Block Fortress - Foursaken Media

Build your fortress, and defend it to the end!

Block Fortress gives you the freedom to create a stronghold in almost any way you can imagine, and then puts you in the middle of the action trying to defend it from the relentless attacks of the menacing Goblocks! Put your skills as both a builder and a fighter to the test as you try to survive as long as you can!

Features:

• a unique mix of TD and FPS gameplay
• complete freedom to build your base any way you choose, from towering fortresses, to sprawling castles
• customize your blocks, weapons, and equipment using a massive crafting system
• team up with your friends in 2-4 player cooperative multiplayer
• fortify your walls with over 30 different building blocks
• defend your base with 16 advanced turret types
• gear up your avatar with tons of weapons and equipment
• lots of support blocks - including power generators, depth charges, land mines, spotlights, teleporters, and more
• day and night cycle - build lights and spotlights to prepare yourself for the harsh night!
• several game modes, including a "free build" sandbox mode and a more intense survival mode
• 6 different types of terrain to conquer
• upload and share your creations, and download others
• up to 4 player cooperative multiplayer

Just some more bug fixes:

• fixed a bug that would cause your resources to be incorrect when loading a game in survival and quickstart
• fixed a bug that would prevent you from unlocking equipment in survival mode after playing a game of co-op
• fixed a bug that would cause the cost of mines and drills to reset when you beat a level in survival
• fixed a bug in co-op that would sometimes cause players to remain flying while fighting or build objects that are different than what’s selected in your active slots
• fixed sniper bot IAP crash

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Block Fortress - Foursaken Media

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Build your fortress, and defend it to the end!

Block Fortress gives you the freedom to create a stronghold in almost any way you can imagine, and then puts you in the middle of the action trying to defend it from the relentless attacks of the menacing Goblocks! Put your skills as both a builder and a fighter to the test as you try to survive as long as you can!

Features:

• a unique mix of TD and FPS gameplay
• complete freedom to build your base any way you choose, from towering fortresses, to sprawling castles
• customize your blocks, weapons, and equipment using a massive crafting system
• fortify your walls with over 30 different building blocks
• defend your base with 16 advanced turret types
• gear up your avatar with tons of weapons and equipment
• lots of support blocks - including power generators, depth charges, land mines, spotlights, teleporters, and more
• day and night cycle - build lights and spotlights to prepare yourself for the harsh night!
• several game modes, including a "free build" sandbox mode and a more intense survival mode
• 6 different types of terrain to conquer
• Upload and share your creations, and download others

Thanks again to all of you for making Block Fortress such a success! We've still got a bunch more things planned for this game. For now, enjoy these extra features and bug fixes, and we'll continue to work on adding the big stuff you've been asking for... including co-op multiplayer!

• added a system to upload, share, and rate bases in sandbox mode
• added a new motion sensor block that can detect shadows
• added a flat plains terrain location
• you can now build terrain blocks in sandbox mode
• added a day and night toggle in sandbox mode
• fixed a crash that would happen every time a land mine or depth charge exploded
• you can now delete granite blocks in sandbox mode (allowing you to dig caves)
• major memory optimizations, allowing for bigger maps on lower RAM devices, and bigger maps in sandbox mode on all devices
• fixed an exploit that could make shadows wander around indefinitely without attacking
• added a link in the “Guide” section to the official IGN wiki - check it out, add your tips and strategies, and promote your uploaded fortresses!
• enemies now drop multiple coins based on the size of their reward (every coin is equal to up to 5 gold, so an enemy that rewards 20 gold will drop 4 coins)
• increased the time enemy coins persist before they disappear
• greatly increased the block and enemy selection distance when in FPS mode
• fixed a bug that would cause stats to be adjusted incorrectly when some mods were removed
• fixed some inaccurate mod descriptions
• removed salvage mod from nuke blocks (which caused an exploit)
• changed the R.O.F. mod on heavy plasma to a reload mod
• you can now hold down the up and down arrows to continuously fly up and down
• swapped the inverse look options (so they control the correct camera rotations now)
• tweaked the icon
• other bug fixes

Stay tuned for more, and if you've been enjoying the game, tell your friends!

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Apple Apologizes Amid Media Backlash in China

HONG KONG – Apple has backtracked on its erstwhile stance on its smartphone warranty policy in China, as its CEO apologized to his Chinese consumers in a public letter and pledged to alter what he admitted to be a perception of the company as “arrogant and unconcerned” about public criticism of the brand in the country.

In a Chinese letter titled “To Our Respected Chinese Consumers” and posted on Apple’s Chinese portal April 1, Tim Cook said the company has received “much feedback about Apple’s repairs and warranty policies in China,” on which his team have “reflected deeply.”

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“We sensed that an insufficient external communication during the process [of dealing with criticism of the company’s policies] has led to a public perception of Apple being arrogant, unconcerned and placing no emphasis on consumers’ feedback. We offer our sincerest apologies for the anxiety and misunderstanding this has brought to consumers,” the letter read.

Cook said the company would revise the warranty policy for smartphones in the country, with customers receiving a brand-new set when they return their malfunctioning phone to the company within one year of purchase, with the new warranty starting from the day the new set was given to the consumer.

Effective from April, this new rule was aimed at resolving the one major complaint aired on state broadcaster China Central Television’s consumer rights’ show March 15. Previously, customers trading in their malfunctioning phones within the one-year warranty period would be issued a set with new innards covered by the back lid of the returned phone. Critics said this delivery of partially new phones is not in line with the brand’s practices elsewhere in the world.

Since then, Apple has come under persistent attack in mainland Chinese media, with state-backed publications like the People’s Daily running an article last week that attacked the brand as “ignoring Chinese consumers, substandard customer service, suspected tax evasion and a steadfast refusal to admit wrongdoing when it’s caught out.”

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Claiming the Chinese market contributed $7.3 billion to Apple’s coffers during the previous quarter, and that the country’s consumers made up 34 percent of the company's increase in revenue in December, the piece said China “should be regarded as Apple’s main financial backer. … It’s the Chinese market which propped up the brand’s remarkable results.”

Meanwhile, government departments have also promised tighter scrutiny of the company’s Chinese operations, with the State Administration of Industry and Commerce announcing Thursday that it is looking into public complaints of Apple not offering the two-year warranty as stipulated in Chinese law.

It’s a backlash that Cook and his team has taken to heart over in California: He ended the letter by saying how the company “has always held endless respect to China, and Chinese consumers have always been the most important in our hearts.” It remains to be seen whether this groveling apology would work as Beijing attempts to bolster the pedigree of domestic products at home in the face of what the officials see as a foreign invasion.

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