In addition to having our gratitude, any translators who contribute at least 10 fixes or new translations are eligible for an in-game translator badge. Just let a staff member know.
Sincerely, The Legion TD 2 Team
v10.06.5
More hotfixes, as well as a feature that was intended for v10.06, but needed a little more QA until now.
New
Added Accept/Decline buttons to the Match Found popup. This was an often-requested feature to prevent players accidentally joining games they didn't intend to. You can easily switch back to the old "Auto Accept" behavior in Options --> Interface.
Reverted for now while we investigate bugs.
Improvements
Players who are server-muted, but also on your friends list, are now no longer muted by default
Major Fixes
Fixed a bug where Quest progress would be reset for players who received an Inbox message
Fixes
Fixed a long-standing bug where profile playstyle graphs were incorrectly rendered for non-English languages
Fixed a bug where Play Again didn't work for some Play vs. AI queues
Fixed a couple minor localization issues
Fixed a bug where the first few seconds of the game's startup music ignored your volume settings
Fixed a case where the Randomize Background setting did not work correctly (thanks Irydion!)
Fixed a bug where gold cost tooltips were incorrect after playing a Weekly Challenge, then playing a regular game afterwards
Treant stacks are now loaded properly in -load builds
Sign Up for the July Nova Cup!
Last Month Recap
Congratulations to the winners of last month's Nova Cup! - D1: teamname (Drachir & FC Lucy) - D2: team fast trees (IkeHS & RazzIeDazzIe) - D3: oger enjoyer (Honigbaum & DryAydz) - D4: kubekxd_waldgammler (KubekXD & Waldgammler)
Missed the action? Check the brackets, team lists, & VODs for all divisions on the Legion TD 2 eSports portal!
This Month
The upcoming July Nova Cup takes place July 22 - 23.
$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 July 22 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 July 22th! 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
Play-For-Free Weekend: July 20-23
Expected patch release: July 12 (Pacific Time)
Play-For-Free Weekend
Get ready for the biggest event in Legion TD 2's history since the launch of the game! Help us get the word out by sharing on reddit, Discord, Twitch, etc. as we hope to get more people addicted to the game bring more players into our wonderful community.
Legion TD 2 will be PLAYABLE FOR FREE for 4 days!
Start: July 20th at 10 am PDT
End: July 24th at 10 am PDT
Login Rewards
During Play-For-Free Weekend, you’ll unlock 650 Premium Essence simply for logging in at least once during the event!
Twitch Drops
During Play-For-Free Weekend, there will also be a special Twitch Drops promotion. Twitch Drops are in-game Legion TD 2 rewards that you earn simply for watching Legion TD 2 Twitch streamers play the game!
Watch for 1 hour: 2000
Watch for 2 hours: 4000
Watch for 3 hours: Random Card
Watch for 4 hours: 500
Watch for 6 hours: 500
Watch for 8 hours: 1000
35% Off Sale
During Play-For-Free Weekend, the game will be put on sale - 35% off! The biggest sale we've ever done since the game's full launch.
Other 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.
Emotes now display a graphic on the ground, like a ping, in addition to next to the power score graphic.
Emotes now take into account fog of war. This means you can use emotes to communicate with allies during the build phase, without being worried about giving away information to your opponents.
Emotes can now be enabled/disabled in Options (Screenshot). Enable only your favorite emotes and leave the rest disabled keep the window lean & easy to use.
Tutorial & Campaign Voiceovers
The entire Tutorial and Crystal Coast Campaign have been upgraded with voiceovers! This is part of our effort to improve the game’s first impression on new players who will be joining during the Play-For-Free weekend!
New Player Quests
The Game Coach now gives new players some introductory goals to achieve in Ranked games. These quests can only be completed once and are intended to ease new players into Ranked play.
A future update may expand upon the quest system, but for now we’re focusing on the new player experience in anticipation of new players during Play-For-Free weekend.
New AI difficulties
New AI difficulties for Expert → Grandmaster!
Diamond AI is now much easier (it was previously way too big of a jump from Platinum to Diamond)
Terminator & Ultimate Terminator trophies are awarded for Grandmaster difficulty only.
