Global leaderboards now live right on the main menu — page through Horde score, best wave, Gauntlet streak, vs-AI wins, CTF wins and total enemies routed.
A "What's New" panel on the menu shows the latest patch notes, with page-through history of past updates.
Every achievement now scrolls across the menu in a moving showcase — hover one to see its badge, point value, prestige tier and unlock state.
A live damage feed streams up the left of the screen as your army lands hits — bigger, hotter numbers for harder hits, with gold pops for crits.
Hold Shift and scroll to change battle speed on the fly, alongside the speed button.
The menu tagline now rotates each time you return, with a few colourful surprises.
Battle speed is now yours to keep — it persists across rounds, waves and fights instead of snapping back to 1x.
Lasso selection now matches exactly what you box on screen at any camera angle; drag over your own units to deselect them, with live rings previewing who's added or removed.
Placing a turret or structure now drops you back to normal control instead of leaving you stuck in placement mode.
Hard difficulty is now marked with a red accent so your setting reads at a glance.
A styling pass across the menus: themed leaderboard, changelog, draft and upgrade panels, reworked plus and minus buttons, and upgrade card labels that fit on one line.
Units no longer get stuck on walls and corners — both your army and the enemy reliably route around cover and out of one-door rooms instead of jamming in place.
The camera no longer locks into panning after you place a structure.
The Brute Wave warning tooltip no longer spills its text outside the box.