The Perfect Tower II news & patch notes

Happy New Year!

We’re back and continuing our big push on localization. With this update around 80% of the game is now localizable.

We’re also hard at work on MT16–20, while we finish preparing the remaining parts of the game for localization.

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New Stuff

• added the ability to change AI script impulses by clicking on them

• added sanity check on requested position for AI function 'Use Module'

• added automatic unlock for 'Pumpkin' artifact when you have the halloween achievement

Changes

• renamed 'Power' button in Power Plant boost tab to 'Boost!'

• changed module restrictions in challenge 9-1 (slightly lowered)

• changed elemental damage multiplier in challenge 9-1 (slightly increased fire <-> fire and earth <-> fire)

Fixes

• fixed duplicate localization keys

• fixed execution order of module 'Martyrdom'

• fixed power function in AI procuding NaNs when trying to raise negative numbers to a fraction

• fixed typo in module 'Bluecats Harmonizer'

• fixed enemies sometimes clipping into the ground during final wave

• fixed Factory dust uptier worker sometimes not leaving 1 dust

• fixed Power Plant tutorial highlighting of technology tab being offset

• fixed input name sometimes not bouncing red when creating a new save and an error occurs

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Changes

• changed the cookie factory upgrade from the winter event on day 5 to -20°C freeze level instead of -10°C

Fixes

• fixed typo in description of module 'Death Aura'

• fixed module 'Chaos Gift' throwing exceptions when requesting the energy cost of re-casted modules

• fixed challenge menu highlighting module tier restriction for module's whose categories' level and tier is being ignored

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Changes

• localization files don't need a valid country code anymore

• improved light propagation light experiment to fix certain edge cases leading to ghost rays

• clicking during module unlock animation skips to the end

• changed 'Mixing Engineer' Factory worker task to ensure that at least one dust of each tier remains

Fixes

• fixed AI integer arithmetic covering certain edge cases better

• fixed AI UI windows not being properly disposed when going to the main menu

• fixed close button 'X' in AI UI sprite selector being out of bounds

• fixed size of close button 'X' in museum being off

• fixed staying in the main menu not granting the correct offline time

• fixed various localizations reading 'everytime' instead of 'every time'

• fixed black hole in final boss fight potentially breaking the missile spawn logic if cast within a specific time window

• fixed missing apostrophe for all instances of Tower's

Thank you all for the positive and constructive feedback. We’re really glad you’re enjoying the game!

With this update, we’ll be switching from daily back to weekly updates.

We’ve added a new photosensitivity mode, which currently affects only the Boss 3 fight. If there are other parts of the game that you feel should be adjusted by this setting please let us know.

Thank you very much for your support!!

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New Stuff

• added photosensitivity mode (currently only tones down visuals in Cubos Jr. boss fight)

Fixes

• fixed module statistic goal requirement including Legendary modules

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Changes

• changed locked challenges to lock visually identical to locked difficulties for consistency

Fixes

• fixed challenges that are locked not appearing as locked

• fixed typo in 'No Power Here' guidance text

• fixed tooltips from remaining active when dynamic rendering is enabled and the game loses focus

• fixed typos in various Dr. Cubical's guidance texts

• fixed certain multi-tier Factory items not showing T1 in their name since update that changed this

• fixed pause menu in boss 5 fight not stopping time

• fixed Trading Post conversion dial sometimes not opening

• possibly fixed ship in Perfect Space not respawning

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This should fix the issue where enemies appeared to be stuck.

New Stuff

• added artifact categories (not displayed in UI yet)

Changes

• changed achievement 'International Museum' requirement to only need standard artifacts (no secret or event type)

• changed artifact 'W.I.N.C.E Plushie' to category secret

• changed artifact 'Seraphiel's Microphone Staff' to category secret

• changed artifact 'Book Of Cubimas' to category event

• changed artifact 'Pumpkin' to category event

Fixes

• fixed buffs with same ids having unexpected interactions when applied at the same time on the same target

New AI functions/actions are still experimental. Normally, we’d run them through a longer testing phase with our supporters to make sure everything behaves as expected, but we wanted to keep the daily updates going.

Known Issues

• We’re currently investigating a bug where enemies can sometimes get stuck in certain situations. We’re pushing incremental fixes and closely monitoring the results.

• We’re also aware of an issue in Perfect Space where reviving doesn’t show the ship. A fix for this is in the works.

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New Stuff

• added AI function 'Shipyard: Sea Miles'

• added AI function 'Shipyard: Shipments'

• added AI function 'Shipyard: Countdown'

• added AI function 'Shipyard: Weather Bonus'

• added AI function 'Shipyard: Current Order'

• added AI action 'Shipyard: Start Order'

• added AI action 'Shipyard: Collect Order'

• added AI action 'Shipyard: Cancel Order'

Changes

• changed nav mesh agents to not attempt to call set destination when disabled

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New Stuff

• added 'Display Brightness' accessibility option to graphics

• added 'Color Saturation' accessibility option to graphics

• added hotkey 'Toggle Second Floor'

Changes

• changed versioning to 'major.themed.minor'

• changed 'module chance' button in region selection to toggle the chances window off when pressed again

• changed achievement 'Pure Gambling' to auto-unlock on save load if any module from Arcade was unlocked already

• changed factory items of tier 1 to show their tier as part of their name

Fixes

• fixed active module related script functions sometimes throwing exceptions on tower death

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Changes

• added option to turn off discord activity

• added trying to create save without name highlighting the name input box

• added info label below fps limit setting to explain vsync and fps limit interaction

• experimental change regarding stopping distance of nav mesh agents

Fixes

• fixed migration issue related to exotic gems when loading a very very old savegame

• fixed module tooltips in-game not using the new attribute injection system

• fixed tags and description of module 'Aquatic Absorption'

• fixed tags of module 'Energy Flow'

• fixed tags of module 'Return To Monkey'

• fixed tags of module 'Space Guns'

• fixed tags of module 'Monsoon Aura'

• fixed tags of module 'Tactical Maneuver'

• fixed tags of module 'Generic Armor'

• fixed tags of module 'Lucky Shot'

• fixed tags of module 'Avalanche'

• fixed tags of module 'Serious Missile'

• fixed tags of module 'Tremors'

• fixed tags of module 'Grim Reaper'

• fixed tags of module 'Infinity Shield'

• fixed tags of module 'Infinity Regeneration'

• fixed tags of module 'Infinity Energy'

• fixed tags of module 'Gnarly Obsidian'

• fixed tags of module 'W.I.N.C.E.'

• fixed tags of module 'Elemental Splashes'

• fixed tags of module 'Sparks'

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Fixes

• fixed auto-fill deleting items in some cases when there is not enough space in the inventory

• fixed auto-fill putting an entire stack of machines into a machine slot when clearing the crafting grid

• fixed Construction Firm building tooltips being visible through the instant complete via gems overlay

• disabling global boosts now properly removes them from the town stats menu

• renamed 'missile start color' to 'missile head color'

• renamed 'missile end color' to 'missile tail color'

• replaced tooltip of Dr. Cubical help button in town perks menu

• fixed token rewards in adventure sometimes being 0

• fixed wave horizon factor becoming 0 if the current savegame does not have any eras

• fixed era horizon factor becoming 0 if the current savegame does not have any infinities

• fixed skill 'Overpaid Interns' not refreshing prestige price factor immediately

• fixed tower asset animation wrongly applying the global rotation to the local rotation which lead to them becoming distorted in boss fights

• fixed way too low sensitivity of horizontal scrollbar of crafting queue in Factory

• fixed crafter dialog not formatting the text inside the textbox with the selected number formatter when using multiply buttons

• removed duplicate 'click to continue' line in worker tutorials

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Fixes

• fixed header in military tier up screen not being anchored to the top of the screen

• fixed Power Plant starting with power when constructing it

• fixed technology tab in Power Plant not being centered when playing with UI scale below 100%

• fixed buy max. in town assets UI not refreshing bonus

• fixed snowman carrot particles teleporting to the center of the map once carrot falls out

• fixed active module UI components throwing unnecessary exceptions when tower dies

• fixed module instance UI components resetting when tower dies

• fixed text clipping in sleigh pad in winter wonderland

• fixed winter event not resetting items from last year

• fixed settings button in winter wonderland

• fixed typo in Dr. Cubicals guidance

• fixed unlock condition of nullifying aura not unregistering certain event listeners

Changes

• added steam achievements sync when loading an existing savegame

• reduced military tier 5 module requirements from 100 to 80

v1.0.0 will launch in ~15hrs!

