August 2023 Update: New Player Guide, Creep Balance, Game Difficulty & Economy, Tower Menu

Hello,

During the last month, we have made improvements to UI and adjusted creep stats to make the game more balanced and fun to play. We have also finally implemented difficulties beyond the default easy difficulty.

Gameplay

Gameplay is becoming increasingly similar to the original Warcraft 3 map! Nearly all core mechanics have been implemented.

Current state of the game

The game can currently be played as a demo. You won't be able complete the game because only the weakest (common) towers are currently enabled. Expect to get overwhelmed by creeps at the following levels:

• Beginner - 50
• Easy - 40
• Medium - 30
• Hard - 20
• Extreme - 10

You're welcome to try and beat our rough estimates though!

UI

UI has been improved in multiple ways. First, there's a new reworked tower menu. This menu replaces old menu's and combines them into one panel. This new tower menu displays all the essential information and allows you to upgrade, sell or change tower items.

Secondly, there's now a pregame settings menu. This menu opens before the game starts and here you can select the game mode, wave count and difficulty. Note that game modes are still a work in progress so currently only the "Build" game mode is available.

And finally, you can now pause the game by pressing F10.

For the moment, the only thing you can do in the pause menu is to check the hints. There are basic tutorial hints as well as some hints about more advanced game mechanics. We plan to add more hints in the future.

Creep Stats

Up to this point a lot of creep stats like health or armor have been placeholders. Over the last month, we have replaced all of these placeholders with real values to create correct game progression which provides a fair challenge. The full list of stats that were adjusted is:

• Health
• Armor
• Damage to portal
• Experience
• Bounty
• Amount of specials
• Item drop rate

We have also adjusted some wave properties:

• the number of creeps per wave now scaled with level
• boss and mass challenge waves have been added

Resources

We have implemented the income system. You will now gain extra gold after each wave.

Consumable items

Creeps can now drop consumable items which give instant bonuses to your resources as well as other special effects.

Tower abilities

Tower abilities can now be casted manually. Before, they were always automatic but now you can toggle between automatic and manual casting modes. We have also added a cooldown indicator.