v1.34.5 — 2026-07-27 — attempted base-game bug fixes, menu overhaul, security batch

Base-game bugs — ATTEMPTED FIXES, PLEASE REPORT BACK

These target bugs in ROUNDS itself, found by reading the game's own code. They are not confirmed fixed in live play yet — they have had almost no play-testing, so treat every one as "should be better, tell us if it isn't". They only apply in competitive rooms and sandbox, never in public quickplay. If you still hit any of these (or see something NEW go wrong around them), please file a bug report from the Settings tab with your log attached — that is what turns these into confirmed fixes.

Demonic Pact should stop breaking Spray in later games. The game copies Demonic Pact's "no holding the trigger" flag onto your gun and never clears it between games in the same room — so picking Spray in any later game fired one shot per click instead of spraying. The flag is now reset between games. (Cause confirmed in the game's files; the fix itself still needs play-testing.)
Poison "ghost damage" attempt. Occasionally a poisoned player's own health bar stopped tracking ticks that everyone else saw land (you could still hear them). Best theory: each player's copy of the game decides separately whether a tick lands during a block window, and the copies can disagree. Ticks should now land consistently on every screen. Players holding Decay are deliberately exempt so blocking mid-spread still works exactly like the base game.
Drill bullets fired against a wall should no longer be invisible to other players. The game moves the wrong object when a drilled bullet comes out the far side; the mod now moves the actual bullet on everyone else's screen. (Lowest confidence of the five — please report whether it still happens.)
Killing your opponent during the end screen should no longer corrupt the next game (the missing map / undespawned body / death-to-nothing sequence). Kills and damage-over-time ticks that arrive after the game has already ended are now ignored.
Chase's card text no longer advertises "+30% Health". The bonus is dead data inside the game files — it was never actually applied to anyone. The card's real effect (a speed boost while heading at a visible opponent) is unchanged; only the phantom line is removed. (This one is a display-only change and is safe.)

Cosmetics — new community art

Ballooniphones and Soda Helm, both by their artist through the full upload → placement review → release pipeline. They ship at the exact scale and position that were approved in-game. The artist opens sales from the Artist tab when ready.

Menus

Tournaments tab no longer paints text over itself on smaller/wider windows. The long "How It Works" and prize blocks moved behind two buttons that open a scrollable popup, and the whole left column scrolls now.
Settings tab reorganized into Data & Privacy / Interface / Visuals & Effects, and every description now sits directly UNDER the setting it describes (bug #87 — they used to hug the button above them).
The in-match ranked line now reads "Series Score: X - X (Total Series X - X)" where Total Series is your lifetime series record against the CURRENT opponent — replacing the confusing rolling "session" tally.

Cosmetics — artist workflow

The placement drag in the artist/admin preview is now a visual aid only — it is never saved. New cosmetics spawn centered and players position them in the character editor; already-shipped items keep their approved placements.

Chat

If secure chat can't connect on your network, chat falls back for that session instead of silently eating your messages (the rest of the mod already did this).

Server & security

Fixed a matchmaking deadlock where two players polling at the same instant could briefly wedge the 1v1 queue, plus a batch of queue-lock hardening across 1v1/2v2/1v2.
Leaving a queue now waits for the server to confirm. If the leave request failed (bad connection, a busy moment), the mod used to show you as out while your slot stayed live server-side — which could lock other players into a lobby with a ghost. All three queues (1v1, 2v2, 1v2) now show "Leaving queue...", retry the request, and only then finish; joining again is held off for the moment it takes the leave to resolve.
A match result is no longer wedged by a disconnect forfeit or an admin correction arriving at the same moment. If the last game of a series was reported at the same instant something else finished that same series, the two could block each other and one would lose — and when that was the match report, a real game silently didn't count. The result-writing paths (match reports, forfeits, admin resolve/reverse, the ratings rebuild) now claim their records in one consistent order in both 1v1 and 2v2, so they wait their turn instead of colliding.
An admin correction can no longer be half-undone by a match report landing at the same time. Reversing a series while its final game was still being processed could leave the rating change applied anyway, and could hand out a title for a win that had just been taken back. The rating step now re-checks that the series still stands before it applies anything.
A problem paying out bets can no longer take the match result down with it. Bet settlement is now isolated in 1v1 the way it already was in 2v2: if it fails, the game still counts and the ratings still apply.
Admin actions now use a separate secret that does not ship inside the mod — previously anyone who unpacked the DLL could forge admin requests.
Session checks extended across cosmetic equips, privacy toggles, blocks, and queue actions; bans now also revoke live sessions and stop new ones from being minted.
Deleting your data now also clears 2v2/1v2 queue entries and login sessions, and declining a match is validated against who you're actually matched with.
The API's public documentation pages were turned off and the minimum supported mod version was raised to 1.33.0 (older clients get the update prompt).

Schema changes

151_steam_auth_arming.sql — adds players.steam_auth_seen_at (monotonic steam-auth arming) with a backfill from surviving verified sessions. Applied 2026-07-27.
152_ban_session_cleanup.sql — one-time revocation of sessions held by already-banned accounts. Applied 2026-07-27.
153_release_ballooniphones_soda_helm.sql — publishes the two community face cosmetics bundled in this release, guarded against a post-bundle placement revision. Applied 2026-07-27.

v1.34.4 — 2026-07-26 — 1v2 extra-pick crash fix + HTTPS endpoint

1v2

Fixed the Solo Extra Pick hang. With the option on, the solo player picked their first card and the round froze — the solo was then dropped and the other two saw "opponent disconnected". Cause was in the base game: it clears the current picker the instant a card is chosen, and the follow-up deal then looked that picker up with the cleared value and threw. Nothing ever hit it before because the extra pick is the only mode that asks for a second card. Reported by Stan (#86) and NotNic (#85), whose logs together pinned it down.
The second card is also now selectable at all — the same cleared value disabled card selection, so even without the crash the extra pick could not have been used.

Connection

The mod now talks to the server over HTTPS. Traffic used to be plain HTTP, so anything on the network path (public wifi, a hostile ISP) could read your session, chat, and Steam ID. Existing installs are moved over automatically on first launch; a custom server address is left alone.
If the secure endpoint cannot be reached from your network, the mod falls back to the old one for that session and retries the secure one next launch, so nobody gets stranded.

Cosmetics

Crown and Dark Aura now use their approved placement. Both had adjustments signed off in the artist review flow that never made it into a build (#84); they now render at the size and position that were approved.

Server

Hardened an unauthenticated stats endpoint that could be used to read the database, and closed two internal endpoints that trusted the caller's network address instead of a key. Both fixed server-side already — no action needed.

v1.34.3 — 2026-07-24 — First community cosmetic ships + gambler ping fix

Cosmetics

Spooky Head-Bouncers by Nix is live — the first community cosmetic to go through the full artist upload -> admin placement review -> release pipeline. It ships at the exact scale and position that were approved in-game.
Releases now always bundle approved cosmetics. v1.34.2 shipped without this one because the art lives in the database until a release compiles it into the client; the ship process now requires it, with a checksum check on the extracted art and a migration guard that refuses to publish if the approved placement changed after the bundle was cut.

Discord

The gambler ping no longer repeats for the same series. Bets lock while a game is being played and re-open between games, and the bot was forgetting a series every time that happened — so the same match got announced again on the next game. It now announces once per series for its whole life.

v1.34.2 — 2026-07-24 — Cosmetic placement workflow, flagged-match evidence, performance pass

Cosmetics — artists & admins

Artists set the render scale at upload. The in-game uploader now opens a size preview: your PNG against an orange player-body circle, with a scale slider (0.50x–2.25x) and presets. A full 512x512 canvas equals the body only at ~1.30x — the preview shows the truth instead of a rule of thumb.
Drag to position. Both the artist preview and the admin review let you drag the art. Offset is only the default start position (players can reposition face items themselves in the character editor), so it no longer clutters the list menus — scale is what decides whether art fits.
Adjust placement on already-shipped cosmetics. Previously only new submissions could be adjusted; items that shipped before the review workflow existed had no record to edit. They can now be adjusted, and the change goes back through admin review before taking effect.
Placement changes are reviewed, not instant. Scale/offset are compiled into the client, so an approved change goes live with the next mod update. The live item keeps its current placement until then.
Admin review upgrades: the four approval guidelines plus a scale-appropriateness rule are shown in the popup, a denial reason is required, and re-placements show the current approved scale beside the proposed one.
Approve/deny now DMs the artist with the outcome (and the reason on a denial).
A release tracker lists approved cosmetics awaiting a client update, with the exact scale to bundle.
Unreleased art can no longer appear in the shop or on Home. Community art stays hidden until its PNG actually ships in a client release, so Newest Cosmetics can't be taken over by an unreleased batch.

Flagged matches (admin)

Flags now carry real evidence. Both the in-game Admin panel and #scr-admin show Steam IDs and the suspect, the detector's reasoning, score and point progression, cards picked by each player, combat/input/FPS telemetry, and connection data.
Suspected-macro flags record the exact per-second windows that broke the threshold, from both players rather than only the match reporter.
Flagged Matches gets more room in the Admin tab, and clicking Details opens a full evidence view.

In-match HUD

The Session line is gone. The series score line now carries your session series record instead: Series: 1 - 1 (session 2-1).
Session series now counts for both players. It previously only updated on the client that submitted the match report, so one player in every match saw 0-0 all session.

Performance

Overlays now only draw on render frames, slow-changing labels refresh a few times a second instead of every frame, the hold-Tab table snapshots at 8 Hz, and chat reuses its buffers. Combat diagnostics are off unless Block Debug is on.
Animated Cosmetics now also freezes player-effect auras — they kept emitting after the setting was turned off.

Discord bot

Elo calculator fixed — it timed out silently and never replied; it now answers or explains why it can't.
FAQ accuracy pass across many false positives and missed questions, plus new answers (Grow, room codes, series, DC rules, install safety, questions channel, Steam↔Discord lookup).
Malformed room codes get a heads-up — a posted code that isn't six capital letters gets a reply explaining the game reads it as offline. Ordinary chat, slang and names are left alone.

