Good news everyone! I'm happy to announce the MASTERY EXPANSION for Core Defense is just around the corner, with an open beta weekend starting on March 5th. On March 19th the DLC will be released at a $4.99 price point with a 10% launch discount.

Open Beta Weekend

From March 5th you can first get your hands on the Mastery Expansion DLC for the whole weekend for free by right-clicking Core Defense in your Steam library, choosing "Properties", then "Betas" and finally selecting the beta branch. I'm planning to kick off the beta weekend with a dev stream where I'll be playing the the expansion and answer all your questions: March 5th 8pm CET @ https://www.twitch.tv/ehmprah

Mastery Progression

The eponymous feature of the DLC is the Mastery Progression: you will gain experience for every game of Core Defense you play. With every level up, you will gain a mastery point, which you can spend in mastery pages unlocking bonuses like the following:

• Wave Preview: See which mobs will spawn in the next wave
• Angry Mobs: Enrage mobs for an extra bonus reward
• Corner Core: Moves the core into the bottom left corner
  

And of course more walls, various stat bonuses, better wall stacks, better roll chances, you name it! You can create multiple mastery pages for different setups and then choose one of these pages when starting a game.

Supercharge

With the DLC, you can toggle SUPERCHARGE mode when starting games to activate one additional difficulty modifier chosen at random from the following options:

• Shootout: Only shooting mobs are spawned.
• Friendly Fire: Your units will hit each other.
• Rocketeer: Only Rockets are spawned.
• Speedy: Mobs are weaker but faster.
• Bossy: Every wave is a boss wave.
• Disabled: No ability rewards.
• Fragile: Don't let a single mob escape.
• Duality: Two spawners, two cores.
• Chaos: Random spawner locations.
  

Daily Challenge

With the expansion, Core Defense will finally get a DAILY CHALLENGE, which will have a fixed seed, difficulty and supercharge modifier and an online leaderboard so you can prove your skill on the global stage.

Once you've submitted a daily run, you'll get access to the leaderboard, including the infographics of other player's runs so you can check out what other players are doing to defend their cores. As opposed to most new features from the DLC, the daily challenge will be freely available to everyone!

Wait there's more yet!

• Five more difficulty levels: Overload 21-25
• After beating Overload 25, you can freely choose your primary color
• Five new achievements
• New BERSERKER tower: Loses health on attack but has insane scaling
• New KAMIKAZE mob: Flying mob which ignores walls and goes straight for towers or the core
• New POWDER KEG mob: deals AOE damage upon death
• Lots of bugfixes, quality of life changes and balancing
  

I can't wait for y'all to get your hands on it!

And thank you for your support! Without you, this whole expansion wouldn't be happening!

Cheers,

ehmprah

[ 2021-02-26 12:07:54 CET ] [Original Post]