v0.30.27

v0.30.27

• Fix player stats modal @ryanbarlow97

v0.30.26

• Censor slurs split across clan tag and username
• Update homepage & in-game promos
• Have game server reject banned players
• Don't show store button on crazy games
• Do not show "Not logged in" on flag modal on CrazyGames

v0.30.25

• Improved name censoring
• Add rarity to cosmetic items
• Add corner video ad

v0.30.24

• Fix: censoring was letting some innapropriate usernames slip through

v0.30.23

• Revert april fools update

v0.30.22

• Bugfix: remove invalid map

v0.30.21

• Add support for the ClosedBack language

v0.30.20

• Increased the coefficient of restitution for nukes @DevelopingTom
• Various map improvements @FloPinguin, @RickD004, @patrickbadly-hub

v0.30.19

• Update deployment and game server to use api key to bypass bot checks

v0.30.18

• Fix: Radial menu was not updating after it was open while player gained enough gold to make a purchase @evanpelle

v0.30.17

• Fix: Fall back to default Discord avatar when profile image fails to load @evanpelle
• Fix: broken schema for users/@me in v0.30.16 @evanpelle

v0.30.16

• Add bottom left ad in crazygames @evanpelle
• Update player stats to split out ranked @ryanbarlow97
• Add not logged in warning to flags modal @evanpelle
• Add a store button to the patterns modal and flag modal @evanpelle
• bugfix: sometimes modals were not opening @evanpelle

v0.30.15

• Fix: skin modal styling, and bug where it sometimes won't open.

v0.30.14

• Display the name of the creator for flags & skins @evanpelle
• Add leave confirmation dialog to JoinLobbyModal @FloPinguin
• Fix base language preferred over regional variant in auto-detection @FloPinguin
• Support for unlockable flags @evanpelle
• Bugfix: map was not compact size in compact gamemode @evanpelle
• Remove modifiers from normal FFA/Team games (increase chance of gold multiplier for special games, decrease random spawn) @FloPinguin

v0.30.13

• Small updates and fixes in the HelpModal @VariableVince
• Possible fix for icons disappearing: Update PixiJS @VariableVince
• Max of 3 modifiers for special lobby @evanpelle
• Make 1 in every 3 games compact @evanpelle
• Make ffa the large game card @evanpelle
• Translation update @Aotumuri
• Remove modifiers from normal FFA/Team games (And increase chance of gold multiplier for special games, decrease random spawn) 🎲 @FloPinguin

v0.30.12

• Add team spawn areas for Baikal ⚡ @FloPinguin

v0.30.11

• Fix: lobby modal stuck when attempting to join full game @evanpelle
• Increase spawn immunity from 30s to 45s for 5M starting gold maps 🛡️ @FloPinguin
• Fix labels in public lobby modifier display 🏷️ @FloPinguin
• Fix "you didn't enter the lobby in time" when device clock isn't synced @VariableVince
• Fix: player name and location on wrong spot on the map @VariableVince
• Fix inverse annexation @VariableVince
• Update ads

v0.30.10

• Add better rate limits
• Fix: invalid kick_reason.too_much_data error
• Update ads
• Reduce spawn phase duration when random spawn is enabled @FloPinguin
• Rebalance HvN @FloPinguin

v0.30.9

• Fix: Strait of Hormuz boating bugs in compact map
• Fix seam lines in Nile Delta map @FloPinguin, @gabigabogabu
• ui: reduce HUD transparency for control, attacks, events, and hover panel @hkio120

v0.30.8

• Updated translations
• fix: prevent false rate-limit error from appearing

v0.30.7

• Fix public lobby timer stuck due to IPC race condition

v0.30.6

• Server-side WebSocket message rate limiting & size enforcement

v0.30.5

• Fix duplicate game creation when opening private lobby (#3423)
• Kill and restart workers when IPC send fails
• terminate public lobby ws on request

v0.30.4

• Kick players when intent too large

v0.30.3

• add rate limits for intents

v0.30.2

• increase train spawn rate ~20%
• increase gold from trade ships
• Reduce territory color range for players on the same team
• minor tweaks to UI

v0.30.1

• fix: prevent old lobbies from appearing in the public games browser

🎉 OpenFront v30 Changelog 🎉

Hey everyone! We've got an giant update packed with new features, maps, UI improvements and fixes. Here's whats new:

🌟 Main New Features

• Three public lobbies - Homepage now shows separate FFA, Teams, and Special lobbies - Special always has between 1 and 4 modifiers (by @ryanbarlow97 and @evanpelle)
• See who's playing - Visible lobby player list and settings after joining a public game, just like in private lobbies - Plus improved connection speed & handling (by @ryanbarlow97)
• Trade ship meta updated - Trade ship cap raised from ~100 to ~400, enabled by last version's pathfinding performance improvements (by @evanpelle)
• Railroad snapping - Structures built over railroads now properly split and connect to the network (by @DevelopingTom)
• Train gold diminishing returns - Railroad income now decreases after the 5th city stop, preventing excessive gold from long city chains (by @evanpelle)
• 1v1 ranked config updated - Now uses original tournament format - 40% Australia, 20% Iceland, 20% Asia, 20% Europe Classic - 50% normal map size, 50% compact (by @FloPinguin)
• Attacker troop loss rebalance - Adresses attack loss imbalance (by @1brucben)
• Reconnection - Internet problems or accidentally reloaded the page? Reconnects are possible now (by @ryanbarlow97)
• Attack ratio panel redesign - Is now centered and combined with the units display, more compact and mobile-friendly (by @evanpelle and @hkio120)
• Player info panel moved to top - Redesigned, optimized for mobile (by @evanpelle)
• Mobile UI improvements - Fixed numerous layout issues on mobile: overlapping elements, cutoff panels, inconsistent spacing and borders, tap-to-close overlays, ... (by @FloPinguin)
• Configurable nation count - Slider (0–400) replaces "Disable Nations" toggle in singleplayer and private lobbies (by @FloPinguin)
• SAM cooldown increased - SAM cooldown raised from 7.5s to 12s to compensate for previous SAM targeting improvements (by @evanpelle)

🗺️ New Maps

• Alps ⛰️ - Large land-only map for pure land warfare, train trade only (by @TsProphet94)
• The Box 🟩 - Completely flat, large land-only map, train trade only (by @sardidefcon)
• Hawaii 🏝️ - The Hawaiian island chain with real volcanic terrain (by @gabigabogabu)
• Traders Dream 🏝️ - Island-heavy map focused on trade with two large islands (by @FloPinguin)
• Yenisei re-added 🏞️ - This map got removed a while ago (technical problems), returns at ~3x smaller size (by @Duwibi)
• San Francisco - Bay area map with 21 nations based on local cities and towns (by @RickD004)
• Arctic 🐻‍❄️ - North Pole-centered map with Cold War themed nations using azimuthal projection (by @RickD004)
• Nile Delta 🏞️ - Egyptian delta region including the Suez Canal (by @gabigabogabu)
• Passage 🏝️ - Long, thin island-filled map with naval choke points, great for contested sea warfare (by @bijx)
• Bosphorus Straits - Smaller Turkey-focused map centered on one of the world's key strategic waterways (by @TsProphet94)
• Bering Strait - Smaller map of the Alaska–Russia strait with an enlarged center island for strategic battles (by @TsProphet94)
• Aegean 🏛️ - Greek-Turkish map centered on the Aegean Sea with ancient city-state nations, designed for island-hopping naval warfare (by @RickD004)

🧪 Public Game Modifiers

• Crowded modifier - New modifier simulates a youtuber lobby, cramps 125 players onto a small map - Can you handle the chaos? (by @FloPinguin)
• 25M Starting Gold modifier - New modifier creates chaotic high-gold matches with 2.5 min spawn immunity for preparation (by @FloPinguin)
• Hard Nations modifier - New modifier makes nations tougher in 20% of HvN games (Because the medium difficulty got nerfed), also in some Non-HvN-games (by @FloPinguin)
• PVP immunity in 5M gold games - 30s immunity to prevent instant nuking (by @FloPinguin)
• Alliances Disabled modifier - New modifier: no alliances allowed, pure fear (by @FloPinguin)
• x2 Gold modifier - New modifier: double gold income for faster-paced games (by @FloPinguin)