Fixes

2v2 Recent Series no longer jumps the scroll when you click a series, and the [ID] copy target is the chip itself instead of the whole row.
The game-ID button sits left of the score in both ranked and casual history.
Artist rows hidden by scrolling are no longer clickable through the section above them.

v1.34.1 — 2026-07-22 — July 22 nine-item batch + live feedback

Discord identity (feedback round)

Discord name on the leaderboard is now opt-OUT (was opt-in): linked players' Discord @display name shows on their leaderboard detail by default, so people looking for a ranked game know who to @. Turn it off in Settings → "Show Discord on leaderboard".
Search Ranked beacons now name who to @ — the Discord "searching for a ranked match" post (and the 2v2/1v2 equivalents) includes the searcher's @display name as plain text. It never pings them (only the RLFP Ping button does).
/mystats shows your Discord @display name under the title.

Client (mod)

My Stats history stat line tightened + ID button moved (feedback): the Hit/Block/keys text is back to hugging its content (the wide split spacing is gone), and the game-ID copy button now sits right after the score instead of next to the opponent name.
2v2 Recent Series widened + enlarged (feedback): the panel takes the previously-empty space left of it, text is bigger, the game-row ID chip is just [ID] (click the row to copy), and the row-height math is fixed at the root so player names no longer overlap the "Game N:" line. Each game shows a per-player FPS/ping/Hit%/Block% line with a hover mini-dashboard.
Hit % and Block % hover graphs in My Stats Ranked/Casual history — for you AND your opponent (4 graphs per game). The stats line under each game is now clickable territory: hover your (or their) Hit % for a shots-fired-vs-hits chart, hover a Block % for damage-taken-vs-successful-blocks. Both are cumulative over the match, sampled every 3 seconds.
Point markers on every match graph. FPS, Ping, Hit % and Block % hover graphs now show a vertical marker at each point scored — green when you took the point, red when the opponent did — so you can line a bad stretch up against the scoreboard.
Disconnect banner (bug #81). When anyone disconnects or quits mid-game — casual, ranked, 2v2 or 1v2 — every remaining player gets a top-of-screen banner naming who left, on the spot. Between games of an unfinished series it shows an orange "left — series unfinished (1-0)" variant, and if the player left to join a ranked match it says exactly that. In 1v1 you also get an immediate note telling you whether leaving gives you the win or voids the game (the old message only appeared after you quit out yourself).
Game ID buttons. Every recorded game now has a tiny ID button (My Stats history rows) or click-to-copy row (2v2 Recent Series games) that copies a short game code — paste it into /game in Discord to pull up that game's full breakdown.
2v2 Recent Series telemetry. Game rows now show each player's FPS / ping / Hit % / Block % line, and hovering a player pops a 4-panel mini dashboard (FPS, ping, shots-vs-hits, damage-vs-blocks). Also: the top-left player name no longer crowds the "Game N:" line.
1v2 Solo Extra Initial Pick is live in-game — when the lobby had the toggle on, the solo's first card screen deals twice. (First-playtest-pending: the mechanism is vanilla's own multi-pick loop, but online multi-pick has never run in the wild.)
1v2 leaderboard W/L split — solo record and duo record shown separately (orange solo 3W-1L / blue duo 2W-4L) instead of one combined tally.
Achievements earner lists: now sized to their content (no more giant empty box on a 0-1 earner achievement), show 20 earners per page with a pager for the rest.
Leaderboard search — a search box under the Leaderboard/Compare sub-tabs filters the board as you type (typing "t" no longer opens chat, same guard as the Compare search).
Discord on profiles (opt-out): linked players' "Discord: @displayname" shows on their leaderboard detail panel (above the Mod line) by default; a Settings toggle "Show Discord on leaderboard" turns it off.
Home tab Discord Link now shows your actual Discord username (the unique @handle), not your display name; falls back to the account ID. Still click-to-reveal.

Server

1v2 fixes from the July 22 forensics pass: the janitor's status-spelling mismatch that made canceled locks invisible to the continuation lookup (unrecorded-games risk, bug #70 family); abandoned mid-series 1v2 rows now close after 24h instead of staying "active" forever; a stale-husk guard on the continuation lookup (6h activity window); series slot columns realign to the in-game truth on the first reported match (protects per-slot rewards + future ranked replay).
Achievements: the earner list now resolves dynamic titles (Sid's "1st Place" podium title was silently dropped — string/UUID key mismatch), reports the true total, and serves up to 500 earners.
Game lookup: GET /matches/by-code/{code} — full per-game detail (both/all players' stats, timelines, cards, rewards) for the Discord bot, across 1v1/2v2/1v2.
2v2 telemetry: per-player FPS/ping/hit/block timelines + counters stored per game (new team_match_telemetry table) and served in the series feed.
Discord identity split: discord_username now holds the real @handle, new discord_display_name holds the display name, plus the opt-in show_discord flag gating third-party visibility.
Migrations: 141 (hit/block timelines + point times), 142 (team match telemetry), 143 (game-code indexes), 144 (discord display/show), 145 (ovt status data-fix).

Discord bot

/game <code> — paste a game ID copied in-game to get the full breakdown: score, per-player Hit %/Block %, FPS and ping (with graphs), cards, and gold/XP/Elo changes. (Feedback fixes: the score-progression graph reads in rounds, not doubled points, and a game with no recorded picks for a side now says so explicitly instead of dropping the field.)
!link now stores both your @username and display name, existing links are re-resolved on the next bot restart, and renames are tracked automatically by the half-hour role sync.

Server

Migration 146 flips show_discord to opt-out (default TRUE); recent-joins queue endpoints carry the searcher's Discord display name (gated on the opt-out).

v1.34.0 — 2026-07-22 — July 20-22 mega-batch

Client (mod)

Accuracy & block counters restarted. Hit % and Block % lifetime totals were reset to zero because the way they're counted changed this release (below) and old mixed-era totals couldn't be corrected per game. They rebuild cleanly from your next games on 1.34.0. If your Hit/Block shows "-" for a bit, that's why.
Block % counting reworked to the community-agreed rule: only your right-click blocks count. One right-click is one activation, and if that block (or its Echo / Shield Charge follow-ups) stops a bullet it counts as one success — so blocking is never over 100%. Passive auto-blocks (Abyssal Countdown, Shields Up, etc.) don't count toward the stat at all.
Hit % kill-shot fix (finishing bugs #77/#80). The round-ending kill shot was being dropped from your hit count, so high-damage builds (Careful Planning, Wind Up + Poison) could read absurdly low. Kill shots now count. Reload-spam clicks and card-spawned projectiles (EMP rings, etc.) no longer inflate your shots-fired.
FPS & Latency in match history. Ranked/Casual history rows now show both players' FPS and Ping (you / opponent). Hover the FPS number for a graph of frame-rate over the match; hover Ping for a graph of latency over the match. Handy for seeing whether a rough game was a real connection issue.
Game-streak vs series-streak. My Stats now shows both your ranked game streak and your series streak, each with its own Best, clearly labeled (they used to be mixed on one line).
Rating History graph upgrade. The leaderboard rating graph now spans the full panel, is taller, and has fixed reference lines at 1500 / 1600 / 1800 / 2000 / 2400 so you can read a player's tier at a glance. "Ranked:" record is now labeled "Ranked (series):".
Achievements tab overhaul. Sortable (Default / Rarity / Gold / Date earned — click again to reverse), the gold reward shows on every achievement even before you earn it, and clicking an achievement expands an inline list right under it of everyone who's earned it, in the order they got it, with their titles.
RLFP Ping button (top bar, between Search Ranked and Enable/Disable): pings the Ranked Looking For Player role in Discord with an optional message and an expiry (15m / 30m / 1h / 3h) so people can find you a ranked game even when your game's closed. Requires a linked Discord + ranked enabled; once per hour.
Chromatic aberration toggle in Settings — turn off the RGB color-fringing for crisper edges and a tiny FPS gain.
Body-color shop previews: each Body Color now shows a little character-shaped color swatch so you can see the real color, not just the name.
Popup fixes: on-screen messages no longer get clipped or vanish too fast, and achievement-unlock popups now show the requirement.
Casual-downgrade notice now fires reliably when your opponent has ranked disabled or isn't running the mod, so you always know a game recorded casual before investing 10 minutes.
Matchmaking "Press Jump to Join" — mitigation (NOT confirmed fixed). Added a fast detector that, when the dead-connection state is hit, restarts and drops you back into the quickplay queue automatically instead of stranding you on a dead screen, plus a guard for the underlying vanilla race. This still needs live verification — if you hit the dead screen again, please file a bug report with the log.
Account verification (opt-in, staged). The mod now proves Steam ownership to the server via a Steam auth ticket, closing the door on someone using the mod under a Steam ID that isn't theirs. Rolls out in log-only mode first.

