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Winter Holidays Events 2025! (1.1.2.0)

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2025 WINTER QUESTS AND HOLIDAY EVENTS HAVE STARTED!!

[p]2025 Winter Holiday Events are here![/p][p][/p][p]There are three exciting Holiday Quests to participate in![/p][p]Spread holiday joy and help Santa Claws deliver gifts to the hardworking Plaza staff, share the joy of hats, and find the missing reindeer![/p][p][/p][p]Find the quest-givers in the Central Fountain area![/p][p][/p][p]In addition, the usual Holiday cheer has swept through Tower Unite! Enjoy beautiful holiday decorations in the Plaza, earn Holiday Coins from playing games, and deck yourself out with some new festive gear at Santa Claws’ store! [/p][p][/p][p][/p]

New Holiday Items!

[p]This update includes new festive items to coincide with the Winter Holidays event.[/p][p]
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[p]Santa’s Workshop:[/p]
- [p]Krampus Horns[/p]
- [p]Ice Crown[/p]
- [p]Peppermint Horns[/p]
- [p]Peppermint Glasses[/p]
- [p]Tinsel Scarf[/p]
- [p]Santa’s Sackpack[/p]
- [p]Ice Wings[/p]
- [p]Stocking Stuffer[/p]
- [p]Toboggan Backpack[/p]
- [p]Sack on your Back[/p]
- [p]Sack on your Neck[/p]
- [p]Santa Throne[/p]
[p]Celebrations:[/p]
- [p]Tinsel String[/p]
- [p]Yard Light Snowman[/p]
- [p]Yard Light Toy Soldier[/p]
- [p]Yard Light Candle[/p]
- [p]Yard Light Candy Cane[/p]
- [p]Yard Light Catsack[/p]
- [p]Aluminum Tree[/p]
- [p]Simple Wooden Sled[/p]
- [p]Sack on a Rack[/p]
- [p]Snowflake Decoration[/p]

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SDNL Milestones

[p]SDNL has received its long-awaiting Milestones, including memorable weapons from the Game World and some special treats.[/p][p][/p]

[p]Toy Hammer[/p]
[p]Retro Gun[/p]
[p]Crosshair Halo, a unique Accessory[/p]
[p]Telepuncher[/p]
[p]Mystical Katana[/p]
[p]Super Shotty[/p]
[p]Decimator[/p]
[p]Kalleira Grenade[/p]
[p]SDNL Motion Potion, grants the player double jumping and sliding from SDNL[/p]
[p]Raptor Potion, transforms the player into a Raptor from SDNL: Dino Battle[/p]

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New Less Festive Items

[p]This update also includes some decidedly less festive miscellaneous items.[/p]

[p]Toy Stop:[/p]
- [p]Baseball Bat[/p]
- [p]Wooden Baseball Bat, a hotbar weapon[/p]
[p]Popstop:[/p]
- [p]Squizz Grape Soda[/p]
- [p]Squizz Orange Soda[/p]
- [p]Red Spring Diet Soda[/p]
- [p]Pepper, PhD. Soda[/p]
[p]Tower Threads:[/p]
- [p]Sackpack, purchasable after reaching 500k experience in Casino[/p]
[p]XxF3RR3TxX’s Customization Station:[/p]
- [p]Frostbite Background[/p]
- [p]Hinderance Background[/p]
- [p]Meadows Background[/p]
- [p]Catzek Background[/p]
- [p]Hospital Background[/p]
- [p]Overtime Background[/p]
- [p]Solar Background[/p]
- [p]Corrosion Background[/p]
- [p]Subway Background[/p]
- [p]Desertion Background[/p]
[p]Rob’s Imports:[/p]
- [p]Royal Throne[/p]
[p]Kalarry’s Warez:[/p]
- [p]Handheld Cannon[/p]
[p]Central Circuit:[/p]
- [p]Soda Vending Machine Secret Door[/p]

