ROTOR – a new 2v2 map: three rotors sweep the floor; jump the low yellow arms and duck under the high red one, or get flung

GLASSHOUSE – a new 2v2 map: walls of glass you can see through but can't walk or shoot through until you break them

GLASSHOUSE glass – any shot, punch, saw blade, crystal or explosion smashes a pane, and every pane comes back at the start of each round

FAULTLINE – a new 1v1 map: a fault floored with stone tiles that crack when you stand on them and drop you into the pit; run across and they fall behind you, and ramps lead back up

New map models – rotors, glass panes and their broken frames, planters, crumbling stone tiles and rocks, all made in Blender

New map sounds – smashing glass, rotor arms hitting, tiles cracking and falling

FRACTURE CANNON – a new crystal cannon: it fires a glowing crystal you can watch fly, and a direct hit does 50

FRACTURE CANNON shatter – a crystal that hits a wall, floor or cover shatters into fragments that cut anyone near the break, up to 25; walls keep you safe and your own fragments never hurt you

FRACTURE CANNON action – six crystals in a see-through canister; every shot drives one out with a cyan flash, the cage spins and the next slides in, and the last shot locks the charging handle back

FRACTURE CANNON reload – your left hand swaps the canister, and from empty pulls the charging handle; pick it in Match Options, find it on spawn pads, or roundbreak.give fracture

Arc Lance sight – hold right-click to aim down the Arc Lance's optic at a glowing blue reticle, zoomed in and held steady

Lobby slots – in a lobby you host, + ADD SLOT adds a seat, up to four a side

Add AI – + AI on an open seat puts Roundbot in it, in multiplayer lobbies too; the x takes a seat or a Roundbot away

Team switching – click ONE or TWO beside any player to move them to the other team; uneven teams like 2v1 are fine

Private lobbies – Create Lobby asks public or private; a private lobby is hidden from the list and only your Steam friends can join

Lobby list – shows each lobby's real format and how many seats are left

FREE FOR ALL – a new 1v1v1 mode: three players, every one for themselves; the last one standing takes the round, and the first to the round target wins the match

FREE FOR ALL lobbies – host one from Create Lobby, or play one against two Roundbots from AI Practice (not in matchmaking or ranked)

FREE FOR ALL scoreboard – three score cards across the top and three names in the round-start banner; the third player has their own colour, purple, in the lobby, the kill feed and the scoreboard

FREE FOR ALL spawns – the third player starts at a spot of their own on every map, away from the other two

QUANTUM SPLITTER – a new drum-fed shotgun whose pellets bounce once off walls, floors and ceilings: a shot that misses can still find someone round a corner

QUANTUM SPLITTER pellets – eight a shot, 9 damage falling to 5 at range; a pellet that has bounced hits a little lighter

QUANTUM SPLITTER action – its muzzle splits open round a glowing prism on every shot, the drum turns to the next shell and the charging handle rides back; the last shot locks the handle back

QUANTUM SPLITTER reload – your hand swaps the drum, and from empty racks the charging handle

XRAYNADE – a new grenade: when it goes off, the two enemies nearest it are outlined through walls for 3 seconds, for you and your teammate

XRAYNADE pulse – a cyan ring spreads from where it goes off, and the players it reveals hear a ping

New gear in play – the REDLINE, M1 GARAND, QUANTUM SPLITTER and XRAYNADE roll on the weapon pads and can be switched off in Match Options

"# Weapons",

"REDLINE – a new laser SMG that overclocks: the longer you hold the trigger the faster it fires, from 545 rounds a minute to over 1,200, and the harder it kicks, up to four times as hard",

"REDLINE gauge – six segments on its side light up amber to red as it overclocks, its laser shot rises in pitch with it, and the crosshair opens as the spread grows",

"REDLINE cell – the spent energy cell pops up out of the gun; the reload lifts it out and seats a fresh one, and from empty racks the charging lever. Hits instantly, 40 rounds a cell, 9 damage falling to 6 at range",

