Element TD 2 News

We hired a couple of performance consultants for our other game, Axon TD: Uprising. Thankfully some of the findings there can be applied to Element TD 2! Of particular note is an algorithm change for the unit search function. For those who get low FPS late game, especially in co-op, you will see huge FPS gains.

That algorithm change slightly alters the balance of the game. So we will take the opportunity to do a few tower balance changes (leaning towards buffs). As a result the leaderboards will be reset. We'll also start a new season of Ranked play.

One quality of life change is very noteworthy. This is a long overdue feature that we're lifting from Axon TD. Singleplayer will be able to submit to leaderboards without having to be online. That means no latency when going for leaderboard runs. And also no disconnects.

The update is a few months out so please join the balance discussion on Discord to contribute your feedback in the meantime!

The Challenger achievement has been expanded to top 30 on any leaderboard.

This version was built with a new build of Unity (our game engine) hence the download size.

A small update for the holidays!

• Turkish now fully localized
  
• Setting change to shift some CPU workload to GPU
  
• New and improved servers for South America, South East Asia, and East Asia regions
  

Also, we hired a performance consultant to analyze Axon TD: Uprising and a major recommendation coming out of that in theory should be applicable to Element TD 2. If all goes well, there will be a major performance improvement patch Q1 of next year that should, as a result of improving CPU performance, also reduce desyncs.

It's been a long time but there were a few things that we still wanted to add!

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• Path Hover has been added to the game! Simply hover over any spawn portal to see where the creeps are going.
  
• Massive localization improvements. Virtually complete coverage. Only Chinese, German, Spanish, French, Swedish, Italian, Russian, and Portuguese at the moment but more languages coming soon.
  
• Texture resolution of most creeps and a few builders upscaled.
  

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If you're fluent in Japanese, Turkish, Korean, Czech, German, Italian, French, Russian, Romanian, Portuguese, or Dutch and willing to help translate please let us know on Discord or DM me.

This will be the last feature update but there are still hotfixes to come that will add more language support. We hope that you continue to enjoy Element TD 2!

We've just released our next game, Axon TD: Uprising, into Steam Early Access! This time, it's a sci-fi Tower Defense game focused on mazing and map manipulation. Owners of Element TD 2 will receive 10% off! Check it out here:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2296550/Axon_TD_Uprising__Tower_Defense/

Choose from an arsenal of 32 Towers & Traps and extend the path by adding Tiles directly to the map itself. Expand to islands and create an impenetrable defense as hoards of Axons try to break through your maze!

Conquer the 15 Mission Campaign, top the Leaderboards across 12 Quickplay Levels, take on the Roguelite Survival Mode, and coordinate with other players across 9 Co-op Levels! On top of that, we've got 34 Achievements out the gate.

Check out our trailer below!

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