- 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.