Tower of Time v1.4.3.11839 - финальная версия игры

Chinese added:

We are very happy to announce that as of now we also support Chinese language - both Traditional and Simplified.

We hope Chinese players can now enjoy the game fully.

We have also fixed a minor issue where items could sometimes disappear when they were picked up while in Crafting or Item Forge screen and Player switched to a different character at exactly the same moment.

Balancing Hotfix:

Based on the feedback we have received recently, after previous Patch with crafting changes, we have rebalanced the game in an attempt to make it equally challenging as before.

Changes were made to health scaling and defense stats of the enemies on higher difficulties, as well as selective changes to their damage and abilities, for certain enemies.

We hope it will make the game challenging again on hard and epic difficulty. Please be so kind and let us know.

We have also fixed some of the issues with Turkish language not displaying properly in certain UI elements.

Hotfix 2:

Fixed achievement "I Don't Need Many"
Fixed issue with Tinhead spinning like crazy sometimes
Fixed Taunt - it now interrupts drains
Fixed issue with golem fight on intro level
Fixed toggling heroes using a shortcut

Greatly improved UI performance in both exploration and city
Fixed issue where a player was shown that his enchant was unlocked while it was not
Fixed issue where enchants weren't selectable if first level of an enchant was not attained
Fixed issue where unit statistics panel's language didn't update when changing the language
Fixed issue where text quality of item tier and the "1H/2H" indication was not clear

Fixed minor translation issues and added missing translations
Improved performance on levels 9-11 of the Tower
Fixed magic penetration calculation on enemies without resistance

Improved game stability
Slightly improved performance by changing cascaded shadows distribution
Fixed issue with certain environmental 3D SFX sometimes loading incorrectly in 2D.
Improved Training Dummy battlemap and added 2 Defense Towers to Training Dummies 80%, 100%, 120% and 150% resistances and higher (so you can check you AOE dps as well).

Readjustment of hard and epic difficulty, since we got feedback that the game is too easy now - after we the changes to crafting (where you can craft a very selected gear) and some enemy scaling modification.

It again should be hard as nail on epic. Please let us know if it is. Thanks.


Hotfix 1

Technical:

0 dps score is not sent to leaderboards (to confirm: Score and DPS Race is only measured in RPGlite and Permadeath game modes).
Fixed crash when migrating broken save file (when this occured, game started with black screen only).
Fixed invalid score value after lost battle.
Leaving battle in Permadeath is equal to losing it. (Yes, sorry :)
Fixed issue with not selectable enchant with higher tier when lower tier is not unlocked.
Fixed enchant tier icon not updated when selected category without any valid enchant group.
Retreat/Restart battle buttons disabled in Permadeath.
Fixed (very rare) issue with teleporting party to a wrong location after unlocking Aeric.

Graphic:

Decreased particle count on both Intro levels and 1st Floor (we overdid with the fog here and there).
Small graphic adjustments on two Battlegrounds.
Added new Permadeath skull icon, when champion dies in combat and cannot re-enter the tower.
Small adjustment to the lightning for few skills, so they look more epic.

UI changes:

Added slider for heroes voices volume in settings, so you can turn them off completely.
Added confirmation popup for links in menu which redirect to external browser (Discord and Leaderboard links).
(Permadeath) Dead units can be selected in inventory window - so you can take their items and give to other champions.
Added score change info to combat summary window - in the format SCORE XXX (+/- YYY). It shows your current score (XXX) and your score for the last battle (+/- YYY). You get positive points for the first three battles on each level and then small negative value for each next battle. Objective is to reach the end of the game with as little grind as possible.


