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61 updates recorded since December 15th, 2022.


(July 19th, 2025) | Bug Fixes: Beta 5.1.4

  • Fixed maxed upgrade look
  • Fixed waves sometimes doesn't skip
  • Fixed sometimes unable to place towers
  • Corrected 4-2 Heavy Gunner cooldown
  • Updated upgrade information
  • Fixed Forest Map
  • Fixed Coder discount
  • Fixed playerlist related bugs

(July 4th, 2025) | Easy Mode Rebalance: Beta 5.1.3

  • Easy Mode Rebalance
    • Significantly increased wave bonuses
      • More than x2 than the old wave bonuses!
    • Greatly reduced wave timers
      • Most waves timers are 50% shorter!
    • Slightly less hidden enemies
      • Waves 21, 23, 27, 29, 30, 34, and 35 were changed.
    • Improved tix rewards
      • Winning will now increase tix rewards by 20%.
  • Other Changes
    • Improved Lobby
    • Improved Lobby UI
    • Fixed Toy Board Map

(May 5th, 2025) | New Maps & Balance Changes: Beta 5.1.2

  • 3 New Maps
    • Toy Board Remake (Easy)
    • Naples Remake (Easy)
    • Death Path Remake (Insane)
  • Wizard Balance Changes
    • 0-0: Buff
      • Damage: 6 -> 8
      • DPS: 5.83 -> 7.77
    • 1-0: Buff
      • Damage: 7 -> 10
      • DPS: 6.80 -> 9.71
    • 4-0: Buff
      • Damage: 44 -> 50
      • DPS: 91.67 -> 102.46
    • 0-2: Buff
      • Price: $800 -> $550
    • 0-3: Buff
      • Damage: 15 -> 17
      • Max Targets/Hits: 3 -> 4
      • DPS: 15.03 -> 16.34
      • Max DPS: 44.44 -> 60.78
    • 0-4: Buff
      • Damage: 22 -> 24
      • Max Targets/Hits: 5 -> 8
      • DPS: 38.15 -> 47.06
      • Max DPS: 101.73 -> 172.55
  • Heavy Gunner Balance Changes
    • 3-0: Rebalance
      • Gains hidden detection!
      • Cooldown: 0.11s -> 0.12s
      • Damage: 14 -> 12
      • DPS: 127.27 -> 100
    • 4-0: Nerf
      • Splash Radius: 3 -> 2
    • 0-4: Buff
      • Damage: 28 -> 30
      • DPS: 350 -> 375
  • Mortar Balance Changes
    • 1-0: Buff
      • Price: $325 -> $300
    • 4-0: Nerf
      • Projectile Speed: 30 -> 28
      • Cooldown: 6.5s -> 6.8s
      • DPS: 76.92 -> 73.53
    • 0-4: Buff
      • Damage: 100 -> 120
      • DPS: 33.33 -> 40
      • Max DPS: 100 -> 120
  • Swordsman Balance Changes
    • 0-3: Buff
      • Price: $2,700 -> $2,500
      • Damage: 21 -> 26
      • DPS: 24.14 -> 29.89
    • 0-4: Buff
      • Damage: 38 -> 44
      • DPS: 43.68 -> 54.02
  • Coder Balance Changes
    • 0-0: Buff
      • Price: $500 -> $350
    • 1-0: Buff
      • Price: $600 -> $300
    • 2-0: Buff
      • Price: $1,400 -> $1,000
    • 3-0: Buff
      • Price: $4,000 -> $2,500
    • 4-0: Buff
      • Income: $3,225 -> $3,525
      • Income Per Second: 53.33 -> 58.75
    • 0-1: Buff
      • Price: $200 -> $100
    • 0-3: Buff
      • Income: $275 -> $300
      • Income Per Second: 16.18 -> 17.65
    • 0-4: Buff
      • Income: $575 -> $775
      • Income Per Second: 38.33 -> 51.67
  • Paintballer Balance Changes
    • 3-0: Buff
      • Damage: 11 -> 18
      • DPS: 10 -> 16.36
    • 4-0: Nerf
      • Damage: 23 -> 30
      • DPS: 28.75 -> 37.5
      • Ability: Revealing Paint
      • Effect duration: ∞ -> 20s
    • 0-4: Buff
      • Passive Ability: Sticky Paint
      • Slows enemy by 30% -> 40%. (Only affects non-boss enemies)
  • Barracks Balance Changes
    • 3-0: Nerf
      • Price: $3,700 -> $3,850
      • Officer (LVL 3): 3 every 60s
      • Range: 20 -> 18
      • Reload Time: 1s -> 1.2s
    • 4-0: Buff
      • Laser Gunner (LVL 0): 1 every 75s
  • Sharpshooter Balance Changes
    • 3-0: Buff
      • Ignores Resistances (previously 4-0)
  • Bug Fixes
    • Fixed Daily Reward Streak
    • Fixed Explosion Visual
    • Fixed Wizard
    • Fixed Paintballer
    • Fixed targeting related bugs
    • Burst towers now use the correct DPS equation

