Most importantly this update addresses an issue where your units and turrets would not target enemy spawns correctly, making some enemy types incredibly frustrating to deal with.

This was the reason we decided to push this out early. Apart from that we are currently working on balancing, so good chunk of those changes are now going live as well.

One of the bigger changes, is that the Mantis redirect mechanic has been removed and instead it just takes half damage from all sources.

UPDATE:

We just rolled out out 0.9.103 a hotfix, since there was a small chance that some runs would not start correctly due to some changes.

See the full changelist below.

BALANCE:

AI Changes: 

• prevented some higher tier AI variants to show up in earlier runs.

• Removed some starting buildings from the PCX Tunneler Variant in earlier Ascensions.

• minor build time adjustments to make some tank AI variants a little bit weaker.

Changes to player units / buildings

BUFFS:

• Ranger Tank: sped up projectile and increased hit box to reduce the chance of missing moving targets, also slightly raised cap and damage

• sped up MG Truck panic projectile, but reduced the duration of the effect a bit.

• MANTIS - removed redirect, now simply takes half damage instead. 

• Headhunter active grants attack cooldown reduction as well. Slightly buffed stats.

• Stun Walker: Increased allowed unit and factory cap. Reduced cost. Better damage and attack rate.

• Swarmer: Significant better stats

• Laser Tank: better attack and extended skill range

• Shotgun Bot: damage increase. large skill damage increase. unit cap raised.

• Rocket Walker: faster attacks. quicker production

• Tier0Tank: Factory cheaper. Slight damage increase

• Fire Drag: increased damage and improved production

• Defender Tank: improved production caps and improved production time

• Welding Runner: Attacks very quickly now, damage adjusted, but DPS improved a lot. Skill changed to a ranged skill. Unit costs more, but factories costs less. Should be pretty good now. 

• Robo Time Outer: better movespeed, damage and range

• Mine Layer Hover: drastically reduced skill cost, increased attack damage and speed. Added shield. and mine damage

• Bomb Creep damage, HP and speed increased

• Support Trike: damage increased. skill heal greatly increased and radius increased, factory cap increased

DEBUFFS:

• Energy Sniper Mech: increased factory cost, reduced range by 2 

BUGFIXES:

• Fixed enemy being able to spawn behind player on some maps

• Fixed Cull Turret passive not triggering on spawns and buildings

• Fixed: some PCX units being too big on cards, making them unreadable

• Fixed Mantis having outdated description in all languages but EN

• Units can attack non-unit-spawns again

Version 0.9.97

Just a quick hotfix for some nasty little bugs.

BUGFIXES:

• Don’t trigger ai unit stuck handling if movement is disabled (e.g. if PCXSiegeArmor is using its active skill)

• Place status icons of entities at the right position again

• Allow use of ESC to close tutorial windows - if you tried this before it actually led to a state where the game was basically soft locked.

If you are on beta the fixes will come over there later today. Do not switch back to main, it might mess up your saved run.