Update 1.2 Bug Fixes

Here’s just the surface level of all the hard work we’ve been plugging away. Out of our 1800+ commits, here is everything that may matter to all of you!

Bug Fixes

• Removed the south western Ogre spawn on the Promenade Challenge in Nightmare.
• Fixed an issue on the Creeping Core challenge where enemies would not attack the core, and just chase it around.
• Fixed various Chicken Challenge notifications.
• Fixed an issue with the Chicken Challenge playing multiple SFX.
• Fixed an issue where bushes on Ancient Mines were blocking tower placement.
• Fixed an issue with enemies getting stuck on stairs on The Summit.
• Fixed an issue with Deeper Well missing certain enemies for all waves in Survival Medium.
• Fixed an issue where if you’re dead while transitioning into Build Phase you would not get Build Phase mana.
• Fixed an issue where enemies were following incorrect paths on The Summit.
• Added collision to various parts of Endless Spires.
• Fixed an issue where only two players were teleported when killing Captain Dreadbones on the Skyward Assault challenge.
• Fixed an issue with Deeper Well, Ancient Mines, and Lava Mines missing build timers for Wave 1 on Nightmare.
• Fixed an issue where towers could not be built in bushes on Glitterhelm.
• Fixed an issue where enemies were not pathing properly on Glitterhelm.
• Fixed an issue where enemies were getting stuck on the southeast staircase on Alchemical Labs.
• Fixed an issue when a client joined a session and their costumes were not applied by default, resulting in them being reset when they left the session.
• Fixed an issue with clients unable to swap heroes in their inventory using F1-F4.
• Fixed an issue with Ensnare Aura improperly buffing at base levels.
• Fixed an issue where Enrage Aura showed going over 100% enrage chance in tooltips.
• Fixed an issue with enemies stunned in the Poison Gas Trap were not properly playing their cough animation after the initial stun.
• Fixed an issue with EV’s Shock Beam losing charges in the Tavern.
• Fixed an issue where Buff Beam was not buffing Enrage Aura.
• Fixed an issue where EV could not fire or interact after placing a defense immediately after activating her decoy ability.
• Fixed an issue where EV had several blank rows on her stat panel in the inventory.
• Fixed an issue where EV would have a crossbow visually appear at her feat.
• Fixed an issue with the Bowling Ball Tower’s balls ignoring gravity.
• Fixed an issue where enemies were not self-destructing while falling.
• Skeletons can no longer target cores.
• Reduced the spawn range of Skeletons.
• Fixed an issue where the Goblin Copter death explosion was not damaging players in Massacre.
• Fixed the VFX on the Siren to have her aura activate and fade away instead of instantly appearing.
• Fixed an issue with the Sharken incorrectly hitting a wall.
• Fixed an issue where the Sharken would push up enemies while charging.
• Adjusted the Sharken so that when pushing nodes FPS would not drop.
• Fixed an issue with the Grenade Launcher projectiles not having proper gravity applied to them.
• Optimized enemy, tower, and weapon VFX to increase performance.
• Fixed an issue where attack rate buffs on defenses were not ending properly.
• Adjusted the mana bar position so you can view lower percentages better.
• Fixed an issue where Inferno Trap was not scaling damage while buffed.
• Fixed an issue where Healing Aura removed Spider’s webbed effect.
• Fixed an issue with Buff Beams buff length’s stat in the Defense Tooltip increasing visually but not actually changing.
• Added gamepad controls list through the Escape Menu.
• Reduced the unnecessary calls of enemy actors and AI controllers to increase performance.
• Updated Reflect Beam to be representative of how many charges it has left instead of the previous 25x scalar applied to it.
• Fixed a typo in defense abilities for EV.
• Removed weapon collision from orcs, and instead they now use instant trace.
• Fixed an issue where Monk Boss Massacre weapons were not dropping with a guaranteed upgradeable projectile count.
• Fixed an issue where some Gemstones could not be upgraded to max.
• Fixed an issue with some pet buffs preventing towers from attacking.
• Fixed an issue where a Propeller cat could be upgraded more than intended.
• Fixed an issue where Goblincopters were spawning on Massacre Lava Mines Wave 1.