(January 22nd, 2025) | Wizard Tower: Beta 5.1.1

  • Wizard Tower, 10th Tower
    • Top Path: Reduces Defense
    • Bottom Path: Chain Lightning Attacks
  • New Modifier
    • Exploding Mayhem: Every enemy is now explosive.
  • Quality of Life Features
    • Removed bevels on towers/units/enemies.
    • Dialogue for Easy Mode Buffed Waves.
    • New Barracks Unit Design
    • Passive Ability Information
    • Stats displayed correctly with Impaired modifier.
    • Added Poison particles to 4-x Swordsman.
    • Support for multiple abilities for a tower.
    • Improved some maps.
  • 80+ Bug Fixes
    • Specifically fixed game breaking exploits!
  • Balance Changes
  • New Codes
    • 1MVISITS - 500 XP
    • 3KLIKES - 300 Tix

(November 27th, 2024) | Two Upgrade Paths & Barracks Tower: Beta 5.1

  • 2 Upgrade Paths on all towers.
    • 4 upgrades on each path. 4 upgrades on one path and 2 on the other.
  • Barracks Tower, 9th tower.
    • 7 units.
  • 4 New Maps
    • Valley (Medium)
    • Dust (Hard)
    • Tea Terrors (Hard)
    • Winter Battlefield (Hard)
  • 6 Remade Maps
    • Castle (Medium)
    • Plains (Medium)
    • Winter (Medium)
    • Pyramid (Hard)
    • DynaBlocks (Insane)
    • Robloxia Home (Insane)
  • Tower Abilities
    • Recruit (at X-3 and X-4)
    • Sharpshooter (at X-4)
    • Coder's Passive (at X-3 and X-4)
  • New Modifier
    • Buffed Waves: The selected mode is now much harder.
  • New Music
    • 4 tracks for the new lobby made by @heroicdestroyos
  • New Codes
    • BARRACKS - 200 Tix
    • DUALPATHS - 400 XP
    • BETA5.1 - 100 Tix
  • New Lobby
  • New UI
  • New Game System
  • 10 New Achievements
  • Daily Login Rewards
  • 18 QoL Features
  • 100+ Bug Fixes

(July 27th, 2024) | Beta 5.0.25

  • Datastore related fixes
  • Updated player list in lobby
  • 2 new codes
    • 400KVISITS
    • 3KFAVS
  • Expired some old codes

(July 6th, 2024) | Beta 5.0.24

  • Lots of bug fixes
  • 4 new codes
    • 100KVISITS
    • 2KFAVS
    • 1KLIKES
    • 200KVISITS
  • Expired some old codes

(June 30th, 2024) | Beta 5.0.23

  • Lots of bug fixes
  • Fixed Coder floating
  • Updated credits
  • Custom upgrade background now saves

(June 29th, 2024) | Beta 5.0.22

  • Fixed elevator related bugs
  • 2 new codes
    • 50KVISITS
    • 500LIKES

(June 28th, 2024) | Beta 5.0.21

  • Mega servers locked to levels 3+, instead of 10+
  • 2 new codes
    • MECONFUSD
    • EXPLOSION

(May 17th, 2024) | Beta 5.0.20

  • Fixed placement bugs

(April 28th, 2024) | Beta 5.0.19

  • Fixed placement bugs
  • Added snow particles to Winter map

(April 26th, 2024) | Beta 5.0.18

  • Boss HP Bars
  • Nerfed Hazmat Infected
    • Speed: 2.25 -> 2
    • Shield: 250 -> 0
    • HP: 2000 -> 2250
  • Fixed map tracker
  • Added path lengths to missing maps
  • Added chat tags

(April 22nd, 2024) | Beta 5.0.17

  • Suicide Infected renamed to Explosive Infected
  • Nerfed Explosive Infected
    • Explosion radius: 10 -> 7
  • Nerfed Shielded Rebel
    • Shield: 30 -> 15
    • Speed with no shield: 3.5 -> 3
  • Fixed Lake map
  • Lobby no longer winter themed
  • New code
    • 30KVISITS

