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| ## v33 Release Notes | ||
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| ### Major Changes | ||
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| - **Doomsday Clock** — A new battle-royale style zone gamemode. A shrinking doom zone drains troops (and warships) from doomed sides, with a 10-minute grace period and wave-based squeeze to break late-game stalemates. Now part of the public modifier rotation. | ||
| - **Ranked 2v2** — Ranked matchmaking now supports 2v2 alongside 1v1, with match cancellation for lobbies that don't fill or fully spawn. | ||
| - **Steam / desktop client** — Steam desktop authentication (SteamSDK), configurable WebSocket routing for the Electron shell, and an ad-free desktop experience. | ||
| - **Login with Google** — Sign in with a Google account and link it to an existing account. | ||
| - **Account usernames + verified badge** — Claim an account-level username (`base.suffix`, or a bare name for subscribers) and play under it with a verified badge next to your name. | ||
| - **Impassable terrain** — Mappers can now mark terrain as impassable, opening up a new class of map design. Several new maps already use it. | ||
| - **Warship veterancy** — Warships gain veterancy over their service life. | ||
| - **MIRVs are real nukes now** — MIRV warheads fly like standard nukes with per-type speeds and can be intercepted normally by SAMs. Launching a MIRV also puts the silo on cooldown. | ||
| - **Anonymous names** — A lobby setting that replaces player names with memorable, collision-proof animal names. | ||
| - **17 new maps** — including Sol, Russia, United States, Germany, China, Scandinavia and the first maps built around impassable terrain. | ||
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| ### ☢️ Gameplay & Balance | ||
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| - Added the Doomsday Clock battle-royale zone gamemode — Zixer1 | ||
| - Rebalanced the Doomsday Clock: 10-minute grace period, wave squeeze, slower troop drain, gentler-but-steeper warship attrition — Zixer1 | ||
| - Doomsday Clock now decays warships alongside troops for doomed sides, and floors the drain at 5% of max instead of wiping to zero — Zixer1 | ||
| - Doomsday Clock judges teams against the same bar as solo sides — Zixer1 | ||
| - Doomed warships stay on patrol instead of idling at ports — Zixer1 | ||
| - Added warship veterancy, with updated in-game instructions — bijx | ||
| - MIRV warheads are now standard nukes: real flight, normal SAM interception, per-type speeds — Evan | ||
| - Missile silos go on cooldown when launching a MIRV — Evan | ||
| - Added impassable terrain — FloPinguin | ||
| - Fixed minimap priority for impassable terrain pathfinding — FloPinguin | ||
| - Added a custom alliance duration lobby control — Zixer1 | ||
| - Fixed pirating not being disabled when a warship's owner has no port in that body of water — TKTK123456 | ||
| - Fixed transport ships targeting unreachable inland-lake shores — Navaneeth Prabha | ||
| - Fixed transport ship troop counts not updating when a hydrogen bomb hits the player — AmanorsElliot | ||
| - Fixed the rail network path length limit and re-added its tests — TKTK123456 | ||
| - Fixed the factory ghost radius — TKTK123456 | ||
| - Fixed non-structures being deletable — unne27 | ||
| - Fixed the nuke preview showing teammate SAMs as threats — Evan | ||
| - Highlight the owner of hovered naval units — unne27 | ||
| - Reduced compact map chance in 1v1 from 50% to 20% — FloPinguin | ||
| - Removed the ports-disabled modifier from public games — Evan | ||
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| ### 🏆 Ranked & Matchmaking | ||
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| - Added 2v2 ranked matchmaking — Evan | ||
| - Cancel ranked matches that don't fill or fully spawn — Evan | ||
| - Handle matchmaking socket close codes per the API contract — Evan | ||
| - Handle ranked play limits in the client — Evan | ||
| - Keep matchmaking games out of lobby reports and salvage invalid entries — Evan | ||
| - Mint game ids on the server and randomly route create-game across workers — Evan | ||
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| ### 🗺️ Maps | ||
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| #### New Maps | ||
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| - **Sol** 🪐 — Massive map of the Solar System (by RickD004) | ||
| - **Russia** 🇷🇺 — Big-map treatment of Russia (by RickD004) | ||
| - **United States** 🇺🇸 — Built for the new impassable terrain feature (by RickD004) | ||
| - **Germany** 🇩🇪 — With state flags (by SpeakIsntThere) | ||
| - **China** 🇨🇳 (by crunchybbb) | ||
| - **Scandinavia** 🇸🇪 (by crunchybbb) | ||
| - **Baltics** (by RickD004) | ||
