Meet the Spectrum Core: a tower that hits every creature colour at full strength, with an introductory price for new players. - AUTO: let the next wave send itself, five seconds after the last one clears. - 2x speed for when the board is under control. - The wave card now shows which tower colour hurts the coming creature most, and which to avoid. - Every one of the 32 maps has been rebalanced so the challenge varies and all of them can be beaten with the right tactics. - Six player titles, from Brain Cell to Neural Architect, earned by clearing maps and shown on your profile and the leaderboard. Clear all 32 and the Spectrum Core is yours. - The leaderboard now ranks total waves survived across all maps instead of lifetime cash. - Fixes to tower targeting consistency.

The Cortex is open. Sixteen new maps, deeper in the network: three signals that converge into one trunk, and routes that cross. Four new creatures that break the habits the first sixteen maps taught you - the Amyloid Shell plates over as you hit it, the Salience Spike gets faster every time something else dies, the Engram Wraith splits into echoes, and the Glial Shepherd keeps the pack alive until you take it out. Sixteen engrams to earn, one per full clear, beside your spores. Unlock The Cortex in the Maps screen - or clear all sixteen Neural Paths to wave 30 and it opens on its own.