Feb 16, 2024

Legion TD 2 - Multiplayer Tower Defense - EpvpDani

Last Month Recap

Congratulations to the winners of last month's Nova Cup!
- D1: abrasiert (Kingdanzz & Widderson)
- D2: geegee (fine & GehPennen)
- D3: schakaiba (SetoKaiba & Schakara)
- D4: 1vs2 (JaySquared & Sugar)
- D5: deluna corp (Arindred & Falfuras)

Missed the action? Check the brackets, team lists, & VODs for all divisions on the Legion TD 2 eSports portal!

This Month

The upcoming February Nova Cup takes place February 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.

Requirements

- Everyone that is level 3 or higher can join for free! First come, first served. So even if you recently joined the game, 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 February 24 9am PST / 6pm CET.
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. For division 1 and 2 the top 8 teams are drafted per division. Other teams are waitlisted. There are usually no-shows, so waitlisted teams are encouraged to be present in the Discord and ready to play. {LINK REMOVED}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.
Both players must join the Legion TD 2 Official Tournament Discord. Make sure to set your server nickname to match your in-game name.

Solo Sign-ups

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.

Schedule

Saturday, February 24

Check-in window: 8:45 - 9:15am PDT / 5:45 - 6:15pm CET
Games: 10am - 1:30pm PST / 7 - 10:30pm CET
- Round of 16 (Best of 3)
- Quarter-finals (Best of 3)

Sunday, February 25

Check-in window: 9 - 9:30am PDT / 6 - 6:30pm CET
Games: 10am - 1:30pm PST / 7 - 10:30pm CET
- Semi-finals (Best of 3)
- Final (Best of 5)

Check-in

Teams must check in via the Legion TD 2 Official Tournament Discord. Waitlisted teams should also check in.
Any team that fails to check in will be disqualified. The next team on the waitlist that checked in will earn a spot.

Game Format

The custom game room creator should enable Tournament Mode in the room. This will ensure the following settings:

2v2
Mastermind only
Hybrid disabled

Division 1 & 2 Only
- Conquest rules apply. (Once you win with a Mastermind playstyle, you and your ally can't use that playstyle again for that series)

Final Remarks

For a full list of rules, prizes, and other details, visit the following link:

Nova Cup Rules & FAQ

For questions & support, please join the Legion TD 2 Official Tournament Discord.

See you on February 24th! The Nova Cup will be casted and streamed at https://twitch.tv/ltd2. Check the Tournament Discord on the event day for links to the other casts.

Sincerely,
Your Legion TD 2 Tournament Staff

Feb 1, 2024

v11.01 Major Update

Legion TD 2 - Multiplayer Tower Defense - Lisk

Expected patch release: Monday-Tuesday, February 5-6 (Pacific Time)

News

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: February 24-25
Join the Tournament Discord to participate and receive tournament notifications. View all past Nova Cups here: Legion TD 2 Esports Portal.

Major Updates

New Mercenary: Robo

Long-ranged. Wields a mini flamethrower from afar.

Robo Stats

40 mythium mercenary
Type: Power mercenary (reduced income)
Role: DPS
Ranged / Magic / Fortified

As the cheapest power mercenary in the game, Robo gives you more options to be aggressive and break your opponent.

Classic Modes Overhaul

A near-complete overhaul of the Classic experience!

New Classic Mode: Superhero
On Wave 6 and 16, gain a random Legion Spell from the following: Divine Blessing, Guardian Angel, Hero, Magician, Protector, Sorcerer, Titan, Vampire, Villain.

New Classic Mode: Dual Build Duel
Everyone must dual build!

New Classic Mode: Mini and Wumbo
Random roll with only T1s and T6s. Start with 8 income.

New Classic Mode: Tower Defense
All fighters are stationary, but have +500 range. All enemies are melee ranged.

Harpy, Sky Queen, Great Boar, and Red Eyes received compensation buffs in this mode only.

Reworked Classic Mode: Giga Mercs
- When you summon multiple copies of the same mercenary, they merge together to form a gigachad one with combined stats.
- Abilities are also scaled. Safety Mole's Safety Aura scales to 4x power (instead of 8x for other abilities)
- Mythium costs & incomes returned to normal.

