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A physics-driven tower defense where you play the dungeon. Lay out traps and launch waves of invading "heroes" who are, charitably, bad at their job. They walk into every snare, complain about their knees, ask where the restroom is, and leave with the cheese wheels.

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Patch Notes: 1.0

Sep 1

Heroes Suck 1.0 is coming September 15th

Thanks for playing the demo and the beta! The full game launches on Steam on September 15th at 11:00 AM ET. Chapters 3 and 4, the ending, and the rest of the campaign are all on the way. Your existing demo and beta saves carry over, so nothing you've built gets left behind. In the meantime, here's everything that's changed since the last demo build.

New in the full release

Steam Achievements. 35 of them, covering traps, town buildings, mastery trees, combat and more. Most unlock right away based on your existing save. Lifetime kill-count achievements are the exception, since that wasn't tracked before now, so those start counting from today.
Steam Cloud saves. Your saves now sync automatically, so you can pick up on another PC where you left off.
New splash screen.

Traps

Flame Jet's burn now scales with the trap. It used to stay flat no matter how much you upgraded or forged the trap, so it fell behind the further you progressed. Now it's a share of Flame Jet's own damage and keeps pace at every grade and forge level. A new upgrade line pushes that share even higher.
Overlapping Flame Jets now stack their burn duration instead of resetting each other's timer.

Loot

Fixed Glorious Chests paying out the same loot as Grand Chests. The rarest chest tier now actually outshines the one below it.
Opening a Glorious Chest now has its own sound effect.

Quality of life

New inventory hotkey. Press I to open your inventory without hunting for the button, or rebind it in Settings.
New screenshot hotkey. Press H to hide the UI for a clean shot of your dungeon, also rebindable in Settings.
Trap unlock cards now show stats on hover, before you commit.
Credits now scroll on their own and include some additional attributions.

Bug fixes

Fixed some older mastery nodes being purchasable before you'd reached their intended dungeon level.
Fixed trap upgrades quietly losing sell value when you took an upgrade-cost mastery. Taking one now refunds the difference.
Fixed gold popups appearing in the wrong corner of the screen when an enemy died off-camera.
Minor performance cleanup on the main menu screen.
Clarified a confusing line in the Powers guide.

Dialogue

Added over 50 new hero barks for entering a stage and dying.

See you on the 15th!

Regards,
Kalradia

Heroes Suck

Money not spent during build phase is unavailable in run phase

I had almost enough gold to upgrade fire rate on a trap, so I thought I'd run the maze and upgrade it. Queue my surprise when my money says '0' during the run phase and I can't upgrade. Also - when I went to retry it, the build phase was no longer available. Is this game really ready for real people to test?...

Tman

Jun 16 @ 3:44am

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Demo Update 0.21

Aug 11

Two months of work since the last demo build. Most of it went into the save system, plus a round of performance work aimed at the later-game waves, preparing for release, and a handful of real balance changes.

Your existing demo saves carry over.

The beta is open

The closed beta is live as of today, August 11, and runs through August 25. It covers the Prologue through Chapter 2 and is distributed through Steam Playtest. Chapters 3 and 4 are being built separately and aren't part of it.

The first wave of invites has gone out to creators, press, and newsletter subscribers, and there's still room. I'll be sending more batches before the window closes. If you want in, join the newsletter at https://dawninglight.gg/newsletter and you'll be in the pool for the next one.

Balance

Aero Blast hits dramatically harder. Its damage was well below where it needed to be, so rank I now deals 60 damage, up from 15.
Hidden Spears' knockback doubled. Spears now actually shove things once fortitude is broken.
Hidden Spears' sixth Base Damage upgrade now requires a higher trap grade. It was purchasable out of order, skipping ahead of the ranks meant to come before it.

Saves

Older saves load and upgrade automatically, so your demo progress carries forward.
Automatic rotating backups. If your save is damaged, the game falls back to the newest healthy backup instead of failing.
Fixed the game hanging on the Load screen when a save file had been cut short mid-write.
Damaged saves now tell you what was lost and load the rest, instead of erroring out or, worse, breaking later mid-run.

