The next version is here! Version 0.6 includes New Defenses & Axons, reconnect support for Co-op, new Co-op maps, more Qol, a bunch of balance updates, fixes, and more. Check out the 0.6 Overview for the fancy nutshell; full notes are below!

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New Defenses

New MegaCorp Tower: Discharge Blaster

Uses a battery to overcharge its attacks. Starts at a low cooldown, but the cooldown increases by 0.05 for every attack, until it hits the upper cap.
After 3 seconds of not attacking, the cooldown is reduced by 0.1 per second, until it hits the attack speed cap.

Stats:

• Cost: 100

• Range: 2

• Damage: 18

• AoE: 1.5

• Attack speed: 2.5 to 0.42

Upgrades:

• Upgrade 1: Stuns all Axons hit for .25 seconds.

• Upgrade 2: While it is attacking and has battery charge left, increase adjacent Towers’ attack speed by 15%.

• Upgrade 3: Damage is doubled, no longer has an AoE. Now prioritizes support units.

• Global Upgrade: The battery recharges twice as fast.

New Vex Industries Tower: Axon Factory

Spawns a radioactive Replicant that paths from the placement location to the nearest spawn point. Explodes upon collision with an Axon and leaves a pool of radioactive waste on the ground dealing damage per second through Armor & Shields. Pool lasts for 4 seconds.
Spawned units have a lifespan of 10 seconds, then they self-detonate.

Stats:

• Cost: 100

• Range: N/A

• Damage: 125 + 8 area damage per second

• AoE: 1.5 + 1

• Cooldown: 15

Upgrades:

• Upgrade 1: Instead spawns 2 Boosters over 3 seconds before it goes on cooldown.

• Upgrade 2: Radioactive pool lasts longer but deals less damage, and applies a 20% Damage Amp on passing Axons for 3 seconds.

• Upgrade 3: Spawns in a phased out Booster that passes through Axons until it expires, slowing them by 20% for 2 seconds.

• Global Upgrade: Every 15 seconds, EMP an Axon adjacent to the factory for 4 seconds.

New Astrosys Labs Tower: Duplicator

Transforms into a Tower that can deal damage, dealing 160% of the original tower’s damage.
Once a Tower has been copied, it cannot be copied again for 60 seconds. Transformation lasts 12 seconds.

Stats:

• Cost: 100

• Range: 5x5

• Damage: N/A

• AoE: N/A

• Cooldown: 20

Upgrades:

• Upgrade 1: Transformation lasts 3 seconds longer.

• Upgrade 2: Increases range of the transformed Tower by 0.5. Does not work with area towers.

• Upgrade 3: Transformed Towers costing 75 Credits or less instead deal 225% damage.

• Global Upgrade: Casting an Overload on a Duplicator Tower casts the same Overload again on the same Tower 10 seconds later for free.

New New Frontier Mine: Catapult Mine

Directional Mine. Throws an Axon on the mine 3 tiles in the aimed direction. If it collides with a tower, the Axons are stunned for 0.5 seconds. If they’re thrown towards an empty tile and have less than 10% HP, they fall off the map and are destroyed. Otherwise Axons are slowed by 40% for 3 seconds after landing.
Cannot throw Colossus, Juggernaut, Vanguard, Marauder or Architect.

Stats:

• Cost: 75

• Range: 3

• Damage: N/A

• AoE: N/A

• Cooldown: 20

Upgrades:

• Upgrade 1: Increases throwing distance by 1.

• Upgrade 2: Deals 40 damage in a 1.5 AoE around where the thrown Axon lands.

• Upgrade 3: Temporarily removes Armor and Shields from thrown Axons. Duration of 10 seconds.

• Global Upgrade: Mini-stuns Axons passing under a thrown Axon for 0.2 seconds.

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New Axons

New Axon: Skipper

Ignores Mines and Traps.

