elemental types are now solid guidelines for weapons, rather than just cosmetic suggestions! Their elemental strengths are as follows: Fire = Health Corrosive = Armor Electric = Shield Energy = Health, Armor, Shields Explosive = Health, Armor Ice = Armor Light Kinetic = Health Heavy Kinetic = Armor Some structures currently do not use an elemental type and have unique effects without a damage guideline (such as the Sniper tower), but most structures now use elements! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45283061/cc03ed9189a6646eaf0d1c1a442a995f8da706d1.png

Structure Elemental Types:

Gatling Tower = Light Kinetic Cannon Tower = Heavy Kinetic Laser Tower = Energy Railgun Tower = Energy Flamethrower = Fire Acid Tower = Corrosive Ice Tower = Ice Missile Tower = Explosive Bomb Tower = Explosive, Fire, Corrosive or Electric Electric Tower = Electric Taser Tower = Electric There are many more direct elemental synergies planned in the upcoming weeks, with multiple new status effects. These combinations will reward strategizing and careful planning and allow for very powerful playthroughs.

Milestone Based Research Unlocks:

Many research unlocks are now gated behind milestone progression! This means you will unlock them during standard gameplay, removing the need to spend precious research points on them. Structures unlocked via milestone research during an ongoing game will be immediately available during that game, mitigating the need to draw its card. This will provide a much more beginner friendly progression system, and provide a more satisfying

Greatly Improved VFX:

The weapon VFX for the entire game have been improved! - Most turret projectiles now physically travel to their target over time rather than faking the projectile movement in an effect, greatly improving the feel of weapons when they hit enemies. - Improved/Added projectile trails. - Added distortion effects to explosions.

Many New Achievements:

Of course, new content means more achievements! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45283061/66d3443aa075b892b901e4bf64abf7d08cac0256.png

Full Changelog:

Added:

- Added new world Glacian - Added new ice world enemies - Added new elemental structures - Solid defined elemental guidelines with UI text formatting - Direct elemental and status effect synergies - Milestone Research Unlocks - New weapon VFX - Physical projectiles rather than fake projectiles - Loading screen on startup to load steam stats to prevent race conditions where it takes a moment to load your steam account values (for progression) - New soundtrack for Glacian, with dynamically blended layers depending on if a wave is currently active or not - A basic world select menu

Changed:

- Laser tower is now 2x2 in size - Changed the main menu music to be more chill - Audio can now play while the game is not focused - It is now easier to place platforms on steep ledges - Optimizer tower will now check distance by 2D, ignoring height - Improved railgun shoot sound - Railgun now has a long range stat, and the effective range of its projectile is 2x its actual range stat. - Missile tower is now strong against both Health and Armor - Acid tower is now strong against Armor rather than Health - Slightly increased the width of research entries in the research menu - "Traps" such as the Acid Tower's acid pool and the new Oil Tower's oil pool will now stack. Previously enemies would only activate one trap that they were touching, now they will activate all of them simultaneously. - The slow tower is now 5% less effective at slowing enemies. - Sniper tower base (non-crit) damage efficiency increased - Sniper tower critical damage multiplier increased to 3x - Improved CPU performance - Increased the cost of Laser Towers - Increased the cost of Railgun Towers - Increased the cost of Optimizers - Drill tower upgrades will now each increase drilled minerals by 25% instead of 10%, making their upgrades far more worth it - Reduced the cost of Electric Towers - Increased the chance of receiving base tower unlocks in the card draw

Fixed:

- Can no longer open a supply cache and a card draw at the same time - Fixed a bug where a structure blueprint that you haven't placed yet would be incorrectly saved, then loaded as a real structure - Fixed saving supply caches that have already been claimed, preventing an exploit where you can claim supply caches multiple times - Fixed the cannon tower shoot sound being too loud - Fixed the music - Fixed drill towers destroying performance - Enemies will no longer continue spawning after the game is lost - Fixed the laser tower audio effect remaining after selling the tower - Fixed some structures materials not glowing - Fixed the laser tower damage multiplier resetting after reaching 200%

