New Features

- Hero Skills System - New meta progression skills for hero with visible skill auras

- Hero Orb Display - View hero\'s collected orbs in the UI

- Mud Slinger Enemy - New enemy type that drops mud on cells, slowing/hurting the hero

- Fusion Tower Modal - New modal UI for tower fusion

Hero

- Skill auras now visible during gameplay

- Hero renders with equipped weapon

Improvements

- Autosave slot - Automatically saves at wave end and after reward selection

- Dex item enlargement - Click to enlarge items in the Bestiary (Pixelate Dex)

- Universal redraw cost - Hero and tower reward redraw costs now shared and persist through save/load

- Damage font scaling - Plain damage numbers now scale larger based on damage value

- Tower sprite in game over - Statistics view now shows tower sprites

- Lightning tower particles reduced for better performance

- Mud dropping sound effect made lighter

Fixes

- Fixed game over modal not displaying properly (z-index issue)

- Fixed fusion tower recipes (removed old glacier tower/mighty shrine from recipes)

- Fixed duplicate Basic tower in game over statistics

- Fixed Boss name and prefix display issue

- Fixed save timing issue

- Fixed mobile shrine build issue

- Fixed load game over issue

- Fixed idle mode issues

- Fixed walking and mud interaction

- Fixed resource display

- Default language set to English

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New Features

- Bestiary (Pixelate Dex) - New collection system to track discovered enemies, towers, and weapons

- Save/Load System - Save your game progress and continue later

- Fire Resource - New resource type for support tower upgrades

- Wizard Enemy - New enemy type that can disable towers temporarily

- Enemy Prefixes - Enemies can spawn with special modifiers (Elite, Swift, Giant, etc.)

Hero

- Hero now gains +5% HP, damage, and attack speed per level

- Weapon Stash UI - View and switch between unlocked weapons

Towers

- Support towers can now evolve

- Mortar Tower adds knockback effect

- Prevented accidental tower evolution

Visuals & Audio

- 4 new background music tracks

- Higher damage shows larger damage numbers

- Critical damage displays above normal damage

- Support tower aura indicator more visible (purple)

- Boss HP bar repositioned lower

Balance

- Wave countdown timer reduced

- One reward card per selection

Fixes

- Fixed various i18n/translation issues

- Fixed auto-restart issue

- Fixed movement issues

- VS Mode button restored

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COMBAT

Weapon system refinement

Hero attack sound effects (unique slashing audio)

New reward card: Hero Level Up

Tower kills now share EXP with Hero (20%)

CASTLE & HERO

Castle heals Hero by 5% HP (was fixed amount)

Double HP restoration when near castle

Hero speed cap adjustments

VISUALS

Cell colors change with seasons

Random scenery objects on respawn

Reduced support tower visual effects (performance boost)

CONTROLS

Keyboard shortcut remapping

Instant path clearing on keyboard/joystick input

Steam Deck display fix

AUDIO

Different BGM for wave rewards vs level-up rewards

• Tower with special abilities

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• Minor issue fixes

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• Boss HP panel added, with prefix system to make Bosses spawns with different ability each round

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• FF Mode added

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