Order Of The Gatekeepers News

The Versus Mode appears stable from internal testing but I always seem to mess something up so right now I'm running it as a beta.

To opt into the beta right click on the game in your Steam library and go to "Properties->Betas" and choose "Versus."

This lets you host Lobbies in Versus Mode, a gamemode where you need to balance your spending between offensive and defensive purchases. Is the best offense a really good defense or will it be too tempting to send a 75% magic resist Ethereal wave at your friend?

If anyone finds any bugs don't be shy posting them to the Steam discussions.

For the first big content update I have added 8 new items for everyone as well as an endless mode for Singleplayer & Multiplayer. Versus is still in testing, I was so excited about the new items though that I thought I'd release them ahead of it.

Patch Notes:

• Added Endless Mode!
  
• Added 8 New Items!
  1. Inhibitor: Freezes your Tower's Mana value for a duration, preventing any gain or loss of Mana.
     
  2. Mystic 8-Ball: Whenever your Tower succeeds at a chance roll, it gains some Mana.
     
  3. Invigorator: Abilities & Items cast by your Tower have a chance to buff it, significantly increasing its Attack Speed & Damage for a duration.
     
  4. Reality Shard: Converts a percentage of your Tower's regular attack damage to magic damage.
     
  5. Pipe of Clarity: Its active ability doubles your Tower's experience value, providing all the benefits of levelling up for a duration.
     
  6. Morning Brew: Increases your Tower's experience by a flat value.
     
  7. Purifier: Makes a portion of your Tower's damage ignore enemy armor amount & type.
     
  8. Vendetta: Once your Tower begins attacking a target, they must get twice as far away to escape its range.
• Fixed potential softlock trying to load a level with pre-placed Towers that had an Aura that modified Attack Range.
  
• Tweaks to the new Targeting Algorithm to make it better at discerning the best target in disorderly, multi-lane levels.
  

More stuff is on the way, but I hope you all enjoy the new items.

After a few weeks of cleaning up bugs I've been focusing on a bit of new content for the past week or so. I've been working on a few new levels for everyone as well as implementing a Versus Mode for players to go head to head online in teams of up to two people.

Once the new Versus Mode is stable I'll put it out in a new build, currently it's feature complete I just need to make sure the balance is good and that the logic/UI plays well with people late-joining or rejoining a match.

As for Items, I'm currently planning on a few new ones to give even more build options.

Thanks again to everyone so far, here are some patch notes in the meantime:

• Optimized Prism Tower Network logic for better performance.
  
• Fixed Prism Towers not noticing when a Prism was moved out of their Network.
  
• Reworked Altar of Ker's Weakpoint visuals.
  
• Door of Janus' Urgent Dispatch mana from 200 -> 100+20/lvl.
  
• Door of Janus' Urgent Dispatch gold cost from 35 -> 25+2/lvl.
  
• Reduced Gold & XP gain on Hillside map by 15%.
  
• Added "Toggled On/Off" labels to Devourer & Riftbinder item tooltips to help players tell which stat bonuses they currently have due to the item being toggled on or off.
  
• Optimized manual casting logic.
  
• Manual casting an ability that provides a buff to a nearby tower will make it remember that Tower and continue casting on them if you enable auto-casting for that ability.
  

Been working on some new content for everyone, I've released one of the maps early since it's got great replay value & is tremendously difficult.

Patch Notes:

• Added new map "Hillside" for solo or multiplayer matches. This level has five lanes to deal with over 3 build locations. Recommend 3-players for this level!
  
• Reworked the "Show Paths" visuals to be less cluttered & provide better performance.
  
• Fixed various small Level Editor bugs.

Patch Notes:

• Added orange triangles on item icons in the shop to show which ones are recommended for your currently selected Tower. This can be disabled through the Options.
  
• Improved performance of Transformer item passive ability.
  
• Items/Abilities that look at the amount of mana used from a cast now ignore negative cases.
  
• Fixed wave info not updating on new map.
  
• Fixed Steam Rich Presence in friends list not always displaying the correct wave.