Oaken Tower News

[p][/p][h3]New item added to the game:[/h3][p]Nugget | Rare | Shield | 30 gold | 2.9s CD | 20 Shield | "Every 3 Triggers: Gain +3 gold."[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][h3]New potion added to the game:[/h3][p]Rainbow Potion | "Use on reroll button to gain +1 lucky rerolls."[/p][p]This counts as a utility potion, so it can also be obtained from the "Steal a Few" day 6 encounter option.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][h3]Balance:[/h3][p]🟢Lightblade (Rare): 3.5s CD --> 3.3s CD[/p][p]🟢Divine Axe (Common): 15 damage --> 10 damage | 20 gold --> 25 gold | Ability --> "Every 3 Triggers: Remove 5 of each debuff."[/p][p]🟢Paladin's Hammer (Common): 10 damage --> 8 damage | Ability --> "On Trigger: If you have 25+ of a debuff, cleanse 5 of it."[/p][p]🟢Visit The Market (Day 6 encounter option): Visit a shop containing 5 potions --> 7 potions.[/p][p]🟢Amber (Epic): 0 bleed --> 1 bleed.[/p][p]🟢2/3-Star Silver Lance (Common): Deal 10/20 bonus dmg on trigger --> 15/30[/p][p]🔴Petal Staff (Common) 25g --> 35g | 4.1s CD --> 4.3s CD.[/p][p]🟢3-Star Snowflakes: Now keeps its 2-Star ability as well.[/p][p]🟢2/3 star Poison Dagger (Rare): "This item applies poison 2 times." --> applies debuffs 2 times.[/p][p]🟢Priest Encounter Left Option: Increase max health by 80% --> 85%.[/p][p]🟢Bishop Encounter Left Option: +5200 Max HP --> +5500 Max HP. | +9 Free rerolls --> +10 Free rerolls.[/p][p]🟢Jade Reworked (and added to the item codex.). Now gives permanent poison to poison items.[/p][p]🟢Runic Shield (Epic): 50 Gold --> 45 gold.[/p][p]🔴Mythic Rod (Epic): +7 DMG per trigger --> +6 DMG per trigger.[/p][p][/p][h3]Quality of Life:[/h3][p]🔸You can now hold SHIFT while hovering items to see their next upgrade.[/p][p]🔸Added a new option that toggles "Quick-use potions". This option enables or disables the ability to right-click weapon buff potions to use them on the last item that received a potion buff. Works on essences too. This can be toggled from the ingame menu. (Utility potions can always be right-clicked to quick use).[/p][p]🔸New hotkey: S + LMB --> delete potion from inventory. //Dev comment: Can be used when you have overflow of potions that you don't want to use, i.e. morph vials.[/p][p]🔸Added a new settings option: Epilepsy mode. This will turn off projectiles and effects during combat to make the game epilepsy-friendly ❤️[/p][p]🔸You can now enable/disable hotkeys from the in-game menu.[/p][p]🔸Holding "S" while hotkeys are enabled now shows a small "sell" icon at the mouse.[/p][p][/p][h3]Other:[/h3][p]🔸"Remove debuff" reworded to "Cleanse Debuff".[/p][p]🔸Added new navigation buttons to the leaderboard. You can now fetch your own rank, your steam friends' ranks or the top scores.[/p][p]🔸Sudden Death damage now starts at 2 instead of 1. //Dev Comment: Sudden death is meant to end the fight, but currently it takes very long to ramp up any significant damage. This change effectively removes 1 second of overtime.[/p][p]🔸Changed the Settings menu to have 2 different tabs.[/p][p]🔸The small "concede" button in the top left now only requires 1 click.[/p][p]🔸Sage encounter options has been renamed to be more fitting.[/p][p][/p][h3]Fixes:[/h3][p]🔸Fixed a bug where 3-Star Nightfall would get less damage than intended.[/p][p]🔸Fixed a bug where the game music would play twice if you conceded and skipped combat phase very very fast.[/p][p]🔸Cursed Garnet no longer makes Nightquills and Sharpsteels.[/p][p]🔸2/3-Star Venomstrike no longer gains damage during combat while in inventory.[/p][p]🔸Projectiles now fly on top of items in fights (instead of behind them..).[/p][p]🔸Fixed an issue where the potion "clink" sound effect was unaffected by SFX volume.[/p][p]🔸Fixed a bug where items would keep firing queued multicasts after the match was over.[/p][p]🔸Fixed an issue where sound/music volume would not match the sliders until you went into the settings menu.[/p][p]🔸Fixed a bug where items that generated new items would continue to generate in "the oak" screen.[/p][p]🔸Fixed: 2/3 Star Fire Mace had the wrong indicator when triggering.[/p][p]🔸Fixed a bug where Mr. Spook would not appear if you had disabled the spooktober overlay.[/p][p]🔸Fixed a bug where the concede button in the top left would bug out if the FPS was very low.[/p][p]🔸Fixed a bug where High Blade would indicate a wrong number of moon items.[/p][p]🔸Fixed a typo on 3-star Warrior Shield.[/p][p]🔸The player level is no longer retained between "The Oak" fights.[/p][p][/p][p]//Bocary[/p][p][/p]