Server

Ranked series never expire. An unfinished series now resumes whenever you next play that person, no matter how long later — so leaving mid-series can't save your rating. 52 old unfinished series were reattached. FAQ wording updated.
Casual games no longer create phantom ranked series (bug #78): a game against someone registered but not currently running the mod was being upgraded to a ranked series server-side. Fixed to require the opponent's mod to actually be live; the stray series was cleaned up.
Opponent-tier gold & XP. Ranked rewards now scale by your opponent's rank tier — Beginner ×1 up to Grand Master ×3 — on both gold and XP, win or lose. Winning a series doubles the series reward, and beating a current top-3 player doubles it again. Series losers now earn tier-scaled gold too. Level-up gold and the correct series gold now show in match history (previously under-reported).
Achievement gold retiered per difficulty (500 / 300 / 1000 tiers) with everyone's existing earns back-paid the difference.
Sync tournament timing. Force-start now schedules 10 minutes out through the normal notification flow (lock DM, countdown, banner) instead of starting instantly with no warning; stale-vote window tightened; a crash mid-BO3 no longer forfeits you out of the whole bracket, and an abandoned match can't wedge the tournament forever.
Expanded match-review tools for admins: additional per-match connection/performance signals (FPS/latency/freeze/heartbeat) recorded for admin review, with per-player baselines so consistent conditions aren't flagged.

v1.33.1 (rolled into this release) — bug reports 77-80

#77 / #80: hit-count kill-shot fix (see above).
#78: casual phantom-series fix (see above).
#79: matchmaking "Press Jump to Join" mitigation (see above — not confirmed fixed).

v1.33.0 — RELEASED 2026-07-17 — July 17 mega-batch (rounds 1-3)

Round 3 (Sid's 10 items + first 1v2 forensics)

Client (mod)

My Stats casual record fixed (item 8): the Record block recomputed casual W/L (and sweeps) by scanning the locally cached history — which v1.32.1's lazy loading truncated to the head 400 matches, so lifetime losses "vanished". Both lines now use the server's lifetime fields (casual_wins/losses, sweeps_given/taken); current-streak calcs stay window-based by design.
Hit % undercount fixed (bug #77, Stan): the round-winning kill blow was dropped from bullets_hit — vanilla processes the lethal hit → round over → pick phase (flipping our phase flag) all before the counter's Postfix ran, so the pick-phase guard ate exactly one hit per round won, matching Stan's manual counts. Guard removed for hits (nothing can be fired during pick anyway); budget-exhausted drops now log [HIT-DROP].
2v2 tab scroll bounce fixed (bug #76, Sid): the leaderboard's inner ScrollRect consumed wheel events even with nothing to scroll (elastic bounce), starving the tab's outer scroll. The inner scroll now disables itself while its content fits its viewport (wheel bubbles to the tab scroll) and re-enables when the board genuinely needs it.
1v2 phantom series plugged: both 1v1 series-preflight sites now exclude ovt_ rooms — the July 17 first live 1v2 session spawned six phantom 1v1 ranked_series rows pairing arbitrary trio members (the one 1v1 path the #146/#149 gate sweep missed).
Admin Steam ID (item 10): leaderboard click-a-player detail shows the player's Steam ID to admins only, click-to-copy (first systemCopyBuffer use).
Twins! (item 3) added to the client achievement list.

Server (to deploy — no new migration required beyond 133)

Twins! achievement (item 3): granted server-side to BOTH players when a game ends with identical 5-card multisets (duplicates counted; names normalized). 100g standard. Migration 133 backfills it retroactively from match_cards (same pattern as 113).
Sync lock timing (item 9): LOCK_OFFSET_HOURS 6 → 48 — the winning time is now decided 2 days before the default start, and only slots ≥ ~24h after the decision can win, so every player gets at least a day's notice of the final time. Availability-check DMs re-anchored to 24-96h before lock (they must be answerable before the time is decided); the sync availability embed now names the lock moment and points at the vote; pushback derives the next lock from the new default (a late tick can't erode the offset); tournament creation requires lock ≥ 72h out (sometimes skipping to the Saturday after next).
1v2 janitor: ovt husk queue rows and zero-game dead locks were only cleaned by poll-driven paths — with no 1v2 pollers, the July 17 leftovers dangled for 9+ hours. The periodic queue-cleanup loop now sweeps them (30-min windows, wide per learning #150 so a live game 1 can't be hit).

Round 2 (Sid's 4 items)

Client (mod)

Custom cosmetics now shade with the scene (item 1): our face items rendered with Unity's default unlit sprite material while everything else in ROUNDS multiplies through the SFSS lightmap — so they sat at raw PNG brightness against a lighting-darkened scene (Galaxyice's cat "too bright, green eyes invisible"). Templates now adopt the vanilla item material (lazily borrowed from a vanilla face item; startup log verifies shader=Sprites/SFSoftShadow), so custom items darken/tint exactly like vanilla ones on every map skin, vanilla art, and the lighting-off perf mode.
Tournament tab layout (item 2): the "Default start / Signups close" line no longer paints over the instructions (its LayoutElement now sizes to the wrapped text), and the 8 time slots render in two columns of 4. Prizes moved out of the static text into a live block. Instruction text refreshed: "have ROUNDS open" (not "keep this tab open"), couple-of-hours expectation, break/Play Now explanation, 5/10-min show-up windows, dropped the stale "cancelled under 8".
Between-matches UX (item 2): my-match panel shows the break countdown + a Play Now (skip break) button; a slim in-game banner shows "Next match vs X in M:SS" during breaks.
Tab scoreboard styled names fixed (item 4): rainbow/gradient nametags write per-char rich-text into Photon NickName; the Tab overlay truncated that markup mid-tag (broken literal tag, zero real characters). It now strips styling via NametagStyler.Clean before the 16-char truncation — full name, team-tint preserved.

Server (to deploy — migration `132`, then API+bot)

Prizes scale with players (item 2): base = 8 players at DOUBLE the old 16-player tier (1st 1000g/5000xp, 2nd 600g/3000xp, 3rd 120g/150xp), growing linearly to 2x base at 16. Confirmed count snapshotted at lock (tournaments.prize_player_count); _prize_amounts() is the single source of truth — /current and /internal/watch carry computed numbers to the client and bot. Sync and async both.
Between-rounds breaks (item 2): sync matches after round 1 enter status='scheduled' with a 7-min scheduled_ready_at; the no-show clock only starts when the match flips to ready (break can never forfeit anyone). New POST /tournaments/{id}/matches/{mid}/play-now — both players pressing it skips the break (row-locked against the simultaneous-press race). Round-flow facts, verified: round 2 otherwise activates the instant both prereq matches resolve; previously the only gap was the 30s tick.
Migration 132 — prize_player_count, scheduled_ready_at, early_ok_signup_ids.
Migration 130 reworked per Sid's call (was: silently seed default-time votes): now DMs existing voteless sync signups via pending_dms telling them to pick their times or be removed at lock, including the couple-of-hours heads-up.

Discord bot

Break DM (item 2): when a next-round match schedules, both players get "Next up: vs X (round N). Starts <t:..:R>" with the live Discord countdown + the Play Now instructions.
Prize displays are dynamic: completion announcement and the tournament board embed use server-computed amounts; the board shows "Every signup past 8 grows the pot — 16 players doubles it!" during voting. Lock DM now says to plan for a couple of hours + mentions the skippable breaks. FAQ tournaments entry updated (agreement lock, prize scaling, ~2 hours).

Adversarial review pass (round 2 — 4 finder angles, per-finding verify, 28 agents)

Confirmed and fixed before anything shipped:

Queue/casual games during a break would have counted as tournament games — the series row exists 7+ min before play and _find_current_active_series matched tournament series in ANY room, so two opponents passing the break in the 1v1 queue would advance the bracket off warmup games. Sync tournament series now only bind in their designated sct- room (async unchanged — any private lobby is its design), and queue join 409s while you have a sync match scheduled/ready.
Players in a break read as "eliminated" (and a bracket-reset GF read the LB champ as CHAMPION early) — _compute_progress_labels didn't know the scheduled state.
/dm-opponent and /opp-online failed during the break — exactly when the break DM tells players to coordinate Play Now.
Bye-seeded top players' first match got a break — a bye-fed W R2 at tournament start now goes straight to ready; the break only applies downstream of an actually-played match.
Two-column slot labels overflowed their 158px cells once tallies became public — labels drop the tz suffix (named in the row above), tallies compact to "(N)", wrap off, and fully-empty rows collapse.
"best time: N/8" could count votes on dead slots — the /current tally now filters to future slots like the lock does.
"Prizes at 0 players" on the board pre-signups — display floored at 8.
Old-client signup 400 now tells the player to update the mod; lock DM grace wording matches the real 5/10-min windows.

Round 1 (Sid's 7 items)

Client (mod)

T-chat popup fixed (item 7): every line now renders at its measured wrapped height — no more clipped letters on the bottom row, and long messages show up to 3 wrapped lines ending in an explicit ... [see F5] indicator instead of silently cutting mid-sentence. The backdrop grows to match.
Artist tab sales log (item 1): new scrollable "Sales log" section — every purchase and gift of your items, newest first, with buyer, price paid, and your 30% cut per sale.
Home tab cosmetics showcase (item 4): art doubled 38→76px, text 14→17pt, rows now scroll, and the list covers the last TWO cosmetic-update days (dates named in the caption and per row).
Sync tournament voting is now mandatory (item 3): the time slots are pickable before signup and at least one is required to sign up (the vote rides the signup request); the header shows live "best time: N/8 agreed" progress. Save Votes still adjusts an existing signup.
Sprout uses lopidav's original art (item 5) — byte-for-byte his file, replacing the recreation that shipped with v1.30.
Two Galaxyice cosmetics (item 6): Rounds Cat (static head-rider) and Star Spin — the first community-artist animated item (6-frame orbit, ~1s per lap).

Server (to deploy — migrations `128`-`131`, then API+bot)

Chat flood control (item 7): WS chat now enforces 5 messages / 10s per sender plus an identical-message filter (20s window). Silent drops, checked before any DB work.
GET /artist/{id}/sales — per-purchase log (buyer, price, per-sale royalty, date), newest first.
GET /shop/newest?batches=N — restricts the newest-cosmetics list to the N most recent update days; entries now carry an added date.
Sync tournament lock rework (item 3): signup requires ≥1 valid time-slot vote (recorded in the same transaction); the lock now requires min_players (8) votes agreeing on ONE slot — otherwise the whole tournament pushes back a week (feed post says why); when it locks, the agreed slot becomes the start time and every signup that didn't vote for it is removed, no penalty, with a feed post naming them. Force-start (everyone votes "now") bypasses the gate.
pending_dms queue (migration 129) — generic one-off bot DM queue with the durable ack pattern; seeded with a DM to lopidav about the Sprout art fix.
Migration 128_galaxyice_cosmetics.sql — Galaxyice artist role + both shop rows (born out-of-stock until the artist opens sales).

Discord bot

New FAQ entries (item 2): hosting & netcode ("is orange the host", "is it peer to peer", "does hosting matter" — ROUNDS runs through Photon relays, no host advantage) and a dedicated blocking-tips entry; "how does the comp mod work" now routes to the what-is-this-mod answer.
pending_dms drain loop — own fully-guarded 60s loop; DMs the linked player, acks delivered/undeliverable; unparseable discord_ids flag undeliverable instead of poisoning the LIMIT-20 window.