⚔️ Gameplay Changes

• World map more frequent - World map now appears much more often in public game rotation (by @evanpelle)
• Baikal & Four Islands team games - Baikal now favors 2-team games and Four Islands favors 4-team games; both appear twice as often in team playlists (by @FloPinguin)
• Alliance renewal in radial menu - Extend expiring alliances directly from the radial menu (by @deshack)
• Railroad hover highlight - Hovering a railroad highlights the entire connected line (by @DevelopingTom)
• Transport retreat to nearest shore - Troop transports now path back to your closest owned shoreline instead of their original launch point (by @bijx)
• Disable alliances option - Private lobbies can now disable alliances entirely for pure free-for-all games (by @FloPinguin)
• Confirm building with Enter/NumPad - Buildings selected via hotkeys can now be placed with Enter instead of requiring a mouse click (by @wozniakpl)
• Configurable attack ratio increment - New settings dropdown to choose the step size when adjusting attack ratio via keybinds (by @Aotumuri)
• Requeue button for Ranked - "Play Again" button after ranked matches to instantly re-queue (by @Skigim)
• Public game nations - Switched public game nation difficulty from "Easy" to "Medium" - Because easy nations got nerfed a lot in v29.11 (by @FloPinguin)
• Reduce bot farming - Bots try to delete captured structures to prevent farming exploits (by @FloPinguin)
• Block nuking teammate structures - Nukes blocked if they'd...

v0.30.26

v0.30.26

• Censor slurs split across clan tag and username
• Update homepage & in-game promos
• Have game server reject banned players
• Don't show store button on crazy games
• Do not show "Not logged in" on flag modal on CrazyGames

v0.30.25

• Improved name censoring
• Add rarity to cosmetic items
• Add corner video ad

v0.30.24

• Fix: censoring was letting some innapropriate usernames slip through

v0.30.23

• Revert april fools update

v0.30.22

• Bugfix: remove invalid map

v0.30.21

• Add support for the ClosedBack language

v0.30.20

• Increased the coefficient of restitution for nukes @DevelopingTom
• Various map improvements @FloPinguin, @RickD004, @patrickbadly-hub

v0.30.19

• Update deployment and game server to use api key to bypass bot checks

v0.30.18

• Fix: Radial menu was not updating after it was open while player gained enough gold to make a purchase @evanpelle

v0.30.17

• Fix: Fall back to default Discord avatar when profile image fails to load @evanpelle
• Fix: broken schema for users/@me in v0.30.16 @evanpelle

v0.30.16

• Add bottom left ad in crazygames @evanpelle
• Update player stats to split out ranked @ryanbarlow97
• Add not logged in warning to flags modal @evanpelle
• Add a store button to the patterns modal and flag modal @evanpelle
• bugfix: sometimes modals were not opening @evanpelle

v0.30.15

• Fix: skin modal styling, and bug where it sometimes won't open.

v0.30.14

• Display the name of the creator for flags & skins @evanpelle
• Add leave confirmation dialog to JoinLobbyModal @FloPinguin
• Fix base language preferred over regional variant in auto-detection @FloPinguin
• Support for unlockable flags @evanpelle
• Bugfix: map was not compact size in compact gamemode @evanpelle
• Remove modifiers from normal FFA/Team games (increase chance of gold multiplier for special games, decrease random spawn) @FloPinguin

v0.30.13

• Small updates and fixes in the HelpModal @VariableVince
• Possible fix for icons disappearing: Update PixiJS @VariableVince
• Max of 3 modifiers for special lobby @evanpelle
• Make 1 in every 3 games compact @evanpelle
• Make ffa the large game card @evanpelle
• Translation update @Aotumuri
• Remove modifiers from normal FFA/Team games (And increase chance of gold multiplier for special games, decrease random spawn) 🎲 @FloPinguin

v0.30.12

• Add team spawn areas for Baikal ⚡ @FloPinguin

v0.30.11

• Fix: lobby modal stuck when attempting to join full game @evanpelle
• Increase spawn immunity from 30s to 45s for 5M starting gold maps 🛡️ @FloPinguin
• Fix labels in public lobby modifier display 🏷️ @FloPinguin
• Fix "you didn't enter the lobby in time" when device clock isn't synced @VariableVince
• Fix: player name and location on wrong spot on the map @VariableVince
• Fix inverse annexation @VariableVince
• Update ads

v0.30.10

• Add better rate limits
• Fix: invalid kick_reason.too_much_data error
• Update ads
• Reduce spawn phase duration when random spawn is enabled @FloPinguin
• Rebalance HvN @FloPinguin

v0.30.9

• Fix: Strait of Hormuz boating bugs in compact map
• Fix seam lines in Nile Delta map @FloPinguin, @gabigabogabu
• ui: reduce HUD transparency for control, attacks, events, and hover panel @hkio120

v0.30.8

• Updated translations
• fix: prevent false rate-limit error from appearing

v0.30.7

• Fix public lobby timer stuck due to IPC race condition

v0.30.6

• Server-side WebSocket message rate limiting & size enforcement

v0.30.5

• Fix duplicate game creation when opening private lobby (#3423)
• Kill and restart workers when IPC send fails
• terminate public lobby ws on request

v0.30.4

• Kick players when intent too large

v0.30.3

• add rate limits for intents

v0.30.2

• increase train spawn rate ~20%
• increase gold from trade ships
• Reduce territory color range for players on the same team
• minor tweaks to UI

v0.30.1

• fix: prevent old lobbies from appearing in the public games browser

🎉 OpenFront v30 Changelog 🎉

Hey everyone! We've got an giant update packed with new features, maps, UI improvements and fixes. Here's whats new:

🌟 Main New Features

• Three public lobbies - Homepage now shows separate FFA, Teams, and Special lobbies - Special always has between 1 and 4 modifiers (by @ryanbarlow97 and @evanpelle)
• See who's playing - Visible lobby player list and settings after joining a public game, just like in private lobbies - Plus improved connection speed & handling (by @ryanbarlow97)
• Trade ship meta updated - Trade ship cap raised from ~100 to ~400, enabled by last version's pathfinding performance improvements (by @evanpelle)
• Railroad snapping - Structures built over railroads now properly split and connect to the network (by @DevelopingTom)
• Train gold diminishing returns - Railroad income now decreases after the 5th city stop, preventing excessive gold from long city chains (by @evanpelle)
• 1v1 ranked config updated - Now uses original tournament format - 40% Australia, 20% Iceland, 20% Asia, 20% Europe Classic - 50% normal map size, 50% compact (by @FloPinguin)
• Attacker troop loss rebalance - Adresses attack loss imbalance (by @1brucben)
• Reconnection - Internet problems or accidentally reloaded the page? Reconnects are possible now (by @ryanbarlow97)
• Attack ratio panel redesign - Is now centered and combined with the units display, more compact and mobile-friendly (by @evanpelle and @hkio120)
• Player info panel moved to top - Redesigned, optimized for mobile (by @evanpelle)
• Mobile UI improvements - Fixed numerous layout issues on mobile: overlapping elements, cutoff panels, inconsistent spacing and borders, tap-to-close overlays, ... (by @FloPinguin)
• Configurable nation count - Slider (0–400) replaces "Disable Nations" toggle in singleplayer and private lobbies (by @FloPinguin)
• SAM cooldown increased - SAM cooldown raised from 7.5s to 12s to compensate for previous SAM targeting improvements (by @evanpelle)

