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

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 overall user experience. This winter-themed update boasts a wealth of new content, most notably a completely overhauled lobby, providing anime fans with a more spacious and visually appealing starting point for each game session. The update also includes a remastered user interface, featuring a significantly improved stage selection screen.

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, complete with a customizable day-night cycle accessible in the settings!"

A key addition in Anime Vanguards Winter Update 3.0 is the new "Portals" game mode. Kitawari encourages players to utilize winter units and skins to boost team damage and unlock additional rewards. For those who prefer experimentation, a Sandbox Mode allows for unrestricted strategy testing. The update also introduces twelve new units, spread 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, searchable skin and familiar windows, and improved unit targeting indicators. All these enhancements are available to Anime Vanguards players immediately.

This update follows a string of successful content releases since the game's launch last January, including a November update inspired by the popular anime series, Dandadan. For a complete list of active codes, 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 units are available in:

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, including three new familiars (Doggo, Sebamon, Padoru), two secret portal units, winter currency, and gift boxes. Using winter units and skins increases team damage and currency yield. A new elemental interaction system adds strategic depth.

NEW GAMEMODE! Sandbox Mode: Allows players to experiment with any 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). 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 replace the previous, unobtainable ones.

NEW! 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).

NEW! Collection Milestone: Earn rewards for 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.

NEW! Health Stocks: The health system now uses stocks instead of a health pool.

NEW! The Hidden Gateway awakens…: A hidden challenge accessible via a Floor 50 reward in Worldlines.

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.
• "Tracks At The Edge Of The World" added 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.
• Ability to favorite units.
• Additional unit and team slots.
• Revamped rarity gradients and loading circle.
• Switched to Roblox's new chat service (supports automatic translation).
• Inventory item sorting by rarity.
• Fixed item hover preview frame cutoff issue.
• And more!

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issues with Ishtar (Divinity), Haruka Rin, unit placement, highest infinite round update, Medusa's ability, ability timers, Battlepass UI icons, Battle Pass Level Up screen, multilane unit names, Money Earned text, Fate Mount, Worldlines loading screen, interactions in Golden Castle stage, stage info UI, JoJo Stand cosmetics, Steel Ball Run map spawning, keybinds in settings UI, Leaderboard UI, and performance optimizations.
• And many more!