To celebrate the launch of the campaign, a Twitch Drops Celebration will be run from October 27th through October 31st.
From October 27th through October 31st*, watch any Legion TD 2 Twitch streamer with Twitch Drops enabled to earn the following rewards: - Watch for 60 minutes: 2,000 Essence - Watch for an additional 60 minutes: 4,000 Additional Essence - Watch for an additional 120 minutes: Random Card In other words, simply watch 240 minutes (4 hours) of Twitch, and you'll earn 6,000 Essence and a Random Card in total.
Congratulations to the winners of last month's Nova Cup! - D1: abrasiert (Kingdanzz & Widderson) - D2: tropical baguette (skillz & Papai Zeita) - D3: what's arcane? (warnessa2007 & TDMeister) - D4: scoobydobevibin (Yldren & Stranger Ways) - D5: the uncrustables (Garthtoker & hoochie42069)
Missed the action? Check the brackets, team lists, & VODs for all divisions on the Legion TD 2 eSports portal!
This Month
The upcoming October Nova Cup takes place October 21 - 22.
$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.
Requirements
- Everyone that is level 3 or higher can join for free! First come, first served. So if you joined the game during the free to play weekend, feel free to participate!
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 October 21 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.
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.
See you on October 21st! 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
Halloween Patch! Plus, The Floating Isles Campaign revealed!
Expected patch release: Tuesday, October 10 (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.
The long-awaited third singleplayer/co-op campaign, The Floating Isles, is releasing October 27 at 10 am Pacific Time!
Party as 1-4 players and challenge all new opponents: Reek-a-deek, Fabulous Freddy, Declan Stormhammer, Jill McDonald, Rex Ribbitor, chaoslord2468, and Drachia!
Wishing you a spooky October from the Legion TD team with map decorations and new skins!
New Halloween Map Decorations New Skin: Stranger Eyes New Skin: Slime Knight
Note: this video shows last year's skins. See below for screenshots of the new skins.
Halloween decorations will be enabled until next month's patch. You can toggle them in Options.
Game Balance
General
King - Damage decreased by 33% - Lightning Hammer: Percent health damage: 4% → 6% - Upgrade attack: 7% → 10% - Now smarter about targeting in certain circumstances
This brings the king closer to pre-tenacity levels; it is now slightly stronger against huge leaks. Also, upgrading the king is stronger.
Recommended Fighter Value - Formula adjusted to weight mythium more
This should be more accurate particularly at higher mythium counts.
Blitz (Classic Mode) - Build phase game speed slowed a bit: 1.7x to 1.3x → 1.6x to 1.0x
In response to feedback that players didn't have enough time to build.
Balance Watchlist
The dev team is constantly monitoring game balance, between looking at data and listening to community feedback. If specific units/spells are being more closely monitored than usual, they will be listed in this Balance Watchlist section. For this patch, the following are on the watchlist:
Dwarf Banker / Big Wig, especially in Classic
King balance
Summoners
Healers
Ramping units
Improvements & Fixes
Major Improvements
Card Trader Overstocking Now can stock duplicates of cards! This makes it easier to collect your favorite cards whenever they are overstocked.
Hovering a player’s rank in the loading screen or postgame screen now shows their rank name & elo range (Screenshot)
Added a little bit more grace period for deploying/upgrading fighters the moment before a wave starts (total wave time is unadjusted; this is just a cosmetic change that displays the timer slightly ahead of “actual” time)
Emotes are now enabled for Spectators, though their emotes will be visible to only other Spectators. This mainly affects the Nova Cup casts.
Fixes
Fixed a UI issue where the Match Found popup would be mistakenly displayed in the loading screen
Fixed a bug where players who had a newly earned Weekly Quest were unable to reconnect to a game in progress
Fixed a few minor bugs with the ping wheel (“wants to send”) on Wave 21 displaying the wrong text/sound
Fixed a bug where Game Coach mistakenly warned you about being overbuilt on Wave 18 or later
Fixed a bug where Pack Rat Treasure Hunt wasn’t considered an opening for Masteries
Community Highlights
Yozora Halloween Cosplay
This Instagram post is a few years old, but still the only cosplay (that we know of) for a Legion TD 2 character... respect!