Adversarial review pass (8-angle, pre-ship)

The self-review on this batch surfaced and fixed, before anything shipped:

Past slots could win the vote — the earliest offered slots are already past at lock time (lock is default-6h, slots span default-24h..+18h); a popular past slot would have set the start time in the past, started the tournament within 30s, and mass no-show-forfeited the field. Lock tally now only counts slots ≥30 min in the future; signup/Save-Votes reject past slots; the client is only offered future slots.
Pushback stranded every vote — the +7d pushback regenerated all 8 slots while votes stayed pinned to the old timestamps, so carried signups could never re-aggregate (perpetual pushback) or got kicked wholesale next lock. Votes now translate +7d with the grid, and the pushback post says so.
Legacy signups would have been kicked at the first post-deploy lock — anyone signed up under optional voting has zero vote rows. Migration 130 seeds them with the default start time (the time they implicitly agreed to).
Tallies were hidden pre-vote — the old anti-snoop gate starved exactly the pre-signup players who now need to see which time is winning. Tallies are public during voting.
Save Votes could self-kick — clearing every checkbox deleted all votes and earned a silent kick at lock; the shared validate+replace helper (one write path for signup AND /time-vote) rejects empty sets, past slots, and duplicate slots (which previously 500'd on the PK).
Re-signup silently dropped votes — an already-signed-up client re-posting signup got a 200 while its slot picks were discarded; votes on the request are now recorded.
Kicked players now get a direct DM (via pending_dms) — they're exactly the cohort not watching the tab; a channel post alone would never reach them.
Chat flood gate re-keyed to the connection — keying by the client-supplied steam_id was spoofable per message; the dup filter now skips short lines ("gg" after each game is legit) and the bucket sweep is time-gated.
Stale client vote-state reset — checkbox picks are index-based; when the offered slots change (pushback/new week) frozen local edits now reset instead of silently retargeting onto different datetimes.
Artist-item batch dates — migration 131 adds shop_items.released_at, stamped when an artist first opens sales, so born-out-of-stock items land in the Home showcase under the day they became buyable (the Galaxyice debut would otherwise have aged out before ever appearing).
Perf: chat overlay layout scratch buffer (no per-OnGUI allocation), animated-thumbnail ticker skips ~94% of redundant reflection sets, chat-gate prune is time-gated.

Changelog

v1.32.1 — RELEASED 2026-07-16

Headline: a new Home landing tab + a FAQ auto-responder bot.

Home tab

The F5 menu now opens on a Home splash page:

Latest Releases — reads the #scr-releases channel live, so you see update notes the moment they're posted.
Newest Cosmetics — with real art thumbnails, animated frames included.
Players — who's online now and recently online, with titles and ratings. Hide yourself via Settings → Appear offline.
The Discord Link panel and chat moved here from My Stats.

Discord FAQ bot

A new bot auto-answers common questions (how to play ranked, the modpack code, gambling, the economy, tournaments, becoming an artist, rank thresholds, and more) — in Discord server-wide AND in the in-game chat bridge. Ask in your own words. /faq lists every topic; it also does a live "how much elo vs @player" calculation and names the current top player.

/compare

First / Prev / Next / Last buttons page through every mutual game.
New head-to-head top cards section — each player's most-picked cards against the other.

My Stats

History lazy-loads so the page opens fast; pages fill in as you scroll, full page count still shown.
Card Stats and Achievements are now sub-tabs under My Stats.

Fixes

Chat T-key no longer disables itself after you use the in-game text chat (proper root-cause fix).

v1.32.0 — RELEASED 2026-07-14

Headline: the July 14 feature batch — podium presence everywhere (top-3 leaderboard highlights + a dynamic sparkling 1st/2nd/3rd Place title + 3x XP for beating a podium holder), 1000g slayer achievements with back-pay, tournament Discord feeds + availability-check DMs with Yes/No buttons, four new FPS/accessibility settings, a reordered shop, and a big Discord bot expansion (reworked /rank + /stats, /mystats, /cards, /graph charts, head-to-head /compare, 50-row leaderboard, live tournament board).

Client (mod)

Leaderboard podium highlights — ranks 1-3 get persistent gold/silver/bronze row tints on the 1v1 board (click-select still overrides); 2v2 rank numbers and 1v2 rank tags read gold/silver/bronze too.
Podium title sparkle — "1st/2nd/3rd Place" titles render with per-character glitter that shimmers on the leaderboard (only the podium rows repaint on a 0.7s tick — never a full-board repaint) and glitters statically in match history / 2v2 lists.
Four new Settings toggles (standalone — not under the perf master): Screen shake (Harmony block at the Screenshaker receivers, local-only), Map lighting (full-bright, skips the whole SFSS lightmap pass), Map shadows (skips the shadow render pass, lighting stays), Animated cosmetics (freezes prismatic/chrome body colors, prism trail, map-skin shimmer, animated faces, and shop thumbnails to a static frame instantly — frozen clocks, never paused particles).
Shop reordered — tabs and All-tab sections now run Cosmetics → Name Styles → Maps → Titles → Trails → Body Color → Cursor → Effects → Other.
Tournaments tab — the Voting / Signups Open block reads bigger (state 24pt, times 17pt, instructions 14pt).
Achievements — "Unkillable" renamed to "God Build"; the tab now shows the real per-trophy gold (+1000g on the slayers).
Stale "Ranked x1.2" XP-toast label fixed to x1.5; new "Top 3 x3" label.

Server (to deploy)

Slayer achievements pay 1000g (per-key override; the unlock endpoint, inline grants, and admin grants all honor it) — migration 123 back-pays every existing earner to exactly 1000g per slayer trophy (computed delta per player; prod ledger was uneven — some earners were never paid at all by the 102 backfill).
Top-3 XP multiplier — beating a CURRENT top-3 leaderboard player now triples match XP (replaces the flat +150 for those wins; top-4/5 keeps +150). Podium set matches the visible board (min_matches=1, deleted_at filtered) on a 60s cache.
Dynamic 'Podium' title (title_podium, migration 123) — resolves live to 1st/2nd/3rd Place in gold/silver/bronze at every render surface (leaderboards, match history, chat, 2v2, stats) and disappears entirely below 3rd; ownership auto-granted on entering the podium, never revoked. En-route fix: achievement-unlocked titles (Sid Slayer / Stan Slayer) had NO equip surface since v1.29 — /shop/items now lists achievement-pool items you own, so all of them are finally equippable.
Tournament Discord feed — signup/leave posts with live counts + Discord-localized times, @-mention posts on quorum reached, pushback, and vote-moved start times (rides the acked channel-post bus).
Availability-check DMs (migration 124) — 24-96h before a viable tournament, every confirmed signup gets a DM with Yes / No-remove-me buttons (restart-safe; No calls the real unsignup). Sync DMs restate the "just have ROUNDS open at the start time" contract; async DMs explain the 7-day-deadline scheduling so nobody thinks they need fixed availability. Pushbacks reset the notices so the new date gets a fresh ask.
Hardening: the client unlock endpoint now only accepts the 14 client-detected achievement keys (server-granted trophies can no longer be self-awarded), and a lean /players/{id}/rating-history endpoint feeds bot charts without the heavy stats query.

Discord bot

/rank reworked (ranked-only: rating/RD/peak, tier, series record, live streak, position, leave rate) and /stats reworked (general: totals, casual, level/XP, gold — hidden when hide_gold — hit%/block%, top cards, 2v2, FPS). Fixed en route: /stats top cards had been silently empty (read fields the API never served).
New commands: /mystats (the F5 page as an embed), /cards [player] [ranked|casual|all], /compare (2-4 players' ranked rating histories overlaid on a rendered chart, client-convention 1500 baseline).
/lb shows 100 players per page (multi-embed) and the channel board carries all 100 in one living message.
Live tournament board in scr-tournaments — one bottom-anchored living message with Sync + Async status, rosters, bracket progress, and podiums, updating every 2 min.
Availability-DM poller with server-side acks; channel posts now ping user mentions explicitly (and can never @everyone).

Adversarial review (27 agents, 6 dimensions): 21 raised / 18 confirmed (7 distinct) / 3 refuted — all fixed pre-ship

(critical) the availability-DM pipeline was dead on arrival: the bot read notice key id but the server serialized notice_id — every notice silently skipped, never acked, queue starved at 20 rows.
(high) the podium query filtered ≥5 counted matches while every visible board passes min_matches=1 — the sparkling title and x3 XP could attach to the player displayed at #4.
(medium) locked-phase leave posts announced the pre-vote default start time; pushed-back tournaments could never re-ask availability (unique-row dedup); the tournament board could exceed Discord's 6000-char message budget and freeze; concurrent /compare renders raced pyplot's global state; the slayer 1000g was reachable through the client-HMAC unlock endpoint.

Post-deploy feedback round (July 14, same day)

Leaderboard title brackets now take the title's color instead of inheriting the local player's green name color; podium rows (1-3) get a thin dark SDF outline on every cell so the pale rank-colored ratings stay readable over the gold/silver/bronze tints. Podium highlight alphas halved (were too strong behind text).
/lb fixed: showed 100/page but truncated mid-row around #67, and page 2 started at #201. Root cause was a server double-add of the page offset onto an already-absolute ROW_NUMBER() rank (fixed server-side); page size set to 50 for the command and the channel board, no mid-row truncation, board covers all ranked players.
/compare reworked to head-to-head (exactly 2 players: overall record, ranked/casual/series split, recent mutual games with each side's cards) and the multi-player Compare-tab charts moved to /graph (16 metrics: elo-over-time, hit/block %, cards-per-game, FPS, peak, XP, achievements, streaks, sweeps, bets, keys, game length, 2v2, top-cards, region pies).
scr-tournaments board now carries a "How it works" field per embed explaining sync (one sitting, ROUNDS open at start) vs async (7-day per-match deadlines, self-scheduled).

