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Emotes, New Game Coaches, Creator Boost, Gifting, and more!

Expected patch release: May 15 (Pacific Time)

News & Updates
- 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: May 20-21
- Nekomata Cup: June 10-11. First-ever tournament tailored for players in Asia, Oceania, Europe and Africa! Details coming soon.
- Join the Tournament Discord to participate and receive tournament notifications. View all past Nova Cups here: Legion TD 2 eSports Portal.

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New Content & Features


[h2]Major Feature: Emotes[/h2]
  • Express yourself by spamming judiciously using in-game emotes!
  • Hold Shift+E to open up the emote window.
  • Personalize each emote with a variety of animation styles in Options > Social.
  • If you’re not a fan of Emotes, you can choose to receive emotes from nobody or only from friends in Options > Social.


[h2]Major Update: Game Coach Refresh[/h2]
  • Each unlockable Game Coach now unlocks special emotes
  • Your currently-equipped Game Coach is now flexed as an emote just before Wave 1 starts..
  • Game Coach secret cards are now part of the Card Trader rotation and unlockable using Card Fragments.
  • Game Coach sound effects are now previewed when cycling through dialogue in the shop.
  • Plus, three brand new Game Coaches - see below!


[h3]New Game Coach: Pirate Coach[/h3]
Ahoy, an' welcome to Legion TD 2! Booty be aplenty here in these waters. Time t' drop anchor 'n set sail!

[h3]New Game Coach: 200 IQ Coach[/h3]
Greetings & salutations. Together, let us unravel the mysteries of the universe! Or, you know, just sit here and autosend.

[h3]Dude Coach[/h3]
What's up, bro! Ready to have a good time? Credits to Kidev for the original design!

[h2]Major Update: Creator Codes Upgraded![/h2]
  • NEW: You will now receive 10% bonus Premium Essence every time you make a purchase using a Creator Code!
  • As a reminder, every time you enter a creator code, AutoAttack Games donates 14% of its revenue from that purchase directly to that content creator.
  • Special Promotional Period: As soon as the patch drops, until the end of June, we’ll be doubling this rate to 28%!
We truly believe in the Legion community, and this is one more way we want to show our support for all who make Legion TD 2 what it is today. Content creators, it's all up to you to advertise those creator codes!

[h2]New Feature: Premium Essence Gifting[/h2]

You can now send Premium Essence gifts to your friends, along with a personalized message. Access the gifting menu from the normal Premium Essence purchase screen. You'll see a new "Send as Gift" button.

[h2]New Skins[/h2]

This month, we're excited to present the winner & some honorable mentions from the community skin competition!

[h3]New Skin: Totally Not Poisonous Hermit[/h3]
Original concept by LanaDelRabiesLTD2

[h3]New Skin: Turbo Turtle[/h3]
Original concept by e1esdee

[h3]New Skin: Spiny Shell Bone Crusher[/h3]
Original concept by D4NW0LF

Spoiler: one more honorable mention coming in next month's patch.

Game Balance


[h3]Legion Spells[/h3]

Dark Ritual
- Gold: 140 --> 145

Low win rate and pick rate.

Divine Blessing
- Health: 2250 --> 2150

High win rate and pick rate. Too strong with ranged off-tanks like Azeria.

Investment
- Income: 34 --> 33

High pick rate and indirectly buffed by king changes.

Loan
- Income penalty: -34 --> -33

Low win rate and pick rate.

[h3]Power Score[/h3]
- Now weighs mythium slightly higher

This slightly nerfs long-saving mythium by making it less likely for saving to cause your opponents to go on fire.

King
- Health increased by +13% → +3% from waves 1 → 21
- Attack damage and spell damage adjusted by +5% → -4% from waves 1 → 21
- Wave 9’s Deflection now reduces damage from the king by 6%
- Wave 18’s Poison-Tipped Pole now deals 40 bonus damage against the king
- Removed a health nerf that only previously applied to waves 9 and 18

Buffing the king early game to make leaks to the king less punishing and encourage more workers.

King damage will also be more consistent on waves 9 and 18. Previously, mercenaries like Ogre on 9 and Four Eyes on 18 did disproportionately too much damage, while the waves themselves did unexpectedly little damage.