🗺️ New Maps

• Alps ⛰️ - Large land-only map for pure land warfare, train trade only (by @TsProphet94)
• The Box 🟩 - Completely flat, large land-only map, train trade only (by @sardidefcon)
• Hawaii 🏝️ - The Hawaiian island chain with real volcanic terrain (by @gabigabogabu)
• Traders Dream 🏝️ - Island-heavy map focused on trade with two large islands (by @FloPinguin)
• Yenisei re-added 🏞️ - This map got removed a while ago (technical problems), returns at ~3x smaller size (by @Duwibi)
• San Francisco - Bay area map with 21 nations based on local cities and towns (by @RickD004)
• Arctic 🐻‍❄️ - North Pole-centered map with Cold War themed nations using azimuthal projection (by @RickD004)
• Nile Delta 🏞️ - Egyptian delta region including the Suez Canal (by @gabigabogabu)
• Passage 🏝️ - Long, thin island-filled map with naval choke points, great for contested sea warfare (by @bijx)
• Bosphorus Straits - Smaller Turkey-focused map centered on one of the world's key strategic waterways (by @TsProphet94)
• Bering Strait - Smaller map of the Alaska–Russia strait with an enlarged center island for strategic battles (by @TsProphet94)
• Aegean 🏛️ - Greek-Turkish map centered on the Aegean Sea with ancient city-state nations, designed for island-hopping naval warfare (by @RickD004)

🧪 Public Game Modifiers

• Crowded modifier - New modifier simulates a youtuber lobby, cramps 125 players onto a small map - Can you handle the chaos? (by @FloPinguin)
• 25M Starting Gold modifier - New modifier creates chaotic high-gold matches with 2.5 min spawn immunity for preparation (by @FloPinguin)
• Hard Nations modifier - New modifier makes nations tougher in 20% of HvN games (Because the medium difficulty got nerfed), also in some Non-HvN-games (by @FloPinguin)
• PVP immunity in 5M gold games - 30s immunity to prevent instant nuking (by @FloPinguin)
• Alliances Disabled modifier - New modifier: no alliances allowed, pure fear (by @FloPinguin)
• x2 Gold modifier - New modifier: double gold income for faster-paced games (by @FloPinguin)

⚔️ Gameplay Changes

• World map more frequent - World map now appears much more often in public game rotation (by @evanpelle)
• Baikal & Four Islands team games - Baikal now favors 2-team games and Four Islands favors 4-team games; both appear twice as often in team playlists (by @FloPinguin)
• Alliance renewal in radial menu - Extend expiring alliances directly from the radial menu (by @deshack)
• Railroad hover highlight - Hovering a railroad highlights the entire connected line (by @DevelopingTom)
• Transport retreat to nearest shore - Troop transports now path back to your closest owned shoreline instead of their original launch point (by @bijx)
• Disable alliances option - Private lobbies can now disable alliances entirely for pure free-for-all games (by @FloPinguin)
• Confirm building with Enter/NumPad - Buildings selected via hotkeys can now be placed with Enter instead of requiring a mouse click (by @wozniakpl)
• Configurable attack ratio increment - New settings dropdown to choose the step size when adjusting attack ratio via keybinds (by @Aotumuri)
• Requeue button for Ranked - "Play Again" button after ranked matches to instantly re-queue (by @Skigim)
• Public game nations - Switched public game nation difficulty from "Easy" to "Medium" - Because easy nations got nerfed a lot in v29.11 (by @FloPinguin)
• Reduce bot farming - Bots try to delete captured structures to prevent farming exploits (by @FloPinguin)
• Block nuking teammate structures - Nukes blocked if they'd hit a teammate's structure (that was possible by nuking...

v0.30.25

v0.30.25

• Improved name censoring
• Add rarity to cosmetic items
• Add corner video ad

v0.30.24

• Fix: censoring was letting some innapropriate usernames slip through

v0.30.23

• Revert april fools update

v0.30.22

• Bugfix: remove invalid map

v0.30.21

• Add support for the ClosedBack language

v0.30.20

• Increased the coefficient of restitution for nukes @DevelopingTom
• Various map improvements @FloPinguin, @RickD004, @patrickbadly-hub

v0.30.19

• Update deployment and game server to use api key to bypass bot checks

v0.30.18

• Fix: Radial menu was not updating after it was open while player gained enough gold to make a purchase @evanpelle

v0.30.17

• Fix: Fall back to default Discord avatar when profile image fails to load @evanpelle
• Fix: broken schema for users/@me in v0.30.16 @evanpelle

v0.30.16

• Add bottom left ad in crazygames @evanpelle
• Update player stats to split out ranked @ryanbarlow97
• Add not logged in warning to flags modal @evanpelle
• Add a store button to the patterns modal and flag modal @evanpelle
• bugfix: sometimes modals were not opening @evanpelle

v0.30.15

• Fix: skin modal styling, and bug where it sometimes won't open.

v0.30.14

• Display the name of the creator for flags & skins @evanpelle
• Add leave confirmation dialog to JoinLobbyModal @FloPinguin
• Fix base language preferred over regional variant in auto-detection @FloPinguin
• Support for unlockable flags @evanpelle
• Bugfix: map was not compact size in compact gamemode @evanpelle
• Remove modifiers from normal FFA/Team games (increase chance of gold multiplier for special games, decrease random spawn) @FloPinguin

v0.30.13

• Small updates and fixes in the HelpModal @VariableVince
• Possible fix for icons disappearing: Update PixiJS @VariableVince
• Max of 3 modifiers for special lobby @evanpelle
• Make 1 in every 3 games compact @evanpelle
• Make ffa the large game card @evanpelle
• Translation update @Aotumuri
• Remove modifiers from normal FFA/Team games (And increase chance of gold multiplier for special games, decrease random spawn) 🎲 @FloPinguin

v0.30.12

• Add team spawn areas for Baikal ⚡ @FloPinguin

v0.30.11

• Fix: lobby modal stuck when attempting to join full game @evanpelle
• Increase spawn immunity from 30s to 45s for 5M starting gold maps 🛡️ @FloPinguin
• Fix labels in public lobby modifier display 🏷️ @FloPinguin
• Fix "you didn't enter the lobby in time" when device clock isn't synced @VariableVince
• Fix: player name and location on wrong spot on the map @VariableVince
• Fix inverse annexation @VariableVince
• Update ads

v0.30.10

• Add better rate limits
• Fix: invalid kick_reason.too_much_data error
• Update ads
• Reduce spawn phase duration when random spawn is enabled @FloPinguin
• Rebalance HvN @FloPinguin

v0.30.9

• Fix: Strait of Hormuz boating bugs in compact map
• Fix seam lines in Nile Delta map @FloPinguin, @gabigabogabu
• ui: reduce HUD transparency for control, attacks, events, and hover panel @hkio120

v0.30.8

• Updated translations
• fix: prevent false rate-limit error from appearing

v0.30.7

• Fix public lobby timer stuck due to IPC race condition

v0.30.6

• Server-side WebSocket message rate limiting & size enforcement

v0.30.5

• Fix duplicate game creation when opening private lobby (#3423)
• Kill and restart workers when IPC send fails
• terminate public lobby ws on request

v0.30.4

• Kick players when intent too large

v0.30.3

• add rate limits for intents

v0.30.2

• increase train spawn rate ~20%
• increase gold from trade ships
• Reduce territory color range for players on the same team
• minor tweaks to UI

v0.30.1

• fix: prevent old lobbies from appearing in the public games browser

🎉 OpenFront v30 Changelog 🎉

Hey everyone! We've got an giant update packed with new features, maps, UI improvements and fixes. Here's whats new:

🌟 Main New Features

• Three public lobbies - Homepage now shows separate FFA, Teams, and Special lobbies - Special always has between 1 and 4 modifiers (by @ryanbarlow97 and @evanpelle)
• See who's playing - Visible lobby player list and settings after joining a public game, just like in private lobbies - Plus improved connection speed & handling (by @ryanbarlow97)
• Trade ship meta updated - Trade ship cap raised from ~100 to ~400, enabled by last version's pathfinding performance improvements (by @evanpelle)
• Railroad snapping - Structures built over railroads now properly split and connect to the network (by @DevelopingTom)
• Train gold diminishing returns - Railroad income now decreases after the 5th city stop, preventing excessive gold from long city chains (by @evanpelle)
• 1v1 ranked config updated - Now uses original tournament format - 40% Australia, 20% Iceland, 20% Asia, 20% Europe Classic - 50% normal map size, 50% compact (by @FloPinguin)
• Attacker troop loss rebalance - Adresses attack loss imbalance (by @1brucben)
• Reconnection - Internet problems or accidentally reloaded the page? Reconnects are possible now (by @ryanbarlow97)
• Attack ratio panel redesign - Is now centered and combined with the units display, more compact and mobile-friendly (by @evanpelle and @hkio120)
• Player info panel moved to top - Redesigned, optimized for mobile (by @evanpelle)
• Mobile UI improvements - Fixed numerous layout issues on mobile: overlapping elements, cutoff panels, inconsistent spacing and borders, tap-to-close overlays, ... (by @FloPinguin)
• Configurable nation count - Slider (0–400) replaces "Disable Nations" toggle in singleplayer and private lobbies (by @FloPinguin)
• SAM cooldown increased - SAM cooldown raised from 7.5s to 12s to compensate for previous SAM targeting improvements (by @evanpelle)

🗺️ New Maps

• Alps ⛰️ - Large land-only map for pure land warfare, train trade only (by @TsProphet94)
• The Box 🟩 - Completely flat, large land-only map, train trade only (by @sardidefcon)
• Hawaii 🏝️ - The Hawaiian island chain with real volcanic terrain (by @gabigabogabu)
• Traders Dream 🏝️ - Island-heavy map focused on trade with two large islands (by @FloPinguin)
• Yenisei re-added 🏞️ - This map got removed a while ago (technical problems), returns at ~3x smaller size (by @Duwibi)
• San Francisco - Bay area map with 21 nations based on local cities and towns (by @RickD004)
• Arctic 🐻‍❄️ - North Pole-centered map with Cold War themed nations using azimuthal projection (by @RickD004)
• Nile Delta 🏞️ - Egyptian delta region including the Suez Canal (by @gabigabogabu)
• Passage 🏝️ - Long, thin island-filled map with naval choke points, great for contested sea warfare (by @bijx)
• Bosphorus Straits - Smaller Turkey-focused map centered on one of the world's key strategic waterways (by @TsProphet94)
• Bering Strait - Smaller map of the Alaska–Russia strait with an enlarged center island for strategic battles (by @TsProphet94)
• Aegean 🏛️ - Greek-Turkish map centered on the Aegean Sea with ancient city-state nations, designed for island-hopping naval warfare (by @RickD004)

🧪 Public Game Modifiers

• Crowded modifier - New modifier simulates a youtuber lobby, cramps 125 players onto a small map - Can you handle the chaos? (by @FloPinguin)
• 25M Starting Gold modifier - New modifier creates chaotic high-gold matches with 2.5 min spawn immunity for preparation (by @FloPinguin)
• Hard Nations modifier - New modifier makes nations tougher in 20% of HvN games (Because the medium difficulty got nerfed), also in some Non-HvN-games (by @FloPinguin)
• PVP immunity in 5M gold games - 30s immunity to prevent instant nuking (by @FloPinguin)
• Alliances Disabled modifier - New modifier: no alliances allowed, pure fear (by @FloPinguin)
• x2 Gold modifier - New modifier: double gold income for faster-paced games (by @FloPinguin)

⚔️ Gameplay Changes

• World map more frequent - World map now appears much more often in public game rotation (by @evanpelle)
• Baikal & Four Islands team games - Baikal now favors 2-team games and Four Islands favors 4-team games; both appear twice as often in team playlists (by @FloPinguin)
• Alliance renewal in radial menu - Extend expiring alliances directly from the radial menu (by @deshack)
• Railroad hover highlight - Hovering a railroad highlights the entire connected line (by @DevelopingTom)
• Transport retreat to nearest shore - Troop transports now path back to your closest owned shoreline instead of their original launch point (by @bijx)
• Disable alliances option - Private lobbies can now disable alliances entirely for pure free-for-all games (by @FloPinguin)
• Confirm building with Enter/NumPad - Buildings selected via hotkeys can now be placed with Enter instead of requiring a mouse click (by @wozniakpl)
• Configurable attack ratio increment - New settings dropdown to choose the step size when adjusting attack ratio via keybinds (by @Aotumuri)
• Requeue button for Ranked - "Play Again" button after ranked matches to instantly re-queue (by @Skigim)
• Public game nations - Switched public game nation difficulty from "Easy" to "Medium" - Because easy nations got nerfed a lot in v29.11 (by @FloPinguin)
• Reduce bot farming - Bots try to delete captured structures to prevent farming exploits (by @FloPinguin)
• Block nuking teammate structures - Nukes blocked if they'd hit a teammate's structure (that was possible by nuking oceans / rivers) (by @FloPinguin)
• No gold from inactive players - Conquering players who joined but never played (0 attacks executed) no longer gives gold (by @FloPinguin)
• Nuke trajectory shows alliance break - Trajectory accounts ...

v0.30.24

v0.30.23

• Fix: censoring was letting some innapropriate usernames slip through

v0.30.23

• Revert april fools update

v0.30.22

• Bugfix: remove invalid map

v0.30.21

• Add support for the ClosedBack language

v0.30.20

• Increased the coefficient of restitution for nukes @DevelopingTom
• Various map improvements @FloPinguin, @RickD004, @patrickbadly-hub

v0.30.19

• Update deployment and game server to use api key to bypass bot checks

v0.30.18

• Fix: Radial menu was not updating after it was open while player gained enough gold to make a purchase @evanpelle

v0.30.17

• Fix: Fall back to default Discord avatar when profile image fails to load @evanpelle
• Fix: broken schema for users/@me in v0.30.16 @evanpelle

v0.30.16

• Add bottom left ad in crazygames @evanpelle
• Update player stats to split out ranked @ryanbarlow97
• Add not logged in warning to flags modal @evanpelle
• Add a store button to the patterns modal and flag modal @evanpelle
• bugfix: sometimes modals were not opening @evanpelle

v0.30.15

• Fix: skin modal styling, and bug where it sometimes won't open.

v0.30.14

• Display the name of the creator for flags & skins @evanpelle
• Add leave confirmation dialog to JoinLobbyModal @FloPinguin
• Fix base language preferred over regional variant in auto-detection @FloPinguin
• Support for unlockable flags @evanpelle
• Bugfix: map was not compact size in compact gamemode @evanpelle
• Remove modifiers from normal FFA/Team games (increase chance of gold multiplier for special games, decrease random spawn) @FloPinguin

v0.30.13

• Small updates and fixes in the HelpModal @VariableVince
• Possible fix for icons disappearing: Update PixiJS @VariableVince
• Max of 3 modifiers for special lobby @evanpelle
• Make 1 in every 3 games compact @evanpelle
• Make ffa the large game card @evanpelle
• Translation update @Aotumuri
• Remove modifiers from normal FFA/Team games (And increase chance of gold multiplier for special games, decrease random spawn) 🎲 @FloPinguin

v0.30.12

• Add team spawn areas for Baikal ⚡ @FloPinguin

v0.30.11

• Fix: lobby modal stuck when attempting to join full game @evanpelle
• Increase spawn immunity from 30s to 45s for 5M starting gold maps 🛡️ @FloPinguin
• Fix labels in public lobby modifier display 🏷️ @FloPinguin
• Fix "you didn't enter the lobby in time" when device clock isn't synced @VariableVince
• Fix: player name and location on wrong spot on the map @VariableVince
• Fix inverse annexation @VariableVince
• Update ads

v0.30.10

• Add better rate limits
• Fix: invalid kick_reason.too_much_data error
• Update ads
• Reduce spawn phase duration when random spawn is enabled @FloPinguin
• Rebalance HvN @FloPinguin

v0.30.9

• Fix: Strait of Hormuz boating bugs in compact map
• Fix seam lines in Nile Delta map @FloPinguin, @gabigabogabu
• ui: reduce HUD transparency for control, attacks, events, and hover panel @hkio120

v0.30.8

• Updated translations
• fix: prevent false rate-limit error from appearing

v0.30.7

• Fix public lobby timer stuck due to IPC race condition

v0.30.6

• Server-side WebSocket message rate limiting & size enforcement

v0.30.5

• Fix duplicate game creation when opening private lobby (#3423)
• Kill and restart workers when IPC send fails
• terminate public lobby ws on request

v0.30.4

• Kick players when intent too large

v0.30.3

• add rate limits for intents

v0.30.2

• increase train spawn rate ~20%
• increase gold from trade ships
• Reduce territory color range for players on the same team
• minor tweaks to UI

v0.30.1

• fix: prevent old lobbies from appearing in the public games browser

🎉 OpenFront v30 Changelog 🎉

Hey everyone! We've got an giant update packed with new features, maps, UI improvements and fixes. Here's whats new:

🌟 Main New Features

• Three public lobbies - Homepage now shows separate FFA, Teams, and Special lobbies - Special always has between 1 and 4 modifiers (by @ryanbarlow97 and @evanpelle)
• See who's playing - Visible lobby player list and settings after joining a public game, just like in private lobbies - Plus improved connection speed & handling (by @ryanbarlow97)
• Trade ship meta updated - Trade ship cap raised from ~100 to ~400, enabled by last version's pathfinding performance improvements (by @evanpelle)
• Railroad snapping - Structures built over railroads now properly split and connect to the network (by @DevelopingTom)
• Train gold diminishing returns - Railroad income now decreases after the 5th city stop, preventing excessive gold from long city chains (by @evanpelle)
• 1v1 ranked config updated - Now uses original tournament format - 40% Australia, 20% Iceland, 20% Asia, 20% Europe Classic - 50% normal map size, 50% compact (by @FloPinguin)
• Attacker troop loss rebalance - Adresses attack loss imbalance (by @1brucben)
• Reconnection - Internet problems or accidentally reloaded the page? Reconnects are possible now (by @ryanbarlow97)
• Attack ratio panel redesign - Is now centered and combined with the units display, more compact and mobile-friendly (by @evanpelle and @hkio120)
• Player info panel moved to top - Redesigned, optimized for mobile (by @evanpelle)
• Mobile UI improvements - Fixed numerous layout issues on mobile: overlapping elements, cutoff panels, inconsistent spacing and borders, tap-to-close overlays, ... (by @FloPinguin)
• Configurable nation count - Slider (0–400) replaces "Disable Nations" toggle in singleplayer and private lobbies (by @FloPinguin)
• SAM cooldown increased - SAM cooldown raised from 7.5s to 12s to compensate for previous SAM targeting improvements (by @evanpelle)

🗺️ New Maps

• Alps ⛰️ - Large land-only map for pure land warfare, train trade only (by @TsProphet94)
• The Box 🟩 - Completely flat, large land-only map, train trade only (by @sardidefcon)
• Hawaii 🏝️ - The Hawaiian island chain with real volcanic terrain (by @gabigabogabu)
• Traders Dream 🏝️ - Island-heavy map focused on trade with two large islands (by @FloPinguin)
• Yenisei re-added 🏞️ - This map got removed a while ago (technical problems), returns at ~3x smaller size (by @Duwibi)
• San Francisco - Bay area map with 21 nations based on local cities and towns (by @RickD004)
• Arctic 🐻‍❄️ - North Pole-centered map with Cold War themed nations using azimuthal projection (by @RickD004)
• Nile Delta 🏞️ - Egyptian delta region including the Suez Canal (by @gabigabogabu)
• Passage 🏝️ - Long, thin island-filled map with naval choke points, great for contested sea warfare (by @bijx)
• Bosphorus Straits - Smaller Turkey-focused map centered on one of the world's key strategic waterways (by @TsProphet94)
• Bering Strait - Smaller map of the Alaska–Russia strait with an enlarged center island for strategic battles (by @TsProphet94)
• Aegean 🏛️ - Greek-Turkish map centered on the Aegean Sea with ancient city-state nations, designed for island-hopping naval warfare (by @RickD004)

🧪 Public Game Modifiers

• Crowded modifier - New modifier simulates a youtuber lobby, cramps 125 players onto a small map - Can you handle the chaos? (by @FloPinguin)
• 25M Starting Gold modifier - New modifier creates chaotic high-gold matches with 2.5 min spawn immunity for preparation (by @FloPinguin)
• Hard Nations modifier - New modifier makes nations tougher in 20% of HvN games (Because the medium difficulty got nerfed), also in some Non-HvN-games (by @FloPinguin)
• PVP immunity in 5M gold games - 30s immunity to prevent instant nuking (by @FloPinguin)
• Alliances Disabled modifier - New modifier: no alliances allowed, pure fear (by @FloPinguin)
• x2 Gold modifier - New modifier: double gold income for faster-paced games (by @FloPinguin)

⚔️ Gameplay Changes

• World map more frequent - World map now appears much more often in public game rotation (by @evanpelle)
• Baikal & Four Islands team games - Baikal now favors 2-team games and Four Islands favors 4-team games; both appear twice as often in team playlists (by @FloPinguin)
• Alliance renewal in radial menu - Extend expiring alliances directly from the radial menu (by @deshack)
• Railroad hover highlight - Hovering a railroad highlights the entire connected line (by @DevelopingTom)
• Transport retreat to nearest shore - Troop transports now path back to your closest owned shoreline instead of their original launch point (by @bijx)
• Disable alliances option - Private lobbies can now disable alliances entirely for pure free-for-all games (by @FloPinguin)
• Confirm building with Enter/NumPad - Buildings selected via hotkeys can now be placed with Enter instead of requiring a mouse click (by @wozniakpl)
• Configurable attack ratio increment - New settings dropdown to choose the step size when adjusting attack ratio via keybinds (by @Aotumuri)
• Requeue button for Ranked - "Play Again" button after ranked matches to instantly re-queue (by @Skigim)
• Public game nations - Switched public game nation difficulty from "Easy" to "Medium" - Because easy nations got nerfed a lot in v29.11 (by @FloPinguin)
• Reduce bot farming - Bots try to delete captured structures to prevent farming exploits (by @FloPinguin)
• Block nuking teammate structures - Nukes blocked if they'd hit a teammate's structure (that was possible by nuking oceans / rivers) (by @FloPinguin)
• No gold from inactive players - Conquering players who joined but never played (0 attacks executed) no longer gives gold (by @FloPinguin)
• Nuke trajectory shows alliance break - Trajectory accounts for SAMs that become hostile on launch (by @bibizu)
• Cancel nukes on alliance accept - Nukes...

v0.30.23

v0.30.23

• Revert april fools update

v0.30.22

• Bugfix: remove invalid map

v0.30.21

• Add support for the ClosedBack language

v0.30.20

• Increased the coefficient of restitution for nukes @DevelopingTom
• Various map improvements @FloPinguin, @RickD004, @patrickbadly-hub

v0.30.19

• Update deployment and game server to use api key to bypass bot checks

v0.30.18

• Fix: Radial menu was not updating after it was open while player gained enough gold to make a purchase @evanpelle

v0.30.17

• Fix: Fall back to default Discord avatar when profile image fails to load @evanpelle
• Fix: broken schema for users/@me in v0.30.16 @evanpelle

v0.30.16

• Add bottom left ad in crazygames @evanpelle
• Update player stats to split out ranked @ryanbarlow97
• Add not logged in warning to flags modal @evanpelle
• Add a store button to the patterns modal and flag modal @evanpelle
• bugfix: sometimes modals were not opening @evanpelle

v0.30.15

• Fix: skin modal styling, and bug where it sometimes won't open.

