Elemental War 2 News

This update fixes a few bugs and adds some optimizations to improve the game even further.

As usual let us know if you encounter any other issues or have general feedback. While we don’t have any future plans with Elemental War 2 we will keep up support as needed.

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If you have suggestions, check out the feedback thread in the Steam discussions or our Discord.

Changelog

Enhancements

• mouse can be used now to skip dialogues and boss spawn sequences
  
• improved readability of element damage on monsters
  

Fixes

• fixed VSync setting not working anymore
  
• fixed resolution sometimes not getting restored properly
  
• fixed higher memory consumption ingame than necessary
  
• fixed restoring status effects of towers not properly applying them so they could apply twice in the end
  
• fixed summon elemental button hint not being displayed loading a savegame from a boss wave
  
• fixed some monsters on maps with multiple path walking weird ways
  
• fixed normal monsters getting elemental minimap marker sometimes
  
• fixed minimap markers blinking at wrong spot for a frame
  

If you have questions, feedback or just want to talk with us, join our Discord​.

Last year we started working on this new update to finally add official Steam Deck support. While that wasn’t too hard (it basically worked fine on Steam Deck already, but we optimized a few things for usability there) we decided to wait with release of the new update until the Switch port was done. That way we were able to integrate the performance optimizations (as far as possible, some fixes were more invasive and are only relevant on Switch anyway) into all other platforms as well.

Now it’s time to launch the update, even a few weeks before the Switch version will launch. You can find the full changelog below as usual. In general you can expect a few optimizations for Steam Deck, general performance improvements and also a few bugfixes here and there.

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If you have suggestions, check out the feedback thread in the Steam discussions or our Discord.

Changelog

Enhancements

• Steam Deck adjustments
  
• made easy difficulty slightly easier
  

Fixes

• fixed dialog skip button being cut off on Steam Deck
  
• fixed performance issue on Red Canyon
  
• fixed drawing board cursor positioning for resolutions != 4k
  
• slightly reduced CPU usage for AI pathfinding calculations
  
• fixed minimap clicking jumping to wrong position
  
• fixed water on city map being rendered twice
  
• fixed rare issue causing towers loaded from a savegame being blue
  
• fixed price display of barricades
  
• fixed item menu not closing properly anymore opening it from ingame menu
  
• fixed auto-generated default flag configuration not getting stored
  
• fixed confirmation box when leaving/restarting game with controller
  

If you have questions, feedback or just want to talk with us, join our Discord​.

During the last October weekend I was at Polaris in Hamburg and there I presented Elemental War 2. Of course that way I got a lot more direct feedback than from all the other players that might find problems, but never report them. So update 1.1.3 is mostly feedback from the convention.

Not every feedback is possible to integrate easily and so some things will not be integrated into EW2 anymore, but we will keep them in mind for our future games.

There are few convenience features like 1, 2, 3 on keyboard being assigned for the speed levels now and that you can zoom out even further now to get a better overview. The remaining stuff are mostly bugfixes for issues of any kind, bigger bugs so you can’t complete quests under certain circumstances and smaller stuff like some tooltips being cut off in long languages like German.

You can also check out the new What’s New video of the 1.1.0 release if you haven’t yet:

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The next planned regular update is to meant to ensure everything works fine on Steam Deck. I got one last week, but already had to sent it back as during my first test I noticed the display being broken. But I already noted a few minor things and will do more extensive testing once the replacement arrives.

If you have suggestions, check out the feedback thread in the Steam discussions or our Discord.

Changelog

Enhancements

• game speed can be controlled via 1, 2, 3 now
  
• increased maximum zoom out distance
  
• attack and status mode now can be changed by clicking the status icon
  

Fixes

• fixed game freeze in tower help menu with certain filter combinations
  
• fixed cursor being visible during dialogs
  
• fixed some inconsistency in naming of attack mode
  
• fixed map restart with active Blockhead quest not removing mines
  
• fixed profile info prompt in scoreboard not being hidden when switching tabs
  
• fixed Gamble tower damage calculation being broken
  
• fixed some quest objects still being priorized as targets of towers
  
• fixed some monster ability related issues under certain circumstances
  
• fixed potential cross-play issue
  
• fixed missing tooltip for monster count
  
• fixed some tooltip being cut off in certain languages
  
• fixed Dragon Breathe Salvo quest
  
• fixed bug causing very fast monsters sometimes to not reach the end portal
  
• fixed slightly confusing monster element resistances in the status screen
  
• fixed unwanted line breaks in inventory texts for longer texts
  

If you have questions, feedback or just want to talk with us, join our Discord​.

This update is just a small hotfix in order to solve the issue that the game in coop still ended at wave 80 even though you were actually playing endless mode. That’s solved now, so you can continue playing there as well!

You can also check out the new What’s New video of the 1.1.0 release if you haven’t yet:

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If you have suggestions, check out the feedback thread in the Steam discussions or our Discord.

Changelog

Fixes

• fixed issue in endless coop mode still stopping at wave 80
  

If you have questions, feedback or just want to talk with us, join our Discord​.

After the big game mode update we released just last week, here we have a new regular patch fixing a few bugs that got reported in the meantime. The update also adds the possibility to unlock new maps via coop mode which wasn’t possible so far.

There is no What’s New video this time as there is nothing really worth it to show. But we launched a new blog post on Xbox Wire in the meantime telling a little more about the endless mode and weekly challenges.

You can also check out the new What’s New video of the 1.1.0 release if you haven’t yet:

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If you have suggestions, check out the feedback thread in the Steam discussions or our Discord.

Changelog

Enhancements

• added stay in build mode hint to controller settings
  
• new maps can now also get unlocked in coop mode
  

Fixes

• fixed small pathing issue on Witch Forest
  
• fixed player portal sound not being controlled by ambient sound volume
  
• fixed treasure chests being invisible
  
• fixed issue that caused elementals at wave 100 to directly die
  
• fixed performance and memory issue due to projectiles never getting reused in some cases
  
• fixed obsolete interest hint at 100000 gold being displayed
  
• fixed rare issue where monsters could clip below the map
  
• fixed monsters running circles on volcano map starting wave 100
  
• fixed issues loading a savegame
  

If you have questions, feedback or just want to talk with us, join our Discord​.