Since August 14, 2024, Items and MEGA units have been removed from the game for balancing changes. Players with these existing items have been refunded in coins and MEGA units have become skins in the process. This update also added the Lava World, and added three new Squaddies, Archer, Miner, and Leon. This update also added three new modifiers, Crystal Forest, Timeout, and Hatchling Herder, note, these modifiers would later be removed in the 2.0 update. The update also added new skins, and added style tickets, as a new currency to buy skins and emotes with. Emotes also got changed, as now, one can pick certain emotes to auto play when certain actions take place. A limited time September 2024 update released 2 new characters into the game,
Optimus Prime and
Elita-1, a crossover from the
Transformers franchise. These characters could be obtained through this event. After the event ended, one could no longer get the characters. This event was brought back in March 2025. This update also added star chests, and changed progression. Upgrading Squaddies now gives star tokens, instead of portal energy. Star tokens could be spent on star chests, for super, ultra, ultimate, and new Squddies, note, the 2.0 update would later change what can be earned from star chests. Portal energy was changed so it is now earned just by playing battles. An update, on December 16, changed the way the game was formated, with four new "overarching" game modes replaced the old game format. The player is able to choose one of these four, and a modifier would be added to it. An update, on February 18, added another limited time event and game mode, in a
PVE format. In the game mode, one collected "hatchlings", small chicks, and bring them to a coop, while also defending the coop from monsters. When the match ended one could spend one's hatchlings on items in an event shop. This game mode and event was limited time and was removed after a while. It was brought back on March 20, and ended on April 1. In May 2025, the game received a major update, overhauling its core gameplay elements. The update introduced Hero characters and Power moves, and balance changes. Hero characters lead one's squad in battle, and are chosen before going into battle. The first four Heroes introduced in the update were existing characters that were removed before the update and brought back, Archer Queen, Barbarian King, Royale King, and Mortis. All characters including Heroes have Power moves, which replaced spells. Power moves are unique abilities that can be activated during battle, similar to how spells were used. On August 21, a new game mode called Clash of Crabs was added, and was available until August 21. It functioned like a 1v1 showdown, but players could defeat robot crabs to recruit them to fight the other player on one's behalf. On June 17, there was a collaboration with
SEGA that introduced
Sonic,
Tails, and
Knuckles as playable characters obtainable in a limited 3-week event. A temporary modifier also introduced
Doctor Eggman and his Badnik robots as enemies. This same update added Spike from Brawl Stars as a new hero, and the first healer hero, who could be unlocked in a special event. On September 23, daily win rewards got reworked, introducing common, rare, epic, mythic, and legendary lucky boxes. A new game mode Monster Trophy also got added, where players need to race to 500 gems, collect the monster trophy, and survive for a set amount of time without being busted to win. ==Development and release==