NEW GAME MODES:

RPGlite and Permadeath game modes

This mode has the following features:
You start in the city.
All 7 champions are available in the beginning.
Blacksmith (Tier I gear), Transmute and Enchanting is enabled.
All class buildings are upgraded to the max, so you can level up whatever champions you wish, providing you have the resources.
First 4 floors of the Tower are immediately unlocked, so you can move down whenever you are ready. Remaining parts are unlocked when you descend through the stairs at the end of the given floor.
You can skip Dialogues and temporarily unlock doors and remove barriers, that usually require doing a quest (via the means of “skip content lever”.
Party alignment is changed to Party Boost and depends on the level of the champion.
Some starting resources, so you can customize your starting party a bit.
Save games are now in separate categories: Normal, RPGlite, Permadeath.

--- PERMADEATH mode ---
Permadeath mode is for those truly wishing to test themselves. When your champion die in battle, he/she cannot re-enter the tower (unless you resurrect him in combat) and you continue with remaining party.
New difficulty setting for Permadeath - Blood - which is the only one available for this mode. It starts relatively easy, so you get the resources to build up your party and then ramps up to half way between Hard and Epic.
Game ends when you loose all your champions OR when you reach the end of floor 11 with at least a single one.

If you played ToT before and descended to 2nd level, this mode should unlock automatically. If you are a new player - you need to kill end level 1 boss (and get familiar with game mechanics in the process).

So now you will be able to pick Whisper and Kaela as the starting party and build them as pure glass cannons or Boron and Rakhem that will rush into the swarms of enemies to cleave them, laughing all the way.

We are happy to release another update with few quality of life features requested by you and few important fixed. We are also adding Polish to the list of supported languages.

Other languages update
We are entering testing phase for Russian language now. We should be ready to release it within next two weeks. We are also working on Turkish, French, Simplified Chinese, Spanish and Japanese – although here we cannot give you time estimate yet.

Graphics improvements
We made some significant changes to few areas, adding a lot of “depth”. We also have continued to optimize the graphics, reducing the load in few places indicated by the players

Quality of life features
New Map with Points of Interests
We have changed the maps - they are now rotated towards camera view, can be zoomed in / out and also contain all points of interests that count towards progress. It will make hunting for this “last chest” much easier now.

Fast mode in combat
You can now accelerate time in combat to 3x normal speed - for those who want to resolve the combat quickly.

Pre-battle screen information
Information about number of enemies - indicated by the number of skulls from 1-4. It should be now easier to prepare for encounters.

Mana Orbs fights
When the last mana orb is destroyed, it does not end the fight abruptly anymore. Instead, it does explode and releases highly toxic gas that is damaging your champions. You can continue to fight and eliminate last remaining enemies, if only few remained.

Portal and Tower Icons - we have reworked them a bit, so they present information in more transparent way.
Added animations when your champions are idle - not the most important feature, but it adds some life to your party when you are exploring.

Combat balance
This time we made only very small changes - mostly to few boss fights. It seems we are done with balancing phase for hard and epic now - with your support we managed to create a game which should remain challenging until the very end. Cheers!

If we continue to work on the difficulty it would be to add another level - one step above epic or add a mode when you can have maximum three champions in your party.

We have also reduced a bit RNG for loot and crafting. Sometimes you could get a very powerful (2% chance) or very weak item (8% chance), which was either temporarily game breaking or truly annoying - we removed those outliers now.

Fixes
Fixed key in water sector on level 4 - where sometimes it disappeared after going to the city and returning from it. If you go to this place - it will be waiting there.
Fixed fountain on floor 6 giving 10% mana - instead of +10 mana.

Hello. We just released a small hotfix:

We have reduced overall difficulty on epic for mid and end game - reversed most of the changes from yesterday's patch. We kept new new boss mechanics (that make the fights more fun since they were just shoot and forget) and higher rewards for hard and epic.

We did not want to break anyone's gameplay-in-progress. We still believe adding possibility to craft rings and jewelry and the change to dusty scrolls made the game easier on early levels. We will introduce a higher level of difficulty in the next patch that would be accessible only from New Game.


