I have beat ex5 an unspeakable amount of times at this point. I would really like some new modes to spice up the gameplay similar to what variables 1 had. some ideas I have that would be easy to implement. they could have there own difficulty levels or be set up as level effects. i personally say the former is much better.

1. A mode where there is no natural ground so it's just flat like earlier difficulties. I find myself abusing the terrain a lot and not interacting with the fun layering of platforms you can do. acid might be really weak in this though as it wants really long paths.

2. A mode where your towers are randomized same for gear. the gear would need to be drafted out of a pool of 3 for it to be reliably beatable.

3. A full-on draft mode where you draft a set of towers and gear and then have to survive as long as you can. this would also draft up stuff like platforms and special constructs like telescopes.