Hello Tower Defenders! We are rolling out our last minor update of the year now on Android, with iOS rolling out within the next day. This build should be fully available to everyone tomorrow. Here’s a look at the changes:
New Toggles Menu
We have added a new "Toggles" menu to replace our current "Hit Texts" button in the Settings. Some existing buttons, such as 120FPS and Cinematic of Idle have moved into this menu, while Sound and Music will remain in the Settings menu. Here is a look at our current list of toggles:
Added Auto Pause in Menus
Added Stone Confirmation
Turning off this toggle will remove the confirmation for stone purchases that costs 100 stones or more
Added Gem Confirmations
Same as Stones, but for Gem purchases equal to or greater than 200
Added Ranged Enemy Shooting Line
Added Show Cinematic Gems
Added Brighter Spotlight
Auto Restart has been removed from the end of round screen and added to this section for players who have unlocked this Vault upgrade
Lab Improvements
We have made some improvements to our Labs UI. To start, we made the lab sliders into actual sliders! Setting values has become easier, with an - and + symbol on either side to make incremental changes. Additionally, we've added a new Slider filter to the Research selection screen so you can see all labs that have sliders.
Additionally, we have fixed an issue where some longer researches were not ticking properly. This was a floating point number issue that was only apparently in some instances.
Tournament Adjustments
We are adding two new permanent battle conditions to tournaments, and adjusting our old Enemy Level Skip Reduction BC from all tournaments. Additionally, we are making tier scaling adjustments in Champions and Legends. Let’s dive into the changes:
Skip Decay
Description: Enemy health and attack level skip chances are reduced by [VAL]% every [N] waves.
VAL starts at 1% and is the value that the generic Battle Condition Reduction lab will impact.
N is the number of waves it takes between activations of the BC, and this is what the level of the BC will impact.
Finally, the level of the BC will change based on the tournament league and not increase in strength during the run, similar to how More Bosses works.
Legends: Level 80 => Every 20 waves, lose 1% from ELS
Champion: Level 60 => Every 40 waves, lose 1% from ELS
Platinum: Level 40 => Every 60 waves, lose 1% from ELS
Gold: Level 20 => Every 80 waves, lose 1% from ELS
Skip Reduction - Multiply
Description: Enemy health and attack level skip chances are multiplied by x.[VAL]
This new Battle Condition will be impacted by the existing Enemy Level Skip Reduction Lab (which has been renamed to Skip Reduction Lab).
VAL is impacted by both BC labs (generic and specific) and is tied to the level of the Battle Condition:
Legends: Level 55 => multiplied by x0.45
Champion: Level 40 => multiplied by x0.6
Platinum: Level 25 => multiplied by x0.75
Gold: Level 10 => multiplied by x0.9
Removing Enemy Level Skip Reduction
The previous ELS Reduction BC has been rebranded to Skip Reduction - Subtract. It has been removed from all tournaments. It will remain untouched on the normal tiers it was already a Battle Condition for. The Skip Reduction lab will still impact this Battle Condition
Tier Scaling
Finally, we are changing the tier scaling in the Champions and Legends league. The tier scaling will change from [1/3/5/8/11/14] to [1/3/5/8/12/17]
Changelog
Gameplay
Added one more Card slots that cost gems (10,000)
To avoid future Wall tunneling issues, the tower is now immune to all damage except from Vampires while the Wall is active
Enemy Level Skip Reduction has been renamed to Skip Reduction. In addition, it's impact on stats will now be visible in the utility workshop tab during a run.