Retired Classic Modes
Leak2Win, Ordered Chaos, and Blitz have been retired. They may be reworked at a future date, but for now we’re excited about the new lineup.

Mastermind Reworks

Reworked Mastermind: Redraw

- Reroll UI Button renamed to “Redraw” and uses a different icon to differentiate it from traditional Reroll.
- Now gives you unlimited redraws! Each redraw costs 1-50 gold, scaling with wave number

The goal is to better fulfill the fantasy of assembling that perfect build. Thanks to everyone who gave feedback on the initial rework. As always, we will monitor closely and make changes as needed.

Reworked Mastermind: Lock-In

- Income: +3 → +4
- Now auto-drafts a roll (using the automatic roll recommendation), rather than drafting a roll yourself
- New “Lock-In Random Fighter” button, which gives you +6 gold

The goal is to make Lock-In the premier New-Player-Friendly Mastermind pick. Drafting is difficult and intimidating for new players, and being behind on income was a sizable disadvantage. The new Lock-In avoids the burden of drafting and closes the income disadvantage gap.

Additionally, Lock-In is now a viable option for veteran players who can randomize a Lock-In for bonus gold.

Reworked Mastermind: Kingsguard

(From v11.00.5, an earlier hotfix patch)
For those who missed the hotfix patch notes, Kingsguard had been reworked to the following:
- Old: +2 income. Start the game with 2 of each king upgrade.
- New: +2 income. Your king gains +22% attack speed.

Improved Pathing & Targeting

Pathing & targeting should behave more consistently now, without any core logic having been changed. This should make battles more consistent across the board, though not completely deterministic.

As an example, we ran a 1,000 battle simulations with a Gateguard built at (1, 7) against a Snail on Wave 1 as follows:

- On the previous patch, it cleared 76/1000 times, with leaks varying between 43-58% (Screenshot)
- With the improvements, it cleared 1000/1000 times.

Guess we should remove “slot machine simulator” from the Steam Store tags.

Game Balance

General

Leak Gold
- The player causing the leak now receives ~35% more gold, and teammates receive comparatively less gold. You did the work, you should get the payoff.
- In other words, players who apply pressure and break their opponent are now more individually rewarded. This makes chain-income sending and playing selfishly less individually rewarding.

Thanks to Bert in Discord for the suggestion.

Masterminds

Champion

- Damage and damage reduction: 8% → 8.5%

Low win rate.

Kingsguard

- Attack speed: +20% → +22%
- Now displays a Kingsguard icon for every player on the opposing team that took Kingsguard. This no longer reveals which specific player picked Kingsguard, only that some player(s) picked it.

Slightly low win rate and pick rate.

We’re happy with the recent rework, but Kingsguard is still slightly underperforming.

King

- Health decreased by 7%, base damage decreased by 50%, and attack speed decreased by 2%
- Lightning Hammer: Percent current health damage: 6% → 12%
- Upgrade Spell: 7% → 5%
- Upgrade Attack: 10% → 14%

The king is now slightly weaker against small leaks and slightly stronger against big leaks. Overall, slight nerf to compensate for weaker mercenaries this patch.

Fighters

Looter / Pack Rat

- Attack speed: 1.06 → 1.08

Low win rate and pick rate.

Masked Spirit / False Maiden / Hell Raiser

- Attack speed: 1.047 → 1.064

Low win rate and pick rate.

Chained Fist / Oathbreaker

- Attack speed: 0.94 → 0.92

High win rate.

Howler / Sunfang

- Wolf Pack: Max stacks: 10 → 12

Low win rate and pick rate.

Gargoyle

- Health: 280 → 330
- Stone Skin: Damage Reduction: 1 + 30% → 1 + 20%

Green Devil

- Health: 1050 → 1250
- Granite Skin: Damage Reduction: 1 + 35% → 1 + 25%

Gargoyle and Green Devil are now slightly stronger on their own, but weaker with “Chieftain Cheese” health-stacking.

Sea Serpent / Deepcoiler

- Health increased by 4.5%

Very low pick rate.

Gateguard / Harbinger

- Attack speed: 0.99 → 0.97
- Chaos Hound / Cerberus: Attack speed: 0.99 → 0.97

Compensation nerf for being indirectly buffed by pathing and mercenary changes

Canopie

- Health: 4000 → 4050

Low win rate.