Nova Cup: Today We Fight For Glory! (August 2023 Highlights)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1n6gzsqJ7Y&feature=youtu.be Wondering what these "Nova Cups" are all about? Shadowings' hype video captures the excitement of epic holds and epic sends in a tightly edited 90 second video.
Game Translations
Legion TD 2's translations continue to be greatly improved, thanks to major contributions from community members! If you'd like to contribute to improving the game's texts further, visit the following link:
HUGE thank you to everyone who has helped up to this point!
Closing Remarks
With this update, we have been working hard on developing and balancing the upcoming Floating Isles campaign, and we can't wait to release it later this month! This patch also has some important balance changes to get the King in a better spot especially when it comes to one-shotting.
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!
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 /r/LegionTD2 are your best bet.
Sincerely, The Legion TD 2 Team
v10.08.4
Hotfix for Shadow Dancer & Dread Knight, plus various fixes.
- Fixed some rare cases where outdated player statistics/data were used when updating ratings/stats, resulting in incorrect numbers - Fixed a bug where the postgame builds tab wasn't properly showing the amount of king upgrades per wave - Fixed a bug with Dwarf Banker & Big Wig mistakenly gaining mana/gold in Weekly Challenge - Fixed a bug where ping wheel options for Wave 21+ were incorrect while the battle was in progress - Fixed a bug where certain player accounts were receiving more essence per game than intended due to an unintended interaction between bonus essence multipliers
Improvements
- New Player Quests are now earnable in Classic, to accommodate Classic-only/Classic-focused players - Updated translations
Sign Up for the September Nova Cup!
Last Month Recap
Congratulations to the winners of last month's Nova Cup! - D1: barneskirænn (Drachir & FC Lucy) - D2: any girls in chat (Shea & Brotbrecherboy) - D3: wyld stallyns (Vitamin & alacrity) - D4: elhao_ummeee (Elhao & ummeee)
Missed the action? Check the brackets, team lists, & VODs for all divisions on the Legion TD 2 eSports portal!
This Month
The upcoming September Nova Cup takes place September 23 - 24.
$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.
Requirements
- Everyone that is level 3 or higher can join for free! First come, first served. So if you joined the game during the free to play weekend, feel free to participate!
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 September 23 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.
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.
See you on September 23rd! 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
v10.08.3
Fixes/Improvements - Optimized some systems to speed up the time it takes from "Match Found" to getting into game - Weekly Quests & New Player Quests are now automatically claimed, which should resolve any lingering issues with quests not being earned properly - Fixed a major long-standing issue with Power Score sometimes incorrectly calculating previous wave income. This should provide noticeable improvements especially when taking various resource Legion Spells. - Fixed some tooltips
Balance
Bone Warrior - Health: 140 → 150 This change was accidentally missed in the initial v10.08 release.
Iron Maiden - Blade Storm: Damage: 40 → 42
Intentionally kept changes light for now. We are still gathering data & feedback on meta health (long-saving/one-shotting, etc) before doing a more major balance patch, if needed. Also note we are out-of-office next week (9/11-9/15) and will likely patch the following week (9/18-9/22).
Major Balance Patch & Weekly Quests
Expected patch release: September 5-6 (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.
Each week, you receive 5 random quests. These work similarly to New Player Quests: complete the quest, and you receive 500 Essence!
Weekly Quests are earnable in both Ranked & Classic
If your New Player Quests are still in progress, you must complete those before unlocking Weekly Quests
You can turn off quests via Options → Interface if you prefer to keep them hidden (Screenshot)
New Skin: Fatality Infiltrator
Get over heeeeere!
