Tooth and Tail News

Sometimes, you just have to admit you're wrong. A few of the changes that I've made over the past months haven't been received well, and I spent a lot of time trying to fix them when in fact the best thing to do is just back them out.

And because I was away for a week at GDC and I didn't have my finger on the pulse of the community, the changes in this patch are largely derived from mods that the community made -- in particular by the esteemed JetEriksen and EEluminatus.

The lizard changes from last patch are gone, and by community request, swift has been reduced from 2x speed to 1.75. This affects fox, lizard, and mouse. Boar bomb has been greatly reduced and boar has been given a modified agile: he can move at 50% speed while firing. This means that his bomb can both be buffed (to 20 DMG!) but reduced in range from a 9x9 radius to 3x3. Toad, skunk and mole changes also come directly from community modding and testing.

I've also made a couple of changes that I've wanted to do to Pigeon and Artillery. Pigeon now has less heal but a much longer range. Artillery has a slightly longer range and the bullet time scales with the distance it is firing.

We've also added German as an official language! Turkish is coming soon.

• German
  

• Lizard - Reverted Diamond range to standard 2 range, 8HP (from 7HP), reduced Swift to 1.75x speed (from 2x)
  
• Toad - 8 HP, 12 Dmg + 3 AOE Dmg, no structure crit (was 9 HP, 6 Dmg, 3 AOE, double damage to structures)
  
• Mole - 22 HP (from 25)
  
• Pigeon - 1 DPS heal, 4 range (was 2 DPS heal, 1 range)
  
• Skunk - 32 HP (from 35)
  
• Fox - Reduced Swift to 1.75x speed (from 2x)
  
• Mouse - Reduced Swift to 1.75x speed (from 2x), 8 HP, 3 DMG (was 7 HP, 2 DMG)
  
• Boar - 4 DPS, removed structure crit (from 3 DPS + structure crit). Boar can move at 50% speed while firing. Boar bomb reduced to 3x3 (from 9x9) and boar bomb DMG is 20 (was 5 to units, 10 to structures), no longer targets commander
  
• Badger - No longer targets commander
  
• Artillery - 10 Range, Bullet lifetime 2 seconds, scales by range (was 8 range, bullet lifetime of 1.5 seconds at all ranges)
  

Balance-wise, this patch is focused on reducing lizard spam through a fairly major lizard nerf and nerfs to both Bullet Hive and Featherwire, which have been used to establish containment chokes. Also, there's a major buff to Owl to bring her back into play.

On the single player side: Multiplayer stats have diverged significantly from single player stats since the game came out, so I moved the stat changes over to the single player campaign and rebalanced the whole darn thing in order to have a smoother difficulty curve.




* Players can now burrow to allied bases in 2v2


* Lizard - 7 HP (from 8); 2 range only covers a diamond shape rather than a circle shape (slight reduction in attack range coverage at 2 range)

* Chameleon - 38 HP (from 40)
* Boar - Flamethrower Coverage of 6 tiles (from 10); Boar bomb 5 dmg (10 to structures), no longer hits air (was 7/14, hits air)
* Owl - 1 mouse per second up to 3, 7 second reload, leading to 3 mice every 10 seconds (was 1 mouse per 5 seconds), they live for 30 seconds (was 60), mice have 7 HP (was 10)
* Barbed Wire - 24 HP (from 30)
* Landmine - 12 Damage, 6 AOE (from 18/6); 0.4 second trigger (from 0.5 seconds); Can target cloaked Chameleons
* Machine Gun Turret - 28 HP (from 32)
* Artillery - 60 HP (from 50)


* Campfires no longer push back gristmill territory as if they had gristmill-sized range
* Artillery shots no longer remove decor objects (like trees) when they miss
* Lizard no longer hang out in back, waiting for a reservation position to open up