Here is most of what changed in advance.

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General

• added 'Highscore Mode' (requires finishing the game once)

• added open save folder button to save game list

• added option to adjust color blind mode blending with original image

• added localization keys to main menu buttons

• added localization support for help pages

• added Steam achievements

• added town assets to nexus

• added vfx pack to nexus

• added winter wonderland asset pack to nexus

• added debug option to disable fallback language

• added new dropdown icons

• added new logo

• changed tutorial text to be localizable

• changed building tutorials to be localizable

• changed Winter Wonderland sleighpad to softcap efficiency per worker beyond 100%

• tooltips are now more responsive

• option category headers are now localizable

• increased exotic gems cap from 1e18 to 1.8e308 (data type is double instead of long)

• updated list of supporters

• updated unity to version 2020.3.49f1

• missable achievements will unlock on save load

• moved global boosts to 'online' category in options menu

• moved 'Dynamic Rendering' to graphics settings

• moved 'Dynamic UI Scaling' to graphics settings and removed experimental warning

• replaced color correction shaders for colorblind mode

• removed software from options menu

• removed 'x1' from anti-aliasing settings dropdown since it effectively does nothing (it auto-jumps to x2 internally)

• removed deprecated localized tmp components

• removed empty spaces in the credits

• fixed broken input boxes in options

• fixed credits duration not adjusting based on supporters

• fixed language dropdown always starting at english even when changed in last session

• fixed broken localization files throwing exceptions and breaking game setup

• fixed a lot of trailing spaces in localized texts

• fixed deleting a savegame not refreshing the continue button

• fixed checkmarks in options menu using wrong color

• fixed various typos

• fixed mods button showing up on web

Town

• added Dr. Cubical guidance system

• added Dr. Cubical to town

• added background blur to Town stats UI background

• added building shortcut buttons to exotic skills

• added help page for building skills

• added help page for exotic skills

• added hexagon base shape to tower customization

• added max. shield factor to town stats menu

• added highlighting to challenge menu if module tier requirement is not fulfilled

• merged normal and endless mode into one UI component

• adjusted Tower Testing UI for a more unified style

• updated help page of tower customization

• right-clicking town stats now toggles all their modifiers

• town conversion rate modifiers cannot be disabled anymore

• town assets can no longer be manually or automatically placed inside building meshes

• town assets now properly respect their rotation when checking for obstacles

• enemy stats display in new round screen now includes era and infinity in resource drop preview

• challenges are now more restricting regarding legendary modules

• module categories which are forbidden in a challenge are now crossed out

• module count for forbidden categories is now display as '/0' instead of '/X'

• swapped neutral and forest region for neutral infinity stone charge bars

• building shortcut button is now disabled when building is under construction and cannot be entered

• completed challenges now show a checkmark during tower testing next to their number

• infinity modules can now be used in any challenge

• infinity modules level is unaffected by challenge rules

• replaced locked difficulties text ('???') with lock icon

• replaced town perk 'Mine Layers' with 'Sea Miles' (skill points are automatically refunded)

• replaced locked building text ('???') inside building skills menu with a lock icon

• renamed town perk 'Processing Speed' to 'Machine Speed'

• changed fade in/out animation of buildings to be consistent regardless of framerate

• changed town citizens to no longer obstruct placement of town assets

• changed infinity perk for boss unlock to be one-time use instead of toggle

• changed 'toggle modifiers' in town stats to only shows up if an attribute actually has toggleable modifiers

• changed town asset bonus to be based on slots instead of actually placed town assets

• changed tower projectile color to be customizable

• removed infinity perk that gave temporary access to forge

• fixed minor Town header and footer UI styling issues

• fixed escape button not closing region detail view and instead closing the entire game mode selection window

• fixed dashboard not closing when opening town assets

• fixed normal mode's completed statistic not being refreshed upon loading a save

• fixed worker task categories with no available tasks being clickable

• fixed order of module fragments in idle menu to be the same as in Workshop

• fixed idle resource amount text jumping up and down due to wrong vertical font centering

• fixed event button being on top of dashboard and guidance menu

• fixed importing tower mesh sometimes not recalculating normals properly

Power Plant

• added exotic skill 'Recursive Feedback'

• added exotic skill 'Quantum Storage'

• added right-click to buy max. to second floor of Power Plant

• Power Plant component technology buttons now better indicate that they are clickable

• pressing escape in Power Plant will first attempt to close any open tech tree upgrade windows before closing the entire building

• fixed second floor of Power Plant using wrong character casing for prices

• fixed Power Plant not updating production per second when sped up

• fixed wrong conversion button tooltip border color

• fixed loadout import reading 'paste blueprint here' instead of 'paste loadout here'

Mine

• added right-click to buy max. to all drill upgrades

• added right-click to buy max. to asteroid mining upgrades

• replaced icon of skill 'Detection'

• replaced icon of skill 'Collapsing Tunnels'

• replaced icon of skill 'Advanced Drills'

• replaced icon of skill 'Tank Expansion'

• fixed skill 'Collapsing Tunnels' not applying the correct formula

• fixed wrong conversion button tooltip border color

• fixed asteroids granting Factory items even without the Factory

Factory

• added right-click to buy max. to second floor of Factory

• added tooltip to machines in the crafter recipe selection view

• added hotkey for autofill in Factory

• added internal priority system to crafter

• minor improvements to font scaling

• reworked item dissolving mechanics

• all items can now be dissolved right from the start

• improved crafter algorithm

• scanned items return 100% of their mass

• unscanned items return 25% of their mass

• fabricating items requires them to be scanned

• adjusted Factory UI for a more unified style

• increased shop stock limit of basic chips, ingots and plates

• increased t1 town producer production rate from 0.25 to 4

• increased t2 town producer production rate from 150 to 300

• increased t1 building producer production rate from 0.02 to 0.5

• increased t2 building producer production rate from 10.0 to 25.0

• input items in machines that have a crafting recipe can now be clicked to preview the recipe in the crafting grid

• reduced scan requirements for all items

• changed fabrication cost to start at 3 (was 4) times the original mass of the object

• changed Pumpkin to only be scannable during Halloween

• changed 'Town Producer T1' to require T1 materials instead of T2

• changed shop to only display relevant items in early Factory tiers

• changed producers to be uncraftable until their respective building has been constructed

• changed auto-fill to grab machines from their slots when upgrading them and they are the last missing item

• fixed trash and auto-fill tooltips not having correct border color

• fixed crafter adding same-type items multiple times to the crafting queue instead of properly stacking them

• fixed minor exception when trying to craft an item while not having enough resources

• fixed categories with no available recipes being clickable

• fixed crafter not being able to properly save & load recipes that change their signature

Headquarters

• added notification when software finishes installing

• added software loadouts

• added contract 'Unequalizer'

• added contract 'Communicator'

• added skill 'Extra Servers'

• added skill 'Data Mining'

• added skill 'Head Offices'

• added exotic skill 'Foreign Contracts'

• added exotic skill 'Shared Database'

• added localization keys to module and region mt requirements

• adjusted module tier requirements for military tiers

• mine shards are now converted to resources before tiering up

• reduced price of first server (2 instead of 100)

• changed price after the first server to 10^server count (was 100*10^server count)

• changed base price of CPU upgrades for servers to 10 (was 20)

• changed base price of RAM upgrades for servers to 1.5e8 (was 10)

• changed base cost of software 'Autoskip' to 15 (was 50)

