Compared to the old editor, in the new one you:

• Cannot see if tiles are favourited in the right-side menu (or the left-side, either)
• Cannot sell tiles from the editor menu

Custom maps, Editor, QoL

Would be nice to have "Sell/Prestige/Favourite selection" option that would perform the related action for all tiles selected via new selection tool.

In version 1.8, if you release the thunder ability multiple times, the thunders will be released one after another until the number is exhausted.
In version 1.9, if you release the thunder ability multiple times, the thunders will be released together, and the thunders will hit a target at the same time.
e.g.: you release 2 thunder during a game, 2 thunders will fall on one enemy, even though one thunder can kill an enemy.
Note: i don't know whether it is a feature or a bug, so i report it.

Release multiple times thunder will trigger this situtation.

game crashes if you use loic on stakey on level 6.3

after more testing, it appears that the crash happens when using any ability on any enemy on any level while having 0 mdps, though ball lightning somehow doesn't cause it

also log file in case you need it

Use hotkey to toggle auto-wave on and then if you want to cancel it by hotkey, it wont cancel.

Click first time-> auto wave on
Click second time->auto wave will not be off and still on.

Note: It will still toggle to off in some specific situations. I can't figure how to toggle off,maybe after i press even times, or press other keys. All in all, it will occasionally happen, but not all time.

Just use hotkey to toggle auto-wave.

Due to the limitation size of video, i record in this way.
Explanation: Hotkey i use will represent at the bottom of auto-wave, so after i press "A" key for several times, but it still not cancel.

I cant connect and upload file save, it say 'Failed to load saved games'
due to the debug, it say the java security has throw exception
AuthManager:Net: failed:loadStateFromServer: java.security.cert.certPatValidicatorException: Trust anchor for certification path not found

The Bug appeared when entering the game

The labels of these two timers don't update properly, but they were counting down.

When I attempt to start any tutorial level (tested on 0.1, true for 0.2 and 0.3, unsure about 0.4), the game do not load level and I have to leave the game. You still can play 1.1

1) Load the game
2) Choose level from stage 0
3) Click Play. The level will not load

Huawei, Android 13

Please send me your log.txt and exceptions.log after it crashes next time

Hello, i had the same issue of the game apparently freezing when trying to load into the tutorial.
However i noticed that as soon as i pressed "play" on Level 0.1 the game started uploading a lot of data over my phone's internet connection.
And after over 15 Minutes of constantly sending data (my wifi is only a few mbits upload though) the level did finally open! After clicking through the first few dialogues, the game now got stuck again with uploading before i could place the first tower

In fact, the game do not crash. But it severely freezes (minutes of waiting, I waited for 30 seconds when tested the bug). I even can play the game after waiting (it freezes again, less severely, for few times). And last one: Two plays on 0.1 ate 0,5 GB of my traffic.
So, I made a mistake when I said that I "cannot" play. I "can". But I have to wait for 3-5 minutes and spend 200-250 MB of traffic
How to send logs of freezing at 0.1?

The lucky shot wheel will respin automatically every time the game is closed and reopened, even when it should no longer be possible to buy respins because too less options remain. I am pretty sure it should never spin on its own without user interaction. Screenshot shows a wheel that spun so often that only one item remained. Repeating this again after all items of the wheel have been rewarded will make the game crash every time you try to open the lucky shot wheel with the following exception:

FATAL EXCEPTION: LibGDX rendering thread
Process: com.prineside.tdi2, PID: 12697
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Invalid weapon rotation 0.0
at com.prineside.tdi2.ui.shared.LuckyWheelOverlay.n(SourceFile:84)
at com.prineside.tdi2.ui.shared.LuckyWheelOverlay.q(SourceFile:172)
at com.prineside.tdi2.ui.shared.LuckyWheelOverlay.postRender(SourceFile:86)
at com.prineside.tdi2.managers.UiManager.render(SourceFile:15)
at com.prineside.tdi2.Game.render(SourceFile:246)
at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.android.AndroidGraphics.onDrawFrame(SourceFile:215)
at android.opengl.GLSurfaceView$GLThread.guardedRun(GLSurfaceView.java:1573)
at android.opengl.GLSurfaceView$GLThread.run(GLSurfaceView.java:1272)

1. spin the same lucky shot wheel until its no longer possible to buy respins of this wheel
2. close the game, reopen it
3. when opening the lucky shot again, the previous wheel will start spinning on its own, and reward one of the few remaining options
4. this can be repeated until everything from this wheel was rewarded, repeating once more will then make opening lucky shot crash the game

In the "shop"-screen, the blue border highlighting the button to exchange 10 keys for a chest can get stuck, it will stay on the same position of the screen when scrolling the content below. Screenshot shows the border stuck, with its button moved away under it.
Does not break anything and goes away when leaving the shop page, so only a minor visual glitch

1. have some keys to exchange for chests
2. from inventory, click "use" on some key, this will open "shop" page with the button to exchange this key highlighted by a blue border around it
3. long press on another colour of keys (not the highlighted one) to open the "buy multiple" popup, confirm it
4. the blue border around the originally selected button is still there and now stuck on this fixed screen position until you leave the shop page

Making game keep running on paused, based on a series of acts.

Open bonus panel while not paused
Switch out infinitode2
Switch back
See game paused but running

May be only based on mobile devices

Bonus of MDPS x 2 still appears when it is not selectable.

Songs slowing when selection a section of the peice
Specifically class cecktro but some others have the same problem.

Go to the music player in the main menu, and select a later section of a song, this will consistently for some songs slow them down

Already fixed in 1.9.0 we are about to test

Here is a glitch that happens when I call the next wave before a boss is defeated.