(April 14th, 2024) | Beta 5.0.16

  • Fixed Patient Zero's attacks

(April 2nd, 2024) | Beta 5.0.15

  • Fixed tower PFPs for Heavy Gunner

(February 16th, 2024) | Beta 5.0.14

  • Buffed Pizzeria map

(February 15th, 2024) | Beta 5.0.13

  • Fixed Speedrunner/Elite Speedrunner badges/achievements

(February 12th, 2024) | Beta 5.0.12

  • Added Patient Zero death animation

(February 7th, 2024) | Beta 5.0.11

  • Removed x2 Tix/XP event (from Beta 5.0)

(February 7th, 2024) | Beta 5.0.10

  • Bug fixes

(February 6th, 2024) | Beta 5.0.9

  • Fixed a placement bug

(February 6th, 2024) | Beta 5.0.8

  • 5th tower slot (unlocked at Level 20)

(February 6th, 2024) | Beta 5.0.7

  • Nerfed Hazmat Infected
    • Speed: 2.75 -> 2.25
    • Defense: 25% -> 10%

(February 6th, 2024) | Beta 5.0.6

  • DynaBlocks is now Hard difficulty
  • Swordsman buffed
  • Paintballer buffed

(February 4th, 2024) | Beta 5.0.5

  • Nerfed waves 25 and 26
  • Nerfed Infected Recruit and Infected Child
  • Buffed Bomber
  • Buffed Swordsman
  • Buffed Paintballer

(February 4th, 2024) | Beta 5.0.4

  • 2 new maps
    • Meltdown
    • Apocalyptic Seas
  • 3 new achievements

(February 3rd, 2024) | Beta 5.0.3

  • Nerfed Heavy Gunner

(February 2nd, 2024) | Beta 5.0.2

  • Nerfed Easy Mode's later waves
  • 5 new achievements
  • Buffed Bomber
  • Buffed Heavy Gunner
  • Balanced Paintballer
  • Bug fixes

(February 2nd, 2024) | Beta 5.0.1

  • Balance changes
  • Fixed 1 million starter tix bug

(February 1st, 2024) | Beta 5.0

  • First official mode: Easy Mode (35 Waves)
    • Removed legacy mode
  • 16 new enemies
  • New tower, Mortar
  • 11 new maps
  • Reworked all towers
  • Realistic range
  • New name tags
  • Improved UI
  • Dialogue
  • Mega server maps
  • Achievements
  • New badges
  • Music
  • 2 new modifiers
  • Improved map tracker
  • New icons
  • 5 new codes
  • Bug fixes

(October 23rd, 2023) | Beta 4.7

  • New Tower, Paintballer!
  • 4 New Maps
    • Graveyard (Easy)
    • Oasis (Medium)
    • Forest (Hard)
    • DynaBlocks (Insane)
  • Improved UI
  • 2 New Codes
    • 20KVISITS (200 XP)
    • PAINTBALL (250 Tix)
  • Quick is slightly slower
  • Buffed Wave 25
  • Balanced Towers
  • Bug Fixes

(October 3rd, 2023) | Beta 4.6

  • 2 New Waves (up to wave 25)
  • Nerfed a few waves
  • Improved UI
  • Updated Lobby
  • Balanced Towers
  • Bug Fixes

(October 1st, 2023) | Beta 4.5

  • Bug Fixes
  • All insane maps start at 150HP
  • Increased Wave Cash for TvZ

(September 30th, 2023) | Beta 4.4

  • New Enemy System
  • 5 New Maps
  • Updated Current Maps
  • Veto Maps/Modifiers during Voting
  • New Icons
  • Map Tracker
  • New Codes
  • Improved UI

(July 23rd, 2023) | Beta 4.3

  • New Name Tag, Content Creator
  • Updated all name tags
  • Updated UI
  • Bug Fixes

(July 22nd, 2023) | Beta 4.2

  • Updated Lobby
  • Fixed Audio in Lobby
  • 3 New Codes

(July 11th, 2023) | Beta 4.1

  • 2 New Maps
    • Sky Isles
    • Railway
  • Nerfed Wave 19
  • Improved UI
  • Increase time in Voting
  • Updated Lobby
  • Bug Fixes

(July 10th, 2023) | Beta 4.0

  • New Tower, Coder!
  • 7 New Maps
  • 2 New Modifiers
  • New Badges
  • Weighted Voting
  • Improved UI
  • Rebalanced Towers
  • Bug Fixes