• changed base research time of software 'Autoskip' to 10 minutes (was 20 minutes)

• changed base cost of software 'Wave Streaming' to 250 (was 250000)

• changed base research time of software 'Wave Streaming' to 4 hours (was ~1644 years)

• changed contract fragment multiplier max level from 19 to 300

• changed trust fund tooltip to omit resources with an amount of zero

• changed software 'Era Tunneling' to increase eras skipped per difficulty with a highscore higher than inf. 1 and additionally provide another bonus if all difficulties of a region are inf. 1 or higher

Facility AI

• added AI script templates

• added AI action 'Software: Apply Loadout (Name)'

• added AI action 'Software: Apply Loadout (Index)'

• added AI function 'Software: Loadout Name'

• added AI function 'Software: Loadout Index'

• added AI function 'Software: Loadout Count'

• added AI function 'Software: Loadout Count'

• added AI function 'Factory: Machine Tier'

• added AI function 'Game: Time Passed'

• added AI function 'Game: Real Time Passed'

• added 'xor', 'or', 'and' bitwise operators to arithmetic (int) AI function

• added AI impulse for opening tower testing town window

• added AI impulse for closing tower testing town window

• moved AI settings from Headquarters to options menu

• fixed overflow exceptions in AI scripts flooding the log files

• fixed AI canvas not clearing when going to the main menu

• fixed AI being able to assigning worker task parameters that are not available yet

• fixed turbo exec

• fixed currently executing script not properly stopping if it uses execution budget

Arcade

• reduced resource rewards from Jumble

• minimum resource rewards in Arcade are now 1

• fixed Arcade resetting town music when entering for the first time after a scene load

• fixed minimum wager in Arcade not formating the value based on selected notation

Perfect Space

• added movement via mouse

• added visual indicator for when weapon is on cooldown

• added smaller visual cues

• added level up effect to player ship

• added continue button on game over screen

• fixed enemies' hit marker not disappearing on the game over screen

• fixed drones not being affected by engineering ability

Laboratory

• added skill 'Overpaid Interns'

• added skill 'Elemental Cores'

• added skill 'Module Molecules'

• added skill 'Breakthrough'

• added skill 'Scoping'

• added coordinate input to exotic experiment multiverse

• changed claimed goals to be slightly better visualized

• changed Fire Experiment to unlock with Laboratory T2 (was T1)

• changed Nature Experiment to unlock with Laboratory T1 (was T2)

• changed Water Experiment base cooling speed from 0.5 to 2

• fixed endless Laboratory goals showing the next requirement

• fixed buy max. for exotic gems in exotic experiment

Shipyard

• added events for shipment completed and collected

• added skill 'Cartography'

• added skill 'Priority Manifest'

• added skill 'Trade Leverage'

• added exotic skill 'Shipping Fleet'

• added exotic skill 'Import Taxes'

• fixed Shipyard floating reward boxes spawning when inside a submenu like skills, help, etc.

Trading Post

• crates are now a currency

• replaced icon of skill 'Super Trades'

• fixed conversion dials in Trading Post throwing an exception when selected trade offer is changed

• fixed Trading Post not clearing selected offer if it got removed when offers have been regenerated

• fixed trades staying locked after returning to their pool

Workshop

• added events for anvil usage and anvil lock state changed

• added exotic skill 'Public Quests'

• added exotic skill 'Arsenal'

• added zoom function to infinity grid

• reduced era hits and kills required to unlock research

• renamed 'forge levels' to 'reforge tiers'

• changed era hits to not require a minimum damage amount anymore in order to count

• changed skill 'Synergy' damage bonus from 1% to 10% per offensive module

• changed skill 'Reforge' resistance bonus from 1% to 6% per defensive module (capped at 90%)

• changed skill 'Examination' to increase tower testing xp gained by 1.5 instead of unlocking region difficulty details

• changed region difficulty details to unlock as soon as the Workshop has been constructed

• reduced base cost of era damage and hp divider

• fixed anchor of era experimentation module tabs

• fixed activating 'full' toggle in Workshop displaying 'Free' when not enough resources are available to tier up

• fixed second floor Workshop sometimes revealing the word 'Infinity' before infinity was unlocked

• fixed wrong conversion button tooltip border color

• fixed Workshop permanently showing gem count if exiting via hotkey

• fixed 'full' button in Workshop preventing to tier up modules when 'max' button is disabled

Museum

• added artifact research time to artifact info screen

• added help page for artifacts

• added help page for achievements

• added statistic 'Era highscores (per Difficulty per Region)

• added statistic 'Infinity highscores (per Difficulty per Region)

• added artifact categories

• adjusted gem price of finishing artifact research

• updated description of artifact 'Kat's Eye'

• changed exotic skill 'Artifact Replica' price from 1200 to 1000

• changed Power Stone Market slot costs to 200 per slot

• changed boss statistics power stone slot unlocks

• changed artifact 'Golden Apple' base research costs from 1e4 to 1e3

• changed artifact 'Golden Apple' base reserach time from 3400 to 1000 seconds

• changed artifact 'Rib Cage' base research costs from 1e4 to 1e3

• changed artifact 'Rib Cage' base reserach time from 3400 to 1000 seconds

• changed artifact 'Rib Cage' effect to -2% reserach time per researched artifact

• changed artifact 'Carrot' base research costs from 322000 to 1e3

• changed artifact 'Carrot' base reserach time from 900 to 1000 seconds

• changed artifact 'Dwarven Minecart' base research costs from 1e5 to 5e3

• changed artifact 'Dwarven Minecart' base reserach time from 4500 to 2700 seconds

• changed artifact 'Lava Ruby' base research costs from 1e6 to 5e3

• changed artifact 'Lava Ruby' base reserach time from 5000 to 2700 seconds

• changed artifact 'Sign' base research costs from 1000 to 5e3

• changed artifact 'Sign' base reserach time from 60 to 2700 seconds

• changed artifact 'Monkey Idol' base research costs from 1e6 to 2e4

• changed artifact 'Monkey Idol' base reserach time from 5000 to 3600 seconds

• changed artifact 'Ancient Gear' base research costs from 1e10 to 2e4

• changed artifact 'Ancient Gear' base reserach time from 9000 to 3600 seconds

• changed artifact 'Compass' base research costs from 1e6 to 2e4

• changed artifact 'Compass' base reserach time from 5000 to 3600 seconds

• changed artifact 'Broken Sword' base research costs from 690000 to 1e5

• changed artifact 'Broken Sword' base reserach time from 1800 to 5400 seconds

• changed artifact 'Strange Cube' base research costs from 1e6 to 1e5

• changed artifact 'Strange Cube' base reserach time from 5000 to 5400 seconds

• changed artifact "Kat's Eye" base research costs from 12345678 to 1e5

• changed artifact "Kat's Eye" base reserach time from 3600 to 5400 seconds

• changed artifact 'Broken Wing' base reserach time from 5000 to 6300 seconds

• changed artifact 'Blackhole in a bottle' base reserach time from 5000 to 6300 seconds

• changed artifact 'Light Triangle' base research costs from 1e6 to 5e6

• changed artifact 'Light Triangle' base reserach time from 5000 to 7200 seconds

• changed artifact 'Chained Mannequin' base research costs from 727747793.115 to 7e13

• changed artifact 'Ominous Coil' base research costs from 3956447203.45 to 5e12

• changed artifact 'Energy Sphere' base research costs from 1500000 to 1e10

• changed artifact 'Energy Sphere' base reserach time from 600 to 7200 seconds

• changed artifact 'Metal Plating' base research costs from 4500000 to 1e15

• changed artifact 'Metal Plating' base reserach time from 1800 to 7200 seconds

• changed artifact 'Vine Monster' base research costs from 9000000 to 1e15

• changed artifact 'Vine Monster' base reserach time from 3600 to 7200 seconds

• changed artifact 'Incendiary Device' base research costs from 11250000 to 1e20

• changed artifact 'Incendiary Device' base reserach time from 4500 to 7200 seconds

