What's new in Shield & Shred

Pass players in stars and watch your row climb the list, trade cards in at a Bank that pays more as it grows, and load trucks that roll in at once. Here is what changed since 2.0.7, and since 2.0.9 on iPhone.

The League

OVERTAKE

Pass players in stars and the town celebrates once you are back on the main screen: the list around your new place, and your row climbing past the players you passed. SEE LEAGUE opens RANK.

RANK

RANK now shows the 5 players above you and the 44 below, so the next players to pass are in sight. The damage board does the same.

Your town

TRADE IN

A higher Bank pays more coins for each lot: 60% of your league’s base coins plus 1% for each Bank level, up to Bank 60. A lot now takes 3 times the crystals, and the + stops at the lots your crystals can pay for.

GOOD DEAL and FAST TRADE

Two new researches at the top of the Lab’s ECONOMY section, once QUICK HANDS IV is full. GOOD DEAL takes up to a third off TRADE IN’s crystals, and FAST TRADE makes it up to twice as fast.

TRUCK LOAD

THE NEXT TRUCK AT ONCE

A full truck drives off and the next one is already under the chute, so the belt never stops and its crates go in on their first pass. Stages get a little easier.

The Shop and the Armory

Card packs

The Shop no longer sells card packs for crystals. Packs come from fights, CROWN CHESTS and the other ways in the card packs guide, and the Shop still sells bundles of them for real money.

The ALBUM

The ALBUM now lists its sets: RARITY SETS first, then ELEMENT SETS, each row with its titans and its prize.

Help on hand

NEW IN 2.0.10

Players from earlier versions see 3 NEW IN 2.0.10 cards, once: OVERTAKE, TRADE IN and TRUCK LOAD. Settings → How it works now explains OVERTAKE too.

A security update on Android

Android gets the security update for the game’s connection to its servers that came to iPhone with 2.0.9.

The Shop now sells coins, crystals and card packs on iPhone too. 2.0.9 also brings a security update for the game’s connection to its servers, and small fixes.

On iPhone

THE SHOP

Buy coins, crystals and card packs in the SHOP, or tap the + beside your coins or crystals. The bundles of 100x and 1000x packs open once one of your titans reaches level 25 and 50, and the odds sit beside every pack. Buying is optional.

NEW IN 2.0.9

iPhone players see one NEW IN 2.0.9 card, once, and Settings → How it works explains the Shop.

JINGLE TILES, a winter event with a game of its own, seven new items for your fights, a damage total, a skin for every building, and event shops that stay open for 30 days after their event. Here is what changed since 2.0.5.

Fights

START BOOSTS

Four new BOOSTS put a special on the board before your first swap: BOOM START, STRIPE START, RAINBOW START and SURPRISE START. Craft them in the Lab and pick them before a fight, like any boost.

POWER-UPS

+3 TURNS, SWAP and HAMMER wait in your bag during a fight. SWAP trades any 2 tiles and HAMMER breaks 1, and neither uses a turn.

DAMAGE TOTAL

Watch your total damage add up with every hit, and beat your best Classic fight for a NEW BEST!

Events

JINGLE TILES

The winter event, from 1 December to 4 January, with a game of its own: clear the tiles three alike, stage by stage on its road. Stages pay SNOW COINS for THE SNOW SHOP. UPGRADES (EXTRA SLOT, BETTER PEEK, BETTER UNDO) and items (PEEK, UNDO, SHUFFLE) help, and the top players on its board win prizes, sent by mail when it ends.

TRICK OR TRUCK

50 more stages on TRUCK LOAD’s road, 150 in all, until the event ends on 30 November. Its shop stays open until 30 December. After that, TRUCK LOAD’s stages pay gold in place of WHEEL COINS.

GOLD FOR EVENT COINS

Short of event coins? GET MORE, in an event’s shop, trades gold for them 3 times a day. The shops’ packs of gold coins now grow with your league.

30 MORE DAYS TO SHOP

When an event ends, its round button stays in your town for 30 days and opens the shop, showing the time left. Coins left when the shop closes turn into gold, sent by a letter in your mail.

Your town

BUILDING SKINS

Dress each town building in a skin of its own, on the BUILDINGS tab of SKINS. The first set, the FROSTY five, is in THE SNOW SHOP.

Seasonal loading screens

The loading screen can show a picture for the season, changed without an update.

Skins you buy

A skin or frame from a shop no longer goes on by itself: a moment shows it off and you pick WEAR or BACK. NEW marks the ones you have not opened yet, SKINS lists them first, and MY SKINS sits at the foot of each event’s shop.

