New to FleshOS

Tour FleshOS: a short welcome tour on first start (Start menu → Tour FleshOS to see it again), and one-time tips the first time you do something. Both can be turned off in Control Panel.

Folders, cleaned up: Props, Weapons, Explosives, Software, Powers and Liquids, each with Icons and Tiles views.

Software (replaces syringes)

Eleven programs you install into people: pick one in the Software folder and click someone (or drag it onto them), then watch the progress bar.

Antivirus.exe heals (and cures the virus), Overclock.exe makes them strong (until they overheat), Hibernate.exe puts them to sleep, Defrag.exe puts lost limbs back, Ctrl+Z.exe brings back the recently dead, Zip.exe / Unzip.exe shrink and grow, Ghost.exe lets things pass through, Magnet.exe pulls metal, Corrupt.exe glitches them, and Fleshy.exe is your helpful assistant.

Each person's Properties sheet (Alt+Enter) has a Programs tab with Uninstall.

Weapons

Nine guns you hold (pick up with Drag, aim with Q/E, fire with F): Rifle, Revolver, Sniper (pierces five people), Minigun (spins up), Nail gun (pins limbs to walls and windows), Crossbow (bolts carry people and pin them), Flamethrower, Laser (cuts and cauterises) and Grenade launcher.

Pistol, Shotgun, SMG, Railgun and Rocket launcher still fire into the screen.

New melee: Chainsaw, Frying pan, Scythe, Mace.

New throwables: Molotov, Sticky bomb, Cluster grenade, Flashbang, Claymore, Firework.

Liquids

A new Liquids folder: Water, Blood, Oil, Acid, Lava, Slime, Nitro and Mercury. They share one fluid, so they mix and layer by weight.

Oil burns, acid eats flesh and props, nitro explodes on impact, slime holds on, mercury floats almost anything, and lava sets things alight. Lava poured into water makes rocks you can drag around.

Things float or sink by what they're made of. Nothing gets launched out of heavy liquids, and someone dropped into deep water bobs back up.

MS Paint

Paint (taskbar brush icon) draws solid terrain right on the desktop: pencil, brush, lines, boxes, ellipses, fill and eraser, in 28 colours.

Made of: Stone, Wood (burns), Ice (melts), Spikes (stab), Bouncy, Sticky, or Just colour (draw without anything solid). Pick the material and the colour separately.

Build pools, ramps, cages and shelves. Water stays in what you draw, and explosions blow holes in it.

Powers: OS disasters

Blue Screen of Death: everyone collapses, then FleshOS restarts.

Virus: click someone to infect them. They chase and bite, and the bitten turn. Antivirus.exe cures it.

Windows Update: a progress bar you can't cancel; at 100% the whole desktop restarts.

Recycle vortex: the Body Bin opens and swallows everything on the screen, liquids included.

Gravity: normal, off or upside down, plus a gravity well under the cursor.

Earthquake, Meteor shower, Freeze ray / Blizzard (people encased in ice, water turned to ice) and Pop-up storm (solid pop-up ads rain down; close them one by one).

People who react

People duck after a nearby shot, run from fires, blasts, tornadoes, the vortex and the infected, and climb onto ledges and windows to escape a flood.

They swim to the surface and climb out at the edge, struggle when you pick them up, and look at your cursor.

Sometimes someone drags an unconscious friend out of a fire.

Their mood (Calm, Scared, Panicking…) is on the Properties sheet.

New tools

Copy / Cut / Paste (Ctrl+C / Ctrl+X / Ctrl+V): copies keep their wounds, missing limbs and blood.

Undo (Ctrl+Z): rewinds the last five seconds. Press again to go further back.

Select: drag a box to select many things, then drag them together, freeze them (right-click) or delete them (Delete).

Resize (scroll over a prop or person), Thruster, Balloon, Motor, Spring and Hinge.

Screenshot (Print Screen): saves to My Pictures (My Morgue → My Pictures).

Goals and saves

Achievements.exe: 42 achievements, from spawning your first person to undoing a nuke, with progress bars. Some unlock new wallpapers (Luna Silver, Olive, Bliss at Night) and items (Golden katana, Rubber duck nuke). The Statistics tab keeps your lifetime totals.

Tasks.exe: short timed challenges with a star rating (Hands Off, Pool Party, Lights Out, Protect the VIP, Chain Reaction), plus a new daily challenge each day.

Save scene (Start menu): the whole desktop (people and their injuries, props, drawings, liquids, windows) goes to My Documents. Click a save to open it again. Your last desktop is kept as an Autosave.