Expected patch release: Monday, November 10
Free Weekend
Legion TD 2 will be free to play and 70% off on Steam this weekend, starting Thursday, November 6th at 10am PT / 19:00 CET. That's our biggest ever discount!
Help us get the word out by sharing on Reddit, Discord, Twitch, etc. as we hope to get more people addicted to the game kindly welcome more players into our wonderful community. We're also celebrating with tons of events and rewards!
Devs vs. Streamers Showmatch
Watch the event at twitch.tv/doofusmcdooface this Saturday, November 8th at 8am PT / 17:00 CET
1st game: 4v4 devs against streamers, Income & Chill and PvE
2nd game: 4v4 devs and streamers mixed, Income & Chill and current rotating game mode, except Tower Defense
Team Dev is represented by Lisk, Jules, Drachir, and Dani
Team Streamer is represented by Doofusmcdooface, ToHoCo, fine, and DarknessBroly
Earn a 
Random Card by watching any of the streamers for 1 hour during the Showmatch!
Shoutout to the top 10 Legion streamers of the past month by hours watched
1v1 Featured Event
Teammates holding you back? It's your time to shine in our 1v1 event lasting from November 14-16. Starts Friday, November 14 at 2am PT / 11:00 CET.
Skill-based matchmaking: Play with and against players near your skill level.
Visible ratings: Used for matchmaking and bragging rights.
Event Points (EP) leaderboard: Gain EP by playing games. Harder opponents earn you more EP. You cannot lose EP, so play as much as you can to climb!
Rewards:
Top 10 finish:
25,000 EssenceTop 100 finish:
15,000 EssenceTop 1,000 finish:
10,000 EssenceReach 400 EP:
5,000 Essence
Bonus EP for completing a game now scales based on the wave number to improve fairness and not penalize players who play long games. Additionally, players who intentionally lose games gain no EP.
Twitch Drops
Watch Legion TD 2 streamers, collect rewards! Event lasts from November 6-16. Details here: Legion TD 2 Twitch Drops
Watch for 1 hour and earn
5000 Essence!Watch for 3 hours and earn a random card!
Watch for 6 hours and earn
1000 Premium Essence!Watch for 10 hours and earn a random secret card!
Card Drop and Essence Boost
Card drop rate significantly increased and doubled essence gain from November 6-16!
Coming Soon: The Legion Hoodie (Limited Edition)
THE LEGION HOODIE will go on sale starting Friday, November 21 for just 21 days!
After December 12th, it will be gone forever
Includes a coupon for
7,200 Premium Essence (worth $50) It will cost $59.99 USD and ships globally
Sign up here to receive an email when the sale is live: makeship.com/products/legion-td-2-hoodie
Nova Cup
Monthly 2v2 tournament with an $875 prize pool and 4-5 divisions
For this November Nova Cup only, the winners of every division and the runners-up in Division 1 will receive a free limited edition Legion Hoodie (if it cannot be shipped to your country, replaced by $50 in premium essence)
Next Nova Cup is November 22-23! Join the Tournament Discord to participate and receive tournament notifications. View all past Nova Cups here: Legion TD 2 Esports Portal
Major Updates
New Feature: Auto Send 2.0
Auto Income: Same as enabling "Auto" before. Now also shows which mercenaries it will send
Save: Same as disabling "Auto" before
Auto Power: Automatically spends mythium on power mercenaries
Sends mercenaries based on your opponent's build
Shows which mercenaries it will send
Sends during the battle phase "pre-income," including on wave 21
Sends during the build phase "post-income" only if you've already sent or queued a power mercenary
Switches to Save afterwards
This feature is recommended for beginners and players who aren't comfortable manually picking mercenaries. Additionally, it's useful for experienced players, who will still manually power send, but can now feel reassured by Auto Power taking care of any remaining mythium. It's also useful to communicate your intention to power send, as well as for Classic players on waves 21+.
New Legion Spell: Hypercarry
Select one unit to gain 4.2% attack speed, lifesteal, and spell vamp every wave.
Works on summons and clones.
New Refractions: Annihilator Gatling Gun and Giga Annihilator Vulcan Cannon
Don't worry, they do not generate extra mythium ;)
Game Balance
Read more about our design philosophy on game balance, and use Drachbot to see mastermind, unit, and spell win rates and pick rates! Check out Jules' Gameplay & Balance AMA from this past month.
Double Down 
Double down loss multiplier: 2.1 to 2.4 based on rating → 2 to 2.3
Data showed Double Down being slightly weak. This change makes Double Down power neutral on average and positive if you’re skilled at predicting your chance of winning.
Sell
Sell percentage: 60% --> 70%
Years ago, we made sell percentage 60%, but never fully evaluated if that was the right number. We're increasing it to 70% this patch to allow for more creative strategies. 70% is still quite punishing, which is intentional to reward planning ahead and shifting gold and to avoid overly chaotic games.
