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[phillipriv9]

Does Wilbur do true damage?

[The Kingmaker]

All three games run smoothly with almost no frame rate drop or lag. Would a ridiculously large number of enemies possibly cause a drop?

With about ten troops and twelve towers, how many basic enemies (think: Orc) could actually be on the screen at one point without a noticeable drop in frame rate?

[bolin]

All three games run smoothly with almost no frame rate drop or lag. Would a ridiculously large number of enemies possibly cause a drop?

With about ten troops and twelve towers, how many basic enemies (think: Orc) could actually be on the screen at one point without a noticeable drop in frame rate?

Yes, same with the number of particles.
In fact the game detects which kind of device it's running on and will use a low profile setting for older devices which will make the game use less particles in projectiles and other stuff in the game. If we didn't do this the game would have noticeable slowdowns on older ipads.

Not sure about the second question, I never tried it

[The Kingmaker]

Thanks, oh that's interesting

There's about 75 enemies in each of the final waves of Shrine of Elynie, so at a stretch would 100+ be possible? (On newer devices).

FInally, and probably not expecting an exact answer, does the size of the enemy matter in relation to lag and slowdown, for instance 75 goblins against 75 dark slayers.

[MisterX]

Which effect has Bolverks Battle Shout?

[Juice Box]

Which effect has Bolverks Battle Shout?

Adding to ^this, what does the Shadow Champion's Blood Pact do? Or does he even do it?

[Manijure]

Which effect has Bolverks Battle Shout?

Adding to ^this, what does the Shadow Champion's Blood Pact do? Or does he even do it?

The Blood Pact, upon his death, infects all surrounding soldiers with Dark Blood that lasts for a long period of time. That's the gist of it.

[MisterX]

Which effect has Bolverks Battle Shout?

Adding to ^this, what does the Shadow Champion's Blood Pact do? Or does he even do it?

The Blood Pact infects all surrounding soldiers with Dark Blood that lasts for a long period of time. That's the gist of it.

This only happens if he dies

[Manijure]

Fixed!

[Lord of all evil]

Is Ironhide's new game, a fantasy game or is it something very different from kr

[bolin]

Thanks, oh that's interesting

There's about 75 enemies in each of the final waves of Shrine of Elynie, so at a stretch would 100+ be possible? (On newer devices).

FInally, and probably not expecting an exact answer, does the size of the enemy matter in relation to lag and slowdown, for instance 75 goblins against 75 dark slayers.

It might be.

No, not really, the size of the sprites doesn't matter in this case. All spritesheets are loaded with the level, so the only impact would be on memory usage and loading times (if any, for example both enemies might fit in one spritesheet). You probably wouldn't notice the loading times unless there are way more (or bigger) spritesheets being loaded.
The type of enemy would matter however if it was heavy-particle-using-one vs one which doesn't have any special abilities or fxs with particles.

[razieltnt]

Are there ANY Dwarf Fortress fans/hardcore players in Your company? I'd be most pleased to know, that there are lads that like this motto: "Losing is FUN!".

[RZRider]

Does wilbur do ranged or magic attack. Beacuase when you look at him in the hero room it shows the bow and arrow. In gameplay it shows magic. Why?

[Ninja]

He deals True Damage.The reason why it shows magic damage in game is
because Ironhide has no specific icon for True Damage.The Hero Room bow
and arrow bit is a typo.

[wailwail]

They could have simply made him deal physical damage, because flying hero =/= true damage.

[Ninja]

I know that,but they didn't.(apparently they think flying hero does = true damage)

[The Kingmaker]

I think it's more $4.99+ hero = true damage

[PLEASE ANSWER ME]

!!!!!PLEASE ANSWER ME!

As steam user (no android or iOS device) i want to ask, if you will release Kingdom rush Frontiers or Origins on Steam and when, if yes.

Thanks

your games are awesome --!

[Chimto]

!!!!!PLEASE ANSWER ME!

As steam user (no android or iOS device) i want to ask, if you will release Kingdom rush Frontiers or Origins on Steam and when, if yes.

Thanks

your games are awesome --!

People have answered this question many times before, and Ironhide has always responded never.

[dimumurray]

Got a few more questions for you guys.

Entity-Component-Systems(ECS) are pretty much the standard these days when it comes to game architecture. How deeply have your devs explored this form of data-oriented design? What do you identify as its strengths and weaknesses?

Unity does a half-way decent job of implementing the pattern; it has entities(aka game objects) and components. However, Unity does not separate logic out into discrete systems/processes as some other ECS frameworks do (example Richard Lord's Ash Framework). I feel that Unity's ECS implementation falls short as a result. Coupling logic with data is a hallmark of OOP but data-oriented design offers much more in terms of flexibility when the two are kept separate. What are your thoughts on the issue?

Any thoughts devs?