Roblox developer Kitawari has released Anime Vanguards Winter Update 3.0, a major update bringing significant changes to the tower defense game. This update features a revamped lobby, a host of new units, and numerous quality-of-life improvements designed to enhance the overall player experience.
The most striking change is the completely overhauled lobby, offering significantly more space and a remastered user interface, including a cleaner stage selection screen. Kitawari stated in the patch notes that the previous lobby was too small and cramped, hindering the addition of new game modes. The new lobby boasts a customizable day and night cycle, accessible through the game settings.
Winter Update 3.0 introduces a new game mode, Portals, encouraging players to utilize winter units and skins for increased team damage and rewards. A Sandbox Mode is also included, allowing for unrestricted strategy experimentation. Twelve new units are available across a new Winter Banner, the Portals game mode, the battle pass, and leaderboard rewards.
Quality-of-life improvements include smoother unit placement, Evolution Quests now appearing in a dedicated tab, and search bars added to the skins and familiar windows. Units now clearly highlight their target enemy. All these enhancements are immediately available to players.
This update builds upon the momentum of previous releases, including a November update inspired by the anime Dandadan. For a complete list of active codes, visit [here]. The full patch notes are detailed below.
Anime Vanguards Winter Update 3.0 Patch Notes
Features
12 NEW UNITS! These new units are spread across:
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: A new game mode with unique mechanics and tiered rewards. Using winter units and skins enhances team damage, currency yield, and other rewards. A new elemental interaction system adds strategic depth.
NEW GAMEMODE! Sandbox Mode: Experiment freely with units, enemies, resources, and stats.
NEW! Boss Event Rerun!: The Blood-Red Commander Igros boss event returns, with weekly boss event cycles. The boss event shop has been restocked.
NEW! Lobby Revamp: A significantly larger and improved lobby with a customizable day/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.
NEW! Winter Banner & Currency: Earn winter currency in Portals to summon units and skins or spend it in the Winter Shop.
NEW! Leaderboard Units: Two new exclusive units are available as leaderboard rewards.
NEW! Battle Pass Reset: A completely refreshed Battle Pass with numerous rewards, including two exclusive units.
NEW! Tournament Titles: Unique titles are awarded to tournament participants.
NEW! Collection Milestone: Collect units of various rarities to unlock rewards.
NEW! Enemy Index Milestones: Document enemies to earn rewards.
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.
NEW! Health Stocks: The health system now uses stocks instead of a single health pool.
NEW! The Hidden Gateway awakens…: Access a hidden challenge using a portal item obtained from Worldlines Floor 50.
NEW! In-Game Update Logs: View update information 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 a dedicated tab.
- Smoother unit placement.
- Added "Tracks At The Edge Of The World" to Enemy Index.
- Added World Markers in the lobby.
- Auto Ability improvements.
- The normalize NPC is now Valentine.
- Improved item tooltip animation.
- Added camera parallax effect.
- Added Winter Currency to the AFK Chamber.
- Added search bars to Familiars and Skins windows.
- Improved unit Traits Index UI.
- Shiny Hunter Game Pass location changed.
- Units now highlight targeted enemies.
- "Favorite" unit functionality added.
- Additional unit storage and team slots.
- Revamped rarity gradients and loading circle.
- Switched to Roblox's new chat service (supports translation).
- Inventory item sorting by rarity.
- Improved item hover preview frame.
- …and more!
Bug Fixes
- Fixed Ishtar (Divinity) range buff issue.
- Fixed Haruka Rin animation issue.
- Fixed unit placement and team swapping exploit.
- Fixed highest infinite round not updating.
- Fixed Medusa's ability cursor issue.
- Fixed negative ability timers.
- Fixed Battlepass Level Up UI icon quality.
- Fixed Battle Pass Level Up screen background shadow.
- Fixed multilane unit names being cut off.
- Fixed Money Earned text offset.
- Fixed Fate Mount not appearing.
- Fixed Worldlines loading screen map issue.
- Fixed interactions with repulse enemies.
- Fixed items/currencies in stage info UI display.
- Fixed JoJo Stand cosmetics breaking.
- Fixed Steel Ball Run map spawn issue.
- Fixed keybind issue in settings UI.
- Fixed Leaderboard UI stage selection.
- Performance optimizations for late-game runs.
- …and many more!
