All heroes - Now start with 0.2 HP/s regeneration and a 5% critical hit chance; item bonuses stack on top.

Hero panel - Rebuilt the HUD as a compact bronze panel joined to the bottom of the screen, without a portrait. Health, energy shield and Ash Shield have rounded animated bars, centered values and recovery rates; unused shield rows disappear.

Abilities - Added dedicated RMB icons and visible cooldowns beside dodge, with artwork filling each slot.

Forest Onslaught - Replaced the large framed announcement with compact text.

Combat cursor - Made the aiming ring thicker with a stronger outline.

Player marker - Changed the player marker to bright blue with a light outline on all maps.

Interaction hints - Replaced Reaper and traveling merchant nameplates with gently bobbing exclamation marks above their heads, with an E prompt when in reach.

Merchants - Traveling item merchants now leave after a purchase and disappear from both maps until the next run.

Enemy pursuit - Orks and Black Reapers now need to fall farther behind before returning around the screen, reducing sudden surrounds after a short retreat. Living enemies keep their remaining health.

Black Reapers - Reduced health and flight speed by a further 10%. Killed Reapers continue to be replaced to maintain their separate 100-enemy limit.

Early combat - Reduced ork and Shrubtooth health with smooth growth. Spearmen now join from 1:00, Shamans from 2:30 and Berserkers from 4:00. Reinforcements ramp up gradually to a base interval of 0.8 seconds.

Experience - Increased the base circular pickup radius from 65 to 150; pickup bonuses scale the larger radius.

Experience rewards - Ordinary enemies now grant 2 XP, Shamans 3 and Berserkers 4. Elites grant double XP and mini-bosses grant 20.

Chests - The first five paid chests cost 30, 45, 60, 75 and 90 gold. Prices rise more steeply from the sixth: 150, 225, 315, 420, 540 and upward. Free reward chests do not raise the price.

Crowds - Reduced scene overhead for enemies and their shadows while preserving movement and spacing.

Busy battles - Reduced the rendering and processing cost of projectiles, combat effects, grass animation, damage numbers, target selection and projectile collisions.

Experience crystals - Improved performance when thousands of crystals accumulate, preserving their appearance, XP rewards and magnet pickup.

Gold - Reduced rendering overhead for dropped coins and their sparkles.

Bao - Grouped closely spaced damage sounds to keep them clear during crowded fights.

Chest rewards - Made the pickup icon more compact and placed it directly above the hero with a clear gap.

Leaderboard - Rankings now use your best single-run kill count for the selected period instead of total kills across all runs.

Horde - Enemies grow tougher after 10:00, gaining 40% health and 12% damage per minute through gradual, compounding growth.

Tomes - Count upgrades now grant +1 at Rare, +2 at Epic and +3 at Legendary for meteors, icicles, lightning orbs, bubbles and plants. Repeated upgrades stack.

Kael - Moves 50% faster while spinning and can dodge out of a spin. Holding RMB now resumes the spin immediately after the dodge, without another wind-up.

Bao, Rowan and Kael - Melee attacks in Mouse mode now follow the cursor precisely, including angles between the eight character poses.

Shamans - Replaced the bright fireball with a smaller Firebolt, softer colors and a shorter trail.

Black Reapers - Reduced health and damage by 20% and increased spacing between them. Every defeated Reaper is replaced by a fresh one, maintaining a separate limit of 100 living Reapers.

Horde - Orks and Black Reapers left offscreen return from different sides, keeping their remaining health. Return points are spaced apart to reduce clumping.

Bao - Temporarily available to all players without an unlock requirement.

Green Island - Reduced the island's width and height by 14.5%, keeping all 27 chests and reachable landmarks.

Green Island - From 10:00 to 10:20, the island gradually shifts into cold dusk, with muted grass, deeper cloud shadows and drifting ground mist.