Bosses, Bug, Glitch

Map: pick or create a map with a boss wave

0. Don't auto call waves
1. Fight the boss
2. Wait until the boss has little HP (play frame by frame)
3. Call next wave
4. Watch the enemies of the next wave
   {Some enemies spawn, but other are instantly defeated and yield coins}

In these pictures, only one jet spawns, the others are coins.

Can you tell me which level / boss it is and what is the cance to reproduce it (on the other maps / with other bosses)?

This is the mobchain boss on level 4.8 and it works 100% of the time.
I was also able to reproduce it with stakey (and mobchain) on 6.2.

Has to be reproduced in 1.9.0 beta

Fixed
Stakey and Mobchain wave processors kill all enemies from the current wave if boss gets killed but they never check if current wave is equal to the boss wave

Suppose the laser will charge in 1 second and then upgrade the 3rd ability of laser after it attacks, the next charge will become longer than 1 second.
And the 2nd next charge will become normal again.

1.Build a laser
2.Upgrade the 3rd of laser

Probabaly reason:
Laser battery capacity is a value A, and charging speed is calculated by laser battery capacity_A,cauesd it is a % value, may be called B
Another value C is set to count whether charge is over.
install 3rd ability ==> laser battery capacity_A*=3 and charging speed_B don't change.
then in update=function()
C+=charging speed_B,
if C>laser battery capacity_A then C=0, and laser attack
in the next loop:
charging speed_B is calculated again so it becomes normal.

Needs to be reproduced in 1.9 Beta

Confirmed by Dense

The laser has around 45% charging speed. When I activate the 3rd ability during its attack, the next charging interval lasts more than 100 frames. and the ones before/after that are around 66 frames

Fixed
Laser's projectiles are a separate entity - basically fire-and-forget. Increasing the duration will make Laser think its projectiles are still firing and will keep it in the state of "firing" even when existing projectiles (which last shorter) no longer exist

For towers that have an upgrade that changes the barrel (long barrel for cannon, sniper or nanoparticles for gauss) the bullet/fire animation still comes out from where the old barrel exit was.

So for sniper, the fire is where the default barrel ends, or on cannon the bullet exits not at the long barrel exit, but at the default barrel exit, clipping through the long barrel

Cannon (Tower), Gauss (Tower), Sniper (Tower)

Place cannon/sniper down (or other towers with barrel elongation)
Use long barrel or equivalent
Slow down the game to 1x speed
The bullet/fire animation clips though the long barrel

If I start a game on my custom map, quit to main menu and reload the game, the wave prediction table breaks and starts displaying fake waves (see attachment).

• Load up the attached save file (not sure if this .bin is enough)
• Start a game on the Tesla custom map
• Go to Main Menu, then Continue
• Click on the portal => Waves. The waves in the pop-up don't match the waves in the sidebar (which are correct)

Can't reproduce on a story map or the second custom map in the savefile, so I think it's specific to my map/portal/whatever.

I suspect attachments from earlier didn't make it, trying again.

Some changes were made to the wave system, testing needed in 1.9.0 beta

If during the loading of the game go to any other window (leaving the game loading in the background), then when entering the game after launching we have a visual interface bug that is solved only by restarting the game)

Startup, Texture, Windows

1) Start the game.
2) Go to any window by alt+tab until the menu is fully loaded (Immediately after startup or while loading)
3) Return by alt+tab (or click the icon in the panel) after the music plays (this usually means the game has loaded).

= We have a bug that doesn't reset . (At least I haven't found a way to reset the bug while in the game).

The bug works only if you minimize the game before it is fully loaded. Unpleasant bug if you run the game while doing something and in order not to waste time you want to minimize it before it is fully loaded.

When using the ability tickets in normal mode, all abilities will only be refilled up to the normal research limit. If the player has 11+ ability count in endless mode, they have to use the tickets while in endless mode to fully refill their abilities.

Abilities

1. Fully research the max ability count for any ability in endless mode.
2. Use them up in a game.
3. Switch to normal mode and use an ability ticket.
4. Switch to endless mode and check your abilities.

The current behavior of the venom tower is that it will re-target to apply poison to any enemy in range that doesn't have it, until all targets in range have a stack of poison from that tower. Additionally you can apply multiple stacks of poison from other venom towers, with diminishing returns from each tower.

However, the issue I have found is that a second venom tower will only target un-poisoned enemies or the first enemy in line if all enemies in range already have a stack of poison. This is not in-line with the new auto targeting behavior introduced with the new version as it is not spreading a 2nd stack of poison to all enemies, only the first one in line.

Load up a game and place two venom towers some distance apart so the effect is more easily observable, but not so far that the poison effect from the first tower expires. Ideally they are spaced such that the wave of enemies is poisoned when entering the range of the 2nd tower and stay poisoned throughout so you can see which are receiving 2 stacks and which aren't.
Unfortunately you must wait until a wave where the enemies have enough HP where they aren't dying immediately after receiving the 2nd stack of poison, and the 2nd tower has ample time to re-target(which it won't).

reproducibility should be "sometimes" instead of "always", doing more tests.

Has to be reproduced in 1.9 beta before I can change this issue's status

The leaderboard % label is glitched. It goes from 100% to 1% until i hit place 0000276:0000200/8350, and then rolls back to 3%. At the same time, the next-to-beat score counter changes it's behaviour from counting the score to next % of players, to counting the score to next player on the leaderboard. While i think that the latter is expected and normal behaviour, the former is definitely a bug.