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Winter 2025 Plaza Update

[p]Adjusted the smoothie store entrance to have a scale that is larger and doesn't feel like you're going to bonk your head on it in VR.[/p]
[p]The back plaza area behind the casino now has proper snow trails for the winter plaza.[/p]

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Theater Condo Art & Editing Update

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[p]An art pass to the concessions counters, screens, and canopy sign[/p]
[p]You can now edit the concessions sign and toggle off and on various aspects of it.[/p]
[p]The concessions menus now have a default texture displaying a generic menu when not overridden by a Canvas.[/p]

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[p]You can now edit the theaters themselves! Every surface, railing, and chairs can now be fully edited and customized.[/p]
[p]An art pass to the theater rooms, adding Surface customization, toggle-able lights, and projection rooms (unfurnished).[/p]
[p]Handrails, curtains, seats, and speakers can now be toggled on or off.[/p]
[p]An art pass to the seats, which carry over to their item equivalents[/p]

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[p]There are new animated “now playing” tickers above each theater entrance. These are available as an item as well. Using a persistent IO connection to a Media Player, this item can display the video title of what’s currently playing. The Theater Condo art pass will include a unique version of this for each viewing room, built into the hallway outside.[/p]

[p]Other fixes and changes include:[/p]

[p]Updated the theater screen and projector lights so they only turn on when Media Dynamic Lights is enabled.[/p]
[p]Longstanding errors with the normal maps on the pre-built light switches were fixed.[/p]
[p]The built-in Theater doors can now optionally take you back to the Condo Hub.[/p]

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Changes & Additions

[p]Winter 2025 Plaza Update![/p]
[p]Start of Winter Holidays 2025 Events![/p]
[p]Added new items to Santa's Workshop[/p]
[p]Increased amount of pickups spawned during the "Presents from the North Pole" event from 10 to 25[/p]
[p]SDNL: Added Milestones![/p]
[p]SDNL: Buffed Payouts![/p]
[p]Condo IO: You can now use the Tower Glove while inside Location Volumes that have No Weapons rule enabled[/p]
[p]Collection Book: Added crab category to Unlockables[/p]
[p]Collection Book: Added hovering over items to see more details on the item[/p]
[p]Collection Book: Added hints to Hidden items you don't own.[/p]
[p]Added new Profile Backgrounds based on maps original to Virus and SDNL (unlockable with the Hidden Animal and CCTV achievements respectively)[/p]
[p]New Sodas Added to PopStop (Vendy): Squizz Grape, Squizz Orange, Red Spring Diet, Pepper PhD.[/p]
[p]New Item Added to Tower Theatre: Theater Ticker, a unique item that displays the title of the currently video on a connected Media Player[/p]
[p]New Item Added to Tower Threads: Sackpack (only purchasable after reaching 500k Casino exp)[/p]
[p]New Items Added to Celebrations: Simple Wooden Sled, Sack On A Rack, Yard Light Snowman, Yard Light Toy Soldier, Yard Light Candle, Yard Light Candy Cane, Yard Light Catsack, Aluminum Tree[/p]
[p]New Items Added to Toy Stop: Wooden Baseball Bat, Baseball Bat (Weapon)[/p]
[p]New Item Added to Rob's Imports: Royal Throne[/p]
[p]New Item Added to Electronics: Soda Vending Machine Secret Door[/p]
[p]Minigolf: Improved look of customization menu[/p]
[p]Condo: Art passed fountain item[/p]

