Version 0.5.2 BETA (Anniversary Update)
This update celebrates the anniversary of the game and pushes a handful of changes & fixes.
Added
- Added 4 new weapons (Classic Assault Rifle [Gunslinger, Primary] (Classic), Classic Heal Gun [Medic, Primary] (Classic), Classic Shotgun [Psycho, Primary] (Classic), Classic Pistol [Secondary] (Classic))
- Added new style (Blazers [Sky Voyagers])
- Added new weapon skin (Titan [Mag-Fed Shotgun])
- Added new setting (Locked Camera Position)
- Added wave display to the break room
Fixes
- Fixed playercount difficulty not updating on Rapid
- Fixed Weapon Firing setting not being visible on mobile
- Fixed Scapegoat being able to bypass EXP bans through replacing it
- Fixed the Dead Man’s Gambit being able to earn criticals from leaving players regardless of state
- Fixed the Military Corvette not being immune to Acid, Gas, and Fire
- Fixed dead lobby seats being able to be warped onto the train
- Fixed dead lobby clipping with the background of a few tracks
- Fixed dead players not respawning after loadout change
- Fixed wave warning UI not properly displaying if players respawn before the intermission is unpaused
- Fixed inventory slots not having coloured subtext
- Fixed sale tag appearing on owned weapons in the shop if Show Owned Items was enabled
General Changes
- Enabled Anniversary badge
- Set limited-time shop items on-sale
- Updated default bullet tracer
- Special objects are now highlighted by the Enemy Radar
- Senior’s harpoon highlight is now tied to the Enemy Radar
- Spawnpoints on Limited Respawns is now only set to the latest sector
- Increased the Gunslinger’s Leverage’s reload speed upgrade price from 200 > 400
- Increased the Gunslinger’s Leverage’s ammo reserve upgrade price from 200 > 300
- Increased the Gunslinger’s Leverage’s fire rate upgrade price from 200 > 400
- Further reduced Senior’s health on Rapid
- Reduced Dinghy’s max health from 900 > 550
- Reduced Dinghy passenger’s max health from 350 > 250
- Reduced Dinghy passenger’s base damage from 3 > 2
- Reduced Dinghy passenger’s max damage from 10 > 6
- Reduced Forklift driver’s max health from 450 > 250
- Reduced Motorboat’s turret max health from 300 > 200
- Reduced Motorboat’s harpoon max health from 350 > 200
- Reduced Technical’s turret max health from 300 > 225
- Reduced Technical’s max vehicle health from 800 > 500
- Reduced Technical’s driver max health from 500 > 350
- Reduced Technical’s passenger base health from 100 > 75
- Reduced Technical’s passenger max health from 400 > 250
- Reduced Transport Helicopter’s passenger’s base health from 100 > 40
- Reduced Transport Helicopter’s passenger’s max health from 400 > 175
- Reduced Transport Helicopter’s vehicle base health from 600 > 500
- Reduced Transport Helicopter’s vehicle max health from 1500 > 1000
- Increased Military Corvette’s base health from 1200 > 2000
- Reduced Demon Red’s max damage from 20 > 8
- Increased Demon Red’s speed from 8s > 4s
- Increased Demon Blue’s speed from 10s > 6s
- Increased Demon Yellow’s fire rate from 5s > 2.75s
- Increased Demon Yellow’s speed from 12s > 5s
- Fully upgraded weapons will now display with a gold icon in the inventory
- The Game Over theme may now be changed in the Custom Music menu
- Owned special items will now display in the shop if Show Owned Items is turned on
- Updated Classic
- Updated Sacred Ocean
- Updated Naval Harbour spawns
- Updated Sky Voyagers
- Updated Aerial Ace
- Updated Gallery
CREDITS
- @Maid_Commander - New Skin
- whimsicalducks999, @doshcollector - New Weapon Skin
- @exwumm - Particles
NOTES
Today is Defend The Train’s third anniversary! To celebrate, the Anniversary style for the Default skins will be awarded upon joining the game up until tomorrow evening. All of the limited-time shop items have gone back on-sale during this time as well!
Documentation
This update notably includes a major overhaul to the Classic gamemode. Previously, this gamemode attempted to emulate the original 2011 version of Defend The Train by gombob, though this better resembled the very first Alpha build of our own version.
Many mechanics from the original game were still not carried over, so in turn the gamemode ended up being a worse version of Standard that sucked the fun out of the game. The gamemode has now been overhauled to include many more mechanics from the original game. These changes include:
Classic Weapon Stats
Our versions of the stock weapons are now replaced with a Classic variant exclusive to this gamemode. For the most part they’re the same, though there are a few stat differences from the 2011 version to our version. The differences include:
- The Classic Assault Rifle features a much smaller clip size, slower fire rate, but much higher damage.
- The Classic Shotgun is pretty much the same as ours though has two extra shots.
- The Classic Pistol has a slightly slower firing speed but has an extra shot.
While these variants of course have balancing issues, they’re more faithful to how they were in the 2011 version of Defend The Train. Once again, these are exclusive to the Classic gamemode, but are available at the Shooting Range and in Armoury Circuit’s rotation as well.
Faithful Class Upgrade Menu
The standard weapon upgrades menu has been taken out and replaced by an exclusive class upgrade menu! In the original Defend The Train, classes as a whole were actually able to be upgraded rather than being able to individually buy upgrades for each weapon. This is now true in the updated Classic mode.
Upon purchasing a class upgrade, the class’ weapon stats will increase by a margin with each of the upgrade prices drastically increasing in price. They each go up to five ticks and are not able to be refunded.
No Player Deaths
That’s right, player deaths are outright removed in this gamemode! You can die as many times as you’d like, there is absolutely no punishment for doing so! In the original Defend The Train, the only game over condition was if the train blew up. With respawns being freely available, classes can be changed mid-wave and if you’d like you’re also able to change your equipped items.
Increased Enemy Damage & Health
Enemies did pack a bit more of a bunch in the original Defend The Train, so I’ve given a notable amount of bonus damage to enemies and increased the starting vehicle & enemy health. This by extension also does help games go by faster so this gamemode does not overstay it’s welcome.
Progress Report
What’s next?
While I wasn’t able to complete the Arcade game feature for this update, I figure I may as well explain what’s that about here as I do still wish to add this soon! The aarcade games are a planned addition to the break room that are mainly intended to be time killing highscore based minigames that can be played while waiting to respawn.
The characters featured in this concept art are three of the planned stars for these minigames! Our current minigame idea names are The Chef, Whacky Whacka, and Captain Superwings. In canon, these characters are meant to be contained within these minigames as the arcade games themselves are nothing more than a literal arcade game in the DTT world.
The Chef or Whacky Whacka is likely to be the first game, but more minigame additions will happen overtime as we come up with them. There is not to be any prizes for playing these nor will highscores be published onto a leaderboard as I don’t want to incentivize playing these over the game itself. They’re meant to be timewasters you can play while waiting and nothing more!
The next big addition that’s on our roadmap is the Campaign mode. I won’t fully detail what that’s about in this post again, but I’m looking to have that completed in the near future.