Legion TD 2 News

Expected patch release: Monday, November 13 (Pacific Time)

[h3]News[/h3]

• Check out Lisk's Developer AMA and Jules' Gameplay & Balance AMA from this past month! These AMA ("ask-me-anything") events are run every month, so keep an eye on reddit for the next ones.
  
• Next Nova Cup: November 25-26
  
• Join the Tournament Discord to participate and receive tournament notifications. View all past Nova Cups here: Legion TD 2 Esports Portal.

[h3]Floating Isles Campaign[/h3]
In case you missed it, the long-awaited third singleplayer/co-op campaign, The Floating Isles, just recently launched!


Party as 1-4 players and challenge all new opponents: Reek-a-deek, Fabulous Freddy, Declan Stormhammer, Jill McDonald, Rex Ribbitor, chaoslord2468, and Drachia!

Steam page: Legion TD 2 | Floating Isles Campaign

[h3]New Unit: Pirate Skeleton[/h3]

With its secret stash of loot, it can be sold for a high percentage of its original cost. Weak stats.

Pirate Skeleton Stats:

• Tier 3 (Cost: 80g)
  
• Role: Versatile
  
• Melee / Pierce / Swift
  
• Secret Stash: Sells this fighter for 90% of its total cost

[h3]New Unit: Spectral Scallywag[/h3]

No longer has a secret stash, but its combat stats are greatly strengthened.

Spectral Scallywag Stats

• Tier 3 Upgrade (Cost: 190g)
  
• Role: Versatile
  
• Melee / Pierce / Swift
  
• Unyielding Spirit: Dodges every 5th attack. When an attack is dodged, gains 20 max health for the current wave only (40 health on waves 11+)

[h3]Floating Isles Opponent Cards![/h3]

Reek-a-deek, Fabulous Freddy, Declan Stormhammer, Jill McDonald, Rex Ribbitor, chaoslord2468, and Drachia now have their cards added to the game!



[h3]General[/h3]

Rating Decay
- Players rated 2600+ who have not played a ranked game in 2+ weeks will decay 10 rating points per day. This will help keep the top of the ladder representative of the currently-active best players.

Classic
- Blitz and Ordered Chaos special modes are now less likely to show up as a hot mode & randomly selected mode. A new Classic mode coming next patch, and another one soon (TM) after that!

[h3]Legion Spells[/h3]

Investment
- Income: +33 → +32

Loan
- Income: -33 → -32

Shifting power from Investment to Loan.

Pawn Shop
- Gold: +70 → +65

Very high pick rate.

Protector
- Regeneration: 0.8% → 0.7%

Very high pick rate.

[h3]Fighters[/h3]

Looter / Pack Rat
- Attack speed: 1.02 → 1.04

Low win rate and slightly low pick rate.

Buzz
- Anaphylaxis: Damage: 50 → 60

Consort
- Paraphylaxis: Damage: 280 → 320

Low win rate.

Harpy
- Attack speed: 1.46 → 1.44

Slightly high win rate and pick rate.

Gateguard / Harbinger
- Chaos Hound / Cerberus: Attack speed: 1.02 → 1

High win rate and slightly high pick rate.

Disciple
- Damage: 73 → 71

Starcaller
- Damage: 180 → 175

High win rate.

Doppelganger
- Attack speed: 1.94 → 2

Low win rate and pick rate.

[h3]Balance Watchlist[/h3]
The dev team is constantly monitoring game balance, between looking at data and listening to community feedback. If anything is being more closely monitored than usual, it will be listed in this Balance Watchlist section. For this patch, the following are on the watchlist:

Game length

Over the last few months, average game length has increased by 1 minute. We ran an in-game poll asking ranked players their thoughts, and from thousands of responses, here are the results:

• Happy with game length: 66.6%
  
• Want longer games: 21.6%
  
• Want shorter games: 11.8%

One interesting result was that preferences vary by rank. Bronze-Expert players (97% of players) prefer longer games, and Master+ players (3% of players) prefer shorter games. Good news is that at every single rank, most players are happy with average game length.

