openfrontio/OpenFrontIO v0.33.0-beta1 on GitHub

v33 Release Notes

Major Changes

Doomsday Clock — A new battle-royale style zone gamemode. A shrinking doom zone drains troops (and warships) from doomed sides, with a 10-minute grace period and wave-based squeeze to break late-game stalemates. Now part of the public modifier rotation.
Ranked 2v2 — Ranked matchmaking now supports 2v2 alongside 1v1, with its own leaderboard ladder, clanmate pairing, and match cancellation for lobbies that don't fill or fully spawn.
Steam / desktop client — Steam desktop authentication (SteamSDK), configurable WebSocket routing for the Electron shell, and an ad-free desktop experience.
Login with Google — Sign in with a Google account and link it to an existing account.
Account usernames + verified badge — Claim an account-level username (base.suffix, or a bare name for subscribers) and play under it with a verified badge next to your name.
Custom tribe names — Buy a custom tribe name in the store's new Tribes tab and it can appear on bot tribes in public games. Boosts make your tribe appear more often, and a public tribe leaderboard tracks how they do.
Impassable terrain — Mappers can now mark terrain as impassable, opening up a new class of map design. Several new maps already use it.
Warship veterancy — Warships gain veterancy over their service life, increasing their health and attack.
MIRVs are real nukes now — MIRV warheads fly like standard nukes and can be intercepted normally by SAMs. Launching a MIRV also puts the silo on cooldown.
Anonymous names — A lobby setting that replaces player names with memorable, collision-proof animal names.
22 new maps — including Sol, Russia, United States, France, Germany, China, Vietnam, Scandinavia and the first maps built around impassable terrain.

☢️ Gameplay & Balance

Added the Doomsday Clock battle-royale zone gamemode — Zixer1
Rebalanced the Doomsday Clock: 10-minute grace period, wave squeeze, slower troop drain, gentler-but-steeper warship attrition — Zixer1
Doomsday Clock now decays warships alongside troops for doomed sides, and floors the drain at 5% of max instead of wiping to zero — Zixer1
Doomsday Clock judges teams against the same bar as solo sides — Zixer1
Doomed warships stay on patrol instead of idling at ports — Zixer1
Added warship veterancy, with updated in-game instructions — bijx
MIRV warheads are now standard nukes: real flight, normal SAM interception, per-type speeds — Evan
Missile silos go on cooldown when launching a MIRV — Evan
MIRV warheads now spawn properly over impassable terrain — TKTK123456
Fixed SAM targeting, range miscalculations and nuke pathing — JB940
Added impassable terrain — FloPinguin
Fixed minimap priority for impassable terrain pathfinding — FloPinguin
Added a custom alliance duration lobby control — Zixer1
Fixed pirating not being disabled when a warship's owner has no port in that body of water — TKTK123456
Fixed transport ships targeting unreachable inland-lake shores — Navaneeth Prabha
Fixed transport ship troop counts not updating when a hydrogen bomb hits the player — AmanorsElliot
Fixed the rail network path length limit and re-added its tests — TKTK123456
Fixed the factory ghost radius — TKTK123456
Fixed non-structures being deletable — unne27
Fixed the nuke preview showing teammate SAMs as threats — Evan
Highlight the owner of hovered naval units — unne27
Reduced compact map chance in 1v1 from 50% to 20% — FloPinguin
Removed the ports-disabled modifier from public games — Evan

🏆 Ranked & Matchmaking

Added 2v2 ranked matchmaking — Evan
Added the 2v2 ranked ladder as its own leaderboard tab — Evan
Ranked 2v2 now prefers pairing clanmates as teammates — Evan
Ranked 2v2 games end early when a full team is dead or disconnected — Evan
Increased ranked 2v2 PvP spawn immunity to 1 minute — Evan
Ranked 2v2 uses compact maps only 50% of the time — Evan
Cancel ranked matches that don't fill or fully spawn — Evan
Widened the matchmaking join window and cancel games that start short-handed — Evan
Show the live queue size while matchmaking, and reconnect on silent disconnects — Evan
Handle matchmaking socket close codes per the API contract — Evan
Handle ranked play limits in the client — Evan
Keep matchmaking games out of lobby reports and salvage invalid entries — Evan
Mint game ids on the server and randomly route create-game across workers — Evan
Removed clan tags from the 1v1 ranked leaderboard (it's an individual ladder) — Ryan
Split the clan tag into its own filterable leaderboard column, with cleaner rank/clan/player cells — Ryan
Fixed an infinite retry at the end of the ranked leaderboard — Ryan