Cursed Casket / Cage of Pain / Iron Maiden

- Health decreased by 2%

High win rate.

Elite Archer / Trinity Archer

- Attack speed: 1.03 → 1.015

High win rate and pick rate.

APS / MPS

- Attack speed: 1.27 → 1.22

High win rate and pick rate.

Gatling Gun

- Damage: 39 → 49
- Attack speed: 2.17 → 2.44
- Full Throttle removed

Vulcan Cannon

- Health: 2860 → 2800
- Damage: 102 → 135
- Attack speed: 2.17 → 2.44
- Bullet Rain removed

Gatling Gun was perpetually one of the least-picked units in the game, despite having a high win rate. It was difficult to position well, and even if you did, things outside of your control were often the difference between your Gatling Gun partially tanking and dealing maximum DPS, and tanking too much and quickly dying - a fine line between polar opposite results. We’re removing their faster attack speed and higher damage taken when attacking closer targets, but keeping their identity as immovable, long-range, fast-attacking fighters.

Berserker / Fatalizer

- Attack speed: 2.04 → 2.22
- Brawler and Duelist now cap after 20 stacks (~10 seconds of attacking the same target)

Stronger in general. Weaker in extreme cases, particularly against wave 20.

Radiant Halo

- Particle Wave: Damage: 9 (3 to bosses) → 10 (5 to bosses)
- Particle Wave now caps after 10 stacks (~10 seconds of attacking the same target)
- Solar Flare: Stacks 3 times → Stacks infinitely

Arc of Justice

- Purification Beam: Damage: 24 (8 to bosses) → 28 (14 to bosses)
- Purification Beam now caps after 10 stacks (~10 seconds of attacking the same target)
- Solar Flare: Stacks 3 times → Stacks infinitely

Stronger in general. Weaker in extreme cases, particularly against wave 20.

Mercenaries

Mercenaries have been significantly power-creeped over the years, which caused long-saving mythium to become too strong in the mid/late game. We’re scaling this back with nerfs to all mercenaries, which will shift the power budget of mercenaries back into income.

These changes will shake up the meta, and while we do our best not to make overly disruptive changes, we believe this is the best long term solution - and perfect timing for it, given it's early in the season and there's a brand new 40-cost mercenary!

High-income mercenaries are nerfed roughly 20% and power mercenaries are nerfed roughly 10%.

Snail

- Health: 290 → 240
- Damage: 12 → 9
- Attack speed: 0.96 → 0.93

Lizard

- Health: 350 → 290
- Damage: 35 → 29

Dragon Turtle

- Health: 600 → 500
- Damage: 25 → 19

Brute

- Health: 880 → 800
- Damage: 61 → 53

Fiend

- Health: 950 → 760
- Damage: 27 → 20

Dino

- Health: 1300 → 1030
- Damage: 62 → 48

Hermit

- Health: 700 → 600
- Damage: 40 → 35

Imp

- Health: 760 → 700
- Damage: 46 → 41

Cannoneer

- Health: 950 → 800
- Damage: 113 → 94

Safety Mole

- Health: 1700 → 1500
- Damage: 88 –> 72

Drake

- Health: 1320 → 1000
- Damage: 84 → 70

Pack Leader

- Leadership Aura: Damage: +5 → +4

Mimic

- Health: 2350 → 2150
- Damage: 125 → 113

Witch

- Health: 1800 → 1450
- Attack speed: 1.32 → 1.23
- Froggo: Health: 500 → 400
- Froggo: Damage: 36 → 32

Ogre

- Health: 2950 → 2700
- Attack speed: 1.31 → 1.16

Ghost Knight

- Health: 4100 → 3700
- Damage: 187 → 168

Four Eyes

- Attack speed: 2.2 → 1.96
- Death Stare: Now does 40% reduced damage against the king

Centaur

- Health: 4200 → 3800
- Attack speed: 1.77 → 1.54

Siege Ram

- Health: 5750 → 5200
- Damage: 295 → 266

Shaman

- Blood Rush: 10% attack speed + 40 damage → 40 damage

Needler

- Damage: 55 → 131
- Attack speed: 1.9 → 2
- Needle Spray (triple shot) removed

Needle Spray wasn’t serving its original purpose of countering cheap units and instead was just increasing battle rng, so we’re removing it.