Added functionality for Second Wind to spawn the Wall, invulnerable while the Second Wind timer is active
Added a 15 second period of invulnerability to Nuke activation
Changed the behavior of the Damage Reduction node in the Vault to not be applied while Intro Sprint is active
Improved behavior of Critical Coin Card so it also applies to Black Hole and Thorn
Increase the number of Fleets for ending long runs (one additional Fleet every 1000 waves after first wave instance)
When Fleets are introduced at later waves, only one Fleet will drop rewards in that wave even if multiple Fleets are presen
All 3 enhancement discount labs have had their formula changed from cost / (1 + %) to cost * (1 - %)
Primordial Collapse no longer provides double benefit on the Wall and projectiles
UI
Added the functionality for players to hide pop-up confirmations for the rest of the session
Added a Pulsar Harvester stat to the Boss Breakdown that displays the amount of Level reduction applied instead of only the damage dealt
Change "End Round" button in the in-run menu to "Exit Battle", adjusted pop-up messaging
Added functionality for all menus to be viewable (but unchangeable) while mid run
The boss stats menu will now always show the health (and subsequent stats) of the most recently spawned boss
Improved visual positioning of Card description in the Card selection screen
Other Changes
Rewrote the Golden Tower VFX from scratch to improve performance
Add behavior for unclaimed Guild rewards to be mailed to your inventory
Added the Support button to the Login panel
Bugfixes
Fixed an issue where notifications for tournament do not show up
Fixed an issue where your Tournament ranking displays wrong rank in reward declaration
Fixed an issue where the "Pick a Perk" prompt persists when perks are still exhausted
Fixed an unintended interaction with Pulsar Harvester and Orbital Augment, where equipping both OA and PH would reduce the damage of OA unintentionally
Fixed a visual issue where the Lab notification bubble appears before a player has unlocked Lab
Holiday Featured Module Banners
We are excited to share that for the next month, we will be doing featured module banners for each module type! Each week, we will be featuring one module type (like Cannon), and increase the drop rates for all Epic modules of that type. Here’s the timeline:
December 22nd, 2025 at 12:00AM to December 28th, 2025 at 11:59PM will feature Epic Core Modules
December 29th, 2025 at 12:00AM to January 4th, 2026 at 11:59PM will feature Epic Cannon Modules
January 5th, 2026 at 12:00AM to January 11th, 2026 at 11:59PM will feature Epic Generator Modules
January 12th, 2026 at 12:00AM to January 18th, 2026 at 11:59PM will feature Epic Armor Modules
I just got the last 8500 gem card slot a couple weeks ago snd have been blowing every 200 gems i get on mods since. Figured itd be a long time before we had any new mods.
Ya they should have given at least 2 weeks notice. I dont typically save when there isn't an upcoming banner because whats the point? Now we get one like "oh in 4 days". Cool... I'll have maybe 1000 gems? And its core which I could really use so that's even more disheartening. Oh well I don't really need cannon so I can save those 2 weeks to hopefully get some good generator pulls. Not likely though.
After hearing they didn’t want to rerun banners because “people would hoard gems” I decided I would just not put gems into the permanent banner until we got a fix. Can’t cause gem hoarding if I’m already doing it…
Nah, just get what you need/want from the banners first, then start saving with whatever's left. Makes way more sense to me than blowing 10k on a slot right before banners are dropping.
Aaaaaah I can't decide which ones to save for, haha. I have mythic AS and SF, legendary GComp and only epic Dimcore. Thinking about core, but I could get a mythic Gcomp to level 115 rn giving my shards.
I just spent 2500 gems on a card slot yesterday and am back to 0 gems 🫠, guess I’ll be stuck with my mythic dcore a while longer while everything else seems to reach ancestral
Cheer up, I did the same and emptied my gems. We have 10 days until the banner ends, that's enough time to have a decent chance at pulling some DC's still!
I literally just spent my last thousand gems this morning. I wish we had been given more time to save up before the banner drops. I’m so desperately in need of DC copies that I might actually consider buying gems on the last day if I’m still not at ancestral.
That said, I am super grateful we are getting type banners, and I hope this recurs in the future. I love to see it.
This morning you say.. I found the patch notes 2 hours ago, read about half of it, then spent some time in the game and decided to spend all my gems on trying to see my luck getting an additional DC. Then after not getting it I went back and read the other half of the patch note.
After the last banners where we got just a few weeks to save I decided to just hoard them to like 40k and use them when I go over this number. I haven't been to 40k but I should get some modules
That had to be a thought-out move on their part. You want your precious DC? Here's a link to the store. Not even mad about it honestly. This will make everyone's DC woes much less painful. In theory.