After encountering bug for the first time, i've started a playthrought on the same level again and recorded it, successfully reproducing the issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCDLuqjkSck&t=609s

1. Start any game
2. Reach leaderboard place 0000276:0000200
3. Notice how the top-% label moves from 1% to 3%

Quick comment, since there's something wrong or unexpected with how the bug tracker handles the ~ (tilde) character: "0000276:0000200" was supposed to be "around 200", while "around" was a tilde character, but apparently it got parsed as something else

I don't know if this is also affected on desktop or ios because I never had those version (I only have the mobile version)

UX/UI/Visual

After losing or wining the level, press the newly added research button to go research. Looking at the top right the ui for resources and money is gone. You can fix it by going back into the main menu and pressing the research button again at the menu.

Sorry for broken and bad English

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Win-10 player, I confirm the existence of the bug

On any map at any point of progression into the level, pausing, clicking "restart" and pressing the enter key will cause the game to crash instantly.
On reopening the game the map map will have been ended.

• Start any map
• Pause the game via "Escape" key or top left pause button
• Click "Restart"
• Press "Enter" key
• Crash

Had other users do the same steps to confirm it's not just my client.
Clicking the checkmark to confirm restart works normally.

There are 2 problems that I found while using Tesla's Ultimate Skill. Below is a list of problems encountered:

• The Electric Orbs from Tesla's Ultimate Skill do NOT give Experience Points
• When the Electric Orbs kill enemies, they do NOT count towards the Enemies Killed by Tower quests AND probably Damage Dealt by Tower, as well as the Kill Count Stats on the tower menu.

Quests, Tesla (Tower), Tower abilities

Step 1: Place a Tesla and bring it to LVL 20
Step 2: Equip the Ultimate Skill and then form some Electric Orbs (better if there's lots of them)
Step 3: Observe the quest for damage dealt and/or kills by Tesla (you can also observe the kills in the tower menu if you have Extra Statistics)

It's best to have Tesla placed far from the portal and on the Damage Platforms (e.g. Level 5-1) to reproduce this. The LVL 10 Skill can form Electric Orbs. Keep in mind that you may need to place other towers for enemies that Tesla can't target. For Enemies Killed specifically, it can also be done on the custom maps by observing the kill count on the tower menu.

My theory for why this happens is that the Electric Orbs from Tesla is similar to the Ball Lightning Ability, since they act the same. I can suggest that having different colors for those two can help determine which is from what (like Yellow Orbs if it is from the ability, and Indigo Orbs if it is from Tesla), and probably have different codes for them.

this problem is the same as issue#2022.
they are treated separately.

Well, my suggestion is that the damage from Tesla's Electric Orbs should NOT count towards the requirement for forming a new orb, but should still count towards the Damage Dealt by tower AND Enemies Killed by tower quests.

Has to be reproduced in 1.9 beta before I can change this issue's status

Just tested it
THe ultimate now gives XP, increases tower's DPS stat and the kill counter

White circle animation can be forced to stay permanently using touchscreen inputs in Inventory.

Bug, UX/UI/Visual

1) Long press item one, causing the animation to appear;
2) Midway through white circle animation, long press item two, while still selecting first;
3) Initial circle will stay permanent when its animation finishes.

a) An individual level leaderboard displays something like "1.1 - score - Normal" at the top, while the "score" part is always in lowercase independent of its translation. This also applies for the wave leaderboard page.
b) Some languages use the period and comma in numbers in the exact opposite way than English does it. Due to this barely being handled the numbers are displayed wrong in almost all parts of the game.
c) Some strings seem to be completely missing and are always displayed in English, for example in the Screen and Debugging section in the settings.

Translation / i18n

a) Fixed
b) Hard to fix. I'll keep them like that - that's how numbers look in any programming language, better get used to it
c) Fixed

Partially resolved

ID locale is missing "account_has_no_statuses" line, making it completely bugged. It cannot be selected, and will sometimes crash the game completely.

Bug, Crash, Translation / i18n

Select Indonesian language.

Might be missing more than one line

Not related to the missing strings as they always fallback to English
The issue is related to the changes in Java which has changed locale code from in_ID to id_ID
I've did some changes in an attempt to fix this issue, testing needed. Closing the thread for now

"Real playing time" statistic shows abnormal values: 00:00 for "All time" and 596523 hours for "Max per game". Developer mode research is impossible.

Bug, Research

Unknown

Log ID: GCV8UH

Real time deltas are buggy sometimes and can cause such issues.
They depend on a device, it's OS and libraries installed on it. Also such issues may be caused by changes in a timezone or when date/time is being changed manually through the device's settings.
I'm going to replace Dev mode research requirement with an in-game time which has no such issues

If you don't get enough money to buy a miner during the first waves, the game will neither progress nor end, causing a softlock.

Bug, Tutorial

1. Select level 0.4
2. Spam targeting options on the tower to leak one or more enemies during the waves before you have to build a miner.

I'm no longer sure if it's necessary to fix the bug with which someone wants to shoot himself in the foot so desperately

1. Opening and closing the music player in pause menu will start playing the currently selected menu music, despite "Ignore map music" being off.
2. Pressing "Esc" with the music player open will unpause the game without closing the music player.

Music

1. Select a track in the music player as the default menu music.
2. Play a level.
3. Pause, open the music player and close it.