[h3]Fighters[/h3]

Looter
- DPS: 5.3 → 6.1
— Damage: 5 → 6
— Attack speed: 1.06 → 1.02

Pollywog
- DPS: 6.7 → 7.8
— Damage: 7 → 8
— Attack speed: 0.95 → 0.97

Chained Fist
- Health: 200 → 210

Peewee
- Health: 240 → 260
- Booster: Attack speed bonus: +120% → 125%

Back when cheap unit spam was a dominant strategy, cheap units were heavily nerfed. Now that the game has checks against spam, it’s safe to rebuff these units. To test things and avoid disruption, we’re only buffing underperforming units, not adjusting units that would require power shifts (e.g. shifting power from Consort to Buzz). We may consider this in a future patch.

Veteran
- Stimpack: Attack speed bonus: +120% → 125%

Fun ability that’s currently underutilized.

Sakura
- Attack speed: 1.15 → 1.136

High win rate. One of the strongest openings in the game.

Slime Larva
- Health: 320 → 310
- Damage: 32 → 31

High win rate. Efficient stats, plus wave delay/split potential.

Fire Elemental
- DPS: Unchanged
— Damage: 32 → 30
— Combustion: Damage: 25 → 30
— Attack speed: 0.85 → 0.81

More magic damage, less pierce damage. Now perfectly 2-shots waves 3, bringing back Fire Elemental as an opening.

Canopie
- Health: 4850 → 4800

High pick rate and was indirectly buffed by the introduction of Tree of Life.

Seadragon
- Health: 900 → 870

Lifebinder
- Health: 2700 → 2610

High win rate.

Cursed Casket
- Health: 1520 → 1500

Cage of Pain
- Health: 2680 → 2650

Iron Maiden
- Health: 3820 → 3770

High win rate.

APS / MPS
- Attack speed: 1.43 → 1.39

High win rate.

Trinity Archer
- Damage: 57 → 56

High win rate.

Gatling Gun / Vulcan Cannon
- Attack speed: 2.13 → 2.2

Very low pick rate.

Eggsack
- Health: 2200 → 2300
- Eggsplosion: Fixed a bug where it did magic damage. Now correctly does pure damage.

Very low pick rate. Buffing Eggsack opening.

Soul Gate
- Nightcrawler: Health: 390 → 420

Hell Gate
- Elite Nightcrawler: Health: 1000 → 1080

Very low win rate. Increasing Nightcrawler’s health to better match the health-damage profile of other ranged units.

Great Boar / Red Eyes
- Stampede & Thunderous Charge damage increased by 8%

Low pick rate. Outclassed by Banana Bunk/Haven on most waves.

[h3]Mercenaries[/h3]

Witch
- Attack speed: 1.52 → 1.43

Witch is nearly always a viable send and too often the best send.

[h3]Waves[/h3]

Wave 6: Rockos
- Impale: Fixed a bug where it did pure damage. Now correctly does impact damage.

Wave 18: Wale Chiefs
- Poison-Tipped Pole: Damage: 230 → 240

[h3]Balance Watchlist[/h3]
- Game pacing and sending meta

Making sure the meta includes a healthy mix of income sending, short saves, long saves, split sends, coordinated sends, high income mercenaries, power mercenaries, and king ups. There are a lot of levers to adjust these things (mercenary stats, mythium rate, king power, tenacity, leak gold, pillage gold, etc.).

Currently, king damage in the early game is too punishing, so we're buffing the king. We'll continue to evaluate and make improvements. We're always monitoring all aspects of game balance, looking at data, and listening to community feedback.

Improvements & Fixes


[h2]Improvements[/h2]
  • Game Text: Pirate translation is now selectable via Options > Language. Ya-ha-har!
  • Pings: Player name is now displayed beneath each ping (Screenshot)
  • Tooltips: Added a damage type icon and improved readability for all abilities with damage type different than that of the unit.
  • Performance: Minor improvements to client performance in big battles. This may inadvertently sometimes cause some graphical glitches with missiles; please report a bug if you see them, and we’ll revert the change.
  • Emojis: Added wp, smiling_face_with_tear, and melting_face (Screenshot)
  • Spectator HUD: Removed Net Worth & Builds from the main HUD. Scaled larger on 2560x1440 screens. This should improve the Nova Cup viewing experience!