Bounty 
Mercenary gold bounties decreased by 50%
Froggo gold bounty decreased by 80%
Breaker gold increased by ~10%
This change makes mercenaries closer to waves in terms of bounty-to-power ratio. Holding vs. leaking mercenaries is now less swingy. If you successfully break your opponent, you’re rewarded less, but conversely, if your send fails to break your opponent, it’s not as disastrous because it feeds your opponent less gold. On net, leaking mercenaries is moderately less punishing and leaking the wave is slightly more punishing.
Bounty has been a point of feedback in the community, so we're keeping a close eye on this and will make further changes as needed.
Masterminds
Mastermind Rolls
You are now guaranteed 3 tanks of different types, up from 2
You are now guaranteed 3 DPS fighters of different types, up from 2
At least 2 of your tanks must be of different tiers/price points
At least 2 of your DPS fighters must be of different tiers/price points
Affected masterminds: Aristocrat, Greed, Cash Out, Castle, Cartel, Champion, Lock-In (before auto-selection), Stash, Fiesta, Saboteur, Kingsguard, Miner, and Scrapper.
Redraw
Redraw gold cost reduced by 4.5% on average
Low pick rate and win rate, and indirectly nerfed by the mastermind roll changes (other masterminds are buffed).
Legion Spells
Black Market
Income: 58 --> 60
Low win rate.
Executioner
Execution threshold: 14% (7% for ranged) --> 15% (7.5% for ranged)
Slightly low pick rate and win rate.
Investment
Income: 30 --> 31
Loan
Income penalty: -30 --> -31
Shifting power from Loan to Investment.
Sacrifice
Gold: 90 --> 88
Slightly high pick rate and win rate.
Smite
Gold: 80 --> 78
Slightly high pick rate and win rate.
Vampire
Lifesteal and ability vamp: 30% --> 29%
Slightly high pick rate and win rate.
Fighters
Dwarf Banker / Big Wig
Attack speed increased by 2%
Low pick rate and win rate.
Crab Warlock / Crabomancer
Summoner damage increased by 2.5%
Slightly low pick rate and win rate.
Lost Chieftain
Gaia Shield: Health: 1500 --> 1550
Slightly low pick rate and win rate.
Elite Archer / Trinity Archer
Attack speed increased by 1.6%
Slightly low pick rate and win rate.
Pipsqueak
Health decreased by 2.7%
Too safe and consistent as an opening.
Pulsebot / Skybot
Health increased by 2%
Slightly low pick rate and win rate.
Banana Haven
Thorns: Reflect damage: 20 + 15% --> 19 + 15%
Slightly high pick rate and win rate.
Sovereign
Now flying and can be buffed by Leviathan
Shoutout to Reze, a.k.a. SovFlyingWhen.
Millennium / Doomsday Machine
Attack speed decreased by 1.9%
Slightly high pick rate and win rate.
Mercenaries
Witch
Damage increased by 3.6%
Compensation buff for the change to Froggo bounty.
Kraken
World Ender: Now also stuns the king for 0.2 seconds.
Balance Watchlist
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:
Strong: Saboteur, Miner, Kingsguard, Sea Serpent
Weak: Infiltrator, Radiant Halo, Ocean Templar
Improvements
Fixed some false positives with the full eco penalty
Selecting multiple units now shows the combined sell gold on the sell button (thanks to Valas for the suggestion)
Selecting multiple units with different sell abilities now sells them all at once, rather than only the ones with the same sell ability as the initially selected unit.
Added a timer for when Wave 1 starts in the Mastermind selection screen (thanks to Valas for the suggestion)
Added Ability range circles for King Claw, Honeybear, Kraken and Violet (thanks to Valas for the suggestion)
Fixed some UI bugs with Miner and Recommended Value
Enabled Game Coach emojis for players with the Big Wig Pass (thanks to Bleeding for the report)
Fixed some cases of mercenaries pathing differently (going unexpectedly right/left) depending on lane (#enemylaneaggro)
Fixed a bug causing the Wave 5 boss to waste a lot of time walking against Serpent/Deepcoiler-only boards
See "shifted" (not used) resources per wave in the Post Game Builds when hovering the Net Worth of a player
Game Translations
If you'd like to contribute to improving the game's translations further, visit the following link: 
Help Translate Legion TD 2
HUGE thank you to everyone who has helped up to this point! 
Reward for Boosting Discord
Anyone who Boosts the Legion TD 2 Discord will receive 500 Premium Essence each month the Boost is active. Here's how it works:
When you Boost the Legion TD 2 Discord, you'll get a DM from Safety Mole with a code
The code can be redeemed by clicking the book icon at the bottom of the main menu and selecting Redeem Coupon Code
Players who keep their Boost active will receive a new code every month
Codes expire when the Booster receives a new code or if the old one wasn't used
Thank you to everyone for contributing to the community!
Monthly In-Game Reward Code
This month’s ultra-secret code is enemylaneaggro to unlock some free Essence in-game!
Each month, a new code will be revealed right here in the patch notes. Codes are only valid the month they are announced and the following month.
Here’s how to enter a code in-game:
Closing Remarks
This patch introduces Auto Send 2.0, Hypercarry, and two new Refractions, and makes major meta improvements.
As always, with any major patch, we'll keep a close eye on things and rapidly hotfix as long as needed. 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! 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