Mid & late game workers

In some game states, it's not rewarding enough to push workers in the mid and late game. We're evaluating systemic changes to fix this, but to avoid breaking the game near the end of the season, it's best to wait until the Season 2024 patch in January.

Chaos

From a game balance point of view, Chaos has a reasonable pick rate and win rate, comparable to Cartel, Cash Out, Greed, Yolo, and Fiesta. However, some top-ranked players have expressed concern with the more RNG nature of Chaos. We're still gathering feedback and considering changes.



[h3]Improvements[/h3]

• Pulverizer now more consistently shows its VFX/SFX, even if the unit died when the stun hit. Also made the VFX a bit louder.

[h3]Fixes[/h3]

• Fixed a bug in the Leaderboards tab where the Divine leaderboard was missing (as a dropdown item in the Level leaderboard)
  
• Fixed a bug in Spectator mode where emotes didn't work for spectators other than the first slot
  
• Fixed a bug on low resolutions (e.g. Steamdeck) where the in-game King Upgrade panel was covered up by the bottom-left HUD panel (mercenary icons/autosend indicator)
  
• Added emote animation types (horizontal shake, rubberband, etc) to localization spreadsheets
  

[h3]Nova Cup: Today We Fight For Glory![/h3]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1n6gzsqJ7Y&feature=youtu.be
Wondering what these "Nova Cups" are all about? Shadowings' hype video captures the excitement of epic holds and epic sends in a tightly edited 90 second video.

[h3]Game Translations[/h3]


Legion TD 2's translations continue to be greatly improved, thanks to major contributions from community members! If you'd like to contribute to improving the game's texts further, visit the following link:

Help Translate Legion TD 2

HUGE thank you to everyone who has helped up to this point!



Hope everyone had an enjoyable Halloween weekend! With this update, we are excited to introduce new units to the game! The goal of Pirate Skeleton is to bring the fun of Grarl to more openings & strategies. Spectral Scallywag brings built-in synergy with Pirate Skeleton in that its ability is quite strong early-game. It also has late-game scaling potential with its dodge + max health mechanics.

Thank you again for playing Legion TD 2! We hope you continue to enjoy the game.

If you've enjoyed the game, but haven't left a review yet, please consider posting a short (hopefully positive ) review for the game! If the game reaches 90% positive, Steam will give it more visibility = more players = more freelo better matchmaking!

If you enjoy these updates, please give it a Thumbs Up, too!

And as always, if you have constructive criticism, let's chat about it. Discord and /r/LegionTD2 on reddit are our main channels of communication, and aside from the development team, there are community helpers who can ensure your feedback is heard, as well as answer pretty much anything you've ever wanted to know about the game. If you want a guaranteed answer from the devs, the monthly AMAs on /r/LegionTD2 are your best bet.

Sincerely,
The Legion TD 2 Team

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The long-awaited third singleplayer/co-op campaign is out now!


Play against all new opponents: Reek-a-deek, Fabulous Freddy, Declan Stormhammer, Jill McDonald, Rex Ribbitor, chaoslord2468, and Drachia!

Get it here:
Legion TD 2 | Floating Isles Campaign

[h3]Twitch Drops[/h3]
To celebrate the launch of the campaign, a Twitch Drops Celebration will be run from October 27th through October 31st.

From October 27th through October 31st*, watch any Legion TD 2 Twitch streamer with Twitch Drops enabled to earn the following rewards:
- Watch for 60 minutes: 2,000 Essence
- Watch for an additional 60 minutes: 4,000 Additional Essence
- Watch for an additional 120 minutes: Random Card
In other words, simply watch 240 minutes (4 hours) of Twitch, and you'll earn 6,000 Essence and a Random Card in total.

Full instructions for both streamers & viewers here:
Legion TD 2 x Twitch Drops

*ends Nov 1st at 11:59 pm UTC

Congratulations to the winners of last month's Nova Cup!
- D1: abrasiert (Kingdanzz & Widderson)
- D2: tropical baguette (skillz & Papai Zeita)
- D3: what's arcane? (warnessa2007 & TDMeister)
- D4: scoobydobevibin (Yldren & Stranger Ways)
- D5: the uncrustables (Garthtoker & hoochie42069)

Missed the action? Check the brackets, team lists, & VODs for all divisions on the Legion TD 2 eSports portal!