Kraken

- Health: 6970 → 6230
- Damage: 281 → 251

Waves

Wave 18: Wale Chiefs

- Poison-tipped Pole: AOE damage: 25 → 20

Wave 20: Maccabeus

- Health: 65000 → 62000

Maccabeus was too strong. Combined with being hard-countered by certain builds, wave 20 was problematic. This nerf encourages trying to clear wave 20, rather than stall as long as possible.

Balance Watchlist

The dev team is constantly monitoring game balance, between looking at data and listening to community feedback. If anything is being more closely monitored than usual, it will be listed in this Balance Watchlist section. For this patch, the following are on the watchlist:
- Mercenaries and game pacing

Improvements & Fixes

New Feature: Classic Modes in Custom Games!

- You can now select which Classic Mode shows up in the Custom Game room
- A simple majority vote (+1 yes vote) is enough to pass in Custom Games (as opposed to Classic, which requires +2 yes votes)
- Disabled old Chaos, Hybrid, Prophet, and No T1 Modes, (they are largely redundant with the Classic Modes & Masterminds)
- Improved MVP formula

Emotes Refresh

New: Community Emotes!
There's nothing more sophisticated than using the right emoji at the right time, and it is our mission to give players the tools to do that.
- doofFiesta

- drachirWHAT

- lwonSMAR

- julianOHNO

- kingdanzz

- mrslickinsRespectable

- ofmaNerdge

- pennyPog

- pennyShiko

- fast

Plus, some Emotes QoL!
- Emote UI Options display has been improved to make it easier to configure your Emote lineup (Screenshot)
- Emotes by default now display without the white chat bubble (after some feedback & evaluation, we think they look better without the bubble. Apologies it took us this long to make this change).
- Emotes are now their own tab in Options
- Added a “Use Emote” quest to the weekly quest pool

As a compromise, an option called “Hide white bubble background behind emotes” has also been added to display the bubble for players who do like the pop-out appearance; just set that to OFF to keep the current behavior.

New Feature: Targeted Units HUD Display

The HUD now displays the units that the currently selected unit is targeting & targeted by.

Aside from looking cool, this could help players better understand which fighters are taking aggro.

New Feature: Nekomata Undo Spirit Offering

You can now undo Nekomata Spirit Offering stacks! Hold SHIFT to toggle on the Undo button.

Hell, it's about time.

New Feature: Guild Discord link

Guilds: Added a “Guild Discord link” field - publicly viewable, editable by the Guild Leader only. Link must start with "discord.gg/"

New Feature: Top Games Rewards

Making it onto the Top Games leaderboard now rewards 1000 Essence & notifies you with an inbox message.

Minor Improvements

Campaign: Campaign opponents now react with emoji if you long save against them (: pleading : when you long-save, : mild_panic : when the send finally comes)
Classic: Takeover Bots when Dual Building now build & upgrade fighters (not very intelligently, but at least they build something instead of just workers)
Graphics: Units now smoothly scale up/down when changing size
HUD: Unit lifebars now scale more with large HP units
HUD: Unit hitboxes now scale with model size
HUD: Sacrifice now shows the amount of gold you’ll receive (similar to Sell, Pawn Shop, etc.)
HUD: You can now pause/unpause the game with F9 (rebindable in Options). Pausing is now also rate-limited to 1 pause/unpause per second to help prevent cases of two players accidentally pausing/unpausing at the same time
HUD: Turned off white chat bubble for various emotes
Loading Screen: Game should now load faster for the first run (resources are slowly pre-loaded while alt+tabbed or not moving your mouse)
Masteries: Clicking a unit in your Mastery profile page now shows a popup that you can flex (Screenshot)
New Player Experience: Reordered Reach 20 Workers to come earlier (affects new players from now on only)
New Player Experience: Greed is no longer automatically unlocked for all accounts, to encourage new players to learn the game with Lock-In
Sandbox: All fighters now always sell for 100%
Sandbox: -save/-load now supports Champion builds
Sandbox: -load now immediately loads a build from the clipboard (no more popup)
Sandbox: -lockwave command now freezes workers, restores gold/mythium, and automatically uses -clear if you leak
Sandbox: You can now type all debug commands without a "-" in front, i.e. simply typing "greedisgood" or "start" or "wave 5" or "load" etc.
Sandbox: New command: “-reload” which quickly uses -load with the most recently loaded build
Weekly Challenge: Now supports Champion builds
VIPs: Removed VIP display in Chat, Discord, and in-game. The “VIP” distinction was something leftover from release and has been retired indefinitely