* Moved all single player unit stats over to Story Mode
* Snikaree Liberation (Hopper 1) - Start with Chameleons not Lizards
* Scrapetown Racket (Hopper 5) - Increase number of merchants by 2
* Frozen in Noe (Quartermaster 1) - Enemy spawn rate ramps up more slowly
* Howling Vell (Quartermaster 2) - Player starts with an additional mill
* Defense of the Cold Mark Lows (Quartermaster 3) - Archimedes starts with an additional mill, one fewer campfire on map
* Betrayal at Vacancee (Quartermaster 4) - Player starts with 2 additional farms
* The War For Meat (Quartermaster 5) - Player can build skunks, not pigeons, Campfires have Skunks not Pigeons, number of enemy on enemy kills required for Heroic reduced from 150 to 60, Enemies start with 1 mill with 4 farms instead of 2 mills with 3 farms
* What Might Be (Quartermaster 6) - Player can recruit falcon, boar and wolf instead of falcon, pigeon, skunk
* Awash in Solawa (Archimedes 2) - 50% fewer enemy landmines
* Vacancee Downfall (Archimedes 3) - Player can build mole instead of snake

A quick hotfix for all yout Midweek Madness customers. The game was being a bit of a hog with VRAM, which was producing some of the Black Screen, White Screen, and "SharpDX" errors on lower spec machines. I've reduced the Graphics Memory footprint when playing in Medium and Low Graphics Quality settings.

Don't forget, you may also improve VRAM usage by disabling the cinematic under Graphics Options.

I also replaced the Galaxy libraries to fix a crash upon leaving a lobby.

Annnd, if you fail to join a lobby, it won't try to join that lobby again until you leave the Ranked screen. So for those instances where you kept trying to play ranked and it kept failing out, this problem should be fixed.

As usual, if you have problems with the game, post on the troubleshooting forums, email me at [email protected], or best of all, jump into our Discord channel and chat with us directly in the #troubleshooting channel! http://discord.gg/pocketwatch

Patch 1.1.2 is a small bug fix/balance patch with big changes to Snake and Artillery. Sorry about the late patch notes!

• Snake - HP 27 (from 35). Can now poison structures again. Ever since we removed structure tagging, snakes have felt very flat. And since structure play is now much more viable, there needed to be more options for dealing with things like MG Turrets, Balloons, and Artillery.
  
• Artillery - Cost 180 (from 120), Build time 30 seconds (from 20), HP 50 (from 45). The Tier 2 Artillery was stupidly strong, and was even unbeatable in rush scenarios. Unfortunately, bumping it to the Tier 3 timing, which is now 50 seconds), meant that I suspect the unit would never get used. So I broke down and made an exception to the strict timing consistency that I've maintained for other units. It feels pretty good now, and I think will still get used quite often.
  

• Winning multiple stars in a match in ranked will now display the correct star animations.
  
• Multiple crashes and disconnects in Ranked games fixed.
  
• Crash on starting matches fixed.
  

A little hotfix for y'all that makes a more appropriate statline for the Tier 2 Drumfire Cannon. There's also a significant Mole nerf and some fixes for the new crossplay code. Yay!

• Mole - Dmg 2 + structure crit (was 4 + crit), HP 25 (was 15). High level players have essentially stopped using Mole because it's nigh unbeatable, so we've nerfed its statline again. Mr. Mole will still get a significant redesign at some point, while hopefully retaining his character.
  
• Fox - Cast time and Post-shot Root time changed from 0.3/0.3 seconds to 0.2/0.4 seconds. The fox still is rooted for 0.6 seconds but has a shorter cast time to make the animation look right.
  
• Artillery - HP 60 (was 45). 10 Dmg per shot with random 1 tile scatter to shots - NO AOE (was 6 + 1 AOE). Fires 4 times in 1 second, takes 1 second cooldown. (was firing 3 times in a second with 2 second cooldown). This is more fitting with the t2 pricing/timing while still accomplishing the feeling of an anti-t1 AOE.
  

• Galaxy/Steam crossplay crashing issues fixed, works correctly on Windows 7.
  

EDIT - Nerfing Drumfire a touch: new statline: 50 HP (was 60), bullet travel time 1.5 seconds (was 1 second)