New Skin: Deathwish Orchid
Looking for a new playmate ;)
Game Balance
General
Systemic Changes - Mythium rate increase per wave starting wave 11: 7% → 6% - Long saving mythium is now less likely to make your opponents go on fire - Fixed a bug where upgrading the king and taking Investment, Loan, and All Out Assault did not correctly affect power score
Saving mythium has been a dominant strategy because mid & late-game workers have been more powerful than income. Sacrificing income to keep your opponents from pushing workers has been too strong. These changes tip the scales slightly towards income.
King - Health increased by 60% (75% in 4v4) - Tenacity removed
While Tenacity had benefits, it also had unintended effects. We’ve heard enough feedback from the community that we’re testing a complete removal. This is an experimental change, and it may be reverted.
Legion Spells
Press the Attack - Mythium: +70 --> +75
Pulverizer - 34% chance to stun (17% for ranged) → stuns every 3 attacks (every 6 attacks for ranged)
Removing a source of frustrating RNG.
Fighters
This patch we’re buffing cheap units and nerfing strategy-limiting openings to increase opening variety, encourage 2+ unit openings, and create a more dynamic early game.
Pollywog - Damage: 8 → 9
Seraphin - Damage: 50 → 51
Devilfish - Health: 1120 → 1100
Shifting power from Devilfish to Pollywog and Seraphin.
Bone Warrior - Health: 140 → 150
Fire Archer - Attack speed: 0.91 → 0.93
Bone Crusher - Health: 1140 → 1120
Shifting power from Bone Crusher to Bone Warrior and Fire Archer.
Shifting power from Fire Elemental to Aqua Spirit.
Sunfang - Health: 2000 → 1970
High win rate.
Golden Buckler - Health: 550 → 560 - Fixed a bug where it didn't have Deflection (15% reduced damage against ranged units) - DPS: Unchanged — Damage: 21 → 18 — Attack speed: 0.75 → 0.87
Warg - Health: 950 → 960
Dwarf Banker - Compound Interest: Mana lost when dying: 25% --> 20%
Big Wig - Aggressive Portfolio: Mana lost when dying: 50% --> 40%
Very low win rate and pick rate. We intend to keep these units slightly on the weak side due to their unorthodox gameplay, but they were still performing worse than expected.
Sacred Steed / Pegasus - Mana regeneration decreased by 4%
Now has stronger thresholds against waves 2 and 4, but worse against wave 3
Seadragon - Health: 870 → 830
Lifebinder - Health: 2610 → 2530
High pick rate.
Treant - Health: 980 --> 960
High pick rate.
Cursed Casket - Damage: 28 → 20 - Iron Hail: Damage: 20x3 → 20x2 - Mana cost decreased by 40% - Mana regeneration decreased by 10%
Cage of Pain - Damage: 49 → 35 - Iron Hail: Damage: 35x3 → 35x2 - Mana cost decreased by 40% - Mana regeneration decreased by 10%
Iron Maiden - Damage: 70 → 50 - Blade Storm: Damage: 43x3 → 40x2 - Blade Storm: Damage Reduction: 1 → 2 - Mana cost decreased by 40% - Mana regeneration decreased by 10%
More power budget in the ability and now casts more often.
APS / MPS - Attack speed: 1.39 → 1.32
High win rate.
Gatling Gun - Health: 1050 → 1020
Vulcan Cannon - Health: 2950 → 2860
Very high win rate.
Priestess of the Abyss - Attack speed: 0.97 → 0.95 - Burst Attack: Now also deals 0.035% max health damage
Priestess has long dominated as an opening. We’re nerfing her opening in exchange for slightly more power in the mid and late game.
Mercenaries
Lizard - Health: 320 → 350
Lizards have been outshined by Dragon Turtles. This change makes Lizards more viable early game, makes their health consistent with other ranged mercenaries, and rewards saving mythium on wave 1. This is an indirect nerf to upgrading the king on wave 1, which is currently a dominant strategy.
