7.06: Game Balance & Translations

10 May 2021Developer post

Source: Steam Community (opens in a new tab)

Translation Improvements

Made translating the game significantly easier by removing thousands of rows. Many duplicates have been removed, and many translations now reference each other, reducing the burden of work on translators.
Released Norwegian!
Deprecated Spanish (Castilian). The Spanish translation should be neutral/international.

If you can contribute, please visit LegionTD2.com/translate. We're a 4-person indie team, so your help is instrumental in getting the game ready for full launch this year.

Released Languages:

Chinese (Simplified) - 97% complete
Chinese (Traditional) - 75%
Dutch - 85%
French - 99%
German - 95%
Japanese - 60%
Korean - 99%
Latvian - 75%
Norwegian - 90%
Polish - 90%
Portuguese (Brazilian) - 90%
Russian - 97%
Spanish - 96%
Swedish - 80%
Turkish - 90%

Unreleased Languages:

Arabic - 1% complete
Bulgarian - 2%
Croatian - 2%
Czech - 25%
Danish - 30%
Finnish - 20%
Greek - 0%
Hungarian - 15%
Indonesian - 7%
Italian - 0%
Lithuanian - 0%
Persian - 1%
Portuguese (European) - 0%
Romanian - 15%
Slovak - 2%
Slovenian - 8%
Ukrainian - 0%
Vietnamese - 5%
If your language is not listed here, contact Jules in the Discord

Steam Page:

Chinese - 100% complete
Spanish - 100%
All other languages - 0%

Game Improvements

Server Risk Mitigation

Our backup matchmaker (when Microsoft PlayFab matchmaker is down) now supports parties.
Implemented Safety Mode for when there are server issues: 50% rating gain and 0% rating loss.

MVP Score

Increased for players who pressure opponents (by saving, instead of income sending)
Significantly increased for players who are pressured by opponents
Fixed a bug where MVP Score overly rewarded king upgrades

Taglines

You can now set your tagline in your profile by clicking your existing tagline
Typing /tagline now brings up an input dialogue box

Improvements & Fixes

Trophies: Fixed a bug where win/rating-based trophies were sometimes missing
Chat: Messages that are received while picking legion, mastermind variant, etc. (before you get into game) are now re-sent once you get fully in-game.
After level ~5, players will receive a friendly Inbox message to consider reviewing the game on Steam. This only happens once.
Fixed some In-Game Coach cases
Steam Friends: You can now see some in-game information
Wave 21: Fixed a bug where the map was revealed after the first wave
Profile: Fixed a bug where Tactician accidentally included pure-kingup sends
Tab Scoreboard: Fixed a bug where resources would be a little slow to update
4v4 Map: Fixed a bug where a unit that reached the cave too early would be warped to the catch area instead of the bottom of lane
Fixed a rare bug where a game would have various glitches (missing loading screen panels, missing mythium received messages, and other glitches)
Fixed a rare bug where Angler or Bounty Hunter had their mana reset
Catch Area: Warped fighters spawn in a ~30% tighter box to make it less likely for some fighters to not get aggroed when catching leaks
Animations: Fixed some cases where a stationary unit would appear like it was walking
Rendering: Fixed a bug where unit “artifacts” would flicker across the screen when warping/teleporting
Graphics: Fixed a bug where super-effective VFX were either appearing delayed or not at all
Graphics: Fixed a bug where some VFX would appear discolored
Custom Games: Fixed a game-breaking bug when playing with asymmetric matchups

Game Balance

Damage Minimum
- Minimum: 3 >> 0

(only affected Green Devil on wave 3 and Safety Mole in some situations)

The damage minimum was an unnecessary and somewhat hidden mechanic that harmed the gameplay purpose of Safety Mole.

King

- Health on waves 7 and 8: +5%
- Health on wave 9 and 18: -5%
- Giant Slayer: 20% >> 18%
- AOE damage on waves 13+: -5% scaling to -15%
- Chained Frost AOE damage on waves 1-9: +3%
- Upgrade Spell: 8.5% >> 9%
- Upgrade Attack: 8.5% >> 8%

Too many games are going to late game, especially wave 21, in 2v2 and 4v4. Leaks on late game waves will now be more lethal.

Mastermind
- No longer your only source of impact damage: Chained Fist, Butcher
- Redraw: Starting income bonus: 4 >> 3

After the buff a few patches ago, Redraw became ubiquitous in high Elo and made each game less unique and fun. Reverting the buff to shift back towards a Greed meta. We have plans to improve the design of Redraw in the future.

Legion Spells

Guardian Angel

- Maximum health: 1750 >> 1650

Protector

- Regeneration: 0.8% >> 1%

Fighters

Peewee

- Booster: Attack speed increase: 95% >> 105%

Angler

- Health: 470 >> 420
- Damage: 23 >> 20

Kingpin

- Health: 4400 >> 4900
- Big Game Hunter: removed

Big Game Hunter was so powerful early game, it pigeonholed players into only building 1 Kingpin. We tried to encourage multiple Kingpins by over-buffing Angler, but that caused players to use Anglers for raw stats and not upgrade them. These changes allow Anglers to be built in the mid game and for players to build Kingpins later in the game.

Harpy

- Damage: 16 >> 15

Sky Queen

- Damage: 65 >> 67

Shifting some power from Harpy into Sky Queen. Harpy is currently outperforming Sky Queen in most situations.

Green Devil

- Attack speed: 1.37 >> 1.34
- Effective health on wave 3 increased by 4% due to removal of the damage minimum

Sacred Steed / Pegasus

- Adjusted mana synergies with Mana Blessing and Mana Miracle as follows:
- Harpy: +50%
- Zeus: +25% and improved cast responsiveness at max mana
- Proton: +18%
- Fire Archer: +17%
- Dark Mage: +14%
- Desert Pilgrim: +11%
- Gateguard: +8%
- Azeria: -6%
- Arc of Justice: -6%
- Starcaller: -10%