We're adding a new gamemode with the Elite Daily Challenge in this update.

Elite Dailies are like the regular Daily Challenge but you'll be dealing with extra modifiers on top. Each Elite Daily comes with two random modifiers which will be the same for all players for the day. The modifiers range in difficulty and complexity, but you'll have to adapt your playstyle to suit if you want to set the highest score on the leaderboard for the day.

We're adding 20 modifiers for the Elite Dailies with today's update. That's enough that you'll be able to play every day for over a year and not encounter the same combination of modifiers, we've even guaranteed it!

The regular Daily Challenges have undergone a bit of a rework. These improvements all apply to the Elite Dailies as well, so everything should be nice and consistent.

You'll only get one chance to set your leaderboard score now; you can try again as much as you like, but the repeat attempts will only be practice scores for your benefit only.

The reset time for the Daily Challenge is now at Midnight UTC every day, instead of midnight in your local time. So everyone will switch to the new daily at the same time.

Challenges can now also choose randomly between the Survival and Countdown modes, and we've improved the loadout selection so that you'll get a much better spread of random equipment when trying out every daily. Remember to check which mode the challenge is running for the day in the menu while checking what your loadout will be!

A new enemy is joining the roster today as well, the Ivy enemy.

Ivy is a virus-like enemy which can quickly spread itself through the arena. Twisting and turning as it goes, if you leave it unchecked it could block off a large area or become unwieldy to clean up. You'd better keep an eye out and check every corner, especially in Countdown, or you could end up doing a lot of garden work.

A basic unlocks system has been put in place to unlock additional modes and help guide new players through the game. We've added this in as now that the Daily Challenge can play Countdown mode as well, we want you to have played Countdown before so that you know what to do and don't think that the rules have suddenly changed on you. 

If you're a seriously good player, then you can even shortcut getting directly to the Elite Dailies by earning a score of at least 100,000,000 in Survival and Countdown to unlock the Elite Dailies immediately.

The leaderboards will now display scores over 300,000,000 points which they wouldn't do before. We were recording the stats properly but they weren't showing up. We've come up with a way around this though, but unfortunately it means we've got to reset the leaderboards or else they'll be very messed up. The good news is that you'll be able to fully flaunt your talent to the world now!