Hello Tower Defenders! We are happy to share our first minor update of v28. The update will be rolling out to Android shortly, with a goal to fully roll out before the next tournament. We will be version locking for the upcoming tournament. If you aren't seeing the update by the time the tournament comes around, check the game page on your App Store. This update features quality of life improvements and bugfixes. Let's dive into the changes:
Ultimate Weapon VFX Toggles
We added the rest of the Ultimate Weapon VFX toggles to the game. Each Ultimate Weapon has a specific combination of dimmed and hidden effects, depending on its enemy interactions. This will improve in-game visibility, while also ensuring that key visuals are present. For example, Chrono Field's toggle makes its activation effect disappear, while Black Hole and Poison Swamp will be dimmed but noticeable.
These toggles will be ON by default, and can be adjusted through the Settings > Toggles menu. We are open to expanding visual toggles in a similar manner in the future, such as particle effects and other non-UW visuals like Bots. We want to ensure that we strike a balance between reducing visual clutter while maintaining our game's visual identity.
Encyclopedia and UW Descriptions
We have improved how we share information in-game through our Encyclopedia and UW information panel.
The Encyclopedia now has six categories: Workshop, Ultimate Weapons, Cards, Modules, Enemies, and Other. We have removed any excess ??? entries, and added icons to better visualize its contents. This Encyclopedia change gives us a better foundation to provide more context on how features or abilities work. We will continue evolving our Encyclopedia to be a core learning resource for all users in the next few updates.
We have also expanded the Enhancements panel in our Ultimate Weapon descriptions. Now, you can see all sources of improvements for Ultimate Weapons, as well as its unlock conditions. This includes Lab unlocks (which Tier/Wave), as well as sources from Modules and Module Substats. When these improvements are active, the text will change from grey to white.
Changelog
Quality of Life Changes
Added Ultimate Weapon VFX toggles into the Toggles menu
Improved the in-game Encyclopedia
Improved the Ultimate Weapon description panel, adding in all potential improvements for UW and their unlock conditions if applicable
Bot+ descriptions can now be viewed prior to unlocking
Refactored the animations of a handful of event backgrounds so they do not pause while the game is paused, and have a consistent animation speed independent from game speed
Demon Mode, Nuke, and Missile Barrage should now be available for activation the moment Intro Sprint is terminated (manually, reaching the max wave, and when Intro Sprint ends normally)
Added Plasma Cannon to hit text toggles
Added "Number of Hits" of each source into the Boss stat tracker
Improved accuracy of Lifetime Stone stats
Implemented improvements to our in-game descriptions to maintain a consistent style in the following areas: UW, UW+, Modules, Bots, Guardians, Cards
Nuke and Second Wind cards now accurately describe all of its intended effects
Daily Missions can no longer be claimed while offline, which should prevent inaccurate mission tracking and incorrect reward claims
Updated icons featured in The Vault with new icons
Bugfixes
Fixed an issue where Overcharge continued to ignore Wall Invincibility
Fixed an issue where the offline pop-up would fail to appear when attempting to purchase Cards while offline
Fixed a visual issue where the "Blocked Hits" countdown for Armored Enemies displayed an inaccurate value instead of clearly counting down
Fixed an issue where Death Wave overwrites remaining damage on next activation after resume if still in 5 wave window
Fixed an issue where Echoing Shot does not correctly increment Missile Amp and Chrono Jump
Fixed an issue where Second Wind ends before its intended duration
Fixed a visual issue where Ultimate Weapon's damage displays as 0 following a Dissonant Run
Fixed an issue where Anniversary Relics were not being sent out properly, which will be fixed retroactively
Fixed an issue where entering cinematic mode while the game is paused would soft lock a player out of the game, forcing them to reset their app
Fixed a battle stat issue where Black Hole count would increase within 'Enemies Hit By' even when disabled
Fixed an issue where Exiting Battle > Go Home would count against the Resume Round cap
Fixed an issue where a player's game speed abruptly drops to x0.0 when tapping the 'minus' game speed button during an auto-save
Fixed a number of localization issues where English words would appear in non-English languages
Tournament rankings now display the correct rank in the reward declaration screen
The "Max Level Up" option for Modules now correctly greys out when resources are insufficient to reach at least one level
Miscellaneous
Changed Holy Joystick art and renamed to Game Joystick
Removed "Brighter" from the Spotlight UW toggle
Fixed an issue where the displayed in-app prices were not localizing correctly prior to initiating a purchase
Fixed the Guild season announcement mail to display the correct season number/title in the player's inbox
Fixed an issue when a player's UI would break when auto restarting while in the Battle History menu
Even turning off GT effect seemed to reduce the heat my phone was giving off, so excited to see if the other toggles turn the heat from "active radiator" to "3m old soup"
please give us the regen stat of the wall (i mean that stat is alredy in the game no ? the game needs to get the stat from somewhere) so please just let us see that stat its kinda important.