A list of (most) things about the game that are not properly explained to the player:

✓ XP gain on level selection screen: not specified that it only affects profile XP

✓ Profile XP: never mentioned that it's only gained in Normal mode

✓ Custom maps: it's not clarified that excess resources mined are not given to the player after game ends

✓ Towers: holding upgrade or ability button applies this action to every tower of the same type - never mentioned
Note: mentioned this in general hints and added a "holdable button" mark

✓ Detailed mode: mentioned only once in one of the tutorial levels, which people often don't pay much attention to
Note: tooltip will show up near the button if player never used it (tutorial levels do not count) and is playing for at least 3 minutes. Also mentioned once again in general hints

✓ Modifiers: players are often unaware of their existence even after unlocking them and often don't understand how to use them
Note: added some general hints about different modifier types. Tooltip will show up when player encounters the Modifiers tab for the first time

✓ Inventory: "hold to select" not mentioned
Note: added hints to the inventory's item info pane if no item is selected / inventory just op

✓ Custom maps: "drawing" mode for placing / removing tiles is only mentioned in old patch notesened
Note: added more detailed descriptions to the info overlay (big info button)

✓ Trophies: it's not made clear that effects like "-0.5% towers upgrade price" (Cannon trophy) apply to all towers, not just the one the player got a trophy of

% Missile: LRM is not explained
Note: added global hint for the LRM mechanic

✓ Inventory: no mention of the "open 5 / 25 at once" functionality for chests and packs (now shows a "button can be held" hint icon)

✓ Stage 6: gems are not explained at all (Gem menu added in 1.9.0)

% Score: its sources are never explained (but can be viewed in the "live statistics" during the game)

TODO:

• Maps: tile coordinates are not named (what is this random "3:17" in top right corner?)
• Miner double speed: not explained anywhere in the game
• Inventory: 500 bases / portals cap is not mentioned

Can't find a way to easily explain this, may need some kind of a handbook feature:

• Star research: it being impossible to complete is not obvious
• Prestige: no proper introduction

On the one hand, you do the right thing, on the other you cling to the minor little things.

Most of this has been fixed - closing the thread for now.
Regarding the remaining unfixed suggestions:

• Tile coordinates, miner double speed, star research seem to be quite intuitive. I'll add tooltips when many players start to ask what those things mean and how they work
• Inventory cap - probably won't explain this as it is more of a technical limitation
• Prestige definitely needs an explanation and I'll put it on my TODO list

Everything is gone, what should I do?

Contact support please: [email protected]

Let's make the game more friendly for the eye, regardless of how it perceives color.
If you find it difficult to distinguish colors or graphic elements, please report them in the comments of this topic.

Screenshots with highlighted areas would be very useful.

QoL, UX/UI/Visual

I'm color blind -- not extremely, but not mildly. Red/green/brown are difficult for me to see. While reading the wiki the other day, I saw that on the research pane there are different color outlines to indicate whether a node is fully upgraded (green?) or not (yellow?).

After zooming way in on the tree, I can see the difference, but it's impossible to tell from even a medium zoom. Changing this would be awesome, thanks! The rest of the game (I think? though who knows what I could be missing!) looks great.

Added an option to the Settings screen (1.9 Beta) for a better color accessibility.
If anyone have spotted any other places where colors are hard to distinguish, please report them in the comments.
Note: already fixed the research nodes colors, rarity colors (Rare) and Special blueprint graphics

In the loot tab, where you can open random tiles, chests, and use keys, when you use your last keys and are left with no chests, tiles, or keys, it still shows the last key used as if you can still use or sell it. It goes away when you go into other menus or start a game

There are two typos in Terms and Conditions.
They are located in "Our part and responsabilities" paragraph
First typo is "Inssue Tracker" (very noticeable because the text is blue)
Second typo is "sould"

a bug on enemies generating
sometimes 2 waves that completely same shows but only 1 wave generated from it

Caused by boss wave added by bonuses
also happens in later wave, periodly happening every 10 waves

Sometimes game's rules and mechanics may force a player to constantly repeat some action or even pause the game and count frames in order to receive a slightly higher score.
While such actions may be considered a pro-move and a sign of a high skill, they require a lot of labor and make gameplay slow / turn the game into an actual work which is far from a joyful experience we need.

Please report such cases in the comments

1. Play the game trying to get a higher place on the leaderboard
2. Take note of any situation which requires you to pause the game and perform actions carefully / count frames / perform any kind of a boring micromanagement / abuse some mechanics

Use existing comments as an example

Tactic: Not calling waves early to regenerate more ability energy (reported by: Cinex)
Description: ability energy generation has a constant rate, not affected by early wave calls. Some stages of a game heavily rely on abilities and disabling the early wave call may be beneficial, as it allows to generate more energy and call abilities earlier (in comparison to the amount of enemy waves spawned)
Why bad:

• game lasts longer and player may end up waiting for ability energy while all enemies are killed, staring on an empty screen and a dropping bonus coins counter for an early wave call
• early wave calls already affect mining speed and some other bonuses as a partial fix but ability energy mechanic does not benefit from it, looking more like a bug
  Possible fix: (suggested by EuphoRowan) make ability energy benefit from 2x bonus multiplier which already affects passive coin generation and some other bonuses

Tactic: Constantly changing the targeting for a strong tower to prevent it from attacking and let weaker towers farm some XP (reported by: Cinex)
Description: towers receive most of their XP for the enemies they kill. Naturaly, the strongest tower will kill most enemies and "steal" precious XP from a weaker towers, not allowing them to level up effectively. In order to prevent this, players may need to switch the aiming strategy of the strongest tower in order to prevent it from attacking and "stealing" XP from the weaker towers
Why bad: player needs to click on the aiming strategy button constantly and it does not work perfectly unless the game is completely paused and aim mode switch is being performed on every frame. Not only it requires a lot of manual labor and slows down the gameplay, it also produces a lot of garbage in the replay
Possible fix: (suggested by EuphoRowan) add an aiming mode / button to disable any tower manually. Should also help save Gauss resources.