Mimic - Plunder: 2-7 gold → 2 → 9 gold
Very low usage rate. Now stronger from waves 10-21.
Witch - Witchcraft: 3 mana per any unit dying → 1 mana per enemy unit dying - Summon Froggo mana cost decreased by 70% - Effective mana regeneration increased by 50% - Froggos now decay after 40 seconds, consistent with other summons
Now viable on elite and boss waves. Previously, spam and summoner builds were too strong on these waves due to the lower wave spawn count. Also, Witch + Snail spam is no longer a powerful synergy.
Kraken - Ancient Power: Bonus damage and damage reduction per wave: 0.9% → 1%
Shifting power from high-performing DPS mercenaries to underperforming tank mercenaries.
Waves
Wave 6: Rockos - Damage: 38 → 39 - Impale — Damage amplification: 3% (1.5% to king) → 4% (2% to king) — Now only affects damage from Rockos. No longer affects mercenaries
The recent Impale rework pigeonholed you into sending DPS mercenaries and heavily incentivized huge sends, making the wave weak on its own but too strong with a Drake, 2x Brutes, or even worse, 3x Brutes. This change should open up more viable sending strategies.
Wave 10: Granddaddy - Attack speed: 3.704 → 3.636
As a boss wave, Granddaddy is intended to be strong, but it’s been a little too strong. This nerf should rein it in, while still keeping it a threat.
Wave 18: Wale Chiefs - Damage: 170 → 180 - Poison-Tipped Pole: AOE Damage: 20 → 30 - Fixed a bug where Poison-Tipped Pole was unexpectedly resetting mana on-kill
Cheaper tank fighters are more viable on this wave now.
Balance Watchlist
The dev team is constantly monitoring game balance, between looking at data and listening to community feedback. If specific units/spells are being more closely monitored than usual, they will be listed in this Balance Watchlist section. For this patch, the following are on the watchlist:
Summoners
Healers
Ramping units
Pawn Shop
Improvements & Fixes
Improvements
HUD: Now displays Wave 22, 23, etc. for waves after Wave 21. (Screenshot)
Ping Wheel: Now displays Wave 22, 23, etc. for waves after Wave 21. Also now displays wave number as text to help differentiate waves. (Screenshot)
Guilds: Guild tagline can now contain slashes & links. Good place to put your Discord link!
Takeover Bots: Now should save on Wave 21+ if their adjacent lane ally saves
Campaign: Locked campaign maps are now previewable in-game
HUD: Reenabled different-colored bars for units unaffected by mana restoration (i.e. Dwarf Banker)
Modding Support: Most internal classes are now public, for better modding support (requested by BoSen)
Fixes
Dwarf Banker & Big Wig: Fixed a bug where the estimated total gold tooltip after wave ends was doing incorrect math when they were at max mana
Login: Fixed a bug where logins failed if Steam servers were extremely backed up
Community Highlights
Nova Cup: Today We Fight For Glory! (August 2023 Highlights)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1n6gzsqJ7Y&feature=youtu.be Wondering what these "Nova Cups" are all about? Shadowings' hype video captures the excitement of epic holds and epic sends in a tightly edited 90 second video.
Game Translations
Legion TD 2's translations continue to be greatly improved, thanks to major contributions from community members! If you'd like to contribute to improving the game's texts further, visit the following link:
HUGE thank you to everyone who has helped up to this point!
Closing Remarks
With this update, we are bringing some systemic balance changes to diversify the meta at all stages of the game and address some pain points. Systemic changes often have far-reaching effects, so we will be monitoring closely and hotfixing rapidly as always.
We're also excited to introduce Weekly Quests, which builds upon the New Player Quests feature introduce a couple patches ago. The goal of this system is to give players achievable, fun goals to shoot for and feel rewarded for completing them, without being overbearing or too in-your-face.
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!
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 /r/LegionTD2 are your best bet.
Sincerely, The Legion TD 2 Team
v10.07.5
Note: all v10.07.x patches are hotfixes and usually contain only minor changes compared to typical monthly updates.