| - **Caspian Sea** — With team spawns (by crunchybbb) | ||
| - **Crimea** (by crunchybbb) | ||
| - **Finger Lakes** (by crunchybbb) | ||
| - **Gulf of Guinea** (by RickD004) | ||
| - **Hecate Strait** (by Liam Langford) | ||
| - **Irish Sea** (by RickD004) | ||
| - **Levant** (by RickD004) | ||
| - **Tierra del Fuego** — Featuring impassable terrain (by RickD004) | ||
| - **Branching Paths** (by NotRocketfish) | ||
| - **More than luck** (by Patrick Plays Badly) | ||
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| #### Map Improvements & Fixes | ||
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| - Allow mappers to specify custom tribe spawn coordinates in `info.json` — FloPinguin | ||
| - Added a tribe name themes system with custom tribes support — FloPinguin | ||
| - Multiple terrain changes and fixes across maps, plus further map changes for v33 — RickD004 | ||
| - Updated map outlines (no resizing, except Oceania) and updated the Dyslexdria map — Patrick Plays Badly | ||
| - Standardized the SVGs of flags in the flags folder, plus other flag fixes — RickD004 | ||
| - Added impassable terrain to the Korea map — crunchybbb | ||
| - Took v32 maps out of the "New" category to make room for v33 maps; tagged Branching Paths as new — RickD004, NotRocketfish | ||
| - Fixed a crash on the Indian Subcontinent map — blon | ||
| - Filled a landlocked lake on the NW island of Four Islands to fix port placement — blon | ||
| - Prevented AI from placing ports on small lakes — FloPinguin | ||
| - Added an Expand Maps button — bijx | ||
| - Trimmed archived map names — Ryan | ||
| - Updated the color mapping location in the map generator README — Aaron Tidwell | ||
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| ### 🎨 Cosmetics & Store | ||
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| - Added a warship cosmetic effect (gradient/transition recolor) — Evan | ||
| - Added nuke-trail cosmetic effects with a tabbed effects picker, plus a spiral nuke trail — Evan | ||
| - Added nuke-explosion cosmetic effects with per-bomb-type shockwave customization, plus a sparkles explosion type — Evan | ||
| - Added a structures cosmetic effect (hover-shown gradient/transition recolor) — Evan | ||
| - Added the effects cosmetic category with a transport-ship trail, rendered as a gradient with an animated store swatch — Evan | ||
| - Added a search bar to the effects picker modal — Evan | ||
| - Added a crown cosmetic type, rendered above player names — Evan | ||
| - Merged the skin and effects pickers into a single lobby Cosmetics modal, and collapsed skins under one banner — Evan, Ryan | ||
| - Show plutonium and caps balances in the store header — Evan | ||
| - Added custom plutonium amount purchases with a cleaner amount UI — Evan, Ryan | ||
| - Confirm plutonium and caps purchases before charging — Evan | ||
| - Show USD-equivalent value in the cosmetic info tooltip — Evan | ||
| - Added claimable subscription rewards UI — Evan | ||
| - Restored subscriptions in the store and account modal, and added a checkmarked perk list on subscription tiles — Evan | ||
| - Specific rate-limit message on tier change, using shared dialogs for subscription flows — Evan | ||
| - Reworked the store into a popup and removed the "subscribe" / "purchase" text — Ryan | ||
| - Grouped owned cosmetic variants for performance — Josh Harris | ||
| - Fixed cosmetics blocking buttons on mobile — Luke-Dawes | ||
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| ### 👤 Accounts, Profiles & Stats | ||
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| - Added account-level custom usernames (`base.suffix` plus premium bare names) — Evan | ||
| - Show account usernames and a verified badge on player-facing lists — Evan | ||
| - Added a verified-name toggle so you can play under your account name — Evan | ||
| - Login with Google — client UI — Josh Harris | ||
| - Show "Linked to Google" once a Google account is linked — Josh Harris | ||
| - Added a shareable player profile modal (`#modal=profile&publicID=x`), profile links and game history on profiles — Ryan | ||
| - Added a Games tab to the account modal — Ryan | ||
| - Reworked stats into a dedicated embedded stats modal, with a stats button on clan game history and backward compatibility for older games — Ryan | ||
| - Renamed "ranking" to "stats" — Ryan | ||
| - Let admins see clan tags in FFA — Ryan | ||
| - Fixed a bug when not being in a clan on mobile — Ryan | ||
| - Discord integration — Ryan | ||
| - Added marketing email consent UI (post-login prompt + account settings) — iamlewis | ||
| - Added CSV separation between names — Ryan | ||
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| ### 🖥️ Desktop & Steam | ||
