Roblox developer Kitawari has released Anime Vanguards Winter Update 3.0, a major update bringing significant changes to the tower defense game's unit roster, lobby, and numerous quality-of-life improvements. This winter-themed update adds plenty of new content to explore, most noticeably a completely overhauled lobby providing anime fans with a much more spacious and enjoyable starting point for each session. The update also boasts a remastered user interface, including a significantly improved and cleaner stage selection UI.
Kitawari explained in the patch notes, "We heard your feedback about the previous lobby; it was too small and cramped, limiting our ability to add new game modes. Prepare yourselves for a stunning new lobby—ten times more impressive than before, even featuring a customizable day and night cycle, adjustable in the Settings!"
The quality-of-life improvements include smoother unit placement, Evolution Quests now appearing in the special tab, searchable skins and familiar windows, and units clearly highlighting their target enemy. These enhancements streamline the gameplay experience.
This update continues Kitawari's impressive streak of post-launch content updates, building on the significant additions from the November update, which drew inspiration from the popular anime series, Dandadan. For a complete list of active codes, check here. The full patch notes are below, offering a detailed look at everything included in this substantial update.
Anime Vanguards Winter Update 3.0 Patch Notes
Features
12 NEW UNITS! These new units are distributed as follows:
New Winter Banner: Emmie, Emmie (Ice Witch); Rom and Ran, Rom and Ran (Fanatic); Foboko, Foboko (Hellish); Karem, Karem (Chilled); Rogita (Super 4)
New Portals Game Mode: Soburo, Soburo (Contract); Regnaw, Regnaw (Rage)
New Battle Pass: Dodara, Dodara (Contract); Sosora, Sosora (Puppeteer)
Leaderboard Rewards: Seban; Rodock; Giyu
NEW GAMEMODE! Portals: Experience a brand-new game mode with unique mechanics and tiered rewards. Using winter units and skins increases team damage, currency yield, and other rewards. A new elemental interaction system adds strategic depth with numerous possible interactions.
NEW GAMEMODE! Sandbox Mode: Experiment freely with units, enemies, infinite money, and adjustable stats.
NEW! Boss Event Rerun! The Blood-Red Commander Igros boss event returns, with weekly boss event rotations (Sukono's event follows next week). The boss event shop has also been restocked.
NEW! Lobby Revamp: A significantly larger and more visually appealing lobby with a customizable day and night cycle.
NEW! Revamped Lobby UI: A cleaner and more user-friendly stage selection interface.
NEW! Unit XP Fusing: Fuse unwanted units to level up others, offering an alternative to XP food items.
NEW! Winter Banner & Currency: Earn winter currency in Portals to summon new units and skins, or spend it in the Winter Shop for portals, evolution items, a frosty mount, and Trait Rerolls. This includes: 1 New Vanguard Unit; 3 New Secret Skins; 4 New Exclusive Units; 4 New Mythic Skins; 3 New Legendary Skins; 1 New Epic Skin; 1 New Rare Skin.
NEW! Leaderboard Units: Two brand-new Exclusive units replace the previous unobtainable leaderboard units.
NEW! Battle Pass Reset: A completely refreshed Battle Pass with numerous rerolls, gems, and other rewards, including 2 Exclusive units.
NEW! Tournament Titles: Unique titles awarded to tournament participants (Tournament Champion for 1st place, Tournament Contender for 2nd-5th).
NEW! Collection Milestone: Earn rewards by collecting units of each rarity.
NEW! Enemy Index Milestones: Earn rewards for documenting enemies in the Enemy Index.
NEW! Trophy Exchange Shop: Exchange trophies for emotes.
NEW! Spectate Mode Options: Choose between Default, First Person, Third Person, and Top-Down views when spectating a unit.
NEW! Health Stocks: The currency base health system is now based on stocks (3 stocks per stage, lost on enemy base reach).
NEW! The Hidden Gateway awakens…: Use a Floor 50 Worldlines reward item to access a hidden challenge.
NEW! In-Game Update Logs: View update details in-game.
NEW! New Unit Filters: Filter units by damage, SPA, and range stats.
Changes & QoL
- Custom summon animations now play correctly.
- Evolution quests are now in the special tab.
- Smoother unit placement movement.
- "Tracks At The Edge Of The World" added to Enemy Index.
- World Markers added to the lobby for easier navigation.
- Auto Ability now waits for reactivation if it fails.
- The normalize NPC is now Valentine.
- Improved item tooltip animation.
- Added a slight camera parallax effect to some interfaces.
- Winter Currency added to the AFK Chamber.
- Search bars added to Familiars and Skins windows.
- Improved Unit Traits Index UI.
- Shiny Hunter Game Pass now shows on the bottom left.
- Units now highlight the enemy they are attacking.
- "Favorite" unit option added.
- 3 additional unit storage expansions (total 6).
- 3 additional team slots (total 8).
- Revamped rarity gradients.
- Revamped loading circle.
- Switched to Roblox's new chat service (supports automatic translation).
- Inventory item frames sorted by rarity.
- Fixed item hover preview frame cutoff issue.
- …and more!
Bug Fixes
- Fixed Ishtar (Divinity) range buff issue.
- Fixed Haruka Rin animation issue.
- Fixed unit placement and team swap exploit.
- Fixed highest infinite round update issue in profile UI.
- Fixed Medusa's ability cursor issue on console.
- Fixed negative ability timers.
- Fixed Battlepass Level Up UI icon quality.
- Fixed Battle Pass Level Up screen background shadow cutoff.
- Fixed multilane unit name cutoff in unit inventory UI.
- Fixed Money Earned text offset.
- Fixed Fate Mount appearance issue.
- Fixed Worldlines loading screen map issue.
- Fixed interactions with repulse enemies in golden castle stage.
- Fixed stage info UI item/currency display issue.
- Fixed JoJo Stand cosmetic issues on rejoin.
- Fixed Steel Ball Run Acts 4-5 spawn point issue.
- Fixed keybind issue in settings UI on console.
- Fixed Leaderboard UI stage selection extension issue.
- Big performance optimizations for late-game runs.
- …and many more!
Latest Downloads
Downlaod
Top News
