Hi all,

first minor patch is coming!

Changes

• Attacking no longer cancels spellcasting. You can still cancel issuing a movement command. #1 player request fulfilled!
  
• Being inside of a land parcel you own or co-own grants protection from monsters, which will ignore you. Attacking the monster outside causes the protection to be lost. #2 player request fulfilled!

Bug Fixes

• Packaging stations are functional again.
  
• This was fixed yesterday : boosted crafts from used recipes are correctly saved at logout and no longer lost.
  
• Opening the **store** from the button in game now correctly opens the store for Steam users instead of showing the home page.
  
• It's no longer possible to pick up items from cart inventories when mounted and bug your character out.
  
• Casting a leech spell against a creature with Globe of Spell Protection no longer causes the caster to lose mana regeneration even though the spell (correctly) failed to cast.
  
• It's now possible for a land parcel owner to set permissions for the Forge, and a Smeltery set as Public is now accessible to everyone.

Enjoy your weekend and enjoy Fractured Online!

Expected patch release: Monday, November 13 (Pacific Time)

• 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: November 25-26
  
• Join the Tournament Discord to participate and receive tournament notifications. View all past Nova Cups here: Legion TD 2 Esports Portal.

In case you missed it, the long-awaited third singleplayer/co-op campaign, The Floating Isles, just recently launched!


Party as 1-4 players and challenge all new opponents: Reek-a-deek, Fabulous Freddy, Declan Stormhammer, Jill McDonald, Rex Ribbitor, chaoslord2468, and Drachia!

Steam page: Legion TD 2 | Floating Isles Campaign


With its secret stash of loot, it can be sold for a high percentage of its original cost. Weak stats.

Pirate Skeleton Stats:

• Tier 3 (Cost: 80g)
  
• Role: Versatile
  
• Melee / Pierce / Swift
  
• Secret Stash: Sells this fighter for 90% of its total cost

No longer has a secret stash, but its combat stats are greatly strengthened.

Spectral Scallywag Stats

• Tier 3 Upgrade (Cost: 190g)
  
• Role: Versatile
  
• Melee / Pierce / Swift
  
• Unyielding Spirit: Dodges every 5th attack. When an attack is dodged, gains 20 max health for the current wave only (40 health on waves 11+)

Reek-a-deek, Fabulous Freddy, Declan Stormhammer, Jill McDonald, Rex Ribbitor, chaoslord2468, and Drachia now have their cards added to the game!




Rating Decay
- Players rated 2600+ who have not played a ranked game in 2+ weeks will decay 10 rating points per day. This will help keep the top of the ladder representative of the currently-active best players.


Classic
- Blitz and Ordered Chaos special modes are now less likely to show up as a hot mode & randomly selected mode. A new Classic mode coming next patch, and another one soon (TM) after that!



Investment
- Income: +33 → +32


Loan
- Income: -33 → -32

Shifting power from Investment to Loan.


Pawn Shop
- Gold: +70 → +65

Very high pick rate.


Protector
- Regeneration: 0.8% → 0.7%

Very high pick rate.



Looter / Pack Rat
- Attack speed: 1.02 → 1.04

Low win rate and slightly low pick rate.


Buzz
- Anaphylaxis: Damage: 50 → 60


Consort
- Paraphylaxis: Damage: 280 → 320

Low win rate.


Harpy
- Attack speed: 1.46 → 1.44

Slightly high win rate and pick rate.


Gateguard / Harbinger
- Chaos Hound / Cerberus: Attack speed: 1.02 → 1

High win rate and slightly high pick rate.


Disciple
- Damage: 73 → 71


Starcaller
- Damage: 180 → 175

High win rate.


Doppelganger
- Attack speed: 1.94 → 2

Low win rate and pick rate.

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:

Game length

Over the last few months, average game length has increased by 1 minute. We ran an in-game poll asking ranked players their thoughts, and from thousands of responses, here are the results:

• Happy with game length: 66.6%
  
• Want longer games: 21.6%
  
• Want shorter games: 11.8%

One interesting result was that preferences vary by rank. Bronze-Expert players (97% of players) prefer longer games, and Master+ players (3% of players) prefer shorter games. Good news is that at every single rank, most players are happy with average game length.