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Optimizations

[p]Reduced material permutations, optimizing materials across the game[/p]
[p]Accessories: Optimised Materials[/p]
[p]Plaza: More shadow-pass optimization by further expanding the Plaza's shadow proxy system.[/p]
[p]Plaza: Purged several materials and converted their material instances into another master material to reduce shader permutations[/p]
[p]Plaza: Simplified rendering inside of the music store and vehicle store to reduce draw calls[/p]
[p]Plaza Foliage System: Reduced density, and set up an improved LOD system.[/p]
[p]Plaza: Fine Foliage optimization - set up adaptive alpha cutoff to reduce overdraw on foliage that has a lot of fine details/edges (grass, ivy, etc)[/p]
[p]Plaza: Optimized the water refraction effects in the ocean to only render on the closest water plane to the player, significantly optimizing the distortion process (GPU based)[/p]
[p]Plaza: Optimized the underwater post process effects, and they no longer have any cost when not underwater[/p]
[p]Plaza: Set up improved LODs for casino exterior and arcade exterior to decrease overdraw from fine trim-sheeting at a distance[/p]
[p]Plaza: Changed the adaptive alpha cutoff settings in the foliage master from a static switch to a lerp switch to decrease shader permutations[/p]
[p]Plaza: Fixed some of the palm trees in the boardwalk area from not being in the landscape foliage system, causing them to not swap LODs properly[/p]
[p]Plaza: Improved the geometry and LODs of the casino back Plaza area to be more performant[/p]

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Bug Fixes

[p]SDNL: Fixed hosts not spawning with weapons often[/p]
[p]SDNL: Fixed respawn issues (players being invisible on respawn)[/p]
[p]SDNL: Fixed weapons still firing after death[/p]
[p]SDNL: Fixed being able to switch weapons while dead[/p]
[p]SDNL: Fixed recoil issues with single shot weapons[/p]
[p]SDNL: Plushy Grenade now visually reappears when ammo is replenished[/p]
[p]SDNL: Fixed arms T-posing when sliding without an active weapon (such as after throwing the Chainsaw)[/p]
[p]Condo: Theater's built-in door now actually takes you back to the Condo Hub[/p]
[p]Condo: Fixed longstanding normal error with pre-built lightswitches[/p]
[p]Condo Hub: Fixed mirrored poster on the doorway for the Theater[/p]
[p]Condo - Underwater: Fixed satellite elevator cars not moving[/p]
[p]Condo - Underwater: Fixed underwater features not toggling on/off properly (fixes lighting tint issues)[/p]
[p]Condo - Underwater: Fixed underwater post processing features not toggling on/off[/p]
[p]Condo - Underwater: Fixed second set of surface water existing for no real reason[/p]
[p]Condo - Underwater: Fixed surface water visual pop in bug[/p]
[p]Condo IO: Fixed OnSoundEnded not firing when a Sound Emitter is set to Play Once[/p]
[p]Arcade - Ice Cave: Fixed balls oftentimes disappearing while throwing[/p]
[p]Accessories: Fixed coloring issues on Candy Bucket Hat, Candy Backpack, Bag of Roses, Bag of Clovers, and Reindeer Bells[/p]
[p]Accessories: Fixed scaling issues on Cat Ears, Earmuffs, and Devil Horns (noticeable on workshop models)[/p]
[p]Accessories: Fixed Catpack's colouring and fading breaking after running[/p]
[p]Fixed collisions on throwable projectiles[/p]
[p]The Infection milestone now deals PVP damage[/p]
[p]Throwable Shrimp milestone now follows the rules like other throwable food items[/p]
[p]Popcorn Bucket item now appears in the correct category in the Theatre store[/p]
[p]Fixed bug with Festival Lights items where the "Animation Intensity" property was overwriting the "Animation Speed" property[/p]

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Happy Holidays from the TU Team!

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This isn’t the last of our holiday fun this year, but we did want to wish you all a Happy Holiday season![/p][p][/p][p]MORE HOLIDAY FUN & ITEMS ARE ON THE WAY!!![/p][p]
We hope you all have a great time in the game and out of it, and we thank you guys for your support this year! It’s meant the world to us! :]

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Dev Log for December 3rd, 2025