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| - Steam desktop authentication: SteamSDK, auth branch, audience config, username seeding — Josh Harris | ||
| - Exempt Steam-authenticated clients from the Turnstile siteverify — Josh Harris | ||
| - Route game WebSockets via a configurable server host for the Electron desktop client — Josh Harris | ||
| - Exempt the Electron desktop shell from loading Admiral ads — Josh Harris | ||
| - Fixed `getApiBase()` returning `https://undefined` when `API_DOMAIN` was unset — Josh Harris | ||
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| ### 🕵️ Anonymous Names | ||
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| - Added the anonymize-names feature — Zixer1 | ||
| - Memorable, collision-proof animal anonymous names — Zixer1 | ||
| - Surfaced anonymous names as a lobby setting — Zixer1 | ||
| - Name reveal now works by publicID during game config — Zixer1 | ||
| - Fixed an anonymize-names desync by seeding the cluster-recalc offset from `id()` instead of `name()` — Evan | ||
| - Fixed the anonymous-names setting not hiding names on the map — Evan | ||
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| ### 📺 Featured Stream | ||
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| - Added the featured stream feature — Zixer1 | ||
| - Off-web exclusion, ad-free close, and keeping the stream through the lobby wait — Zixer1 | ||
| - Mobile flick-to-dismiss — Zixer1 | ||
| - Keep the Twitch embed at its 400x300 minimum — Zixer1 | ||
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| ### 🧑🤝🧑 Lobby & Social | ||
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| - Subscriber-hosted public lobby listing, gated on the `canCreatePublicLobbies` entitlement — Evan | ||
| - Auto-start listed lobbies after 5 minutes, surviving host modal close during auto-start — Evan | ||
| - Reuse private lobbies — MushroomLamp | ||
| - Added an allowlist for private lobbies (OFM) — Zixer1 | ||
| - Replaced the leave-lobby popup with a custom popup — Ryan | ||
| - Allow mobile players to take part in the aftergame — FloPinguin | ||
| - Fixed the lobby status bar scrolling out of view when many players join — FloPinguin | ||
| - Configurable leaderboard and team stats columns — Ryan | ||
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| ### 🎛️ Graphics, UI & Quality of Life | ||
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| - Added graphics presets, simplifying the settings behind an Advanced section — Evan | ||
| - Added terrain color settings, with live preview, and restored the default terrain colors — Vivacious Box, Evan | ||
| - Added a nuke fallout color graphics option and a structure dots toggle — Evan | ||
| - Set the structure border to territory color for the local player — Vivacious Box | ||
| - Added a black outline to the alliance icon for terrain contrast — Evan | ||
| - Update the coastline color dynamically when the ocean color changes — Berk | ||
| - Fixed the ocean color change reverting nuke-created water to land — Evan | ||
| - Replaced the small-player highlight toggle with a strength slider, moved into graphics overrides, and raised the default to 35% — Zixer1, Evan | ||
| - Standardized gradient `colorSize` to game tiles — Evan | ||
| - Fall back to a full border recompute on massive tile changes — blon | ||
| - Render the spawn overlay with instancing to support large lobbies — Evan | ||
| - Gate users without GPU-accelerated WebGL2 instead of running at ~1fps — Evan | ||
| - Capped the renderer device-pixel-ratio at 2 — Evan | ||
| - Improved spawn phase progress bar visibility and sped up the spawn-phase ring pulse — ItsTimeTooSleep, Evan | ||
| - Made train tracks visible from farther out — Evan | ||
| - Made the important events panel scrollable — Evan | ||
| - Surfaced alliance renewal and rejection events in the important-events panel — Evan | ||
| - Added a trade ship captured event with a toggle setting — Evan | ||
| - Donation received events are now blue instead of green — Evan | ||
| - Host lobby start button turns yellow during countdown — Evan | ||
| - Changed factory icons from circles to hexagons — Antonio Lentini | ||
| - Reworked `InputHandler.ts` — TKTK123456 | ||
| - Added billions to the money utils — bijx | ||
| - Added an achievement medal overview — bijx | ||
| - Fixed classes for the control panel unit display and the control panel / player info gold display — JB940 | ||
| - Removed the background wrap-around seam on the home page when nav is hidden — Evan | ||
| - Show a loading spinner on the account button until auth resolves — Evan | ||
| - Prevented the Google CCPA button from shifting layout — blon | ||
| - Translation updates (mls v5.8) and removed the Discord URL placeholder from translations — Aotumuri | ||
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| ### 📣 Ads & CrazyGames | ||