• HP: 100

• Move speed: 1.2

New Axon: Reverser

Starts at the exit and leaks at the entrance. Every 10 seconds, it phases forward, healing all the damage it has taken in the last 3 seconds. If it passes any other Axon, that Axon gets a 100% speed boost for 3 seconds.

• HP: 170

• Move speed: 1.8

New Axon: Architect

Every 15 tiles traveled, the Architect stops where it's at and adds a new temporary tile to the grid for 8 seconds.

• HP: 250

• Move speed: 1.2

New Axon: Marauder

Every 10 seconds, the Marauder goes debuff immune for 4 seconds and gets a 100% move speed boost.

• HP: 240

• Move speed: 1.2

New Axon Boss: Creator

Every 10 seconds, it spawns 6 Axons depending on its current stage.

• Stage 1: Berserker Mk II

• Stage 2: Booster Mk II

• Stage 3: Replicator Mk II

• Stage 4: Armored Infector Mk II

• Stage 5: Shielded Teleporters Mk II

• Stage 6: Marauder Mk II

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General

• Axon TD now supports Steam Rich Presence, displaying your in-game Status in the Steam community.

• Drag-selecting Defenses no longer include Defenses that are unable to target.

• You can now set a targeting priority while having multiple Defenses selected.

• Added the ability to select all Defenses that can target by pressing 'H'.

• Added a Contextual Warning message for when you first encounter Architects and Hover Jets/Carriers. This is to warn newer players about their abilities.

• Adjusted Tutorial mission 3 to include a mention of Recycles and their new functionality of being able to remove Obstacles.

• Adjusted attacking towers to say "attack speed" instead of cooldown.

• In Campaign, you can now rewatch unlocked cutscenes in your Journal.

• EMP is now indicated by a magenta-colored bar on top of the HP bar.

• Axons that are debuff immune now have a distorted HP bar indicator.

Co-op

• A new Co-op Survival Map has been added called Big Platforms, based on the Platform map from singleplayer Survival, but without checkpoints.

• New 2-player map: Across.

• New 3-player map: Freehold.

• New 4-player map: Roundabout.

• Co-op solo is now played offline.

• Co-op sessions can now be restarted from in-game after passing a vote.

• You can now resume a Co-op game from a checkpoint as long as you don't lose from the Co-op menu.

• You can no longer pick up more than one Tower, Upgrade or Tech in one wave in solo Co-op.

Survival

• Added 6 new end waves to the wave 30+ list featuring the new Axons.

• Blank Canvas
  -- Reduced the HP multiplier for waves 30+.
  -- Slightly increased the HP multiplier for waves 80+.

• Platform
  -- Reduced the 30+ waves HP scaling.
  -- Reduced the amount of tiles on the map.

• Each Survival map now has a rotation of 3 Bosses after wave 30 instead of being random. However, the wave 120 Boss will always be either the Goliath or Creator.

  • Blank Canvas
    – Revenant → Guardian → Iron Centipede → repeat | Final Boss is Goliath.

  • Islands
    – Guardian → Iron Centipede → Goliath → repeat | Final Boss is Creator.

  • Platform
    – Creator → Revenant → Goliath → repeat | Final Boss is Goliath.

  • Divider
    – Goliath → Revenant → Creator → repeat | Final Boss is Goliath.

  • Big Platform
    – Revenant → Guardian → Iron Centipede → repeat | Final Boss is Creator.

• Added descriptions to the Survival maps in the Survival and Lobby menus.

Map Editor

• Added a tutorial video for the Map Editor.

• Added tooltips to most of the value boxes.

• Added the ability to press Tab to cycle through value boxes.

• Made various UI adjustments, most notably in the Axon and Tech selection screens.

• You can now simulate the player count when testing your map.

Visuals

• New death visual

• Updated Reaper Tower attack visuals

• Updated Seeker Drone Tower attack visuals

• Updated Orbital Cannon Tower attack visuals

• Updated Plasma Cannon U2 & U3 attack visuals

• Added a Debuff Immunity visual for Purger & Lifter

• Various tweaks to backgrounds

Fixes

• Fixed Bosses giving almost no additional score.

