• 4 new Game Modes:

  • Elimination - Full team wipe mode: when you die, you spectate until the next round (of 3).

  • Covert Point - Teams fight to capture and control points on the map.

  • Kill Confirmed - Kills only count if you capture the player's tag after the kill.

  • Gun Race - Get a new weapon after each kill, and win by getting a kill with the final weapon.

• Fully Customizable Matches

  • Headshots-only mode

  • “No Healing” mode (no medkits, no regen, no healing items)

  • Shields on/off

  • Locator Devices on/off

  • Single weapon/loadout format

• Room creation improvements (for streamers/tournament hosts)

  • Better defaults and auto-toggle behaviour

  • Custom match remembers the last used settings

  • Start Match button with random setting

• Daily Custom Tournaments

  • Monday: legacy loadout only; Tuesday: modern loadout only; Wednesday: single weapon only; Thursday: headshots only.

• Life boost

  • Struggling players in tournaments get a temporary life boost based on their performance

• Tournament Reward System Improvements

  • Better sorting of players' results (based on multiple factors)

  • Better tie-break rules:

  • “Most Kills” now uses average KDR for ties

  • “Most Wins” now uses win percentage for ties

  • Added support for distribution of pack tokens (e.g., WOO’s packs)

• Anti-cheat system

  • Detection for speed hacks, wall hacks, injections, and more

  • Better auto-report and forced shutdown when hacks are detected

• Improved UI

  • Upgraded: Lobby UI, Match Summary, Scoreboards, ..

  • New room info UI (ESC button during matches)

  • Settings improvements (including toggles for kill streak sounds/animations)

  • Match info pop-up on first spawn

  • Tournament name; next Tournament info.

• Web2 Login

  • Player stats persisted in a database

  • Match History

  • Referral Codes

BUG FIXES

This year we shipped a huge amount of bug fixes across gameplay, game modes, UI, and matchmaking.

Health bugs

• Rare immortality bug

• Life recharge stuck

• Minor damage not recorded when HP was full

• Game Modes fixes

• CTF Bugs

Dropped/stuck/invisible flag issues fixed

• Elimination match timing and score issues

• FFA and Gun Race win logic bug fixes

• Team and score fixes

• Friendly fire kills now counted correctly

• Team auto-balancing improvements

• Late joiners joining the wrong team fixed

• Shield bugs

• Red shield sometimes not appearing

• Yellow shield timing issues fixed

• On-demand shield bugs

• Weapon and kill attribution fixes

• Molotov kill owner fixed

• Theta lava kill attribution fixed

• Explosion damage fixes

• Frozen rays damage improved

• Supernova projectile and sound fixes

IMPROVEMENTS

• Node rotation + health checks (Hive + Hive Engine + Wax - game and marketplace)
  Reduced NFT loading issues caused by relying on a single node

• Web portal build process improved

• Huge improvement: site deployment size reduced from 550MB to 29MB

• Much faster uploads and releases (CI/CD)

• Improved load times, performance, and security

• Version management improvements

• Automatic cache cleaning during updates

• Automatic issue detection during updates, and automatic cleanup

• Security fixes

• Misc

  • Damage Indicators

  • Name Tags Improvements (teammate, enemy, deceased)

  • Crouch + prone ability

  • Locator Device / Alien Rays

  • Grenades trigger mechanism improved

  • Knife tuning

  • Intermittently activated teleports

  • Win logic improved for various game modes

  • Shield improvements

  • Spawn Shield (red), Pickable Shields (yellow)

  • New shield setting

• Anti-cheat system

  • Detection for speed hacks, wall hacks, injections, and more

  • Better auto-report and forced shutdown when hacks are detected

• Improved UI

  • Upgraded: Lobby UI, Match Summary, Scoreboards, ..

  • New room info UI (ESC button during matches)

  • Settings improvements (including toggles for kill streak sounds/animations)

  • Match info pop-up on first spawn

  • Tournament name; next Tournament info.

• Web2 Login

  • Player stats persisted in a database

  • Match History

  • Referral Codes

• Misc

  • Damage Indicators

  • Name Tags Improvements (teammate, enemy, deceased)

  • Crouch + prone ability

  • Locator Device / Alien Rays

  • Grenades trigger mechanism improved

  • Knife tuning

  • Intermittently activated teleports

  • Win logic improved for various game modes

  • Shield improvements

  • Spawn Shield (red), Pickable Shields (yellow)

  • New shield setting

• Crash and stability fixes

  • Random freezes on joining rooms fixed

  • Frozen create room screen fixed

  • Better reconnect logic when automatch fails

  • Many defensive code and error handling improvements

• UI bugs

• Match scoreboard fixes

• Menu auto-close on death

• Room list issues

• Loadout / Single Weapon UI logic

• Cross-Platform Plans

• Web: LIVE on all browsers supporting WebGPU technology

• PC build – LIVE

• Alpha Release

• PC-only customizations

• Improved defaults settings

• Improved tournament tracking

OPS / MAINTENANCE / DEPIN

• Server maintenance work

• Witness node maintenance work

• Hive witness experiments using DePIN and container tests
  Flux (DePin) PoC:

• Wrote a decentralised instance controller leveraging the Hive chain

• Tested on AWS EC2 large instances

• Solved Hived compatibility issue