Desktop Defender News

[p]Hi everyone![/p][p]It's day 13 of daily patches, and this one's focused on quality of life, performance improvements, and bug fixes![/p][p]Tomorrow will mark day 14 of daily updates, and I'm going to stop doing these after tomorrow so that I can properly focus on the next big content patch! Read more about it here.[/p][p]Also, if you're enjoying the game, I would REALLY appreciate it if you reviewed it. It's the best thing you can do to support the game if you're enjoying it![/p][p][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink]Anyways, below are the patch notes![/p]

• [p]Fixed some typos in text descriptions[/p]
• [p]Reduced the fade duration of projectiles at the end of their lifetime to reduce confusion regarding hitboxes[/p]
• [p]Fixed error that made the "Jupiter" loot have the same icon as the "Steady Hand" loot[/p]
• [p]Fixed bug that made it such that if you were holding down the mouse button on an upgrade to buy multiple of them, it would make all of your projectiles only do 1 damage until you let go[/p]
• [p]Improved performance on the "Heart" weapon by optimising the self-orbiting behaviour physics[/p]
• [p]Improved performance on the "Orbit" weapon by optimising the orbiting behaviour physics[/p]
• [p]Reduced projectile lifetime of Blue Hole and Heart to improve performance[/p]

[p]- Conrad, Lead Developer[/p]

[p]Hi everyone![/p][p]It's day 12 of daily patches, and this one's focused on adjusting some loot-related things, as well as some light bug fixes and quality of life changes.[/p][p]I will probably end the daily updates at the 14 day mark, since my focus will be going towards the big December content update which you can read about here![/p][p]Also, if you're enjoying the game, I would REALLY appreciate it if you reviewed it. It's the best thing you can do to support the game if you're enjoying it![/p][p][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink]Anyways, below are the patch notes![/p]

• [p]Added the ability to press and hold the "control" key while in the upgrades shop in order to buy half of the amount of upgrades you can afford, to supplement "shift" allowing you to buy the total amount you can afford[/p]
• [p]Made it such that Ascending and Rebirthing no longer gets rid of loot on the ground[/p]
• [p]Made it such that selling loot in your inventory has the proper sound effect[/p]
• [p]Fixed bug that make it such that loot on the ground wouldn't persist between play sessions if you Rebirthed[/p]
• [p]Further adjusted the damage formula to fix some bugs[/p]
• [p]Increased Shotgun damage by 50%[/p]
• [p]Increased Explosion damage by 20%[/p]
• [p]Increased Revolver damage by 50%[/p]
• [p]Increased Star damage by 20%[/p]
• [p]Increased Heart damage by 25%[/p]
• [p]Increased Shuriken damage by 15%[/p]
• [p]Increased Melody damage by 25%[/p]
• [p]Fixed bug that made the Horseshoe loot be listed as B rank, instead of A rank[/p]
• [p]Fixed bug that made the Nimble Fabrics loot be listed as A rank, instead of B rank[/p]
• [p]Fixed bug that made it such that the "Hand" loot in the "Infinity" rarity gave an incorrect amount of money multiplier[/p]

[p]- Conrad, Lead Developer[/p][p][/p]

[p]Hi everyone![/p][p]It's the 11th day of daily patches, and this one's mostly focused on rebalancing different things so that a wider array of options are more viable! Mainly, percentage damage loot.[/p][p]I also wanted to mention that yesterday's post outlines the plans for the first big content update for Desktop Defender, read more about it here![/p][p]Also, if you're enjoying the game, I would REALLY appreciate it if you reviewed it. It's the best thing you can do to support the game if you're enjoying it![/p][p][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink]Anyways, below are the patch notes![/p]

• [p]Modified the % damage formula for loot, loot affecting % damage should be MUCH more effective now. It is now multiplicative, so note that if you're dealing low damage, it's probably because you have lots of negative % damage loot[/p]
• [p]Fixed bug that caused projectile speed to fire behind you if you had tons of loot with negative projectile speed modifiers[/p]
• [p]Made the minimum possible damage 1 instead of 0[/p]
• [p]Made it such that leveled up HP gets added on top of multiplied by your loot, so leveling up HP is more worth it even if you have a low HP-build through your loot[/p]
• [p]Fixed bug that caused your starting HP to be higher than it should've been after the previous HP fix[/p]
• [p]Buffed Burst, by making it such that it gets more affected by flat damage[/p]
• [p]Buffed Flamethrower, by making it such that it gets more affected by flat damage[/p]
• [p]Buffed Electromagnetism, by making it such that it gets more affected by flat damage[/p]
• [p]Buffed Revolver, by making it such that it gets more affected by flat damage[/p]

