First and foremost, thank you for your patience and unwavering support. As promised in our recent announcements, we're pleased to deliver the latest update to "Nordhold: Origins." This patch brings the much-anticipated Mini Endless Mode, a new rotation of relics, and several quality-of-life improvements inspired by your feedback. We hope these enhancements make your experience even more enjoyable.

NEW Content:

Introducing the Mini-Endless Mode

New QoL Content:

• Color highlighting when building towers, which directly shows you the range elevation per hex
• Clearer radius display to show the exact range of towers/spells

Relic Replacement

• Removed Relics: Crown of Prudence (legendary), Valknut's Ascendant (legendary), Vision Chest (rare)
• New Relics: Oath of Bones (legendary), Artifact of Determination (legendary), Rake for Hire (rare), Master Builder's Hammer (rare), Seal of Constancy (common)

Buffs:

• Trading Ships (Trading Post Upgrade), Lvl. 5: 23 -> 25 Gold per Wave
• Magma Field (Volcano Mortar Banner):
  • 1st Time: Stacks on Impact: 2/3/5 -> 6/8/10 Stacks per Hex Field: 2/3/5 -> 4/5/8
  • Follow-Ups: Stacks on Impact: 2/3/5 -> 6/8/8 Stacks per Hex Field: 2/3/5 -> 4/5/5
  • Optimized Burn Tool Tip

Nerfs:

• Tower (Upgrades):
  • Crit Damage Upgrade: +50% -> +40%
  • An inflation level has been added to the tower upgrades (the tower upgrade prices double every 5 levels)
  • Maximum Tower Level currently: 20
• Runestone Tower:
  • Fire Rate: 8 -> 7
• Trinity (Banner), 1st Time: Beam Damage: 39/41/50% -> 39/41/47%
• Trinity (Banner), Follow-Ups: Beam Damage: +7/10/17% -> +6/8/14%
• Focus Rune (Banner): Increase per second: +13/18/31% -> +10/12/20%
• Grimlock the Bandit King (1st Boss): 11000 -> 10000 HP
• Arc Tower:
  • Chain Crits (Banner): Crit Chance: +0.24/0.32/0.56% -> +0.18/0.24/0.42%

Adjustments:

• Adaptation of the scoring system to take kills into account in order to make the Endless Mode more competitive and accurate
• Rank milestones shifted:
  • Silver: 0-799 -> 0-999
  • Gold: 800-1499 -> 1000-1799
  • Platin: 1500-2099 -> 1800-2499
  • Obsidian: 2100-2599 -> 2500-3099
  • Valhalla: 2600+ -> 3100+
• Adjustment of the elite monster calculation
Now there is only a maximum of 1 elite enemy per wave, but the enemy with the highest HP is now selected as the elite enemy. The elite chance previously calculated individually per monster is now replaced by a simpler calculation:
• Waves 0-5: 0% Elite-Chance
• Waves 6-10: 10% Elite-Chance
• Waves 11-15: 15% Elite-Chance
• Waves 16+: 20% Elite-Chance
This also changes the calculation/influence of the following perks:
• Hero Attribute (+20% Elite Enemy Chance) -> is now added to the above opportunity (more impact than before)
• Oracle Effect (Elite Surge): is no longer quintupled, but increases the above-mentioned chances by an additional 50%.

Improvements:

• Fixed a bug where the life bar of an Orc Shaman killed during a teleport left an artifact behind
• Upgrade badge handling optimized
• Game performance optimized
• Fixed a bug where Bleed had too little Bleed duration in the beginning and too much in the late game
• Optimized leaderboard loading behavior
• Fixed some SFX bugs (e.g., the Upgrade Label SFX was sometimes played twice)
• Bug solved where the ingame feedback/bug report did not work in the end screen
• Optimized saving behavior including bug fixes (elite chest prediction, new tile generation, double unique banners)
• Intelligible labeling on the Lucky Shot banner (Arrow Tower) that Rapid Archer has no effect on this: The probability of the Lucky Shot extra shot therefore affects the entire shot sequence and not each individual shot from Rapid Archer.

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