Known limitation

"Disable map lighting" flattens the sky. ROUNDS composes the scene as sprites × lightmap and the per-map sky color IS the lighting (the raw backdrop sprite is a fixed dark texture), so turning lighting off cannot preserve the colored sky. The toggle paints a flat slate backdrop, but on several default (non-custom-skin) maps the vanilla backdrop still reads dark/purple-tinted — the flat paint reaches ArtHandler.m_background but not every default map's backdrop source. Shipped as-is (opt-in, off by default); "Disable map shadows" is the recommended perf toggle — it's where the cost is and it keeps the scene fully lit and correct. A proper lighting-off backdrop fix is on the TODO.

Migrations (applied to prod 2026-07-14)

123_slayer_gold_and_podium_title.sql — slayer top-up (regicide 4 earners/3875g, stan_slayer 3/2900g) + Podium title seed (idempotent, re-run safe).
124_tournament_notices.sql — availability-DM queue table.

v1.31.0 — RELEASED 2026-07-13

Headline: the 1v2 mode (solo vs duo, unranked beta) is live — queue from the new Multiplayer > 1v2 tab. Plus the July 12/13 bug batches (#58, #64–#75), 15 new cosmetics (6 animated), 12 body colors, the Discord leaderboard-channel fix, and an FFA design-preview tab. Details in the section rounds below.

Server (deployed)

Bug #70 — 2v2 series after the first never recorded: /team/series/continuation raised NameError on its create path (function-local uuid_mod alias referenced from module scope) → 500 on every rematch-series open; every game after a sitting's first completed series was dropped. One-line fix; the endpoint's idempotent branch had masked it from smoke tests.
Bug #66 — achievement percentages meaningless: denominator was all 2,847 auto-created player rows; now both sides count mod users only (mod_seen_at IS NOT NULL, ~200 players). Untouchable: 0.8% → 11.8%.
Bug #68 — admin series cards mashed together: per-game encoding (|| between games, | within — still JsonUtility-safe flat scalars).
Discord bot — leaderboard channel staleness: loop verified ticking (10-min fetches, 200 OK) but successful edits logged nothing and older duplicate board messages could sit stale above the one being edited. Every publish outcome now logs one line; rescans delete duplicate boards and keep exactly one; api_get logs non-200 statuses instead of silently returning None.
Schema changes / migrations:
- 115_backfill_july12_lost_matches.sql — restores the July 12 recording gap: 2 completed 2v2 series (5 matches) with offline-replayed Glicko (Sid +28.4, Stan +46.6, opponents −68.5 ea), gold/XP mirroring the live grant paths, plus game 7 (series-less) and Stan's lost casual vs enoch (bug #65).
- 116_more_body_colors_wave3.sql — 12 new body colors: yellows (Lemon, Mustard, Gold), greens (Forest, Olive, Lime), skin tones (Porcelain, Tan, Sienna, Umber), reds (Scarlet, Maroon).

July 13 round 6 (1v2 polish: sub-tab drift, Discord beacon, extra-pick clarity + FFA preview tab)

Multiplayer sub-tab drift fixed — the 2v2/1v2/FFA sub-tab bar rendered progressively lower per tab because 1v2 (padT 14) and the FFA placeholder (padT 40) parked the shared bar's anchor inside their padded content panels, while 2v2 anchors it in an unpadded outer wrapper. All three tabs now use the outer-wrapper pattern; the bar sits at the same top position everywhere.
1v2 Discord queue beacon — joining the 1v2 lobby now posts to #ranked-looking-for-people like 1v1/2v2: "⚔️ NAME (elo) is searching for 1v2 — X/3 in the lobby!" (new /ovt/queue/recent-joins endpoint + its own guarded bot loop; the elo shown is the player's 1v1 rating, and the lobby count only counts live pollers so ghost lobbies never advertise).
"Solo Extra Initial Pick" — renamed from "Solo extra pick" and the tab now explains the actual rule: the solo gets one extra card in the game's FIRST draw only, and it's ON for the match if ANY of the three lobby members enabled it (the server ORs it across the lobby — conflicting choices resolve to ON). Still labeled as not-applied-in-game-yet.
FFA tab v0 — the "Work In Progress" placeholder is now a real design-preview page: IN DEVELOPMENT disclaimer, the locked ruleset (4-player every-man-for-himself, last-standing rounds, first to 5, single games, the rolling 5-card bar, non-winners pick, unranked launch with full recording), and an honest "why it isn't out yet" (the card-removal netcode needs its Sandbox test matrix first). No queue controls until the mode ships.

July 12 round 5 (1v2 finish: team-split forcing + queue visibility)

1v2 team-split forcing — the #1 in-game gap, now wired end-to-end. ready_join computes each client's slot (solo=0/team 0; duo=1,2/team 1 in the server's duo_a/duo_b payload order — identical on all three clients, no sorting needed), publishes p_id/t_id/u_id + styled NickName + cosmetic props BEFORE the Photon join (the 2v2 no-race pattern), and the CreatePlayer override now covers ovt_ rooms with strict mode-matching (an ovt room only honors the ovt slot, a cr_ff room only the 2v2 slot — a stale slot from the other mode can never mis-map teams). The whole 2v2 join/spawn machinery is now mode-aware via Diag2v2.SlotToTeam()/PlayersNeeded(): late-joiner GM_ArmsRace activation, LoadingScreen clear, force-StartGame at 3, extended card bars, auto-spawn (slot 2 never sees a character-select prompt), team skin mapping (solo orange, duo both blue), the skin re-bake guard, the team crown patch (solo leader = one crown, duo leaders both crowned), and the spawn-point sort.
1v2 queue visibility (2v2 parity, Sid's ask): the tab now has a live lobby panel — every queuer with their 1v1 + 2v2 elo, side preference / locked side, extra-pick flag, status, and time in queue — plus a locked-lineup line ("Solo vs A + B") and a 2s-ticker refresh. New GET /ovt/queue/list powers it.
Queue robustness (server, curl-verified live incl. a full lock + timeout cycle): ghost-prune — a crashed client's silent 'searching' row used to LOCK into a dead 3-player series (the lock query had no staleness filter); dead-lock self-heal — a lock >2 min old with no game reported cancels the series (assembly_timeout) and resets the lobby to searching instead of re-feeding clients a dead room; join now snapshots the 1v1 elo as fallback_rating.
Queue polling survives menu close — the 1v2 poll now ticks from the plugin-level loop like 2v2's (it was tab-11-only: queueing then closing F5 meant never receiving ready_join).
Region fix — 1v2 queue join now reports the client's Photon region; every 1v2 room previously pinned to "us".
ovt room watchdog — the never-filled-room watchdog (learning #102) now covers ovt_ rooms (3 arrivals, 35s notice, 90s penalty-free bail) — 1v2 has no server-side assembly timeout, so this is the only escape from a no-show.
Stale-slot hygiene (also fixes a latent 2v2 wart): joining a room of the other mode now clears the leftover pending slot — previously a 2v2 slot lingering after a series kept the slot→team skin mapping active in later casual rooms.
Solo extra pick: recorded on the lobby/series but NOT yet applied in-game; the tab now says so explicitly.
Round-5 adversarial review (19 raised / 13 confirmed / 6 refuted) — all confirmed findings fixed:
- (critical) the first cut of the dead-lock self-heal could cancel a LIVE series mid-game-1 (zero recorded games + >2min lock age is exactly what game 1 looks like; one mid-game "Join" click triggered it). Now: locks dissolve at their real end-of-life instead — /ovt/queue/leave cancels a zero-game lock and resets the lobby; the room watchdog and failed-join give-up both call it; the self-heal is a 10-minute last resort with a status-guarded cancel; and the Join button hides while locked so the trigger is gone.
- (high) consent guard — the 1v2 queue has no ready-up step, so a lock landing hours later could yank a player out of a live ranked match (DC against them). Queueing from inside an online game is now blocked, and a lock that lands while in another room is declined (auto-leaves the 1v2 queue + dissolves the lock + notifies).
- (high) the widened team-mode gate armed the 2v2 DC reporter in ovt_ rooms, where a stale ActiveTeamSeriesId from an earlier 2v2 sitting could receive a real Glicko-applying DC report from a 1v2 rage-quit. The DC block is now strictly non-ovt.
- (high) a husk lock was unescapable (Leave hidden once locked, server re-fed the dead room forever) — Leave now shows while locked and dissolves.
- (medium) the 20s ghost-prune would mass-evict every live queuer after any >20s API gap (every backend redeploy) and could deadlock two recovering pollers — now 75s + SKIP LOCKED, with the lock query independently requiring fresh polls (10s), a 3h husk sweep, and the client auto-rejoining once if its row vanishes while searching.
- (medium) ovt card bars mapped duo_a's picks onto the solo's side of the screen — 1v2 now uses a 3-bar layout (solo left, duo right + right-lower).
- (medium) 1v2 leaderboard rows went permanently blank after a menu-page rebuild (pooled rows never cleared — pre-existing bug); failed joins left the tab stuck on "Match found! Joining…"; leaving an ovt room now clears the sitting state on all three clients; a canceled lock no longer 409s the sitting's continuation; "5/3 in lobby" cosmetics.

