The Mutational News

Another small patch today, mainly some balance changes.

[h3]Patch notes:[/h3]

• Enemy HP goes up faster after wave 15 in the level 'endless'.
  
• Enemy HP goes up slower until wave 15 in the level 'endless'.
  
• Increased the damage dealt by the 'normal turret'. (+30%).
  
• Decreased the damage dealt by the 'Rocket Launcher'. (-10%).
  
• Increased price of mines (from $3 to $4.50).
  
• Reduced range and damage of nuke meat.
  
• Reduced boss wave enemy hp bonus (from 60% to 30%)
  
• Fixed an issue that could cause a wave to start when pressing the spacebar (Activating a hashtag).
  

[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 fixing a big issue in the "Quad Lion" level and problems with multiplayer among other things!

[h3]Patch notes:[/h3]

• Enemy HP goes up faster after wave 15.
  
• Reduced Bomb Turret damage and shot speed.
  
• Reduced "Bomb" perk damage increase to 2x (from 2.25x).
  
• Fixed an issue that caused zombies not to move in the level "Quad Lion".
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the lions being wrongly oriented in the level "Quadruple Path".
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the buy menu not to appear for some players in multiplayer.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused players to sometimes have the wrong skin texture in multiplayer.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the health bar not to work for some players in multiplayer.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused players to sometimes not earn any money in multiplayer.
  

[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

One day after launch and there have already been played more than 2000 waves! And many more zombies have been killed.

Today there is a small patch with some much needed balance changes and fixes. There will be a content patch soon with some QOL features.

[h3]Patch notes:[/h3]

• Some small balance changes to all path levels, they have been made easier in general.
  
• Reduced movement speed of enemies on path levels.
  
• Reduced the max movement speed of enemies on all levels.
  
• Increased the difficulty of the hard mode.
  
• Reduced "Bomb" perk damage increase to 2.25x (from 3x).
  
• Slightly decreased the damage output of the grenade launcher weapon.
  
• Slightly increased the damage output of all other weapons.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused dragons not to fly for some players when playing multiplayer.
  

[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

[h2]Hotfix[/h2]

The small hotfix that was announced earlier today is now live.

Patch notes:

• Some small balance changes in the level "Crazy Six"
  
• A new option to disable tooltips in the settings menu
  
• A new tooltip for the rocket launcher!
  
• Weapon Spawners in the tutorial now always spawn a flamethrower.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused private games to sometimes not function properly.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused a stuck screen when trying to join a multiplayer game.
  
• Fixed an issue that could leave players unable to join any multiplayer games.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused joining a multiplayer game to fail roughly 1 in 20 times.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Turret stats menu to not work in the level "Crazy Six".
  
• Fixed an issue that caused most achievements to not be unlockable.
  

Have fun playing,
Oesterseks Wolboer

[h2]Launch[/h2]
The Mutational is now officially live! After working on it for quite a while it's now available for free on steam. So play a match with your friends and let me know what you think.

[h2]Hotfix[/h2]
I am currently working on a (small) hotfix that includes a number of fixes:

• Display a message on the client when the hosts leaves (so you know you can't keep playing).
  
• Display a small tool-tip for certain weapons (like the rocket launcher).
  
• 4 out of 5 achievements are currently not working.
  
• Some small balance changes in a couple levels.
  

This hotfix will (hopefully) launch in a few hours!

Have fun playing,
Oesterseks Wolboer