Tactic: Using 10x Overload for a high score almost on every map
Description: Top leaderboard scores are only possible with Overload - players are basically forced to use it if they want to compete
Why bad:

• This is the only go-to strategy for the highest score and there should be different (at least one) ways to achieve a high score
• Player is forced to use Overload, meaning it will always take an ability slot
• Overload must be used with a perfect timing on a specific wave, otherwise the player won't survive until it ends - no diversity at all
  Possible fix: (far from ideal, needs discussuin) limit Overload stack size or bonuses

Partially resolved 2 out of 3 issues, needs testing

This is a thread for any thoughts on the new balance - leave comments for a broken / underperforming / overpowered towers / abilities and any other stuff that should be fixed to make balance better.

Balance

1. Play the game
2. Notice how your belowed Venom lacks 1px of Posonous Cloud ability aura range buff
3. Complain in comments

Any suggestions are welcome
Don't comment on this issue if you've never played 1.9 Beta, and don't ask where to get 1.9 Beta - open testing will start soon anyways

-------ABILITIES-------
Magnet is absolutely useless as a 2 energy cost ability.
There is a very limited amount of towers it affects (practically 5 towers), it doesn't scale from your peak damage, and there aren't any real single target threats it could be used on.
It should probably cost 1 energy. That would at least make it at least a consideration as a coin generator.

Another overpriced/underused ability is Windstorm. There is no real reason why an enemy can be affected by Windstorm(s) only once, instead of up to 3 times, and with buffs to Blizzard it might not even be as good at stalling enemies despite costing more. Blizzard itself, on the other hand, is doing great now.
Windstorm buff in 1.9 promotes its use for defense instead of stalling, but at 3 energy it cannot compete with Fire Storm, or Smoke Bomb. It relies on enemies having gained no knockback immunity, and doesn't actually provide significant defending advantage. The towers that could take advantage of enemy stacking are very limited in count and ability to actually get value from stacked enemies.

Another pair of questionable abilities, Bullet Wall and LOIC. It is a bit silly to have 2 abilities heavily favouring vertical maps in a game that is locked to horizontal orientation. And while LOIC has great damage potential at least, Bullet Wall really can't offer much nor can it be fixed with a number change.
LOIC buff in 1.9 doesn't really do much - economy is most important in earlier stages of the game, while the main point of LOIC is incredible damage potential, far surpassing any other ability, but very awkward to use.
Bullet Wall buff needs more testing. There probably will be levels where it is used regardless.

------------------TOWERS-----------------------
Cannon still feels terrible.
Missile might be decent - it definitely feels better to use now.
Flamethrower is very awkward now, it is really hard to make it spread the fire debuff because it doesn't switch targets like Venom, but forcing it leads to no enemies with the debuff instead. Solution - make it it constantly search for enemies that are not on fire, unless Cold Fire is selected.
Venom with Fast Shells (third ability) can act as a single target DPS tower, but it still wants to do AoE and poison everything, which is counterproductive.
Considering the bonus system, Sniper is still very strong. All of its abilities are now very efficient, so it goes out of control with "the bonus". The easiest change I could see is a nerf to Killshot, maybe? That way it will only be weaker on higher levels.
Personally, I would also improve explosion piercing by 5% globally, just to see if that is too gamebreaking. So far, it doesn't seem it would be problematic.

It is possible for gauss to have far higher damage via self improvement when the experience is transferred to it via the basic ult. There are sometimes a few frames in between when the tower is cloned and the xp is transferred during which if you select self improvement on the gauss you can have it provide way more bonus damage than it should. I have had 364,184% bonus damage from self improvement without Gauss having ever fired a shot which when getting full mods to it can do over 3 trillion damage.

1. Build a basic tower and feed it with exprerience, ideally with mining/xp mods.
2. Pause the game.
3. Place a gauss tower and then clone it while the game is still paused.
4. On the cloned gauss tower, select self-improvement without taking any other actions.

It wasn't clear to me from reading this description alone, but after some discord conversation it seems that the issue is that the bonus damage levels apparently aren't scaling as they normally would (since the xp is applied all at once?)

Dense also mentioned that patching this but would render some of the leaderboard scores unbeatable (I'd add that that's assuming no other mitigating scoring buffs were implemented to offset the difference)

Does anyone have a replay which reproduces this issue?

https://youtu.be/c2h23BtvMoM

As you can see in the video it is successful 3 out of 4 times.

ball lightning hit fighter despite dealing no damage to them unlike armored

tesla exp lvl 10
unleash the ball lightnings
let them hit fighter

As far as the timing of when to fix this: correction of this buff should be considered a nerf, and thus occur during a seasonal change.

Not sure if it will be called a nerf - ball lightning deals zero damage, its efficiency should increase when the bug is fixed (it won't be wasted on Fighters that receive zero damage & can actually damage some other enemy)

The timer for the cloud save / load confirmation prompt can carry over to the game exit confirmation prompt.

Bug, UX/UI/Visual

1. Go to your account tab and click on cloud save / load button.
2. Cancel the prompt before the timer runs out.
3. Try to exit the game.

Zecred Boss spawns only at wave 1 and doesn't spawn at wave 41,61...

just play zecred...

I started a new game by saving on a new slot and resetting the progress, today I wanted to record an older LB attempt, but I didn't load my first game, I got 2 achievements done (1M Mdps & wave300) by watching a replay that's has nothing to do with the new game.

