Ranked ladder: climb 100 named ranks across 10 leagues by winning ranked Versus and Capture the Flag

Every rank has its own emblem badge, accent colour and display typeface

Barracks: manage your roster, spend command points across your units, and choose which ones you deploy

Your deployed squad now stands on a 3D pedestal stage in the Barracks, walking on and off as you recruit or bench them

Ranked matchmaking pairs you against opponents of a similar rank

Each league you climb unlocks +1 squad slot and +1 Focus cap

Demotion-proof checkpoint ranks at the top of every league, so a bad streak can't drop you below your belt

Online multiplayer — press Multiplayer to drop into a live lobby

A walkable lobby where you command your soldier by drawing its path, just like a battle

Four matchmaking doors — walk your soldier into one to queue for that mode

Versus 1v1 — plan your army against a real opponent's, then watch the 7 seconds play out

Capture the Flag 1v1 against a real opponent

Horde Co-op — two commanders share one army against 15 escalating waves

Gauntlet Co-op — draft together and survive an escalating gauntlet, survivors carry on

In-match talk — what you type comes out of one of your own soldiers' mouths (press Y to talk)

Pyro — a new flamethrower trooper you can recruit mid-run. Its flames set enemies ablaze, and it's the only class that walks through the Volcanic biome's heat unharmed.

Wildfire — on jungle maps the grass, trees and vines now catch fire and spread it, torching anything caught in the flames.

Weather — maps can now blow windy or roll into a rainstorm, and it changes the fight.

Thunderstorms hurl lightning that can strike a unit dead, just like the snowfields' thundersnow.

Inspect enemy units mid-battle — hover and click any enemy during the fight to read its stats, not just while planning.

Side-by-side unit comparison — open a friendly and an enemy panel together and every stat shows a green or red arrow for who wins it.

Your own units' voicelines now show in their info panel, the same chat log the enemies already had.

Units trade short back-and-forth lines with a new generated-dialogue system.

Explore mode: a real base is rebuilt as the battlefield — defend a starter squad against raider waves that close in from every edge, and loot the base to grow your army (the more you grab, the harder the raids).

Per-unit leveling: your units now earn XP from kills and level up, banking skill points you spend into Power, Vitality, Precision and Focus.

Unit inspector: click a portrait to open a unit's level, XP, live stats, gear and skills; enemies get a read-only inspector so you can size up what you're fighting.

Auto-Spec: toggle a unit to auto-spend its own skill points for hands-off progression.

Five new upgrade lanes in the between-round draft — Bleed (damage-scaling wounds), Frost (slows the horde), Storm (chain lightning), Ordnance (homing airburst missiles) and Reaper (kills heal and explode), each with a base, mid and capstone perk.

Elite affixes on Brutes: milestone Brutes now arrive Blazing (shots ignite), Glacial (shots slow, ice nova on death) or Overloading (lightning nova on death), each colour-tinted.

Enemy combat barks: red units now shout in-character lines reacting to the moment — a kill, a flank, a downed ally, low health — flavoured by their class.

Two new curses: Transcendence trades health for a recharging shield, Stone Flux grants far more health at the cost of speed and range.

Island biome: a new jungle-island arena with a real coastline and animated sea, added to the map rotation.

Two new global leaderboards: Most Damage in a single battle and Highest Rout Combo.

Every achievement now has its own badge icon.

Every battlefield now rolls a biome theme from its map seed — Verdant, Desert, Snow and Volcanic each get their own sky, sun, fog and terrain colours

Weather effects per biome — drifting snowflakes in the cold maps and rolling tumbleweeds across the desert

Living scenery — grass fields, snow fields, trees with a leafy canopy and hanging vines

Ambient biome touches — glinting ice, flickering lava and pillar fires

In-game wiki entries for units and items

Full keyboard navigation in every menu — arrow keys move the selection, Space or Enter confirms

Rotate turrets and barricades while placing them with Q and E

Engineer: a support trooper that automatically builds turrets, mines, and barricades

Stealth: vanishes while standing still, then dashes in and knifes enemies from behind for an instant kill

New enemy — Stealer: a fast, tiny raider that races to battlefield items and steals them for the red army

New enemy — Breacher: a lumbering bruiser that smashes through your built barricades

New enemy — Teleporter: opens portals that blink a pack of enemies forward, right over your walls

New enemy — Jetpack: a flyer that soars over cover and barricades and lands on top of the map

Shimmering cloak effect for the Stealth unit

A celebration banner on the menu: We've made it to Up And Coming - thank you!