Mid & late game workers

In some game states, it's not rewarding enough to push workers in the mid and late game. We're evaluating systemic changes to fix this, but to avoid breaking the game near the end of the season, it's best to wait until the Season 2024 patch in January.

Chaos

From a game balance point of view, Chaos has a reasonable pick rate and win rate, comparable to Cartel, Cash Out, Greed, Yolo, and Fiesta. However, some top-ranked players have expressed concern with the more RNG nature of Chaos. We're still gathering feedback and considering changes.

• Pulverizer now more consistently shows its VFX/SFX, even if the unit died when the stun hit. Also made the VFX a bit louder.

• Fixed a bug in the Leaderboards tab where the Divine leaderboard was missing (as a dropdown item in the Level leaderboard)
  
• Fixed a bug in Spectator mode where emotes didn't work for spectators other than the first slot
  
• Fixed a bug on low resolutions (e.g. Steamdeck) where the in-game King Upgrade panel was covered up by the bottom-left HUD panel (mercenary icons/autosend indicator)
  
• Added emote animation types (horizontal shake, rubberband, etc) to localization spreadsheets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1n6gzsqJ7Y&feature=youtu.be
Wondering what these "Nova Cups" are all about? Shadowings' hype video captures the excitement of epic holds and epic sends in a tightly edited 90 second video.



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:

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


Hope everyone had an enjoyable Halloween weekend! With this update, we are excited to introduce new units to the game! The goal of Pirate Skeleton is to bring the fun of Grarl to more openings & strategies. Spectral Scallywag brings built-in synergy with Pirate Skeleton in that its ability is quite strong early-game. It also has late-game scaling potential with its dodge + max health mechanics.

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

"Activating reanimation protocol."
– Necron Technomancer

Update v1.7.0 is now live on all platforms, introducing a new feature to test your decks, quality of life improvements and a new Promo code. Take a look at the changes introduced in this update:

● New ‘practice’ mode to test your decks against a bot before taking them into multiplayer. From the Decks menu in Collection, just open your deck and use the Practice button next to Edit Deck. These matches also count towards Missions!
● New custom interactions between some warlords at the start of the match. Can you find them all?
● The Cosmetics Shop has been removed from the game. We are working on other ways of obtaining them in the game. Read on to find out how to get a free avatar!

● The turn timer now starts the countdown when there are 15 seconds left, instead of 10.
● Show cursor again in Steam Deck when the 'Touch Input’ toggle in Settings is disabled

● The game performance has been optimised significantly, to reduce battery use and to improve the frame rate in low-spec devices.
● Improve mobile interface in battle, so that the stats of cards in hand are visible.
● Improved error handling to manage some edge cases which could leave the game on a black screen instead of showing the main menu after loading.
● Makari has been fixed, as it was not always applying his buff after being killed by Shuriken.

We are giving away an amazing Avatar cosmetic to all players: the Remnant! It is a token of gratitude for your patience while we fixed the various issues on mobile, particularly the game-breaking visual problem with Remnants, and for having to update the game several times.

To get this avatar, redeem the code ‘REMNANT’ in-game or on the new website before the end of November to gain this unique cosmetic item.

As stated above, these are the changes in the latest of a long list of updates that have gone live during this week. Get a full recap of what has changed in the new web post.

Welcome! Here's DevLog #1: Polishing, interaction, physics, save system, fixes, and more...

Added a highlighting system for objects to be interacted with. Boxes also can be placed, emptied, and refilled now.



Added animations to place and take from shelves. The interaction is now performed by holding down mouse buttons instead of clicking each time. Added item-shelf type matching. You can only place items onto the matching type of shelves; Rack, Fridge, Freeze, etc.

You can now throw unwanted items into the trash bins. But be careful :D



Added aim indicator, well needed.

Added save system. Well needed as well :D

Added validation for price input. Polished the pricing screen. You can clearly see the profit now. Again, be careful :D



Fixed not being able to jump from some objects, and being able to move while in interaction with UI.

Added a pooling system for objects for the sake of optimization.

Hello folks,
Here's a small bug fix update for you!