July 13 round 4 (1v2 build + cosmetic fixes + bug batch #71-75)

1v2 (solo vs duo) — server complete & deployed + adversarially reviewed, client built (first playtest pending). Launches UNSCORED (stats tracked for retroactive ranking). Server (migration 120, all curl-tested): consent queue (no Elo band), 3-player lock assigning 1 solo + 2 duo by preference, match report with gold/XP (no rating) + full replay recording, continuation (recording-gap fix from day one), series-active, unranked leaderboard. Client: ovt_ rooms are competitive rooms, playersNeededToStart=3 + MaxPlayers=3, a functional 1v2 tab (queue + side preference + solo-extra-pick toggle + live lobby status + leaderboard), room auto-join on lock, match-end report routing (solo vs duo from in-game team sizes). A 4-dimension adversarial review workflow (16 findings, 12 confirmed) then caught and fixed: the room MaxPlayers=2 blocker (3rd player couldn't join), a queue-lock stranding race, four 1v1-path leaks into ovt_ rooms (report fallback / session tally / BO3 HUD / DC leave-%), the unwired continuation, and server hardening (reporter-first score parity, empty-room dedup bypass, atomic XP, trio validation). Known #1 in-game gap (documented for playtest): 1v2 doesn't yet FORCE the 3-player team split — needs the t_id-publish + CreatePlayer override 2v2 has. FFA deliberately deferred — its rolling card bar is untested card-removal netcode flagged as the top risk; needs a Sandbox test matrix, not a rushed ship.
Cosmetics: 8 more (Demon Wings + a 7-item house batch incl. 2 more animated); six flagged items enlarged; Tattered Cape redrawn front-view; the ship/pack skills now always bundle the art.
Bug #71 — bought cosmetics didn't appear in the editor: GitHub-DLL installs never received the art folder; the mod now self-bootstraps cosmetics.zip from the latest release (mirrors card art) + /ship always attaches it.
Bug #72 — My Stats hover regions dead until refresh (width froze before text layout; now computed live) + score-graph labels clipped (taller rects + overflow).
Bug #73 — shop Artist sub-tab sometimes unclickable: the click de-dupe guard was global; now per-control.
Bug #74 — animated cosmetics static in the shop thumbnail; now cycled at the item's fps.
Bug #75 — artist price/stock popup click-through: the mod's custom click handler polls the mouse directly and bypassed the uGUI blocker; it now respects modal state.

July 13 round 3 (design lock + cosmetics batch)

1v2/FFA design locked: all six open decisions answered (no 1v2 handicap + optional solo extra initial pick as a lobby toggle; unscored launch with full stat recording for retroactive ranked; FFA single-games with explicit UI labeling; 3-or-4 players at launch with everything count-parameterized for 5-6 later; rolling bar FFA-only; separate tabs). FFA player-count feasibility verified against the decompile (spawn-point synthesis is the only hard 5+ blocker). docs/design-1v2-ffa.md updated; next pass builds 1v2 end-to-end.
Demon Wings cosmetic — source art processed into pipeline shape (painted checkerboard backdrop keyed out via flood-fill + enclosed-hole punch, cropped, 512px real alpha).
Seven more house cosmetics (each reviewed against the art checklist): Thorn Crown, Sunburst Halo, Knight Great-Helm, Rally Flags, Tattered Cape, and two more ANIMATED items — Dark Aura and Energy Orbs (4 frames @ 7fps). All eight round-3 items in migration 119; art ships with the client (34 cosmetic files total).

July 13 round 2 (Sid's five-item batch)

Leaderboard channel "not posting" (final): publishes were landing (proven by the new per-tick logs) but an EDITED Discord message never moves down the channel and keeps its original post date — the board was literally buried under newer messages. The embed now carries a live "Updated X minutes ago" timestamp, and any tick that finds the board non-bottom deletes + reposts it at the channel bottom (deployed; first tick confirmed: "board was buried — reposted at bottom").
Shop UX: click any row to highlight it (whole-row tint, click again to clear); face-cosmetic art doubled to 80px with taller rows; artist filter tabs upsized 13pt/120×24 → 16pt/150×30.
Six new house cosmetics (migration 118 + catalog + art): Crazed Eyes, Yin & Yang, Devil Horns, Alien Antennae, and the first two ANIMATED items — Storm Halo and Flame Crest (4 procedural frames @ 8fps through the __fN pipeline).
Stan granted admin (migration 117).
1v2 + FFA groundwork: full design in docs/design-1v2-ffa.md — what reuses from 2v2, the two-team-scoring constraint, the FFA rolling 5-card bar mechanism (deterministic FullReset+reapply at pick-phase barriers, guarded by the delegate sweep), server table shapes, risks ranked, and 6 decisions queued for Sid.

Client (built, unreleased)

Bug #58 — 2v2 card-pick bodies missing/wrong: the anti-stack X-spread applied a LOCAL offset under CardChoiceVisuals' 33×-scaled root — solo-pick bodies parked at world X=−198/−66 (proven 34/34 in the 7/12 log). Spread removed entirely (only one body ever exists — vanilla destroys the prior clone per Show); tint/face/body-check kept.
Bug #70 client hardening: match-end now re-requests the continuation series and defers the report instead of dropping the game when no series id is held.
Bug #65 — report outbox: match reports that exhaust their immediate retries queue to disk and re-send every ~60s (dup-safe via the server's unique room+players constraints).
Bug #64 — Tab board stale cards: vanilla's rematch reset never clears currentCards; the board now baselines at each Player.FullReset and shows only this game's picks. Same investigation found GM_ArmsRace.StartGame never fires on same-room rematches — the #92/#103 block-delegate sweep now also runs from PlayerManager.ResetCharacters (the hook rematches actually call).
Bug #69 — 100% accuracy: DOT ticks carry the same weapon object as direct hits and were pumping bullets_hit to the cap; hits now count only at ProjectileHit.RPCA_DoHit (direct, unblocked, enemy impacts).
Bug #67 — effect preview: rebuilt as an IMGUI-simulated particle preview (draws above the menu by construction — no cameras/RT/menu fade); parameters mirror each SKU's real aura.
Leaderboard tab freshness: switching to the tab always refetches, a 30s ticker refreshes while open, and completed fetches now repaint even when the row count is unchanged.
Bug #68 client half: admin Recent Ranked Series renders one line per game (G1/G2/G3), rows auto-grow.

v1.30.1 — RELEASED 2026-07-12 (same-day patch)

Bug #62 (lopidav) — cursor click point offset: ROUNDS' vanilla cursor is a target/crosshair icon (streamline-icon-cursor-target-1@32x32) whose hotspot is its CENTER; the tinted default-shape cursor shipped with an arrow-style top-left hotspot, so the actual click landed at the crosshair's top-left corner. Hotspot now = texture center.
Bug #63 (lopidav) — unreadable dark shop names: item NAME colors get a lightness floor (dark hues lerped toward white); swatches/art keep the true color.
Star Earmuffs art corrected — the artist's intended composition (wider flat band, muffs at the edges, larger stars).
Build hygiene: shipped DLLs are deterministic and symbol-free.

v1.30.0 — RELEASED 2026-07-12

The biggest release since ranked launched. Everything under the v1.30.0-dev sections below shipped in this version; highlights:

Community character cosmetics: artist-made faces/accessories (animated supported) in ROUNDS' own character editor; artist roles with price/stock/gift/block controls, an in-game submission + admin review pipeline, and the first two community items (Sprout by lopidav, Star Earmuffs by Nix ツ). Custom cursor colors now tint ROUNDS' original cursor shape.
Hold-Tab live match scoreboard (TabInfo-style): every player's live build stats + card lists.
Achievements expanded to 40 (from 13 visible), with migration 113's retroactive backfill: 106 grants / 50 players / 10,600g paid. Instinct false-positive fixed (bug #60).
Navigation overhaul: grouped tabs (Compare under Leaderboard, Artist under Shop, Multiplayer = 2v2 + 1v2/FFA placeholders), sub-tab row anchored inside panels, leaderboard layout truly centered (learning #132), Series-vs-You pager beside its section.
My Stats: per-game length beside Hit%, live-tracking hover regions (bug #61 — no more drift while scrolling), score-history hover graph.
Shop/UX: artist filter boxes + bylines, effect previews composited above the menu via a dedicated RT pass (with self-diagnosing fade fallback), Your Recent Bets (3-day window), player name-search (elo-verified) for gifts/blocks/admin grants, 12pt global font floor, readable Compare achievement grid.
Server: /players/search, match-history duration_seconds, pristine/silent-drill combo keys fixed (never matched prod card names), 2v2 crown for both team members, single-worker + chat/online fixes (#51/#52), custom-lobby instant lock (#57), and the July 11 batch (#50–#59) documented below.
Backfills/migrations this release: 107–114.

Sid's Competitive Rounds — Changelog

v1.29.1 — 2026-07-07 — RELEASED — ranked-attribution root fix + July 7 bug batch (#44–#50) + dark map backgrounds

Migrations 104/105/106 applied 2026-07-07 (snapshot cc_pre-mig-104__20260707_122159). Backend deployed + client shipped same day. MIN_MOD_VERSION stays 1.28.2 (no forced update). Bug-comments posted on #44/#45/#46/#47/#48/#49/#50.

Map backgrounds — dark/black-walled skins go pitch-black (Sid)

Charcoal, Obsidian, Blackwood, Abyss (+ Aurora premium) now render pitch-black / dark-smoky backgrounds instead of the old grey fog. Root fix, not just palette: ApplyLighting's SFLight sky floor was a hard +0.22, so even a black background lifted to grey. The floor now scales with background luminance — normal/light skins are pixel-identical to v1.29.0; near-black backgrounds sink toward 0.04 so they read as actual black. Charcoal exposure deepened −0.60 → −0.72.
Wall-vs-background separation audited across all 26 custom skins: every skin now has ≥31/255 max-channel distance between its background and closest wall color (Monochrome's bg was 1/255 off its dark wall — pushed to darker smoke). Reference: docs/map_skin_colors.xlsx (designed + on-screen-derived swatches per skin).

The Slarn case (#47) — ranked games recording casual / "missing"

Data backfill (mig 104, LIVE): 4 games from 7/7 flipped casual→ranked and attached to series — A_pancake game 1 (08:32) into its sitting's series, Catus games 1+2 (10:47/10:51) as a new completed 2-0 series (Glicko period + rating_history + 12g series-win gold applied, values computed offline), Catus game 3 (10:59) into the sitting's next series. XP corrected to ranked rates (+748 Sid, +375 Catus, +125 A_pancake).
Root cause, server (code): match reports now re-evaluate rankedness server-side. A live series for the pair keeps the report ranked even if a flag flipped mid-series (late startup sync / mid-series toggle can't void a BO3); a casual-claimed report between two mod-seen, ranked-enabled players upgrades to ranked (kills every client race: props lost on join, /mod/check vs preflight registration, opponent's startup sync landing mid-game). Deliberate opt-outs (ranked_enabled=false, no live series) still record casual.
Root cause, client: report forces isRanked=true when a live series id exists for the room's pairing (id now cleared on room leave, mod-opponent-gated); consent revoke no longer permanently disables ranked (tracked via RankedDisabledByConsent, auto-restored + re-synced on re-grant — the silent trap that left players unranked forever); the "casual match" toast now always fires (was swallowed when the preflight beat the mod-check), names the opponent, and says how to fix it.
"Missing game" explanation: the one slarn game played before the report WAS recorded (17:35, ranked, in series). The confusion was the Series: 0-1 toast after Sid won game 1 — the score was in series-row order (slarn happened to be p1). Match-report responses now orient series_score reporter-first.

