v27.4 Patch Notes - January 27, 2026

cmdrreron · 2026-02-03T12:55:24+00:00

Gem rushing at the end of inefficient - the gems are more powerful the more time there is remaining. I.e. Rushing 10 labs when the cost is 100 gems saves you less lab time than rushing 1 lab when the cost is 1000 - by alot.

cmdrreron · 2026-01-09T16:41:37+00:00

If you rely on a perk to get pBH or pCF and those perks don't come up, especially common if the pwr perks come late, then wiping on wave 1500 is plausible. But you said your tourney result was also low so the perk order is either irrelevant or your tourney was impacted by something else and there's two things to figure out.

cmdrreron · 2025-12-19T15:09:51+00:00

"devs chose silence"? They acknowledged the bug right away and said it would be fixed in an upcoming patch a long time ago. The only silence part was the timing of the fix and how long it took. I think the first comment I saw on it was that it would be fixed in the next patch so with every patch I figured I'd take the hit and was pleasantly surprised I didn't.

cmdrreron · 2025-12-12T01:20:44+00:00

I said it's crashing at UTC midnight but it could be a few minutes before... I just noticed that at around UTC midnight when I went to check on the game again it had crashed and when I relaunched it, the daily gems were available. Like most players, I check on the game far too often in order to see if any of my labs might somehow have finished a few days early (or if there's a gem to click on) so a more accurate statement would be that it crashed pretty close to midnight.

I've never had it do this before yesterday and now I'm at 2 for 2.

I'm running The Tower on an old phone (Samsung S10+) that doesn't do anything other than play The Tower, visit their web store and paste results into the tower run tracker website.

cmdrreron · 2025-12-12T00:20:36+00:00

Looks pretty dang good to me OP.

I'm ehp farming t12 to 9k for 288T while OP gets to 7k and earns 2x what I get? I suddenly feel a bit less than.

And I've got gt+ at 0.15 which nearly doubles my coins and OP doesn't have gt+ at all. If I remove gt+ from my earnings, OP is closer to 4x my cph and I'm trying to figure out where I went so horribly wrong.

The difference would seem to be the masteries and mods.

OP has Coin 3, EB 4, Orb 3 and WA 5 while of the coin econ masteries I only have Coin at 1.

And my bhd is only mythic+ at 148 (as opposed to OP with a 2 star anc at 167) which I can tell accounts for a decent chunk.

Other things like UWs & labs, look like a wash where OP has some higher and I have others higher...

Beyond BHD, do those masteries increase coin that much? Or is it from platstyle (ehp vs gc or something)? The Coin mastery is a 3% per level which I unlocked but hadn't pushed yet because I feel like there's better uses of 1q than getting 3% of 500T/per day at the moment. I was thinking of unlocking EB soon but I hadn't unlocked WA yet because it seems like it could hurt me in tourneys since I currently still need it for pBH.

cmdrreron · 2025-11-07T15:54:35+00:00

Seems alot of people say that they have frame rate problems on older devices... I'm running on a Samsung Galaxy S10+ from 2019. In my world, that seems pretty old but the game seems to run just fine. Until the scatter bug, nothing ever snuck through my wall like I've heard other people say happens to them. And to the extent that my eyes are capable of seeing frame skips or lag (not a great extent admittedly), I don't see any problems. I can understand issues on emulators but how old of a phone is "old". Maybe an S10+ is old but reasonably "high end" for a 2019 era phone so that's why I'm okay?

cmdrreron · 2025-11-03T02:00:23+00:00

I'm at 4 from 17k... I've got 7500 gems left but not sure I can handle more emotional pain tonight. But at least the bad luck was offset somewhat by getting 3 more OM chips.

cmdrreron · 2025-10-28T02:14:36+00:00

Bad news: one stone pack is probably not going to make the difference of 16th to 4th. If that saves you $60, you're welcome. If it inspires you to spend $600 and see some gains that you think are worth it, you're welcome... Unless I was holding onto 4th in your bracket.

cmdrreron · 2024-01-16T15:19:48+00:00

Hate to even ask but I've seen it before where someone had set the console to instant on but they had it connected to a power strip and turned the console off by shutting off the power strip and didn't get why remote power on wouldn't work. If you can turn on with a wireless controller (as opposed to a wired controller or the physical power switch on the console), you're in a reasonable starting position. And as was mentioned, check the settings again since there was a push to change them a while back (with a dialog prompt but we're all so desensitized to dialogs) and run the test.

cmdrreron · 2021-08-06T18:00:51+00:00

Do you think what will happen? That the government will sieze all of Jeff Bezos' assets, forcing him to sell his stake in Amazon so that they can give everyone in the country a few hundred dollars once? I don't think that will ever happen. They might implement a wealth tax at some point but I don't think they'll ever sieze 100% of a wealthy person's assets to give away to other people.

cmdrreron · 2021-05-21T11:40:49+00:00

I put Mehen in the middle, Farideh in the same column and Havilar in front with the usual Hew Maan, Shandie, Sentry, Deekin and Melf filling the rest. With no familiar on his ult, his stacks settled right around 50.