• PvP: Power Ups now appear every two minutes regardless of the creature played. Power Ups will continue to appear after creature interactions as well.

• Hunters Crew: Money is now correctly subtracted from your account balance.
  
• Hunters Crew: You can no longer move while the Hunter Crew menu is open.
  
• Hostages: Once the creature has been eliminated, the hostage will leave the building. There were problems with this on some maps.
  
• On some maps there were problems eliminating the Grieving Gargoyle.
  
• Cash drop: You can no longer drop cash when a menu is open.
  
• Prepper Box: Sometimes the box was spawned oddly so that it was empty.
  
• Roles: Dead players can no longer drop role objects.

Have a great weekend!
Andre & Dennis

• Support for the Halloween Forever DLC has been added (0.9.9.21)
  
• The Halloween Forever checkbox will now correctly remember your selection and apply it on Startup
  
• The Bathroom camera has been added into the camera rotation
  
• Bathroom anomalies have been added
  
• The Sequre Space Agency has rented advertising space on the game's Level Selection menu

• Quick fix posted to address an incredibly rare bug that could cause Anomalies to stop spawning, especially in Hard Mode

Greetings, Plutocrats!
We are in a hurry to please everyone with the long-awaited update!
Not all of what we wanted will be included in it. Some features require more time for testing and debugging. Therefore, we will try in November and December to please you with a few more updates with features that we are testing right now.

So, what has already been included in this update?

1. Starting settings have been redesigned.
[/h3]The information is structured and easier to read. We had to redesign because of point #2.
2. Added a game difficulty indicator.
[/h3]We decided to add more of a competitive moment to any playthrough, and created a system for assessing the difficulty of the game session. Now all parameters affect the displayed difficulty level, allowing you to estimate how difficult it will be to complete the final goal in the allotted time. Higher difficulty - more respect!Write to us if some parameters seem unbalanced to you - and we will fix it in the next patch.
3. Director's orders.
[/h3]Another window that has undergone a redesign. Now all orders are “packed” in the right part, and are not as chaotic as before. Do not worry - the changes are only visual without changing the very essence of the orders.
4. Other innovations introduced after feedback from our community of Plutocrats:
[/h3]
• Companies | Added dependence of the number of new workplaces and the cost of construction during expansion on the current number of workplaces in the company. The more places there are in the company now, the more places a new building will add, but the more expensive it will cost to build it.
  
• Mail | Added notifications about the threat of bankruptcy of the player, controlled companies and loyal characters.
  
• Achievements | Added a new achievement "Speculator"
  
• Journal | Added notifications about completing tasks of the current game session
  
• Credits | The formula for the maximum loan amount from the character has been reworked. Now the amount depends not only on the lender's cash, but also on the borrower's solvency, as well as the reputation of the borrower or the CEO of the company taking the loan.
5. Polishing:
[/h3]
• The "Get a loan" ambition | Added the income of the borrower character to the ambition and a hint on the ambition icon.
  
• Gameplay | Event "Approve the initiative" | Hover hints have been added for the current developed and new proposed technologies.
  
• Personal office | When you click on the card in the account, companies of the current location will now be opened
  
• Stock exchange | Cosmetic portfolio changes.
  - The columns “Cost” and “Difference" have been swapped for greater convenience.
  - The name of the “Balance” block has been changed to “Purchased”
  
• Parliamentary chambers | Schemes of chambers | The algorithm of the arrangement of colored dots of the composition of chambers has been improved.
  
• Updated some of the loading screens, added a few new ones.
6. Balance:
[/h3]
• Companies | By popular demand, the number of shareholders in companies has been reduced by an average of 40%. Overall game performance slightly improved.
7. Fixed:
[/h3]
• Context menu | The unused "Compromise" button in the player's and opponent's character menu has been removed.
  
• Map | The opponent's companies are not displayed when selected in the filter.
  
• Statistics | Basic parameters are sometimes not recalculated when the technology being developed changes during the quarter.
  
• Gameplay | Event "Threats from the ultra-right" | Fixed the difference between the result and the description in the negative outcome of the 4 variants of the event.
  
• General | Fixed missing music when playing on Mac.
  