"M1 GARAND – a semi-automatic rifle: eight rounds a clip, three body hits to kill or two with a headshot, and accurate at any range the maps have",

"M1 GARAND ping – the last round throws the empty clip out with the famous ping and locks the bolt open until you reload",

"M1 GARAND action – the bolt and operating rod cycle with every shot; a reload from empty presses a fresh clip home and lets the bolt slam forward, and a reload part-way through throws the old clip out first",

"New guns in play – the REDLINE and the M1 GARAND roll on the weapon pads and can be switched off in Match Options",

"# Weapons in the hands",

"New hands – first-person hands modelled in Blender: sleeved, with jointed fingers, knuckles and nails",

"Fitted grips – every weapon has its own grip fitted to its shape: the fingers wrap each grip and handguard, the trigger finger reaches into the guard and the thumb rests along the frame",

"Hands-on reloads – the remade guns reload with your hands: magazines pulled and seated, charging handles racked, bolts worked, shells and rounds pushed in",

"Vaulting – with empty hands you now see the new hands hooked over the ledge",

"# Sound",

"Recorded reloads – reloads use real recorded sounds, each heard the moment you see it happen, on the 1911, Duel Glocks, MP5, MK17, AS VAL, M200 and SAIGA-12",

"Recorded actions – the M200's bolt, the revolver's cylinder and hammer and the Model 870's pump use real recorded sounds after every shot; the 870 loads every shell with a real shell sound, and the revolver's reload is a real recorded one"

Coghammer – a steampunk hand cannon of brass and copper: six heavy slugs, slow to fire, and every hit shoves the target back along the shot and off their feet

Coghammer scope – hold right-click to aim through its brass 1.5x scope, with a tighter shot and a post reticle round a red dot

Coghammer clockwork – the cog on its side ticks over while you hold it, the hammer falls and the drum turns as it fires, and it breaks open to reload, with a puff of steam at the muzzle

SAIGA-12 – a semi-automatic shotgun: six pellets a shot as fast as you can pull the trigger, eight in the magazine, and a ring crosshair that shows the spread

SAIGA-12 action – the bolt slams back on every shot, and a reload drops the magazine, slams a fresh one in and racks the charging handle

CLOCKWORK – a 1v1 clock-tower workshop: two great brass gears turn in the floor either side of the tower, and the clock on the tower keeps the round's time

PARKADE – a 2v2 two-storey car park: an upper deck on pillars with an atrium cut out over the prize, parked cars on both floors, and two ramps and four ladders between them

Turning floors – stand on a gear and it carries you round with it; step off and you keep its speed

Map cards – the lobby's map cards now draw gears and ramps

Fifteen new maps, three new weapons, seven ways to get around a map that did not exist before, a game mode that climbs a weapon ladder, and an opponent worth practising against.

ARC LANCE, a laser rifle: every shot is instant and dead straight, loses nothing over distance, and draws a beam from the muzzle to whatever it hits

The Arc Lance works as you use it - the core runs forward and the emitter claw snaps open as it fires, and the heat sink on top lifts and shuts when the cell is changed

BLADE LAUNCHER, which fires a saw blade that ricochets off two surfaces and sticks into the third, where it stays as a ledge you can stand on and climb

The blade you can see in the launcher's slot is the shot you have: it leaves when you fire, and the next one slides in from the back of the slot

MK17, a three round burst rifle for the range band between the AS VAL and the M200

Burst fire as a fire mode: one press commits the whole burst even if you let go of the trigger

A new weapon pad on every map: an octagonal gunmetal pad with a glowing green channel, and the weapon turning above it

Ladders you climb by pushing into them, climb down by pulling away, hold still on, and jump off with a kick back from the wall

Bounce pads that throw you straight up, or across the map onto high ground

Conveyor belts that carry you along at a steady speed, and escalators that carry you up onto high ground while you walk or shoot