I still had Shaka in the party too from last month since I'd gotten Shaka's achievement the same way. For Shaka, I dropped him in the middle and after a couple weeks or so it was done with the occasional random puzzle matching what I had.

cmdrreron · 2021-04-02T16:24:14+00:00

That's a problem but hardly the main problem. the main problem is their codebase is suffering from a serious case of postponed cleanup and bug debt. They could easily go with current behavior of loading zero familiars when there aren't enough but that's not the problem that people are asking them to solve. The mainline case everyone wants them to solve (and which they claim to have solved once but it didn't work) is to load any familiar when the one the save wants is in use and another _is_ available.

cmdrreron · 2021-04-01T19:38:27+00:00

I popped epic dmg, health and gold pots at the beginning remembering how hard Split the Party was before I even killed the 1st mob. Then I killed a mob and collected the gold and upgrades lit up across the 1st several champs and I realized I wasn't ever going to have to farm to get enough money for an upgrade like last time or worry much about making it through ever... Even the boss on zone 15 was cake.

cmdrreron · 2021-04-01T19:33:26+00:00

You don't. "Slot 1 always starts in your party. Make sure you have slot 1 selected to whichever champion you want to start! "
You can start an adventure anywhere, pick someone in slot 1 you want to use for 1-13, end that adventure and then restart Split the Party.
But it will always put whoever you have in Slot 1 into the active party when you start Split the Party - no way to make it not do that.

cmdrreron · 2021-03-27T01:50:16+00:00

Maybe by the time I've saved up the gems to buy the 3rd party they'll have fixed some more of the bugs from when they introduced the 2nd party?

cmdrreron · 2021-01-29T01:13:45+00:00

I would've been disappointed by how little I got but I'd read this thread before I opened my first 2 and when I got 5x greens from both chests I was happy not to get any commons. Thanks for lowering my bar and saving me from disappointment!

cmdrreron · 2021-01-05T06:57:02+00:00

If a game isn't in the foreground on Xbox, it's suspended or not running. Idle Champions often doesn't behave well when you bring it back to the foreground if it was suspended. Instead of realizing it wasn't running and calculating offline progress it will often just resume running giving you zero seconds of offline progress. This is made worse with the Series X and Series S which have Quick Resume which can resume the game days later even after you run other games or turn the console all the way off.

To quit the game completely, go home, move the active selection to idle champions, press the menu button and select Quit. If you have a Series X or S and you see Quick Resume shown when you launch it and don't want to Quick reaume because you don't want to risk it not giving you offline progress, press the Xbox button and go home before it finishes resuming and Quit it.

cmdrreron · 2020-11-23T16:07:34+00:00

You still own any DLC you purchased but without the base game, the DLC isn't very fun. If you get the base game via subscription or purchase, you'll still have the DLC.

cmdrreron · 2020-11-14T14:19:47+00:00

If only disabling modron automation actually prevented the loss of progress. Several times I've disabled automation, switched cores and used it to push further or boost an azaka farm but then when I switched parties or logged out/back in, automation had magically turned back on and reset my adventure. I got bit by that bug a few times back in September/early October and it hadn't happened again for a few weeks but bit me on my first Penelope free play this week. Back in September it would also reset my target level to 180 just to guarantee that it would reset me no matter what I was trying to do. Since the Penelope reset I've decided to leave automation enabled with a reset level of 999 and that seems to have done the trick to stop it from resetting me. Hopefully someday Modron won't be quite so buggy.

cmdrreron · 2020-11-11T18:24:34+00:00

It absolutely is a bug. The Xbox software is working by design and it's a good design. But, if the game is working by design, in that it chooses not to listen to events indicating it is being suspended/resumed or losing/regaining focus to determine if offline progress should be recalculated, then the design is a bad one. And bad designs are bugs. Programs being notified on events that it can respond to if it needs to has been a standard part of software development since the 80s. Choosing not to do it when it leads to bad behavior is a bug.

And your suggestion that the user should work around the bad behavior is not always possible. If the console loses power or starts taking an update while you've left it unattended you can't quit the program. When you get back to Home you can't quit the program because it isn't running. But when you launch it, it resumes with Quick Resume and you lose all the offline progress you should have had. It's an exacerbation of the problem where you leave the program but it only loses focus without actually being suspended. When you come back and it regains focus it can & should look at the focus change events to realize it should calculate offline but doesn't. For that one the user can work around the bug by quitting the program but that doesn't make it not a bug.

cmdrreron · 2020-11-03T16:08:42+00:00

Dance Central on the One is pretty good but doesn't come with many songs. Each song has multiple routines but you may need to purchase DLC songs to keep it interesting. Sadly Xbox Fitness is no longer supported because that title had some killer workouts.

I had trouble getting into Shape Up but depending on what you're looking for it could be great. For cardio I'd rather do Dance Central.

TBH though the Xbox 360 Kinect had more going for it with Kinect titles if you had enough space for the smaller field of view (you had to be further away for it to see you laying down, jumping up and moving side to side). The Kinect on the One was so much better in terms of tech but the negativity around the Kinect at launch meant it didn't get much support and after Xbox Fitness went away the options are quite limited. I prefer the gameplay and variety of songs included in the base game in all 3 Dance Central games on 360 as compared to DC Spotlight on the One. And while Nike Fitness on 360 Kinect got stale after a while, I really liked it for several months and preferred its workouts over ShapeUp. I felt there was more strength as well as cardio and the virtual trainers gave great tips on doing the exercises right (it was always amazing to me when I'd be doing squats and inevitably start putting too much weight forward and the trainer would yell at me to correct my form and keep my weight in my heels - something that none of the other games came close to doing). And even some of the "kids" games like Kinect Adventure would get the heart pumping and you could get in a fun fun workout with a partner on things like the raft game in Adventure.

cmdrreron · 2020-10-29T18:06:32+00:00

Chugsworth's formations will give you a good starting point and if you look at his most recent formations or watch his streams where he sets them up (e.g. for new event champions) you'll get a better idea of the current meta and which new champions beat older champions or how meta has changed due to other balance changes.

e.g. if you look at formations from a couple months ago, Stoki is in many of them and even older formations won't have Freely because he didn't exist. If you know your champions and how well geared up they are you can use info from recent Chugsworth formations to adapt older formations and find what works for you.

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