Arena Boss - giant elemental boss snake spawns periodically through a portal with high-value cubes to slice off
King Crown - the biggest snake on the arena wears the crown and earns passive coin rewards until dethroned
Revenge System - hunting down the snake that ate you last awards a bonus coin bounty
Off-screen Markers - directional screen-edge indicators for the Crown holder, Arena Boss, and your Nemesis
Leaderboard Sorting - live arena top-10 now sorts strictly by current head value and mass on every render
Player Spawning - players now spawn as a dedicated clean entity instead of taking over an existing bot object
Offline Fallback - seamless transition to offline bot arena when Steam lobby creation fails or times out
Bot Autopilot Hijack - removed idle bot takeover from human player snakes so bots can never hijack player steering
Off-screen Arrows - fixed 180-degree inverted screen-edge markers pointing outside the arena walls when targets were behind the camera plane
Start Menu Loop - fixed an issue where failed Steam lobby handshakes caused the start menu to reopen automatically every 5 seconds
Lobby Transition - joining an active host lobby no longer resets an ongoing run back to the start menu
Host Body Adoption - fixed a bug where the host's snake was mistakenly handed over to a bot 5 seconds into a run when the lobby became active
Idle Bot Takeover - removed automatic bot brain attachment on human player snakes