Bug fixes

#44 (Compare shows "Regicide") — /achievements/{id} never included display names; the client prettified raw keys. Entries now carry name from ACHIEVEMENT_DEFS. (server)
#45/#48 (Current Rank title renders literally) — the dynamic-title override now runs at the three missed render sites: match history opponent titles, 2v2 recent-series slots (resolved against 1v1 rating), 2v2 leaderboard. (server)
#48 (rank title looks unequipped in shop) — equip state compared shop-item NAME to the served title, but the dynamic title rewrites the name to the live rank. Stats now expose active_title_sku; shop compares by sku (name fallback for old payloads). (server + client)
#46 (Disable button vanishes after Sandbox) — Photon OfflineMode counts as "in a room" and lingers at the main menu after leaving Sandbox, so inGameMode stayed true and hid the button until relaunch. New IsInOnlineRoom accessor excludes offline mode. (client)
#49 (title names collide with rank tiers) — shop titles renamed Beginner→Noobie, Grandmaster→Expert (mig 105, LIVE; skus unchanged).
#50 (Keys/Sec + Keys/Game not registering) — input sampling ran inside the 10 Hz poll, but Unity's *Down APIs are per-FRAME edge triggers: whole games recorded ~8 active seconds / ~30 keys (prod data: 294s game → 7.7s/31). Sampling moved to the per-frame tick, counts gameplay keys only (WASD/arrows/space/L+R click) during active combat, and adds a macro detector (1s windows ≥25 events → advisory suspected_macro flag at ≥10 windows/match). Old under-counted data reset (mig 106, LIVE); server ignores key metrics from pre-1.29.1 clients so the clean baseline can't re-pollute. (client + server)

Schema changes — mig 104_backfill_unranked_first_games.sql (data repair, see above); mig 105_rename_overlapping_titles.sql; mig 106_macro_counter_reset_key_metrics.sql: matches.local_macro_suspect_seconds + key-metric reset.

v1.29.0 — 2026-07-06 — RELEASED — features + July bug sweep (rolls up the unshipped v1.28.3 client)

Backend deployed 2026-07-06 (snapshot cc_cc-v129-pre-migrate__20260706_092540; migrations 102 + 103 applied). Client released as v1.29.0 same day after 8 rounds of map-rendering iteration with Sid. MIN_MOD_VERSION stays 1.28.2 (no forced update). Bug-comments posted on #28/#29/#36/#37/#38/#39/#40/#41/#42/#43.

Round 9 (release polish) — premium twinkle slowed to a 1.6s drift with 1-in-3 glint (was 0.45s / half — read as strobing).

New features

Online counter (F1) — queue tab shows "N online" next to the queue count. Client pings /presence/ping every 60s from the always-on loop; /queue/count also stamps presence and returns online. In-memory on the server (no DB writes).
Achievements (F2) — Regicide renamed Sid Slayer (same key, rows intact). New Stan Slayer (beat Stan 76561198983423367 in a ranked series — SLAYER_TARGETS map, extensible) and Grand Master (2330+ rating, 1v1 or 2v2; granted at every Glicko-update site). Migration backfilled 2 Stan-slayers + granted the slayer TITLES to all achievement holders.
Compare tab (F3) — new metrics: Top Streaks (ranked/casual, grouped bars), 5-0s Given/Taken, Bets Won/Lost, Keys/Sec, Avg Game Length, 2v2 Rating, and an Achievement Grid (per-achievement YES/– table per selected player). Server: stats response adds avg_keys_per_sec, avg_game_seconds, bets_won/lost, bet_gold_net (refunds excluded), team_rating, rank_name/color. Client tracks keystrokes (anyKeyDown) + active-combat seconds per match, reported as local_keys_pressed/local_active_seconds (advisory, not in HMAC).
Multi-language support (F4) — runtime TMP fallback fonts built from installed OS fonts (Segoe UI + CJK families) appended to the game font's fallback table + TMP_Settings. Cyrillic/CJK Steam names and chat now render instead of squares. No ASCII stripping existed anywhere — this was purely a glyph problem.
Booster gold (F5) — Discord boosters get 2000 gold/month. Bot sweeps guild.premium_subscribers every 12h → /internal/booster-grant; idempotent per (discord_id, month) via booster_grants unique constraint. Unlinked boosters get a one-time DM nudge to !link. (Discord doesn't expose per-member boost count — one grant per boosting member.)
Custom bet amounts (F6) — in-game: "..." button on every bet row opens an amount prompt (1–100,000g, Enter to place). Discord: "Custom on X..." buttons open a modal. Server already accepted arbitrary amounts.
Rank titles (F7) — leaderboard rating column is colored by rank tier; player detail shows "Rank: Master V" in the live Discord role color (bot pushes all 25 role colors to rank_role_colors on start + every 6h; verified 25 pushed on deploy). New free shop title "Current Rank" (title_rank) renders as your live tier name+color everywhere titles show (leaderboard/chat/stats) and updates automatically on rank change. Sid Slayer / Stan Slayer titles are achievement-granted, non-purchasable (rotation_pool='achievement').

Bug fixes

Shield Charge dead after ranked reconnect (#39/#40) — proven in lopi's log: aborted ShieldCharge.OnDestroy leaves its ShieldChargeCollide key in ChildRPC's dictionaries → next game Start() throws duplicate-key and aborts BEFORE the Block subscription (blocking fine, charge dead). The StartGame scrub now also removes dead-target entries from ChildRPC string→delegate dictionaries. (client)
Orange pick-body invisible in 1v1 ranked (#29) — the 2v2 anti-stack X-offset (picker 0 → X=-6) ran in ALL competitive rooms and shoved the 1v1 visualizer body off-camera while the face applied to the un-moved root. Offset now cr_ff-only. (client)
Jump-to-join stuck (#37) — spawn guard was correct but unbreakable: stale game scene + no room = suppressed forever. 30s continuous suppression now triggers NetworkRestart → clean menu return with a notice. (client)
Velvet walls invisible after Shift (#28, second attempt) — burst re-fire via Clear+Simulate(0)+Play is unreliable; now live particles are recolored in place (GetParticles/SetParticles) with zero clearing — nothing can go invisible on any emitter type. (client)
Map backgrounds grey/blue (B1) — every map-color SKU now has a hand-picked vivid backdrop hue (same family as the primary, shifted so walls/bg don't blend; mono/charcoal stay neutral). Scene-wide colorFilter lean eased 0.6→0.42 so backdrop hues survive the multiply. (client)
F5 lag for both players (B2) — three fixes: cosmetic Photon publishes only fire when the cosmetic set actually changed (was 5 broadcasts to every client per menu open — the opponent-side blip); match-history parse spread across frames (~80 entries/frame instead of 2000 in one hitch); ForceUpdateCanvases only after a fresh page build. (client)
Series don't resume across sessions (#43) — undecided mid-BO3s stay the pair's current series for 7 days and resume at the real score. Stalled series: bets refund at 60 min (unchanged) but the row stays active; abandoned only when the window lapses (series_expired). /series/active liveness is now activity-based. LIVE.
Refunded bets showed as losses (#41) — refunds (payout == stake) are excluded from Recent Ranked Series. LIVE.
Bets created for ranked-disabled players (#42) — preflight/match-report no longer force-enable ranked_enabled; preflight returns not_ranked (no series/ping) and reports downgrade to casual when either player opted out (queue rooms exempt — queueing is consent). Client shows "Casual match" notice. LIVE (server), client notice in this build.
Bug-report DMs inconsistent (#38) + no Discord bug category (#30) — root cause: rolling 90s window + in-memory dedup = every bot restart dropped pending DMs (deploys coincide with comment sweeps). Now ack-based at-least-once delivery (notified_at/channel_posted_at + /internal/bug-reports/events/ack). Every bug report now gets its own thread in the feed channel with comments/status changes mirrored in. LIVE.
Bets endpoint now enforces the "locked once any game is decided" rule it always displayed. LIVE.

Schema changes — migration 102_v129_titles_presence_compare.sql: players.keys_pressed_total/active_seconds_total, matches.local_keys_pressed/local_active_seconds, bug_report_events.notified_at, bug_reports.channel_posted_at (+backfills), tables rank_role_colors + booster_grants, 3 title shop items, slayer/GM backfills. Migration 103_premium_map_colors.sql: Gilded/Platinum/Aurora shop items.

Round 2 (same session, Sid's follow-ups)

Bet cap: max bet is now 2,000g on every endpoint (1v1 / 2v2 / Discord) + both custom-amount UIs. LIVE.
New achievements visible: the client's hardcoded AchievementDefs mirror was never updated — Sid Slayer rename + Stan Slayer + Grand Master now show in the Achievements tab and leaderboard detail. (client)
Avg Game Length decimals: bar labels show 5.4m instead of rounding to whole minutes (Keys/Sec also gets F1). (client)
"Elo over time" compare metric: same line graph, x-axis is the real calendar (date gridlines) instead of game index. Snapshot dates now parsed from recent_rating_history. (client)
Leaderboard shows everyone: server limit cap 200→500, client fetches 500 (was 100 — cut the board at 100/105); existing prev/next pager handles pages. LIVE (server) + (client).
Maps, the REAL background: ArtHandler.m_background is a dedicated sky GameObject our tints never touched — the vanilla blue backdrop leaked through everything (why "green skins turned blue" after the colorFilter was eased). New sky tint pass colorizes its renderers toward the skin's background color, with vanilla-restore when a default skin is active. Palette redone per Sid: only dusk/obsidian/abyss stay blue; Forest bg is brown; Mono/Lavender/Pine/Charcoal backgrounds are same-family-darker than their walls; the rest complement their walls. Velvet + Forest get the Magma-style dark "shadow" mood. (client)
Premium skins: Gilded (8,000g — molten gold glinting to white-gold), Platinum (12,000g — silver glinting to pure white), Aurora (10,000g — teal↔violet northern lights). Walls emit random-between two colors per particle (the per-particle shimmer that was a bug for normal skins is the premium effect). Shop items LIVE; rendering ships with the client.