Major Fixes
Mac Only: Temporarily disabled Emote ground graphics for Mac only to hopefully fix the graphical artifacts
Improvements
Emotes: New larger Emote graphics, which look much better than the previously upscaled ones. Thanks to Drachir for working hard to make this happen!
Startup Logo: Lowered volume slightly by popular request
Spectator: Map pings now show the spectator’s name, similar to regular player pings
Updated translations. Thanks to everyone who continues to contribute. If you want to get involved, join the Legion TD 2 Contributors Discord.
Minor Fixes
Fixed a bug where Dwarf Banker and Big Wig cards displayed the wrong item rarity in some situations
This change affects Slime Larva, Slime Siren, Eternal Wanderer, Samurai Soul, Hydra, and Guardian Angel. We will evaluate further changes next patch.
King - Improved targeting logic against Shaman and Needler
Sign Up for the August Nova Cup!
Last Month Recap
Congratulations to the winners of last month's Nova Cup! - D1: xcrash (XGod37 & Ashton Butcher) - D2: duck'n overbuilders (DarkQuacker & mrSLICKINS) - D3: this_is_the_way (Deimos7007 & Phenazepamum) - D4: thor (Secretwindow & Kaltvien)
Missed the action? Check the brackets, team lists, & VODs for all divisions on the Legion TD 2 eSports portal!
This Month
The upcoming August Nova Cup takes place August 19 - 20.
$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.
Requirements
- Everyone that is level 3 or higher can join for free! First come, first served. So if you joined the game during the free to play weekend, feel free to participate!
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 August 19 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.
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.
See you on August 19th! 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: Dwarf Banker & Big Wig
Expected patch release: August 7-8 (Pacific Time)
A big welcome to all the new players who have joined the Legion community since Play-For-Free week! Legion TD 2 hit its all-time peak players on July 23 , and tens of thousands of people watched Twitch streams throughout that weekend. The Nova Cup Grand Finals peaked at 1,400+ concurrent viewers!
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.
Every wave it stays alive, it earns increasing amounts of bonus gold. But if it dies, the bonus drops significantly.
Dwarf Banker Stats:
Tier 3 (Cost: 95g)
Role: DPS
Ranged / Impact / Natural
Compound Interest: If it survives the wave, it gains 1-6 mana based on wave number and earns 1 gold per mana. If it dies, it loses half mana. Mana transfers when upgraded.
New Unit: Big Wig
With bold new investment strategy, it has greater potential for profits…and losses.
Big Wig Stats
Tier 3 Upgrade (Cost: 185g)
Role: DPS
Ranged / Impact / Natural
Aggressive Portfolio: If it survives the wave, it gains 1-6 mana based on wave number and earns 3 gold per mana. If it dies, it loses ALL mana.
Short Selling: Does not gain stacks or gold from Aggressive Portfolio this wave, but also does not lose stacks if it dies.
Emotes 3.0
Emotes are now easier-to-use and more visible!
Emotes are now usable via Ping Wheel. The hotkey Shift+E still works, too.
The ground image now has the “chat bubble” style, and also scales up if you’re zoomed out, which helps ensure your opponents don't miss when you spam .
Added 2 new animation styles: “slide-in-out” and “no-animation”
As a reminder, emotes can be enabled/disabled in Options (Screenshot). Enable only your favorite emotes and leave the rest disabled keep the window lean & easy to use.
Major Localization Update
Feedback has been heard loud and clear that translations could use some improvement.
Legion TD 2 is developed by a team of 3, and help is needed to continue to improve the game's translations in various languages. We've organized new Discord channels to help translators collaborate. Follow the instructions below to get involved.
