v32 Release Notes

Major Changes

• New WebGL renderer — The entire game now renders on WebGL, which is faster and smoother (especially on big maps with lots of activity). It also comes with a new Graphics Settings modal with a dozen+ options so you can tweak how the game looks to your taste.
• Higher trade-ship cap — Ports now spawn more trade ships before tapering off, so naval trade scales up further with more ports.
• Reserved clan tags — You must now be a member of a clan in order to use its clan tag.
• Clan tags hidden in FFA — Clan tags are now hidden in FFA to help prevent clan teaming.
• No spawn timer in singleplayer — Singleplayer games now start immediately when you choose your spawn.

Renderer & Graphics

• Migrated the entire renderer from canvas2D/Pixi to WebGL and made it the sole renderer — ldlework
• Added a Graphics Settings modal — allowing for a dozen+ different graphics options — Evan
• Added territory image-based skins — Evan
• Added colorblind mode — noahschmal
• Moved the theme system from core to a client-side ThemeProvider — noahschmal
• Returned factory/defence-post radii and railroad highlighting when placing a city/port on top — VariableVince
• Showed the alliance request + duration icon and ally/teammate targets, with optimization — VariableVince
• Moved status icons closer above names with emoji on top — VariableVince
• Displayed player flags next to names again and restored territory skins — VariableVince
• Restored rendering on WebGL context loss — VariableVince
• Improved coordinate grid — FrederikJA
• Stopped trade-friendly ships from rendering as angry red warships — Berk
• Fixed the SAM/factory radius ghost upgrade and added a railroad ghost for factories, syncing factory effective distance and railroad max length — TKTK123456

Performance

• Numerous WebGL renderer performance improvements — Evan
• Major CPU and memory optimizations in the map generator — Alex Jurkiewicz
• Migrated AttackExecution hot loops to forEachNeighbor — Mike Zaugg
• Fixed AStar overflowing the priority queue on twisted paths — Arkadiusz Sygulski

Maps

🗺️ New Maps

• Mississippi River 🇺🇸 — Extremely long vertical river-based meme map (by @RickD004)
• Caribbean 🏖️ — Island-based map with tons of naval trade/warfare (by @RickD004)
• Danish Straits 🇩🇰 — Two landmasses and many islands on a relatively small map (by @RickD004)
• Venice 🛶 — Urban map with a multitude of canals (by @RickD004)
• Juan De Fuca Strait 🐋 — 3-team map based on the strait between Washington and Canada (by @RickD004)
• Northwest Passage 🧊 — Island-based map based on the historic sea route cutting through the Canadian Archipelago (by @RickD004)
• Indian Subcontinent 🇮🇳 — Highly requested map with lots of Indian/Pakistani states as NPCs and rivers (by @RickD004)
• Balkans — Land-based European map with countries as NPCs and additional nations (by @RickD004)
• Middle East 🌴 — Massive highland-based map focused on the most volatile region on earth (by @RickD004)
• Onion 🧅 — Tiny meme map with onion outlines as water and mountainous terrain as the background (by @TKTK123456)
• Yellow Sea 🇨🇳 — Medium-sized sea map with two peninsulas, located between China and Korea (by @crunchybbb2)
• Taiwan Strait 🇹🇼 — 2-team map with two equally sized landmasses (by @crunchybbb2 and @RickD004)
• Korea 🇰🇷 — Peninsula map with Korean provinces as nations (by @crunchybbb2)
• Southeast Asia 🏝️ — Large subcontinental map with islands, landmasses and archipelagos (by @RickD004)
• Hong Kong 🇭🇰 — Large and dense city-themed map with harbors, islands, and 71 district-themed NPCs (by @crunchybbb2)
• Titan 🪐 — Cosmic lake and river system based on Saturn's largest moon (by @RickD004)
• World Inverted 🌎 — Massive map with Earth's oceans becoming land and land becoming sea; filled with tectonic plate boundaries as "rivers" and shipwrecks as NPCs (by @PatrickPlaysBadly)
• Labyrinth 🌀 — Confusing symmetrical maze pattern with water channels and white cross marks (by @PatrickPlaysBadly)
• Chopping Block 🔪 — Unusual pattern inspired by The Box and an inversion of the Sierpinski map (by @PatrickPlaysBadly)
• Warship Warship ⚓ — Meme map with two warship-shaped islands; inspired by Ultimus Rex's memed quote "Warship Warship" (by @crunchybbb2)

Map Improvements & Fixes

• Team Maps Expansion (new team spawnzones), a huge terrain re-make of multiple maps, and new/updated map categories — RickD004
• Rebalanced the Taiwan Strait map — RickD004
• Fixed a river in Balkans not connecting to the sea and the Bosphorus map; QoL for Strait of Malacca — RickD004
• Formatted the map lists in Main and MapPlaylist; standardized map names across info/manifest JSONs — RickD004
• Added flags to nations on Lemnos/Hormuz/Two Lakes; fixed the disconnected Yalu River and a Warship Warship pathfinding bug — crunchybbb
• Updated maps: Dyslexdria and LUNA — Patrick Plays Badly
• Added a Favourite maps tab — bijx
• Added map search — FloPinguin
• Improved MapPlaylist — FloPinguin
• Fixed map land-tile lookup broken by the asset URL migration — FloPinguin
• Code refactor: removed lake tile type from the game — FloPinguin
• Added the Giant World Map to the multiplayer queue after performance improvements — Evan

Nations & Bots

• Allowed mappers to define additionalNations and to omit nation coordinates for random spawn — FloPinguin
• Better troop management for nations, with follow-up fixes and improvements — FloPinguin
• Fixed nations being blocked by PVP immunity and not spawning with random spawn enabled — FloPinguin
• Fixed nation city farming, reactive defense posts, and nuked-territory capture — FloPinguin
• Fixed nation names with special characters — Katokoda
• Fixed nations not spawning in singleplayer when the player picks spawn too fast — Evan
• Prevented bots from invading/attacking themselves — Berk