Fixed rare issue that some unique items did not show correct upgrade in item tooltips (they were working fine in combat)


Fixed a missing enchant reward in one of the Military Construct challenges. If you did this fight yesterday and did not receive the enchant, please Report Issue and we will send you back fixed save game.

Dear Players,

Another big update that implements few quality of life features and corrects bugs based on your feedback.

German Language
We have added German language option. It should automatically detect your operating system language, if not - you can switch it from Settings. Many thanks to all players that helped us with some missing texts and did overall language proofing. If you spot anything amiss, please be so kind and let us know.

Other Languages Update
We should be ready with Polish language within few days. Russian language is at about 80% done and should be released in 2-3 weeks’ time. We are also working on Turkish, French, Chinese Simplified, Spanish and Japanese – although here we cannot give you time estimate yet.

Quality of life changes
Reworked dusty scroll mechanics. Now they always show the effect of the scroll. They are split into Lesser and Greater scrolls. Lesser Scroll grants a small positive effect while Greater Scroll grants a powerful positive effect but also a small negative one.



Added auto-cast option for buffs. New checkbox is added to the skill button.



New battle unit tooltip with more information.



Added health and mana regeneration stats to hero portraits.



Combat loot is now scaling with difficulty. If there is a unique item as a reward, it has slightly better stats on hard (+) and epic (++). Gold amount is slightly increased and additional crafting crystal can be looted.



Added crafting for Jewelry (from Blacksmith level 1) and Pistols (from Blacksmith level 3).
Unique items have one item forge slot so their life should now be longer.
Each resistance on Armor is now shown separately.
Daze and Stun effects are now shown on champion’s portrait.
When battle starts, first champion is always selected.
Reflect damage icon is changed.
Buff graphical effects are now toned down, so the visibility of the effects (if there are many) is improved.
Added subtle animated environment elements (e.g. moving machines or swaying chandeliers).
Improved graphics on few floors (e.g. intro floor).
Four new battlemaps added.

Bug Fixes
Few English typos were fixed. It should be now 100% correct.
100% Completion is always possible now – even .
Fixed buff timers sometimes duplicating.
Fixed hero stats sometimes not updating in inventory.
Fixed Main Damage getting replaced with Additional Damage after Item Forge (it caused problems when using Sunpower enchant).
Fixed Khan battle – now killing portal first and boss after does not result in a long waiting time before the battle is concluded.
Fixed some enemy summons which had 1 Health.
Towers and Portals now highlight properly when skill casting.
Fixed auto-save icon now showing all the time.
Elemental Barrage does not block movement now before projectiles hit the targets.

The nasty chest on floor 5 at fountain can now be accessed.
Kelsier’s Unique items now work properly and do stack armor reduction.
Fixed chest on floor 5 (near the fountain) that was difficult to pick up.
Fixed enchant names.
Combat balancing

With the help of few players we made tons of small and bigger changes. Most notably – due to reward scaling and received feedback – we increased overall difficulty on hard and epic. It would be impossible to list every single change we made (over 1000), so here is a recap of the most important ones:

Fixed: Push and Pull skill effects no longer break the channel skills. One problem with difficulty was that lots of mid- and end- game enemies use channel skills that were not a big threat due to pull/push.
Thorns Enchant – it was too powerful early especially when Armor was added in Item Forge. We did a lot of testing and rebalanced it to make it still very good early game and scaling well into late game. Also radius of Thorns has been increased from 3m to 4m so you are not forced to micromanage so much.
Boss fights were rebalanced – lots of them got new (sometimes unique) skills.
Rakhem’s skills: Acid Splash increased poison damage. Blinding Flash increased air damage.
Boron’s Cleave increased cleave damage at all levels, to 100% at maximum level.

Few combats rebalanced – number of enemies changed, portal timers adjusted, trap positions adjusted.

New Features
New steam cards, backgrounds, emoticons and badges.

Minimap. You can turn it off and on with 'N' or by pressing compass icon.

Buff icons in combat that show the remaining time of the buff above skill tab.

