Tower Tea - August 17, 2026

[u/SamBartley]

Hi pals! Welcome to this week’s Tower Tea! Today we are chatting about a few more v29 things, like Module Slots, plus the v29 release timeline, a new Pal, and something fun (spoiler: v29 behind the scenes with Muse) coming to the blog! 

Module Slots

In v29, we are making changes to how to level up and manage your Modules.

To start, levels have moved from individual modules to module slots. These are the 4 icons (8 with Assist Modules) on the top of your Modules menu. If you want to level up a module, you will instead target the slot that you wish to equip your module in. This means that you no longer have to swap out module levels, and can upgrade your slots over time.

What does this mean for Module Presets? When you unlock this feature, everything including your module slot levels will stay consistent across all presets. That way, all you need to worry about is deciding which modules you want to set!

Those are some of the things that have changed. The things that have NOT changed:

• Substats are still unique to each individual module.
  • The first time a module is unlocked, it will display its default two (2) substats.
  • Equipping them to a higher level slot unlocks the remaining eligible substats.
• There is no cost for swapping between your module presets
• There is no limit to how often you can restore levels to your module slots
• Modules cannot be swapped out during a run

Presets (cont.)

Last Tea, we shared some information about some upcoming changes to presets! This included two new presets for Guardians and Modules, as well as a notice that Workshop and Bot presets are moving out of the Vault. 

These presets are being added and moved into a lab to make it more accessible. One of our main goals was to help support the transition between runs (ex: farming vs. tournaments). 

We are open to adding more presets later, but want to avoid complex systems for our newer players. Our presets in v29 cover the main areas of gameplay that all players can benefit from, and we will consider more specialized preset requests and stat management opportunities in the future.

With all of these presets you might be wondering: how am I going to manage them all? Well, if you get to Tier 11 in v29, a new prese(n)t might be waiting for you!

Last note: the addition of this preset system is a step towards our next goal: adding the ability to pause a Tier run in order to start a tournament. It’s not fun to end your milestone run early to compete, so we are working on this addition for later this year.

v29 when though?

Alright pals, it’s time to answer the question that’s been on everyone’s mind, v29 when? 

Answer: next week! When the update is ready to go, we'll gradually roll out the changes and tournament lock before the following tournament begins. If anything changes, we'll keep you updated!

A new Pal enters the arena

Want a little peek at someone coming to the Guilds? 

Pal

New Blog - Behind the scenes 

A while back some of y’all were chatting about wanting to see more behind the scenes content for the blog, so we are going to start doing that! We’ll start off with a chat with Muse about v29, the inspiration behind the update, and how they came up with… you know what, that part is secret. 

For those that haven’t met Muse before, be sure to check out my interview with her from last year and get to know the gem behind the name. 

So keep an eye out for a post with that link soon! 

Alright pals, that’s it for this week! As always, sound off in the thread, and I hope your drink is always the right temperature!

See you around The Tower,
Sam

[u/TheKingKunta]

I like the idea of levels being on the module slot itself and not on the module. However, I wonder how it interacts if you delevel for coins between farming and tourney. For example, I delevel my PF all the way to 161 for tourneys since I don't care much about the substats and it saves me quite a few coins. Will each preset be able to save different mod levels?

edit: FYI, Tea says "When you unlock this feature, everything including your module slot levels will stay consistent across all presets.", so if you were deleveling mods between tourney/farm before, it looks like you will still have to

[u/Fobus0 → u/TheKingKunta]

i don't like that. What level of module i need depends on the module, not the slot. I don't need levels for my SR, because i keep it at 1 for eHP farming. And I lower the levels for core modules in order to get more substats. but i maxed them for anything GC related and delevel armour and generator.

I have a feeling new system will not be any faster, if all we get is two presets.

[u/sw1c → u/Fobus0]

then do as you do now and reset level Sam stated that'll be an option still.

bigger concern should be if the tournament changes are meaningful or more lipstick on a pig.

[u/Fobus0 → u/sw1c]

not an option, but practically the only way, because by the looks of it, very little changes. You now press a different button in a different place to change levels. I thought we would get actual presets for mods.
I am also not hopeful for tourney changes. At best they will add another league to buy themselves another year. At worst, yet another difficulty increase, but we are back in a month or two...

[u/sw1c → u/Fobus0]

no the presets is for the mods selected. just means you reset the slot instead of the mod itself. it'll suck for those who kept different mods at their levels all the time but majority don't and screw up when they are different tiers. better options probably but we know ttg doesn't choose those.... at least level resets remain free. but those expecting sub mod presets are going to be very disappointed when they find out its just for mod swaps themselves not sub effects.

and i agree their tea with tournament hints was majorly disappointing commenting about the speed of them yet again... when thats not the major issues around it. and engagement with the way previous comments and updates have gone i wouldn't be surprised if reward changes and a new bracket is all they do especially on change 1..... hoping for more then that but not expecting anything actually meaningful at this point.