[h2]Fixes[/h2]
  • Gameplay: Fixed a bug where Sakura’s value calculation was incorrectly increasing by 15 instead of 30 on waves 11+
  • Gameplay: Fixed a bug where Treasure Hunt did not grant mythium on Wave 21+
  • Gameplay: Fixed a bug where queued King Upgrades wouldn’t prevent using Embargo and vice versa
  • Gameplay: Fixed a bug where the “Guild Member” Steam achievement didn’t unlock for guild leaders creating their own guild
  • Gameplay: Fixed a bug where Fiesta gold was mistakenly given after using Restart in campaigns/AI games
  • Gameplay: Fixed a bug where Tree of Life’s Devotion buff wasn’t correctly applied after doing a -load build
  • Postgame: Fixed a rare case where First Win of the Day Essence bonus wasn’t given if the game ended right at the cutoff date
  • Profile: Fixed a bug where the Game Stats - Openings column wasn’t properly sortable
  • Client: Tweaked a few client fonts to support displaying non-alphanumeric characters
  • Client: Fixed a bug where the popup when choosing a guild avatar mistakenly displayed gold/silver borders when it shouldn’t have
  • HUD: Fixed a bug where the Ready button was mistakenly draggable using ctrl+shift
  • Card Trader: Fixed a rare case where a reroll was consumed, but didn’t actually reroll the card selection
  • Stability: Fixed some rare cases of game instability with lots of units


Community Highlight


- Follow the Legion TD 2 Instagram @legiontdgame for all the latest Legion memes! Brought to you by ToHoe, the legendary Legion memer.

Closing Remarks


With this update, we are excited to introduce new ways of communicating (Emotes) as well as improve some existing systems (Game Coaches and Creator Codes). We're especially excited for more players to get in the habit of using creator codes, as this will directly support content creators and encourage them to create more Legion TD 2 content! As always, we'll continue to iterate until we get it right, so be ready for hotfixes soon after release.

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 review for the game! It really helps get the word out there.

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 reddit are your best bet.

Sign Up for the May Nova Cup!



Last Month Recap

Congratulations to the winners of last month's Nova Cup!
- D1: the updogs (Drachir & FC Lucy)
- D2: where is my bonus income? (Toikan & robie)
- D3: pyroblem (Thaeltras & Snow193)
- D4: what's arcane? (warnessa2007 & TDMeister)
- D5: i should be studying (Yert & Selt)

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

This Month

The upcoming May Nova Cup takes place May 20 - 21.

$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.

Twitch Drops



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

Team Sign-up Instructions
  • Sign-ups are open from NOW until May 20 at 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.
Solo Sign-ups
  • 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.

Schedule


Saturday, May 20
  • 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, May 21
  • 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.


Game Format


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)

Final Remarks


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 May 20th! 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

Sign Up for the April Nova Cup!



Help wanted:

- We are currently planning to organize an additional tournament that is more friendly towards the SEA regions. If you're interested in helping us to organize or cast in this timezone, please reach out to us in the Legion TD 2 Official Tournament Discord

Last Month Recap

Congratulations to the winners of last month's Nova Cup!
- D1: the underdogs (Drachir & FC Lucy)
- D2: wild and waddling (Danwolf & Pyropenguin)
- D3: pas dit bonjour (w1sp & Wrex)
- D4: guaranteed1st (Slashion & FlyingSquirrel)
- D5: creepalicious-crusaders (Chanman & FlimsyHippo)

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

This Month

The upcoming April Nova Cup takes place April 29 - 30.

$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.

Twitch Drops



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

Team Sign-up Instructions
  • Sign-ups are open from NOW until April 29 at 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.
Solo Sign-ups

Like last month, you may now sign up as a solo player!
  • 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.

Schedule


Saturday, April 29
  • 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, April 30
  • 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.


Game Format


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)

Final Remarks


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 April 29th! 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

New Units: Treant, Tree of Life, Tree of Knowledge

Expected patch release: April 12 (Pacific Time)

News & Updates
- Check out Lisk's Developer AMA and Jules' Gameplay & Balance AMA from March! These AMA ("ask-me-anything") events are run every month, so keep an eye on reddit for the next ones.
- Follow the new Legion TD 2 Instagram @legiontdgame for all the latest Legion memes! Brought to you by ToHoe, the now-legendary Legion memer.
- Next Nova Cup: April 29-30. Join the Tournament Discord to participate and receive tournament notifications. View all past Nova Cups here: Legion TD 2 eSports Portal.

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New Content & Features


[h2]New Unit: Treant[/h2]

Treant Stats
  • Tier 3 (Cost: 100g)
  • Role: Versatile
  • Melee / Impact / Fortified
  • 980 HP / 42 DPS
  • Exuberance: Starts off with +20% damage & damage reduction, but this bonus decreases by 5% after each wave until the bonus is lost.


[h2]New Unit: Tree of Life[/h2]

Tree of Life Stats
  • Tier 3 Upgrade (Upgrade Cost: 195g)
  • Role: Versatile
  • Melee / Impact / Fortified
  • 2400 HP / 103 DPS
  • Devotion: Grants 5% missing health regeneration to the unit built directly behind it.


