14 changes in this update
Ships TD
Released
Hold one island against the sea. Build turrets, raise a town on the water, and take the guns yourself when the line breaks.
Changes
What's changed in Ships TD with each update.
Added
14 changes-
• Achievements unlock the moment you earn them, not when the run is
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booked.
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• Three land in your first session: the first hull sunk, the first
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island lost, and five waves held.
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• The middle band rewards understanding: the flagship of a boss wave,
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ten barrier segments in a single drag, six upgrade tiers on one
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emplacement, all four support powers in one run.
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• A few are things to find: a blackjack in your own casino, a bank and
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a trading post and a casino side by side, three hulls to one mine, a
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burning and snared hull killed on the harpoon.
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• And three walls: twenty research nodes, fifteen waves without a
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scratch on the island, fifteen waves at Ascension 10.
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• Every one is findable from its own description. No hidden conditions,
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nothing to look up.
Added
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Doctrine, a second progression tree.
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Research and Doctrine are now also reachable from the main menu under Progress, as tabs.
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Supply crates drift on the open sea. Click one for money, steel and timber. Never more than three at once.
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Six stats the meta layer could never reach: blast radius, shell velocity, incendiary, snare, island integrity, repair.
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Patch notes now appear in the News panel on the title screen.
Improved
12 changes-
Enemy fleets cross open water at cruising speed and only slow in front of your guns. 25 to 37 percent less approach time.
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Bigger opening: 560 money, 165 steel, 230 timber.
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Base income raised by more than half, and it now grows with the wave number.
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Waves come faster: 28 seconds instead of 40, first wave at 16 instead of 25.
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Bigger waves from wave 1: six hulls instead of four.
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New hull types from wave 4 instead of wave 10. Every roster band moves four waves earlier.
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The mortar is buildable from wave 1 and costs no research.
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Support actions are free. Only the cooldown gates them now.
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Hold bounty up from 35 to 55, call wave bonus raised.
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Unspent research is carried into your next run instead of sitting in an unspendable bank.
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Bigger, readable doctrine grid that actually scrolls sideways.
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Salvage crane output raised to match the new base income.
Fixed
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Repairing a structure could take health away instead of adding it. Anything built with structure research was truncated to its base value by the first repair it received.
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Large UI frame time cost: every build tile rendered its own 3D scene to an offscreen texture 60 times a second, for a picture that never changes.
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The minimap redrew itself completely every frame, fog grid included, whether or not anything had moved.
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Several closed menus were still doing full work every frame while shut.
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The research tree showed a balance of 0 in the main menu and priced every node as unaffordable, because it read the run purse instead of the bank.
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Three of the four support actions required oil, which made them unusable without an oil platform.
Removed
2 changes-
The foam trail behind every ship.
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Support action costs.