Version 0.5.8 BETA
This update applies some fixes and balance changes.
Added
- Added defense stat to enemies
- Added new gamemode (Extreme Classic [VIP])
- Added new upgrade (Health [Train, Passenger])
- Added 2 new skins (Factions, Celcius [Medic])
- Added new weapon skin (Ballistic [Sniper])
- Added 2 new settings (Track Detail, Lighting Reflectance)
- Added tooltips to the settings menu
Fixes
- Fixed mobile and controllers not respecting the Zoom Sensitivity setting
- Fixed Cliffside’s collision
- Fixed Senior’s sector shock registering hits against objects that aren’t train parts
- Fixed Senior’s sector shock being able to target extra sectors
- Fixed the Deflector’s shield hitting Basebound smoke
- Fixed Basebound not properly applying with Cart Swap active
- Fixed being able to activate the gallery prompt with another menu open
- Fixed the late game theme being able to activate at the ending of a wave
- Fixed being unable to change the evening themes
- Fixed ads sometimes being unclickable(?)
General Changes
- Passengers will now attempt to evacuate from burning sectors
- Enemies are now more likely to target by Lowest when available
- Enemies will no longer prefire when targeting Passengers
- Increased Swat Van’s defense from 0% > 30%
- Decreased Swat Van’s base health from 1000 > 700
- Decreased Swat Van’s max health from 2000 > 1600
- Increased Toy Tank’s defense from 0% > 40%
- Decreased Toy Tank’s base health from 2000 > 1500
- Decreased Toy Tank’s max health from 4000 > 2500
- Increased Cart’s defense from 0% > 20%
- Increased APC’s defense from 0% > 40%
- Increased Taco Truck’s defense from 0% > 20%
- Increased Tron Van’s defense from 0% > 20%
- Increased Motorboat’s defense from 0% > 25%
- Decreased Motorboat’s max health from 1400 > 1000
- Increased Military Corvette’s defense from 0% > 50%
- Decreased Military Corvette’s base health from 2000 > 1500
- Decreased Military Corvette’s max health from 4000 > 2500
- Increased Technical Truck’s defense from 0% > 15%
- Increased Caravel Ship’s defense from 0% > 20%
- Increased Galleon’s defense from 0% > 50%
- Decreased Galleon’s base health from 2000 > 1500
- Decreased Galleon’s max health from 4000 > 2500
- Increased Icecream Bike’s defense from 0% > 20%
- Increased Coaster’s defense from 0% > 30%
- Increased Submarine’s defense from 0% > 50%
- Decreased Submarine’s base health from 2000 > 1500
- Decreased Submarine’s max health from 4000 > 2500
- Filled in Frozen North’s wave warning icons
- Updated Train Tacticians
- Updated Planks description
- Updated Ads
CREDITS
- @wiiwave, Care4Chloe - New Skins
- whimsicalducks999 - New Weapon Skin
- @ssails, @BriggeyBruh - Assets/Textures
NOTES
Apologies for being a little late with the next update, but we’ve been pretty busy working on the campaign update expected for later in August. When we have a date for that, it will be revealed in a teaser trailer. The next normal update for the game may be 3 weeks from now instead of 2, as this week I’m working on an update for Battleboards’ anniversary and after a normal update for RBLXWare.
Documentation
Enemy Defense
Enemies have been changed to support the defense attribute which was previously only used as a status effect for players. The mechanic works the same in that the player’s damage will be cut when attacking an enemy with defense which is indicated by a transparent gray bar layered over their healthbar.
A portion of defense was given to any vehicle with destroyable parts such as the Toy Tank which will now deplete the vehicle’s defense when destroyed. This change was made to serve as a better incentive to destroy the destructible parts. Other bulky vehicles that were designed to be better suited for Gunslingers such as the Swat Van and the APC were also given defense to better indicate this and to also hinder the vehicles being bruteforced with Psycho without increasing the overall health to a comically large amount.
The Borrowed Technology was also given the extra ability to deplete a vehicle’s defense. It’s not as fast as destroying a vehicle’s special parts, but I figured it’d make sense given that the weapon is meant to shred through vehicles.
Despite there being support for enemy passengers to also be given defense, none in the game were actually given any at this time. Since they lack any destroyable parts like certain vehicles have, there wasn’t really an ideal option for counterplay that was universal across all weapons which would make giving any a level of defense frustrating.
Vehicles in general that were given defense this update shouldn’t feel all too different as I did reduce the max health of many to try and keep their balance the same, but in the future I expect that certain enemies or bosses could make use of this mechanic in a more dynamic way as I see fit.
New Gamemode
New to VIP servers is the Extreme Classic gamemode, an alternate version of Classic that brings in it’s unique features such as unlimited respawns, mid-wave class switches, high enemy damage while retaining any modern features that were added in our version of Defend The Train such as sprinting, weapon unlocks, etc.
Passenger Train Changes
The Passenger train has been given some overdue changes that should make playing on it feel more fair. Stat-wise I thought the train was fine, but the passengers themselves weren’t the easiest thing to work with. The most important change made is that passengers will now attempt to evacuate burning sectors.
Once a sector is set on fire, all of the passengers on it will get up from their seats and walk towards an available seat. They will now only succumb to their fate if there are no seats available for them, which in most cases will only happen late into the game when the train is down to it’s last passenger cart.
Outside of this, a new train upgrade was added that will allow teams to increase the max health of passengers each wave. Enemies will also no longer prefire while arriving if they’re targeting passengers, as I realized this would mostly just result in unfair train damage.