[h2]Welcome to Oaken Tower!
[/h2][p]Oaken Tower is participating in this Steam Next Fest! And I'm hyped that you clicked on Oaken Tower.[/p][p][/p][p]Oaken Tower is an async autobattler inspired by some of my favourite games out there! Including Super Auto Pets, The Bazaar and Hearthstone Battlegrounds.[/p][p][/p][p]If you want to learn more about the game I highly suggest you check out this video by William![/p][p][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink]And there are many great content creators making tons of Oaken Tower videos on YouTube![/p][p]
The game is currently in "Open Beta" disguised as a demo. Because of this, you can expect regular updates and sometimes trying new gameplay approaches. The full release will contain new item sets and the ability to choose a handful of sets to play with (or let the game choose for you). It will also contain a lot more new content, it's gonna be great!

Do notice that the Spooktober event is currently live, which has some exclusive unlockables that can be obtained throughout October 🎃[/p][p][/p][p]The game is made by me (Bocary) - a solo dev and university student from Denmark.[/p][p]I read through all reviews and suggestions and try to make the game as good and balanced as possible while juggling my studies. If you want to chat and hang out, join the discord! https://discord.gg/SFruNNHWbH

Finally, if you enjoy Oaken Tower, please consider leaving a review. It helps out A TON❤️[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]Thank you, and I hope you enjoy Oaken Tower.[/p][p]//Bocary[/p]

[h2]Patch v0.3.4.2:[/h2][p][/p][h3]Quality of Life:[/h3][p]🔸The clickable shop and encounters will now appear twice as fast.[/p][p]🔸When pressing Continue after a fight, you can instantly click to pop the "+1 trophy" and click again to instantly skip to shop.[/p][p]🔸There is now a small "Concede" button in the top left corner for quick conceding fights.[/p][p][/p][h3]Other:[/h3][p]🔸Sapphire Amulet now buffs the critical health gain from Life Essence too.[/p][p][/p][h3]Fixes:[/h3][p]🔸Fixed some inconsistencies in the item codex.[/p][p]🔸The text on candies showed a bit less stats than they actually gave.[/p][p]🔸Fixed a bug where no new builds were pushed into rotation.[/p][p][/p][p]//Bocary[/p]

[h3]Hi Oaklings,
[/h3][p]Thank you for all the feedback on the Spooktober event!
I'm stoked you like it 🎃[/p][p][/p][h3]Balance:[/h3][p]🔴Blueberry Burst (Candy) now gives "cheap" rerolls instead of free. (Half price rounded down).[/p][p]🔴2/3-Star Silver Lance (Common) --> "On Trigger: Deal 10/20 bonus damage."[/p][p]🟢3-Star Regular Bow (Common): Start of combat 20 dmg / 2 multi --> 25 dmg / 3 multi.[/p][p]🟢Venomstrike (Epic): 4s CD --> 3.8s CD.[/p][p]🔴Toxins (Epic) 1.3s CD --> 1.4s CD.[/p][p]🟢Brew Today (From Mr. Spook): 8.5s CD --> 8s CD.[/p][p]🟢Wish (Celesita): Upgrade an item from ** to *** in 3 days ---> 2 days.[/p][p]🟢Exaltation (Bishop): Gain +9 free rerolls and +5000 Max Health --> +5200 Max Health.[/p][p][/p][h3]Adding a bit more early game scaling items:[/h3][p]🟡Darksteel Rework: Sharpsteel | Common | Dagger | 30 gold | 3.2s CD | 20 dmg | 25 crit | "When this crits, permanently gain +1 damage."[/p][p]🟡Petal Staff rework: Common | Magic, Elven | 25 gold | 4.1s CD | 2 Poison | "On First 2 Triggers: Permanently gain +1 poison."[/p][p]🔴 Jade removed from the game. //Dev comment: Jade didn't serve a purpose, and the Elven category had too many items in it.[/p][p][/p][p]To make the amount of items in each category closer to each other, and keep it at a max of 9, Nightquill is no longer dark and High Blade is now only moon.[/p][p]This is essentially preparation for the "deckbuilding" mechanic in the future, where you will be able to choose 8 types to play with when more new types are introduced. With this, all types need to have roughly the same amount of items.[/p][p][/p][p]Frosty has the fewest items, so to keep Frosty in line with this, a new item is introduced:[/p][p][/p][p]Sapphire Amulet.[/p][p]Legendary | Artifact, Frosty | 45 Gold | "Increases your critical strike damage from x2 to x3".[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][h3]Other:[/h3][p]🔸Lowered required candy amount to unlock avatar from 100 --> 75.[/p][p]🔸Mr. Spook now always has a 50% chance of appearing on day 6.[/p][p][/p][h3]Quality of Life[/h3][p]🔸You can now right-click shop items to buy them, and instantly put them into your tower.[/p][p]🔸You can now right-click all potions to use them. If you do so on weapon-buff potions, it will be applied to the last item that you used a potion on. This shortcut does not work on Ink, Potion of Appearance, Crownforge Brew and Morph Vial so you won't use them accidentally.[/p][p][/p][h3]Fixes:[/h3][p]🔸Fixed an issue that caused lag in the main menu after about 30 seconds.[/p][p]🔸Fixed a bug where 3-Star Brew Today would produce shop potions rather than just normal potions.[/p][p]🔸Fixed a bug where candies would show a different wrong amount in the shop.[/p][p]🔸Fixed a bug where the candy buff would carry over between Oak fights, allowing you to stack them infinitely.[/p][p]🔸If you enter combat while an item is still spawning other items (Anvil etc.), it will now stop spawning.[/p][p]🔸Fixed a bug where you couldn't triple an item if you got the 3rd one from Wild Magic or Morph Potion.[/p][p]🔸Fixed a bug where upgrading Moon Knife through the enchanter encounter would not give the correct amount of XP.[/p][p]🔸Fixed a crash caused by Morph Potion and Morph Vial if you had also picked the Trick or Treat encounter option.[/p][p]🔸To further avoid game crashes, the maximum amount of items than an item can generate in 1 combat is now capped at 10.000.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]//Bocary[/p][p][/p]