Development Update & QOL

Filthy Casualsteam_community_announcements

529d ago

Hello Mineral Defenders! Development is ongoing on a new world featuring 9 new enemies and a brand new tile set and environment. I am looking to have this update ready for March 13th. Additionally, I wanted to thank all the players who have bought the game, enjoyed it, and left reviews and feedback! Every review and piece of feedback helps shape the game for the better. Please keep doing so! In the mean time while we wait for that to be complete, this update brings some nice improvements:

Update

Endless Upgrade Cards for Towers: - After drawing the first five upgrade card draws for a tower, it will now progress into an endless set of cards to allow you to continue upgrading them well into the end game. Mineral Rarity: - Minerals now come in the same 5 rarity flavors as the rest of the game: common, uncommon, rare, epic and legendary. They also have a chance to spawn as "bountiful", which will double their value. More Consistent Resource Spawns: - Mineral deposits and power geysers will now spawn more consistently. Land segments now also have a small chance to become "bountiful", vastly increasing the amount of resources that spawn on it. Build/Ability Menu Shortcuts: - You can now select abilities and structures without clicking on them with the mouse. Press "B" or "V" to highlight the Build menu or the Ability menu, then press 1-9 to select the highlighted button. Press "Tab" to scroll the highlighted menu, if needed. Reduced Innate Research - One of the major criticisms of the game is that a tower is unable to be used immediately after researching it. However, a lot of other players enjoy this feature, and it also allows players to not immediately pollute their card draw at the start of a new game with upgrade cards from all towers. To address this, the "Innate" research entries now only cost 5000 research points. This strikes a balance and allows players to more easily control their structure availability and upgrade card draws through research, and suspension of that research. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45283061/8e6c880f5437b405fc188e8445965f2338fa35bc.png

Full Changelog

Added: - Endless upgrade cards for towers - More mineral varieties - Build/Ability menu shortcuts - Special cursor varieties for certain actions Changed: - More consistent resource spawning - Reduced Innate research cost - Increased the sniper tower minimum range 800->1200 - Decreased the sniper tower fire rate by 25% - Small change to the font size of the structure menu title - Can no longer place the overdrive ability where it would not affect anything - Left clicking with a manual ability and it not doing anything will no longer unselect the ability. Fixed: - Common DX12 crash - Fixed being able to click on some disabled buttons - Fixed being able to break the tutorial - Fixed some placeable tiles that had incorrect offsets, preventing 2x2 structures being built

Sniper Tower, Improvements and Fixes

Filthy Casualsteam_community_announcements

550d ago

Hello Mineral Defenders! This update brings multiple changes and improvements, most notably: Sniper Tower - A large, long range tower that has a 50% chance to critically hit, causing huge damage and damage efficiency! Drill Upgrades - The drill now has upgrades in the form of manual upgrades, and random card draws! Visual Improvements - The Supply Cache now has an on-screen UI indicator, now it will be much more visible. - The range indicator circle now is 3D, colored, and in general much nicer to look at. It also clearly displays the range of the tower in a way much better than previously. Turret Settings Defaults - You can now Set/Clear/Use default settings for towers! There are 3 new buttons in the target preference setting of the towers. Hover over them to see their tooltips. Cylindrical Range - Previously, tower range was calculated in a sphere. Now, it is a cylinder. This makes it easier to know what enemies a tower can hit, and what it can't. The range indicators for towers and abilities has also been updated, and looks much better. The update has many other additions, changes and improvements, many of which were requested by the community. Full changelog below! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45283061/120d8c69b2bb766a30c9568e995a3e61391d8aeb.png