[h2]New Unit: Tree of Knowledge[/h2]

Tree of Knowledge Stats
  • Tier 3 Upgrade (Upgrade Cost: 180g)
  • Role: Versatile
  • Melee / Impact / Fortified
  • 2200 HP / 94 DPS
  • Forbidden Fruit: Gains mana every time it attacks and is attacked. When this unit reaches max mana or dies, deals up to 600 Magic damage to nearby enemies, based on its current mana.


[h2]New Feature: Free-look Camera[/h2]
Press CTRL+[ (adjustable in Options > Controls) to enter free-look mode, where the HUD is disabled. While in free-look mode:
  • Hold RMB + move mouse to rotate the camera
  • Use WASD to move up/down/left/right
  • Use Q/E to adjust height up/down
This feature is intended mainly for content creators to aid in creating interesting videos.

[h2]Major Improvement: Card Trader[/h2]
Our favorite in-game merchant has beefed up his supply.
  • New Feature: Reroll: You can now reroll the Card Trader 1x per day, with up to 4x rerolls stored. Rerolling gives you completely new cards to choose from for that day. (Screenshot)
  • New Feature: Show My Stacks: You can now toggle a checkbox to show your current stacks of each card. (Screenshot)

[h2]New Unlockable: Oasis Background[/h2]

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Animated backgrounds give your game client a new look. Unlock them in the shop! (Screenshot)

Game Balance


[h3]Classic[/h3]

Mode Voting: Mode Voting now requires 2 more yes votes than no votes to pass (up from 1).
Super Fiesta: Reworked. Now replaces regular Fiesta with Super Fiesta, which gives 100% Fiesta gold to yourself and 50% to each of your allies.

These two tweaks should alleviate some players' concerns about feeling forced to play a different playstyle than they wanted

[h3]Mastermind[/h3]

Cash Out
- Starting gold: 22 → 21

Our philosophy is to balance mastermind playstyles around Greed to avoid power creep. Cash Out is currently out-performing Greed.

Cartel is not being nerfed because it’s only strong for the top 2% of players, and even among this 2%, it’s strong but not heavily outclassing other playstyles.

Fiesta
When picking Fiesta, you now have a 50% reduced chance of rolling Seedling.

Reducing the frequency of a fun, but game-distorting combo.

King
- Health increased: +30% on wave 1 → +5% on wave 21
- Damage rescaled: +10% on wave 1 → -5% on wave 21
- Giant Slayer: 20% → 12%
- Upgrade Attack now affects Giant Slayer damage
- Upgrade Attack and Spell: 10% → 7%
- Lightning Hammer damage: -26% on wave 1 → -36% on wave 21
- Lightning Hammer now deals 4% current health damage (this is affected by Upgrade Spell)

These changes address some previously-unintuitive strategies, like upgrading spell being better than upgrading attack for Wave 20. Now:
  • Upgrade Attack is now more impactful against big targets.
  • Conversely, an unupgraded king is more vulnerable to big targets.
  • Tip: Upgrade Attack on boss waves or if you’re expecting a Mimic on 7 or Ogre on 9!
  • The king now takes slightly more damage against swarms, like wave 16.

[h3]Fighters[/h3]

Aqua Spirit
- Health: 380 → 370
- Attack speed: 0.82 → 0.833

Rogue Wave
- Health: 1150 → 1200

Fire Elemental
- Health: 1350 → 1400

Low win rate and pick rate. Shifting health and damage profiles, but an overall buff.

Nekomata
- Attack speed: 0.92 → 0.935

Low win rate. Everyone’s favorite cat is underperforming.

Sacred Steed
- Mana restore: 1 → 0.9

Pegasus
- Health: 2510 → 2470
- Damage: 112 → 110

High win rate and pick rate. Sacred Steed’s mana/gold efficiency now matches that of Pegasus.

Tempest
- Health: 780 → 770

Leviathan
- Damage: 70 → 68

High win rate.

Infiltrator / Orchid
- Attack speed: 1.03 → 1.05

Low win rate and pick rate.

King Claw
- Damage: 125 → 120

Very high pick rate.

Whitemane
- Health: 4600 → 4550
- Damage: 181 → 179

High pick rate. You’ll now need more value in your Whitemane aura for it to be worth it.

Priestess of the Abyss
- Mana regeneration decreased by 4%

Priestess is the strongest opening in high Elo.

Azeria
- Mana regeneration decreased by 4%
- Echo Strike: Max health damage: 0.06% → 0.1%

Making it more valuable to build more than 1 Azeria and hold onto Priestess in your roll late game in exchange for opening and early game power.