Round 7-8 (bloom to "right above 0" + the green cast's true source)

Bloom capped at intensity 1.2 with a NEUTRAL white tint + higher threshold on every skin profile (Sid: effect "right above 0"); wall slabs dimmed to sub-bloom brightness. (client)
The universal green cast was ours (learning #119): the round-4 "tint every SolidColor camera" pass was overwriting the SFSS LightCamera's clear color — RGBA(1,0,0,0) is the light/shadow buffer's init value, not a backdrop — corrupting the lighting buffer on every skin. Off-screen cameras (targetTexture / Light-named) are now restored and permanently left alone; the stencil-utility quad is likewise excluded from scenery tints. (client)

Round 6 (the log names everything — learning #118)

The scene sun-light is radius=0.5, intensity=10, PURE BLUE — the round-5 "big light" filter (radius ≥ 20) skipped exactly the light that paints the sky, leaving the master blue source untinted; its blue × per-art backdrops also produced the mystery casts (blue × Gold-art yellow = Sid's green screens). Light detection now keys on intensity/parallax — the last blue source is tinted. (client)
The OutOfBounds/* "walls" we've tinted since v1.26 are actually the players' out-of-bounds warning effects (7 per player, playing=False by design). The old restart code force-played them (that's what the colored border beams ever were) and clearing them was the REAL invisible-walls bug. Pass retired — warnings return to vanilla red; the skin's visible walls are the base art's glow slabs, which now carry the primary/secondary two-tone. (client)
Premium sparkle rebuilt as requested: sub-bloom brightness (caps 0.85/0.95 — no more floodlights) + an actual twinkle loop (re-rolls which particles glint every 0.45s). (client)
Pine + Forest secondaries switched from rust/bark browns to greens (walls stay green; Forest's brown lives in the background). (client)

Round 5 (SFSS lighting + honesty pass)

Round 4's camera fix was a no-op — Sid's log shows MainCam clears Depth only, so backgroundColor is ignored. The real background system is SFSS 2D lighting: the sky is a backdrop lit by the big SFLight, the shadow beams are SFRenderer._ambientLight (tooltip literally suggests "a darker grey, blue..."). Now the big light gets a bright version of each skin's background and the ambient a dark version — sky + shadows take the designed hue, walls/geometry keep theirs. Camera + backdrop-quad tints kept as belt-and-suspenders. (client)
Blinding premiums fixed: near-white wall colors × 1.6 lift = HDR bloom blowout. All lifted colors now brightness-capped (≤1.15) and the sparkle glint is a subtle Lerp toward the sparkle color, not a white-hot second color. (client)
Stale deferred tints fixed (log-proven: burgundy tints landing after shifting to pine): a deferred apply now skips if the current sku changed during its 2s wait. (client)
Diagnostics for whatever remains: [MAPCOLOR-CAMS], [MAPCOLOR-LIGHT], [MAPCOLOR-BG] (backdrop inventory with vanilla values), [MAPCOLOR-WALLDIAG] (names any wall system that is EMPTY right after a tint pass, with emission state) — one test session pinpoints any still-wrong layer. (client)

Round 4 (the actual background, finally)

Round 3's strong filter repainted walls along with the sky ("Forest completely not green", walls == background) — because a colorFilter multiplies EVERYTHING. The real backdrop turns out to be MainCam's clear color, an editor constant vanilla never changes (which is why backgrounds never changed on Shift and always leaned blue). Now: camera clear color = the skin's designed background (instant on Shift, restored on default skins), colorFilter back to near-neutral (0.30 primary lean, mood only) so walls keep their own colors. Learning #116. (client)

Round 3 (Sid's screenshots + game decompile)

The real scene painter found (learning #114): Sid's screenshots showed the premiums rendering as three different VANILLA arts even though the log proved the custom path ran. Cause: in ROUNDS, the ColorGrading colorFilter paints the whole scene (sky, SFSS shadow beams, geometry — all near-neutral art multiplied by it); our 0.42 grey-lerp was too weak to repaint the base art AND was overwriting every per-preset filter with a primary-derived formula. Now the filter is a strong (0.80) lean toward each skin's designed background color — sky/shadows/geometry become the skin's family, walls keep their high-lift primary/secondary through the multiply, and the "still 20 blue maps" problem dies at the root. (client)
Sparkle made visible: the glint gradient now also drives the atmosphere particles (full-brightness two-color) and the sky object's particles — the border walls alone were too thin to read as sparkle. (client)
"Keys / Game" compare metric (avg key presses per game, reporter-side per-match average). LIVE (server) + (client).

Changelog

v1.28.2 — block/empower root-cause fix, two-tone maps, security hardening

Fixed block dying after game 1 in ranked AND the "infinite empower" carryover — same root cause (a card's between-games teardown leaving a dead handler on your block/gun). The mod now sweeps dead handlers at game start + each block press.
Map walls are two-tone again (primary + secondary by segment, e.g. Magma red + amber); backgrounds read more strongly as their named color.
Performance: removed two stale old-game patches; crash-error swallowers no longer destroy pooled/Photon bullets (a likely stutter source).
Security review: rate limiting + request cap, HMAC-signed the previously-open state endpoints, server-side speedhack flagging, mod-wide bans (matching a banned cheater leaves the match), hardened match-report/disconnect/admin paths.

v1.28.1 — block fix (ranked), phantom series scores, hover/refresh fix, Discord feed

Fixed block in ranked/matchmade games: it could activate but absorb nothing (you'd "block" and still take the hit). Caused by the round-start block reset stripping the block's action delegates each round; now it only rebuilds when a trigger was actually destroyed.
Fixed the per-series HUD game counter showing phantom scores past best-of-3 (e.g. "4-0") for the non-reporting player; it now self-corrects from the BO3 score.
Fixed the My Stats card-hover tooltip covering the refresh button — its hover zone was the full (mostly empty) row width and is now sized to the actual card text.
Discord series feed: win streaks no longer capped at 20 (1v1 + 2v2); rating changes show one decimal so sub-1.0 Glicko moves no longer read as "0".
Raised bug reports per day from 3 to 10.
Widened matchmaking-disconnect diagnostics to cover 1v1.

v1.28.0 — round-start freeze fix, map color rework, Compare charts, cursor shapes

Fixed a freeze where a player could get stuck mid-screen (no move/block/shoot) and end up off-screen the next round.
Map colors reworked so each map clearly reads as its named color; Shift shows the map-skin name; cycling no longer auto-shuffles to dull skins.
Compare tab: up to 12 players, charts for every stat (bars + pie charts), Total XP shown as levels, player search.
Cursor shape selectable in Settings (default / arrow / dot / crosshair / circle); shop Cursor/Effects/Other tabs; body-color unequip fix; bug-report form click-through fix.

Full notes: https://github.com/SidNDeed/SidsCompetitiveRounds/releases

v1.27.0 — custom map colors, shop expansion, level rewards, 2v2 series rework, performance pass

Full notes: https://github.com/SidNDeed/SidsCompetitiveRounds/releases

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SidsCompetitiveRounds

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README

Sid's Competitive Rounds

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Compatibility

Installation

Thunderstore (this page — recommended if you already use r2modman)

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CHANGELOG

v1.34.5 — 2026-07-27 — attempted base-game bug fixes, menu overhaul, security batch

Base-game bugs — ATTEMPTED FIXES, PLEASE REPORT BACK

Cosmetics — new community art

Menus

Cosmetics — artist workflow

Chat

Server & security

Schema changes

v1.34.4 — 2026-07-26 — 1v2 extra-pick crash fix + HTTPS endpoint

1v2

Connection

Cosmetics

Server

v1.34.3 — 2026-07-24 — First community cosmetic ships + gambler ping fix

Cosmetics

Discord

v1.34.2 — 2026-07-24 — Cosmetic placement workflow, flagged-match evidence, performance pass

Cosmetics — artists & admins

Flagged matches (admin)

In-match HUD

Performance

Discord bot

Fixes

v1.34.1 — 2026-07-22 — July 22 nine-item batch + live feedback

Discord identity (feedback round)

Client (mod)

Server

Discord bot

Server

v1.34.0 — 2026-07-22 — July 20-22 mega-batch

Client (mod)

Server

v1.33.1 (rolled into this release) — bug reports 77-80

v1.33.0 — RELEASED 2026-07-17 — July 17 mega-batch (rounds 1-3)

Round 3 (Sid's 10 items + first 1v2 forensics)

Client (mod)

Server (to deploy — no new migration required beyond 133)

Round 2 (Sid's 4 items)

Client (mod)

Server (to deploy — migration 132, then API+bot)

Discord bot

Adversarial review pass (round 2 — 4 finder angles, per-finding verify, 28 agents)

Round 1 (Sid's 7 items)

Client (mod)

Server (to deploy — migrations 128-131, then API+bot)

Discord bot

Adversarial review pass (8-angle, pre-ship)

Changelog

v1.32.1 — RELEASED 2026-07-16

Home tab

Discord FAQ bot

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Fixes

v1.32.0 — RELEASED 2026-07-14

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Discord bot

Adversarial review (27 agents, 6 dimensions): 21 raised / 18 confirmed (7 distinct) / 3 refuted — all fixed pre-ship

Post-deploy feedback round (July 14, same day)

Known limitation

Migrations (applied to prod 2026-07-14)

v1.31.0 — RELEASED 2026-07-13

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Server (to deploy — migration `132`, then API+bot)

Server (to deploy — migrations `128`-`131`, then API+bot)