• changed artifact 'Cubos Cube' base research costs from 13500000 to 1e20

• changed artifact 'Cubos Cube' base reserach time from 600 to 14400 seconds

• changed artifact 'Dice Of Fate' base research costs from 1552528625.31 to 1e30

• changed artifact 'Necronomicon' base research costs from 1846342028.28 to 1e30

• changed artifact 'Necronomicon' base reserach time from 86400 to 28800 seconds

• changed artifact 'Quantum Warehouse' base research costs from 25000000000000 to 5e22

• changed artifact 'Quantum Warehouse' base reserach time from 10800 to 14400 seconds

• changed artifact 'Hyper Trading Table' base research costs from 20000000000000 to 2e16

• changed artifact 'Hyper Trading Table' base reserach time from 10800 to 14400 seconds

• changed artifact 'Unstable Matter' base research costs from 5e14 to 1e40

• changed artifact 'Unstable Matter' base reserach time from 21600 to 28800 seconds

• changed artifact 'Heart Of The Cards' base reserach time from 3400 to 14400 seconds

• changed artifact 'Celestial Tokens' base research costs from 1e8 to 2e10

• changed artifact 'Celestial Tokens' base reserach time from 4500 to 14400 seconds

• changed artifact 'Antimatter Die' base research costs from 1e8 to 2e10

• changed artifact 'Antimatter Die' base reserach time from 4500 to 14400 seconds

• changed artifact 'Some Kinda Laser Thingie' base research costs from 1e8 to 2e10

• changed artifact 'Some Kinda Laser Thingie' base reserach time from 4500 to 14400 seconds

• changed artifact 'W.I.N.C.E. Plushie' base research costs from 1e10 to 1e50

• changed artifact 'Pumpkin' base research costs from 13500000 to 1e10

• changed artifact 'Pumpkin' base reserach time from 5400 to 10 seconds

• changed artifact 'Book Of Cubimas' base research costs from 13500000 to 1e10

• changed artifact 'Book Of Cubimas' base reserach time from 5400 to 10 seconds

• changed artifact "Google's Treasure Bag" base research costs from 1e10 to 2e10

• changed artifact "Google's Treasure Bag" base reserach time from 1 to 14400 seconds

• changed artifact "Una's Replicator" base research costs from 1e16 to 1e70

• changed artifact "Una's Replicator" base reserach time from 21600 to 86400 seconds

• changed artifact "Nar's Tubular Test Tube" base reserach time from 21600 to 28800 seconds

• fixed artifact "Nar's Tubular Test Tube" not being unlockable

• fixed exotic skill 'Artifact Replica' not being applied until restart

• fixed Power Stone tooltips keeping previous slot item color when swapping

• fixed hint unlock prices not using the selected formatting options

• fixed artifact objects being clickable without a Museum

• fixed exotic gem cost of hints still being a long instead of double

• fixed artifact research screen showing the label 'instantly finish' even without the appropriate skill

Construction Firm

• changed construction price of Mine from \ to \

• changed construction price of Factory from \ to \

• changed construction price of Laboratory from \ to \

• changed construction price of Power Plant from \ to \

• changed construction price of Arcade from \ to \

• changed construction price of Trading Post from \ to \

• changed construction price of Museum from \ to \

• changed construction price of Statue Of Cubos from \ to \

• changed construction price of Shipyard from \ to \

• changed 'Beacon Of Power' bonus per tier to be multiplicative to itself instead of additive

• changed 'Beacon Of Wealth' bonus per tier to be multiplicative to itself instead of additive

• reduced construction time of Construction Firm tier 1 to 3 sec.

• reduced construction time of Workshop tier 1 to 5 sec.

Statue Of Cubos

• added skill 'Second Chance'

• added skill 'Trialforged'

• added skill 'Divine Gamble'

• added skill 'Power Stack'

• added exotic skill 'Victory Boost'

• added auto-save when quiting or restarting boss fights

• changed boss 1 module 'Searing Projectiles' scaling to (xp^0.3)*0.01 (was xp^0.05)

• fixed font size issue in Power Plant during Boss 5.2

• fixed tower not being visible in boss 5.2

• fixed tower not instantly skipping a side in boss 2 if all components of that side have been destroyed

• fixed Mine and Factory potentially producing NaN values during final boss fight

Tower Testing

• added option to always show tower range visual indicator

• added checkmark next to difficulty during tower testing when current normal mode has been completed

• region and difficulty rewards in normal mode can now be directly jumped to from the result screen

• result screen now clearly shows that the next difficulty is unlocked

• result screen now shows damage element icon instead of colored resource icon

• result screen will show 0 instead of '???' if the tower was destroyed by zero damage

• toggle wave stream button now appears after researching any software

• toggle wave stream button now refreshes its state whenever software finishes installation

• sandbox now displays gamemode in tower testing in the color of the selected difficulty scaling

• changed tower range visual indicator to be toggled when clicking on the tower (was only on hover before)

• fixed inconsistency in how sandbox handles highest wave

• fixed tower attack range indicator clipping through the ground in Volcano

• fixed buff windows staying visible when buff list button gets disabled

• fixed 'Poison Skin' damage from jungle challenge #3 being caused by buff target instead of module owner

• fixed 'Poison Skin' damage from jungle challenge #3 not being marked as 'non-reflectable'

• fixed module instances sometimes not properly disposed when units get destroyed

Modules

• added module 'Omniversal Damage'

• added module 'The Executive'

• added module 'Nullifying Aura'

• added module 'Space Guns'

• added module 'Onyx's Blessing'

• added missing cooldown tag to module 'Energy Flow'

• increased drop chance of 'Rapidfire' from 0.6% to 0.9%

• increased drop chance of 'Advanced Splash' from 0.14% to 0.3%

• increased drop chance of 'Shield Recharger' from 0.5% to 1%

• increased drop chance of 'Sparks' from 0.12% to 0.8%

• increased drop chance of 'Steini's Chained Ball' from 0.05% to 0.4%

• increased drop chance of 'Marble Foundation' from 0.5% to 0.8%

• increased drop chance of 'Transmute' from 0.5% to 0.8%

• increased drop chance of 'Soul Harvesting' from 0.1% to 0.3%

• increased drop chance of 'Burning Attack' from 0.1% to 0.4%

• increased drop chance of 'Bash' from 0.12% to 1%

• changed category of 'W.I.N.C.E.' to legendary

• changed unlock condition of 'Knight's Boost of Power' from universal to air era research

• changed 'Nature's Touch' damage scaling to be more viable in early game

• changed 'Multishot' unlock to wave 15 in Forest (was wave 30)

• changed 'Bounce' unlock to Wave 30 in Forest (was wave 10)

• changed 'Basic Damage' min. value from (2/4/6/8/10/12/...) to (2/100/5000/22500/300000/1250000/...)

• changed 'Fire Attack' min. value from (1/2/3/4/5/6/...) to (1/50/2500/11250/150000/625000/...)

• changed 'Water Attack' min. value from (1/2/3/4/5/6/...) to (1/50/2500/11250/150000/625000/...)

• changed 'Earth Attack' min. value from (1/2/3/4/5/6/...) to (1/50/2500/11250/150000/625000/...)

• changed 'Air Attack' min. value from (1/2/3/4/5/6/...) to (1/50/2500/11250/150000/625000/...)

• changed 'Nature Attack' min. value from (1/2/3/4/5/6/...) to (1/50/2500/11250/150000/625000/...)

• changed 'Light Attack' min. value from (1/2/3/4/5/6/...) to (1/50/2500/11250/150000/625000/...)

• changed 'Darkness Attack' min. value from (1/2/3/4/5/6/...) to (1/50/2500/11250/150000/625000/...)

• changed 'Electricity Attack' min. value from (1/2/3/4/5/6/...) to (1/50/2500/11250/150000/625000/...)

• changed 'Universal Attack' min. value from (5/10/15/20/25/30/...) to (5/40/2000/10000/125000/500000/...)