v0.30.14

• Display the name of the creator for flags & skins @evanpelle
• Add leave confirmation dialog to JoinLobbyModal @FloPinguin
• Fix base language preferred over regional variant in auto-detection @FloPinguin
• Support for unlockable flags @evanpelle
• Bugfix: map was not compact size in compact gamemode @evanpelle
• Remove modifiers from normal FFA/Team games (increase chance of gold multiplier for special games, decrease random spawn) @FloPinguin

v0.30.13

• Small updates and fixes in the HelpModal @VariableVince
• Possible fix for icons disappearing: Update PixiJS @VariableVince
• Max of 3 modifiers for special lobby @evanpelle
• Make 1 in every 3 games compact @evanpelle
• Make ffa the large game card @evanpelle
• Translation update @Aotumuri
• Remove modifiers from normal FFA/Team games (And increase chance of gold multiplier for special games, decrease random spawn) 🎲 @FloPinguin

v0.30.12

• Add team spawn areas for Baikal ⚡ @FloPinguin

v0.30.11

• Fix: lobby modal stuck when attempting to join full game @evanpelle
• Increase spawn immunity from 30s to 45s for 5M starting gold maps 🛡️ @FloPinguin
• Fix labels in public lobby modifier display 🏷️ @FloPinguin
• Fix "you didn't enter the lobby in time" when device clock isn't synced @VariableVince
• Fix: player name and location on wrong spot on the map @VariableVince
• Fix inverse annexation @VariableVince
• Update ads

v0.30.10

• Add better rate limits
• Fix: invalid kick_reason.too_much_data error
• Update ads
• Reduce spawn phase duration when random spawn is enabled @FloPinguin
• Rebalance HvN @FloPinguin

v0.30.9

• Fix: Strait of Hormuz boating bugs in compact map
• Fix seam lines in Nile Delta map @FloPinguin, @gabigabogabu
• ui: reduce HUD transparency for control, attacks, events, and hover panel @hkio120

v0.30.8

• Updated translations
• fix: prevent false rate-limit error from appearing

v0.30.7

• Fix public lobby timer stuck due to IPC race condition

v0.30.6

• Server-side WebSocket message rate limiting & size enforcement

v0.30.5

• Fix duplicate game creation when opening private lobby (#3423)
• Kill and restart workers when IPC send fails
• terminate public lobby ws on request

v0.30.4

• Kick players when intent too large

v0.30.3

• add rate limits for intents

v0.30.2

• increase train spawn rate ~20%
• increase gold from trade ships
• Reduce territory color range for players on the same team
• minor tweaks to UI

v0.30.1

• fix: prevent old lobbies from appearing in the public games browser

🎉 OpenFront v30 Changelog 🎉

Hey everyone! We've got an giant update packed with new features, maps, UI improvements and fixes. Here's whats new:

🌟 Main New Features

• Three public lobbies - Homepage now shows separate FFA, Teams, and Special lobbies - Special always has between 1 and 4 modifiers (by @ryanbarlow97 and @evanpelle)
• See who's playing - Visible lobby player list and settings after joining a public game, just like in private lobbies - Plus improved connection speed & handling (by @ryanbarlow97)
• Trade ship meta updated - Trade ship cap raised from ~100 to ~400, enabled by last version's pathfinding performance improvements (by @evanpelle)
• Railroad snapping - Structures built over railroads now properly split and connect to the network (by @DevelopingTom)
• Train gold diminishing returns - Railroad income now decreases after the 5th city stop, preventing excessive gold from long city chains (by @evanpelle)
• 1v1 ranked config updated - Now uses original tournament format - 40% Australia, 20% Iceland, 20% Asia, 20% Europe Classic - 50% normal map size, 50% compact (by @FloPinguin)
• Attacker troop loss rebalance - Adresses attack loss imbalance (by @1brucben)
• Reconnection - Internet problems or accidentally reloaded the page? Reconnects are possible now (by @ryanbarlow97)
• Attack ratio panel redesign - Is now centered and combined with the units display, more compact and mobile-friendly (by @evanpelle and @hkio120)
• Player info panel moved to top - Redesigned, optimized for mobile (by @evanpelle)
• Mobile UI improvements - Fixed numerous layout issues on mobile: overlapping elements, cutoff panels, inconsistent spacing and borders, tap-to-close overlays, ... (by @FloPinguin)
• Configurable nation count - Slider (0–400) replaces "Disable Nations" toggle in singleplayer and private lobbies (by @FloPinguin)
• SAM cooldown increased - SAM cooldown raised from 7.5s to 12s to compensate for previous SAM targeting improvements (by @evanpelle)

🗺️ New Maps

• Alps ⛰️ - Large land-only map for pure land warfare, train trade only (by @TsProphet94)
• The Box 🟩 - Completely flat, large land-only map, train trade only (by @sardidefcon)
• Hawaii 🏝️ - The Hawaiian island chain with real volcanic terrain (by @gabigabogabu)
• Traders Dream 🏝️ - Island-heavy map focused on trade with two large islands (by @FloPinguin)
• Yenisei re-added 🏞️ - This map got removed a while ago (technical problems), returns at ~3x smaller size (by @Duwibi)
• San Francisco - Bay area map with 21 nations based on local cities and towns (by @RickD004)
• Arctic 🐻‍❄️ - North Pole-centered map with Cold War themed nations using azimuthal projection (by @RickD004)
• Nile Delta 🏞️ - Egyptian delta region including the Suez Canal (by @gabigabogabu)
• Passage 🏝️ - Long, thin island-filled map with naval choke points, great for contested sea warfare (by @bijx)
• Bosphorus Straits - Smaller Turkey-focused map centered on one of the world's key strategic waterways (by @TsProphet94)
• Bering Strait - Smaller map of the Alaska–Russia strait with an enlarged center island for strategic battles (by @TsProphet94)
• Aegean 🏛️ - Greek-Turkish map centered on the Aegean Sea with ancient city-state nations, designed for island-hopping naval warfare (by @RickD004)

🧪 Public Game Modifiers

• Crowded modifier - New modifier simulates a youtuber lobby, cramps 125 players onto a small map - Can you handle the chaos? (by @FloPinguin)
• 25M Starting Gold modifier - New modifier creates chaotic high-gold matches with 2.5 min spawn immunity for preparation (by @FloPinguin)
• Hard Nations modifier - New modifier makes nations tougher in 20% of HvN games (Because the medium difficulty got nerfed), also in some Non-HvN-games (by @FloPinguin)
• PVP immunity in 5M gold games - 30s immunity to prevent instant nuking (by @FloPinguin)
• Alliances Disabled modifier - New modifier: no alliances allowed, pure fear (by @FloPinguin)
• x2 Gold modifier - New modifier: double gold income for faster-paced games (by @FloPinguin)

⚔️ Gameplay Changes

• World map more frequent - World map now appears much more often in public game rotation (by @evanpelle)
• Baikal & Four Islands team games - Baikal now favors 2-team games and Four Islands favors 4-team games; both appear twice as often in team playlists (by @FloPinguin)
• Alliance renewal in radial menu - Extend expiring alliances directly from the radial menu (by @deshack)
• Railroad hover highlight - Hovering a railroad highlights the entire connected line (by @DevelopingTom)
• Transport retreat to nearest shore - Troop transports now path back to your closest owned shoreline instead of their original launch point (by @bijx)
• Disable alliances option - Private lobbies can now disable alliances entirely for pure free-for-all games (by @FloPinguin)
• Confirm building with Enter/NumPad - Buildings selected via hotkeys can now be placed with Enter instead of requiring a mouse click (by @wozniakpl)
• Configurable attack ratio increment - New settings dropdown to choose the step size when adjusting attack ratio via keybinds (by @Aotumuri)
• Requeue button for Ranked - "Play Again" button after ranked matches to instantly re-queue (by @Skigim)
• Public game nations - Switched public game nation difficulty from "Easy" to "Medium" - Because easy nations got nerfed a lot in v29.11 (by @FloPinguin)
• Reduce bot farming - Bots try to delete captured structures to prevent farming exploits (by @FloPinguin)
• Block nuking teammate structures - Nukes blocked if they'd hit a teammate's structure (that was possible by nuking oceans / rivers) (by @FloPinguin)
• No gold from inactive players - Conquering players who joined but never played (0 attacks executed) no longer gives gold (by @FloPinguin)
• Nuke trajectory shows alliance break - Trajectory accounts for SAMs that become hostile on launch (by @bibizu)
• Cancel nukes on alliance accept - Nukes cancelled however an alliance is accepted (by @deshack)
• Improved team colors - L...

