Anime Vanguards Winter Update 3.0 Brings Lobby Revamp and New Portals Game Mode

Anime Vanguards' Winter Update 3.0: A Festive Frost of New Content

Roblox developer Kitawari has unleashed Anime Vanguards Winter Update 3.0, a significant update bringing a blizzard of changes to this popular tower defense game. The update boasts a revamped lobby, a host of new units, exciting new game modes, and a plethora of quality-of-life improvements designed to keep players engaged throughout the winter season.

The most striking change is the completely overhauled lobby, offering anime fans a significantly more spacious and visually appealing starting point. This is complemented by a remastered user interface, particularly a cleaner and more intuitive stage selection screen. Kitawari explains in the patch notes that the previous lobby was too cramped, prompting the creation of this expansive new space, even featuring a customizable day/night cycle accessible in the settings.

Key additions include two new game modes:

• Portals: This new mode introduces unique mechanics and tiered rewards. Using winter units and skins enhances team damage and unlocks additional rewards.
• Sandbox Mode: Provides a testing ground for experimental strategies, offering unrestricted unit deployment and resource management.

Twelve new units are scattered across a new Winter Banner, the Portals game mode, the battle pass, and leaderboard rewards. These additions significantly expand strategic options and character customization.

Quality-of-life enhancements include smoother unit placement, improved Evolution Quest visibility, search bars for skins and familiars, and clearer unit targeting indicators.

This update builds upon the momentum of a recent November update inspired by the anime Dandadan. For further details on in-game codes and future updates, refer to the provided link. Below are the complete patch notes:

Anime Vanguards Winter Update 3.0 Patch Notes

New Features

• 12 New Units: Distributed across a Winter Banner, Portals, Battle Pass, and Leaderboard Rewards. Specific units are detailed below.
• Portals Game Mode: Features unique mechanics, tiered rewards, and elemental interactions. Using winter units and skins boosts rewards.
• Sandbox Game Mode: Allows unrestricted experimentation with units, enemies, resources, and stats.
• Boss Event Rerun: The Blood-Red Commander Igros boss event returns, with weekly cycling of boss events.
• Revamped Lobby: A significantly larger and more visually impressive lobby with a customizable day/night cycle.
• Revamped UI: Improved stage selection UI and other interface elements.
• Unit XP Fusing: Fuse unwanted units to level up others.
• Winter Banner & Currency: Earn winter currency in Portals to summon units and skins or spend it in the Winter Shop.
• Leaderboard Units: Two new exclusive units available as leaderboard rewards.
• Battle Pass Reset: A completely refreshed Battle Pass with numerous rewards, including exclusive units.
• Tournament Titles: Unique titles awarded to tournament winners.
• Collection Milestones: Unlock rewards by collecting units of various rarities.
• Enemy Index Milestones: Earn rewards for documenting enemies.
• Trophy Exchange Shop: Purchase emotes using trophies.
• Spectate Mode Options: Choose between Default, First Person, Third Person, and Top-Down views when spectating.
• Health Stocks: The base health system is now based on stocks instead of a health bar.
• Hidden Gateway: A new challenge accessible via a Floor 50 reward in Worldlines.
• In-Game Update Logs: View update details in-game.
• New Unit Filters: Filter units by damage, SPA, and range stats.

Changes & Quality-of-Life Improvements

• Improved unit animation display, smoother unit placement, and enhanced Evolution Quest visibility.
• Added search bars to the Familiars and Skins windows.
• Improved unit highlighting of targeted enemies.
• Added unit favoriting functionality.
• Expanded unit storage and team slots.
• UI and loading screen improvements.
• Switched to Roblox's new chat service with automatic translation.
• Various bug fixes and performance optimizations.

Bug Fixes

Numerous bug fixes addressing issues with units, abilities, UI, and game mechanics across various game modes. (Specific bug fixes are listed in the original patch notes).