• changed 'Refined Armor' exponential scaling from 1.5 to 1.2

• changed 'Conductor' to apply shield points after 0.1 sec. delay

• changed 'Conductor' to work all the time instead of only when shield is at 0

• changed scaling of 'Wave Resources'

• changed 'Metal Plating' effect slightly

• changed 'W.I.N.C.E.' attack speed slowdown from 100% to 200%

• changed 'Offensive Pack' to upgrade by multiple levels on higher tiers

• changed 'Defensive Pack' to upgrade by multiple levels on higher tiers

• changed 'Eternal Wall' capping hp to 1e308 (was 1e300)

• changed 'Fire Shell' stack limit from 100 to 50

• changed 'Water Shell' stack limit from 100 to 50

• changed 'Earth Shell' stack limit from 100 to 50

• changed 'Air Shell' stack limit from 100 to 50

• changed 'Light Shell' stack limit from 100 to 50

• changed 'Darkness Shell' stack limit from 100 to 50

• changed 'Electricity Shell' stack limit from 100 to 50

• changed 'Nature Shell' stack limit from 100 to 50

• changed 'Neutral Resistance' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Fire Resistance' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Water Resistance' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Earth Resistance' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Air Resistance' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Light Resistance' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Darkness Resistance' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Electricity Resistance' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Universal Resistance' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Elemental Resistance' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Generic Resistance' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Shield Recharger' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Whirlwind Aura' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Focused Multishot' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Bulwark' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Neutral Amplifier' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Rejuvenate' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Unfolding' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Fire Barrier' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Water Barrier' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Earth Barrier' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Air Barrier' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Nature Barrier' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Light Barrier' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Darkness Barrier' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Electricity Barrier' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Fire Shell' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Water Shell' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Earth Shell' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Air Shell' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Nature Shell' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Light Shell' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Darkness Shell' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Electricity Shell' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Awareness' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Boss Shield' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Frost Nova' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Bulletproof' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Photosynthesis' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Magical Protection' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Gravitational Impact' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Violent Seeds' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Dispel' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Fracture' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Lucky Shot' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Solar Strike' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Advanced Heal' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Combustion' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Stoneskin' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Conductor' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Advanced Splash' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Extinguish' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Magical Stone Of Floof' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'W.I.N.C.E.' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Gigantic Vines' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Super Multishot' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Fire Armor' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Water Armor' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Earth Armor' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Air Armor' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Light Armor' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Darkness Armor' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Electricity Armor' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'XP Bonus' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Power Of The Cat' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Daigoparry' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Sandstorm' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Tideshift' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Energy Recycling' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Sun Energy' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Moon Energy' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Beach Gift' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Energy Regeneration' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Offensive Pack' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Defensive Pack' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Titanium Hull' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Nature's Wrath' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Generic Armor' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Recharge' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Refresh' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Cooling Cell' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Neutral Response' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Energy Flow' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Adaptive Regeneration' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Reflect' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Frost Aura' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Storm Aura' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Monsoon Aura' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Shield Of Air' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Unholy Aura' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Dryness Aura' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Checkerboard Aura' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Stab Prevention' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Defiance' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Phasing' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Toxic Piranha Ivy' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Redirect' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Aftershock' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Overcharge' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Transformator' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Gravel' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Metal Plating' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Strikeback' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Forest Gift' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Desert Gift' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Diver's Shield' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Fire Protection' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Water Protection' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Earth Protection' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Air Protection' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Light Protection' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Darkness Protection' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Electricity Protection' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Snowstorm' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Unholy Cloak' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Radar' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Bash' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Magical Orbs' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Soul Harvesting' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Something' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Temporal Barrier' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Poison' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Void' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Relay' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Frost Splash' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Shocking Ward' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Glacier Spikes' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Immortality Shield' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Hurricane' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Stream Of Life' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Super Tower' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Super Tower 2' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'L.O.S.O. Drone System' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Tremors' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Avalanche' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Dice Of Fate' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Daybloom' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Universal Shield' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Attack Speed' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Multishot' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Basic Bouncing' maximum tier to 250

• changed 'Rapidfire' maximum tier to 250

• fixed absolute damage of 'Martyrdom' being reflectable

• fixed 'Bluecat's Harmonizer' reducing energy cost of non-active modules to 0

• fixed 'Chaos Gift' incorrectly calculating a random casting position which lead to a bias towards the center

• fixed 'Super Tower 3' always showing 90% energycost despite costing only 10% on max. level

• fixed 'Energy Sphere' reflect damage not being marked as 'non-reflectable'

Performance Improvments

• sum formula for Dyn.VarExp now uses direct calculation instead of looping and adding up all individual values

• infinity product and infinity sum is now cached per region, massively reducing memory allocations when charging infinity stones

• removed an unnecessary memory allocation when comparing option values

Modding

• software can be loaded from json

• IDataCollection does not require a dictionary anymore

• turned max. citizens into attribute

• turned max. town level into attribute

• turned max. town assets into attribute

• turned min. and max. blueprint size into attributes

• conversion rates for buildings are now attributes

• data type of conversion rate is now double instead of long

Hey everyone!

For five years now, The Perfect Tower II has been in Early Access. Five years of updates, refactors, buffs, nerfs, bugs and “okay, maybe just one more feature...”.

What started as a small project we thought we’d ship within a year turned into something much bigger. And that’s entirely because of you!

You were there with feedback when we tried new things. You sent bug reports when everything broke. You shared guides, memes, fan art and kind words. You tested crazy builds we never expected to be possible. You stuck with us when features took longer than planned. You reminded us why we started this project in the first place.

At this point, The Perfect Tower II isn’t just "our" game anymore. It’s something we’ve built together. Patch by patch. Year by year.

The Steam Awards category "Labor of Love" is all about that. It’s about sticking with a game because you care and a community that refuses to let a project fade away.

If you feel the same way, we’d be incredibly grateful if you could: Nominate The Perfect Tower II for the "Labor of Love" Award.

Thank you for playing. Thank you for caring. Thank you for crafting the perfect tower with us! ːdreamheartː

Hey everyone!

We’ve received so many heartwarming messages and so much love for the new key art. Thank you! ːhealthyhearthlingː

The piece was created by the amazing Fully Illustrated and we’re incredibly happy with how it turned out. If you like it as much as we do, you should definitely check out more of his work!

We thought it would be cool to have a TPT2 Displate in the office and instead of just buying one for ourselves, we wanted to give you the chance to get one too. We created the artist account super spontaneously and we’re not sure yet if we’re going to keep it, so this might be a very time-limited offer.

On top of that, Displate is running a Black Friday sale for the next 12 hours, where you can get up to 44% off your order.

We’re already super excited for what’s ahead for The Perfect Tower II and seeing how much you care about the game and the new art honestly means a lot to us. Stuff like this makes the upcoming release feel even more special, because we get to share it with you. 💙

If you’d like to grab a Displate, here’s the link:

https://displate.com/artist/FireSwordStudios?art=69263c8346f5d

Using this link also supports us a bit extra through a higher commission.

If you want to support us in another way, you can vote for The Perfect Tower II in the Steam Awards by nominating us for the Labor of Love Award!

Click to nominate

Hi everyone!

On November 30th, 2020, The Perfect Tower II entered Early Access (web-only). Over the past 5 years, the game has changed significantly and broadened its original vision. Your feedback and support have enabled us to refine the game, addressing hundreds of issues, undergoing multiple UI reworks and Unity updates and incorporating numerous quality-of-life features.

Thank you for your patience! We are at last prepared for the next step. 

The Perfect Tower II is going to leave Early Access on November 30th 2025!

We are attempting to keep this post brief even though there is a lot to say. Over the course of the next week, you might see a few more posts. Please let us know in the comments if there are particular topics you would like to learn more about. For instance, we intend to write a post explaining the idea behind TPT2 and how it evolved over time.

