New Content: Custom Maps
- Jail Break: Break free from prison by corrupting other prisoners to your will and avoiding or deactivating security.
- Byte Command: A Missile Command style arcade map where you defend with your base with rays from approaching enemies.
- Gari’s Game: Play both sides of a battle and defeat a player of your choosing as quickly as possible.
- Byte Bound: A Bound or Frogger style map where you must avoid a series of hazards to reach the end.
- Grand Stand: Protect your base from waves of enemy attack and between rounds buy buildings and upgrades.
- Steam Workshop support: One-click subscription makes it easy to play and share community made map packs!
Map Editor
New Game Mechanics
- Player actions (Turret, Energy Reactor, Relay, etc…) can be assigned a cooldown, charges, and max charge count. Charges are refunded upon demolishing a building of that type.
- Retaliation Damage: When a building takes damage it can reflex a fraction of that damage back to the attacker.
- Mid-level action modifiers: Modify your buildings mid-level for wacky effects, powerups, and super abilities.
Editing
- Quick and Easy map creation tools!
- Fully Customizable player action bar and configurable building modifiers.
- Editor Actions: Mirror, cut, paste, undo, and more make level design easy!
- Programmable player AI actions, responses, and difficulty ramping.
- Player Action Recording and Playback
- Map Scripting: Enables map packs of equal or greater complexity to the main campaign. For a full list of features visit our Editor Guide.
- Persistent state across maps in a map pack enable cross-map choices and effects.
Buildings
- Blockade: New building deals retaliation return damage to attackers.
- Shield: Now featuring hundreds of bubble placement configurations.
- Turret: Quad attack enables attacking multiple (up to 4) directions at once.
- Turret: Attack chaining to connected buildings
- Destroying or capturing a building can now provide resource bounty in custom maps
Constructions (non-destructible buildings)
- Relays (up to 8 relays in a network)
- Energy Reactor
- Nanite Fountain
Terrain
- Pits
- Walls
Tutorial Videos
We've recorded some tutorial videos to get you started with the editor.
Byte Builder Competition
Do you have what it takes to make an awesome Byte Lynx map pack? If so, then enter your map to our Byte Lynx Map Builder Competition for a chance to win prizes and prestige! The Competition runs for the month of September!
Major Gameplay Changes
- Added destroyed building SFX/VFX feedback for all buildings in the game.
- Improvised player Input handling.
- [Community Feedback] Dialogue now has reader options so that you can configure its behavior. Defaults to (Pause game always) and (Click to advance). The previous behavior is still available if you change the the settings to (Pause game on hover) and (Auto advance).
Tweaks and bug fixes
- [Community Feedback] Slight tweaks and bug fixes for Impact Mission.
- [Community Feedback] Altered voltage dialogue in Prologue: Traitor Mission.
- [Community Feedback] New upgrade for Prologue: Traitor Mission.
- [Community Feedback] Fixed Bug related to gossamer being captured in Backdoor Mission.
- [Community Feedback] “Get Resources” AI cards fixed, both in editor and campaign. It should now work more consistently.
- [Community Request] Added new tab to Main Menu Editor called Workspace Management which makes managing your Workspace a bit easier. Especially if you wish to switch between working on different map packs.
- Updated Journey map template to include a ping trail.
- Fixed major AI targeting bug.
- Added “Kill” and “Mourn” trigger type to Building Triggers. Kill will fire when a specific player receives kill credit for destroying a building (killing blow). Mourn will fire once the Target Player’s building is killed by another player. Could be used for tracking kills or to differentiate between destroyed (via demolish) and killed buildings.
- Added Ping and Ping Trail Map Actions!