Pre-battle movement - initial positioning is very important when it comes to threat. Now you can move the champions within limited area.

New enchanting icons. Not the most important update - but they look nicer now.

When your champions are immobilized, there is an icon on character portrait (similar to when they are trapped).
Hotkey "T" to change champion stances betwen Stand Ground and Move and Attack.
Two new high-end practise dummies that simulate end-game bosses.
Added achievements for epic - win 5 battles on epic for each floor.


Gameplay fixes and changes
Issue with low cinematic sound on some configurations should be fixed now.
100% Progress fixed - mostly The battles that count towards progress are show on the map.

(if it happens that you don't see all progress bars, please enter this level and exit it.)
Graphic improvements to both introduction levels.
Journals necessary for quests are now more visible.

Bestiary not showing up sometimes has been fixed.
Bestiary now opens on the current tower floor.

Frogs jumps up and down in merriment. Consider this if you want to The most critical update that will help us to get more attention.
Lots of typos and syntax errors corrected (we are getting there).
Lots of new SFX added in exploration and combat.
Aura skills - visual upgrade.
Item Forge - health regeneration upgrade - increased from 0.3 to 0.5/
Some Unique Items (especially from Challenges) are upgraded - so they can be a competitive option for Item Forged Green items.

Combat

We spent a lot of time on improving combat and balancing the game based on tons of feedback and lots of end-game parties. Some of the "crazy" builds took us by surprise :)

Most importantly is a set of changes to animations, pathing and enemy behaviour that should make everything much more responsive.

Also, we did some rebalancing - especially to champion's skills and mid-game floors (5-7) that were too easy.

Magic Penetration decreased slightly on higher end items.
Armor Penetration - increased across all weapons / tiers.
Physical-based party should be again viable on Hard and Epic.

Fights on the first floor have an easier learning curve now. You don’t have too many options yet to customize your party and you made a valid point. If you find some of them too easy now - please adjust your difficulty as needed. Level 2 is unchanged.

There are close to 300 individual changes made, so I will list only the most important ones below.

Mech companion has been buffed somewhat. He has a speed aura and can temporarily stun enemies around him. He remains the team mascot, but at least he does some confusion on the battlefield now. That is a small compensation that he just charges at closest portal without asking anyone.

Skills
Kane:
Stone wall - mana cost reduced to flat 20 for each level, duration set at flat 16 seconds at each level [with max cd reduction the uptime on the wall is now 80%]

Maeve:
Arrow Barrage - damage per arrow increased, at max level from 50 to 70
Bear Traps - bleeding damage increased, at max level from 10 to 15 dmg per second.
Rain of Arrows - damage per arrow increased, at max level from 40 to 48

Aeric:
Earth Fury - damage per stone increased, at max level from 100 to 140. B2 poison damage increased, at max level from 9 to 12.

Rakhem:
The new theme at Event Horizon is "Love Thy Dwarf"
Rakhem - Base Health increased from 160 to 180. Health per level increased from 18 to 20.
Inner Fire - an upgrade for both B1 (tanking path) and significant upgrade for B2 (damage path) - so there is a more clear risk/reward for different playstyles.
Path of Flames - increased length at all levels, B2 extended burning duration
Blinding Flash - B2 now deals Air damage too.

Boron:
Health per level increased from 20 to 22.
Cleave - reduced cleave% by 10% for each level
Axe Throw - increased damage per axe. For B2 - reduced weakness to 30% at each level

Whisper:
Thunder Injection - reduced elemental weakness slightly at each level, at max level from 18% to 12% (dual wielding was too strong at higher levels / it still applies 2x debuff for dual wield)
Elemental Barrage - no of base projectiles 5 to 4, Damage per projectile base - slight reduction. For B2 - increased Void dmg component - so B1 and B2 are now competitive. Overall - at max level the effective damage of this skill is reduced by approximately 20%. It is still very overpowered.
Magic Tower -- B1 now deals splash damage of Base damage at the same speed