Fixes

Campaign: Fixed a bug where Campaign opponents were mistakenly playing their “uh oh” sound every wave
Gameplay: Fixed a bug where Eco Detection was wrongly kicking in when almost, but not full leaking Wave 1 (e.g. solo Casket vs. Snail or solo Elite Archer vs. Snail)
Graphics: Fixed a bug where Eternal Wanderer/Samurai Soul weren’t properly tinted after reviving
HUD: Fixed a bug where the Estimated Mythium tooltip would incorrectly show an extra mythium (it was rounding to Ceiling instead of Floor)
HUD: Fixed a bug where Champion didn’t properly show up on the Enemy Tab scoreboard, or showed up twice
HUD: Fixed a bug where you would be unable to place new towers after shift+building, then selling a shift-built tower, then trying to build one in the same spot
HUD: Fixed a HUD bug where mercenaries sometimes didn't display as grayed out when out of stock
Menus: Fixed a long-time bug where finding a match while purchasing a card from the card trader would cause the HUD to lock up in-game after entering a menu (such as viewing someone’s profile)
Menus: Fixed a bug where slower computers would fail to load the Codex properly
New Player Experience: Fixed a bug where the Incoming tutorial (third mission) bot didn’t build anything
Sandbox: Fixed a bug where Legion Spells in -save/-load were causing the game to break
Singleplayer & Co-op: Fixed a singleplayer/co-op bug where shutdown bounties were sometimes not cleared after using a Restart
Fixed a spectator bug where emote names would mistakenly show up as _Closed
Singleplayer & Co-op: Fixed a bug where shutdown bounties were sometimes not cleared after using a Restart
Stability: Fixed a bug where Dual Build players being unable to build after reconnecting
Stability: Fixed a bug where the game would fail to fully load the HUD after loading into game
Text Commands: Fixed some cases of the "-lifetime" command not working as expected
UI: Fixed some cases where |n mistakenly showed up in texts instead of being rendered as a new line

Community Highlights

January Nova Cup

Legion TD 2's premier monthly tournaments are back for the new year! The January Nova Cup just finished this past weekend. Check out the VODs & results here to see some top level Legion play.
https://beta.legiontd2.com/esports/

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:

{LINK REMOVED}

HUGE thank you to everyone who has helped up to this point!

Closing Remarks

This patch marks one of the rare times where the game's meta will be shaken up, but we feel it will be worth it to make a more compelling meta. As with all changes, these are heavily driven by thousands of games of data as well as player feedback through Discord, Reddit, and Steam. We are excited as well to give Classic Modes a major overhaul, along with refreshing some of the less popular Masterminds. Not to mention the new mercenary!

We've also taken the time to deliver a variety of QoL changes that have been highly requested, such as finally being able to undo Nekomata stacks.

As always, with any major patch, we'll keep a close eye on things and rapidly hotfix as long as needed.

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 /r/LegionTD2 on 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

Jan 19, 2024

Legion TD 2 - Multiplayer Tower Defense - EpvpDani

Last Year Recap

Congratulations the Top 10 players of last year's Nova Cup season:

1. Drachir

23 Nova Points
Peak Rating: 3381
Favorite Mastermind: Yolo

2. Widderson

21 Nova Points
Peak Rating: 3373
Favorite Mastermind: Yolo & Greed

3. FC Lucy

20 Nova Points
Peak Rating: 3247
Favorite Mastermind: Cartel & Castle

4. Kingdanzz

19 Nova Points
Peak Rating: 3418
Favorite Mastermind: Chaos & Fiesta

5. SebAx

14 Nova Points
Rank #37 Classic
Favorite Mastermind: Yolo

6. TDMeister

13 Nova Points
Rank #10 Classic
Favorite Mastermind: Redraw

6. warnessa2007

13 Nova Points
Rank #137 Classic
Favorite Mastermind: Lock-In & Cash Out

8. adames

12 Nova Points
Peak Rating: 3197
Favorite Mastermind: Chaos

9. Tiburcio

9 Nova Points
Rank #147 Classic
Favorite Mastermind: Greed & Castle

9. doofusmcdooface

9 Nova Points
Peak Rating: 2918
Favorite Mastermind: Fiesta

9. otyka

9 Nova Points
Peak Rating: 3046
Favorite Mastermind: Cash Out

9. dryuzaki1229

9 Nova Points
Peak Rating: 2572
Favorite Mastermind: Cash Out

Missed the action? Check the brackets, team lists, & VODs for all divisions on the Legion TD 2 eSports portal!