• Fixed an issue where Command Link wasn't buffing the range of Electron Launcher.

• Fixed a visual issue where the Command Link "link" would remain after selling a Tower connected to it.

• Fixed an issue where Mass Driver was hitting twice on every shot.

• Fixed an issue where the Temporal Mine Global Upgrade was triggering multiple times per activation.

• Fixed an issue where Siphon Cannons couldn't target Axons with Seeker Drones attached to them.

• Fixed an issue where the Colossus frontal shield was blocking multiple effects that it wasn't supposed to be blocking.

• Fixed an issue with Hover Jet pathing.

• Fixed an issue where the "Place a Tower on a Blocker to gain Credits" Tech was causing your Blocker count to go negative.

• Fixed an issue where the UI cost display didn't update on wave reset with the Mega Expansionist Survival Upgrade.

• Fixed an issue causing you to stay connected to Co-op lobbies you had left.

• Fixed an issue in Survival where you could get stuck with only 7 Defenses in your loadout.

• Fixed some Techs accidentally being removed from the Survival Tech pool.

• Fixed Blockers having a target priority setting.

• Fixed an issue where some parts of the descriptions got cut off in the tooltips.

• Fixed an issue where the UI got cut off at higher resolutions.

• Fixed being able to click a spawn point through UI elements.

• Fixed various issues with Co-op lobbies.

• Fixed various tooltip errors.

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Balance

• Added Architect and Lifter to the Smart Targeting support priority list.

• Smart targeting has been updated for single-target towers to more reliably target down high priority support units.

• Defenses on Default targeting will now prioritize Bosses that are close to leaking.

• Drilling Laser now also prioritizes support units.

Axons

• Carrier base HP reduced from 160 to 150.

• Lifter adjusted:
  -- Now Lifts an Axon for 10 seconds then drops it. Cooldown of 3 seconds.
  -- Lifters can no longer Lift Medivacs.

• Mass Teleporter:
  -- Now has a max cap of 15 Axons it can teleport at once.
  -- Cooldown increased from 10s to 12s.

Defenses

Artillery

• U3 adjusted
  -- Power cost increased from 25 to 30.
  -- Damage reduced from 15 to 13.
  -- Cooldown reduced from 2 to 1.5.

Blast Cannon

• U2 Power cost increased from 25 to 30, and slow reduced from 40% to 35%.

Cryo Beam

• Slow per stack reduced from 20% to 15%.

Drilling Laser

• Range increased from 2.5 to 3.

Electron Launcher

• Damage increased by 1 for the base tower and all upgrades.

Energy Saw

• Base damage increased from 5 to 6.

Frag Hammer

• U3 damage reduced from 65 to 50.

• Stun duration reduced from .8s to .7s at base, U3 from .4s to .3s.

Gravity Trap

• Passive slow now automatically applies to all upgrades.

• Passive slow reduced from 25% to 20%.

• U1 stun reduced from 2.5s to 2s.

• Global Upgrade replaced:
  -- Old: Increases passive slow rate to 30% and the passive slow applies to all upgrades.
  -- New: Increases passive slow rate to 25% and slow linger duration to 2 seconds.

Mass Driver

• Base damage increased from 60 to 65.

Missile Launcher

• Base damage increased from 18 to 22.

• U1 damage increased from 13 to 16.

• U2 stun duration increased from .5s to .7s.

Nuclear

• Repair debuff increased from 35% to 50%.

• Base damage increased from 5 to 6.

• U1 cap increased from 12 to 15.

• U3 Power cost increased from 35 to 40.

• U3 damage increased from 50 over 10s to 64 over 8s.

Orbital Cannon

• U2 damage increased from 36 to 38.

Plasmathrower

• Now resets its remaining salvo count when not firing continuously.

