Rounds are three and a half minutes instead of five. The last minute used to be played on a city that was already eaten.

The city is much bigger. At eight players the arena went from about 410 to about 530 metres across, with 3,700 props instead of 2,445. Roughly 59% of the map is gone by the end of a round now, where it used to be 87% — so there's still a city out there when the clock runs out.

Bigger blocks fit bigger buildings, so the largest thing a city can place is now a 40-metre monster instead of a 33-metre one. There's more room at the top for a hole that gets huge.

Late-game growth is no longer a runaway. Once you were past the biggest authored size, every point made you wider at a flat rate — and since a wider hole eats faster, that fed itself. A hole hit 28 m at two minutes, 82 m at two and a half, 196 m at three and 316 m at four, on a map only 410 m wide. Growth now curves off at the top: a full round tops out around 80 m. Every size step below that opens at exactly the score it always did, so nothing about the early or middle game moved.

Eating another player is worth less of their score — 35% instead of 60%. A kill used to jump you a rung and a half up the size ladder in one bite; now it's about one rung, which is what it was supposed to be.

The main menu is reordered around PLAY. Host and Find a Game are still there, one row down, for when you actually want to pick.

The small text under the menu cards is readable. Those detail lines were white at low opacity over a coloured card — muddy grey at 12px. They're now dark, a little bigger and a lot bolder.

The QUESTS button's label was white on yellow, which was the hardest thing on the menu to read. It's dark now, like the border already around it.

The locked arena row in the lobby has a warm frame around it that matches the price tag inside, instead of a dashed border that never actually drew.

Growth is smooth and has no ceiling. Tiers are gone: every point you score widens the hole a little, and it keeps going.

What you can eat is measured off the object itself — its footprint and its height. A starter hole can't swallow an eight-metre lamppost through its narrow base any more, but a long bench taken end-first goes down just fine.

Score comes from the same measurement, so something that looks big pays big. Reward and difficulty can't drift apart.

You can actually watch a swallow now. Props fall under normal gravity, darken as they sink, and only fade right at the end. They used to be gone in the time it takes to blink.

Fall distance scales with your hole, so a late-game monster swallows things properly instead of leaving them hovering at the lip.

A prop has to be lined up over the mouth to count. Clipping the edge of something on your way past no longer eats it.

Holes don't bulldoze street furniture. Props stay put until you're genuinely under them.

Everyone sees the same city. Props eaten by other players — and by players who joined partway through — now match up across the lobby.

Nameplates are readable and sit centred over the hole.

The arena resets for everyone between rounds, so every round opens on a full city on every machine.