Patch Notes 3.0.0

New Year event

New Year festivities come to Wind Valley, featuring three new themes for the world: Fireworks, Day, and Inferno.
Six new dragons introduced.
New egg: the Pyrotechnic Egg.

Glide: In tap dragons, gliding can be enabled in settings. Tap and hold to initiate gliding.
Rage Vessel: Hold dragons now channel player frustration, allowing for the destruction of towers upon holding your finger.
Store Powerups: Dragons now have the option to store powerups upon collision. A button will appear to activate the powerup. If disabled, the powerup is consumed immediately, as in previous versions.

Dynamic Zoom: The camera zooms out based on dragon speed, capped at the dragon eye powerup distance. It also pans left for better visibility.
Enhanced consistency in camera shakes.

Enhanced visual effects for some powerups and their effects.
Improved visual transitions of dimensional rifts, keeping the dragon at the top of the screen.
Refined explosion visuals and clarity, ensuring the dragon remains visible.

Overhauled UI elements for better clarity and readability.
Crown counter now displays obtained crowns alongside the counter.
Added fading counters for mystery eggs and stellar donuts.
Included a powerup timer.
Implemented a skill cooldown timer on the skill button.
Added a dimensional rift counter.
Introduced primary and secondary stored powerup buttons, with a smaller button for active skills.
The store powerup button repositions along with the pause button.
Updated the metronome for music-related skills.
Highscores now display current dragon highscore instead of the global one.

Increased active tower pairs from 5 to 7, ensuring towers are pre-spawned at high speeds.
Redesigned tower destruction effects: effects now span the entire tower instead of just the collision point.

Standardized incremental speed effects across all control types.
Gradualized changes in dragon scale due to powerups.
Dragonheart: Now up to 3 dragon hearts can be held simultaneously.
Suspicious Mushroom: Makes the dragon bigger (from x3.5 to x4), and the final explosion doesn’t occlude the dragon.
Fairy Dust: Reduces dragon size more (from x0.5 to x0.25).
Dragon Eye: Now pans the camera for increased visibility.
Dragon Chilli: Improved collision detection.
Thundercloud: Added extra visual effect, and final explosion doesn’t occlude the dragon.
Sands of Time: Active time reduced (from 8 to 6 seconds), effectively 16 to 12 seconds due to time halving.
Cosmic Stars: Increased star frequency (from 2 to 3), no longer destroys other powerups.
Lucky Charm: No changes.
Psychic Spoon: Now attracts chests, eggs, and donuts, with increased visual effect radius.
Magic Snowflake: Gradual speed loss, ending with a frost nova affecting towers.
Spooky Ghost: No longer occludes the dragon behind certain towers.

Overhauled visuals.
Changed speed effect to add flat horizontal velocity instead of a multiplicative effect.

The egg summary screen can now be accessed with a minimum of 2 eggs, reduced from the previous requirement of 5.
Localization improvements.

Added a “Hide UI” button on the home screen for an unobstructed view of the game backgrounds.
Relocated the “How To Play” section to a dedicated button on the home screen for easier access. This section now also includes information about Shiny Donuts.

Introduced additional filters: alphabetical (Z to A) and by release date (oldest to newest).
Added letter indicators for easier navigation when using the alphabetical filter.
Decreased the size of dragon selection buttons, increasing the number of visible dragons from 6 to 8.
Removed scrollbar animations to enhance responsiveness.
Reduced the size of visual indicators.
Lowered the opacity of text indicators, except for the selected slot which retains full opacity.

Redesigned the settings UI to be more modular, facilitating easier implementation of new features and toggles in the future.
Introduced an option in settings to randomize dragons after each game.
Added a toggle to show/hide the “How To Play” button on the home screen.
Included toggles for experimental options.
Introduced Stellar Donuts 🍩.

Fixed an issue where the background did not properly accelerate in sync with the dragon under certain conditions.
Resolved a bug that prevented players from reaching the correct world after taking a dimensional rift.
Addressed an issue causing players to get stuck on the revive screen when attempting to revive without available ads.
Corrected a bug affecting the proper storage of quest completion statuses.
Fixed a problem where high scores were not being recorded correctly.
Resolved a scaling issue with dragon tails not adjusting correctly when under the influence of scaling power-ups.
Eliminated a bug where remnants of towers from previous worlds were visible after passing through a dimensional rift.
Addressed particle sorting issues on some maps.

Malevol: Enhanced charge and reduced cooldown from 15/9 to 12/4.
Rudfulf: Corrected a bug where the chance for finding Christmas gifts was miscalculated. Players should now find more Christmas gifts.
Kimbaza: Fixed a bug affecting the calculation of Halloween gift chances. Players should now find more Halloween gifts.
Xet Xet: Updated skill visuals.
Xexarga: Updated skill visuals.
Fiamal: Improved skill collision detection.
Laiseros: Improved skill collision detection.
Rakles: Addressed a bug related to dragon scoring.
Oad Oad & Daquerudo: Swapped skills.
Boo Loo: Updated its shiny colors.