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[h3]Frosted Defenses Pack now available![/h3]
Get in the winter spirit with the new Frosted Defenses pack, available now on Steam!

There can be accessed in-game on the inventory menu by clicking on the "Cosmetics" button for each of buildings in this pack. Note that these are cosmetic changes only. This will not change the way the turret performs whatsoever. More cosmetic options will be available when the full armory releases!

[h2]Hotfix #004 - Patch Notes[/h2]
[h3]Claim more tiles with the new Reclaimer type building, Redeemer! [/h3]

NEW ADDITIONS:
- The Frosty Defenses pack is now available, go check it out in-game!
- New Reclaimer type, Redeemer. Three times as big, and more efficient!

BALANCE CHANGES:
- Changed Fusion Reactor unlock from place 50x turbines to accumulate 20k power
- Increased Minigun damage from 70 to 75
- Increased Pulser cooldown from 4 seconds to 5 seconds
- Increased Ranger cooldown from 2 seconds to 2.5 seconds
- Increased Purifier range from 7 tiles to 8 tiles
- Increased Shotgun damage from 2 to 3
- Increased Shotgun range from 7 tiles to 8 tiles
- Increased Sprayer damage from 3 to 4
- Increased Sprayer range from 8 tiles to 9 tiles
- Increased Reclaimer heat from 20 to 25
- Decreased Iridium collector essence cost from 25k to 10k
- Decreased Iridium collector power from 450 to 150
- Decreased Iridium storage essence cost from 50k to 15k
- Decreased Iridium storage power from 400 to 300
- Decreased Radiator heat from 250 to 180
- Decreased Rocket Pod gold cost from 350k to 250k
- Decreased Rocket Pod essence cost from 5k to 2.5k
- Decreased Turbine gold cost from 25k to 20k
- Decreased Turbine heat from 80 to 60
- Decreased Drone port heat from 50 to 45
- Decreased Gunship port gold cost from 150k to 100k

BUG FIXES
- Fixed Research tech names extending over the UI's border

[h2]Armory now available![/h2]

The first part of the Armory is now available in-game! If you haven't already, check out the Holiday Bash challenge and beat it to unlock the Peppermint Turret (and use it in-game now!)

The full Armory will be available in Update 4.

[h2]Hotfix #003 - Patch Notes[/h2]

NEW ADDITIONS:
- The armory is now available in-game! (full armory will be in Update 4)
- Finally implemented the active build counter in the inventory menu

BALANCE CHANGES:
- Lowered dropship spawnrate by 20%
- Changed Artillery unlock from 30k heat to 60k heat

BUG FIXES:
- Fixed Research labs taking resources while paused... again.
- Fixed Trident mission not unlocked (should unlock for old saves as well)
- Fixed The Overseer health bar from being invisible
- Fixed Guardian button not consistently showing up

This ghost patch cleans up a few things left out of v0.3.2, as well as balances the new Holiday event!

BALANCE CHANGES:
- Lowered Revenant health from 20k to 17k in Holiday Bash event
- Half the dropship spawning rate on all difficulties
- Increased Purifier gold drop from 100 to 1000
- Increased Purifier essence drop from 25 to 250
- Increased Purifier iridium drop from 10 to 100

BUG FIXES:
- Fixed restarting on Holidary Bash freezing the camera
- Fixed Purifier range showing as halfed it's usual value
- Fixed Purifiers not dropping proper resource values

[h3]Holiday Bash Event[/h3]

Play the new Holiday Bash gamemode, now available for a limited time!

Setup a small outpost using only Chillers and Radiators, and try to take down the Revenant along with 1000's of its little elves! Defeat the Revenant to unlock the new Peppermint Turret when the Armory is released. Also earn the first official Steam achievement, Minty Fresh!

This challenge is not easy and will require a bit of planning. Good luck!

[h3]Holiday Bash Event now live![/h3]
Take down the Revenant in a LTM to unlock the Peppermint Turret when the armory comes online, as well as unlock the first Steam achievement, Minty Fresh!

[h3]Patch notes[/h3]
This hotfix further addresses online desync and disconnect issues, as well as fixes (and slightly balances) the new research drain system. Do note that some QOL improvements to research drain are still a WIP, such as having research take from random storages to distribute consumption.

NEW ADDITIONS:
- New holiday event, Holiday Bash!
- Cleaned up tutorial and streamlined automation segment

BALANCE CHANGES:
- Lowered Bullet Boost essence cost from 150/s to 100/s
- Increase Damage Boost essence cost from 1/s to 2/s
- Decreased Drone Speed effect from 0.2x to 0.1x
- Changed Essence research cost from essence to iridium
- Increase gold extraction effect from 0.05x to 0.1x

BUG FIXES:
- Synced Guardian destruction across clients (please lmk if this issue persists)
- Fixed research not applying costs properly
- Numerous UI improvements and fixes