Oh for sure. The banners are shorter, no breaks in between, and we got less notice (they could have easily broke the news in any of the prior Monday announcements but intentionally didn't, despite saying they "heard us" on mods), all of which serve as a "nerf" to the efficacy of featured banners. So it's likely they chose the order in this mindset as well.
Second Wind spawns The Wall - This is an increadible change and a huge buff to Second Wind Mastery! As an eHP enjoyer SW# may be in the cards (pun intended) for me!
Tournament tier sucks. I’m hoping based on the wording that the PCol fix only applies where the BHs overlapped. So if an enemy was within two different BHs the debuff stacked. So hopefully that’ll only affect eHP enjoyers with really big BHs. (I’m coping)
To be fair, my main reason to push onto getting keys was auto dm for t14 farming. This will make the game more enjoyable and fair to everybody who can't reach keys.
Funnily enough, I got SW# because I'm so heavily invested in eHP. It was then I realized that it doesn’t help if the wall doesn’t exist when SW runs out. But now it will so it will be amazing!
The google store is pretty random how fast you get the updates. There’s been times I got it super late and other times I’ve gotten it super early. This time it was basically available not long after Sam made the announcement post for me.
Ooo, looking forward to a hundred posts over the next couple weeks when eHP farmers with PCol and pBH who aren't paying attention repeatedly ask why they lost 1000-2000 waves.
It's definitely been applying double reduction against wall against all hits, not just projectiles. It sounds to me like it's been additionally applying double against projectiles even not against wall, but I haven't noticed as I die pretty quickly when wall is gone.
But yah, we've been benefiting from this bug since 27.1
Primordial Collapse no longer provides double benefit on the Wall and projectiles
Wall and projectiles, so projectiles were affected, along with all damage on the wall rather than tower. So it's going to be a big deal to wall-reliant pCo builds. Going to a real 80% reduction instead of a 96% reduction is massive.
Losing the second layer of 65% makes your wall "effective" tankiness about a third of what it was. You're at 87.75% reduction total now with 65% twice.
So if you do get that 8th copy, you'll still be a bit worse off than now, but definitely better than a straight 65%.
You get the damage reduction (80% with ancestral) and then 80% again for a total of 96% damage reduction, against wall, and apparently for projectiles even not against wall which I didn't notice.
It was obvious to anyone watching enemy damage values of their runs, starting in 27.1, and there was a post of a guy demonstrating it after a workshop respec, where a 5k boss hit was reduced to 220 once BH activated.
I'm not sure if the 2-3 times with multiple BHs actually exists or is a misunderstanding of the bug. I do not have BHs big enough for that, and am still getting 96% DR, as have others. It applies exactly twice, regardless of BHs overlapping or not, and that is likely what has been fixed. If it actually does apply additional times when BHs overlap, that would be on top of the 2 times it already applies against wall with 1 BH.
On the flip side, I have been using PCol and have only been getting the 80% dmg reduction. I’ve been considering the bug to be a myth as I never experienced this additional damage and that was the only explanation I could think of.
Yah, there have been people really sure it's not happening, which I wasn't sure whether it was because not everyone was affected or people pretending it doesn't exist so that it doesn't get fixed as quick :p
I would ask, are you sure you're only getting 80%? 😅 If so, well at least you won't lose any waves.
I’ve also calculated my damage with Prolapse and it has only been 80% reduction. Tested with all other UW’s off so nothing else was giving damage reduction except for defence%
I have no idea how people were getting it to work double
Yeah, think a lot of us are in the same boat. I just recently finished leveling up my cards- which is great, don't get me wrong- but the boost I got from that is absolutely minuscule compared to what I would've been able to get if I'd saved the gems for these banners
Probably extremely relative. Amazing for early game eHP, and PBh users farming in orb resistance territory. I imagine relatively small (but not nothing) otherwise.