[p]Happy December everyone! And welcome to the Dev Log for December 3rd, 2025![/p][p]Since the last Dev Log, we’ve worked on various bug fixes, another optimization pass for the Plaza, a revamp of the Theater Condo, Holiday items, and Cooking.[/p][p][/p][p][/p]
Jingle Jam 2025
[p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]You’ve probably seen our announcements for it already, but we want to mention again here that we are a part of the Jingle Jam games collection![/p][p][/p][p]Jingle Jam is a fundraiser to help out life-changing charities! The Jingle Jam crew will be hosting fundraising streams for 2 weeks so check it out and spread the word to help out these great causes!![/p][p][/p][p]The Jingle Jam will be running until December 15th, 2025 (ending 08:59 AM GMT).[/p][p]You can check out the Jingle Jam page, learn about the charities and games involved, and donate here!![/p][p][/p]
Snowman Contest - ENDS DEC 14th!!
[p][/p][p]We’re doing a Snowman contest again!! Make your finest snowman and share it with all to see![/p][p]It ends at 11:59 PM on December 14th, 2025![/p][p][/p][p][/p]
Upcoming Theater Condo Art & Editing Pass
[p][/p][p]Nuclearxpotato has been working on a long-awaited Theater Condo Art and Editing pass!![/p][p]His update brings countless improvements and fixes to the Theater condo, including:[/p][p][/p]
[p]An art pass to the Concessions counters, screens, and canopy sign.[/p]
[p]You can now edit the concessions sign and toggle off and on various aspects of it.[/p]
[p]The concessions menus now have a default texture displaying a generic menu when not overridden by a Canvas.[/p]
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[p]You can now edit the theaters themselves! Every surface, railing, and chairs can now be fully edited and customized.[/p]
[p]An art pass to the Viewing Rooms, adding Surface customization, toggle-able lights, and unfurnished projection rooms.[/p]
[p]Handrails, Curtains, Seats, and Speakers can now be toggled on or off.[/p]
[p]An art pass to the Seats, which carry over to their item equivalents[/p]
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[p]There are new animated “now playing” tickers above each theater entrance. These are available as an item as well. Using a persistent IO connection to a Media Player, this item can display the video title of what’s currently playing. The Theater Condo art pass will include a unique version of this for each viewing room, built into the hallway outside.[/p]
[p][/p][p]Other fixes and changes include:[/p]
[p]Updated the Screen and Projector lights so they only turn on when Media Dynamic Lights is enabled.[/p]
[p]Longstanding errors with the normal maps on the pre-built light switches were fixed.[/p]
[p]The built-in Theater doors can now optionally take you back to the Condo Hub.[/p]
[p]Additionally, the Popcorn Bucket item now appears in the correct category in the Theater store, and the poster for the Theater Condo doorway was fixed in the Condo Hub.[/p][p][/p][p][/p]
Upcoming Winter 2025 Plaza Update & Optimizations
[p]Johanna has been working on a ton of Plaza optimizations for the Winter 2025 Plaza Update![/p][p]These include improvements to shaders and materials, water optimizations, grass and foliage effects, and LODs. These all will help with how the Plaza loads in on the user-end and lead to better performance![/p][p][/p]
Upcoming SDNL Fixes
[p]macdguy has been working on bug fixes for SDNL including fixing major spawn and respawn issues, death state issues with weapons, and weapon recoil issues! We also buffed payouts for SDNL as well.[/p][p][/p]
Upcoming Winter Holiday 2025 Items
[p][/p][p][/p][p]Progress is being made on new items for the Winter Holidays events in Tower Unite! New items include vintage outdoor decorations, the disturbingly adorable Sack-on-a-Rack, a metallic Christmas tree, and a baseball bat! These are in addition to other holiday items we’ve shown in previous dev logs![/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]We’ve also been working on some winter-themed sprays for the event![/p][p][/p]
Upcoming Item Fixes
[p]Nuclearxpotato fixed a bunch of small things with various items, such as:[/p]
[p]A bug on the Festival Lights item where the “Animation Intensity” property was overwriting the “Animation Speed” property.[/p]
[p]An art pass of the Fountain item.[/p]
[p]Material optimizations of Accessory items.[/p]
[p]Fixed scaling issues on the Cat Ears, Earmuffs, and the Devil Horn.[/p]
[p]Fixed the Catpack’s coloring and fading breaking after the character runs.[/p]
[p]Fixed coloring issues on the Candy Bucket Hat, Candy Backpack, Bag of Roses, Bag of Clovers, and Reindeer Bells.[/p]
[p]Added new Profile Backgrounds based on maps original to Virus and SDNL.[/p]
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Upcoming Condo Fixes
[p]macdguy worked on some fixes with visual issues in the Underwater Condo such as fixing the satellite elevators not animating, underwater post processing/lighting issues, and surface water issues.[/p][p]He also fixed an IO issue with OnSoundEnded not being called with the Sound Emitter item.[/p][p]He added an exclusion to allow the Tower Glove to be usable while inside Location Volumes that have No Weapons rule enabled.[/p][p][/p][p][/p]
Cooking Progress!
[p]Cooking has had some major progress! macdguy has completed work on recipe book and the recipe unlocking system. The internal recipe and crafting systems have also been finished![/p][p][/p][p][/p]
Upcoming Collection Book Improvements
[p]The collection book has also gotten some love with a new category for the crab unlockables as well as showing hints for hidden items you’ve yet to unlock.[/p][p][/p]
That’s a Wrap!
[p]That’s going to do it for this week’s dev log! Be sure to keep an eye out for the next one![/p][p][/p][p][/p][p] Join our Discord for development updates and community fun! [/p][p]Join Our Discord [/p][p]We love awesome people like you![/p][p][/p][p]Follow our developments on our Trello in near real-time:[/p][p]Tower Unite Roadmap [/p][p][/p][p]If you love our game and want to support its development, please consider getting a Supporter Pack! We'd be so grateful! [/p][p][/p][p][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][/p][p]Please report bugs & submit suggestions on our forums. We're active everyday & here to help. [/p][p]For bug reports: Bug Reports [/p][p]For suggestions: Submit a Suggestion [/p][p]