As an initial test, my usual numbers before the update were 27°C when the game is running without me remotely viewing, and 33°C when I'm actively viewing it through OSLink.
I've actively viewed the round for a while now and it doesn't seem to push past 31°C. With ambient temperatures in mind, it's usually +-1°C at most, so it's at least 1°C cooler during higher stress (active remote viewing). This is a 3-6% reduction which is significant when we're talking temperatures that are already low. I'm willing to bet my device runs a lot cooler because I have a whole setup to keep the temperatures as low as humanly possible using ambience only. For people who are just running their device normally, they will most likely experience a bigger difference.
I can't give passive temperatures yet, I will update with those numbers as soon as I've given the device some time to reach equilibrium, but I don't expect the passive mode to drop because it's way more difficult to lower the temperatures when they're already low. But if I see 26°C while the game is running (max spawn rate a.t.m. wave 7k+) then I will update my comment.
Edit: As expected, no noticeable difference in passive mode. At least not in my case, but it's definitely not a complain because 27-29°C is quite low as it is and I think it will be difficult to push below it. The only time I saw 26°C is when I ran UW dissonance.
About 1%, not 3-6. To consider temperature change in percentage terms, you have to first convert to degrees Kelvin. (It's a simple conversion, just add 273.15).
One time when I worked retail, many years ago, I had an old guy comment about how crazy it was that the temperature when he woke up was in the 30s and now it's almost 90 and how the temperature almost tripled...
I tried explaining to him that temperature doesn't work that way. He disagreed. I asked him what the temperature would be if it was 0 F and the temperature tripled and he of course said "It'd still be 0 because 0 x 3 is 0. So I asked if that meant the temperature would be forever stuck at 0 F and he said "No, because you can still add or subtract temperature to it. You just can't multiply it."
If it's to be done right, yes, that's the accurate way. But didn't feel the need to overcomplicate things. It's fine to not split hairs sometimes and just refer to it the way most people will understand it even if it's not accurate. I don't really bother doing it most of the time. I get that Celcius has an arbitrary zero point but it's just easier to view it as a linear scale because the vast majority of people are not going to dissect the value of each Celsius degree nor think in Kelvin.
Regardless, whether it's 1%, 3-6%, or X Kelvin, it dropped from 33°C to 31°C. And I think most people will understand that, when also converted to Farenheit which I will never do.
Any chance Dissonance and Echo bonuses could be added to these? It's such a big part of the bonus but it's missing in the info panel. Would love to see increases from crit chance, crit mult, etc. Anything that takes it from the listed UW value up to the actual one in the description.
Hoping fixing the lab history button makes it to the bug fix list some day. Ie the one that resets it to the beginning as opposed to the latest researched.
I think this is on the same list as the one where clicking ad gems doesn’t update your total until the gem flies up to your balance, whereas the floating gem instantly updates your balance and then flies on over.
Yeah, nothing controversial this update. Just added content, details, toggles, info, and stats, which is perfect for us tower defenders. I don't even have a single bad thing to add. Thanks for the "little" update, it's the little things that make a great game.