• The "Buy shares" ambition | Fixed a bug that could generate an ambition to buy shares of a non-existent company after the election.
  
• Company votings | Disabled CEO's offer to increase dividends.
  
• Companies | Player ceases to be considered a shareholder when trying to receive subsidies or conclude a state contract after loading the savegame.
  
• Elections | Fixed a vulnerability that made it possible for the player to become governor.
  
• Loyalty | Fixed a bug that caused characters with full loyalty to periodically lose loyalty for no reason.
  
• Laws | Fixed incorrect change in the popularity of laws after consideration of any bill.
  
• Navigation | Fixed a bug that caused the "Select a new Director" window to be ignored when returning to the previous window.
  
• Loans | Fixed an error due to which, when trying to repay a loan in a company with negative reserves, it was possible to set a negative payment amount.
  
• Starting conditions | Fixed error, when a player got 4 free skill points when starting with own company.
  
• Merger | Fixed a bug where the merger of companies was unavailable if the total reserves of both companies were < 0.

Many bugs have been fixed and continue to be fixed by us thanks to the help of our community - thank you for the feedback, and if you are not in our community yet - join to our Discord server (https://discord.gg/DjdxyrMZ)

Friends, by your numerous requests, we are covering what we are working on right now, and what you will see in the next 2 updates.

Announced features:

1. Upgrade of the building module.
[/h3]It will be possible to build several buildings at once, and not 1, as it is now. They will differ as before - the construction period and price. And also, a new indicator is added - the deadline for the offer from the contractor. Each offer will be available only for a limited number of days. After that, it will change to a new one.This innovation makes you literally “catch the moment” when expansion is especially beneficial for your company, which brings more variety to the “gaming routine”!For those who do not like microcontrol, we will save the option of “automatic expansion".
2. Plutocratopedia
[/h3]Another of the upcoming updates will include a guidebook in the game - Plutocratopedia. Now we regularly add all the information about the game world to it, and very soon we will release it, to facilitate the understanding of all the available game features.
3. Vertical holding
[/h3]Also, we are work-in-progress on this long-awaited game module. The topic of the holding is quite extensive, and it would be more correct if we release a separate diary and tell about it in more detail in order to better understand the meaning of its introduction into the economy of our simulator, as well as what difficulties we, as developers, faced when implementing this idea.

Well, friends, that's all for now!

Thank you for staying with us,
Redwood Team

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Patch Notes

• The Quest system has been rewritten to safeguard against bugs when progressing quests and recieving items
  
• Quests will now check if a player is supposed to have an item on a certain quest stage, and give it to them if it is missing. This is designed to 'fix' player saves that have been affected by the recent missing item quest bug
  
• Further tweaked save system to eliminate bugs when saving and loading
  
• Tweaked player visibility to enemies, making the player harder to detect if partially obscured by terrain
  
• Emporium of Oddities shopkeeper now restocks the passport every day
  
• Secret illusion wall in Hallowshire belltower now allows players to pass through

• Fixed a bug that was causing regions to load incorrectly
  
• Fixed a bug that was causing the witch house island to have no clipping
  
• Fixed a bug that was stopping the Hallow Castle quest from giving correct item rewards
  
• Fixed a bug that was causing certain text tags from showing incorrectly
  
• Enemies will now correctly lose sight of the player if line of sight is obscured
  
• Fixed a bug that meant humanoid enemies couldn't open certain doors

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And as always, please post any issues you come across or feedback you may have in the Discussion Forums.

Thank you for playing Stop Dead!

Items with a 🛑 emoji are things found or suggested by the community!

There is a lot going on under the hood in this patch. You’ll hear more from us soon!

• 🛑 Added a difference display to your time and score in the Win screen.
  
• Removed Halloween Ghost Visuals (for real this time).
  
• Ghost colors should be more vibrant and varied this patch. Your color may have changed.
  
• Made some changes to the save game backend. Your spliced run and score should be accurate now. If it isn't, let us know!
  
• Gun ammo counter visuals have been updated. Should be easier to see, and the counter is now over top of the correct spot on the mesh for all the guns.
  
• Fixed an issue that allowed audio to persist after some enemies disappeared.