Changelog

Added: - Sniper Tower: High range, High damage, critical hit chance, minimum range. Crits are strong against all health types. - Added critical hit chance. Crit is currently only used for the Sniper. It will increase damage and increase damage efficiency. - Added preferential targeting. Now turrets will try to avoid enemies if they still have health/armor/shield and the turret is weak against that health type. Example: The Gatling turret will now shoot enemies that have no armor and no shield first, still considering their target preference. - Set turret default settings, you can set/clear/use default target settings for each turret type. - Added a discard button to supply cache rewards, now you are no longer forced to take a reward if it would be bad for you. - Added an on screen indicator widget for supply caches, making them more visible - Added a max potential power draw display in the power section of the HUD - Added a popup explaining that some structures require card draws after research - Added hotkeys for copy/paste turret settings - Added a hotkey for toggling enemy stat bars - Added upgrade levels and card draws for the Drill Changed: - Multiple damage numbers spawned from the same damage source in the same frame will now have an offset (Such as when damage overflows from shield->armor or armor->health) - Reduced armor of Flaming Skull and Military Bot - Increased Shield of Crystalline Aberration - Reduced the amount of military bots that spawn - Railgun projectile damage falls off by 25% per hit enemy - Improved ability radius indicators - Improved structure radius indicators - Structure menu now has a scroll bar instead of multiple rows - Meteor and Remote Detonate abilities now do a minimum % of enemy health as damage, making them more useful late game - Changed the health bars into a compact style - Turret range is now calculated as a cylinder rather than a sphere - Increased the max zoom - Changed all reroll research to only add 1 reroll - Performance optimizations - Turrets can now shoot vertically even if they cannot entirely rotate to face the enemy on the vertical axis Fixed: - Pressing a disabled button on the structure widget will no longer close the widget. - Fixed placeable tiles on some land segments - Stopped research cards formatting changing when hovering them - Supply Caches now save and load - Fixed damage numbers rising forever for certain towers such as laser - Prevent opening multiple supple caches at once - Fixed bug causing duplicated status effect icons - Fixed a bug where you can continue a game when your ship has 0 health - Fixed arrow key camera movement occasionally not working - Enemy walking animation now correctly changes play speed with enemy size - Fixed a bug where towers could charge power above their maximum - Fixed stat list formatting for the drill multiplier stat - Fixed overdrive not affecting higher towers, such as those on platforms

Platforms, Rerolls, Music, TLC

Filthy Casualsteam_community_announcements

560d ago

Hello Mineral Defenders! Take your towers to the skies with the new Platform structures! Platforms come in 3 sizes - short, medium and tall. Platforms can be used to build towers on previously unbuildable terrain - and then raise the towers up to get height bonuses! The height bonus for towers now causes an extra 2.5% damage per level. This update also brings a lot of fixes and changes. New music, new hotkeys, new research and rerolls! Please be sure to leave feedback in the community tab on Steam or join the Mineral Defense Discord Server!

Changelog:

Added: - Added platforms - small, normal and tall. Allows you to build on previously unbuildable terrain. Also gives towers their height bonus. - Add rerolls, and reroll research and supply drop rewards - Add innate research cards, this research allows you to have the tower unlocked without needing to draw it in game - Added card rarity research, will increase the chance to get rarer card draws - Add options for disabling damage numbers and health bars - Added new battle music - Added hotkeys for sell and upgrade towers - Add collapse buttons to the structure and ability panels Changed: - Doubled the internal power storage for electric, laser, railgun and taser towers - Increased chance to skip research requirement for tower unlocks in the supply cache, and added extra text to explain that the research requirement was skipped - Rebalance catalyst research - Refactor height bonus to affect damage also - Make tooltips smaller - Actor Pool buildable tile indicators for performance - Hugely increase generator tower performance - Reduced the price of additional drills from 50 to 25 - Adjusted the card draw chance for towers to make it more likely to appear - Hide the structure placement blueprint after placing in multi placement mode until its moved to a new tile - Increased the attenuation of the slow tower, the sound is now quieter further away. Fixed: - Fixed the power indicator widget not working - Prevent receiving multiple of the same category of reward in the supply cache - Adjust sky light settings to attempt to fix linux shadows - Fix sounds and fx for certain structures for selling/upgrading/target preference - No longer display Health/Armor/Shield dmg efficiency stat on the Slow tower - Fix acid tower fire rate research description {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45283061/d143da584e6c70130d40ec0043f891b33370155f.png

