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Banshee Force is a virtual reality game where you command the legendary Banshee Force Weapons Platform. Standing in the middle of a planetary battle you use the weapons platform to stop the invaders and build a defense that can outlast the enemy.

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Update Details 0.9.6 - The Lightning Tower

Jun 19, 2019

Hi Defenders,

This update adds a couple of final features to Banshee Force including the new Lightning Tower.

The Lightning Tower

The Lightning tower when placed will lash out at ships and missiles that get too close and try to destroy them with a lightning bolt. But the real magic happens when you add more than 1 tower. Adding two towers starts a link between them where they will work together to hit missiles and ships nearby. Adding a third tower creates the initial lightning field, a shield that will prevent any missile from going through it as long as the lightning towers are standing. If you have lots of cash add more towers to grow your field to cover even more area.

Two Lightning Towers with an active link

Three Lightning Towers with an active energy field

Four and beyond Lightning Towers grows the active field

Fast Teleport

As people were playing the higher levels with more ships and multiple islands they noted that using the right stick/pad with a highlight arc of where you want to go to teleport is just too slow for some of them. This release adds a new option to the menu options called "Fast Teleport" which when the right pad/stick is pressed will jump to the island your right hand is closest pointing towards. This behavior is on by default but the old model of teleporting can always be selected from the menu options by turning this option off.

WIndows Mixed Reality Headsets

This release has been tested with Windows Mixed reality headsets using Steam VR and will now work correctly with those headsets as well.

We are now close other than some final cleanup and testing to migrating the game from early access to 1.0 release. Thanks to everyone who helped test the game while version 1.0 was being developed. Expect soon to see Banshee Force updated to version 1.0 and moved out of early access.

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Update Details 0.9.5 - Stealth Enemies, 3 City Islands and More Upgrades

Mar 20, 2019

Hi Defenders,

Version 0.9.5 of Banshee Force just dropped with lots of cool changes. One of the first new features are 5 additional levels with 3 cities to defend at one time. Remember at any time you can select these levels from the menu screen and try defending all 3 cities at once. They appear as levels 16-20.

3 City Island View 1

3 City Island View 2

New Upgrades Added in this Update

More powerful upgrades were added to the list of upgrades.

Fire Power Increase
This upgrade will increase the power of each shot the tower shoots. Upgrade a tower with increased fire rate, multiple shots and this fire power upgrade and it will be quite amazing how fast it shoots the ships out of the sky.

Shield Recharge Rate
This upgrade will make a shield on your tower recharge to full health much faster. In later levels when many ships decide to target your towers instead of your cities this will help those towers stay working longer.

Target Stealth
This upgrade allows a tower to target missiles or ships that have stealth capabilities and periodically disappear from view. Without this upgrade in the higher levels the towers are ineffective when stealth fighters appear.

Green Stealth Enemy

As you see in the upgrades there is a new green stealth enemy that will appear in some levels. Both the enemy and the missiles shot from the enemy will disappear. You can guess where the enemy might be hiding but your automated towers will not be able to target the stealth enemy or missiles if they don't have the target stealth upgrade.

Time Warp Field Tower

This release also has a new tower called the time warp field tower. This tower will create a field above it that will slow ships as they fly through the field. You can use this to your advantage to make ships easier to hit by hand shot missiles or automatically shot missiles from your towers. Your missiles are not slowed by this time warp effect.

New Tower

Time Warp Tower Field

Tower Upgrade Icon Indicators

The more upgrades that are added to the game the harder it is to know what you have upgraded on each tower. This release adds little upgrade indicators that match the graphics in each upgrade above a tower each time an upgrade is applied. It can help you remember which upgrades are applied to each tower as you are planning on how you want to spend all your earned money.

I hope you enjoy these updates as we are getting close to the 1.0 release of Banshee Force. The plan is to have more more feature update with some final cleanup of the game and then get it ready for 1.0 release.

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Update Details 0.9.4 - Upgrades and the Banshee Fighter

Jan 9, 2019

Hi Defenders,

Version 0.9.4 just dropped of Banshee Force and lots of new features have been added. The big feature of this release is the "Banshee Fighter". A new tower has been added called the Banshee Hanger. Inside this hanger is a Banshee Fighter.

Once you build a Banshee Hanger you can summon your Banshee Fighter with a new command on your right controller that lights up. The Banshee Fighter will automatically fly out and teleport to your left hand. At this point you can move your left hand and fly the fighter and shoot for up to 60 seconds anything in the area. You can choose to land the fighter or after 60 seconds it will land itself automatically.

New Upgrades Added

A lot of upgrades were added to increase the power of your towers.

Increase Shield Size
This upgrade allows you to increase the size of any of your shields including your city. It is super powerful with the low cost portable shield generator tower to add a layer of protection on towers or cities. Remember though you cannot shoot through it so add additional missile launch towers to be able to shoot around the shield.

Add Shield
This upgrade allows you to add a shield around towers you have built to protect them from attacks. Once the tower is built you can use existing repair upgrades to maintain the shield as it is hit with missile attacks. All guns and lasers can shoot through these shields.

Increase Fire Rate
This upgrade will make any tower shoot twice as fast as it currently does. It can take a 30 second cool down to 15 seconds with one upgrade. It can be stacked to make the tower even faster if your rolling in money.

Multiple Shot Upgrade
This may be my favorite upgrade as it makes any tower that shoots double its number of shots fired. The Anti-Ship towers that shoot 3 plasma balls will not shoot 6 with this upgrade. Add increased fire rate and this is quite a powerful tower.

Game Localization

Initial location has been added to Banshee Force and the Achievements in all the Steam supported languages. If you switch to another language and find any issues with the translations, please let us know if you know the correct translation for the English text.

Red Elite Enemy

Also, rumors are true that in later levels a new very difficult red class elite enemy will appear. The enemy is much tougher than the blue class enemies and delivers a much bigger punch on your towers and cities. You have been warned.

Things we are considering to do in .5 are the following

Stealth enemies
Stealth enemy missiles
Tower upgrades to see stealth
A new 3 island challenge
Possibly upgraded graphics on shields

The next version might take a while as we update to deal with changes to Steam VR 2.0 and support more headsets also.

Note, we haven't seen anyone able to get past the first 8 levels at normal difficulty without starting at a later level.

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