The upcoming October Nova Cup takes place October 21 - 22.

$875 in prizes and sign-up is free - first come first served!
There are up to five skill divisions, so no matter what your rating is, you have a chance to win.
Participation prize: Every participant who plays all of their matches will receive a FREE random card. If you haven't played a tournament yet, this is a great time to join.


- Everyone that is level 3 or higher can join for free! First come, first served. So if you joined the game during the free to play weekend, feel free to participate!




When you watch Nova Cups on the official channel, aside from enjoying shoutcasted top-tier Legion gameplay, you'll also receive in-game rewards based on how long you watch!

Watch the official Legion TD 2 Twitch stream during a Nova Cup to earn the following rewards:
- Watch for 60 minutes: 2,000 essence
- Watch for an additional 90 minutes: 4,000 additional essence
- Watch for an additional 120 minutes: Random card

In other words, if you watch the Nova Cup both days, you'll earn 6,000 total essence and a random card!

IMPORTANT: You'll need to link your Twitch account to your Legion TD 2 account in order to earn the rewards.
Link Your Twitch Account

• Sign-ups are open from NOW until October 21 9am PST / 6pm CEST.
  
• To sign up, find a teammate and form a party. After you're both in the party, have one player type "/signup [team name]" (e.g. /signup Snail Kings) in chat. You should see a confirmation message that your sign-up went through. For those who participated in previous Nova Cups, you no longer need to do /join to signup.
  
• The first 16 teams to sign up in each division can participate. Other teams are waitlisted. There are usually no-shows, so waitlisted teams are encouraged to be present in the Discord and ready to play. View the team list to see your sign-up position and division.
  
• If there are more than 32 teams checked in, there will be an additional best-of-1 qualifying round to allow more teams to participate. It is a best-of-1, rather than a best-of-3, to keep the event from running overly long.
  
• Both players must join the Legion TD 2 Official Tournament Discord. Make sure to set your server nickname to match your in-game name.

• You may sign-up as a solo with a suggested team name using the "/signup [team name]" command. Solo teams will be added to the Public Teams list, then be formed into teams on the day of the tournament. Solo teams will be randomly assigned a team name from either of its members.
  
• If there is a waitlist, team sign-ups will always take priority over solo sign-ups
  
• If you sign up as a solo, but then you find a teammate, you can re-sign up as a team any time before check-ins start. Just use the /signup command again with the new teammate. The tournament organizer will void your old solo signup after they process your new team signup.
  
• After check-ins are over, all checked-in solo players will be randomly formed into teams by the tournament organizer. You cannot request a specific teammate at this point; if you want to play with a specific person, you should have signed up as a team instead.

It is still strongly recommended to sign-up as a team to guarantee your spot in the tournament and to give you time to practice with your teammate beforehand.



Saturday, October 21

• Check-in window: 8:45 - 9:15am PDT / 5:45 - 6:15pm CEST
  
• Games: 10am - 1:30pm PST / 7 - 10:30pm CEST
  
  • Round of 16 (Best of 3)
    
  • Quarter-finals (Best of 3)

Sunday, October 22

• Check-in window: 9 - 9:30am PDT / 6 - 6:30pm CEST
  
• Games: 10am - 1:30pm PST / 7 - 10:30pm CEST
  
  • Semi-finals (Best of 3)
    
  • Final (Best of 5)

Check-in

• Teams must check in via the Legion TD 2 Official Tournament Discord. Waitlisted teams should also check in.
  
• Any team that fails to check in will be disqualified. The next team on the waitlist that checked in will earn a spot.

The custom game room creator should enable Tournament Mode in the room. This will ensure the following settings:

• 2v2
  
• Mastermind only
  
• Hybrid disabled

Division 1 & 2 Only
- Conquest rules apply. (Once you win with a Mastermind playstyle, you can't use that playstyle again for that series)



For a full list of rules, prizes, and other details, visit the following link:
Nova Cup Rules & FAQ

For questions & support, please join the Legion TD 2 Official Tournament Discord.

