Riot Shield: held up in front of you, covering your body. Attacking thrusts it out and shoves away anyone in front of it.

Meteor Staff: click a spot and a meteor comes down from the sky onto it. A red ring marks where it will land.

Gold God Gun: now a direct energy weapon that fires a golden impulse beam instead of a rocket. It fires faster, has infinite ammo and kicks much harder.

Deagle: much more recoil.

Spring Shoes: now worn on your feet when you pick them up, like the jetpack goes on your back, so you keep your weapon. Your jumps are bouncier, and pressing jump again in mid-air springs you hard wherever you’re aiming. They have 8 springs (shown next to your weapon) and pop off when they’re used up.

Railgun: big flashes and sparks at every point the beam touches, on walls and on every person it goes through.

Banana Peel: slips you along the floor instead of launching you upwards.

Bullet reflects: sending a bullet back plays the same parry sound as deflecting a punch.

Morning Star: the spiked ball kills instantly.

Death walls: the walls on the left and right are further out.

Camera: when someone is up at the top of the map, the camera moves up so the player cards don’t hide them, and shows less of the bottom if nobody is down there. It only follows people a little way above the top of the map: anyone flung higher shows as an arrow in their colour at the top of the screen.

Backgrounds cleaned up so nothing behind the arena looks like a platform: no more floating trees or stumps under Treehouse, Windmill Hill and Timber!; no rocks, buoys or water tanks next to the platforms; no mugs or book piles behind the real ones on the desk maps; the moon and space rocks moved further back; the pagodas moved off to the sides.

Bots notice when they’ve stopped moving, give up on what they were going for and get going again.

Giant Fish and Anvil have been removed.

If the host leaves, the next player to have joined takes over. The game now carries on with the same settings and tells everyone who the new host is.