Achievement

1. Complete an achievement.
2. Save the game on a different slot.
3. Reset Progress on the new saved game to start over from tutorials or level 1.1
   (i think the game needs to be closed and re-opened for the replays to show up, not sure how that works)
4. Watch the old replay on the new game.

If DBG_DRAW_ENEMY_PATHS is enabled, gems and other immobile enemies will crash the game immediately.

Bug, Crash, Enemies

1) Enable debug option DBG_DRAW_ENEMY_PATHS
2) Start level 6.1
3) Call wave 1

After playing a game and watching an ad the total amount gained of each resource by the ad is added to each instance of the resource.

Ad Rewards

Play a game making sure to receive the same recourse from multiple sources (quest and mining for instance)
When the game ends note how much you receive of each resource
Watch ad to increase gains by 25%
Notice how in the updated gains overview each resource tile gained all of the total of that resource
In the next view the gains appear correctly

It doesn't load correctly (even when loaded by from json option) when there are many different portals with different enemy
Configurations and some loaded configurations will be always set to (start at wave 1 and spawn endlessly) which limits map designs
Severely

Luckily there's a workaround, enabling boss enemies (star) and leaving it at (start at wave 1 and spawn endlessly) seems to make the current portal's enemy configurations load correctly so adding it to all portals fixes the issue and choosing the right boss spawn would be by putting that portal in the left-bottom corner

Put many (five to ten) portals with many different enemy Configurations and save them, leave the game and start it up again
Now check the portals to find out that one or two enemy configurations resetted to (start at wave 1 and spawn endlessly) in some portals

Sorry, i meant right boss spawn would be by putting that portal in the most right-bottom corner

Can you provide some screenshots? The one where you edit the configuration of the portal and another one with an actual configuration of the portal in-game.
I can't figure out rn what could be the cause or if it is related somehow to the number of portals you use simultaneously

Second screenshot is how it looks after you restart the game with the boss spawn range set from 1 to infinite
First one is how it loaded after i disabled boss spawn on the same portal and restarted the game
This map has 23 portals right now

Notice how the fighter's spawn range was set to 1 to infinite instead of 55 to infinite when the game was restarted
Also it happens randomly to some portals and a small amount of them aren't affected by this for some reason

Stacktrace:
java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.g2d.TextureRegion com.prineside.tdi2.systems.EnemySystem.getTexture(com.prineside.tdi2.enums.EnemyType)' on a null object reference
at com.prineside.tdi2.systems.PathRenderingSystem.setPaths(SourceFile:84)
at com.prineside.tdi2.systems.MapSystem.showAllPathTraces(SourceFile:96)
at com.prineside.tdi2.screens.MapEditorScreen$_MapListener.pathfindingRebuilt(Unknown Source:13)
...

1. Open Map editor
2. Place some roads, a Portal and a base

Will be fixed in build 186. Already fixed on Steam Beta.

Venom's L10 ability doesn't trigger the purple crystal's effect when destroying them
Which resulted in a platform not spawning

Damage a crystal really badly with a blast then sell the blast
Place a venom near a crystal keep it busy fighting enemies so it doesn't poison the crystal, feed it with XP
Until L10 wait until the crystal is destroyed by the poisonous cloud damage

I still haven't tried it with other crystal's

These crystals stand at the edge of poison cloud and, technically, may be out of its range (the center point of crystal / enemy is what's considered its place, not a texture)
Does that happen with crystals that stand close to the tower / those whose center is clearly in the range of the cloud?

Yes it does happen with crystals clearly inside the venom's cloud

The crystal on your screenshot is also resides on the edge of the cloud - it is 2 tiles away from the tower. I mean, does it affect crystals that are neighboring the tower?

There were 2 crystals that were inside the cloud but since they were destroyed by the cloud they didn't spawn the attack speed tile and the core and left 2 empty tiles near the tower

Finally fixed.
32 files affected, heh

Unlike the head or body, Stakey's tail takes the standard 10% damage from LOIC instead of 40%. It also takes the standard 10% damage from Ball lightning.

Abilities, Bosses, Bug

Use LOIC on Stakey.

Bug first mentioned by 96158288 in the Discord server and confirmed by EyeBallin'.

Confirmed from the words of trusted players

The quest slot given for having completed all level based quests is not revealed in the list of quests before starting a new game.

Play level so you complete all the level requirement quests so you unlock the extra quest slot for that level.
Go to the start game view, notice that you only see the normal number of revealed quests (2 I think without research)
Start the game and notice that an additional quest is available for completion.

idk whether this is a feature or a bug, but it actually happened.
experience modifier uses the resource but don't increase xp in easy mode
(video attached in the note)

is the timer of modifier_experience & overload seperated by other timer?
And that timer isn't stopped cause this problem?

1. Goto EASY mode
2. build miner&tower&experience_modifier
3. wait in any interval of wave until time goes to 0
4. the miner starts to drain the resource, but the tower doesn't get any exp.

While I'm playing, I usually like to watch ads to increase loot. However, sometimes I cannot.

Environment:
1) I have good internet connection
2) The button is obviously enabled
3) At first I thought it's becouse of leaving app and coming back again (or opening messenger chat for a moment), but I checked, and sometimes it happens after described situation, and sometimes it doesn't.

Gameplay

Simply playing a level and trying to watch all the possible ads (maybe try to leave the app for a moment)

I'd really like to support creator of this wonderful game by watching ads.

How often does it happen?

I'm also cannot watch ads. Video doesn't play and timer doesn't start, but go to the end of ads and I cannot receive reward. Or ads are simply black screen without timer and only with buttons visible. But sometimes some rare ads are playing well and I get reward.

