Tower Items

[Nerdmaid]

Jeff answers some questions regarding tower items in today's blog post on Hidden Path Entertainment. http://www.hiddenpath.com/blog/239/

[Cougarific]

Oooooo this is too good to leave under a link - copying the good stuff here:


Second question – what items are in the shipping game? Here is the current list of the final 42 item features that shipped in the release version of the game (some names may have been adjusted near ship):

Legend:
[c] = common item, (u) = uncommon item, [r] = rare item, [v] = very rare item

Gun (6 items):
[c] Shield Piercing Bullets (ignores shields and inflicts damage directly to alien)
[c] Target Strongest Always
(u] Shield Disrupting Bullets (bonus damage inflicted upon shield)
(u] Scatter Shot (A.O.E. cone with reduced range)
(u] Chemical Tipped Bullets (D.O.T.)
[r] Tachyon Bullets (slows down target)

Inferno (5 items):
[c] Target Strongest Always
[c] Concentrated Fire (higher damage with tighter cone)
[r] Napalm (D.O.T.)
[r] Shield Eroding Chemical Spray (bonus against shields while having reduced damage against everything else)
[v] Torch Bearer (targets pass fire on to any aliens that they come in contact with)

Laser (5 items):
[c] Target Strongest Always
(u] Tachyon Beam (slows down targets more than default slow down while inflicting reduced damage)
(u] Wide Beam (A.O.E. with lower range damage)
[r] Shield Piercing beam (ignores shields and inflicts damage directly to alien)
[r] Shield Disrupting beam (increased damage versus shields)

Cannon(7 items):
[c] Anti-Stealth Ordnance (reveals any stealthed aliens in the vicinity of impact)
[c] Target Strongest Always
(u] Chemical/Drill Tipped Ordnance (D.O.T. damage)
(u] Tagger (target receives temporary reduction in speed when hit)
(u] Anti-Shield Ordnance (increased damage vs shields)
[r] Cluster Cannon Ordnance (A.O.E. cone)
[r] Airburst (A.O.E. at impact)

Meteor (4 items):
[c] Fireball (causes increased D.O.T. heat damage)
[c] Target Strongest Always
(u] Plasmaball (increased duration D.O.T. damage with reduced A.O.E. damage)
[r] Cluster (increased A.O.E. range)

Missile (5 items):
[c] Target Strongest Always
[c] Chemical Tipped Warhead (D.O.T. to target)
(u] Temporal Missile (target slows down for a period of time after hit)
[r] Bonus Damage Vs Fastest
[v] Shrapnel (A.O.E. range increase)

Concussion (3 items):
[c] Fire Bombs (explosive ordnance sets targets on fire for D.O.T. with reduced physical damage)
[c] Anti-Shield Bombs (bonus damage vs shields)
[v] Depth Charges (tower deploys Stealth revealing charges with reduced damage)

Tesla (4 items):
[c] Depth Charger (reveals Stealth aliens hit by chain)
[c] Target Strongest Always
(u] Anti-Shield (greater damage)
[r] D.O.T. Charge (targets remained "charged" after hit by lightning - can be passed to aliens that they come in contact with)

Temporal (3 items):
[c] Increased Slowdown (targets' speed reduction increased with slower pulse rate)
[c] Bonus Vs Core Carriers
[r] Loose Core Speed Booster (loose cores will speed up when in range) - See more at: http://www.hiddenpath.com/blog/239/#sthash.xoCyWVzn.dpuf

[Nerdmaid]

You rock Cougarific!

[zharmad]

Can this be stickied? That would be good for quick reference.

[Nerdmaid]

I went ahead and pinned it zharmad. It should stay at the top of posts now. :-)

[Travathian]

Oh man, not even a mention of the nifty Tower Item Guide that I made with the communities help :\

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=317480243

[Everglades]

Great help and very nice of you to take the time to do that. Thank you.

[vvvvan]

Anyone else not getting any tower items (augmentations) for one tower? I have received absolutely nothing for Inferno after 30 hours (completed campaign, normal and easy, all gold). All of my other towers have tons of great items, but one has none. Weird. Also, effects one achievement. Seems like a bug or something.

[phraenck]

I'm not experiencing this problem, but i must say i haven't played 30 hours yet...

[TNTFTB]

I lack a few after many hours

[rja]

The "Talking Tower Items" blog post by Jeff can be found on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150910011750/http://www.hiddenpath.com/blog/239/

[Xstioph]

Originally posted by Vanon:

Anyone else not getting any tower items (augmentations) for one tower? I have received absolutely nothing for Inferno after 30 hours (completed campaign, normal and easy, all gold). All of my other towers have tons of great items, but one has none. Weird. Also, effects one achievement. Seems like a bug or something.

Mine is meteor.. Got 3-4 for most towers but not a single one for meteor.. Annoying. There's also a number pling with the item.. A few have 5 - does that mean each item have a 1-5 level as well?

Originally posted by rja:

The "Talking Tower Items" blog post by Jeff can be found on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150910011750/http://www.hiddenpath.com/blog/239/

Thanks for this!