v0.33.0-beta1

v33 Release Notes

Major Changes

• 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 its own leaderboard ladder, clanmate pairing, and 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.
• Custom tribe names — Buy a custom tribe name in the store's new Tribes tab and it can appear on bot tribes in public games. Boosts make your tribe appear more often, and a public tribe leaderboard tracks how they do.
• 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, increasing their health and attack.
• MIRVs are real nukes now — MIRV warheads fly like standard nukes 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.
• 22 new maps — including Sol, Russia, United States, France, Germany, China, Vietnam, Scandinavia and the first maps built around impassable terrain.

☢️ Gameplay & Balance

• 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
• MIRV warheads now spawn properly over impassable terrain — TKTK123456
• Fixed SAM targeting, range miscalculations and nuke pathing — JB940
• 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

🏆 Ranked & Matchmaking

• Added 2v2 ranked matchmaking — Evan
• Added the 2v2 ranked ladder as its own leaderboard tab — Evan
• Ranked 2v2 now prefers pairing clanmates as teammates — Evan
• Ranked 2v2 games end early when a full team is dead or disconnected — Evan
• Increased ranked 2v2 PvP spawn immunity to 1 minute — Evan
• Ranked 2v2 uses compact maps only 50% of the time — Evan
• Cancel ranked matches that don't fill or fully spawn — Evan
• Widened the matchmaking join window and cancel games that start short-handed — Evan
• Show the live queue size while matchmaking, and reconnect on silent disconnects — 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
• Removed clan tags from the 1v1 ranked leaderboard (it's an individual ladder) — Ryan
• Split the clan tag into its own filterable leaderboard column, with cleaner rank/clan/player cells — Ryan
• Fixed an infinite retry at the end of the ranked leaderboard — Ryan

🗺️ Maps

New Maps

• 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)
• France 🇫🇷 (by RickD004)
• Germany 🇩🇪 — With state flags (by SpeakIsntThere)
• China 🇨🇳 (by crunchybbb)
• Vietnam 🇻🇳 (by crunchybbb)
• Scandinavia 🇸🇪 (by crunchybbb)
• Balkhash — Pipe map (by RickD004)
• Baltics (by RickD004)
• Caspian Sea — With team spawns (by crunchybbb)
• Clearwater Lakes — Conjoined circles map (by RickD004)
• Crimea (by crunchybbb)
• Finger Lakes (by crunchybbb)
• Gulf of Guinea (by RickD004)
• Hecate Strait (by Liam Langford)
• Irish Sea (by RickD004)
• Las Vegas Strip (by crunchybbb)
• Levant (by RickD004)
• Tierra del Fuego — Featuring impassable terrain (by RickD004)
• Branching Paths (by NotRocketfish)
• More than luck (by Patrick Plays Badly)

Map Improvements & Fixes

• Adds a map layer system that lets mappers overlay PNG images — FloPinguin
• Allow mappers to specify custom tribe spawn coordinates in info.json — FloPinguin
• Added a tribe name themes system with custom tribes support — FloPinguin
• Added tribe themes to all real-world maps, plus custom tribes with spawn coordinates on Los Angeles — crunchybbb
• 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
• Small corrections across Dyslexdria, Los Angeles, World Inverted and More than luck; recategorized More than luck and Branching Paths as arcade — Patrick Plays Badly
• Minor updates to Branching Paths — NotRocketfish
• Added flags to flagless nations on the Spain and Italy maps — RickD004
• 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
• Arcade maps now appear in all playlists — FloPinguin
• 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
• Fixed map thumbnails resolving by map id instead of display name — Evan
• Added an Expand Maps button — bijx
• Trimmed archived map names — Ryan
• Updated the color mapping location in the map generator README — Aaron Tidwell

🎨 Cosmetics & Store

• 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
• Fixed the store bonus ribbon layout across languages — Aotumuri
• Grouped owned cosmetic variants for performance — Josh Harris
• Fixed cosmetics blocking buttons on mobile — Luke-Dawes

🏕️ Custom Tribe Names

• Added a Tribes tab to the store to buy and manage custom tribe names — Evan
• Custom tribe names now appear on bot tribes in public games — Evan
• Added tribe name boost purchases to the store — Evan
• Added a public tribe-name leaderboard tab — Evan
• Show active boost counts on the tribe leaderboard — Evan
• Show when the next tribe boost expires in the store — Evan

👤 Accounts, Profiles & Stats

• 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
• Prettier username rendering — Ryan
• 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 Clans tab to the profile modal — 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

🖥️ Desktop & Steam

• Steam desktop authentication: SteamSDK, auth branch, audience config, username seeding — Josh Harris
• Exempt Steam-authenticated clients from the Turnstile siteverify — Josh Harris
• Render the Steam account in the account UI — Josh Harris
• Surface the Steam identity on the top-nav account button — Josh Harris
• Added Steam wishlist prompts to the homepage and win modal — Ryan
• 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

🕵️ Anonymous Names

• 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

📺 Featured Stream

• 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
• Added a Streaming Now panel to the play page with live streamer cards, plus an identity bubble showing your flag, name and skin — Zixer1
• Stopped probing Twitch on every page load to avoid rate limits — Zixer1

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Lobby & Social

• 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
• Disabled host pause in publicly listed games — Evan
• Show notable settings on open-lobby rows in the join modal — Evan
• Show a loading spinner while the Join Lobby list loads — 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
• Accept # as . when adding friends — Ryan
• Configurable leaderboard and team stats columns — Ryan

🎛️ Graphics, UI & Quality of Life

• 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
• Right-click now cancels warship/boat selection instead of opening the menu — eastwoodgrant
• Respect the "Disable emojis" setting in all emoji display paths — eastwoodgrant
• Fixed trackpad pinch zoom in Safari — Landon
• 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
• Updated the tutorial video URL — Evan
• Translation updates (mls v5.8) and removed the Discord URL placeholder from translations — Aotumuri

⚡ Performance

• 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

🤖 Nations & Bots

• 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

🛠️ Server, Admin & Tooling

• Added an admin bot HTTP API for managing private games — Evan
• Added a live game stats endpoint to the admin bot API — Evan
• Added a private match telemetry stream — Josh Harris
• 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
• Archive singleplayer games via the API instead of the game server — Evan
• API schema cleanup — Ryan
• Fixed asset uploads for filenames with apostrophes — Evan
• Removed unused dependencies, dead components and a stale package override — VariableVince
• 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

🔒 Security & Anti-Cheat

• Reject spawn intents after the spawn phase (anti-teleport) — iamlewis
• Prevent the client from bypassing random spawn selection — FloPinguin
• Reject malformed tile refs and unit ids in intents — a single bad intent could freeze a whole lobby — Evan
• Keep private-lobby allowlist publicIds out of the game record and start message — Evan
• 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

🌐 Translators

To be filled in from Crowdin before release