- Lobbies: a name (default "Lobby <code>"), Unlisted or Public, and an optional password. The Multiplayer page
scrolls: a Browser of public lobbies (name, count, padlock, code, little player previews, Join with a password
field when locked), Join by code, Create, then Settings. Errors show under whatever caused them. Links take
?pass= (and --pass), and Copy Link includes it. Protocol 11.
- Queue areas center on their host along the floor's flat stretch, squeezing their slots to fit, and move to a nearby
surface when the host's is too short.
- An airblast steals an enemy's flail ball onto its own chain for a while. Flail balls reel themselves back after 15
seconds. Doubler echoes of the Grimoire teleport move you too.
- The Good Stuff: a new trinket, the inverse of Diazepam (more spread). Spread is now a multiplier, and it widens or
narrows the Vacuum's cone.
- Balance: Sword basic slash 25% smaller and charged slash half the size, Whip basic lash half the damage and reach,
Recoil Coil recoil halved, Speedometer no longer speeds you up.
- Fixes: fashions survive coming back from a game, Quit shows only in the sandbox menu, and the chat log keeps above
the menu's tip.
- Every attack is now assembled from traits on its definition instead
of per-weapon code: an anchor and path (thrusts, out-and-back, arcs),
shared flight physics (gravity, drag, acceleration, homing, and one
wall response: end, burst, stick, crawl, bounce, stop, pass, return,
latch), and flags like bouncy, drifting, tethered, orbiting, instant
and arming. Melee are projectiles too.
- Shots have a lifetime and a fade (when damage bottoms out). Range is
speed times lifetime. Ricochets and the Vacuum wind lifetime back.
- The Vacuum pulls anyone's shots, and its airblast flips them out
along the aim, claiming enemies' (fading into your colour).
- New trinket: Hourglass, longer projectile lifetime and range. Ropes
and chains lengthen with it and the Accelerator.
- Fashion: 23 items worn on the head, face or torso, chosen in Profile.
- Flamethrower flames hit continuously, the whip coils and sweeps,
bouncing shots roll over ramps, and Ricochet relights grenade fuses.
- Profile tab, colour tooltips, option hints on every setting, an
About tab with credits and links, and the Ithaca font.
- Loadouts lock once readied, tomatoes clear with the match, and the
round-over pause is 4 seconds.
- CC0 license. Tools and CLAUDE.md are no longer tracked, and the web
shell moves to web/.
HUD:
- Hotbars fit a quarter of the screen, dropping to small then tiny slots
(thinner outlines when tiny), with cooldown bars matching their size.
- HUD elements are drawn on their own layer and composited at one
opacity: hotbar slots are see-through until hovered, the rest fade
while hovered.
- Rival windows fit the right column in at most two rows, shrinking
icons then font, then dropping icons for name, health and ping bars.
- Tooltips number equipped items' slots and say Recoil for weapons that
only push back. Previews use arrows, spread uses degrees.
- Crosshair fills in and shakes with charge, and weapons shake after
firing until their cooldown ends. DPS and speed meters off by default.
Gameplay:
- Dual Wield stacks: each copy fires another recently held weapon from
a fanned off-hand, at its own level's cut.
- Flamethrower: no slowing, smaller fireball with some recoil, and an
airblast that knocks others away.
- Iron Weights slam on any landing faster than a plain fall (platforms
too), stacking radius and damage, and speeding fast falls.
- Stuck arrows are one-way ledges until they fade, matching their
(slightly larger) hit size. Attacks now collide with slopes.
- Halved Tesla Coil, Recoil Coil, Diazepam, Shock Absorber, Feather and
screenshake values.
Art and tools:
- Weapon and trinket icons merged into one sheet each (normal, small,
tiny), cells in catalog order. Grimoire wisps stand upright.
- Fonts gain the degree sign and four arrows, decoded from UTF-8.
- Menu fighter preview walks at quarter speed.
- Unequip from either catalog tab by right click or gamepad.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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