- Ricochet now bounces every attack that moves. Swings sweep back, the uppercut bounces its fighter, punches and Lance
pokes come loose and thrust again from the wall, then a held Lance turns and flies home. A whip lash's crack glances
the reach a wall cut off as a strand. Vacuum cones glance into further cones that suck around corners. Bolts, grapple
hooks and charged cracks bounce, and so do shots heading home (boomerangs, flail balls, hooks).
- Every ricochet plays its sound (flames too), adds its damage (the charged crack's blast too), and gives the attack
its hits back. With bounces left, a bouncing shot hops off anything it touches, even at rest, until they're spent.
Rays fired from inside a wall back out first instead of bouncing on the spot.
- Aim previews: falling shots arc at their real speed, instants (beams, cracks) take their real path and full range
per bounce, Vacuum cones show their glances, and every cone draws at its spread width.
- A client out of step with the server asks for its room again and resyncs. The checksum covers much more of the
match. Protocol 12.
- Fighters stuck inside solid ground slowly suffocate (not in the sandbox or races).
- Sword slashes smaller (basic 25%, charged slash scales halved). The Good Stuff: "Aye, me bottle o'scrumpy!"
- 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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