Lord of Death / Hades
- Intellect: Mana restore on kill: 10% → 8%

High win rate and pick rate. One of the strongest overbuild-and-cover units.

Shadow Dancer
- Health: 1690 → 1700
- Attack speed: 1.45 → 1.47

Dread Knight
- Health: 3710 → 3740
- Attack speed: 1.45 → 1.47

Low win rate and pick rate. Last patch’s Witch change hurt an already underperforming unit.

Millennium / Doomsday Machine
- Attack speed: 0.617 → 0.633

Low pick rate. An OG unit that’s fallen out of favor.

[h3]Mercenaries[/h3]

Witch
- Attack speed: 1.59 → 1.52

Last patch’s change gave Witch a stronger identity, and also spiked its win rate and usage rate.

[h3]Waves[/h3]

Wave 17: Metal Dragons
- Attack speed: 1.71 → 1.68

Wave 21: Legion Lords & Legion King
- Legion Lords: Count: 10 → 8
- Legion Lords: Health: 6600 → 8250
- Legion Lords: Damage: 110 → 135
- Legion Lords: Bounty: 24 → 30
- Legion King: Damage: 550 → 540

AOE is now slightly weaker against wave 21.

[h3]On Watch[/h3]

No outliers that we want to call out individually. As always, we'll continue to keep a close eye on everything.

v10.02 has been, data-wise, the most balanced the game has ever been.
  • Fighters: spread between the worst and best unit (according to Jules' power index) is the smallest it's ever been
  • Waves: healthy distribution of game-ending waves
  • Mercenaries: all seeing healthy usage & consistent performance
  • Mastermind: all playstyles seeing healthy usage & consistent performance
  • Legion Spells: all seeing healthy usage & consistent performance
  • Openings: lots of openings being widely used at all skill levels
That's not to say it's perfect (after all, we're continuing to patch the game), but it's worth celebrating.

Fixes & Improvements
  • Takeover Bots: Fixed a few more cases where a takeover bot would send without his team
  • Options: Fixed a bug where the Client Background “Randomize on Startup” setting wasn’t saving/working properly
  • Matchmaking: Improved matchmaking fairness for players under 1800 (tweaked a few edge-cases that shouldn’t slow down anything for most matches)
  • FairPlay: Players muted for >30 days can now only ping once per minute. By comparison, players muted for
  • FairPlay: Players muted for >30 days can now only -ff once per 5 minutes. Players muted for
  • Codex: Fixed a bug that caused the game to freeze when opening codex on some non-English languages
  • Codex: Fixed a bug that prevented filtering on non-english languages


Community Highlight


Last October's Nova Cup featured a community-run skin competition run by Pennywise and Schn3rd, where 958 votes were cast to pick the favorite among 16 entries. (Recap: here - scroll down)

The winning skin has been designed & implemented, and will be released in next month's patch. Plus, one of the runner-ups has been implemented as a surprise bonus!



To be released next month!

Closing Remarks


With this update, we are excited to introduce new units that will open up new synergies and strategies. As always, we'll continue to iterate until we get it right, so be ready for hotfixes soon after release. We've also made some tweaks to Classic mode voting based on data & player feedback. Finally, we've given the Card Trader some love and fixed a few nagging bugs.

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 review for the game! It really helps get the word out there.

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 reddit are your best bet.

We know there's still much to improve, so let's work together.

Until next time!



Sincerely,
The Aye-Aye Attack Games Team

We're rebranding as Aye-Aye-Attack Games!


Tis Cap’n Jack here, yore game’s new lead developer from now till… fer’ever! Har har har!

Those landlubbers, Lisk, Jules, 'n Dani 'ave walked the plank - good riddance, eh? *Hic!* Oh ‘n where’s me manners. Meet me first mate, Pirate Coach. This wee whelp 'n I go way back... He's a friendly heartie, though he may pilfer some o' yer gold in the process… eh, that's nah me problem.

"Ahoy mateys! I'll get ye shipshape afore ye can shake an oar."

Any’ow, first order o' business, we gone 'n overhauled the game text t' better represent yore new dev crew.



Menus, tooltips, we got 'em all. Yo-ho-ho.



Har har, 'n we ditched them ole puny Snails in favor o'... Baby Krakens.



Oh, ‘n f ye sorry lot manage t' win a game, ye'll be treated t' some savvy tunes. 🤘 Enjoy, ye scallywags! And stay aboard fer more updates t' come!



Sincerely,
The Aye-Aye-Attack Games Team