Angler - Max mana: 75 → 60 - Junior Fisherman: Mana gained per dying enemy: 2 → 1.2
Bounty Hunter - Max mana: 150 → 120 - Commercial Fisherman: Mana gained per dying enemy: 1 → 0.6
Kingpin - Damage: 223 → 228 - Max mana: 150 → 120 - Elite Fisherman — Health per mana: 15 → 25 — Damage per mana: 1 → 1.5
Rework! Now harder to reach max stacks but even stronger if you do. Stronger with Sacred Steed, Pegasus, Starcaller, and Magician, which were previously a noob trap.
Slime Larva / Slime Siren - Slime Larva and Mini Slime now spawn after 2 seconds (consistent with Guardian Angel and Eternal Wanderer)
High pick rate. More-or-less unchanged on their own, moderately weaker with % heal effects, and slightly stronger with health gain effects. Overall nerf.
Tree of Knowledge - Forbidden Fruit — Radius: 400 → 300 — Explosion no longer activates when dying for the first time while Guardian Angel is active
Very high pick rate. This makes the Guardian Angel interaction consistent with other units. It also creates a harder counter: tank mercenaries on ranged waves.
Eggsack - Health: 2400 → 2500
Low win rate and very low pick rate. Eggsack is a threat in the mid and late game, but it continues to be a weak opening, so we’re buffing Eggsack instead of Hydra.
Hydra - Hydralings now spawn after 2 seconds (consistent with Guardian Angel and Eternal Wanderer)
The dev team is constantly monitoring game balance, between looking at data and listening to community feedback. If specific units/spells are being more closely monitored than usual, they will be listed in this Balance Watchlist section. For this patch, the following are on the watchlist:
Howler & Sunfang
Gatling Gun & Vulcan Cannon
Improvements & Fixes
Improvements
Options: You can now toggle on/off special buttons in the Ping Wheel to customize it to your liking [Screenshot]
Look & Feel: Dissolve Effects: Now neutral colored (gray) for deaths. It was distracting a little too much from the battle.
Look & Feel: Mana Bars: Now yellow colored if the unit is unaffected by mana regen/restoration, such as Infiltrator/Orchid stacks or Dwarf Banker/Big Wig stacks.
Legion Lord and Legion King now increase in size with each stack of Indomitable.
Fixes
Match Updates: Fixed some rare cases where ratings & other statistics didn’t update after a match when a service provider was experiencing an unusual slowdown
Gameplay: Weekly Challenge: Anglers and Bounty Hunters now always start with maxed mana, to prevent unintended strategies with Sacred Steed & Pegasus where you’d max their mana to funnel their mana elsewhere.
Gameplay: Achievements: No Time To Waste: Now achievable when winning any game on wave 7 or earlier (after Tenacity changes, winning a game on wave 5 or earlier has become too difficult to achieve)
HUD: Fixed a bug where buff stacks did not refresh on the HUD in some circumstances (such as Holy Avenger/Sovereign max stack attack count)
Tutorial: Fixed a rare bug where a player with an older account would be unable to reach level 2 if the game thought they already completed the tutorial
Tutorial: Fixed a rare bug in the Incoming mission where the bot would build an opener that cleared very quickly, which would make the mission impossible
Postgame: Fixed a bug where games against Diamond Bots were missing the Play Again button
Masteries: Fixed a bug where claiming a mastery gave more Essence than intended
Stability: Fixed a rare case where a specific firewall (“Emerging Threats”) was wrongly detecting certain game traffic as malicious
Community Highlights
Nova Cup: Aim For Greatness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEIlyo993FU Wondering what these "Nova Cups" are all about? Shadowings' hype video captures the excitement of epic holds and epic sends in a tightly edited 90 second video.
July Nova Cup Recap
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Closing Remarks
With this update, we are excited to introduce DWARVES to Legion TD 2! It's about time, ain't it lads? Dwarf Banker & Big Wig have some unique mechanics that will reward wave prediction and introduce new openings.
We're also excited to continue improving the Emote system; we are hoping that these UX improvements will unlock the joy of Emote spam for everyone.
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!
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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 /r/LegionTD2 are your best bet.
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