🗺️ Maps

New Maps

Sol 🪐 — Massive map of the Solar System (by RickD004)
Russia 🇷🇺 — Big-map treatment of Russia (by RickD004)
United States 🇺🇸 — Built for the new impassable terrain feature (by RickD004)
France 🇫🇷 (by RickD004)
Germany 🇩🇪 — With state flags (by SpeakIsntThere)
China 🇨🇳 (by crunchybbb)
Vietnam 🇻🇳 (by crunchybbb)
Scandinavia 🇸🇪 (by crunchybbb)
Balkhash — Pipe map (by RickD004)
Baltics (by RickD004)
Caspian Sea — With team spawns (by crunchybbb)
Clearwater Lakes — Conjoined circles map (by RickD004)
Crimea (by crunchybbb)
Finger Lakes (by crunchybbb)
Gulf of Guinea (by RickD004)
Hecate Strait (by Liam Langford)
Irish Sea (by RickD004)
Las Vegas Strip (by crunchybbb)
Levant (by RickD004)
Tierra del Fuego — Featuring impassable terrain (by RickD004)
Branching Paths (by NotRocketfish)
More than luck (by Patrick Plays Badly)

Map Improvements & Fixes

Adds a map layer system that lets mappers overlay PNG images — FloPinguin
Allow mappers to specify custom tribe spawn coordinates in info.json — FloPinguin
Added a tribe name themes system with custom tribes support — FloPinguin
Added tribe themes to all real-world maps, plus custom tribes with spawn coordinates on Los Angeles — crunchybbb
Multiple terrain changes and fixes across maps, plus further map changes for v33 — RickD004
Updated map outlines (no resizing, except Oceania) and updated the Dyslexdria map — Patrick Plays Badly
Small corrections across Dyslexdria, Los Angeles, World Inverted and More than luck; recategorized More than luck and Branching Paths as arcade — Patrick Plays Badly
Minor updates to Branching Paths — NotRocketfish
Added flags to flagless nations on the Spain and Italy maps — RickD004
Standardized the SVGs of flags in the flags folder, plus other flag fixes — RickD004
Added impassable terrain to the Korea map — crunchybbb
Took v32 maps out of the "New" category to make room for v33 maps; tagged Branching Paths as new — RickD004, NotRocketfish
Arcade maps now appear in all playlists — FloPinguin
Fixed a crash on the Indian Subcontinent map — blon
Filled a landlocked lake on the NW island of Four Islands to fix port placement — blon
Prevented AI from placing ports on small lakes — FloPinguin
Fixed map thumbnails resolving by map id instead of display name — Evan
Added an Expand Maps button — bijx
Trimmed archived map names — Ryan
Updated the color mapping location in the map generator README — Aaron Tidwell

🎨 Cosmetics & Store

Added a warship cosmetic effect (gradient/transition recolor) — Evan
Added nuke-trail cosmetic effects with a tabbed effects picker, plus a spiral nuke trail — Evan
Added nuke-explosion cosmetic effects with per-bomb-type shockwave customization, plus a sparkles explosion type — Evan
Added a structures cosmetic effect (hover-shown gradient/transition recolor) — Evan
Added the effects cosmetic category with a transport-ship trail, rendered as a gradient with an animated store swatch — Evan
Added a search bar to the effects picker modal — Evan
Added a crown cosmetic type, rendered above player names — Evan
Merged the skin and effects pickers into a single lobby Cosmetics modal, and collapsed skins under one banner — Evan, Ryan
Show plutonium and caps balances in the store header — Evan
Added custom plutonium amount purchases with a cleaner amount UI — Evan, Ryan
Confirm plutonium and caps purchases before charging — Evan
Show USD-equivalent value in the cosmetic info tooltip — Evan
Added claimable subscription rewards UI — Evan
Restored subscriptions in the store and account modal, and added a checkmarked perk list on subscription tiles — Evan
Specific rate-limit message on tier change, using shared dialogs for subscription flows — Evan
Reworked the store into a popup and removed the "subscribe" / "purchase" text — Ryan
Fixed the store bonus ribbon layout across languages — Aotumuri
Grouped owned cosmetic variants for performance — Josh Harris
Fixed cosmetics blocking buttons on mobile — Luke-Dawes