Jingle Jam 2025!

We are so happy to announce that we are a part of the Jingle Jam 2025 Games Collection this year!

[p][/p][p]Jingle Jam is a fundraiser to help out life-changing charities! The Jingle Jam crew will be hosting fundraising streams for 2 weeks so check it out and spread the word to help out these great causes!![/p][p][/p][p]This year the Jingle Jam is raising money for Autistica, Become, CALM, Make-A-Wish, The Trevor Project, The Grand Appeal, War Child, and World Wildlife Fund! [/p][p][/p][p]A big group of games (including Tower Unite) are included in the Jingle Jam games collection, spanning all sorts of different genres![/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]The Jingle Jam will be going on from December 1st (TODAY!!!) until December 15th, 2025 (ending 08:59 AM GMT). [/p][p][/p][p]You can check out the Jingle Jam page, learn about the charities and games involved, and donate here: https://jinglejam.tiltify.com/[/p][p]https://www.jinglejam.co.uk/[/p][p][/p]

Nominate Tower Unite for Best Soundtrack!

[p]Steam Awards 2025 is here and Tower Unite can be nominated in all categories this year![/p][p][/p][p]We're trending as Best Soundtrack award right now, so keep up the momentum and...[/p][p][/p][h3]Vote Tower Unite for Best Soundtrack for Steam Awards 2025![/h3][p]https://store.steampowered.com/steamawards/nominations/2025[/p][p][/p][h2]Also please consider voting other categories such as Sit Back and Relax Award and Better With Friends Award![/h2][p][/p][p]

