Tower Buff

Phenomenon

Around April 3rd, 2020, a bug started to affect a large majority of towers, causing them to fire 10x the normal number of projectiles simultaneously instead of 1 at a time. The bug affected the towers differently: some tower types were affected at all tiers, some weren't affected at all, and some towers were affected once upgraded to a specific tier and above.

The issue didnt affect all the servers at once, but it started to spread slowly across all of them, in a couple of weeks.

10 projectiles per shot

Affected Towers

Image	Tower	Tiers	Effect
	Arrow Tower	1-8	Shoots 10 arrow projectiles
	Cannon Tower	5-8	Shoots 10 cannon projectiles
	Bomb Tower	None	-
	Mage Tower	6-8	Shoots 30 mage projectiles, instead of 3
	Melee Tower	None	-

Affected Pets

Image	Pet	Tiers	Effect
	Woody	5-8	Mines multiple resources in a burst hit

I know this isn't a tower, but still.

Cause

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Examples

Bugged towers in an environmental base

Erik in his env base, with bugged towers.

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Bugged towers in a corner base

Erik in his corner base, with bugged towers.

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New player looking at the arrow projectiles

New player looking at the projectiles.

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Woody bug

Woody burst hit.

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Impact

New base shape

• New score base shape that is still used nowadays, originally made by deathrain. Crescent shaped base usually facing at the bottom or right side, used to funnel in all the zombies.

deathrain's score base concept.

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Higher SPW

• Higher Score-Per-Wave than it was possible before, 30-40m+ SPW.

Erik's corner score base concept using this tower buff.

Lowest SPW

• Lowest Score-Per-Wave base - 960k SPW. Mages kept pushing back the zombies, not killing them that fast and as a result you'd gain score very slowly, slower than the default 2.2m per wave.

Mage based env base, by randominist & asd.

High Waves

• 8133 Waves by deathrain. He used a huge edge base to quickly kill all the nearby zombies. I'm surprised (as the narrator) that nobody bothered in that 10+ day timespan to kill his base.

deathrain afking in his 8000+ waves base.

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Changelog

May 25, 2020 - Minor Update

- Fix disconnection exploit from spamming packets which broadcast to all players

The tower bug was fixed in this update, but it's not mentioned in the changelog. Jeremiah 😠