v0.30.22

v0.30.22

• Bugfix: remove invalid map

v0.30.21

• Add support for the ClosedBack language

v0.30.20

• Increased the coefficient of restitution for nukes @DevelopingTom
• Various map improvements @FloPinguin, @RickD004, @patrickbadly-hub

v0.30.19

• Update deployment and game server to use api key to bypass bot checks

v0.30.18

• Fix: Radial menu was not updating after it was open while player gained enough gold to make a purchase @evanpelle

v0.30.17

• Fix: Fall back to default Discord avatar when profile image fails to load @evanpelle
• Fix: broken schema for users/@me in v0.30.16 @evanpelle

v0.30.16

• Add bottom left ad in crazygames @evanpelle
• Update player stats to split out ranked @ryanbarlow97
• Add not logged in warning to flags modal @evanpelle
• Add a store button to the patterns modal and flag modal @evanpelle
• bugfix: sometimes modals were not opening @evanpelle

v0.30.15

• Fix: skin modal styling, and bug where it sometimes won't open.

v0.30.14

• Display the name of the creator for flags & skins @evanpelle
• Add leave confirmation dialog to JoinLobbyModal @FloPinguin
• Fix base language preferred over regional variant in auto-detection @FloPinguin
• Support for unlockable flags @evanpelle
• Bugfix: map was not compact size in compact gamemode @evanpelle
• Remove modifiers from normal FFA/Team games (increase chance of gold multiplier for special games, decrease random spawn) @FloPinguin

v0.30.13

• Small updates and fixes in the HelpModal @VariableVince
• Possible fix for icons disappearing: Update PixiJS @VariableVince
• Max of 3 modifiers for special lobby @evanpelle
• Make 1 in every 3 games compact @evanpelle
• Make ffa the large game card @evanpelle
• Translation update @Aotumuri
• Remove modifiers from normal FFA/Team games (And increase chance of gold multiplier for special games, decrease random spawn) 🎲 @FloPinguin

v0.30.12

• Add team spawn areas for Baikal ⚡ @FloPinguin

v0.30.11

• Fix: lobby modal stuck when attempting to join full game @evanpelle
• Increase spawn immunity from 30s to 45s for 5M starting gold maps 🛡️ @FloPinguin
• Fix labels in public lobby modifier display 🏷️ @FloPinguin
• Fix "you didn't enter the lobby in time" when device clock isn't synced @VariableVince
• Fix: player name and location on wrong spot on the map @VariableVince
• Fix inverse annexation @VariableVince
• Update ads

v0.30.10

• Add better rate limits
• Fix: invalid kick_reason.too_much_data error
• Update ads
• Reduce spawn phase duration when random spawn is enabled @FloPinguin
• Rebalance HvN @FloPinguin

v0.30.9

• Fix: Strait of Hormuz boating bugs in compact map
• Fix seam lines in Nile Delta map @FloPinguin, @gabigabogabu
• ui: reduce HUD transparency for control, attacks, events, and hover panel @hkio120

v0.30.8

• Updated translations
• fix: prevent false rate-limit error from appearing

v0.30.7

• Fix public lobby timer stuck due to IPC race condition

v0.30.6

• Server-side WebSocket message rate limiting & size enforcement

v0.30.5

• Fix duplicate game creation when opening private lobby (#3423)
• Kill and restart workers when IPC send fails
• terminate public lobby ws on request

v0.30.4

• Kick players when intent too large

v0.30.3

• add rate limits for intents

v0.30.2

• increase train spawn rate ~20%
• increase gold from trade ships
• Reduce territory color range for players on the same team
• minor tweaks to UI

v0.30.1

• fix: prevent old lobbies from appearing in the public games browser

🎉 OpenFront v30 Changelog 🎉

Hey everyone! We've got an giant update packed with new features, maps, UI improvements and fixes. Here's whats new:

🌟 Main New Features

• Three public lobbies - Homepage now shows separate FFA, Teams, and Special lobbies - Special always has between 1 and 4 modifiers (by @ryanbarlow97 and @evanpelle)
• See who's playing - Visible lobby player list and settings after joining a public game, just like in private lobbies - Plus improved connection speed & handling (by @ryanbarlow97)
• Trade ship meta updated - Trade ship cap raised from ~100 to ~400, enabled by last version's pathfinding performance improvements (by @evanpelle)
• Railroad snapping - Structures built over railroads now properly split and connect to the network (by @DevelopingTom)
• Train gold diminishing returns - Railroad income now decreases after the 5th city stop, preventing excessive gold from long city chains (by @evanpelle)
• 1v1 ranked config updated - Now uses original tournament format - 40% Australia, 20% Iceland, 20% Asia, 20% Europe Classic - 50% normal map size, 50% compact (by @FloPinguin)
• Attacker troop loss rebalance - Adresses attack loss imbalance (by @1brucben)
• Reconnection - Internet problems or accidentally reloaded the page? Reconnects are possible now (by @ryanbarlow97)
• Attack ratio panel redesign - Is now centered and combined with the units display, more compact and mobile-friendly (by @evanpelle and @hkio120)
• Player info panel moved to top - Redesigned, optimized for mobile (by @evanpelle)
• Mobile UI improvements - Fixed numerous layout issues on mobile: overlapping elements, cutoff panels, inconsistent spacing and borders, tap-to-close overlays, ... (by @FloPinguin)
• Configurable nation count - Slider (0–400) replaces "Disable Nations" toggle in singleplayer and private lobbies (by @FloPinguin)
• SAM cooldown increased - SAM cooldown raised from 7.5s to 12s to compensate for previous SAM targeting improvements (by @evanpelle)

🗺️ New Maps

• Alps ⛰️ - Large land-only map for pure land warfare, train trade only (by @TsProphet94)
• The Box 🟩 - Completely flat, large land-only map, train trade only (by @sardidefcon)
• Hawaii 🏝️ - The Hawaiian island chain with real volcanic terrain (by @gabigabogabu)
• Traders Dream 🏝️ - Island-heavy map focused on trade with two large islands (by @FloPinguin)
• Yenisei re-added 🏞️ - This map got removed a while ago (technical problems), returns at ~3x smaller size (by @Duwibi)
• San Francisco - Bay area map with 21 nations based on local cities and towns (by @RickD004)
• Arctic 🐻‍❄️ - North Pole-centered map with Cold War themed nations using azimuthal projection (by @RickD004)
• Nile Delta 🏞️ - Egyptian delta region including the Suez Canal (by @gabigabogabu)
• Passage 🏝️ - Long, thin island-filled map with naval choke points, great for contested sea warfare (by @bijx)
• Bosphorus Straits - Smaller Turkey-focused map centered on one of the world's key strategic waterways (by @TsProphet94)
• Bering Strait - Smaller map of the Alaska–Russia strait with an enlarged center island for strategic battles (by @TsProphet94)
• Aegean 🏛️ - Greek-Turkish map centered on the Aegean Sea with ancient city-state nations, designed for island-hopping naval warfare (by @RickD004)