A calmer LEVEL UP dot

ARMORY’s dot tells you once when a titan or an ULTIMATE can level up, and opening TITANS clears it. The green LEVEL UP on the card stays, ready for when you want to spend.

Help on hand

NEW IN 2.0.7

Players from 2.0.5 see 7 NEW IN 2.0.7 cards, once, and Settings → How it works now explains 31 things.

A new game on the town’s QUESTS road, clans, the Halloween event, weekly missions and new looks for your titans, board and town. Here is what changed since 2.0.4.

TRUCK LOAD

A new game on the QUESTS road

Load the crates into the trucks before the clock runs out. QUESTS opens after your first CROWN CHEST: 100 stages, each worth up to 3 wheels, and a road opens once the road before it has 3 wheels on every stage. A stage can run out of time or room; just try it again. Plays come back over time.

WHEEL COINS and THE WHEEL SHOP

Stages pay WHEEL COINS. Spend them in THE WHEEL SHOP, which has 6 new things every day: card packs, coins, skins and frames. UPGRADES, bought with coins, make every stage easier.

TRICK OR TRUCK

Halloween on TRUCK LOAD’s road, until 30 November. Every wheel counts on the event’s board, and the top players win prizes, sent by mail when it ends.

Together

CLANS

From City Hall 10, join a clan or start your own, up to 30 players. Every fight you finish adds a point to the clan’s week, and at 50, 150 and 300 points each player opens a CROWN CHEST.

Unique names

No two players share a name now. If someone already had yours, a number was added to the later one.

Every day and every week

WEEKLY MISSIONS

Five missions every week, new each Sunday. Claim all five to open the WEEKLY CHEST.

STAMP CARD and WELCOME BACK

Claim 3 daily missions for a stamp; the 7th stamp opens a CROWN CHEST. Away 3 days or more? A gift waits in your mail, and from 7 days away your first 3 fights pay DOUBLE LOOT for free.

ELEMENT OF THE WEEK and the LOOT FESTIVAL

Each week one element leads: every 2nd Classic fight is its rival, and those rivals pay CARDS x2. On the month’s last weekend, your first 3 DOUBLE LOOTs each day need no ad.

Fights and titans

GIFT TILE and LAST BLAST

A GIFT on the board pays coins or crystals once you match or blast beside it. When a fight ends, the specials left on the board go off, and an early win drops a STRIPE for every turn left.

TITAN EVOLUTIONS

Level a titan up and it evolves: up to 3 new looks, at levels 20, 50 and 80.

SKINS and avatar frames

Dress your board and your town in new looks, and pick an avatar frame. Some of the frames move.

TRADE IN

At the Bank, turn titan cards and a few crystals into coins. You pick the titans and how many.

Help on hand

NEW IN 2.0.5

Players from 2.0.4 see 17 NEW IN 2.0.5 cards, once, and Settings → How it works now explains 24 things.

Up to 3 crowns in every Classic fight, FIGHT GOALS, gear for your titans, ULTIMATE cards, three new boards and a rebuilt Lab. Here is what changed since 2.0.3.

Fights

Crowns

Every Classic fight pays up to 3 crowns: 1 at 50% LOOT, 2 at 100% and 3 at 150%. A fight that falls just short of the next crown can show SO CLOSE! and how far you were.

The CROWN CHEST

Every crown drops into the chest, and 10 crowns open it: a card pack, crystals and a boost. Up to 3 chests open a day.

FIGHT GOALS

Every Classic fight has a goal under your boosts, in 1, 2 or 3 parts, like MAKE 6 BOOMS. Finish it for an extra crown.

HOT STREAK

Every 3-crown fight adds a flame, up to 3. Your next Classic fight starts with a free special: a STRIPE for 1 flame, a BOOM for 2, a RAINBOW for 3.

New specials and combos

BOOM blasts a 3x3 square twice, and RAINBOW eats every tile of the colour you swap it with. A special hit by another now falls and fires where it lands. New combos: MEGA BOOM!, GIANT CROSS! and RAINBOW BOOMS! CROSS BLAST! now clears a row and a column, and DOUBLE RAINBOW! the whole board.

Six boards

Castle, Plus and Hourglass join Classic, Heart and Wrap. Each new shape comes up 1 Classic fight in 12, and the other three 1 in 4 each. Quad is gone, and Wrap’s pipe is now small swirls in the rim.

