https://koalasintraffic.github.io/spd/news/2023/09/10/truly-endless/


The last hotfix I made introduced bugs, so I’m releasing a new update with these fixes. The new wall tower should allow you to fix your maze despite the bosses’ abilities. And finally, endless mode is now almost truly endless!

For endless, your computer may experience performance issues due to having too many enemies in the game… Don’t forget to use items as they deal percent damage. Also, I added a beta global leaderboard system, several bug fixes, and balanced some of the towers.

Endless wave generation

• Endless waves technically stop once the potential score you can get reaches 2 billion, so not truly endless but it’s very hard to reach that point.
  
• Health and damage datatypes have been changed to handle values up to 1e300.
  
• Serfs are now significantly easier at high levels. Before, their health increased faster than the main waves. Now, it’s been changed to be calculated based on the main wave’s health.
  
• Points you can make: https://koalasintraffic.github.io/spd/scoring
  
• Money you can make: https://koalasintraffic.github.io/spd/money

Mazing

• Push backs and sucking from the Dragon and Final Boss have been changed for mazing only. Now they will deal 10 damage to towers (same amount of damage as the Kraken). This will make mazing a lot less random than before.
  
• Fixed bug where the Final Boss could swap the new wall tower.

Tower updates

• Max tower level has been increased to 100. This max level is the bottleneck for endless.
  
• Wall tower sell value has been changed so it gives the full refund.
  
• Beam tower can no longer be displaced or swapped to prevent making the tower useless. Beam visuals have been reduced for better visibility.
  
• Slow tower has been significantly nerfed. Slow starts at 6% and maxes at level 8 with a 48% movement reduction.
  
• Stun tower bonus damage to bosses is now x3 again. Bosses are just really hard…

Buff weapon

• Changed to heal for 10% of the tower’s max health instead of just 1 HP. This allows you to heal any tower to full with a single buff (12 second duration).

Leaderboards

• A global leaderboard has been added. Basically high scores from all levels are summed together. This will be re-calculated for players with save files pre-0.8 and whenever you get a new high score.
  
• Although not actually tracked on the leaderboards, the maximum waves reached is now a local stat. This can be viewed before starting a level.
  
• A cheat detection has been added in beta mode. Please contact me if you get this error message!!!

Miscellaneous changes

• Fixed bug where the stun trap would make the level up sound.
  
• Fixed bug where the slow tower would spawn a cannonball.
  
• Boss music now only plays at level 30, 60, 90, and etc instead of at every boss wave.
  
• The shuffle music button is now available at any time, and is placed at a more intuitive location in the options.
  
• Super serfs visuals now appear at level 100. Just a cosmetic thing.
  

https://koalasintraffic.github.io/spd/news/2023/09/05/endless-improvements-and-wall-tower/


Thanks to RAMBO’s feedback, I realized that an additional incentive to rushing waves was needed. Also, mazing levels were not well-designed for endless so I’ve added an indestructible wall tower that allows you to fix your maze with the drawback of consuming cash and building space.

I think these two changes really improve certain drawbacks of the game, so I’m releasing it now instead of during the next major update.

New wall tower for mazing

• At the cost of $3, a zero-damage wall tower can be built that cannot be moved or destroyed by enemies but still blocks enemy movement.
  
• This tower sells for $0 to make looping slightly less overpowered.
  
• Only available for mazing levels. Also, all mazing levels will have all towers unlocked for coding simplicity…

Rushing

• When I first made the game, the incentive of rushing was to get enough points for 5 stars. But this aspect is actually detrimental in endless mode.
  
• You will now get up to 200% more cash when rushing. This bonus cash is scaled depending on how much of the full 24 seconds is rushed. This means cash from waves will now range from x1 to x3.
  
• Now you actually get MORE cash if you rushed the full 24 seconds rather than if you waited for the waves to spawn. This bonus is surprisingly very balanced from my calculations, as it gives a reasonable percentage more than if not rushing.

Tower changes

• Max tower level is now 20. Max upgraded beam tower can now reach 4 million damage. With 8 buffs, it can deal a 1 billion damage! (And enemies can only have a maximum of 2 billion health)
  
• Beam damage per second has been nerfed from 1/6 to 1/10.
  
• Slow tower now has a limit of 80% on its slow (which can be reached at level 19). Also slow per level is now 4% instead of 5%.
  
• Stun tower bonus damage to bosses has been nerfed from x3 to x2.

Miscellaneous changes

• Bonus points UI now shows cash and bonus cash as well.
  
• Commas have been added to most numbers. This will make it easier to read text in endless mode.
  
• Fix bug where minion wave can exceed the maximum value of an integer and become invulnerable in endless mode.
  
• Max weapon count text has been fixed to be 8 instead of 7.