Changelog

0.17.6

• Reissued the current release with a unique Thunderstore version number.

0.17.5

• Improved main-menu compatibility across different menu layouts and localized installations.
• Added a standalone HOW TO ROUNDS button when the vanilla Create Game button cannot be found or cloned.
• A single incompatible gameplay patch no longer prevents the menu and diagnostic logging from loading.
• Added installation troubleshooting instructions for r2modman users.

0.17.4

• Replaced the old HTR package icon with the new square How To Rounds duel artwork.
• The new listing image includes both fish characters, contrasting projectiles, and the How To Rounds title.

0.17.3

• Changed the remaining Spanish mode button to HOW TO ROUNDS.
• Improved the English card names and descriptions for Explosive Bullets, More Health, and Poison Bullet.
• Rewrote the package page in English with complete rules, upgrade details, stacking behavior, multiplayer requirements, and the community Discord link.
• Added new promotional cover art for the mod page.

0.17.2

• Added the newly exported Arena05 to the synchronized random arena pool.
• The distributed map pool now contains Arena03, Arena04, and Arena05 only.

0.17.1

• Removed Arena01 and Arena02 from the distributed and selectable arena pool; Arena03 is now the fallback map.
• Kept automatic discovery enabled for Arena03, Arena04, and future numbered arena exports.
• Remote projectiles now render from the firing player's actual pistol muzzle before smoothly catching up to their authoritative network position.
• Projectile collision, damage, trajectory, and ownership remain authoritative and unchanged by the visual synchronization.

0.17.0

• Removed the temporary 400 base-damage override; pistol projectiles use their normal vanilla base damage again.
• Removed the vanilla projectile mesh reveal delay in How to ROUNDS so bullets visibly emerge from the muzzle instead of appearing farther ahead.
• Kept projectile physics, crosshair alignment, spread, damage scaling, and multiplayer trajectory unchanged.

0.16.9

• Added Quick Reload: +35% reload speed per stack.
• Added Heavy Hitter: +30% projectile damage and +40% weapon spread per stack.
• Added Tight Spread: -50% weapon spread per stack.
• Added Double Shot: +1 projectile and +1 ammo consumed per shot; insufficient ammo now triggers reload instead of granting a free projectile.
• Added Bullet Storm: +12 magazine capacity, rapid full-auto fire, and -30% projectile damage per stack.
• Expanded synchronized per-player upgrade storage and the random four-card draft pool to 23 cards.
• The temporary 400 base-damage test remains enabled for this test build.

0.16.8

• Hip-fired pistol projectiles now launch through the center crosshair, matching aimed fire.
• Damage size thresholds changed to 50=2.5x, 100=5x, 200=12x, 400=25x, and 800=60x.
• Giant projectiles now apply progressively stronger knockback, with Impulse stacking on top.
• The temporary 400 base-damage test remains enabled for this test build.

0.16.7

• Temporary projectile-scaling test build: base pistol projectile damage is forced to 400, producing 16x visual size and hit radius.

0.16.6

• Projectile visual size and collision radius now double at every damage doubling from the 25-damage baseline.
• Grow now recalculates the complete projectile size after every damage-growth tick while retaining its +25% size per second.
• Big Bullets, Grow, and damage-based scaling now combine through one synchronized visual and hit-radius multiplier.

0.16.5

• Restored a centered crosshair while preserving the vanilla first-person camera.
• The crosshair automatically hides during card selection, elimination, and menus.

0.16.4

• Fixed Miniature preventing jumping by no longer scaling the entire player root.
• Miniature now scales the character model and physical colliders independently, keeping ground detection aligned.
• First-person camera height and overhead health-bar height now follow each Miniature stack.

0.16.3

• Removed the experimental third-person camera system completely.
• Restored vanilla first-person camera, aiming, hand rendering, and projectile direction.
• Removed local-avatar preservation and all camera-render pipeline hooks.

0.16.2

• Fixed third-person camera application under URP by moving the active GameInfo.CurCamera during beginCameraRendering.
• Redirected local hand/tool positioning to the preserved third-person camera proxy.
• Explicitly hidden both sets of first-person hand renderers while the mode is active.

0.16.1

• Preserved the local player's third-person avatar, which vanilla normally destroys during local-player initialization.
• Applied the camera position during the final pre-render callback so later vanilla updates cannot restore first person.
• Disabled the first-person hand meshes while keeping the full character visible.

0.16.0

• Fixed third-person mode by applying the camera offset after the vanilla camera controller.
• Added a centered aiming reticle and corrected local projectile trajectories toward its world-space target.
• Hidden first-person camera view-model renderers while third-person mode is active.
• Disabled passive food-based health regeneration in How to ROUNDS without affecting card-based healing.