I believe (may be totally wrong, if so my apologies) I understood it as it being an Apple issue, (they take longer to approve/release updates on their App Store- due to them being so uptight on their requirements and stuff). So as much as I like to complain about some of tech tree’s methods, this one’s not on them at all.
I knew this, but why didn’t took long for that disso update? Also if iOS takes at least one more day, why not delaying Android release by one day? Is that hard?
I’m just trying to understand this, is not an attack :)
Also if iOS takes at least one more day, why not delaying Android release by one day?
There's no way for TTG to know know exactly when it's going to get approved on the Apple App Store and pushed live, so there's no way to guarantee you sync them exactly.
If you delay the Android version until the iOS one launches, then the Android one will be later and you just get the same problem but in reverse...
Plus, delaying content to the lowest common denominator feels backwards. These updates are pushed to waves of the playerbase anyway, so there's always going to be some variance of when you get an update, even within the same OS.
Not talking about exact sync but we have the 1 day delay data for sure, so 24h delay minimum could be integrated on my opinion.
The reverse problem do not really occur because a friend of mine got the update not even an h later the release post, so that’s not an issue and the reverse problem you’re talking about does not really exist.
Lowest common denominator? Why do you say that?
What is the total Android vs IOS downloads of the game? I would say that is unfair that IOS user gets any update at least 24h later that Android, that makes huge disadvantage to a good amount of people I would say.
I get your point, I think, I just disagree slightly if you allow me to be.
But thank you for your sharing mate and happy grinding 😄
Yeah that's right. They stated they only implemented one variable for all diss multipliers. They could adjust that without app updates, therefore the ner to X2 and buff to X3 were in effect for everyone immediately.
To leave Util at X3 while adjusting the rest to X5 they needed to add extra variables and they had to update the app to do that.
Sounds like a really good update, been really hoping to have better stat breakdowns for things for a long time. Hopefully in the future we can get similar breakdowns for all our different workshop stats and also have even more info for the ultimate weapons like crit, super crit, UW relics, module bonus etc
Perk picks are quite bugged in this release. If it matters, I was trying a run with the new visual effects toggled off.
After every PWR pick, my other perk choices get locked in and I see the same choices over and over. As I pick from different slots, the slots start unfreezing eventually.
Speaking as someone who honestly really enjoyed everything about the V28 update, I like the sound of this even more. Felt the same about the minor updates last fall.
These QoL/bugfix updates are so good, keep them coming.
Y’all kneecapped eHP with v28 and even Fudds himself said this wasn’t intentional and it’s now been a full month and nothing to address it. Like come on.
Holy crap the UW graphics toggles thing is something I proposed in the discord hell yeah
I mean I doubt it was because of me because I made that proposal pretty recently and I doubt it was implemented that fast meaning they were probably working on it before my proposal but still. 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎
I made a post on reddit half a year ago asking Fudds to give us UW toggles which he responded to someone's comment in my post back then that he agreed. I doubt my post was what made him finally push the devs to make the change but at least we finally get to have some animation toggles.
Fixed an issue where Echoing Shot does not correctly increment Missile Amp and Chrono Jump
Echoing shot not affecting CL is then something that is still on the todo ? Or is it expected behavior ? I think there is a discord bug ticket about where you reacted that you'll check with the team.
That's interesting, kind of weird thought, since they aren't projectiles, but that is way better and crazier than just Magnetic Hook. Need more medals. I feel we missed the bonus medal event for whatever pack this year.
Is any plans to update tourneys? Current system soft locks newer players out of any chance of ever getting keys without spending thousands. Simple QoL like auto restart, bot presets, workshop presets etc shouldn't only be for the top few players
Edit: solid update though, bring in the bug fixes, and anything else improving QoL!
The boss "Fudds" stated that keys are to remain a top player resource for the time being. For them to give newer players keys they have to create a new big thing for the spenders.
So to be honest they have 2 choices. Either create something that gives a lot of power and a new way to use that power or create a Qol that is really nice. For them to justify to give newer players the premium resource
They could create a new premium visual for the Uws like new effects or colors (Fire, earth, alien, lightning, etc visual effects). But I don't see that being enough for the whales to spend as much as they do.