New Branding

Version 1 deserves a fresh professional look. That’s why we’ve invested some town resources and got Fully Illustrated to design a logo and key art for the game! We love how Fully Illustrated captured the look of the game and how much detail is hidden in the key art. 

Let us know what you think :D 

Our journey so far

Over the past six years we’ve released more than 310 updates, from the first reveal through closed and open alpha, beta and finally Early Access.

In that time we’ve rebuilt core systems, squashed countless bugs, upgraded Unity 15 times and added a ton of new features (many inspired directly by your feedback).

You’ve sent in nearly 5000 suggestions, reported countless bugs, hung out with us for over 60 hours of Twitch streams and many more on Discord and we’ve poured more than 18000 hours of development into the game.

All of that work and all of your support, now comes together in one milestone: the v1.0 launch.

v1 Highlights

• Highscore Mode - beating the game now unlocks a Highscore Mode that lets you start a new game with optional challenges to earn the best score

• 74 Steam achievements

• Progression has been rebalanced to especially improve the early game

• We’ve rebalanced CPU/RAM upgrades in Headquarters and reduced their cost so that software becomes part of early progression

• Modules rebalanced - nearly every module can now be upgraded up to tier 250, with new scaling formulas that keep them useful in the late game

• Software loadouts

• In-game guidance system starring Dr. Cubical

• Six skills and three exotic skills per building

• New Tower customization options

• New contracts

• New modules

• New AI functions/actions

Post v1 roadmap

Even though v1 marks a major milestone, it’s not the finish line. In our last post we promised that The Perfect Tower II will continue to receive updates after v1.

We intend to provide new content in addition to bug fixes and quality of life changes.

Here are some of the things we still have planned for after v1 releases (we will go into more detail at a later time):

• Workshop UI overhaul

• More localization support and ideally community localizations!

• MT16-20

• More Festivals

• More challenges for the Highscore mode

• Mobile version

FAQ

What happens to my Early Access saves?

Nothing! Apart from having to automatically migrate some options (based on when you last played), you can keep playing with your Early Access save.

A lot has changed in terms of progression, so we would recommend starting a fresh save for the full experience or why not try Highscore Mode if you’ve finished the game once?

Will the modding DLC be available at launch?

We’ve decided against launching the modding DLC with v1. It’s mainly because the modding editor is not where we want it to be and we didn’t want this to cause any more delays to the v1 release. We’re aiming for a Q1 2026 release of the modding DLC.

Make sure to wishlist the modding DLC to get notified when it launches:

When do we get a mobile version?

Now that v1 is ready, we feel confident that we can provide a stable mobile version, but first we need to change some UI and input methods so that the game will even be playable on mobile. After that we will start a test phase with a small player group from our Discord server. Expect mobile in 2026, but after the modding DLC.

What about The Perfect Tower 1 remake?

We wanted to give the v1 release our full attention before continuing work on the remake of The Perfect Tower. We will continue development at the start of the new year and provide you with further updates. Do not expect the remake before a Steam Next Fest, as we want to make use of Steam Next Fest to potentially reach new players.

Make sure to wishlist The Perfect Tower Remake to get further notifications:

Please post any questions you have in the comments. We will be providing an updated FAQ closer to launch.

Thank you

This journey started in 2016 with the release of the first The Perfect Tower, and we couldn’t have come this far without you. Your patience and feedback were instrumental in creating The Perfect Tower II. We’re incredibly excited to share version 1.0 with you and to continue expanding the game afterwards.

Don’t forget to tell us what you’re excited about and what else we should share before the v1 launch.

Cheers,

SpeedyBrain & XmmmX

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Hi everyone!

We hope you’re all doing well.

It’s been a while since our last update and we originally aimed to release Version 1 (v1) by now. The most important information first. We don’t have an exact release date for v1 (explanation further down). However, we’ve been quietly testing v1 with a small group of players, gathered a lot of feedback and polished the game. The feedback has been incredibly valuable in fine-tuning the overall experience of the game. Starting today, we’re expanding access to our v1-testing branch to all premium supporters* (Discord server subscription or Patreon subscriber) while we continue to improve the game.

v1 When?

Short answer: when it’s ready.

Long answer: We’ve been working on The Perfect Tower II since 2019 and a lot of our original ideas have been expanded over the years. There is a lot more content and deeper mechanics than originally planned. Even though the game already feels well rounded and has an ending, there are some things we just want to get “perfect” before we slap the v1 tag on it.

In the past months we have made a lot of progress on things, especially quality of life improvements, that we have previously had to put on the back burner to get all features done. We have tested those changes with a small portion of our player base and collected valuable feedback. We are now in the end stages of adding additional features and improvements. There would be so much more we would still like to add, but we also want to get v1 into your hands!

What does that mean for the release date? Well, we are close, but we don’t want to give an exact date because in the past it always ended up with us having to delay it due to work from other projects interfering with the development process. Since we’ve been on this journey with you for such a long time, we want v1 to feel right. This is not something that can be easily measured. We are fully aware there will be areas where players might expect different changes or more polish and quality-of-life features. Figuring out how to balance those expectations for every feature is and has been a tricky task for us. Once we have reached a stable and well-rounded v1 release candidate we’re going to announce the release date and use the remaining time to properly advertise the game. We will try to increase the community engagement to make the actual release feel a bit more lively than just a regular update. Even though we don't want to give an exact date, it is coming out before GTA VI. ːSheepː

Does that mean no more updates after v1? Of course not! Right after the release we are switching back to the regular update cycle. We will continue refining game mechanics, adding new features and of course, work on the post-endgame content and mobile version. ;)

v1 Testing Phase

We have been testing v1 changes since February with a small group of players and made additional changes based on feedback and test results. We’ve also started to replay the entire game ourselves to get a better feeling for the current experience. The result of those tests were 189 tasks on our Trello board, from which we have almost implemented all of them.

*Starting today, we’re expanding access to our v1-testing branch to all Eternal Flame or higher premium supporters, who have an active Discord server subscription or are a Patreon subscriber and who are on our Discord server.

The early game balance has changed a lot and is now faster and more streamlined. If you are thinking of playing on the v1-testing branch, a word of warning. There might be breaking changes that can alter your savegame and won’t allow you to go back to the public version (use a fresh save!). Save file migration works only one-way! Even though the testing branch is not exactly what will be the public v1, it does already contain the majority of changes that are going to heavily impact the gameplay. It’s better to wait for the public release, if you want the full v1 experience!

Some highlights of the v1 changes

Here are some highlights of the current v1 changelog. (~300 lines of changes) 

Highscore Mode

When you beat the game for the first time, effectively at the point where you can watch the credits roll, you now unlock a Highscore mode that lets you start a new game with challenges that increase the difficulty. At the end of that new game you will receive a score based on how fast you have completed the game and how many challenge modifiers you have activated! These include things like buildings having a higher conversion rate or your blueprint size having a hard cap of 10 modules.

Module balance and scaling

The majority of all modules can now be tiered up to T250. Previously many of them stopped at T5 which kind of took away the satisfaction of certain modules when stopping so early. For some of them this was really bad in later stages of the game since they quickly lost all relevance, especially modules with absolute values.

The new scaling of modules with a new maximum tier varies greatly based on the original module effect. For some of them it was relatively easy to scale since they can just grow stronger based on their original scaling and still remain meaningful without breaking anything. Others were a bit more tricky due to %-based values like movement speed reduction which should not increase beyond a certain threshold in order to cause game breaking effects.

A few modules actually received a completely new scaling, making them a bit weaker during their first tiers but way stronger than their old limit on higher tiers. Specifically for some of the damage modules the damage scaling has changed significantly. They now have less harsh drop-offs when going to the next tier. Previously they landed in the 1-2 digits area after a tier up which made them basically useless.

Apart from that there have been some fundamental changes in the definition of certain modules (spoilers ahead). For example infinity modules now count as tier infinite, meaning they can be taken into any challenge, regardless of the tier restrictions of the challenge. This provides you with a new opportunity to beat more difficult challenges later in the game by simply using end game modules, effectively giving you a way to clear challenges without needing any strategy or guide if you make it to this point.