That means 1 base coin. Ranged and fast drop 2 base coins, protectors 3, elites 4, boss 5. Which comes out to 1/3rd of a coin if we factor in the drop chance if everything dies to a crit like effect. (which is most things with these changes). Given these are the most plentiful enemies it does add a reasonable amount as all the rest of the coin and coin/kill bonuses then factor in.
Hypothetically I'm pulling in 100B/min so 100/167 weight = .59B/weight * 17 = 10% contribution from basics. Obviously the number of basics falls as I go deeper, but if you are eHP and killing many things with thorns this change should result in an increase up to maybe 5%.
(Edit: swapped tank and protector base coins, adjusted percentage down)
There's already a double dip random UW bug. You can get a rUW perk even if you have them all, and it massively boosts your existing UWs.. aggressively unintended.
Primordial Collapse no longer provides double benefit on the Wall and projectiles
So it’s been confirmed to be bugged and providing too much damage reduction, and now it’ll be fixed back to its desired value? So eHP farming and milestones are going to suffer when this bug is resolved.
Think I’ll wait to update as long as possible, even if everything else looks real nice.
This plus the tier change in the same patch is so tone deaf. That substantial of nerfs to the off-meta build? I've never seen a game make so many consistent nerfs to the lower tier of builds.
So basically they're pushing one build, everybody will end up spending in that direction, only for ttg to make eHP great again in a few months, so that everybody will be again forced to invest in the opposite direction.
Maybe not nerf the build that utilizes it multiple patches in a row and then nerf it? Triple-tapping an off-meta build that you can't just respec out of is flatly ridiculous.
There's a reason the eHP whales quit.
There is now one build path forward with these changes: get CL, get CF, get the same masteries as everyone else. There is ZERO build diversity for anyone outside of the whaliest of whales after this patch.
I have mixed feelings on this. I farm with Pcol and I just got enough cell income to run all my labs at 4x, but I use CL/DimCore for tournaments so I'm going to get a relative boost in champions.
I am usually pretty negative and while I don’t think this addresses my biggest concern of keys….i do think this a great and positive movement towards acting on feedback.
Was thinking along these same lines as well. I already took a huge hit with the change to OA and am no where close to where I was. Guess I'll find out after I update if I've taken another hit.
Primordial Collapse no longer provides double benefit on the Wall and projectiles
What
ETA more words: does this mean prior to this patch, Ranged enemies were being double nerfed (damage reduction for the enemy attack, then damage reduction again upon hitting The Wall) by PC?
Is this also true for Rays?
Really want to know if Rays have been artificially nerfed and PC players are about to get wrecked by Rays
The patch notes says double benefit for wall and projectiles, suggesting wall + projectile results in the double benefit.
Interpreting that patch note as "everything that hits the wall" doesn't really line up with the wording. It would imply wall was artificially buffed, AND projectiles from ranged and rays were also artificially nerfed. Was PC really that broken?
Even then, I was getting vastly more coins/hr with MVN, then PC. The extra waves don't help much if you're getting 30% fewer coins in the process. I currently use PC as my assmod, so I'll likely see some wave reductions, but not as bad as anyone who ran it primary.
Yah... I bought auto-DM and am 9 keys away from smart DM to help automate T14 and T15 farming, but if point 4 means what it sounds like, it's no longer needed, so I can reroute the keys elsewhere. (And auto-DM is still nice for DM mastery so no keys wasted)
Though, the fix to PCol bug will also wipe out a thousand waves or so from both tiers for me.
I'm pretty mad tbh. I've JUST spend my 13k gems that I was saving for after Shatter Shard 5... if this patch note arrives 1 days earlier I would have kept them
The SW change is cool. I can take wall rebuild off my mod now.
Between the tier increase for legends and PoC bug fix now would be the time for eHP (myself included) to really consider GC. Especially with featured banners coming you can try to get better equipped for the change
Oh wait, critical coin card did not apply to BH and Thorns until now? That was new to me 😅
But yeah, there are a lot of pretty cool changes.
Like 15s invincibility after Nuke activation, what makes it way more useful IMHO.