This Month

New this month:
Starting with January Nova Cup 2024 following new rules will apply:

Division 2 will now also be drafted from the top 8 teams in addition to Division 1. The rest of the divisions (3-5) will continue to be seeded as before.
Conquest (Division 1 & 2 rule) will now apply to the whole team instead of just the individual player. For example, if you win a game where your ally picked Greed and you picked Yolo, both of you will not be able to pick Greed or Yolo next game. The restriction only applies to the winning players. If you lose with Yolo, you can still pick Yolo next game.

The upcoming January Nova Cup takes place January 27 - 28.

$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 even if you recently joined the game, feel free to participate!

Twitch Drops

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 January 27 9am PST / 6pm CET.
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. For division 1 and 2 the top 8 teams are drafted per division. Other teams are waitlisted. There are usually no-shows, so waitlisted teams are encouraged to be present in the Discord and ready to play. {LINK REMOVED}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.
Both players must join the Legion TD 2 Official Tournament Discord. Make sure to set your server nickname to match your in-game name.

Solo Sign-ups

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.

Schedule

Saturday, January 27

Check-in window: 8:45 - 9:15am PDT / 5:45 - 6:15pm CET
Games: 10am - 1:30pm PST / 7 - 10:30pm CET
- Round of 16 (Best of 3)
- Quarter-finals (Best of 3)

Sunday, January 28

Check-in window: 9 - 9:30am PDT / 6 - 6:30pm CET
Games: 10am - 1:30pm PST / 7 - 10:30pm CET
- Semi-finals (Best of 3)
- Final (Best of 5)

Check-in

Teams must check in via the Legion TD 2 Official Tournament Discord. Waitlisted teams should also check in.
Any team that fails to check in will be disqualified. The next team on the waitlist that checked in will earn a spot.

Game Format

The custom game room creator should enable Tournament Mode in the room. This will ensure the following settings:

2v2
Mastermind only
Hybrid disabled

Division 1 & 2 Only
- Conquest rules apply. (Once you win with a Mastermind playstyle, you and your ally can't use that playstyle again for that series)

Final Remarks

For a full list of rules, prizes, and other details, visit the following link:

Nova Cup Rules & FAQ

For questions & support, please join the Legion TD 2 Official Tournament Discord.

See you on January 27th! The Nova Cup will be casted and streamed at https://twitch.tv/ltd2. Check the Tournament Discord on the event day for links to the other casts.

Sincerely,
Your Legion TD 2 Tournament Staff

Jan 15, 2024

v11.00.5

Legion TD 2 - Multiplayer Tower Defense - Lisk

Kingsguard rework, plus a lot of other fixes. Also listing previous hotfix changelogs below for reference. Still keeping an eye on Redraw, Leak2Win, and a few other things, but likely bigger changes to come in v11.01 rather than a hotfix.

v11.00.5

Balance: Kingsguard reworked!
- Old: Start the game with 2 of each king upgrade
- New: Your king gains +20% attack speed
- Kingsguard now displays alongside the Cave icons and the "Received ___" messages on Wave 1 to make it more clear when your opponent is playing Kingsguard
This allows your king to be even stronger than a normally max-upgraded king!