Major Localization Update
In preparation for new players joining the game, professional localization experts have been hired to make major improvements to the entire game’s script. This patch features our biggest localization update to-date:
Turkish: 8500 new words. Editing pass on every single translation
Brazilian Portuguese: 6000 new words. Editing pass on every single translation
Spanish: 3000 new words. Editing pass on every single translation
Japanese: 3000 new words. Editing pass on every single translation
French: 2500 new words. Editing pass on every single translation
Russian: 2500 new words. Editing pass on every single translation
Traditional Chinese: 7500 new words
Simplified Chinese: 4000 new words
Polish: 1000 new words
Korean: 1000 new words
Legion TD 2 is developed by a small 3-person studio, and so the community is depended upon to keep the game's translations up to date. Visit the following link to help out: legiontd2.com/translate
New Unlockables
New Skin: BoxBox Mimic
BoxBox may or may not be streaming Legion TD 2 in the near future
New Skin: Imperial Bone Crusher
Just 395!
New Skin: Hellfire Azeria
Just 395!
New Secret Card: Kalm Centaur
Game Balance
General
Workers - Train time: 2 seconds → 3 seconds
Full pushing workers in base races is common in high Elo. While this is an interesting strategy, it’s too strong.
Legion Spells
Glacial Touch - Damage: 45 → 50
Low win rate and pick rate.
Hero - Damage and damage reduction: 5% → 4.5%
High win rate and very high pick rate, Hero has been a staple pick for years. Nerfing it to give other spells a chance to shine.
Protector - Health: 700 → 650
Very high pick rate.
Titan - Health: 1350 → 1300
High pick rate and win rate.
Fighters
Fire Archer - Attack speed: 0.89 → 0.91
Dark Mage - Mana regeneration decreased by 7%
Shifting power from Dark Mage to Fire Archer.
Sacred Steed / Pegasus - Mana regeneration decreased by 4%
Being conservative because (1) the win rate isn’t particularly high, and (2) small regen nerfs can be the difference between holding and leaking 50% of the wave.
Eternal Wanderer - Attack speed: 0.85 → 0.88
Low win rate and pick rate.
Eggsack - Health: 2300 → 2400
Low win rate and pick rate. Encouraging Eggsack opening.
Last patch’s rework has accomplished its design goals, but the wave is slightly weak.
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:
Gatling Gun & Vulcan Cannon
Systems
New Player Experience: Playing Classic now requires your account to be level 3+. This is meant to steer new players towards Ranked, which offers much fairer matchmaking. As always, players can still be invited to a party and queued up for Classic, even if they don’t meet the level requirement.
Profile: Tactician profile playstyle is now based on Pressure Applied rather than # of waves skipped
Campaign
Victra (Hard) - Mythium gained per attack: 0.5 --> 0.45
Some recent AI improvements made her too strong. This tweak keeps her mortal, but just barely.
Improvements & Fixes
Improvements
Graphics: Added "Dissolve FX" upon unit creation & death that are colored corresponding to your player color. You can switch back to the old fade in/fade out effect in Options, if you prefer.
Performance: Various optimizations to make the game run smoother. The loading screen may take a little longer as a tradeoff.
Look & Feel: Startup screen now features a new animated logo
Look & Feel: Menus improved with various smoother animations/transitions
Look & Feel: All references to “Hire” mercenary have now been changed to “Send” mercenary, to be consistent with pings & the language that players use. This also better communicates to players that mercenaries are sent to the opponent’s lane, rather than defending your own lane.
