Online Sync & Leaderboard Update
2026.06.09
9 June 2026
Snake Arena Online
Released
Online Sync & Leaderboard Update
A changelist for Snake Arena Online.
🎁 Added
- 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
- 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
- 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.