🏕️ Custom Tribe Names

Added a Tribes tab to the store to buy and manage custom tribe names — Evan
Custom tribe names now appear on bot tribes in public games — Evan
Added tribe name boost purchases to the store — Evan
Added a public tribe-name leaderboard tab — Evan
Show active boost counts on the tribe leaderboard — Evan
Show when the next tribe boost expires in the store — Evan

👤 Accounts, Profiles & Stats

Added account-level custom usernames (base.suffix plus premium bare names) — Evan
Show account usernames and a verified badge on player-facing lists — Evan
Added a verified-name toggle so you can play under your account name — Evan
Prettier username rendering — Ryan
Login with Google — client UI — Josh Harris
Show "Linked to Google" once a Google account is linked — Josh Harris
Added a shareable player profile modal (#modal=profile&publicID=x), profile links and game history on profiles — Ryan
Added a Clans tab to the profile modal — Ryan
Added a Games tab to the account modal — Ryan
Reworked stats into a dedicated embedded stats modal, with a stats button on clan game history and backward compatibility for older games — Ryan
Renamed "ranking" to "stats" — Ryan
Let admins see clan tags in FFA — Ryan
Fixed a bug when not being in a clan on mobile — Ryan
Discord integration — Ryan
Added marketing email consent UI (post-login prompt + account settings) — iamlewis
Added CSV separation between names — Ryan

🖥️ Desktop & Steam

Steam desktop authentication: SteamSDK, auth branch, audience config, username seeding — Josh Harris
Exempt Steam-authenticated clients from the Turnstile siteverify — Josh Harris
Render the Steam account in the account UI — Josh Harris
Surface the Steam identity on the top-nav account button — Josh Harris
Added Steam wishlist prompts to the homepage and win modal — Ryan
Route game WebSockets via a configurable server host for the Electron desktop client — Josh Harris
Exempt the Electron desktop shell from loading Admiral ads — Josh Harris
Fixed getApiBase() returning https://undefined when API_DOMAIN was unset — Josh Harris

🕵️ Anonymous Names

Added the anonymize-names feature — Zixer1
Memorable, collision-proof animal anonymous names — Zixer1
Surfaced anonymous names as a lobby setting — Zixer1
Name reveal now works by publicID during game config — Zixer1
Fixed an anonymize-names desync by seeding the cluster-recalc offset from id() instead of name() — Evan
Fixed the anonymous-names setting not hiding names on the map — Evan

📺 Featured Stream

Added the featured stream feature — Zixer1
Off-web exclusion, ad-free close, and keeping the stream through the lobby wait — Zixer1
Mobile flick-to-dismiss — Zixer1
Keep the Twitch embed at its 400x300 minimum — Zixer1
Added a Streaming Now panel to the play page with live streamer cards, plus an identity bubble showing your flag, name and skin — Zixer1
Stopped probing Twitch on every page load to avoid rate limits — Zixer1

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Lobby & Social

Subscriber-hosted public lobby listing, gated on the canCreatePublicLobbies entitlement — Evan
Auto-start listed lobbies after 5 minutes, surviving host modal close during auto-start — Evan
Disabled host pause in publicly listed games — Evan
Show notable settings on open-lobby rows in the join modal — Evan
Show a loading spinner while the Join Lobby list loads — Evan
Reuse private lobbies — MushroomLamp
Added an allowlist for private lobbies (OFM) — Zixer1
Replaced the leave-lobby popup with a custom popup — Ryan
Allow mobile players to take part in the aftergame — FloPinguin
Fixed the lobby status bar scrolling out of view when many players join — FloPinguin
Accept # as . when adding friends — Ryan
Configurable leaderboard and team stats columns — Ryan

