Expected patch release: November 14
News & Updates
- Sign-ups are open for the November Nova Cup which will take place on Nov 19-20.
- If you missed it, check out my (Lisk's) Reddit AMA from last month! I've been doing these every major patch, so keep an eye out next week for the next one.
Christmas Map Decorations & Skins!
A treacherous snow queen has cast a spell over the world of Legion, and it's all frozen over! But fear not...she's actually not treacherous. She just wanted everyone to get in the holiday spirit! On top of the snow-covered landscape, you'll find Christmas trees, presents, colored lights, snowmen, stockings, candy canes, and more goodies around the map. Enjoy the fresh look for Legion TD 2 while you eat Christmas cookies and hopefully spam some games over the holidays!
New Christmas Map: Both 2v2 & 4v4 maps packed with Christmas decor!
New Skin: Christmas Poinsettia Hermit
New Skin: Head Santa (Head Chef)
New Skin: Candypixie (Chloropixie)
New Skin: Christmas Ornament Seedling
These skins will be on a special sale: 25-50% OFF through the end of the year!
Screenshots
The snow queen promises to lift the "eternal" winter by Spring 2023. You can toggle decorations in Options if your PC is struggling to contain her power.
Twitch Drops
If that wasn't enough to ring in the new season, we're also introducing Twitch Drops! Earn free essence simply by watching Twitch streams!
From November 14th to 18th, watch any Legion TD 2 Twitch streamer with Twitch Drops enabled to earn the following rewards:
- Watch for 30 minutes:
1,000 Essence
- Watch for an additional 60 minutes:
3,000 Additional Essence
- Watch for an additional 120 minutes:
5,000 Additional Essence
In other words, simply watch 210 minutes (3.5 hours) of Twitch, and you'll earn
9,000 Essence in total.
Full instructions for both streamers & viewers here:
Legion TD 2 x Twitch Drops
New Secret Card: 200 IQ Mole
New Feature: Mercenary Damage Tracker
- See how much damage your mercenaries deal to your opponent!
This was something popularly requested on the subreddit. Should be useful for helping evaluate if you did a good send or not.
New Feature: Select Card to Unlock
- You can now unlock any card with card fragments, not just cards that are currently in rotation that day!
- To access this menu, click your card fragments in the Card Trader tab.
Also by popular request! Now you no longer have to hoard your card fragments for weeks until the secret card you wanted comes along.
Improvements & Fixes
Improvements
- HUD: Queued mercenaries now appear as semi-transparent icons to help you plan around your allies’ queued sends
Fixes
- HUD: Fixed a bug where Undo Harden/Boost/etc. buttons didn’t refresh on the HUD until you reselected the unit
- Profile: Fixed a bug where some upgraded fighters in Game Stats wrongly displayed pick rates of 0%
- Achievements: Fixed a bug where some Campaign achievements weren't being awarded when they were supposed to
- Gameplay: Takeover bots are now a bit smarter about toggling autosend
- Gameplay: Fixed a bug with Sakura in Weekly Challenge
- Postgame: Fixed a bug with post-game Game Coach quotes showing only the default win message instead of achievement-based messages
- HUD: Fixed a bug where restoring default options didn't also reset HUD element positions
- HUD: Fixed some selection circle heights with flying units
- Performance: Improved some performance on High/Very High/Ultra graphics (reduced AA sampling slightly)
- Performance: Continued debugging of some intermittent lag issues
Localization & API
- Localization: Translation sheets now contain the new Desert Ridge Campaign texts
- Localization: Desert Ridge Campaign is now fully translated into Polish! Plus, Spanish translation is making good progress.
- Join the Legion TD 2 Contributors Discord to stay up-to-date with Localization & API development! Even if you're not a dev, you can join to check out in-development projects such as paintsniffer's LTDMeta.app, a successor to LTDDB that automatically generates guides (!!) by listing builds that hold particular waves & sends.
Game Balance
King
- Now deals 8% more AOE damage on wave 16 (still does slightly reduced damage on wave 16)
Mastermind Playstyles
Fiesta
- Gain 14-52 gold → 14-50 gold
As players learn and optimize Fiesta openings and strategies, it has become too strong. This change nerfs Fiesta by 1 gold on waves 6-9 and 2 gold on waves 10-21, which is a 3.5% nerf on average.
Legion Spells
Battle Scars
- Attack speed: 3% → 3.5%
Low win rate and pick rate.
Lizard Army
- Mythium: 45 → 50
- Now properly increases recommended fighter value for the opponent
It was previously unintuitive and misleading how Lizard Army didn't affect your opponent's recommended value. The small percent of players that knew this were at a big advantage when Lizard Army was in the game. It’s now harder to fake Lizard Army, but the spell will be better with increased clarity and a buff. Plus, it’s still viable to do a small fake on wave 11, discouraging your opponent from training workers during wave 11.
Magician
- Mana regeneration: 0.55 → 0.57
Low win rate and pick rate.
Protector
- Health regeneration: 1% → 0.9%
High win rate and pick rate, and indirectly buffed by damage reduction changes to units.
Titan
- Bonus health: 1400 → 1350
High win rate and indirectly buffed by damage reduction changes to units. Reverting the previous buff.
Vampire
- Life steal: 23% → 24%
Low win rate and pick rate.
Fighters
Sakura
- Attack speed: 1.143 → 1.149
- Fixed a bug where Superbloom wasn’t adding an extra 15 value for extra stacks after Wave 11+
Green Devil
- Health 1040 → 1050
Low win rate.