Music Changes, Keybindings, Balancing

Filthy Casualsteam_community_announcementspatchnotes

566d ago

Hi everyone! I hope you are all enjoying the game! This update changes a few things, most notably replaces every music track in the game. All the tracks are now made specifically for Mineral Defense, and content creators can now make videos without fear of the previously licensed music causing Copyright ID issues! The update also adds a keybind menu, some extra QOL features, and some balancing changes. Endless mode is much harder now, and should provide a challenge for players until the new content additions are finalized.

Changelog:

Added: - New music tracks - A keybinding menu in the "Gameplay" section of the options menu. - Camera navigation controls now on both keyboard and mouse. WASD to pan, QE to rotate, ZX to zoom. Hold right mouse button to pan, Hold middle mouse button to rotate, and scroll the mouse wheel to zoom. These are now remappable in the options! - Keyboard navigation controls added to the research menu. WASD to pan, ZX to zoom. Also remappable in the options. - Added a "Close" button to the floating menu for selected structures. - Added an "Explore" button to the game over menu, allowing you to move the camera around and view your game. - Added the held cards display to the game over menu, this was previously only in the pause menu. Changed: - Increased the price of Laser Tower upgrades - Reduced the Laser Tower base damage, but increased its sustained damage multiplier to 200%. - The Laser Tower will now have a longer duration before its sustained damage multiplier starts to go down. - Increased the cost of additional Optimizer towers. - Increased the cost of additional Slow towers. - The Slow tower will no longer do any damage. - Drastically increased the enemy health scaling after wave 50, in endless mode. - Clamped the enemy movement speed scaling multiplier to +500%. Fixes: - Numbers in the minerals and energy UI widgets will no longer overflow out of their container. - Structures height bonus or debuff will now save and load correctly. - Fixed the formatting of negative values in the structure stat list. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45283061/67646d62f4e2fb54943f12bf31423c7f4614741f.png

Balancing, Achievements, Performance and TLC!

Filthy Casualsteam_community_announcements

602d ago

Hi everyone! This patch brings a large list of changes to the game that will enhance the gameplay experience. These are new achievements, huge performance improvements, UI TLC, gameplay balancing and more! Changelog Added: - New achievements! These will be unlocked by researching structures and completing wave milestones! - Victory Screen at wave 50. This is currently the goal to reach until new worlds are added! Reaching this will grant an achievement and still allow you to continue into endless mode. - Geysers/Geothermal rocks can now be demolished! No longer will they stand in the way of the perfect structure placement. - Stat modifier caching! Stats for objects in the game such as health, movement speed, damage etc will now have their modifier values cached when status effects are applied or removed. This results in an enormous performance increase! - Damage number pooling! Damage numbers for enemies will now be reused in an object pool, resulting in another huge performance increase. It will also help to prevent some crashes! - New and improved icons for research entries, card draws, structures and abilities. Changes: - Rebalanced the wave progression to steadily increase the difficulty all the way to wave 50. Waves beyond 50 in endless mode will also have a very strong difficulty increase! The first 50 waves will now be more easily manageable (but not easy!) - The Cannon Tower is now unlocked and active by default! You no longer need to draw it in a card draw to activate it. - The research menu is now full screen, making it easier to view the research tree. - The Laser tower has been buffed. Now does more damage against shields, and an extra 10 base damage. - Damage dealing towers will now be set to their preferred target type by default. This means cannons will attack enemies with the most armor, electric towers will attack most shields, etc. They can still be changed manually. Fixes: - Some calculations that broke down at low framerate are now clamped and will behave correctly. - The Optimizer will now correctly restore its selected buff when loading a saved game. - Bad performance is now fixed. The game should run a lot smoother! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45283061/b2710489141b6dbc6d79451c25a089c6432b3937.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45283061/1e9fe9a06453876f102b034a70400deb73592ec2.png

Mineral Defense news & patch notes

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