The ULTIMATE drops a BOOM

In a Classic fight, every ULTIMATE also drops a BOOM in the middle of the board.

Boss Rush

The 40-second clock now runs in real time, and every rush is on the Classic board. A TIME COOKIE adds 6 to 16 seconds.

Collection and growth

GEAR

From your 20th fight, fights and chests drop helms, collars, charms, badges and rings, and your titan wears your best five. LEVEL UP gear with coins and TIER UP with PARTS, from BRONZE to PRISM. The Shop sells GEAR PARTS for crystals only.

POWER and the ELEMENT BOND

Gear makes POWER, and every 100 POWER adds +1% ATK. Each level of your other titans of your fighter’s element adds +2 POWER.

ULTIMATE cards

ULTIMATES are now cards in the Armory, and every pack holds a stack. BOOM is the first: each of its levels adds +0.2 points to your ULTIMATE.

LEVEL UP on every card

Every titan and ULTIMATE card has a slab under it. When the card can level, the slab shows LEVEL UP with the price, and one tap levels it on the spot. Your titan grows new looks at LV 10, 25 and 50.

The ALBUM

10 sets of titans, one for each rarity, each element and all 20, each with a one-time prize. Owning all 20 puts a GOLD RING round your picture.

MASTERY

Every 3-crown fight with a titan climbs its MASTERY, one tier at a time from I to V, for crystals, cards, a pack, PARTS, gear and a gold card border.

BOSS TROPHIES

Each boss gets a statue. Your best rush on it raises it to BRONZE, SILVER and GOLD, at +100%, +200% and +300%, each with a prize.

New card packs

A foil pack that tears open with one tap. Sizes now read x1, x10, x100 and x1000. A pack with a UNIQUE glows purple, a MYTHIC gold.

RANK in your league

RANK now shows your league: you, the 24 players above you and the 25 below. When the Boss Rush damage board is on, it ranks your league too.

The town

The Lab, rebuilt

Crafting is instant and costs coins only. Hold up to 3 of each item. Pick up to 3 BOOSTS before a fight; POWER-UPS you tap during it.

A research tree

17 techs in four tabs, ECONOMY, WORKSHOP, BATTLE and BOSS, one research at a time. Your old research moves into the tree.

The Armory opens titans

Unique titans now open at Armory 10 and Mythic at Armory 25, not City Hall. ARMORY takes the place of TITANS on the bottom bar.

City Hall

From LVL 2, City Hall upgrades cost crystals, like the other four buildings.

Bank and Factory

They now hold 4 hours of coins and crystals, up to 12 with FAT WALLET research. Anything you had stored over that is kept.

A livelier town

One frame for every building, tiles for your titan and your ULTIMATE card beside PLAY, the Lab’s disc, the next rival on the road, clouds and a pond.

Help on hand

Existing players see eight NEW IN 2.0.4 cards, once. Settings adds How it works and a Vibration switch.

Shield & Shred has been rebuilt from scratch, with a new look and a new town. It arrives as an update to the same Google Play app.

What's new

The LOOT bar

Rivals never hit back. The damage you deal fills the LOOT bar, and more damage means more loot.

20 new titans

Five elements (Fire, Water, Air, Earth and Toxic) and four rarities (Normal, Rare, Unique and Mythic). Level them up to 100.

A built‑in ULTIMATE

Every titan has one. For 2 turns every tile hits x1.5, rising to x3 as your titan levels up.

Four board shapes

Classic, Quad, Heart and Wrap. One is drawn for each fight.

A town of five buildings

City Hall, Bank, Factory, Armory and Lab. The Bank and the Factory make coins and crystals while you're away.

Boss Rush

Every 5 to 9 fights: 40 seconds against one of five bosses, for stars and a card pack.

Card packs

Four sizes, from 1x to 1000x, each full of titan cards. The odds are shown for every pack.

11 leagues

From Bronze to Legend. Earn stars to climb; Legend also needs a top-50 place. Leagues never fall.

Daily missions and goals

Five new missions every day, plus a chain of goals that pay coins, crystals and cards.

Ads and purchases

x2Optional rewarded ads

• DOUBLE LOOT doubles a fight's coins and crystals.
• LEVEL UP can cover a coin shortfall when you level a titan.
• Building timers can skip 30 minutes of an upgrade.
• Never forced. No banner or pop-up ads.

Optional purchases

• Coins, crystals and card packs, through Google Play.
• Odds shown beside every price.
• In some countries, only coins are sold.