Tutorial: UI visual improvements for more consistent style
Tutorial: Game Coach is now disabled for tutorials (he would give wrong/misleading advice, plus it was information overload)
Tutorial: Fixed a bug in the Incoming mission, where mythium would be incorrectly still gathered on wave 1 after failing the mission & restarting
Tutorial: Saving mission now speeds up the wave timer if you’ve finished spending your gold
Profile: “NEW!” is now only shown if you earn an item for the first time, rather than gaining 1 more of an item you already have
Fixes
Weekly Challenge: Fixed a bug where challenge games were being picked from lower rated games (~Diamond) than intended
Campaign: Fixed a bug where campaign opponents didn’t repick their mastermind playstyle after a Restart
Campaign: Fixed a bug where campaign opponents sometimes built an unintended opening after a Restart
Legion Spells: Fixed a bug where upgrading a fighter after picking a Legion Spell wouldn’t allow you to place the Legion Spell on that fighter
Community Highlight
Want more of these? /r/LegionTD2 has memes every Monday, courtesy of ToHoe. There will also likely be lots of activity there during Play-For-Free Weekend, so if you haven't joined, now's a great time!
Closing Remarks
With this update, we are excited to make Legion TD 2 more accessible for newer players. The more new players that stick around, the better matchmaking will be, and the more funding the game will have for ongoing development.
We're doing our best to get the word out, but we'll also be relying on you - existing players - to help us. Even if it's as simple as actively playing the game and being kind to your teammates, you make a difference!
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!
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
Sign Up for the June Nova Cup!
Last Month Recap
Congratulations to the winners of last month's Nova Cup! - D1: big bro and lil bro (Drachir & Isolde) - D2: w1t (W1TCH0R & fine) - D3: team cono (SebAx & Tiburcio) - D4: guaranteed1st (Slashion & FlyingSquirrel) - D5: naučseavypadni (murffy & DysanCZ)
Missed the action? Check the brackets, team lists, & VODs for all divisions on the Legion TD 2 eSports portal!
This Month
The upcoming June Nova Cup takes place June 24 - 25.
$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.
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 June 24 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 June 24th! 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: Howler & Sunfang
Expected patch release: June 12 (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. - Nekomata Cup: June 10-11. The first-ever tournament tailored for players in Asia, Oceania, Europe and Africa! - Next Nova Cup: June 24-25 - Join the Tournament Discord to participate and receive tournament notifications. View all past Nova Cups here: Legion TD 2 Esports Portal.
New Content & Features
New Unit: Howler
Howler Stats
Tier 2 (Cost: 35g)
Role: Versatile
Melee / Pierce / Natural
Wolf Pack: Each attack applies a stack of Wolf Prey for 3 seconds (stacking up to 10 times). Deals 6% (3% to bosses) bonus damage for each stack of Wolf Prey on its attack target.
New Unit: Sunfang
Sunfang Stats
Tier 2 Upgrade (Cost: 160g)
Role: Versatile
Melee / Pierce / Natural
Wolf Pack: Each attack applies a stack of Wolf Prey for 3 seconds (stacking up to 10 times). Deals 6% (3% to bosses) bonus damage for each stack of Wolf Prey on its attack target.
New Feature: First Purchase Bonus
Starting this patch, the first time you purchase each premium essence bundle, you get a big chunk of premium essence for FREE!
Every premium essence purchase goes towards supporting the game’s continued development. Thank you to everyone who continues to support the game. Without your support, the game would not be where it is today.
P.S. Remember to enter a creator code for 10% bonus premium essence! (and supporting a creator in the process!)
New Unlockables
Cool off from the summer heat with three new summery skins, including one more honorable mention from the community skin competition!
New Skin: Beach Party Cannoneer
Original concept by Drachir
New Skin: Tropical Imp
New Skin: Cryo Fire Lord
New Cards: Campaign, King, and Worker Cards
Introducing new collectible cards for the 14 campaign opponents as well as Earth King, Sky King, and Worker! - These are standard (non-secret) cards with legendary rarity - These cards are only obtainable via the Card Trader (they cannot be found in-game)
Game Balance
General
Haste (4v4 Dual Building) - Attack speed bonus to enemies: 2% → 3% - AOE reduction for enemies: 45% → 47.5%. This nerf also affects Hades’ Necromancy.
Dual building is too strong when mastered and is currently a point of frustration.
King - Upgrade Regen: 0.005% → 0.006%
Right now if your king takes too much damage, upgrading regen often seals your fate by giving up too much pressure. A regen buff makes recover + scale a viable alternative.
