Update 1.8.8

List of changes:

• Fixed 25 bugs

• Added new experimental features:

  • "Multithreaded rendering" may help increasing FPS in a projectile-heavy scenarios

  • Graphics scale can be used to reduce the load on your GPU

  • Clean detailed mode adds transparency to the projectiles and particles so you can see the map through them

• Rendering performance improvements

• (Android) Added new rewarding ads provider (in attempt to fix an old issue)

• Skill points can be exchanged for a "Skilled" badge in your profile. Skill points are obtained through the Daily quests

• Seasonal leaderboard now shows top 200 players and their pinned badges

• Player profile pages should load much faster now

• (modding / dev mode) UPS is no longer capped to 2s of in-game time

• (modding / dev mode) Enemy textures are now stored in the EnemySystem and can be changed by scripts

• (modding / dev mode) SideMenu containers can now be accessed through the SideMenu's fields, some fields became public

• Level 6.3 Fix: sometimes towers did not switch from the boss to a regular enemies (for example, Minigun targeting First)

• Removed performance survey (results are available in our blog)

• Level 6.5

• New tiles: Equalizer, Quad - do not drop as a regular loot but may be obtained as a rewards / used in modding

• (modding / dev mode) Developer console history and various improvements

• Buff tile can now act as a final global multiplier for some effect, already used on level 6.5

• (modding / dev mode) Lua now correctly handles byte[] and does not convert it to/from String

• (modding / dev mode) New drawable type: Quad (taken from Infinitode 3, editor not included)

• Reduced memory usage, the game should now be more stable

• Added music player button into the Pause menu

• Better formatting for Buff tile effects

• Base tile menu now also shows level effects obtained from Wave quests

• Various performance and memory usage improvements

Important for Android users: minimum Android version is now 5.0 (SDK 21, which is already 8 years old) - Google and many other library providers no longer support the older versions of Android OS.

Important for iOS users: iOS backend has a limited support for audio devices, Equalizer tiles won't be visible on this OS, sorry.

I hope you'll enjoy this update!