• Adjusted the Megachicken attack speed to function properly.
• Fixed an issue with the Megachicken’s melee/ranged attack ability not functioning properly.
• Fixed an issue where the Little Wizard’s projectile was very large on clients.
• Fixed an issue where you could not upgrade the enrage chance on the Paddleball pet.
• Adjusted how projectile rates to no longer be frame dependent.
• Fixed how projectiles fly through walls to increase performance.
• Fixed an issue where item tooltips could cause the game to crash.
• Fixed a crash that happened on transition.
• Fixed a crash that happened when attempting to join a game on a different version that yours.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when disconnecting from PlayFab.
• Fixed a crash when cleaning up damage numbers.
• Fixed a crash that was caused by nameplates.
• Fixed a crash caused by projectiles transitioning.
• Fixed a client crash that was caused by a host closing their game in a multiplayer session.
• Fixed a crash with various events that are handled one time.
• Fixed a crash that was caused by nativization issues.
• Fixed a crash from enemy AI trying to check various FOVs.
• Fixed an issue with tower bonuses that was causing a memory leak.
• Fixed an issue with directly joining players through your Steam friend’s list.
• Fixed an issue where Join/Invite Game still appeared improperly in the Steam friends list.
• Fixed multiple direct joining active session issues.
• Fixed an issue when joining via a friends list while a game was closed would leave you on the Main Menu.
• Fixed an issue where right clicking an item could place the context menu slightly off screen.
• Fixed an issue where the current bag filter could be visually deactivated.
• Fixed an issue on hero selection that left an empty dropdown box when right clicking.
• Fixed color setting issues with defense tooltips.
• Fixed an issue when pressing a defense hotkey different than the defense you were currently selecting could cancel out of build mode.
• Fixed an issue with the upgrade reticle swinging to the side when upgrading “Casting”.
• Fixed an issue where having a “/” in a multiplayer game name would cause session creation to fail and the game to infinitely load.
• Added bonus to elemental damage names.
• Updated the DPS calculations for Inferno Trap.
• Updated the DPS calculations for Slice N’ Dice Tower.
• Updated the DPS calculations for Deadly Striker Tower.
• Updated Hero Selection to now be a simplified Hero List.
• Fixed an issue with the Demon Lord getting stuck behind various objects.
• Fixed an issue with the Massacre Demon Lord firing projectiles at weird angles.
• Fixed an issue where after items are autocollected the last one will stay on screen until autocollect is triggered again.
• Adjusted the ability to hide defense tooltips and placing a tower on gamepad.
• Fixed an issue where opening the Change Hero menu from the Hero Deck while in the Inventory disables clicking any UI.
• Fixed an issue with Tower Range not scaling correctly on gamepad.
• Added a double confirmation and context bar for gamepad when applying settings.
• Fixed an issue where empty PC bindings were being displayed on the Option UI.
• Fixed an issue with gamepad Icons displaying incorrectly on the inventory for the various tab containers.
• Fixed issues with Gamepad navigation.
• Fixed an issue where item upgrade bindings were incorrect on gamepad.
• Fixed an issue where Escape wasn’t able to close the Options UI while gamepad was active.
• Fixed an issue in the inventory when using R to go from the left side to the right side opening the filter UI.
• Fixed an issue where the Cast Bar UI would free in First Person view.
• Fixed an issue when selecting the page indicator on the hero select screen and they would not change the page.
• Fixed an issue where the Cast Bar would show a failed state when building in the Tavern.
• Fixed an issue where the NPC dialogue prompt was not closing properly.
• Removed invisible meshes on Arcane Library to improve performance.
• Fixed multiple gamepad issues when interacting with the Gear Filter.
• Fixed issues when comparing items in the inventory.
• Fixed an issue where focus was removed when having chat opened while respawning.
• Fixed an issue where certain projectiles VFX were missing a deactivation.
• Fixed an issue with projectile impacts not working correctly.
• Fixed an issue where enemies died on clients but were still alive for the host.
• Gamepad tower rotation in build mode is now a hold instead of a press.
• Fixed an issue with gamepad focus not returning during various end game summary screens.