Can confirm that. Looks like ads skiped by themself. 1 from 10 normaly showed. Had tried changing location with no effect.

Will a Catalog help? I cantry generating one.

I got an error saying something went wrong.

Very often last time. Also when you've got problems with watching ads during the level-passing, you cannot watch the ads in other places like increasing your loot after the level by 25% or increasing the speed of chest decryption by 20 min. You must reboot the game to see the ads again

I can also not watch ads since the Loot spin was added. I can occasionally get one a day in, which is frustrating because because I can't get anything associated with ads and before it was even bad because it wouldn't let me watch ads in succession for loot %. I could watch one, but then I'd have to sit in the pause menu for hours before I could watch any again. It would seem set restrictions for certain videos aren't local to that type and is being applied globally. It's honestly game breaking for me as I can't maximize my times efforts.

The problem is not solved yet. Even after update.

The problem is, I could do nothing with the ads - they depend mostly on Google Play libraries installed on your device and on your account data. For example:

• Google's library may become outdated / broken
• Ads may be disabled / banned for your account for some reason we'll never know
• Anything else outside the Infinitode 2, which only says "show next ad" to the lib and have no control over it

I'm afraid it won't be fixed without physical access to the problematic device - I had no luck reproducing this issue and seems like ads are still showing to the most of the players

Maybe reseting advertising ID in google settings can help?

By the way, the game uses "light" ads library which uses shared libraries of Google Play services. It reduces app's size but will fail to load ads on devices without Google Play installed.
Infinitode 2 is officially available only on Google Play, which makes me assume this lib should be fine.
Please comment on this issue if you have official Android with latest Google Play on and have this issue

I have this issue. No more ads since last week. Xiaomi note 8 with Miui Android and Google Play. I have a lot of games but only Infinitode has this problem

The problem is cache related but, I think, not directly. If I clean the cache the ads restart but not with all the cleaner apps, Super Cleaner seems works better than CCleaner.
But, imho, the problems depends on the exit of ads, seems Infinitode stay in pause waiting the end of the adv also if it is closed, infact, the ads counter in shop is hidden.
I also noticed that if I close the ads too fast at the end of the time the problem occurs often.
I think will be better to add a way to reset the counter in any case 30 seconds after the ads starts whatever happens so, problem or not, it restarts

After many cache cleaning, phone boost, mem boost and all the possible optimization, now I think is not the cache but something with the timer. Sometimes no need to cache but only a mem boost or an other type of optimization task to make the timer start again otherwise the button in shop not appears. I also noticed that I have to wait the shop timer to end, see the ads and then continue the run to view others ads for in game boost. It seems like I have to find a way to crash the timer routine to let start again and 90% of times is a phone optimization but 10% all is useless. Maybe you can add in the debug section an hard timer reset.

Update: after a lot of tests, imho, the problem is not cache related or mem related, is only a problem inner Infinitode. I use the phone cleaner+cc cleaner+Super Clenear cleaning and boosting all and nothing happened. The only way to bypass the problem is to use one of these to crash Infinitode so when it restart the timer is clean. , I h think Infinitode sometime not catch the end of an ads and stuck there.
I finish here to test, too time consuming, I hope next version will come fast and with a solution. TY and good work

I play on the latest Google Play on Android on a Samsung Galaxy S9 Note. I've reinstalled the game. This issue started for me probably in spring or summer of last year and I've used the fix of swiping the app closed and restarting it about 2 to 3 thousand times by now for sure. In the past month or two it's now getting worse. Multiple attempts to close and reopen along with every other idea I can think of or find hasn't done anything and I can no longer see a pattern to why the ads are available sometimes and some are not. Now they're also becoming unavailable in the same session without any interruption except for pausing the game for a few seconds. I say this because minimizing the game I think has possibly "broken" the "link" to the ads. I only care to use the Watch Ads, 25% bonus (when this fails after long runs or Splash farms I consider deleting the game...which is often now) and reducing the decryption timer. I should have complained before but with the workaround I was procrastinating. Now that that's not working I'd really like to find a fix. I prefer this game over so many others. It's very relaxing and helps to destress at the end of the day. :)

Unfortunately, I can confirm what has been described here. For me, the game always has the problem that advertisements are not displayed. This happens regardless of which of my Android devices I use (S10+ and TabS). Sometimes I recognise which advertisements it is trying to display, but the seconds do not count down. I have never had problems with other games that follow the same advertising principle. If you could see ads six times per game, but sometimes don't even make it, that's annoying. Restarting the programme and waiting for the first 20 seconds often helps, but not always and does not guarantee the next advertisements.

I am in and remain in a very similar boat. For me it only started with the Android update before last.

I mistakenly thought a conversation with the dev about it meant a fix had been applied their end but I was wrong (sorry!).

I've tried everything, can't get it to work so I am basically abandoning the thought of getting those bonuses and Lucky Shots. A real shame because I am at 496 ads, 4 away from the big bonus!

I'll move to playing on my laptop more I think, it's less depressing not being able to get the ads to work.

I am hugely frustrated and disappointed for me and dev- yes I like the bonuses but I like being able to contribute to the game's cost too.

Please make sure you are running version 1.8.6+
Report any issues in the comments

Recently installed for the first time. Thought ads buttons weren't implemented, because they never work. I'm on R.1.8.6 build 182, Android 12 on Pixel 6

Well looks like it is a big issue and, unfortunately, I'm unable to fix it (this issue is caused by 3rd party ad library).