There have also been adjustments to the drop rates of modules as well as the fixed waves that unlock modules. Multishot is now unlocked earlier, giving you another option to clear your first 100 waves quicker. Many of the very low chance region modules have now received a boost along with more building skills and upgrades that affect the module droprate. It’s now less of a grind to unlock all region modules. 

Headquarters

Apart from making the UI more concise with the overall style, the upgrade costs in the Headquarters have been balanced to be more usable in early game. Server costs have been significantly reduced and CPU/RAM upgrades have been balanced accordingly. Autoskip and Wave Streaming are two of the core software components, which is why we have reduced their price and install duration. They are now a more sensible part of early progression.

Software loadouts

One of the most useful additions regarding software are the long awaited and quite frequently requested software loadouts. They have always been on our planned-to-be-added list but never had a high enough priority to be added. Up to the point where we both fully replayed the game. You can now create, edit, import and export software loadouts for various scenarios in the game, allowing you to easily toggle multiple software upgrades on or off at any point. AI scripts also have full control over applying loadouts, meaning you can write shorter scripts that alter your current software configuration.

Factory

The early Factory received various changes in terms of balance, polish and progression. A few recipes have been adjusted to better match the early-game item availability. For example, the first tier of the town resource producer now requires T1 items instead of T2, effectively reducing its cost. Additionally, the production rate of the first two producer tiers has been slightly increased to provide a bit more than just a symbolic passive resource production.

The second floor also received a significant overhaul. The fabricator can now dissolve all items right from the start, but initially returns only 25% of an item’s original mass. Once an item has been scanned in the crafter, this value increases to 100%, resulting in a lossless conversion to mass. Fabricating an item now costs 3 times the original mass of the object instead of 4 times. You still need to scan items before being able to fabricate them. The scanning requirements for almost all items have been reduced.

With these changes you can immediately dispose of asteroid item rewards without having to scan a large number of items first, helping prevent your inventory from clogging.

There have also been numerous bugfixes and small quality of life improvements all over the place in the Factory that would take a while to list. You can find all of them in the release changelog once v1 is out.

Museum 

We have re-balanced all artifact prices and research times to better fit progression. Power Stones also received a slight balance change (mainly the market). We added more achievements for a total of 74 right now and yes, there will be Steam achievements on release!

Quality‑of‑life improvements 

We’ve unified and polished the user interface to give the whole game a consistent look. You can now right‑click to “buy max” on many upgrade screens and open your save‑game folder directly from the game. Many building prices and production rates have been tweaked to better match progression. All buildings now have 6 skills and 3 exotic skills

Hundreds of fixes.

The changelog lists dozens of bug fixes affecting nearly every part of the game. From collapsing tunnels using the wrong formula, to dashboard windows not closing, to AI scripts flooding log files and Factory recipes breaking, we’ve tidied up a lot of rough edges.

What’s next?

v1 is playable, but we’re still working on it. Our immediate priorities are polishing the game and continuing to smooth out the balance. We’re also exploring quality‑of‑life features based on your feedback. We would also like to rework the Nexus and Workshop UI.

We aren’t ready to set dates yet, but we’ll keep you updated as work progresses. We hope this post shows how much progress has been made and why we chose to not release v1 yet, as we wanted to build a better foundation for everyone. We’re excited to see what you think and we’ll continue to listen closely to your reports and ideas.

Since the start of development we received almost 5000 suggestions on our Discord and countless idea posts on Steam. Without your help we would have missed so many opportunities for unique ideas, quality of life features and satisfying game design decisions.

Thank you

Thank you for sticking with us and for all the feedback you’ve shared so far. Your patience and support have allowed us to make The Perfect Tower II better for everyone. We’re looking forward to reading your thoughts on v1 and to sharing more updates as we move toward the full release.

Cheers, SpeedyBrain and XmmmX

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Changelog

New Stuff

• added Steam Wallet support (Steam Version only)

Changes

• re-enabled purchasing ember

Fixes

• fixed shader changes during winter wonderland updates breaking tutorial box masking
• fixed mouse left click sprite having pixel bleeding from neighbouring icon on sprite map
• fixed power plant buffs being available despite the according building not being unlocked yet
• fixed event resource multipliers showing up in the town stats menu even outside the duration of the event
• fixed undo inside workshop sometimes not refreshing visual module states in module list
• fixed construction firm "instant finish using gems"-price not using selected notation
• fixed upgrading a technology inside power plant not properly refreshing max. power

Changelog

Fixes

• fixed escape closing infinity board despite subwindows being active
• fixed some items not properly marked as scanned internally which made them undissolvable
• fixed minor issue with scanner allowing rescanning of already scanned items
• removed debug output from factory infinity inventory

Changelog

Changes

• massively optimized memory allocation during AI script execution
• optimized AI script instance handling
• reduced memory usage per frame when AI is active
• reduced duration and filesize of tower impact hit sound by 50%
• slightly optimized scanning logic and checking for scanned items inside crafter
• items that have become infinite in the Factory will not appear as asteroid rewards anymore and existing ones on tiles are deleted upon claiming them
• changed the icon of refining speed town perk to conveyor belt
• debug overlay now shows map position of mouse if currently targeting with an active module

Fixes

• fixed main menu buttons still being pressable during a scene transition
• fixed scannable items in the crafter sometimes showing only after fulfilling unrelated conditions
• fixed Winter Wonderland bonus still being applied

Changelog

Winter Wonderland

• fixed sleigh pad building tier impacting productivity
• fixed some UI issues

Changelog

Winter Wonderland

• fixed swapping items into output slots
• fixed Snowman shop checking if you had more instead of equal or more Candy Cane than the price
• fixed inventory slot clicking issue
• fixed winter buildings not refreshing their visual frozen state in some cases

Changes

• AI function 'string: contains' accepts empty strings

Changelog

Winter Wonderland

• fixed heat not getting properly sanitized when coal power plant inventory changes
• fixed some UI issues
• adjusted how production bonus per tier is applied

Changelog

Fixes

• fixed winter wonderland repair all buildings quest requiring only 9 buildings to be repaired
• fixed production tooltip for winter wonderland building departments not factoring in department milk bonus
• fixed typo in teddy bear item stats resulting in 60% instead of 6% as lower bound for overheat bonus
• fixed combining items not working in winter wonderland
• fixed winter wonderland worker sanitization only happening on reloading the scene
• fixed stencil buffer issue in winter wonderland causing changelog text to clip through background

Changelog

Winter Wonderland

• added building 'Expedition Sleigh Pad'
• added expedition mechanic
• added special toy items that boost the Winter Wonderland and the Tower
• added resource 'Candy Cane'
• changed calendar upgrades
• changed daily temperatures

Changes

• auto-fill crafting grid now fills slots of missing items automatically if the missing items have become infinite

Fixes

• fixed dropping individual items from infinite stacks into machines making the stack finite again
• fixed crafter in some cases misscalculating the final required amount of crafting steps for recipes with a fractional input/output ratio
• fixed upgrading manufacture level not refreshing scannable crafter items

Changelog

Fixes

• fixed deleting AI packages not working
• removed wrongly shown middle mouse hotkey tooltip on AI packages
• fixed idle production button being invisible when no highscores are present (it will still be disabled)
• fixed completing normal mode in chaos throwing an exception

Changelog

New Stuff

• added 'execution budget' to AI scripts
• added AI setting to configure AI overlay refresh interval
• added AI setting 'Disable scripts on import'
• added AI toggle hotkey to AI setting menu in addition to the options menu
• added AI action 'Game: Set Pause'
• added AI action 'Game: Pause'
• added AI action 'Game: Unpause'
• added AI function 'Game: Resource'
• added AI function 'Bool: Not'
• added AI function 'Game: Is Paused'
• added AI function 'Basic: Budget'
• added AI function 'Basic: Wait Frame'
• added middle mouse hotkey to edit scripts in Headquarters AI
• added help page for AI scripting