• Fixed an issue where changing difficulties with any map but Deeper Well selected would have multiple highlights.
• Fixed an issue when having one point in a stat not turning green.
• Removed decimal points on the displayed ipower of a hero.
• Fixed an issue where the keybinding display was shown backwards.
• Fixed an issue where hero ability names were not changing when changing your hero.
• Enabled Hero Deck Radial Wheel for LB on gamepad.
• Fixed additional hero creation issues with gamepad.
• Added additional gameplay settings.
• Fixed issues with FPS Limit randomly disappearing.
• Fixed a bug where clients did not see hero spawn animations when hosts swapped characters.
• Fixed an issue where the Squire’s upper body would T-Pose after attacking.
• Fixed an issue with the party bar not displaying correctly on the Session Browser.
• Fixed an issue with longer session names breaking spacing on the Session Browser.
• Fixed an issue where gamepad bindings when creating a session were getting overrode by Map Selection.
• Fixed an issue where hero select screens were not closing properly when Combat Phase started.
• Fixed an issue where filtering by name for weapons wasn’t pulling prefixes.
• Fixed an issue when loot was sold and the amount of gold gained was not truncated.
• Fixed an issue in the inventory that caused the selection indicator to go away.
• Fixed an issue with the code redeem not showing proper bindings.
• Updated the link on the News Bulletin.
• Fixed an issue with the Action Bar still having keyboard icons displayed for quick actions.
• Fixed an issue on Challenge map select where you could navigate to a UI behind it.
• Fixed an issue where spamming “Up” on gamepad during Map Selection removed focus from the screen.
• Fixed an issue with the Language box in the Options menu cutting off the top and bottom of its text.
• Fixed an issue where hero rename and delete actions were not able to be properly executed.
• Fixed an issue with weapons scaling improperly on the hero create UI while swapping between heroes.
• Removed the Inferno Trap hurt animations on affected enemies.
• Added the “Return to Tavern” option for solo players or hosts from the Escape Menu.
• Fixed an issue where achievements based on hero stats were not triggering properly.
• Fixed an issue with the “Defense is the Best Offense” achievement not triggering properly.
• Fixed an issue with the Build Suggestions URL when in any language that was not English.
• Fixed an issue with the sell/upgrade/repair icon not following the cursor while in topdown mode.
• Fixed a gamepad issue where a confirmation binding was missing when creating a hero.
• Fixed a gamepad issue where you could not select the hero name box.
• Fixed a gamepad issue that was not saving default hero names.
• Fixed a gamepad issue where the back bind (B) was shown, but the function was not displayed.
• Fixed an issue when prompting users which version of their profile to use where dates would overlap.
• Fixed an issue where torches were the wrong color on certain maps.
• Added collision on a rock in Ancient Mine.
• Fixed an issue with Reflect Field’s beam displaying improperly while affected by Hero Boost.
• Fixed an issue when binding keys that would lock the keybind.
• Fixed an issue on the Main Menu where input actions were being ignored.
• Fixed an issue where focus was not returned to the Main Menu after confirming a save.
• Added gamepad support allowing navigation to Difficulty and Hardcore selectors.
• Fixed an issue with gamepad having bindings on the Main Menu.
• Updated the Shadow skins for all heroes to show their edges a bit better.
• Added an Aura HP Drain to tooltips.
• Fixed an issue with the initial create hero screen missing default weapons.
• Updated the Golden Corgi description to better match Phil’s company title.
• Updated Tavern Keeper to have a new dialogue tree.
• Updated the Tavern crystal outline color to match other crystals.
• Nativized projectile overlaps to increase performance.
• Reduced blueprint overhead on damage numbers to increase performance.
• Nativized towers attack rate performance to increase performance.
• Added additional sockets for animation purposes to the Siren.
• Added additional sockets for animation purposes to Captain Dreadbones.
• Updated the pause menu to use list entries instead of buttons.
• Disabled post-processing in the Hero Details Scene to increase performance.
• Made it so DPS calculations round to two decimal places.
• Updated the Summit’s Vortex VFX.
• Fixed a performance issue with the Kobold’s SFX.
   

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