The Mutational News

This patch mainly fixes some issues that were introduced last patch, but also includes small balance changes and a couple bug fixes for older issues. The leaderboard now also shows both players of a duo, instead of only one player!

[h3]Patch notes:[/h3]

• The Duo Leaderboard now shows the names of both players that achieved the highscore.
  
• The Leaderboard now only shows the first 18 characters of a steamname to make sure that there is always enough space.
  
• Enemy HP bonus increases slightly faster after wave 15.
  
• Reduced repair costs by 12.50%
  
• Fixed an issue that caused rockets to fly into the ground when being launched at an enemy that was too close.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused rockets to keep flying/circling above an enemy.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the default pistol to appear inside another weapon when picking up a weapon from a holospawner in multiplayer.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused holospawners not show their repair cost if they were damaged.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused way too much money to be taken from a players balance when quickly upgrading a holospawner in multiplayer.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused that caused holospawner upgrades to cost $12.50 instead of $7.50.
  
• Fixed an issue that could cause highscores to overlap in the leaderboard.
  

[h3]Known Issues:[/h3]

• When playing in windowed mode the bottom of the game window might be covered by the windows task bar (preventing you from seeing certain GUI elements). You can manually drag the window up to make these elements visible again.
  
• If you place a lot of drones they might act a bit wonky/fly into each other.
  

Have fun playing,
Oesterseks Wolboer

The first content patch of The Mutational launches today! It introduces 2 new perks and a option to delete your turrets.

[h3]Patch notes:[/h3]

• Added a new perk, you can unlock it by playing Defend on 'Simple Path' and reaching level fiftheen. 'Foritfy: Barricades regenerate 15% of their HP after each wave.'
  
• Added a new perk to the Charity Bundle: 'Strong Man: Increases your own damage output by 10% every wave.'
  
• You can now delete turrets that you have placed. 80% of the original purchase price minus any repair costs will be refunded. (Press 'i' while hovering over a turret to delete it)
  
• Repair costs are now calculated based on the original purchase price, instead of only on the amount of HP lost.
  
• The 'Repair All' button no longer repairs some random turrets when you don't have enough money to repair all turrets, instead it stops working and gives you an error.
  
• Increased the price of the microwave from $12.5 to $30.00
  
• The Microwave now increases the damage taken by enemies by 20% each level. With a limit of 100%, so you can not stack microwave turrets. (Previously it was a static 20% on all levels)
  
• Reduced the Nightmare wave effect.
  
• Changed the icon of the 'It's amazing' perk.
  
• Barricades now change color depending on how damaged they are, allowing you to roughly see how much HP they have left.
  
• Barricades have 65% less hp in Path maps (up from 50%)
  
• Traps do 60% less damage in Path maps (up from 50%)
  
• HP of enemies increases at a slightly faster rate after wave 15, and at a slower rate until wave 15.
  
• Fixed an issue that allowed players to upgrade 'Weapon Spawners' to levels higher than 10 in multiplayer.
  
• Fixed an issue that allowed players to place 'Money Generators' and 'Sniper Turrets' inside each other.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the 'Repair All' button not to show the total repair cost.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused 'Defend' Maps not to work past wave 20.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused Dragons not to fall down if they died while flying.
  
• Fixed an issue that allowed players to duplicate turrets when using the instant-upgrade button in multiplayer.
  
• A lot of small improvements to increase performance in later waves.
  

[h3]Known Issues:[/h3]

• When playing in windowed mode the bottom of the game window might be covered by the windows task bar (preventing you from seeing certain GUI elements). You can manually drag the window up to make these elements visible again.
  
• If you place a lot of drones they might act a bit wonky/fly into each other.
  

And as always: Have fun playing,
Oesterseks Wolboer

Some balance changes and an important fix in this patch.

[h3]Patch notes:[/h3]

• Increased the 'sniper turret' shot frequency. (+100%)
  
• Increased the 'wiper turret' shot frequency. (+100%)
  
• Increased damage of the 'normal turret'. (+25%)
  
• Fixed an issue that could leave players to be unable to connect to a multiplayer match.
  

[h3]Known Issues:[/h3]

• When playing in windowed mode the bottom of the game window might be covered by the windows task bar (preventing you from seeing certain GUI elements). You can manually drag the window up to make these elements visible again.
  

Have fun playing,
Oesterseks Wolboer

A small patch today that adds some tooltips for beginning players and applies some balance changes.

[h3]Patch notes:[/h3]

• Reduced HP of several bosses.
  
• Boss enemy now only spawns in wave 15 (instead of 15 and 12) in the level endless.
  
• Reduced HP bonus that got applied to enemies when playing multiplayer.
  
• Reduced Speed bonus that got applied to enemies when playing multiplayer.
  
• Added a new tooltip that appears when you don't place any barricades.
  
• Added a new tooltip that appears when you don't place any turrets that do splash damage.
  

[h3]Known Issues:[/h3]

• When playing in windowed mode the bottom of the game window might be covered by the windows task bar (preventing you from seeing certain GUI elements). You can manually drag the window up to make these elements visible again.
  

Have fun playing,
Oesterseks Wolboer

Fixing some issues with perk rewards.

[h3]Patch notes:[/h3]

• Fixed an issue that caused players to receive the wrong perks when completing the level "endless".
  
• Fixed an issue that caused players to receive the wrong perks when completing the level "Crazy Six".
  
• Fixed an issue that caused players to receive the wrong perks when completing the level "Double Lion".
  

If you missed perks because you the completed the level "Endless" previously you should have received them now.

[h3]Known Issues:[/h3]

• When playing in windowed mode the bottom of the game window might be covered by the windows task bar (preventing you from seeing certain GUI elements). You can manually drag the window up to make these elements visible again.
  

Have fun playing,
Oesterseks Wolboer