High win rate. Shifting power from the ability to autoattack damage to make it more consistent with Banana Haven. Still an overall nerf.
Gateguard / Harbinger / Lord of Death / Hades / Shadow Dancer / Dread Knight - After a summoned unit has been alive for 50 seconds, it starts degenerating 10% max health per second
Weaker when holding for teammates, which was a point of frustration.
Mercenaries
Witch - Attack speed: 1.43 → 1.35
Still the top performing mercenary.
Waves
Wave 6 (Rockos) Damage: 40 → 37 - Impale reworked — Old: Each attack has a 25% chance to deal 150% damage — New: Each attack amplifies damage by 3% (1.5% to the king), stacking up to 10 times
This removes rng from the ability, rewards having multiple units partially tank, and incentivizes cheaper units in the early game.
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:
Treant + upgrades
Grarl + upgrades
Eggsack
Cartel
Improvements & Fixes
New Mouse Cursor
Long overdue, the mouse cursor has received a modern refresh!
Improvements
Emotes: Added a clickable button to use emotes. We’re still gathering feedback and will likely make other improvements to the emotes system in the future. (Screenshot)
Game Coach: Added the “Randomize Every Game” option in the Shop > Game Coach tab
Matchmaking: Improved match fairness for players with less than 10 ranked games in the current season. For such players, it will take into account last season’s peak Elo. This should greatly improve match fairness at the start of seasons, as well as for players who are returning from a break and starting the season a bit late.
Creditor: Earned gold message now displays “MAX” if you earned max gold (Screenshot) and a percentage if you earned less than max
Postgame Builds: Mousing over a unit icon now shows the unit name
Fixes
King Upgrades: Fixed a bug where a queued king upgrade wouldn’t go through if you hit 20 mythium just before the wave started (Credits to Kidev)
Parties: Fixed a bug where a party invite from a friend in another player’s party would display the invite from the party owner, instead of the friend
Cards: Fixed a bug where Game Coach cards were not able to be donated or sold
Nekomata: Fixed a bug where the max stacks re-texture wasn’t showing up
Known Bugs
Currently investigating a bug from last patch where the main menu background wrongly shows up in-game, preventing player actions.
Community Highlight
This weekend (June 10-11) is the Nekomata Cup! It's like the Nova Cup, but a new time schedule friendlier for Asia/Australia/African players, as well as European players!
Sign-up is FREE! Tune in to http://twitch.tv/ltd2 for casting by Shadowings on the days of the event.
Closing Remarks
With this update, we are excited to introduce new doggos to the game . These units should be easier-to-use compared to some of the other recent new units, while still offering interesting strategies.
We're also excited to introduce the First Purchase Bonus to encourage more people to support the game's development; even if it's just a one-time purchase, every purchase really does help.
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 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 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 reddit are your best bet.
Sign Up for the Nekomata Cup!
We are excited to announce our FIRST EVER tournament tailored towards players in Asia, Oceania, Europe, and Africa! Signup is, as always, open to everyone!
The upcoming Nekomata Cup takes place June 10 - 11.
$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.
Prizes
Based on the amount of sign ups there will be up to 5 divisions with the following prizes:
When you watch Nekomata Cup 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 Nekomata 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 Nekomata 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 June 10 at 6pm KST (UTC+9) / 11am 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.
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 June 10th! The Nekomata 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
Emotes, New Game Coaches, Creator Boost, Gifting, and more!
Expected patch release: May 15 (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. - Next Nova Cup: May 20-21 - Nekomata Cup: June 10-11. First-ever tournament tailored for players in Asia, Oceania, Europe and Africa! Details coming soon. - Join the Tournament Discord to participate and receive tournament notifications. View all past Nova Cups here: Legion TD 2 eSports Portal.
New Content & Features
Major Feature: Emotes
Express yourself by spamming judiciously using in-game emotes!
Hold Shift+E to open up the emote window.
Personalize each emote with a variety of animation styles in Options > Social.
If you’re not a fan of Emotes, you can choose to receive emotes from nobody or only from friends in Options > Social.