Kaela:

We made few interesing changes to Kaela as she was too difficult to master yet too overpowered when did so.
Electric Cage - B1 - damage per second increase at all levels, at max from 20 to 24 Air dmg per second. B2 - Weakness reduced across all levels - at max level from 60% to 40% (it is a very long duration skill and it was too easy to stack with other skills for 100% weakness).
Summon Mech - variable duration increased from 20-40 to 20-60 seconds. Number of mechs increased. At max level she can now create up to 12 mechs. (insane, yes - but it is so fun skill)
Elemental Grenade name changed to Void Grenade. Explosion radius reduced from 5m to 4m. At B1 - resistance reduction decreased, at max level from 100% to 80%
Tesla Cannon - as it is high risk / reward skill (requiring positioning), its damage output has been increased significantly. With B2 boost, at max level damage increased from 400 to 600
Titan - a massive boost to everything. Now this is truly an ultimate ability.

Balancing
Added new type of skill - magic reflect (similar to physical reflect) - some enemies on floors 5-7 received this upgrade, tired of being shredded by Whisper's Elemental Barrage.
Shade - was too easy, Voidspawns now should be more than a nuisance (new skills added)
Titan Boss - major overhaul - he is no longer just a target dummy
Floors 5-7 - enemies and combat encounters rebalanced as they were too easy. That includes their statistics, damage output and skills. Now there should no longer be such a difficulty spike between 7 and 8 - as you will need to take care of your party always.
Both Exo-ME 10 and Exo-RA560 bosses - rebalanced to offer better challenge.
Warleader - throws 2 axes and now and the skill description is clear for axes and his leap. He should be much easier to deal with now.
Tower Avatar - health increased
Francisco Pizzaro - his skills are more dangerous now
Ferdinan Magellan - combat overhauled to make it more challenging
Irradiated Elemental Lord - he wasn't enough irradiating - now he should be. (he is an optional boss, so yes, he should be very fun now)
Void Horror - he wasn't enough horrifying - now he should be.

Technical
Crashes at start some experienced
We couldn’t reproduce them but there seems to be a pattern between our compression codecs and players’ codecs. We did two things here - we added a timeout if video doesn’t play at all (that should not cause game to crash) and we rendered all cinematics again. We do hope it will solve the problem - if not - please let us know and we will try another solution with next week patch
Performance should improve in several areas pointed out as problematic
High GPU/CPU usage - if you are experiencing those, please try vsync option on and off. If that doesn’t help - please be so kind and Report Issue so we can nail this problem.
Fixed Tutorial Tips scaling on 21:9 and higher ratios.
(we also are looking into increasing text size for those of you that play on large screens - that would take a little longer)
Fixed issue with black screen appearing sometimes when movie is skipped
 
 
Gameplay
Selected unit will not move at all even if in aggressive stance mode. You can keep them all in healing totem range. Just deselect champion(s) again (or press “A”) to let him run towards enemies.
Fixed issues with item upgrades that had values clamp to integer value
Fixed teleporter problem ( teleports no longer block themselves after returning to city while teleportation was in progress )
Floor 1 -- Fixed rare issue with Magic Barrier and Devron
Floor 5 - Fixed issue with closed door / pinpad and Mech that was preventing access
 
 
Combat
 
We didn’t touch the champions yet, even if some builds are obviously steamrolling things on hard and even epic. Great creativity!
 
The only change was to the cost of Elemental Barrage - it was capped at 60 mana for level 3, 4, 5 of the skill. Now it is 60 mana for L3, 70 mana for L4 and 80 mana for L5.
 
