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 update continues the winter festivities with new additions designed to keep players engaged for weeks to come.
The most striking change is the completely overhauled lobby, offering anime fans a much more spacious and improved starting point for each session. This revamp includes a remastered user interface, featuring a significantly improved and cleaner stage selection UI. As Kitawari explains in the patch notes, the previous lobby was too small and cramped, limiting the addition of new game modes. The new lobby is described as "10x more impressive," and boasts a customizable day and night cycle accessible in the game's settings.
Another key feature is the addition of a new game mode: Portals. Kitawari encourages players to utilize winter units and skins in this mode for increased team damage and access to additional rewards. A Sandbox Mode is also included, allowing players to experiment with strategies without limitations. The update also introduces twelve new units, distributed across a new Winter Banner, the Portals game mode, the battle pass, and new 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 available immediately in Winter Update 3.0.
This update follows a string of successful updates since the game's launch last January, including a recent November update inspired by the popular anime series, Dandadan. For a complete list of active codes, please visit [here]. Below are the full patch notes for Winter Update 3.0.
Anime Vanguards Winter Update 3.0 Patch Notes
Features
12 NEW UNITS!
These twelve new units are available in the following locations:
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 new game mode with unique mechanics and tiered rewards. Using winter units and skins boosts 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 cycling boss events (Sukono's event follows next week). The boss event shop has also 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 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
Multiple viewing options when spectating units.
NEW! Health Stocks
A revised health system using stocks instead of a single health pool.
NEW! The Hidden Gateway awakens…
A new challenge accessible via a Worldlines reward.
NEW! In-Game Update Logs
View update details in-game.
NEW! New Unit Filters!
Filter units by damage, SPA, and range stats.
Changes & QoL
- Improved unit summon animations.
- Evolution quests now appear in the special tab.
- Smoother unit placement.
- Added "Tracks At The Edge Of The World" to the Enemy Index.
- Added World Markers in the lobby for easier navigation.
- Auto Ability improvements.
- The normalize NPC has been changed to Valentine.
- Improved item tooltip animation.
- Added a slight camera parallax effect to some interfaces.
- Added Winter Currency to the AFK Chamber.
- Added search bars to Familiars and Skins windows.
- Improved unit Traits Index UI.
- Shiny Hunter Game Pass now shows up on the bottom left.
- Units now highlight the enemy they are attacking.
- Ability to "Favorite" units.
- Additional unit storage and team slots.
- Revamped rarity gradients and loading circle.
- Switched to Roblox’s new chat service.
- Item frames are now sorted by rarity.
- Improved item hover preview frame.
- And more!
Bug Fixes
- Fixed issues with Ishtar (Divinity), Haruka Rin, unit placement, highest infinite round, Medusa's ability, Battlepass UI icons, Battle Pass Level Up screen, multilane unit names, Money Earned text, Fate Mount, Worldlines loading screen, interactions with repulse enemies, items/currencies in stage info UI, JoJo Stand cosmetics, Steel Ball Run, keybinds, Leaderboard UI, and more.
