Areas
15 changes in this update

Added

2 changes
Online Lobbies
  • Full snake-trail snapshots for joining players, including long snakes.

  • Arena-state restoration when host ownership moves to another player.

Improved

6 changes
Interface
  • Refreshed the main menu, shop, profile, contracts, settings, match HUD and confirmation screens.

  • Improved text fitting and readability for counters, currency and player names.

  • Refined the scrollable global leaderboard with Steam avatars and category tabs.

Services
  • Reduced repeated leaderboard requests when fewer entries are available.

  • Achievement unlock requests can retry after temporary service failures.

Achievements
  • All 19 achievements now have clear descriptions and score rewards, with 1,000 achievement points available in total.

Fixed

7 changes
Online Lobbies
  • Opening the pause menu no longer freezes an online match; offline pause remains available.

  • Fixed online bots being removed by offline-bot cleanup when browsing lobbies.

  • Bots now populate the arena when a player enters, respect arena capacity, and leave when no human players remain.

  • Fixed snakes, bots and magnets being destroyed during a graceful host handoff.

  • Fixed incomplete join-state handling for food and long snake trails.

  • Fixed lobby-browser request failures disrupting an active session.

Interface
  • Fixed missing currency values and clipped small counters after the recent s&box update.

Added

3 changes
  • Initial network snapshot support for online arena food state.

  • Reliable full food sync heartbeat for online lobbies.

  • Scrollable global ranks panel with larger rows and Steam avatar support.

Improved

4 changes
  • Online food synchronization now uses reliable full-state sync plus lightweight live updates.

  • Joining players now receive arena food state immediately instead of waiting for packet-based updates.

  • Remote snake and bot visual smoothing has been improved for online matches.

  • Global ranks now load up to 50 players and can be browsed with scrolling.

Fixed

5 changes
  • Fixed food appearing missing, sparse, or unsynchronized for connected players.

  • Fixed lost food snapshot chunks leaving clients with an incomplete arena state.

  • Fixed unreliable food updates interrupting reliable full sync during lobby joins.

  • Fixed online snakes and bots visually jittering or shifting sideways in some cases.

  • Fixed runtime lambda substitution warnings after recent s&box updates.