Alliances

• Improved alliance extension handling — babyboucher
• Fixed the alliance renewal prompt staying open and the expiration window persisting after expiration — Katokoda

Nukes & Combat

• Rendered nukes smoothly per frame — Evan
• Removed a double x() dereference in the MIRV separation point calc — Berk
• Destroyed defense posts on tile capture instead of downgrading/transferring ownership — Berk
• Fixed warships freezing with no path — Katokoda

Store & Account

• Showed full store item names instead of truncating them — Aotumuri

Clans

• Added clan game history, a clan stats breakdown, and clantag part 1 — ryanbarlow97
• Disabled game buttons for clan tag + username; fixed the clans-UI border and a streamer-mode bug — ryanbarlow97
• Hid clan tags in public FFA games to prevent teaming and hid the clan tab on crazy games — Evan
• Added support for direct clan detail links and made the clan-tag warning clickable — Aotumuri
• Corrected the clan-tag length error message — Berk

Friends & Social

• Added a friends panel with team-grouping hints (extended to the lobby team preview) and put friends on the same team — Evan
• Added FFA collusion warning — a-happy-goose

UI, Events & Notifications

• Added a help notification system to the control panel — FloPinguin
• Filtered actionable events to remove dead requestors — Katokoda
• Added boat ETA calculation and display in AttacksDisplay — a-happy-goose
• Fixed the missing boat sprite icon in the attacks panel — Cameron Clark
• Fixed a malformed flag SVG URL in playerRow — Blake Girardet
• Fixed mobile logo spacing — Aotumuri
• Removed emoji from user settings — Aotumuri
• Added a "go to player on spawn" setting (default on) — FrederikJA
• Added a retaliate keybind — Sky Elder
• Fixed rebound keys — TKTK123456
• Disabled build hotkeys after death — Aotumuri
• Blocked Safari page-level pinch-zoom — Vansh
• Added a per-recipient cooldown to QuickChatExecution — Josh Harris

Lobby & Matchmaking

• Added a spawn phase countdown timer — tnhnblgl
• Added a delayed lobby start timer — FrederikJA
• Removed the spawn timer on singleplayer (kept a static one elsewhere) — Aotumuri / Evan
• Fixed ranked 1v1 requeue opening matchmaking — Aotumuri

Security & Server Stability

• Fixed a critical XSS in NewsModal (GHSA-rpr9-rxv7-x643) — Mehmet KOZAN
• Patched a Desync DoS vulnerability with strict majority consensus — Berk
• Removed duplicate express.json() middleware (SEC-04) — Berk
• Guarded all ws.send() calls with readyState checks and prevented sendStartGameMsg from crashing the server on disconnect — Berk
• Added stale-if-error to the app-shell Cache-Control — Josh Harris

Tooling, CI & Repo

• Fixed the GitHub translation key category and restored the dev-only localStorage pattern override — Aotumuri
• Fixed CI test failures from an over-long test — VariableVince
• Silenced a noisy LangSelector "not found" console warning; fixed a websocket error-log typo — Berk

Meta & Misc

• Meta tuning: nuke speed 8 → 10 tiles per tick, trade-ship sigmoid midpoint 200 → 400 — Evan
• Replaced hardcoded defaults and fixed an off-by-one error — babyboucher
• Updated and removed dependencies; removed a leftover optional chain — VariableVince
• Dropped the unused disposer return from installSafariPinchZoomBlocker — Vansh

Translators

• Arabic🇸🇦: N0ur, Moha & SyntaxPM
• Bengali🇧🇩: sheikh
• Brazilian Portuguese🇧🇷: theskeleton4393 & juliosilvaqwerty5
• Bulgarian🇧🇬: Nikola123 & NewHappyRabbit
• Chinese Simplified🇨🇳: Moki
• Chinese Traditional🇨🇳: SkiRhino
• Czech🇨🇿: Xaelor, erinthegirl & Matoada
• Danish🇩🇰: NiclasWK
• Dutch🇳🇱: cldprv, tryout33 & Zjefken
• Esperanto: r3ms & Katokoda
• Estonian🇪🇪: ramon.o
• Finnish🇫🇮: Tanepro193
• French🇫🇷: cldprv, gx21, r3ms & Eiwalis
• Galician: toldinsound
• German🇩🇪: Pilkey, jacks0n, floriankilian, Fibig & TNB
• German🇨🇭: originaloha
• Greek🇬🇷: pantelispantelidis
• Hungarian🇭🇺: ap.ms
• Hebrew🇮🇱: Goblinon
• Hindi🇮🇳: sheikh
• Italian🇮🇹: frappa10 & Lollosean
• Indonesian🇮🇩: tronsar
• Japanese🇯🇵: Aotumuri, daimyo_panda2, gafunuko, kaywb & aki__san__
• Korean🇰🇷: Jinyoon
• Macedonian🇲🇰: Perdiccas
• Polish🇵🇱: zibi, RinkyDinky, Rulfam & krissutonieja
• Persian🇮🇷: nobodyiran
• Russian🇷🇺: Rulfam & Redincon
• Serbo-Croatian🇷🇸🇭🇷🇧🇦🇲🇪: Vekser
• Slovak🇸🇰: extraextra
• Slovenian🇸🇮: MotivatedMonkey
• Spanish🇪🇸: 6uzm4n
• Swedish🇸🇪: Moha, theangel2 & Keevee
• Toki Pona: Makonede
• Turkish🇹🇷: Toyatak & grassified
• Ukrainian🇺🇦: Rulfam