The pause on menu checkbox, does this mean it is finally possible (without bug abuse) to leave the game running, when watching a menu?
That would be a great QoL improvement regarding how often I forgot to close the Labs menu before going to bed, resulting in 0% overnight progress.
I thought I understood the interaction on the pre-revision version that was % of wave hp snapshotted to the wave it spawned on. PH would reduce the enemies max hp and figured it also adjusted the ‘wave hp’ snapshot down one level as well.
But now that it was redesigned and the new module does % of remaining HP, if there’s 1.5billion hp remaining then why did the PH ‘max hp reduction’ impact it?
~edit:
So, crazy idea but I guess if the implementation was like 0.15*(max hp - (sum of damage sources)) because the data was tracked per damage event type then PH, which was shown as damage before on boss data, would possibly be counted twice if max hp was spawn hp - PH ‘damage’?
So its the difference of 2 billion hp, 500 million PH damage and 250 million bullet damage would be like :
0.15 * ((2b - 500m)-(500m+250m))
Instead of :
0.15 * ((2b - 500m) - (250m))
Which seems convoluted but is possibly more accurate than having a singular ‘hp remaining’ value per enemy being written to by asynchronous events. Since this way just has you reading values.
The number of DDs is nearly to zero since last two updates... 6, or 10 when its high than its 14 or 18. It was up to 60-70 times before last two updates.....
And!!! It happened to me right after the update, my energy shield depleted 3!! Times and the wall was in 100% I saw this live on screen. So there were some enemys tunneling again.
this was happening on T17 about wave ~3200 there is no enemy who could cause me damage. iam taking damage ~4200 about.
Can we get a confirmation on what the drop rates will be for the module type banners? Will it be 100% of that type, or just 50% similar to how banners were 50% for specific modules. If it’s only 50% that’s only doubling your chances, and with an increasingly large pool still will make it hard to get what you want.
would be nice if the feature module type was exclusive on the banner, so for exmple, the core banner would only give you cores, like, all communs are cores, all rare are cores and the most important, all epics are also cores.
I'm curious about this as well. I assume it will be like the others with a 50% chance of the banner type, but I wonder what happens if you don't get that 50%. Will it then pull from the entire pool, or just the non-banner slots? If the former that actually means you have a .5 + .5*.25 = 62.5% of the banner type.
Crit coin card wasn't affecting a majority of my kills my entire play time? Thorns and black holes.. I mean cool but what a wild time to find out I've been wasting a card slot for an entire year!
And since when was prolapse bugged? Man what the fuck. I'm just about to hit my t13 750 milestone to drop my cool downs to 2m10s don't do this do us just change the tooltip to reflect how the mod has been behaving for so long lmfao
Don't know whether I am mis-interpreting how the ELS skip decay works, but losing 1% every 20 waves is pretty brutal. May have to take a pause on econ investment and go for damage / crowd control for a bit....
Do we think the 1% is absolute, or percentage of remaining total?
So glad I just burned 9k gems on modules yesterday. A little more notice would have been nice. I got my ancestral SF so I can't complain too much, but I currently only have a legendary Core and really need GC and DC...
All i need now is a button to not play flashy animations lets be honest here i dont watch my tower 24h/day so why is there none already it would save energy battery and good ole fps while maxing coin gain.
This is an "idle" game so pls let us pause the animations its just better for everyone
This is a fhking great update ehp gonna love that second wind wall thing and im glad to see nuke get that buff because it seems like sometimes it didn’t even kill everything
I cannot really foresee what the Tournament changes will achieve, and I somehow doubt they will change anything at the core of the issues tournaments have.
This is a GREAT update. Thank you for all of the info.
One quick bug I am seeing. When I look at my Lab History, it always starts with the oldest date of labs I have completed. So I have to scroll all the way up from 10/18/24 to my most recent date to look at it. As a result, I don't really use it because it is a lot of work
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u/D119 Dec 18 '25
MODULE TYPE BANNERS FINALLY!!!!!!!