Version 5.5
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- Added a Play Again button after matches.
- You can now avoid specific players to prevent matching with them in queue.
- If a tournament game is about to start while you are in a match, the current match will now be forfeited.
- Ghosts and Jesters are now revealed on Game Over.
- Changed draw and take back requests to appear at the top of the screen to prevent accidental accepts and reduce spam.
- Added a tournament description.
- The last tournament winner is now displayed in the Play menu.
Tournaments
- Tournament sign ups now open 10 minutes before the start time to improve participation.
- Added a notification for weekly tournament start times.
- Added a message at the top of the screen indicating when you are waiting for a tournament game to start.
- Fixed an unnecessary delay after tournament games end.
UI and Menu
- Menu fixes and improvements.
- Increased the maximum number of characters allowed in the email address field.
- Added ghost indicator count to the in game menu UI.
- Updated ghost move indicators.
- Made ghosts more transparent while invisible.
- Fixed issue where switching back to the default pawn icon was not possible.
Analytics and Performance
- Added analytics tracking.
- General optimizations and performance improvements.
New Cosmetics
Bundles
- Bowling Bundle
New Skins
- Bowling Bomb
- Bowling Pawn
- Bowling Bomb (Red Variant)
- Bowling Bomb (Green Variant)
- Bowling Bomb (Blue Variant)
- Tournament Bowling Bomb Skin
Miscellaneous
- Removed expiry time from verification emails.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed session tokens not refreshing properly after 30 minutes.
- Fixed spectator desync when a Ghost revealed itself.
- Fixed pawn moving into an invisible Ghost causing a resync.
- Fixed Parasite taking a pawn that upgrades to Queen causing the game to stall until a sanity check.
- Fixed issue where banning the King was possible in Draft Mode.
- Fixed issue where a pawn with an attached Angel near an enemy Ghost could softlock the game.
- Fixed an issue with registering alternative accounts.
- Fixed Angel and Bomb interaction issues.
- Fixed multiple Angel related bugs.
- Fixed an issue where Giant and Copy Cat would not show knockout indicators correctly.
- Fixed Giant surviving an explosion when Mage swapped it onto Bomb.
- Fixed a Team Builder issue where Copy Cat and Giant could not be placed if you did not have enough points.
- Fixed Copy Cat partner still considering a frozen host’s position when calculating available moves.
- Fixed players being able to drop below Bronze V and appear as unranked.
- Disabled the turn changer in the Jester tutorial to prevent a softlock.
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