Live matches now run on a brand-new realtime server. Your game no longer has to keep asking what happened — the world is streamed to you the moment it changes. In our own testing that cut the delay between pressing a key and seeing it land by roughly ten times. Fights feel sharp, dodges land, and chasing someone across the bridge finally works.

The game no longer asks you to make an account before you can do anything. Open it and you are already a hero, straight into the menu. Want your progress kept and your name on the PLAYERS list? Sign in from the box in YOUR HERO whenever you feel like it — never before.

A big pass over how abilities behave in live matches. The Tank's bulwark and smash shove enemies again, the Stormcaller's dash knocks bodies off its path, the Ancient's vortex and Ignis' firestorm carry properly across the map, and the Engineer's barricades and sentries build online like they always did solo. You can also finally see what everyone else is doing — raised shields, mist form and dashes all show up.

Every hero has been redesigned to look like their story rather than a recoloured copy — capes, hoods, crests, plating and their own proportions. They are bigger and clearer on screen too, so you can tell at a glance who is coming at you.

Two new pages in the top bar. PLAYERS lists everyone registered on your world — a roster, not a ranking, so there is no ladder to be bottom of. PROFILE is where you check your hero and change your password.

Towers and thrones are properly solid — no more being nudged out the far side after walking into one. Adding bots no longer starts the match before you are ready, the lobby is steady, and a dropped connection reconnects you instead of ending your match. Keep them coming on Discord.

The towers and thrones on the bridge have been rebuilt from the stone up. The towers no longer fire arrows that miss — they now loose homing energy bolts that lock onto a target and chase it down wherever it runs.

Fire made restless. Hurl spheres of flame from both hands, then ignite and run — leaving the ground burning behind you — and, when cornered, drive a wall of fire the whole length of the map.

A hoarfrost elder who takes away your enemy's choices. A two-handed barrage of ice orbs, a grinding vortex nothing can escape, and a blizzard front that walks from one end of the bridge to the other.

Plant your feet and pick your shot. A charged round that crosses the entire map and punches through everything in the line, a shotgun-and-roll for when they close in, and a locked shot that never misses.

Win the fight before it starts. Throw down barricades that physically block the lane, bolt down auto-turrets that fire on their own, and weld both back to full while the horde breaks against them.