See you on October 21st! The Nova Cup will be casted and streamed at twitch.tv/ltd2. Check the Tournament Discord on the event day for links to the other casts.

Sincerely,
Your Legion TD 2 Tournament Staff

Expected patch release: Tuesday, October 10 (Pacific Time)

[h3]News & Updates[/h3]

• Check out Lisk's Developer AMA and Jules' Gameplay & Balance AMA from this past month! These AMA ("ask-me-anything") events are run every month, so keep an eye on reddit for the next ones.
  
• Next Nova Cup: October 21-22
  
• Join the Tournament Discord to participate and receive tournament notifications. View all past Nova Cups here: Legion TD 2 Esports Portal.

[h3]Floating Isles Campaign[/h3]
The long-awaited third singleplayer/co-op campaign, The Floating Isles, is releasing October 27 at 10 am Pacific Time!


Party as 1-4 players and challenge all new opponents: Reek-a-deek, Fabulous Freddy, Declan Stormhammer, Jill McDonald, Rex Ribbitor, chaoslord2468, and Drachia!

Preview it here: Legion TD 2 | Floating Isles Campaign

[h3]Halloween Map Decorations & Skins![/h3]

Wishing you a spooky October from the Legion TD team with map decorations and new skins!

New Halloween Map Decorations
New Skin: Stranger Eyes
New Skin: Slime Knight

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Note: this video shows last year's skins. See below for screenshots of the new skins.



Halloween decorations will be enabled until next month's patch. You can toggle them in Options.



[h3]General[/h3]

King
- Damage decreased by 33%
- Lightning Hammer: Percent health damage: 4% → 6%
- Upgrade attack: 7% → 10%
- Now smarter about targeting in certain circumstances

This brings the king closer to pre-tenacity levels; it is now slightly stronger against huge leaks. Also, upgrading the king is stronger.

Recommended Fighter Value
- Formula adjusted to weight mythium more

This should be more accurate particularly at higher mythium counts.

[h3]Legion Spells[/h3]

Glacial Touch
- Damage: 50 → 45
- Percent slow: 90% → 95%
- Percent slow against bosses: 90% → 80%

Shifting power from AOE to slow, and nerfing against bosses.

[h3]Fighters[/h3]

Dwarf Banker / Big Wig
- Attack speed: 0.92 → 0.94

Low win rate and pick rate.

Violet
- Lightning Strike: Damage 80 + 0.15% max health → 85 + 0.15% max health

Small nudge to make Violet more rewarding.

Infiltrator / Orchid
- No longer count as ranged after arming with shurikens

Gateguard / Harbinger
- Chaos Hound / Cerberus: Attack speed: 1.04 → 1.02

High win rate and pick rate.

Butcher
- Health: 1310 → 1340

Head Chef
- Health: 3670 → 3750

Low win rate and pick rate. Longer games indirectly nerfed Butcher and Head Chef.

APS / MPS
- Attack speed: 1.32 → 1.27

High win rate and pick rate. Longer games indirectly buffed APS and MPS.

Whitemane
- Health: 4550 → 4500
- Damage: 179 → 177

High win rate and pick rate. Longer games indirectly buffed Whitemane.

Soul Gate / Hell Gate
- Healing reduction: -50% → -60%

Gates are in a good spot, but still a bit oppressive with healing.

[h3]Waves[/h3]

Wave 8: Kobras
- Attack speed: 1.563 → 1.538

Wave 9: Carapaces
- Attack speed: 1.504 → 1.527

Shifting power from wave 8 to 9.

Wave 14: Killer Slugs
- Attack speed: 1.19 → 1.2

Wave 15: Quadrapuses
- Health: 2230 → 2210
- Giant Quadrapus: Health: 8920 → 8840

Shifting power from wave 15 to 14.

[h3]Misc. Balance[/h3]

Blitz (Classic Mode)
- Build phase game speed slowed a bit: 1.7x to 1.3x → 1.6x to 1.0x

In response to feedback that players didn't have enough time to build.

