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Formation Builder Idle PlaytestNewsUpdate 1.4
Game update

Update 1.4

Formation Builder Idle Playtest · published 23 Mar 2026, 02:29 UTC

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Current Version: v0.1.4 Requires new download

Connection Status & Save Protection
- Disconnected Warning: A red "Disconnected" indicator now appears on screen when the game hasn't been able to save for 60+ seconds, letting you know your progress may not be saving
- Prestige Protection: Prestige and Prestige Warp are disabled while disconnected to prevent data loss from stale server state
- When connection restores, the warning clears automatically and saves resume

Tower of Domination — Progress Banking

- Your tower progress is no longer fully reset each week! Instead, your highest boss floor beaten serves as a checkpoint
- After weekly reset, you start at your last boss checkpoint + 1 and automatically receive all floor rewards and milestone rewards for floors below your starting position
- Active players: If you cleared at least 1 floor during the week, you keep your checkpoint
- Inactive players: If you didn't clear any floors, your checkpoint drops back by 10 floors (one boss tier). Keep participating to hold your progress!
- A reward summary popup appears when you first open the Tower after a reset, showing everything that was auto-granted

Tower of Domination — Catch-Up Cooldown

- When replaying floors below your banked checkpoint after a weekly reset, mount cooldown is reduced to prevent roster lockout at high floors
- During catch-up, cooldown is capped at (number of mounts owned - 1) instead of the normal scaling formula, so you can always cycle through your full roster
- Once you push past your previous best boss and into new content, cooldown returns to normal
- The cooldown display shows "Catch-up cooldown: X floors (Normal: Y)" so you know when the reduced rate is active

Mount Handler UI Improvements

- Leader button moved to upper-left corner to stop overlapping terrain type labels
- Leader indicator changed from crown emoji to a larger gold star for better visibility
- Terrain type labels now have a black outline and slightly larger font for improved readability
- Brightened terrain colors for Forest, Mountain, and Swamp to be easier to read

Text & Description Fixes

- Talent tooltips now show the talent name along with the description
- Beast Bond talent now correctly says "max hero levels" instead of "bonus hero levels"
- Wave Skip 9 description now matches Wave Skip 1-8
- Added additive/multiplicative/exponential clarity tags to: Mission ImDPSsible, Golden Missions, Pack Leader, Idle Mastery, Mount Fury, Katrina, Hilda, Gary, Frank
- Hero formulas no longer say "Back column" or "Front column" — replaced with clearer phrasing like "each hero in the column behind this hero"
- "Self Gold" and "Self DPS" in formulas replaced with "This hero's gold/DPS multiplier"
- All trait-counting heroes now use consistent phrasing: "heroes with the trait"
- Aethrix description changed from "Increases DPS" to "Multiplies global DPS"
- Nadia description now mentions the level 6500 cap
- Strixia and Falgrim both use "global DPS" terminology consistently
- Stage 12-1 reward text: fixed extra period
- Stage 13-1 reward text: "campaign races" changed to "campaign battles"
- Removed Mimic from the formula help menu (not yet in game)

Miscellaneous

- Fixed emoji characters that were rendering as unprintable squares across the game — replaced with text alternatives

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