0.15.2

• Added the newly exported Arena04 to the automatic random map pool.
• The package now contains the preserved Arena02 plus the authentic Arena03 and Arena04 exports.

0.15.1

• Replaced the provisional Arena03 bundle with the correctly named Arena03 export.
• Preserved the previous Arena02 bundle and included both distinct maps in the automatic arena pool.
• Fixed the Unity exporter compilation ambiguity between System.Math and ProBuilder's Math type.

0.15.0

• Added a generic Build Current Arena for Windows editor command driven by scene names such as Arena03 and Arena04.
• Added Create Next Arena From Current Scene, which automatically chooses the next unused number, renames the map root, and saves a separate scene.
• Existing arena exports now require confirmation before replacement.
• The mod now discovers every valid howtorounds_arenaNN bundle automatically and synchronizes random map selection each round.
• Restored the previous Arena02 and added the newly exported map as Arena03, producing a two-map pool.

0.14.0

• Changed active How to ROUNDS combat to an over-the-shoulder third-person camera.
• Added camera collision so nearby walls pull the camera toward the player instead of blocking the view.
• Explosive Bullet now applies radial knockback to every affected player, including the shooter.
• Explosion knockback is strongest near the center and increases with every Explosive Bullet stack.

0.13.3

• Removed Arena01 from the mod and made Arena02 the only combat arena.
• Reduced the vanilla Explosive Bullet visual by 70%, to 30% of its original scale.
• Expanded Explosive Bullet's full-damage area to a 2.5-unit radius, including self-damage for the shooter.

0.13.2

• Increased the How to ROUNDS pistol projectile speed from 60 to 100 units per second.
• Explosive Bullet now uses a compact 1-unit damage radius and a 45% scale vanilla explosion effect.
• Explosive Bullet area damage now affects every player inside its radius, including the shooter.
• Projectiles now receive a deterministic 60 units/s² downward acceleration so upward shots reliably fall back down.

0.13.1

• Fixed the PlayerVitals.LocalHit Harmony signature that prevented version 0.13.0 from loading.

0.13.0

• Added synchronized multi-map support for Arena01 and Arena02.
• The first arena is random and every following round changes to another installed arena.
• Arena changes are published as part of the synchronized round identifier so every player loads the same map before drafting.
• Added a dedicated Arena02 exporter that preserves Arena01 and its generated meshes.

0.12.1

• Replaced Arena01 with the new custom forest village map.
• The new map includes sculpted terrain, painted paths, houses, trees, rocks, cover, and four player spawns.

0.12.0

• Added Miniature: -20% player size, +20% movement speed, and -20 maximum health per stack.
• Added Impulse: ranged hits gain 3 additional knockback per stack.
• Added More Heal: +50 maximum health per stack.
• All three upgrades are included in each player's independent four-card random draft.
• Health bars and full-health round resets now use the new modified maximum health.

0.11.0

• Added Homing: bullets seek the closest living opponent within 18 metres.
• Every Homing stack adds 35 degrees per second of steering and 8 metres of acquisition range.
• Added Grow: bullets start 20% slower per stack.
• Every second in flight, Grow adds 20% damage and 25% visual and collision size per stack.
• Grow combines dynamically with Big Bullets, Quick Shot, poison, gravity, and ricochets.

0.10.0

• Added synchronized win counters and a race-to-10 match objective.
• At 10 wins, combat pauses for a vanilla-styled host decision screen.
• Continue resets the scores for another race to 10 while preserving every upgrade.
• Restart resets both scores and upgrades for every player before another race to 10.
• Matches can be continued or restarted indefinitely without closing the Steam room.

0.9.0

• Added Tank: +50 maximum health and -20% movement speed per stack.
• Added Lifesteal: heals 30% of actual damage dealt per stack.
• Added Healing Reload: heals 20 health whenever a reload completes per stack.
• Added purple Poison Bullets: deals 30% of bullet damage per second for 3 seconds per stack.
• Projectiles now have a visible ballistic drop instead of always travelling perfectly straight.
• Bullet visuals and hit radius now grow with final bullet damage.

0.8.0

• Added Big Bullets: +50% projectile size and hit radius, +25% damage, and -20% projectile speed per stack.
• Added Quick Shot: +35% fire rate and -15% bullet damage per stack.
• Added Glass Cannon: +40% movement speed and -50% maximum health per stack.
• Health bars now display each player's Glass Cannon-adjusted maximum health.