Reaper Guard, Floor 1 - can be blinded again (stops drain life channel)
Two fights, Floor 2 - in Library and end level portals - decreased difficulty
Sewer fight, Floor 3 - decreased difficulty
Air Elemental Boss - changed fight mechanics, increased difficulty
Screamers - blind grenade duration reduced from 4 to 3 seconds
 
 
Item Forge
(edit)
 
There is a change to mana and health regeneration change per upgrade.
We had rounding error before.
Mana - 1 upgrade granted 1 mana regen point - now it grants 0.1
(as was always intended).
 
Health - 1 upgrade granted 1 health point - now it grants 0.5
(as was always intended).

Fixes
Fixed sound glitches when videos are starting to play
Removed anti-aliasing so the game is now more crisp
(we will add the option to turn on/off AA in the next patch)
Fixed "fountains of 000" when using certain unique items
Updated icons of the buildings in the city
Fixed bug with enemies sometimes disappearing when retreating from battle
Fixed bug with enemies spawning in the wrong direction in few battles
Fixed some saving issues (if you encounter them, please report via in-game tool as they are very difficult to spot)
Fixed Magic Source quest - when Devron wouldn't talk to you even if you had spoken with both sisters.

Tower of Time is now different look and feel.

Finally, we are happy to release a major patch with a complete overhaul of graphics, among other things. The game is more atmospheric and realistic right now. The update is quite large: 1.2 GB

We also made several changes to UI, introduced new character stats (as critical damage and movement speed), added lots of new SFX and added new graphics options in Settings (required for our new look & feel)

Story: we also made significant changes to intro levels (for now) - all characters got their own biographies and we are in the process of re-writing the dialogues so it fits them. This will prepare a ground for new big thing we are working on - Party Alignment.

Important

When you play for the first time - please adjust your graphic settings such as brightness, saturation and contrast - so the game looks good on your monitor. Our new approach to graphics requires a one-time individual adjustment (for the best experience).

Patch details
New graphic look & feel
New UI for Character Screen and Inventory
New stats for characters and items
Gold treasures are now visible as separate objects
Added 1H or 2H indicator to weapons
Important items are visibly marked with light or effect
Added lots of new SFX or fixed existing ones
Fixed some enchantments
Introduction levels - updates to the story

We posted few screenshots below, showing some of the changes.

Thank you for playing Tower of Time. We appreciate your feedback and reviews.

We are happy to release the second patch. Again, we followed the feedback received and tried to implement as much as possible:

The major change is to intro level(s) – we made both of them shorter yet more intense - added new gameplay, new boss encounter and unique items. There is also an interactive battle tutorial – explaining the basics of Tower of Time combat, as requested by many players.

We also added an ability to reset attributes for a modest cost. It is accessible from Character Screen.

The detailed patch notes follow:

Technical:

• Fixed the bug when you throw a stone into the well on Level 1 – now you can check how deep it is.
• Game should no longer camera-freeze at random moments.
• Game should no longer crash after long time (memory leak).
• Fixed issue when reward panels or info panels would appear with delay.
• Lots of minor bugfixes.
• Fixed issue with wand targeting.
• Fixed issue with Sunpowered enchant on fast attacking dual wands.
• Fixed issue with brightness (changing colors suddenly).
• Added Cinematics Volume option in Settings

Gameplay:

• Ability to reset attributes and re-spec, for a modest cost.
• Interactive battle tutorial – first combat encounter in Prologue level.
• Changed items to make them more distinct between the types.
• Added Magic Penetration as new stat for Staff-weapons (reducing elemental resistance).
• Made small changes to some skills – mostly concerning graphic effects and type of the element (e.g. Blademaster Wall is now Water, not Fire).
• Few new UI elements (tooltips).
• Many typos / syntax changes.
• Extended information about enemies and champions in battle.
• Added lots of SFXs in combat, fixing some of SFXs that were 2D instead of 3D
• Fixed Blind Rage skill, you can no longer steer Blademaster when you activate it, he runs around by himself
• Changed visual effect of Focus Stones
• New model for Earthcaller skill ability (summon) – it is more visible now when it shoots and when it dies
• Lots of small graphic fixes, as reported by players.