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| - Gate in-game ads by adblock detection with Admiral recovery — Evan | ||
| - Removed the in-game CrazyGames banner ad — Evan | ||
| - Destroy the corner video ad when the game starts — Evan | ||
| - Keep the Playwire bottom rail below the in-game HUD so it can't cover the control panel — Evan | ||
| - CrazyGames backend login, surfacing the signed-in user — Evan | ||
| - CrazyGames fixes: guest username on logout, hidden fullscreen, in-game pop-ups, hidden clan tag input — Evan | ||
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| ### ⚡ Performance | ||
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| - Reduced core live-memory footprint by 45% on large maps — Evan | ||
| - Cut core-sim GC churn by 75% cumulative across three passes, and added GC-churn profiling to the perf harness — Evan | ||
| - Main-thread memory harness: dropped three map-sized render buffers (−23%) — Evan | ||
| - Tick-dispatch timing harness and main-thread tick optimizations (late-game p95 −65%) — Evan | ||
| - Return the live `TileSet` from `Player.tiles()` instead of cloning — Evan | ||
| - Reuse cached TradeShip paths for motion plans — Raka Hourianto | ||
| - Cache `maxTroops` during the leaderboard update — Demonessica | ||
| - Standardized cardinal-neighbor iteration on `neighbors()` N,S,W,E order — Evan | ||
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| ### 🤖 Nations & Bots | ||
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| - Fixed nations always attacking nuked territory instead of waiting for the correct strategy — FloPinguin | ||
| - Prevented AI from placing ports on small lakes — FloPinguin | ||
| - Added the tribe name themes system with custom tribes support — FloPinguin | ||
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| ### 🛠️ Server, Admin & Tooling | ||
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| - Added an admin bot HTTP API for managing private games — Evan | ||
| - Added a live game stats endpoint to the admin bot API — Evan | ||
| - `kick_player` can target a publicId, including disconnected accounts — Zixer1 | ||
| - Include publicID in admin-bot live stats players — Zixer1 | ||
| - Per-player `killedBy`, `deathPosition` and `winner` for live standings — Zixer1 | ||
| - OFM tournament: log final standings and per-kill eliminations — Zixer1 | ||
| - Integrated batch `username_check` moderation into game servers — Evan | ||
| - Added an "assign to me" checkbox to issue templates — Evan | ||
| - Exempted Dependabot PRs from the PR gate, fixed the stale bot re-commenting on case-mismatched labels, and removed the PR description validation check — Evan | ||
| - Removed the Wicked Sick service-provider paragraph from the privacy policy — iamlewis | ||
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| ### 🔒 Security & Anti-Cheat | ||
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| - Reject spawn intents after the spawn phase (anti-teleport) — iamlewis | ||
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There was a problem hiding this comment. 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win Narrow the spawn-intent wording.
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| - Prevent the client from bypassing random spawn selection — FloPinguin | ||
| - Require a strict majority in 1v1 winner-vote consensus — Josh Harris | ||
| - Don't re-challenge Turnstile on lobby reconnect — Evan | ||
| - Removed FFA collusion warnings on replay and ranked — Antonio Lentini | ||
| - Dependency security bumps — dependabot | ||
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| ### 🌐 Translators | ||
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| _(To be filled in from Crowdin before publishing.)_ | ||
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There was a problem hiding this comment. 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win Replace the Crowdin placeholder before publishing. The translators section is still incomplete and contains only a placeholder. As per PR objectives, this section still needs to be filled from Crowdin. 🤖 Prompt for AI Agents |
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| ### 🍋 Misc | ||
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| - Added a lemon drizzle cake recipe — Josh Harris | ||
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Normalize contributor attribution to GitHub handles.
This document still mixes display names such as
Navaneeth PrabhaandPatrick Plays Badlywith handles such asZixer1andbijx. Replace all contributor suffixes with GitHub handles before publishing.As per PR objectives, author attribution still needs this update.
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