[p]- Conrad, Lead Developer[/p]

[p]Hi everyone![/p][p]It's day 10 of daily patches, and this one's a nice QOL-focused one! However, there's some other stuff I want to talk to you all about...[/p][p]I'm planning on releasing Desktop Defender's first big content update in December, focused on fleshing out the Rebirth System.[/p][p]As it works now, Rebirthing erases all of your current progress, but gives you a +25% multiplicative bonus on Money and XP Gain. I've been testing out different things, and I'm really liking the expanded Rebirth system that I outline below:[/p]

1. [p]Rebirthing can still only be done after hitting level 150, but now each rebirth forces you to get to a specific wave. E.g. the first one might be wave 95, the second wave 100, the third wave 102, etc.[/p]
2. [p]Rebirthing will only give a +10% bonus, instead of +25%.[/p]
3. [p]Similarly to the level progression, there will be a "Rebirth Progression". At certain Rebirth counts, you will unlock special bonuses that will power you up and make your next Rebirths quicker.[/p]
4. [p]Below is the structure I've been testing out (subject to change, of course):[/p]

[p]Rebirth 1 - Unlocks a 1.25x fast forward button[/p][p]Rebirth 2 - Unlocks loot stash (3 loot)[/p][p]Rebirth 3 - Start with all weapons unlocked[/p][p]Rebirth 4 - 3 extra loot slots[/p][p]Rebirth 5 - Unlocks an even more powerful loot tier, "Omega" loot[/p][p]Rebirth 10 - +3 stash capacity[/p][p]Rebirth 20 - 3 extra loot[/p][p]Rebirth 30 - Unlocks a 1.5x fast forward button[/p][p]Rebirth 40 - +3 stash capacity[/p][p]Rebirth 50 - 3 extra loot[/p][p]Rebirth 75 - Unlocks a 1.75x fast forward button[/p][p]Rebirth 100 - +3 stash capacity[/p][p]Rebirth 150 - Unlocks a 2x fast forward button[/p][p]Rebirth 200 - Unlocks an even more powerful loot tier, "Radiant" loot[/p][hr][/hr][p]You can also see that as a part of the revamped Rebirth System, I've added extra features such as a stash (probably the most requested feature!), a fast forward button, and more![/p][p]I will be putting an update into the Steam beta branch in around 2 weeks with these additions/changes, and I would love it if you could test it out, and let me know if you like the changes! As I said before, this is totally subject to change, so your feedback will be key in making this revamped Rebirth system as good as possible![/p][p]Also, if you're enjoying the game, I would REALLY appreciate it if you reviewed it. It's the best thing you can do to support the game if you're enjoying it![/p][p][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink]Anyways, below are today's patch notes![/p]

• [p]Made it such that if you have rebirthed at least once, all levels are automatically claimed[/p]
• [p]Made it such that you can exit menus by clicking "outside" of them[/p]
• [p]Made it such that if you die, the menu you had active reopens on reloading the game scene[/p]
• [p]Fixed some typos in text descriptions[/p]

[p]- Conrad, Lead Developer[/p]

[p]Hi everyone!
It's day 9 of daily patches, and today's one is makes great strides in even further improving the game's robustness and quality of life![/p][p]Also, if you're enjoying the game, I would REALLY appreciate it if you reviewed it. It's the best thing you can do to support the game if you're enjoying it![/p][p][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink]Anyways, below are the patch notes![/p]

• [p]Made it such that whenever you open the levels menu, it automatically scrolls you to the earliest unclaimed level[/p]
• [p]Made it such that when you hover over weapons in the equip menu, it now shows their name[/p]
• [p]Removed the limit on only getting 1 level maximum per wave, and migrated the level system to allow for much larger values without crashing the game[/p]
• [p]Confirmed that the "mouse pulling bug" is FINALLY fixed![/p]
• [p]Fixed bug that caused enemies to have 0 HP after wave 162[/p]
• [p]Made the backup recovery system more robust, so that the game automatically takes an old backup save file to resume from if your save was corrupted by the game getting turned off by power failure/computer update/etc.[/p]

[p]- Conrad, Lead Developer[/p]