Bug fixes

Fixed enemies getting permanently stuck on the field at 0 HP. An Arrow Rain bolt hitting an enemy that was already dying could break every despawn that followed for the rest of the session.
Fixed gold being spent without the tile being placed. This traced back to a startup crash on unusual window sizes, which also stopped the analytics consent prompt from ever appearing.
Fixed a trap cooldown icon staying stuck on screen when the Guild Master's Trap Blast landed after you'd already lost the stage.
Fixed aura effects lingering on the field forever after their owner died or the ability was recast.
Camera fixes. Pan, rotate and zoom no longer stick when a gesture gets interrupted, and camera collision against terrain and buildings has been reworked.
Damage numbers now scale against your own output. Popup size didn't vary with hit size and ballooned as you zoomed in. A big hit now reads as a big hit whether you're in the prologue or chapter 4.
Holding Alt to preview a mastery node's maxed values now keeps working as you move between nodes.

Performance

Aimed at the Chapter 4 stages, where the enemy count climbs well beyond one-hundred.

Enemy ragdolls rebuilt on a lighter rig, and their physics now only recalculates when something has actually changed.
Damage-number popups are pooled and pre-warmed. Crit numbers weren't pooled at all, and the rest grew mid-fight, a measurable source of hitching during big waves.

Audio

New Kaelviir dialogue in Embervale. Fresh welcome, trap-building and respawn lines.

Thanks for playing. Bug reports and save files are extremely welcome!

Regards,
Kalradia

Heroes Suck

Demo Update - v0.19

Jun 7

Summary

QoL patch: improvements, optimizations, and bug fixes.

Improvements

New and improved camera system. The pillars in the dungeon will no longer get in your view and will be occluded when they get in your way.
Introduced a new font for text-heavy areas of the game to improve readability.
Redesigned the pause menu to improve functionality and allow movement around the map.
Story replay - view story cutscenes again from the 'Defend' menu.
New 'potential loot' UI element - this shows all the possible loot that can be dropped from each stage.
Made the dungeon entrance more spacious and freed up 2 more tiles for dungeon building.
The physics system has undergone heavy optimizations, more than doubling FPS in some situations.
Updated various icon visuals.
Lighting tweaks and improvements.
Some music tracks have been improved.

Bug fixes

Various save data issues resolved. Particularly saving and loading files in the same session was causing some data to initialize improperly.
More Kaelviir dialogue interjection subtitle mismatches have been fixed.

Closing

Heroes Suck will be participating in Steam Next Fest, starting June 15! Look forward to beta and the full release this summer. Be sure to sign up for the newsletter if you'd like to receive beta news and access: https://heroessuck.com/newsletter/

Regards

- Kalradia

Heroes Suck

almost max out what you can do in the demo, pretty hype for the full release.

At this point I'm just grinding for the fun of it. thou i do have a complaint {small one}. the Jet Flame trap, it seem that it miss some enemies if they are in a group. going to need to verify it later before I sent it to the bug report.... if it is even a bug. Great game either way....

MarcosChaos

Jun 12, 2024 @ 6:32am

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Idea: Combine wall and floor traps

Currently you can only place one trap per tile: so you have e.g. spears from below or flames on the wall. Will it be possible to combine muiltiple traps in one tile? For reference I think of somethink like in "orcs must die". There you are able to place floor traps and wall traps (and even roof traps) on the same tile if their sizes/constructions are not colliding. It would be nice in this game, too. In the demo I was unable to optimize my flames from the wall because "slow pylon + wall flame" cant be pla...

#Bolle

Sep 23, 2024 @ 7:39am

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Looking forward to a full or early access release

This is a really promising game. It's similar to a traditional tower defense, or a simplified version of Dungeon Keeper. Graphics are solid, easy to read everything, you've got levelling of your tech tree, can upgrade traps, the monsters are slightly randomised (so one play of the level you might kill them all, another play with the same setup and no further upgrades, a couple might get through). Monsters also have variable levels which is good and their health/levels are incredibly clear which is helpful....

SmokedHalibut

Jan 14, 2024 @ 10:06am

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Dungeon Layout

I have finished all there is to do in the demo. My dungeon layout is as follows.. all maxed towers: Hidden Spears II Flame Jet II Lightning Pylon II Time Warper II Lightning Pylon II *Turn* Pendulum Axe II Lightning Pylon II *Turn* Flame Jet II Pendulum Axe II HIdden Spears II Treasure I normally do not even use the spell, only if there are groups of healers. Well hope this helps someone. peace...

deathcaster

Sep 8 @ 1:10pm

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