Major Update: Game Coach Refresh
Each unlockable Game Coach now unlocks special emotes
Your currently-equipped Game Coach is now flexed as an emote just before Wave 1 starts..
Game Coach secret cards are now part of the Card Trader rotation and unlockable using Card Fragments.
Game Coach sound effects are now previewed when cycling through dialogue in the shop.
Plus, three brand new Game Coaches - see below!
New Game Coach: Pirate Coach
Ahoy, an' welcome to Legion TD 2! Booty be aplenty here in these waters. Time t' drop anchor 'n set sail!
New Game Coach: 200 IQ Coach
Greetings & salutations. Together, let us unravel the mysteries of the universe! Or, you know, just sit here and autosend.
Dude Coach
What's up, bro! Ready to have a good time?
Major Update: Creator Codes Upgraded!
NEW: You will now receive 10% bonus Premium Essence every time you make a purchase using a Creator Code!
As a reminder, every time you enter a creator code, AutoAttack Games donates 14% of its revenue from that purchase directly to that content creator.
Special Promotional Period: As soon as the patch drops, until the end of June, we’ll be doubling this rate to 28%!
We truly believe in the Legion community, and this is one more way we want to show our support for all who make Legion TD 2 what it is today. Content creators, it's all up to you to advertise those creator codes!
New Feature: Premium Essence Gifting
You can now send Premium Essence gifts to your friends, along with a personalized message. Access the gifting menu from the normal Premium Essence purchase screen. You'll see a new "Send as Gift" button.
New Skins
This month, we're excited to present the winner & some honorable mentions from the community skin competition!
New Skin: Totally Not Poisonous Hermit
Original concept by LanaDelRabiesLTD2
New Skin: Turbo Turtle
Original concept by e1esdee
New Skin: Spiny Shell Bone Crusher
Original concept by D4NW0LF
Spoiler: one more honorable mention coming in next month's patch.
Game Balance
Legion Spells
Dark Ritual - Gold: 140 --> 145
Low win rate and pick rate.
Divine Blessing - Health: 2250 --> 2150
High win rate and pick rate. Too strong with ranged off-tanks like Azeria.
Investment - Income: 34 --> 33
[I]High pick rate and indirectly buffed by king changes.
Loan - Income penalty: -34 --> -33
Low win rate and pick rate.
Power Score
- Now weighs mythium slightly higher
This slightly nerfs long-saving mythium by making it less likely for saving to cause your opponents to go on fire.
King - Health increased by +13% → +3% from waves 1 → 21 - Attack damage and spell damage adjusted by +5% → -4% from waves 1 → 21 - Wave 9’s Deflection now reduces damage from the king by 6% - Wave 18’s Poison-Tipped Pole now deals 40 bonus damage against the king - Removed a health nerf that only previously applied to waves 8 and 19
Buffing the king early game to make leaks to the king less punishing and encourage more workers.
King damage will also be more consistent on waves 9 and 18. Previously, mercenaries like Ogre on 9 and Four Eyes on 18 did disproportionately too much damage, while the waves themselves did unexpectedly little damage.
Back when cheap unit spam was a dominant strategy, cheap units were heavily nerfed. Now that the game has checks against spam, it’s safe to rebuff these units. To test things and avoid disruption, we’re only buffing underperforming units, not adjusting units that would require power shifts (e.g. shifting power from Consort to Buzz). We may consider this in a future patch.
Making sure the meta includes a healthy mix of income sending, short saves, long saves, split sends, coordinated sends, high income mercenaries, power mercenaries, and king ups. There are a lot of levers to adjust these things (mercenary stats, mythium rate, king power, tenacity, leak gold, pillage gold, etc.).
Currently, king damage in the early game is too punishing, so we're buffing the king. We'll continue to evaluate and make improvements. We're always monitoring all aspects of game balance, looking at data, and listening to community feedback.
Improvements & Fixes
Improvements
Game Text: Pirate translation is now selectable via Options > Language. Ya-ha-har!
Pings: Player name is now displayed beneath each ping (Screenshot)
Tooltips: Added a damage type icon and improved readability for all abilities with damage type different than that of the unit.
