8.01: Yolo Mastermind Option & Redraw Rework

14 Aug 2021Developer post

Source: Steam Community (opens in a new tab)

Masters Cup 8
- New format from previous Masters Cups
- Group stage with 16 teams in 4 groups, followed by knockout stage
- 1st place: Gold in-game badge and $300
- 2nd place: Silver in-game badge and $200

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Community Content
We want to give a shout-out to two community members, Bonny and Shadowings, who have been making awesome Legion TD 2 content recently. We recommend watching their game casts to learn strategies and improve.

New Mastermind option: Yolo

Yolo
+6 income and get a fully random roll (6 fully random fighters). You still have your 1 lucky Reroll.

Yolo is meant to be a risky, fun option for players that enjoy thinking on their feet and maximum variety. Full disclosure: it's probably not great for climbing the ranks. Use at your own risk.

Yolo is unlockable in the shop for essence (currency earned from playing).

Reworked: Redraw

Redraw
+3 income and +2 Rerolls (on any wave)

The old Redraw let you swap out your entire roll only on wave 1. The new Redraw gives you 2 additional Rerolls on any wave.

Redraw is unlockable in the shop for essence (currency earned from playing). Anyone who owned the old Redraw option will still own the new one.

New Secret Card

Death by Natural Causes
Has a chance to drop when your King dies without being sent any mercenaries that wave.

Secret Card Drop Rates
- Increased drop rates of This Is Fine, No-Touchy Yozora, Fiesta, Et tu, Brute?, Sunny Side Eggsack, Dank Mage, Bee Mine Forever, Dizzy Mole, and C H O N K Y Nekomata

Rank Callouts

- Game Coach now gives a shout-out when there’s a top ranked player in your game. Ranks are based on the queue you are playing.
- Top 250 players are always announced. If no top 250 players are in the game, the highest ranked player will be announced

VFX Engine Upgrade

This patch we upgraded our game engine’s visual effects renderer, which was a huge task and involved recreating every visual effect in the game from scratch. While you may not notice differences this patch, the upgrade allows for higher quality visual effects moving forward.

Game Improvements

Gameplay Fixes
- Fixed a bug with -ns mode where autosending could accidentally be toggled off
- Fixed a case where power score gave away some information from wave 1
- Fixed some rare cases where legion spells were not selectable or displayed properly after reconnecting

Client Fixes
- Fixed various bugs with reconnecting
- Fixed some "Failed to login to Steam" errors, especially when logging in too many times in a short span
- Fixed a bug where Yozora background didn’t loop properly when Enable High Quality Videos was disabled
- Fixed some cases of Match History not storing the full 10 games
- Fixed a bug where client backgrounds didn't save/load properly when switching between accounts
- Fixed a profile bug where rank % was displayed incorrectly
- Fixed a profile bug where a player’s current rating was accidentally displaying last season’s rating if they hadn’t played this season yet
- Fixed a postgame bug where player power score was incorrectly labeled
- Fixed a friends list bug where it sometimes didn’t load until you pressed refresh
- Fixed a codex bug where VFX artifacts were visible when switching poses
- Added a more helpful error message when a purchase fails due to having “Enable Steam Overlay in-game” unchecked in Steam settings

Graphics Fixes
- Fixed a case where the king was invisible to one or more players
- Fixed some transparency issues with units with leaves/hair/feathers when fading in/out
- Fixed some cases of projectiles mistakenly flying to/from the bottom left corner
- Fixed a case where hidden towns were visible to one or more players in 4v4

Interface Fixes
- Fixed a bug where chat autocomplete (emojis) didn’t work in chats other than in-game chat
- Fixed a bug where AFK players’ (Afk) tag was mistakenly visible to enemies
- Fixed a bug where mercenary received icons (on the spawn cave) weren’t resetting each time Wave 21 spawned
- Fixed a case where a seemingly random fighter would be mistakenly auto-selected when the wave started
- Fixed a rare, but cosmetic-only, loading screen bug where other player panels didn’t show up

Misc. Improvements
- Loading screen: Classic wins are easier to read (no longer colored)
- Loading screen: When there is a duo in ranked, now shows a tip that duos have their ratings adjusted to account for communication advantages.
- Loading screen: A new tip is now shown every 7 seconds
- Hybrid: Graphics improved when placing fighters
- AI: Various improvements
- Options: Re-enabled Max Game FPS and Max Lobby FPS options

Weekly Challenge
- Fixed a bug where rewards were incorrectly given
- Various improvements to challenge selections

Localization
- Fixed a bug where King Dan’s name was sometimes missing in Chinese
- Fixed Wave timer formatting for Korean and Chinese
- Updated translations

Stability
- Various crashes & stability fixes
- Major improvements to error logs to speed up debugging

Game Balance

Legions
Picking a legion now gives +3 starting income (same as default Mastermind).

4v4
Players that play an eco strat (workers only) in 4v4 now get 30% reduced gold from leaks

Reroll
Now includes the possibility of tier 1 fighters, only on wave 1.

Mana Synergies
- Slightly nerfed with some expensive fighters to make this patch's buffs to Magician, Starcaller, Sacred Steed, and Pegasus have a bigger effect with low and middle costs fighters.
- The goal is to open up more combos like Magician + Desert Pilgrim or Sacred Steed + Fire Archer

Legion Spells

Magician

- Mana regeneration aura bonus: 0.35 >> 0.4

Fighters

Bone Warrior

- Damage: 6 >> 5

Dark Mage

- Damage: 38 >> 36

After last patch’s buffs to Bone Crusher and Dark Mage’s Mind Warp targeting, Bone Warrior became one of the best picks in the game.

Oathbreaker

- Attack speed: 0.74 >> 0.72

Proton / Atom

- Attack speed: 1.06 >> 1.09

Gargoyle

- Attack speed: 0.97 >> 0.94

Golden Buckler

- Attack speed: 0.77 >> 0.755

Royal Guard

- Attack speed: 0.885 >> 0.87

Zeus

- Attack speed: 2.47 >> 2.44

Pyro

- Damage: 28 >> 29

Shifting power from Zeus to Pyro.

Harpy / Sky Queen

- Attack speed: 1.33 >> 1.35

Aqua Spirit

- Attack speed: 0.74 >> 0.75

Tempest

- Health: 780 >> 750

Leviathan

- Health: 1900 >> 1830

Sacred Steed / Pegasus

- Mana regeneration increased by 12%

Honeyflower

- Health: 1350 >> 1400

Deathcap

- Health: 4100 >> 4250

Disciple

- Mana regeneration increased by 8%

Starcaller

- Amplify Magic: Mana regeneration aura bonus: 0.6 >> 0.7
- Mana regeneration decreased by 0.15

Radiant Halo / Arc of Justice
- Attack speed: 1.07 >> 1.08

Millennium / Doomsday Machine
- Attack speed: 0.58 >> 0.59

Mercenaries

Non-tank melee mercenaries now spawn 0.25 seconds later to help them live longer.

Dino

- Defense type: Fortified >> Natural

With Snail and Siege Ram as fortified tanks and Centaur becoming a DPS unit, Dino is the new natural tank mercenary.

Centaur

- Health: 5380 >> 4200
- Attack speed: 1.64 >> 1.96
- Spawn position: In front as a tank >> Behind as DPS

Centaur was changed to a tank a few years ago to fill the natural tank void. With Dino now serving this role, Centaur can return to its original design as a cleaving damage dealer and late game pierce damage.