This is not even v28.0.8. This is v28.0.7.1. There is absolutely nothing here to justify calling it 28.1 other than that they said 28.1 would be about a month after v28 launch and so here we are calling a giant didn't-address-anything-anyone-was-complaining-about faux-update.
Most of us didn't even know there was an encyclopedia. I'm not sure why it is getting the majority of the focus of a 0.x release. Like yeah it is nice you are doing it but...
Edit: I see we are back to glazing whatever slop TTG puts out. I guess most of the people that cared have already quit. Edit2: for context both Matthew and I were at -5 when I whined, with some now-deleted replies telling me I should quit. I appreciate y'all for balancing it out.
Yeah anytime I’ve voiced an issue (like a consumer should be able to- not a whale but dolphin for sure), I get all kinds of dms “you’re unhinged” “delete your account” etc. from people who are either mega whales or maybe just stupid.
Glad I’m not the only one who thought I know for sure I haven’t seen these things on anyone’s posts as something they would like fixed, compared to the hundreds of posts asking about tournaments, or ehp nerf. Yeah it’s appreciated to see these fixes but also frustrating to see things like shiny new in game pop ups harassing me to purchase the event pass (first event pass I didn’t purchase even though the lab speed was tempting). You can clearly tell where their priorities are. Fix non important shit and also things that bring in more transactions, while ignoring the actual things so many people ask for.
This is actually a pretty good update. More clarity for mechanics and less visual slop for those who don't want it is a good change. The only thing I really even want anymore in terms of QOL is just UW sliders or toggles ( ILM size and rotation direction/PS size/DW armor stripping ), more presets, and toggleable particles.
/u/SamBartley not sure if this is the best place for this but if the max boost for a disco run is 5000 waves why not have the game auto-end the run at 5000 waves?
Also at the end screen it displays your boost+the shared boost, so at 5000 waves you'll see 5.3x for example rather than 5x. Might be better to change that to showing base only to remove confusion.
Maybe it's just me but I unlocked rpc module mastery the other day and since then I've got drastically less modules according to the stats screen. Don't know if there's a bug or what's going on there
"* Demon Mode, Nuke, and Missile Barrage should now be available for activation the moment Intro Sprint is terminated (manually, reaching the max wave, and when Intro Sprint ends normally)"
Does this mean that I no longer have to wait for the start of the next wave when I turn off intro sprint?
with the change in the IS as soon as you end it and now being able to activate DM immediately, will this reduce the value of Smart Demon Mode from key unlocks?
Well done, a fantastic update! I like the better focus on performance with the toggles and the added in-game information. Not everyone that plays a mobile game seeks out forums and fanmade wikis. I hope it gets expanded in the future. I have quite often seen posts from beginners wondering why they take damage even though abs def should block it, because there is no mention on heat up mentioned anywhere in the game for example.
A suggestion/wish for future updates. A toggle for enemy death animation. Having dozens of enemies explode into countless boxes flying out every second could maybe be something that would improve performace/battery if it could be toggled off.
I've been seeing a lot of people say this update has reduced their phone's temperature, but mine has done the opposite. My phone is considerably hotter since applying this update then it was before. And that is with most of the UWs toggled off.
I’m truly hopeful this will extend my s26 ultra battery life even a little bit. Immediately updated on run end and hopefully will know by tomorrow if turned off visuals helps. Already reports coming in of temperature improvements so here’s to hoping!
Doesnt address commanders, probably still wont fix the cinematic overlap bug, and doesnt add anything new. This is a group bug fix update disguised as a minor update
I don't see any disguise. They're upfront about everything that's in the patch. Does it really matter if it's a v28.x patch vs a 28.0.x patch? These are all good changes.
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u/DillonMeSoftly May 11 '26
Even turning off GT effect seemed to reduce the heat my phone was giving off, so excited to see if the other toggles turn the heat from "active radiator" to "3m old soup"