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 quality of life. This winter-themed update boasts a wealth of new content, most notably a completely overhauled lobby, offering Anime Vanguards veterans significantly more space to prepare for each session. The update also includes a remastered UI, with a cleaner, improved stage selection interface.

"We heard your feedback about the previous lobby—it was too small and cramped, limiting our ability to add new game modes," Kitawari explained in the patch notes. "Prepare to be amazed by our new lobby—ten times more impressive, featuring a customizable day and night cycle, adjustable in the Settings!"

A key addition is the new Portals game mode, encouraging players to utilize winter units and skins for increased team damage and bonus rewards. For those who prefer experimentation, Sandbox Mode allows unrestricted testing of new strategies. The update also introduces twelve new units, obtainable through 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 accessible via a dedicated tab, searchable skin and familiar windows, and clearer unit targeting indicators. All features of Winter Update 3.0 are available now.

This update follows a string of successful releases since the game's launch last January, including a recent November update inspired by the anime Dandadan. For a complete list of active codes, visit [here]. Below are the full patch notes:

Anime Vanguards Winter Update 3.0 Patch Notes

Features

12 NEW UNITS! These new 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: Experience 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 boosts team damage and 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 rotating boss events (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, 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 previous unobtainable ones.

NEW! Battle Pass Reset: A completely refreshed Battle Pass with numerous rewards, including two exclusive units.

NEW! Tournament Titles: Unique titles awarded to tournament winners.

NEW! Collection Milestone: Earn rewards for collecting units of various rarities.

NEW! Enemy Index Milestones: Earn rewards for completing your 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 single health pool.

NEW! The Hidden Gateway awakens…: Unlock a hidden challenge using a Floor 50 reward from 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 effects.
• 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 the enemy they are attacking.
• "Favorite" unit feature 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 sorting 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 swapping exploit.
• Fixed highest infinite round not updating 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 issue.
• Fixed multilane unit names being cut off.
• Fixed Money Earned text offset.
• Fixed Fate Mount not appearing in matches.
• 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 cosmetics breaking on rejoin.
• Fixed Steel Ball Run Acts 4-5 spawning issue.
• Fixed keybind issue in settings UI on console.
• Fixed Leaderboard UI stage selection issue.
• Significant performance optimizations for late-game runs.
• And many more!