Nekomata
- Attack speed: 0.9 → 0.91
Low win rate.
Slime Larva
- Health: 330 → 320
- Damage: 33 → 32
Slime Larva currently outshines all other arcane units with the highest win rate and pick rate.
Slime Siren
- Health: 1140 → 1150
- Attack speed: 1.35 → 1.37
Compensation buff for the Slime Larva nerf to keep Siren a similar power level.
Kingpin
- Health: 4750 --> 4700
High win rate.
Honeyflower
- Attack speed: 1 → 1.015
- Fragrance: 10 + 0.03% max health damage → 10 + 0.02% max health damage
Deathcap
- Attack speed: 1 → 1.02
- Noxious Scent: 30 + 0.1% max health damage → 30 + 0.06% max health damage
Less oppressive late game. Slightly stronger early game, but Hermit is now a bigger threat.
Sky Queen
- Synergy with mana effects increased by 14%
This synergy was previously lackluster.
Sea Serpent
- Health: 620 → 640
Deepcoiler
- Health: 1890 → 1950
Low win rate and pick rate.
Alpha Male
- Health: 3380 → 2680 (effective health = 3350)
- Damage: 103 → 102
- Dominion: Now also grants 20% damage reduction
Alpha Male is now stronger with health gain and healing effects.
Eternal Wanderer
- Health: 770 → 750
Samurai Soul
- Damage: 115 → 120
Shifting power from Eternal Wanderer to Samurai Soul.
Ocean Templar
- Health: 2000 → 3000
- Damage: 160 → 130
- Range: 450 → Melee
- Attack type: Pure → Impact
Now a melee off-tank, which makes it more straightforward to use.
Gatling Gun
- Health: 1350 → 1080 (effective health unchanged)
- Attack speed: 2.04 → 2.08
- Damage reduction from overheating changed:
— No overheat = 0% → +20%
— Maximum overheat = -50% → -20%
Vulcan Cannon
- Health: 3930 → 3030 (effective health slightly lower at no overheat, slightly higher at max overheat)
- Attack speed: 2.04 → 2.08
- Damage reduction from overheating changed:
— No overheat = 0% → +20%
— Maximum overheat = -60% → -20%
Gatling Gun and Vulcan Cannon now no longer have a significant anti-synergy with health gain and healing effects.
Gatling had a low win rate and pick rate, so this is an overall buff.
Priestess of the Abyss
- Attack speed: 1 → 0.985
Highest win rate unit.
Azeria
- Attack speed: 1 → 0.985
- Echostrike: 68 + 0.04% max health → 67 + 0.06% max health
Slightly stronger against very high health units, but an overall nerf.
Banana Bunk
- Damage: 67 → 65
Banana Haven
- Damage: 60x3 → 58x3
Highest pick rate unit.
Hell Gate
- Summon health decreased by 1%
- Summon attack speed decreased by 1.5%
Very high pick rate.
Fenix
- Damage: 295 --> 292
Slight nerf due to consistent community feedback.
Hydra
- Health: 2700 → 1860 (effective health = 2730)
- Damage: 144 → 111 (effective damage = 150)
- Now gains damage and damage reduction for each wave the Eggsack survives, instead of losing damage and damage reduction for hatching early
Hydra is now stronger with health gain and healing effects. It was previously a significant anti-synergy to have a weakened Hydra with healing.
Eggsack had low win rate and pick rate, so this is an overall buff.
Millennium
- DPS: 150.3 → 150.6
— Damage: 245 → 253
— Attack speed: 0.613 → 0.595
Now one-shots Snails again.
Mercenaries
Brute
- Damage: 56 → 57
- Attack speed: 0.922 → 0.926
Brutes used to strike terror into the hearts of new players. Long gone are those days - as players have learned to hold Brute on wave 3 and as other mercenaries have been buffed.
Hermit
- Attack speed: 1.02 → 1.06
Hermit is the worst performing power mercenary. Buffing its DPS to make it more versatile, rather than its healing ability, which is already strong.
Centaur
- Attack speed: 2.22 → 2.17
Even after the previous nerf, Centaur is still the #1 performing power mercenary,
Waves
(12) Mantises
- Health: 1250 → 1270
(13) Drill Golems
- Attack speed: 1.575 → 1.55
(14) Killer Slugs
- Health: 2030 --> 2050
(15) Quadrapuses
- Attack speed: 0.719 → 0.74
(17) Metal Dragons
- Attack speed: 1.74 --> 1.71
(19) Dire Toads
- Health: 4300 → 4350
(20) Maccabeus
- Attack projectile is now instant, allowing him to mow through cheap units faster
- Insatiable Hunger: Health gain per kill: 300 → 100
- Health: 60000 → 65000
Safety Mole Plushie
If you haven't already, check out the Limited Edition Safety Mole Plushie!
It's a high quality, custom-designed plushie and every purchase includes the new Desert Ridge singleplayer/co-op campaign, a 200 IQ Mole secret card, and 2800 Premium Essence!
Safety Mole Plushie Store Page
Closing Remarks
We hope you enjoy this patch! Thank you again for playing Legion TD 2.
For now, an early Merry Christmas from the team, and enjoy the wintery scenery!
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 is our main channel 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. We know there's still much to improve, so let's work together.
Until next time!
Sincerely,
Lisk, on behalf of The AutoAttack Games Team