O.O.P.S

Obstacle-Oriented Punishment System — consent-based hard modes for groups that think Mythic+ is too easy.

Pick a set of obstacles (self-imposed handicaps), propose them to your group, and run your keystone while every death cranks up a shared, escalating punishment level that makes the obstacles worse for everyone. Fully visible, fully opt-in, fully compliant with Midnight (12.0).

How it works

1. Type /oops to open the control panel.
2. Tick the obstacles you want and pick an intensity (Mild, Spicy, or Brutal).
3. Hit Start (Solo) to suffer alone, or Propose to Group to invite your party — each member with O.O.P.S installed gets an Accept/Decline popup. Nothing is ever forced on anyone.
4. Every time a group member dies, the punishment level rises for the whole group: the screen flashes, a warning plays, and level-scaling obstacles (like Tunnel Vision) get harsher.
5. Finish the keystone for a victory summary, or /oops stop to end the run.

Obstacles

Obstacle	Effect
Tunnel Vision	A dark vignette closes in around your screen and thickens with every group death
Claustrophobia	Your camera is locked into first person
No Cartographer	Your minimap is gone — navigate from memory
Flying Blind	Enemy nameplates are disabled
Deafened	All game audio is muted — no boss yells, no cast warnings

Mythic+ integration

• Arm for keystone: optional setting that auto-starts your selected obstacles the moment a Mythic+ run begins.
• Completion summary: finishing a keystone under hard mode prints your deaths and final punishment level, and counts toward your lifetime stats.
• No escape hatch: by default, /reload does not disable an active hard mode (toggleable in options). /oops stop is the honest way out.

Design notes (and how it differs from a prank addon)

O.O.P.S grew out of B.O.L.T's hidden "hardcore mode" prank module, redesigned as a proper, honest hard-mode framework:

• Visible, not hidden: a real control panel and options category instead of secret chat trigger words.
• Consent-based: group activation uses an explicit Accept/Decline popup; members can bail out at any time (the addon will judge you, but it will let you).
• Midnight-proof sync: group coordination uses addon messages, which keep working inside instances where 12.0 turns player chat into unreadable Secret Values.
• Never unplayable: effects are capped (the vignette never fully covers the screen) and overlays are always click-through.
• Always recoverable: every CVar an obstacle touches is backed up to saved variables and restored even after a crash, and /oopsreset instantly undoes everything, no questions asked.

Installation

1. Download from CurseForge or the GitHub releases
2. Place the OOPS folder in your World of Warcraft\_retail_\Interface\AddOns\ directory
3. Restart WoW or type /reload

Console commands

• /oops — Toggle the control panel
• /oops start — Start a hard mode with your selected obstacles
• /oops stop — Stop the current hard mode (stops the whole group if you started it)
• /oops status — Show the current run status
• /oops options — Open the options panel (also under ESC > Options > AddOns > O.O.P.S)
• /oops reset or /oopsreset — Emergency reset of all effects

Releasing (maintainers)

Every push to main automatically versions, tags, changelogs and releases the addon, then uploads the package to CurseForge:

• The commit message becomes the changelog entry (one bullet per line).
• Add [major] to the commit message to bump the major version, [skip release] to skip releasing.
• CurseForge uploads require the CF_API_KEY repository secret and an X-Curse-Project-ID in OOPS.toc; without them the zip is still attached to the GitHub release.