Balance: Megamind
- Lock-In & Double Lock-In are even further less likely to be rolled

Fixes
- Fixed an edge case that caused some client instability

----- Earlier patches below (these were deployed last week/over the weekend) -----

v11.00.4

Fixes
- Fixed a Megamind bug where under rare circumstances, a player could mistakenly pick Megamind twice
- Fixed a UI bug where masterminds weren’t all unlocked in Sandbox
- Fixed a UI bug where Team Chat in some circumstances didn't autoscroll to the bottom
- Fixed a rare interaction between Sorcerer & Champion that didn't allow you to pick Champion on a new unit after picking your Sorcerer unit

Improvements
- Champion icon now shows on the Tab scoreboard
- Champion & Hero/Villain/etc. icons now show in the Postgame scoreboard Waves tab

Kingsguard likely to receive a rework/tweak this week. Keeping an eye on Redraw and may tweak as well.

v11.00.3

Major Fixes
- Improved matchmaking formula to better balance between current rating & last season's peak

Fixes
- Fixed a bug where picking Megamind would sometimes result in being stuck in the mastermind selection screen
- Fixed a reconnect bug when reconnecting in Classic before having picked your legion would cause you to be stuck in the loading screen
- Fixed a UI bug where Megamind --> Lock-In was mistakenly displaying the Double Lock-In icon
- Fixed a UI bug where Megamind --> Lock-In/Double Lock-In mistakenly booted you from Team Chat while selecting your lock-ins
- Spectator delay increased by 30 seconds to fix bugged cases where a spectator connects before the game is ready for it
- Fixed API legion field for megamind to return the rolled mastermind instead of megamind
- Fixed a gameplay bug with Eco Detection where it was falsely flagging an eco player who had built, but still leaked 100% on Wave 1 (e.g. Solo Casket vs. Snail send)
- Fixed a system bug where Pity Points past a certain number weren't taking effect as intended
- Fixed a UI bug where pinging an enemy fighter on the Tab scoreboard was displaying in the wrong color

Improvements
- UI Tweak: 4v4 workers no longer display the 4v4-specific reduced mythium gather rate, which has the effect of having cleaner worker numbers on Waves 1-10 (pre-v11.00)
- Picking Megamind now shows the rolled mastermind in team chat: https://i.imgur.com/YhivieK.png
- Picking Kingsguard now is taken into account for MVP Score and Playstyle graph
- Player Profiles now no longer show pre-release rating badges (but they are still visible in the Trophies tab) to reduce clutter on older accounts
- Megamind popup now automatically closes (removed OK button). We received feedback of players accidentally double-clicking and locking something in.

Balance: Leak 2 Win
- King Health: +25% --> +100%
- Leaking: +10% missing health --> +20% missing health
- Clearing: -5% current health --> -10% current health

The goals of these changes are to make leaking rewarding and make king health a valuable resource - without the king being weaker. We are continuing to gather feedback to try to find the sweet spot for this mode. Thanks everyone who has given early feedback so far!

v11.00.2

Balance
- Redraw: Rerolls: 4 --> 5. We will collect more feedback after Ranked is enabled tomorrow and continue to evaluate if further tweaks or reworks are warranted.
- Leak 2 Win: King health increased by 25%

Fixes
- Fixed a reconnect bug where in some cases while Dual Building in Classic, a player couldn't build towers after disconnecting/reconnecting
- Fixed a Campaign bug where Mama Mayra on Hard didn't get bonus workers after using a Restart
- Fixed a Hybrid bug where Pirate Skeleton didn't start with Secret Stash until the next wave
- Fixed a UI bug where whispers weren't showing up in-game
- Fixed a UI bug where queueing King Upgrades wouldn't process at the last possible moment in some cases
- Fixed a UI bug where the HUD didn't display the correct estimated gold amount when taking into account Dwarf Banker & Big Wig
- Fixed a UI bug where the Rolls message in chat displayed an extra time in 1v1 mode
- Fixed a UI bug where the HUD mistakenly displayed red Overwork worker numbers for allies instead of just the current/affected players
- Fixed a UI bug where the AutoAttack Games logo animation didn't play when starting up the game

Improvements
- Improved some spectator UI (for Megamind)
- Added a chat message for Lock-In/Double Lock-In to show what rolls you picked

Localization
- Translations updated
- Added spreadsheet comments for Mastermind translation fields

v11.00.1

Fixes
- Fixed an issue where players were getting stuck in loading screen
- Fixed some rare cases of game crashing
- Fixed pinging workers in Classic not showing the correct value
- Fixed 1v1 Event Rewards tooltip
- Fixed Dwarven Banker mana in Classic (was incorrectly 4, should be 5)
- Fixed Match History not showing Megamind
- Fixed a UI issue where Classic worker counts were mistakenly showing as red numbers