Speed and Quality settings, sorted by what they save

Status: Pending

Requested: Oct 22, 2026

Request: Put every setting that costs frame rate together in Settings > Display, in a Speed & Quality section, sorted from the one that saves the most to the one that saves the least. Make shadows cheaper as a choice.

Why: When the game runs slowly it should be easy to see which switch helps most.

Plan: Display gets three sections: Screen, Speed & Quality, and On the battlefield. Every switch in Speed & Quality is measured in big test fights and sorted by how much it saves, with a small marker for the size of the saving. Shadows becomes Full / Light / Off: Light keeps the shadows of towers, enemies, hills and trees but drops the ones you hardly see (shots, scrap on the path, sparks, health bars), and is the new default. The same layout in the main menu and in a game.

Status: Pending → Added

Added in 0.1.8.25 (Oct 23, 2026, 8:53 AM Eastern).

Settings > Display now has three pages: Screen, Speed & Quality and On the battlefield. Speed & Quality lists every setting that costs frame rate, sorted from the one that saves the most, with dots for the size of the saving. Shadows can be Full, Light (the new default) or Off. When the game runs slowly at high speed, the slow-game question also offers going back to 1x, and can switch back to your speed when the wave ends.