Teleporter pads in glowing pairs: step on one and come out of the other, still moving as fast as you went in and facing the way its arrow points

Going through a teleporter washes the screen in that pair's colour as you arrive

Moving platforms: lifts that carry you up and ferries that carry you across, on a timetable that restarts every round

Updraft vents: a column of rising air over a floor grate that throws you higher than it reaches, and you steer yourself out of it

Ziplines: catch a cable and ride it down to its far post, where you let go still travelling; jump to let go early and keep the speed

VANTAGE, one long axis with an elevated nest at each end and a contested deck in the middle

BASIN, where the high ground is the rim and the best weapon waits at the bottom of an open bowl

LATTICE, walls with firing slits you can see and shoot through but never walk through

PINWHEEL, a 2v2 map turned rather than mirrored, so no straight line crosses it and every route bends

UPDRAFT, no stairs anywhere: every deck and the summit are reached by ladders and bounce pads

BASTION, a 2v2 siege map of two forts with ramparts, battlements, corner towers and a keep in the middle

DUNES, stepped sand and no walls, where each dune is walked up one side and drops as a cliff on the other

MANOR, a roofless house of rooms, doorways and windows you can climb through, around a courtyard

FOUNDRY, lifts and ladders onto a central crucible, with corner pads that throw you higher still

SKYWAY, two team decks over an open gap, a ferry each, and attack pads that throw you across

TERMINAL, a hub and four decks joined by four ferries on a rotating timetable

FREIGHT, a sorting floor where the ground carries you: a loop of belts round a central deck, and an escalator up to each team's catwalk

RELAY, where the shortest way anywhere is through a teleporter pair

THERMAL, a foundry floor with vents in it: four throw you onto the stack in the middle, two onto the wall galleries

HIGHLINE, two towers joined to the island in the middle, and to the far corners of the floor, by four wires

Twenty-five maps in all, every one of them checked for fairness: mirrored or rotated spawns, matched weapon pads, and no route one side gets and the other does not

LADDER: winning a round climbs you to the next weapon, and taking a round on the last rung wins the match

The ladder is built from the weapons ticked in Match Options, so unticking one takes it out of the climb

OVERTIME: once a round has been live for 45 seconds, both sides are shown where the other is standing every 10 seconds, with a marker and a distance

Reloading in LADDER, on the reload key or by pulling the trigger on an empty magazine

A map picker in the lobby with a card for every map, drawn from above with its spawns, weapon pads, ladders, pads, platforms, belts, teleporters, vents and wires

The host can pick several maps, and every round then plays one of them at random, never the same map twice in a row

Difficulty: Easy, Normal or Hard, set in the lobby

It engages at the range that suits the weapon it is holding, repositions toward where it last saw you, and retreats behind cover when it is hurt

It uses ladders, bounce pads and navigation meshes to follow you onto high ground, and steps around pads and vents that would carry it off the floor it chose

It reloads under LADDER instead of being refilled, so both sides live with the same magazine

It hunts the spot each overtime pulse reveals

Kill feed on every screen with the weapon that made the kill, a headshot badge, and out-of-bounds deaths

Round result cards from your own side, and a post-match summary of rounds, kills, deaths, headshots, damage, accuracy, medals and XP

A damage direction indicator on the crosshair ring, and a round lost card that shows how much health the winner had left

A third person camera over your right shoulder, which pulls in when you back into a wall

Options for crosshair colour, kill feed, hitmarker sound and camera, shared between the main menu and the pause menu

Health carries over – a side that survives a round keeps the health it survived on, so climbing a rung costs something and the top of the ladder is fought on whatever is left

Losing a round is never doubled – a player who loses still respawns on full health, and the first round of a match or rematch always starts everyone full

AI practice earns nothing – medals won against Roundbot no longer count toward your collection, so the cabinet can only be filled in real matches