[h3]Balance Watchlist[/h3]
The dev team is constantly monitoring game balance, between looking at data and listening to community feedback. If specific units/spells are being more closely monitored than usual, they will be listed in this Balance Watchlist section. For this patch, the following are on the watchlist:

• Dwarf Banker / Big Wig, especially in Classic
  
• King balance
  
• Summoners
  
• Healers
  
• Ramping units

[h3]Major Improvements[/h3]

Card Trader Overstocking
Now can stock duplicates of cards! This makes it easier to collect your favorite cards whenever they are overstocked. Additionally, Weekly Quests now give 1x Card Trader Reroll each!


[h3]Minor Improvements[/h3]

• New Emoji: JULES (Screenshot)
  
• Hovering a player’s rank in the loading screen or postgame screen now shows their rank name & elo range (Screenshot)
  
• Added a little bit more grace period for deploying/upgrading fighters the moment before a wave starts (total wave time is unadjusted; this is just a cosmetic change that displays the timer slightly ahead of “actual” time)
  
• Emotes are now enabled for Spectators, though their emotes will be visible to only other Spectators. This mainly affects the Nova Cup casts.
  

[h3]Fixes[/h3]

• Fixed a UI issue where the Match Found popup would be mistakenly displayed in the loading screen
  
• Fixed a bug where players who had a newly earned Weekly Quest were unable to reconnect to a game in progress
  
• Fixed a few minor bugs with the ping wheel (“wants to send”) on Wave 21 displaying the wrong text/sound
  
• Fixed a bug where Game Coach mistakenly warned you about being overbuilt on Wave 18 or later
  
• Fixed a bug where Pack Rat Treasure Hunt wasn’t considered an opening for Masteries

[h3]Yozora Halloween Cosplay[/h3]

This Instagram post is a few years old, but still the only cosplay (that we know of) for a Legion TD 2 character... respect!

[h3]Nova Cup: Today We Fight For Glory! (August 2023 Highlights)[/h3]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1n6gzsqJ7Y&feature=youtu.be
Wondering what these "Nova Cups" are all about? Shadowings' hype video captures the excitement of epic holds and epic sends in a tightly edited 90 second video.

[h3]Game Translations[/h3]


Legion TD 2's translations continue to be greatly improved, thanks to major contributions from community members! If you'd like to contribute to improving the game's texts further, visit the following link:

Help Translate Legion TD 2

HUGE thank you to everyone who has helped up to this point!



With this update, we have been working hard on developing and balancing the upcoming Floating Isles campaign, and we can't wait to release it later this month! This patch also has some important balance changes to get the King in a better spot especially when it comes to one-shotting.

Thank you again for playing Legion TD 2! We hope you continue to enjoy the game.

If you've enjoyed the game, but haven't left a review yet, please consider posting a short (hopefully positive ) review for the game! If the game reaches 90% positive, Steam will give it more visibility = more players = more freelo better matchmaking!

If you enjoy these updates, please give it a Thumbs Up, too!

And as always, if you have constructive criticism, let's chat about it. Discord and reddit are our main channels of communication, and aside from the development team, there are community helpers who can ensure your feedback is heard, as well as answer pretty much anything you've ever wanted to know about the game. If you want a guaranteed answer from the devs, the monthly AMAs on /r/LegionTD2 are your best bet.

Sincerely,
The Legion TD 2 Team

Hotfix for Shadow Dancer & Dread Knight, plus various fixes.

[h3]Balance[/h3]

Shadow Dancer (Nerf)
- Attack Speed: 1.471 --> 1.418

Dread Knight (Nerf)
- Attack Speed: 1.471 --> 1.418

[h3]Fixes[/h3]
- Fixed some rare cases where outdated player statistics/data were used when updating ratings/stats, resulting in incorrect numbers
- Fixed a bug where the postgame builds tab wasn't properly showing the amount of king upgrades per wave
- Fixed a bug with Dwarf Banker & Big Wig mistakenly gaining mana/gold in Weekly Challenge
- Fixed a bug where ping wheel options for Wave 21+ were incorrect while the battle was in progress
- Fixed a bug where certain player accounts were receiving more essence per game than intended due to an unintended interaction between bonus essence multipliers

[h3]Improvements[/h3]
- New Player Quests are now earnable in Classic, to accommodate Classic-only/Classic-focused players
- Updated translations