Plasma Cannon

• U2 EMP duration increased from 4s to 6s.

• U3 Amp increased from 25% to 30%.

Portable Generator

• Base cost reduced from 40 to 30.

• Credit cost now increases by 2 for each Portable Generator you build, with a cap of 50.

• U2 Power Cost increased from 30 to 35.

• Global Upgrade damage bonus reduced from 25% to 20%.

Radiation Vent

• Global Upgrade amp per debuff type increased from 3% to 4%.

Siphon Cannon

• Global Upgrade replaced:
  -- Old: Increases the range of the Siphon Field by 0.5.
  -- New: Increases the damage of adjacent Defenses by 15% for 4s when firing.

Temporal Mine

• Credit cost increased from 50 to 75.

• Upgrade costs increased from 25 to 30 for all upgrades.

• Global Upgrade damage increased from 75 to 90.

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Overloads

• Compound Rounds has been reworked:
  -- Is now called Shredder.
  -- Removes Armor and Shields from Axons in an AoE of 3 around it for 10 seconds.
  -- The Shredder Overload Tech increases the duration of this debuff by 5 seconds.

• Nuke damage reduced from 50 + 10% to 75 + 6%.

• Amplify base Amp reduced from 50% to 40%.

Techs

• Power On Leak Power bonus increased from 10 to 15 in Quickplay and Co-op.

• Wave End ADD now has a minimum wave of 10 and gives an ADD every 3 waves instead of every 2 in Survival.
  -- Getting this one early pretty much ensured you were good with ADDs for the rest of the game.

• +1 ADDs if you don't pick an ADD from the end of wave reward now has a minimum wave of 20.
  -- Combined with the Tech above, this resulted in an insane abundance of ADDs.

• Interest per wave reduced from 15% to 10% in Survival.
  -- Another source of free income that was too easy to just get every wave and fed into itself.

• Global Credit Cost reduction reduced from 10% to 8% in Survival.

• Global Power Cost reduction reduced from 10% to 8% in Survival.
  -- These techs stack up too much in late game Survival.

• The Nuke Overload Tech has been adjusted to instead give +1 AoE.
  -- The high HP damage in an AoE scaled disproportionally well in late game Survival.

• The Amplify Overload Tech Amp bonus reduced from 25% to 20%.
  -- This has a very high value in late game Survival.

• +5% Damage for all Defenses for the next 5 waves now has a minimum wave of 10 in Survival.

• Deployment Aura no longer deactivates from selling.

• Big Spender reworked:
  -- Old: +1 ADD when spending 100 Credits or more in one wave. Can only trigger once per wave.
  -- New: +1 ADD at the start of the wave when spending 150 Credits or more without selling.

• Lone Tower replaced:
  -- Old: +1 ADD when placing a Tower with no adjacent Defenses. Selling deactivates this Tech for the duration of the wave.
  -- New: Renamed to Hard Materials: +1 ADD when Recycling an Obstacle.

• Sweeper reworked:
  -- Old: +1 Recycle when placing a Defense within 3 range of the exit. Selling deactivates this Tech for the duration of the wave.
  -- New: +1 Recycle if you place down a damage dealing Tower within 3 range of the exit during the wave.

• Buy Low, Sell High reworked:
  -- Old: +10 Credits when selling a Defense costing 50 Credits or less.
  -- New: +30 Credits when selling 3 or more Defenses in one wave.

• Power Build reworked:
  -- Old: +3 Power per adjacent empty tile when placing down your first Defense in a wave.
  -- New: -8 Upgrade cost for the first Defense you build this wave. Selling deactivates this Tech for the duration of this wave.

Survival Upgrades

• "Mega Kill" reworked:
  -- Now gives a constant 10% damage bonus to all MegaCorp Defenses that cost 50 Credits or less.

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As usual, with a major update that adjusts balance, Leaderboards have been wiped. Experiment at will with the new Defenses, and look forward to more updates as we near our Official Release!