Dev Log for November 18th, 2025

[p]Hello everyone and welcome to the Tower Unite Dev Log for November 18th, 2025![/p][p][/p][p]As has been the case in our past couple of Dev Logs, we’ve been hard at work on a project outside of Tower and are near the point of finally giving everyone the inside scoop on it! We appreciate everyone’s patience and hope you all have been having fun in Tower in the mean time.[/p][p][/p][p]But, in terms of Tower Unite development, we’ve been able to tackle various parts of the game since the last dev log, so let’s get into that, along with other TU events![/p][p][/p][h2]November 2025 Condo Contest - Free Build[/h2][p][/p][p]We have a Condo Contest ending very soon! It’s a free build contest so participants can submit a build with any theme they like. Check out the entries, rules, and prizes here![/p][p][/p][p][/p][h2]TU DEVELOPMENT[/h2][p]Work on our side project is wrapping up, and we’re really really excited to share it with you soon! We’ve been very busy doing the final touches on it. Unfortunately, while we didn’t intend for it to affect Tower development at all, we got very passionate about the project and put a lot of heart in into.[/p][p][/p][p]Now that the bulk work is done with it, we’ll be back to Tower development. Keep in mind that a lot of the stuff we made on our side project has already turned into new Tower items and we’ll continue to pair the two projects together. We appreciate everyone’s patience.[/p][p][/p][p]We’re eager to get back into Tower development with Arcade: Phase 3, Accelerate SDK, Cooking, and other roadmap objectives as soon as we can. As you saw in previous developer logs, we’ve already made a lot of progress on these.[/p][p][/p][p]Nuclearxpotato has been on a roll with a bunch of fixes and improvements to Tower Unite in the mean time, so we wanted to shout him out! The team’s been doing some major fixes and other developments as well, which we’ll go over too.[/p][p]So, let’s catch up since last time and see what’s been going on![/p][p][/p][h2]Game World Polish[/h2][p]We’re continuing with updates to Virus & SDNL! These include both visual polish and changes to weapons and features of the games. Here’s some of what we’ve been working on:[/p]
[p]T-posing issues while sliding[/p]
[p]Visual / Material fixes with weapons[/p]
[p]SDNL Announcer Adjustments (including volume sliders)[/p]
[p][/p][h2]Milestone Items[/h2][p]We’ve made some improvements to existing milestone items like the Throwable Shrimp and The Infection milestones. We’re also working on upcoming milestone items, which you can follow the progress of on our Trello here.[/p][p][/p][p]Upcoming milestone items include:[/p]
[p]SDNL milestones[/p]
[p]Accelerate milestones[/p]
[p]Nightclub milestones[/p]
[p]Boardwalk milestones[/p]
[p]Condo milestones[/p]
[p]Casino: Throwable Dice[/p]
[p]Casino: Throwable Cards[/p]
[p]Unfinished Plaza milestones[/p]
[p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][h2]Condo Fixes[/h2][p]Various fixes were made to the Condo system. A major optimization to I/O was completed, which will make I/O connections run more efficiently.[/p][p]There were also many fixes to materials and collision issues. Some notable item additions include:[/p]
[p]a new version of the Soda Vending Machine item was added (with new variants)[/p]
[p]adjustments to the scale and art of the Kitchen Counter items.[/p]
[p]as well as the addition, updates, and fixes to the Victorian item set, added with the Halloween update[/p]
[p][/p][h2]Contest Posters Added[/h2][p][/p][p]In case you missed it, in Hotfix 1.1.1.2, we finally added the posters that were made during the Workshop Rental Store Poster Art contest! We’re so happy to finally have them in game and hope you guys have been able to check them out too.[/p][p]They’re located all around the store where we had space![/p][p][/p][h2]Early Access Items Added[/h2][p]Another addition you might have missed was the Early Access items, which were added in Hot Fix 1.1.1.2. These items are distributed automatically if you played the game during its Early Access period![/p][p][/p][h2]Upcoming Fun![/h2][p]We have some exciting stuff planned for December, so keep an eye out for that! [/p][p][/p][h2]That’s a Wrap![/h2][p]That’s going to do it for this week’s dev log! Be sure to keep an eye out for the next one![/p][p][/p][p][/p][p] Join our Discord for development updates and community fun! [/p][p]Join Our Discord [/p][p]We love awesome people like you![/p][p][/p][p]Follow our developments on our Trello in near real-time:[/p][p]Tower Unite Roadmap [/p][p][/p][p]If you love our game and want to support its development, please consider getting a Supporter Pack! We'd be so grateful! [/p][p][/p][p][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][/p][p]Please report bugs & submit suggestions on our forums. We're active everyday & here to help. [/p][p]For bug reports: Bug Reports [/p][p]For suggestions: Submit a Suggestion [/p][p]