Changes

• offensive modules are being loaded from data files instead of being hardcoded
• refactored how the AI works internally
• AI scripts have a fixed upper limit of 50 actions, 10 conditions and 10 impulses instead of being based on RAM
• Headquarters RAM affects max. execution budget of scripts
• smaller updates to the Headquarters UI
• removed wave horizon's era based limitation
• removed the additional effect of wave breach (wave horizon era limit)

Fixes

• fixed an issue where sandbox mode could reference discarded unit types from previous sessions
• fixed login with FSS account being disabled

Changelog

New Stuff

• overhauled the title screen
• added options migration dialog
• added button to quickly access the last used save game from the title screen
• added a summary of important changes since you last played
• added infinite save game amount (PC only)
• overhauled cloud storage behaviour to allow for more user control
• added global options
• added online service tab to options
• added 180 FPS and 240 FPS to the fps limit dropdown
• added option 'pause run at start' which pauses a run on the first frame when activated
• added infinity inventory for infinite stacks to Factory (unlocks after getting first infinite stack)
• added 'cycle' option for collecting asteroid rewards to worker task 'Treasure Hunter'
• added tree production boosters to Factory
• added 'Armor Factor (vs. any)' to town stats
• added 'Max. HP factor' to town stats
• added a 'Pause All' button to workers which overrides their current active state without changing it on individual workers
• added profanity filter to dimensional name generator
• added buy max. via right-click to town asset slots
• added workter task to Construction Firm that permits worker to use gems
• added worker task to Construction Firm that permits worker to use exotic gems
• added 4 new options to all Construction Firm worker tasks (fastest, slowest, fastest affordable, slowest affordable)
• added negative filter ('!') for module tags ('#!damage' will exclude modules containing a 'damage' tag)
• added option to 'all' to Workshop that allows you to only upgrade filtered modules
• added 'full' button to Workshop which prevents modules from tiering up using 'max' if the next tier can't be maximized
• added AI function 'Time: Frame'
• added module 'Martyrdom'

Changes

• moved audio options to global options
• moved graphics options to global options
• moved misc options to global options
• moved notation to be a global option
• online service state is accessible via options menu
• Factory crafter is able to scan all items
• Factory crafter can craft booster related items and ingredients
• Factory crafter internally predicts steps and requirements with fractions which reduces excess waste products
• improved Factory crafter crafting step prediction
• Factory items have a separate property that defines if they can be crafted via the crafter and/or fabricated
• Factory item 'Rainbow Dust' can be fabricated
• Factory items are removed from the fabricator queue if an infinite stack of them is already present in the inventory
• Factory remaining refining time now shows days/years instead of >99999 if it exceeds a certain amount
• replaced list shuffle with fisher-yates with in-place swapping, treating lists like arrays
• optimized floating boxes
• floating boxes don't spawn anymore for one frame when their size is at 0%
• changed the save format slightly without breaking compatibility
• save game names are stored inside the save game instead locally
• special modules now display the correct short description instead of 'No Effect'
• tower customization scenery is being disabled when exiting tower customization
• the 'block' module tag is now reserved for modules that nullify or have a chance to nullify incoming damage
• the 'resistance' module tag is now reserved for modules that partially reduce incoming damage or have a chance to do so
• renamed active, mixed and idle path to tower testing, luck and factory path
• renamed 'Ingame' categorie of controls to 'Tower Testing'
• instead of text the left, right and middle mouse button is now displayed as an icon in the options controls menu
• hotkeys are hidden if the respective feature has not been unlocked yet
• Tower Testing sidebar remembers your last opened tab
• Account linking is part of the online services options

Fixes

• fixed various crafter processing step prediction issues related to existing items
• fixed crafter queue not updating when queue entries change their count
• fixed Cylindro fight not reacting to esc when pressing it for the first time after watching the cutscene without skipping
• fixed Cylindro fight sometimes starting without full health
• fixed last element inside the construction queue UI not being refreshed when construction queue is empty
• fixed shield buff of 'Dice Of Fate' not nullifying incoming damage
• fixed cauldron bonuses applying when offline
• fixed in-game stats showing the era kills graph when clicking on era hits
• fixed module 'Universal Gift' reducing damage bonus only of the tower element 10 times instead of applying to all elements when using an active module
• fixed AI window text component having a fixed size of 200x50 when not inside a container
• fixed typo in 'Time: Frame' AI function description
• fixed Factory items with durability behaving incorrectly in the crafting grid when approaching infinity
• fixed Factory recipe signatures using item index instead of unique id as part of signature
• fixed Factory crafting grid
• fixed Factory scanning price for hallowen related items
• fixed typo in military tier up screen
• fixed missing localization for 'air.pressure.name'
• fixed worker task categories and worker tasks not refreshing their availability unless the town is being revisited
• fixed description of rule in C5-1
• fixed Statue Of Cubos tiers not affecting available boss module slots

Hi everyone!

Workshop UI

AI Budget System

Nexus Overhaul

Tower Customization

Localization

Supporter Modules

Misc.

“What happens after v1? Will the game still receive updates?”

Modding DLC

New version

Please remember that this version is considered unstable and might have unforeseen effects on your save game! Additionally, once you have loaded your save in the new version, you cannot use it anymore in any older version of the game as the save format has undergone some drastic migrations, which makes it incompatible with early versions of the game! Please create a backup of your save game folder before you switch to this version!

What's new in v0.48.0 Experimental

Title Screen Rework

Cloud Changes

Savegame Limit (PC)

Global Options

Changelog

New Stuff

• overhauled the title screen
• added button to quickly access the last used save game from the title screen
• added a summary of important changes since you last played
• added infinite save game amount (PC only)
• overhauled cloud storage behaviour to allow for more user control
• added global options
• added option to only turn off cloud storage
• added AI function 'Time: Frame'
• added infinity inventory for infinite stacks to Factory (unlocks after getting first infinite stack)
• added 'cycle' option for collecting asteroid rewards to worker task 'Treasure Hunter'
• added tree production boosters to Factory
• added 'Armor Factor (vs. any)' to town stats
• added 'Max. HP factor' to town stats
• added a 'Pause All' button to workers which overrides their current active state without changing it on individual workers
• added module 'Martyrdom'

Changes

• moved audio options to global options
• moved graphics options to global options
• moved misc options to global options
• moved notation to be a global option
• online service state is accessible via options menu
• crafter is able to scan all items
• crafter can craft booster related items and ingredients
• crafter internally predicts steps and requirements with fractions which reduces excess waste products
• improved crafter crafting step prediction
• Factory items have a separate property that defines if they can be crafted via the crafter and/or fabricated
• Factory item 'Rainbow Dust' can be fabricated
• Factory items are removed from the fabricator queue if an infinite stack of them is already present in the inventory
• replaced list shuffle with fisher-yates with in-place swapping, treating lists like arrays
• optimized floating boxes
• floating boxes don't spawn anymore for one frame when their size is at 0%
• changed the save format slightly without breaking compatibility
• save game names are stored inside the save game instead locally

Fixes

• fixed various crafter processing step prediction issues related to existing items
• fixed crafter queue not updating when queue entries change their count
• fixed Cylindro fight not reacting to esc when pressing it for the first time after watching the cutscene without skipping
• fixed Cylindro fight sometimes starting without full health
• fixed last element inside the construction queue UI not being refreshed when construction queue is empty
• fixed shield buff of 'Dice Of Fate' not nullifying incoming damage
• fixed Factory items with durability behaving incorrectly in the crafting grid when approaching infinity
• fixed cauldron bonuses applying when offline
• fixed in-game stats showing the era kills graph when clicking on era hits
• fixed module 'Universal Gift' reducing damage bonus only of the tower element 10 times instead of applying to all elements when using an active module
• fixed AI window text component having a fixed size of 200x50 when not inside a container

Changelog

Fixes

• fixed crafter subtracting inventory items before multiplying with crafting count instead of after