🎛️ Graphics, UI & Quality of Life

Added graphics presets, simplifying the settings behind an Advanced section — Evan
Added terrain color settings, with live preview, and restored the default terrain colors — Vivacious Box, Evan
Added a nuke fallout color graphics option and a structure dots toggle — Evan
Set the structure border to territory color for the local player — Vivacious Box
Added a black outline to the alliance icon for terrain contrast — Evan
Update the coastline color dynamically when the ocean color changes — Berk
Fixed the ocean color change reverting nuke-created water to land — Evan
Replaced the small-player highlight toggle with a strength slider, moved into graphics overrides, and raised the default to 35% — Zixer1, Evan
Standardized gradient colorSize to game tiles — Evan
Fall back to a full border recompute on massive tile changes — blon
Render the spawn overlay with instancing to support large lobbies — Evan
Gate users without GPU-accelerated WebGL2 instead of running at ~1fps — Evan
Capped the renderer device-pixel-ratio at 2 — Evan
Improved spawn phase progress bar visibility and sped up the spawn-phase ring pulse — ItsTimeTooSleep, Evan
Made train tracks visible from farther out — Evan
Made the important events panel scrollable — Evan
Surfaced alliance renewal and rejection events in the important-events panel — Evan
Added a trade ship captured event with a toggle setting — Evan
Donation received events are now blue instead of green — Evan
Host lobby start button turns yellow during countdown — Evan
Changed factory icons from circles to hexagons — Antonio Lentini
Right-click now cancels warship/boat selection instead of opening the menu — eastwoodgrant
Respect the "Disable emojis" setting in all emoji display paths — eastwoodgrant
Fixed trackpad pinch zoom in Safari — Landon
Reworked InputHandler.ts — TKTK123456
Added billions to the money utils — bijx
Added an achievement medal overview — bijx
Fixed classes for the control panel unit display and the control panel / player info gold display — JB940
Removed the background wrap-around seam on the home page when nav is hidden — Evan
Show a loading spinner on the account button until auth resolves — Evan
Prevented the Google CCPA button from shifting layout — blon
Updated the tutorial video URL — Evan
Translation updates (mls v5.8) and removed the Discord URL placeholder from translations — Aotumuri

⚡ Performance

Reduced core live-memory footprint by 45% on large maps — Evan
Cut core-sim GC churn by 75% cumulative across three passes, and added GC-churn profiling to the perf harness — Evan
Main-thread memory harness: dropped three map-sized render buffers (−23%) — Evan
Tick-dispatch timing harness and main-thread tick optimizations (late-game p95 −65%) — Evan
Return the live TileSet from Player.tiles() instead of cloning — Evan
Reuse cached TradeShip paths for motion plans — Raka Hourianto
Cache maxTroops during the leaderboard update — Demonessica
Standardized cardinal-neighbor iteration on neighbors() N,S,W,E order — Evan

🤖 Nations & Bots

Fixed nations always attacking nuked territory instead of waiting for the correct strategy — FloPinguin
Prevented AI from placing ports on small lakes — FloPinguin
Added the tribe name themes system with custom tribes support — FloPinguin

🛠️ Server, Admin & Tooling

Added an admin bot HTTP API for managing private games — Evan
Added a live game stats endpoint to the admin bot API — Evan
Added a private match telemetry stream — Josh Harris
kick_player can target a publicId, including disconnected accounts — Zixer1
Include publicID in admin-bot live stats players — Zixer1
Per-player killedBy, deathPosition and winner for live standings — Zixer1
OFM tournament: log final standings and per-kill eliminations — Zixer1
Integrated batch username_check moderation into game servers — Evan
Archive singleplayer games via the API instead of the game server — Evan
API schema cleanup — Ryan
Fixed asset uploads for filenames with apostrophes — Evan
Removed unused dependencies, dead components and a stale package override — VariableVince
Added an "assign to me" checkbox to issue templates — Evan
Exempted Dependabot PRs from the PR gate, fixed the stale bot re-commenting on case-mismatched labels, and removed the PR description validation check — Evan
Removed the Wicked Sick service-provider paragraph from the privacy policy — iamlewis

🔒 Security & Anti-Cheat

Reject spawn intents after the spawn phase (anti-teleport) — iamlewis
Prevent the client from bypassing random spawn selection — FloPinguin
Reject malformed tile refs and unit ids in intents — a single bad intent could freeze a whole lobby — Evan
Keep private-lobby allowlist publicIds out of the game record and start message — Evan
Require a strict majority in 1v1 winner-vote consensus — Josh Harris
Don't re-challenge Turnstile on lobby reconnect — Evan
Removed FFA collusion warnings on replay and ranked — Antonio Lentini
Dependency security bumps — dependabot

🌐 Translators

To be filled in from Crowdin before release