[h3]Greetings, Oaklings! [/h3][p][/p][h2]🎃 Spooktober Event Live! 🎃[/h2][p]The Spooktober event is now live! It will end on November 2nd.[/p][p][/p][p]🔸New Spooky theme, music and backgrounds.[/p][p][/p][p]🔸New encounter: Mr. Spook. (Day 6)[/p][p]Mr. Spook will only be available during the Spooktober event.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]🔸New limited edition Spooktober player icons![/p][p]These are unlockable in various ways. They will carry over to the full release if unlocked.[/p][p][/p][p]🔸Fight the Gremlin.[/p][p]To unlock the Gremlin player icon, you have to beat the Gremlin! He has a pretty nasty dark build...[/p][p][/p][p][/p][h2]New general encounter: The Bishop[/h2][p]🔸The Bishop is similar to the Priest and Cleric. He will always appear day 11 and will boost your Max HP and either give you free rerolls, or some lucky rolls.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][h2]Balance:[/h2][p]🟢Venom Ring (Legendary): 50 gold --> 45 gold.[/p][p]🟢Venomstrike (Epic): 2 multicast --> 3 multicast | 15 damage --> 10 damage.[/p][p]🔴Ruby Knife 2-Star (Rare): Ability --> "On First Trigger: Permanently gain +3 bleed."[/p][p]🟢Woodchopping (Epic): Ability --> "On Trigger: Give your axes +3 damage permanently per unique axe." | 45 gold --> 40 gold. | 4.5s CD --> 4.2s CD[/p][p]🔴Icy Axe 2-Star (Common): Ability --> "On First Trigger: Trigger this an extra time." [/p][p]🟢Arcane Orb (Epic): 6.1s CD --> 5s CD.[/p][p]🟢Hook (Rare): 25% crit chance --> 30% crit chance.[/p][p][/p][h2]Other:[/h2][p]🔸New Carmen lucky reroll: Candy Shop.[/p][p]🔸You can now right-click utility potions (those that give XP, Gold, Max HP etc.) to instantly use them.[/p][p]🔸You can now press the space button to Fight the Oak and "Continue" after oak fight.[/p][p]🔸Increased the "soft cap" of HP to 20.000[/p][p]🔸The Soft Cap has been slightly weakened. (Gives 2K hp at 20K scaling down to 1200)[/p][p][/p][h2]Fixes:[/h2][p]🔸Fixed an issue where the music volume would change to wrong values sometimes.[/p][p]🔸Gold and Income are now reset after fighting The Oak.[/p][p]🔸Fixed a bug where 2/3-Star Modern Archery would still show an arrow indicator.[/p][p]🔸Amethyst Bow (Common) 3-Star now correctly gains temporary bleed rather than permanent.[/p][p]🔸2-Star redemption now only triggers when another item heals.[/p][p]🔸Fixed typo in the Dusk Shield text.[/p][p]🔸Fixed lag when having multiple Garnets generating items.[/p][p][/p][p] Expect follow-up balance changes in the coming weeks. [/p][p]//Bocary[/p]