Performance: Minor improvements to client performance in big battles. This may inadvertently sometimes cause some graphical glitches with missiles; please report a bug if you see them, and we’ll revert the change.
Emojis: Added wp, smiling_face_with_tear, and melting_face (Screenshot)
Spectator HUD: Removed Net Worth & Builds from the main HUD. Scaled larger on 2560x1440 screens. This should improve the Nova Cup viewing experience!
Fixes
Gameplay: Fixed a bug where Sakura’s value calculation was incorrectly increasing by 15 instead of 30 on waves 11+
Gameplay: Fixed a bug where Treasure Hunt did not grant mythium on Wave 21+
Gameplay: Fixed a bug where queued King Upgrades wouldn’t prevent using Embargo and vice versa
Gameplay: Fixed a bug where the “Guild Member” Steam achievement didn’t unlock for guild leaders creating their own guild
Gameplay: Fixed a bug where Fiesta gold was mistakenly given after using Restart in campaigns/AI games
Gameplay: Fixed a bug where Tree of Life’s Devotion buff wasn’t correctly applied after doing a -load build
Postgame: Fixed a rare case where First Win of the Day Essence bonus wasn’t given if the game ended right at the cutoff date
Profile: Fixed a bug where the Game Stats - Openings column wasn’t properly sortable
Client: Tweaked a few client fonts to support displaying non-alphanumeric characters
Client: Fixed a bug where the popup when choosing a guild avatar mistakenly displayed gold/silver borders when it shouldn’t have
HUD: Fixed a bug where the Ready button was mistakenly draggable using ctrl+shift
Card Trader: Fixed a rare case where a reroll was consumed, but didn’t actually reroll the card selection
Stability: Fixed some rare cases of game instability with lots of units
Community Highlight
- Follow the Legion TD 2 Instagram @legiontdgame for all the latest Legion memes! Brought to you by ToHoe, the legendary Legion memer.
Closing Remarks
With this update, we are excited to introduce new ways of communicating (Emotes) as well as improve some existing systems (Game Coaches and Creator Codes). We're especially excited for more players to get in the habit of using creator codes, as this will directly support content creators and encourage them to create more Legion TD 2 content! As always, we'll continue to iterate until we get it right, so be ready for hotfixes soon after release.
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 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 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 reddit are your best bet.
Sign Up for the May Nova Cup!
Last Month Recap
Congratulations to the winners of last month's Nova Cup! - D1: the updogs (Drachir & FC Lucy) - D2: where is my bonus income? (Toikan & robie) - D3: pyroblem (Thaeltras & Snow193) - D4: what's arcane? (warnessa2007 & TDMeister) - D5: i should be studying (Yert & Selt)
Missed the action? Check the brackets, team lists, & VODs for all divisions on the Legion TD 2 eSports portal!
This Month
The upcoming May Nova Cup takes place May 20 - 21.
$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.
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 May 20 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 May 20th! 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
Sign Up for the April Nova Cup!
Help wanted:
- We are currently planning to organize an additional tournament that is more friendly towards the SEA regions. If you're interested in helping us to organize or cast in this timezone, please reach out to us in the Legion TD 2 Official Tournament Discord
Last Month Recap
Congratulations to the winners of last month's Nova Cup! - D1: the underdogs (Drachir & FC Lucy) - D2: wild and waddling (Danwolf & Pyropenguin) - D3: pas dit bonjour (w1sp & Wrex) - D4: guaranteed1st (Slashion & FlyingSquirrel) - D5: creepalicious-crusaders (Chanman & FlimsyHippo)
Missed the action? Check the brackets, team lists, & VODs for all divisions on the Legion TD 2 eSports portal!
This Month
The upcoming April Nova Cup takes place April 29 - 30.
$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.
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 April 29 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.
Like last month, you may now sign up as a solo player!
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 April 29th! 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.
$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.
650 Premium Essence simply for logging in at least once during the event!
) review for the game! If the game reaches 90% positive, Steam will give it more visibility = more players!
. These units should be easier-to-use compared to some of the other recent new units, while still offering interesting strategies. 
Or, you know, just sit here and autosend.