A second main-menu theme that plays when you return to the menu after a match

Pause the battle — opening the menu now freezes the fight with a big PAUSED banner while you decide whether to quit

Place structures with hotkeys — A for Turret, S for Mine, D for Barricade

C cycles your whole army's stance, F toggles auto mode

Scavenger upgrade — your units roam farther to grab battlefield items

Hold Shift and the arrow keys to orbit the camera (plain arrows still pan)

HUD-styled health bars with the unit's class name shown right on the bar

Crowded enemies of the same type stack into one bar tagged with a count

Arrow keys pan the camera

Hold or press Space to confirm — blow through planning, result and upgrade screens

Quit to the main menu mid-match without leaving the game (top left corner)

Doom-style enemy sprite impostors keep huge battles smooth — once a fight gets crowded, the most-hidden enemies swap to lightweight camera-facing sprites so the frame rate holds up

New reviewer thank-you item: grodbert's Hug — a warm peach pickup that grants your whole squad +10% damage reduction per pickup (stacks up to 60%, never invulnerable)

Menu announcements bar — a home on the main menu for news and notices

Build version watermark in the lower-left corner so you always know which build you're on

Build-your-army screen now shows a live 3D portrait of each unit, with eyes that follow your cursor

A run-modifiers panel in battle: see your active synergies, curses and upgrades at a glance

New Banana battlefield item — an army-wide attack-speed boost (a thank-you for ypdubai)

Units now automatically walk over and collect nearby battlefield items

Toggle Stance button under the portraits: set one standing order for your whole army at once, applied to new units too

New global Achievements leaderboard

Hover tooltips for the Brute, Surge and Endless wave indicators

Auto mode now picks an upgrade for you after each wave, and auto-replays after a defeat

Reviews now show which thank-you item a bug reporter earned, right on their review (icon + name)

Thank-you items for players who reported bugs — collect them on the battlefield for a permanent army buff: Surge's Spark (speed), WillX3D's Wrench (HP), Lag_Spike's Toolkit (damage), ubre's Mark (damage + range)

Battlefield items now appear as little voxel models of their actual emoji

Battlefield items: collectibles now spawn on the map during battles

Reviewer's Cookie: leave a review and a cookie appears on every map — collect it for a permanent boost to your whole army's max HP

Items inventory in the top-right that lists what you've collected, with a hover tooltip explaining each item

Auto mode: a toggle beside the speed control that auto-advances for you — DONE, the draft's BATTLE, and PLAY AGAIN each run a countdown and continue automatically (it switches off if you lose)

Fortifications upgrade: raises your deploy budget so you can field more turrets, mines and barricades

Steam avatars now show next to player names in the reviews and on the leaderboards

Multiplayer button on the main menu (coming soon)

Global leaderboards now live right on the main menu — page through Horde score, best wave, Gauntlet streak, vs-AI wins, CTF wins and total enemies routed.

A "What's New" panel on the menu shows the latest patch notes, with page-through history of past updates.

Every achievement now scrolls across the menu in a moving showcase — hover one to see its badge, point value, prestige tier and unlock state.

A live damage feed streams up the left of the screen as your army lands hits — bigger, hotter numbers for harder hits, with gold pops for crits.

Hold Shift and scroll to change battle speed on the fly, alongside the speed button.

The menu tagline now rotates each time you return, with a few colourful surprises.

19 unlockable achievements spanning Horde, Gauntlet, vs-AI and CTF, each with its own badge.

Brute Wave warning now has a hover tooltip showing exactly how the elite Brutes are buffed.