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Tavern Expansion Update

Greeting Defenders!! We know the wait has been quite long but you dont have to wait any longer. The Tavern Expansion has arrived! Thank you for your patience and feedback this past year as we worked through it all. Please read the note below

Highlights
  • New Tavern Expansion : First floor expanded, All new second floor,
  • Diamond Forge, Exterior Space, More combat dummies, Expanded
  • Ultimate Defender Room with New Juke Box
  • New Challenge Map - Temple of Polybius with new weapon rewards
  • New Campaign/Survival Map - Temple of Water with new weapon rewards and pet reward
  • New Intermediate Campaing/Survival Map - Dread Dungeon with new accessory reward
  • New Steam achievements and tavern trophies for Moonbase, Buccaneer Bay, and Temple of Water
  • New tavern trophies for Embermount


Quality of Life Improvements
  • Added Hero Info button back to ESC screen
  • Added Box to Enter Mana in Trade (ex 5.0b will add 5 billion)
  • Max Hero limit raised to 40
  • Max tavern limit doubled to 180
  • Tavern: Items Dropped by Host Hidden in private rooms should be hidden from guests making private rooms.. private.
  • Tavern: Item Recovery added to the void, if something escapes reality, it’ll re-appear by the first floor forge!
  • Item upgrade count now visible in trade under Item Info
  • Added count of items contained within Folders in Inventory
  • Remove items from shop even when Inventory is full
  • Auto lock all items going into inventory except when picking up off the floor
  • Sped up Summoner casting in tavern
  • Wheel o Fortuna Damage All percentage reported on the tavern dummy
  • Added animations to Anamorphic Ember
  • Spider and DEWs should now find you anywhere on the map if you there is a path
  • Stuck Enemies should now die
  • Fixed missing ceiling in Glitterhelm and performed a texture art pass to make Glitterhelm live up to its name.
  • Added Santa bracers to Winter Wonderland and Silent Night
  • Add new mask and cufflinks to Temple of Love
  • New Santa accessory cosmetic set bonus
  • New Valentine accessory cosmetic set bonus for male and female
  • Added shields to count towards cosmetic set bonus
  • Holding down survival wave increase/decrease buttons now works
  • Colorized circle component on dropped equipment to match particle beams
  • Updated beam toggle to cycle through beams and circles underneath items.
  • Added profile save event after rewarded equipment
  • Fusion Rod base damage display is now the same as all other staves. Now you can compare base damage 1:1 with existing staves (Classic, bloodshot, etc). DPS is exactly the same
  • Removed TV monitor to improve tavern performance, especially when in other player’s taverns with the new tavern.
  • Improved network performance on Temple of Love for clients
  • Hit T when hovering over an item in the itembox to add to Trade
  • Hit O to toggle Enemy Wave Billboards on minimap
  • Hit P to toggle Towers on minimap
  • All heroes drop mana in a nice pile like the summoner
  • Added Boss Rush countdown shortening switch
  • Reduced Silent Night countdown to 15
  • Allow purchases from Tavern Keeper even when item box is full
  • Fast menu transitions enabled by default
  • Added Harbinger spawn notification


Option Menu Updates
  • Reordered options to put them under appropriate sections
  • Change Voice tab to Sound
  • Added Display CD portal
  • Added Display Cosmetic Set Bonus
  • Added Tower Upgrades Displayed
  • Added Significant Digits Displayed
  • Added Tower Transparency options


Balance Updates
  • Boosted DST projectile speed and damage as well as added new enemies to targeting system. from Djinns => Wyverns => Mages TO Djinns => Wyverns => Sharken => Copter => Mages
  • Adjust Gold Enemy Buff as fixed increase of 200% on NM and Insane, 100% for Hard, 50% for Medium and Easy
  • Buffed Tinker’s Lab Blasters on NM to be better than Insane
  • Buffed Tinker’s Lab Mega Chicken stats around 30 points on NM
  • Buffed Eternian staff to be closer in damage to Classic Standard
  • Buffed Winter Wonderland weapon damage to lower part of high tier weapons
  • Reduced Phoenix charge attack vertical damage
  • Reduced Copter spawn rate during Phoenix boss fight
  • Buffed Fenix and Ember pony to be closer or little better than seahorse due to challenge of farming
  • Removed Map exclusive accessories from Lab Assault (ie CD, ToL, GTH, WW/SN and Palantir)
  • Buffed Spooktacular 2 accs to Lab Assault levels
  • Revert Hyper Rifle elemental damage halving due to 2 projectiles.
  • Ember Accessories ult cap is 600 instead of previous 500.
  • Reduced small coal requirement to make a small diamond from 88 to 44


Bug Fixes
  • Possible fix for trade glitch where both players lose their items
  • Fixed max upgrade count not shown in trade on item info
  • Fix for armor being removed more than weapons (weapons were rated higher in quality)
  • Fixed Talay and Moonbase survival start waves
  • Fixed EST traps on Assault maps not damaging
  • Fixed Hero Info Screen tower stat overlap so numbers aren’t hidden
  • Sealed off Tavern Defense secret room so players cant fall out of the map there
  • Fixed not being able to build on left bridge in Tavern Defense
  • Fixed Tavern Defense Snowman not attacking
  • Fixed Imp stat prediction
  • Fixed gobler shield handle positioning
  • Commented out K key binding to killme command
  • Fixed opacity scaling
  • Fix for items removed during build phase
  • Evil Hero bosses on Winter Wonderland and Silent Night no longer despawn after 2.5 minutes
  • Fixed Tower Wars Spider Queen health overflow causing them to never act or be able to take damage
  • Fixed spelling of "marshmallows" on Anamorphic Ember
  • Fixed AFK shop bug that crash the game for some players
  • Fix to mitigate wave skipping
  • Fixed Battle Droid not weakening enemies
  • Fix for Phoenix killing itself
  • Towers should now move with vertical moving platforms in ToW
  • Fix to Allow Jester to get Apprentice weapons as rewards
  • Fix for unintended increase in leather armor on survivals
  • Fixed hats being backwards on Super Legendary Huntress
  • Fix mana from chests going under the floor
  • Fix for Mistymire survival weapon drop rate to be in line with other Shard maps
  • Fix for 60% of random elements rolling Lightning
  • Fixed moon pet to spawn with tiered level requirements. Max level requirement bumped down to ult90 to line up better with other pets.
  • Fix for Embermount boost pad to activate every time.
  • Fix for damage numbers disappearing above 5mil
  • Fix for excessive mana on the ground in Moonbase NMHC Survival
  • Fix for AFK shop not allowing players to buy anything if host has too many items in item box