Roblox developer Kitawari's Anime Vanguards receives a significant Winter Update 3.0, introducing a revamped lobby, expanded unit roster, and numerous quality-of-life improvements. This update focuses on enhancing the tower-defense experience and providing players with ample winter-themed content.
The most striking change is the completely overhauled lobby, offering significantly more space and a remastered UI, including a cleaner stage selection interface. Kitawari addressed player feedback regarding the previous lobby's limitations, stating the new lobby is "10x more impressive," featuring a customizable day/night cycle accessible in the settings.
Key additions include a new game mode, "Portals," encouraging players to utilize winter units and skins for enhanced rewards. A Sandbox Mode allows for unrestricted strategic experimentation. Twelve new units are introduced across a Winter Banner, Portals mode, the battle pass, and leaderboard rewards.
Quality-of-life enhancements include smoother unit placement, improved Evolution Quest visibility, search bars for skins and familiars, and clearer enemy targeting indicators for units.
This update builds upon the November update, which incorporated elements from the anime series Dandadan. For further details on Kitawari's ongoing development, including active codes, refer to this link. Below are the complete patch notes:
Anime Vanguards Winter Update 3.0 Patch Notes
New Features
12 New Units! These units are available in the following:
- 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 Game Mode: Portals This mode features unique mechanics and tiered rewards, including three new familiars (Doggo, Sebamon, Padoru), winter currency, and gift boxes. Utilizing winter units and skins enhances rewards. A new elemental interaction system adds strategic depth.
New Game Mode: Sandbox Mode Offers unrestricted unit usage, enemy spawning, infinite money, and customizable stats.
Boss Event Rerun: The Blood-Red Commander Igros boss event returns, with weekly cycling of boss events (Sukono's event follows). The boss event shop has been restocked.
Revamped Lobby & UI: A significantly improved lobby with a customizable day/night cycle and a cleaner stage selection UI.
Unit XP Fusing: Allows fusing 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 replace previous unobtainable units.
Battle Pass Reset: A completely refreshed Battle Pass with numerous rewards, including two exclusive units.
New Tournament Titles: Unique titles for tournament participants (Champion for 1st place, Contender for 2nd-5th).
Collection Milestone: Unlock rewards by collecting units of various rarities.
Enemy Index Milestones: Earn rewards for completing the Enemy Index.
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 changed to stocks (3 per stage), with bosses instantly depleting all stocks.
The Hidden Gateway: A hidden challenge accessible using a Floor 50 reward from 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
- Custom summon animations now play correctly.
- Evolution quests appear 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 improvements.
- NPC changes (Normalize to Valentine).
- Item tooltip animation improvements.
- Camera parallax effect additions.
- Winter Currency added to the AFK Chamber.
- Search bars added to Familiars and Skins windows.
- Improved unit Traits Index UI.
- Shiny Hunter Game Pass visibility improved.
- Units now clearly highlight the enemy they are attacking.
- "Favorite" unit option added.
- Additional unit storage and team slots.
- Revamped rarity gradients and loading circle.
- Switched to Roblox's new chat service (supports automatic translation).
- Inventory item frame sorting by rarity.
- Fixed item hover preview frame clipping.
- And more!
Bug Fixes
Numerous bug fixes addressing issues with units, abilities, UI elements, game modes, and more. Specific examples include fixes for Ishtar's passive, Haruka Rin's animation, unit placement in tournaments, UI updates, and various visual and gameplay glitches. See the original patch notes for the complete list.