Infinitode 2 uses AdMob to serve rewarding ads and it simply says that there are no ads to show.
I've contacted an AdMob team on this issue and had a call with one of their managers but it seems like they can't help us in any way.

Another solution is to use some other ad library but most / all of them tend to serve just awful or abusive ads. There's just no good solution for this issue.

I thought of implementing something like "get bonuses for ads without watching them for 1 month" thing for $3 just because ads simply refuse to work and I've already tired to search for a solution, but I understand that many players love ads because they are free and payments won't make any sense.
So, for now, just imagine there are no ads in this game if it does not work for you. I really don't know what to do in this case - some users see ads, others don't

Very, very low priority UI thing:

At 7 unique badge types earned, there is a gap in the profile (presumably to make space for a second row of badges) that doesn't exist with only 6 badges.

I'm guessing the "extra row" should actually appear upon collection of the 8th unique badge type.

Compare 6-badge vs 7-badge profiles

XP modfiers cannot trigger more than once a frame per miner they are attached to. This means at 1800+ mining speed, XP modifier will produce less XP than it should.
This issue did not exist in 1.8.6 and lower.

Bug, Impossible scores, Leaderboards, Modifiers

Get a miner with over 1800 total speed (preferably way higher than 1800), connect it to a tower with an XP modifier.
After that, either play the game frame-by-frame - tower will only get one XP modifier trigger worth of XP per frame, or leave the game running on any speed and then calculate how much XP should the tower have received using resources in the miner VS how much XP it actually got.

Since this issue did not exist on 1.8.6 and prior, and this value (900+ speed with double speed time) can be reached in normal mode (100% density Scalar, 3+ mining modifiers, level 5 miner, 10 overloads), it affects leaderboards.

I highly recommend the status of this ticket to be visible for unregistered users (had to register + login bc I wanted to report it as well). I reduced gameplay to dailies, already, bc stepping up the leaderboard is affected significantly.

When you hit the button to turn on bullets, sniper makes a giant white beam and lags the game a tiny bit. This only lasts for about 3 seconds.

Sniper (Tower)

Turn off bullets, kill a bunch of enemies, then turn on bullets.

During a single 6.3 game gauss has refused to rotate many times for seemingly no reason.

Example shown in this video:
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/590290050051342346/1012625544921239562/20220826_152954.mp4

Replay ID: R-QXEG-3NS3-KJJX64

Bug

See replay/video

Ive seen gauss shoot up to about 5 times before rotating

it looks to me like the rotation is only being allowed when the actually consumed resources for the upcoming shot meets the resource requirement exactly rather than going over

I've been testing this, and if your miners aren't empty its complete RNG when gauss turns.
I've seen it shoot up to 10 times in a row without turning (video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKI3vg_5UGU)

Taken random number of times for mine to rotate at times then other times it is fine.

I've noticed the more I level it the less likely it will move and if it has multiple Miners beside it I'm better off selling the Gauss and buying it again for it to move.

When marking a base for selling for prestige, the last value is not displayed if there are X abilities (depends on the scale) and the scroll is not yet available. In my example UI scale = 91%.

UX/UI/Visual

profile and pause button overlap

(only work if your account earned xp after ending lvl)
start game
play enough to get xp
quickly replay the level after disconnecting

forgot to include example image

The new 1.8.3 feature to display excess tower Xp for max leveled tower is instead showing the total XP of the tower. So after reaching level 20 in Normal, the player would initially expect to see +0 as the excess, but instead will immediately see +8900 (for Tesla as seen on the screenshot attached).

Level tower to 19 and observe it carefully as it gains just enough experience to reach level 20, noting the initial displayed "+" excess.

Entering the level editor while having a custom boss tile on the field twice or playing the level then entering the level editor will cause the game to freeze and require a restart

Crash

1-Put a custom boss tile
2-save the map
3-play it
4-enter the map editor
5-leave to main menu and try play the map again

Uhh so after messing around for sometime i realized that it only happens with certain levels like 1.4

Actually this is all wrong
It crashes due to having a tile WITH A TOWER ON IT IN THE MAP EDITOR
WHYYY

It is a known issue and you are right - it is related to the pre-built tower on a custom map. There's a small bug in the code - the tower "caches" the tile it was placed on and the tile "caches" the tower at the same time (so they both are aware of each other) but I've missed that second step for the map editor. It should fix itself once you re-load the map from the disk (by restarting the game). That's what Dev mode gives you - extra features, none of which are properly tested out

I can't say exactly why it is being played, maybe something with clicks, several in a row at the same time

Long-press selected items don't become de-selected after selling/using the entire stack outside of inventory, making it possible to sell or prestige them from inventory again. This doesn't have any effect of economy as both will not give any resources, but prestiging an empty stack does crash the game instantly.

Crash, Glitch, Items

1) Select an item via A hotkey, or long press&hold
2) Close inventory and go to Custom Maps if you selected tiles as your item, or other places for other items (research tree for resources, etc)
3) Sell/Spend all the items selected
4) Go to main menu and open inventory
5) Select any item. It will become long-press selected instantly
6) Deselect that item by pressing on it
7) Now that you have only 1 item selected, you can see it is the item you initially selcted and have already sold/used
8) If the item is a tile, prestige the stack to crash the game

The parameter Poison prolongation is written as a number per second, although it should be a percentage (as written in the wiki)

Freezing (Tower)

"Smooth music" option in the settings uses the description of another, removed feature - cached music.

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Very minor bug but if you use a research token for the dev mode research you will only have to confirm that you want to use the token, but you are not warned about the dev mode.

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Just complete all requirements you need to unlock teh dev mode research and then use a research token for this research.

the teleport incorrectly disposed.