(June 2nd, 2023) | Beta 3.9.1

  • Fixed Audio
  • Improve Tower Placement System
  • Bug Fixes

(May 31st, 2023) | Beta 3.9

  • New Name Tag Particles!
  • New Lobby Music
  • Voting Music
  • Bug Fixes

(May 22nd, 2023) | Beta 3.8.1

  • Level Leaderboard in Lobby
  • Reworked Splash damage
  • Rebalanced Bomber

(May 21st, 2023) | Beta 3.8

  • Name Tags
  • XP is less grindy
  • Tower Rebalancing
  • Improved UI
  • Improved Wave Timer
  • Smooth tower placement
  • Upgrade range preview
  • Wave skipping
  • Dual lane maps
  • Fixed player animations
  • New Map, Pyramid
  • Tower placement hotkeys
  • Skip voting
  • More XP during weekends
  • All towers now have 5 upgrades
  • Code system
  • Fixed Bomber
  • Bug fixes

(May 8th, 2023) | Beta 3.7

  • New Modifier, One Life
  • Balanced modifier earnings
  • New modifier icons
  • Decreased cash earned from waves
  • Bug fixes

(May 7th, 2023) | Beta 3.6

  • Nerfed Evolution modifier
  • Increased cash earned from waves
  • Rebalanced towers
  • Added Wave 23
  • Bug fixes

(May 6th, 2023) | Beta 3.5.1

  • Fixed enemies having a delayed turn with Sped Up modifier
  • Fixed instantly losing the game when an enemy reaches your base
  • Fixed tix rewards
  • Fixed splash towers
  • Fixed tix leaderboard

(May 6th, 2023) | Beta 3.5

  • New/Optimised Enemy System
  • Levels/XP
  • New Map, Plains
  • Improved enemy looks
  • New Enemy, Haste
  • Improved Tix and Cash formula
  • Map difficulties
  • Modifier difficulties
  • Tix earnings are based on map/modifier selected
  • Updated Lobby
  • Improved Lobby UI
  • Badge Menu
  • Purchase Tix via Robux
  • Bug fixes

(April 21st, 2023) | Beta 3.4.2

  • Rebalanced Swordsman
  • No longer can get tix from waves 1-5
  • Improved UI
  • Bug fixes

(April 21st, 2023) | Beta 3.4.1

  • Revamped Lobby UI
  • Swordsman can hit multiple enemies
  • More time given enemies spawn
  • Smooth tower placement rotation
  • Private/VIP servers now free
  • Bug fixes

(April 21st, 2023) | Beta 3.4

  • Revamped Maps
  • New Map, Cabin
  • Improved UI
  • Rebalanced towers
  • New map icons
  • New tower PFPs
  • Improved hover UI
  • New tower/enemy animations
  • You can view other people's towers
  • Cliff placement indicator
  • Adaptive range
  • UI SFX
  • Bug fixes

(April 13th, 2023) | Beta 3.3

  • Fixed/Buffed Bomber
  • New explosion effect
  • Animated range
  • New icons
  • Improved UI
  • Bug fixes

(February 16th, 2023) | Beta 3.2

  • Modifiers
    • Vote on modifiers, that will change how you play!
  • New maps
    • City
    • Swamp
    • Monkey Road
  • Removed map, Graveyard
  • Improved UI
  • Mobile Support
  • Improved animations
  • QoL features
  • Bug fixes

(January 19th, 2023) | Alpha 3.1

  • Triumph Stats
  • Triumph leaderboard in Lobby
  • Improved datastore
  • Bug fixes

(January 17th, 2023) | Alpha 3.0

  • New Tower, Bomber
  • Bug fixes

(January 13th, 2023) | Alpha 2.9

  • Updated lobby
  • New tower shop
  • Updated Map, Graveyard
  • Bug fixes

(January 11th, 2023) | Alpha 2.8

  • Retro player animations
  • Improved UI
  • Tower spacing
  • Fixed map voting
  • Updated lobby

(January 10th, 2023) | Alpha 2.7

  • New Map, Graveyard
  • New Enemy, Quick
  • New animations
    • Animations now R6 instead of R15
  • Improved UI
  • Tower Rebalancing

(December 31st, 2023) | Alpha 2.6

  • New lobby
  • Tower shop
  • New Map, Grasslands
  • Updated maps

(December 19th, 2022) | Alpha 2.5

  • Reworked tower targeting
    • Removed weak targeting
  • Added lobby
  • Fixed animations
  • Added tower owner indicator

(December 17th, 2022) | Alpha 2.4

  • Map voting
  • Buffed Recruit
  • Added cliff towers
  • Updated maps
  • Fixed targeting bug
  • Fixed delay between killing enemies

(December 15th, 2022) | Alpha 2.3

  • 3 new towers
    • Recruit
    • Swordsman
    • Sharpshooter
  • 3 new maps
    • Arctic
    • Castle
    • Test Map
  • Upgrade UI
  • 4 new enemies
  • 15 waves complete
  • Tower target modes
    • First, Last, Near, Strong, Weak