0.7.5

• Replaced the vanilla bottom-left vitals display in How to ROUNDS with a compact numbered health bar.
• Added synchronized numbered health bars above every other player.
• Health fill now shrinks smoothly and changes from green to red as health is lost.

0.7.4

• Added a compact vanilla-style ammo HUD in the bottom-right corner.
• The HUD shows the pistol's current and maximum ammo.
• Added a smooth native-animation-driven reload progress bar and percentage.

0.7.3

• Reduced the How to ROUNDS pistol projectile speed from the vanilla 350 to 60 units per second so shots are visible and dodgeable.
• More More continues to add 10% projectile speed per stack on top of the new ROUNDS base speed.

0.7.2

• Bullet Explosive now uses the game's native dynamite explosion particles, audio, and screen shake.
• Reduces Bullet Explosive's damage radius by 50%, from 4 units to 2 units.

0.7.1

• Keys every upgrade stack to the player's SteamID instead of FishNet connection order.
• Fixes players 2, 3, and 4 receiving another player's upgrades in larger lobbies.

0.7.0

• Adds Ricochet, with one additional surface bounce per stack.
• Adds Bullet Explosive, dealing 50% weapon damage as splash damage per stack.
• Uses a 3-round base Pistol magazine; More More remains the way to expand it.
• Each player now receives their own random four-card draft from the complete upgrade pool.
• Adds a free-flying third-person spectator camera for eliminated players.
• Refills the Pistol when a new combat round begins.

0.6.1

• Card clicks are now read directly by the draft HUD, so pressing Escape is no longer required.

0.6.0

• Keeps the mouse visible and unlocked while upgrade cards are on screen.
• Disables hunger and restores full health at the start of every combat round.
• Adds last-player-alive round victories and synchronized winner announcements.
• Only losing players draft another upgrade before the next round; upgrade effects stack.
• Prevents resurrection and giving up during active rounds.
• Prevents the starting Pistol and Knife from dropping on death and restores players with their loadout.

0.4.0

• Every player now starts Arena01 with the vanilla Pistol equipped and the vanilla Knife in their inventory.
• Starting weapons are granted through the game's networked item system and cost no money.

0.3.5

• Marks every solid custom-arena collider with the game's runtime Level layer and tag.
• Custom floors now pass the vanilla grounded check, restoring jumping and safe grounded positions.
• Applies the correction automatically to future exported arenas.

0.3.4

• Fixed fall detection reading the stationary network-holder transform instead of the player's physical Rigidbody.
• Stops false respawns every 1.5 seconds and restores normal jumping and movement.

0.3.3

• Removed the repeated unconditional spawn teleports that caused rubber-banding after entering Arena01.
• Fall recovery now activates only when the player moves below the kill volume's upper plane.
• Retains one delayed distance check to recover from a late native-world teleport without interrupting normal movement.

0.3.2

• Rebuilt Arena01 using ordinary baked Unity meshes and colliders.
• Removed all runtime dependencies on ProBuilder, eliminating missing-script console spam.
• Fixed players falling through the custom arena floor.
• Added an independent height-based respawn fallback.

0.3.1

• Fixed START getting stuck when the host was the only player in the staging lobby.
• Explicitly connects the host's local client after starting the Steam server, allowing its Player object and Arena01 to load.

0.3.0

• Added the first custom Arena01 AssetBundle.
• Loads the arena locally for every lobby member when the host starts the match.
• Assigns players consistently to the four authored spawn markers.
• Added fall detection through the authored HTR_KillVolume.

0.2.1

• Renamed the cloned vanilla menu button to Crear round and locked it against localization overwrites.
• Replaced long Steam-ID codes with searchable five-character room codes such as A6D5S.

0.2.0

• Restyled the menu using the vanilla button, font, colors, and borders.
• Moved How to ROUNDS above Create Game.
• Added a Steam pre-match waiting room with live player slots.
• Added host-only Start and shared Leave controls.
• Prevented the world from loading before the host presses Start.

0.1.0

• Added the How to ROUNDS main-menu entry.
• Added Steam room creation.
• Added short room-code generation and clipboard copy.
• Added joining a Steam room by code.

0.5.1

• Fixed room-code searches failing to discover the host's lobby.
• Room-code lobbies are now explicitly public and searchable worldwide.
• Search retries while Steam propagates new lobby metadata.
• Version mismatches now report both versions instead of appearing as a missing room.

0.5.0

• Added a synchronized, turn-based four-card upgrade draft before combat.
• Added visible remote hover/pick feedback and a 3-second synchronized countdown.
• Added More More, Double Jump, Faster Than Me, and Faster Charge with real gameplay effects.
• Disabled movement, shooting, and melee attacks until the draft finishes.