🧪 Public Game Modifiers

• Crowded modifier - New modifier simulates a youtuber lobby, cramps 125 players onto a small map - Can you handle the chaos? (by @FloPinguin)
• 25M Starting Gold modifier - New modifier creates chaotic high-gold matches with 2.5 min spawn immunity for preparation (by @FloPinguin)
• Hard Nations modifier - New modifier makes nations tougher in 20% of HvN games (Because the medium difficulty got nerfed), also in some Non-HvN-games (by @FloPinguin)
• PVP immunity in 5M gold games - 30s immunity to prevent instant nuking (by @FloPinguin)
• Alliances Disabled modifier - New modifier: no alliances allowed, pure fear (by @FloPinguin)
• x2 Gold modifier - New modifier: double gold income for faster-paced games (by @FloPinguin)

⚔️ Gameplay Changes

• World map more frequent - World map now appears much more often in public game rotation (by @evanpelle)
• Baikal & Four Islands team games - Baikal now favors 2-team games and Four Islands favors 4-team games; both appear twice as often in team playlists (by @FloPinguin)
• Alliance renewal in radial menu - Extend expiring alliances directly from the radial menu (by @deshack)
• Railroad hover highlight - Hovering a railroad highlights the entire connected line (by @DevelopingTom)
• Transport retreat to nearest shore - Troop transports now path back to your closest owned shoreline instead of their original launch point (by @bijx)
• Disable alliances option - Private lobbies can now disable alliances entirely for pure free-for-all games (by @FloPinguin)
• Confirm building with Enter/NumPad - Buildings selected via hotkeys can now be placed with Enter instead of requiring a mouse click (by @wozniakpl)
• Configurable attack ratio increment - New settings dropdown to choose the step size when adjusting attack ratio via keybinds (by @Aotumuri)
• Requeue button for Ranked - "Play Again" button after ranked matches to instantly re-queue (by @Skigim)
• Public game nations - Switched public game nation difficulty from "Easy" to "Medium" - Because easy nations got nerfed a lot in v29.11 (by @FloPinguin)
• Reduce bot farming - Bots try to delete captured structures to prevent farming exploits (by @FloPinguin)
• Block nuking teammate structures - Nukes blocked if they'd hit a teammate's structure (that was possible by nuking oceans / rivers) (by @FloPinguin)
• No gold from inactive players - Conquering players who joined but never played (0 attacks executed) no longer gives gold (by @FloPinguin)
• Nuke trajectory shows alliance break - Trajectory accounts for SAMs that become hostile on launch (by @bibizu)
• Cancel nukes on alliance accept - Nukes cancelled however an alliance is accepted (by @deshack)
• Improved team colors - LCH color space for more distinguishable team ...

v0.30.21

v0.30.21

• Add support for the ClosedBack language

v0.30.20

• Increased the coefficient of restitution for nukes @DevelopingTom
• Various map improvements @FloPinguin, @RickD004, @patrickbadly-hub

v0.30.19

• Update deployment and game server to use api key to bypass bot checks

v0.30.18

• Fix: Radial menu was not updating after it was open while player gained enough gold to make a purchase @evanpelle

v0.30.17

• Fix: Fall back to default Discord avatar when profile image fails to load @evanpelle
• Fix: broken schema for users/@me in v0.30.16 @evanpelle

v0.30.16

• Add bottom left ad in crazygames @evanpelle
• Update player stats to split out ranked @ryanbarlow97
• Add not logged in warning to flags modal @evanpelle
• Add a store button to the patterns modal and flag modal @evanpelle
• bugfix: sometimes modals were not opening @evanpelle

v0.30.15

• Fix: skin modal styling, and bug where it sometimes won't open.

v0.30.14

• Display the name of the creator for flags & skins @evanpelle
• Add leave confirmation dialog to JoinLobbyModal @FloPinguin
• Fix base language preferred over regional variant in auto-detection @FloPinguin
• Support for unlockable flags @evanpelle
• Bugfix: map was not compact size in compact gamemode @evanpelle
• Remove modifiers from normal FFA/Team games (increase chance of gold multiplier for special games, decrease random spawn) @FloPinguin

v0.30.13

• Small updates and fixes in the HelpModal @VariableVince
• Possible fix for icons disappearing: Update PixiJS @VariableVince
• Max of 3 modifiers for special lobby @evanpelle
• Make 1 in every 3 games compact @evanpelle
• Make ffa the large game card @evanpelle
• Translation update @Aotumuri
• Remove modifiers from normal FFA/Team games (And increase chance of gold multiplier for special games, decrease random spawn) 🎲 @FloPinguin

v0.30.12

• Add team spawn areas for Baikal ⚡ @FloPinguin

v0.30.11

• Fix: lobby modal stuck when attempting to join full game @evanpelle
• Increase spawn immunity from 30s to 45s for 5M starting gold maps 🛡️ @FloPinguin
• Fix labels in public lobby modifier display 🏷️ @FloPinguin
• Fix "you didn't enter the lobby in time" when device clock isn't synced @VariableVince
• Fix: player name and location on wrong spot on the map @VariableVince
• Fix inverse annexation @VariableVince
• Update ads

v0.30.10

• Add better rate limits
• Fix: invalid kick_reason.too_much_data error
• Update ads
• Reduce spawn phase duration when random spawn is enabled @FloPinguin
• Rebalance HvN @FloPinguin

v0.30.9

• Fix: Strait of Hormuz boating bugs in compact map
• Fix seam lines in Nile Delta map @FloPinguin, @gabigabogabu
• ui: reduce HUD transparency for control, attacks, events, and hover panel @hkio120

v0.30.8

• Updated translations
• fix: prevent false rate-limit error from appearing

v0.30.7

• Fix public lobby timer stuck due to IPC race condition

v0.30.6

• Server-side WebSocket message rate limiting & size enforcement

v0.30.5

• Fix duplicate game creation when opening private lobby (#3423)
• Kill and restart workers when IPC send fails
• terminate public lobby ws on request

v0.30.4

• Kick players when intent too large

v0.30.3

• add rate limits for intents

v0.30.2

• increase train spawn rate ~20%
• increase gold from trade ships
• Reduce territory color range for players on the same team
• minor tweaks to UI

v0.30.1

• fix: prevent old lobbies from appearing in the public games browser

🎉 OpenFront v30 Changelog 🎉

Hey everyone! We've got an giant update packed with new features, maps, UI improvements and fixes. Here's whats new:

🌟 Main New Features

• Three public lobbies - Homepage now shows separate FFA, Teams, and Special lobbies - Special always has between 1 and 4 modifiers (by @ryanbarlow97 and @evanpelle)
• See who's playing - Visible lobby player list and settings after joining a public game, just like in private lobbies - Plus improved connection speed & handling (by @ryanbarlow97)
• Trade ship meta updated - Trade ship cap raised from ~100 to ~400, enabled by last version's pathfinding performance improvements (by @evanpelle)
• Railroad snapping - Structures built over railroads now properly split and connect to the network (by @DevelopingTom)
• Train gold diminishing returns - Railroad income now decreases after the 5th city stop, preventing excessive gold from long city chains (by @evanpelle)
• 1v1 ranked config updated - Now uses original tournament format - 40% Australia, 20% Iceland, 20% Asia, 20% Europe Classic - 50% normal map size, 50% compact (by @FloPinguin)
• Attacker troop loss rebalance - Adresses attack loss imbalance (by @1brucben)
• Reconnection - Internet problems or accidentally reloaded the page? Reconnects are possible now (by @ryanbarlow97)
• Attack ratio panel redesign - Is now centered and combined with the units display, more compact and mobile-friendly (by @evanpelle and @hkio120)
• Player info panel moved to top - Redesigned, optimized for mobile (by @evanpelle)
• Mobile UI improvements - Fixed numerous layout issues on mobile: overlapping elements, cutoff panels, inconsistent spacing and borders, tap-to-close overlays, ... (by @FloPinguin)
• Configurable nation count - Slider (0–400) replaces "Disable Nations" toggle in singleplayer and private lobbies (by @FloPinguin)
• SAM cooldown increased - SAM cooldown raised from 7.5s to 12s to compensate for previous SAM targeting improvements (by @evanpelle)

🗺️ New Maps

• Alps ⛰️ - Large land-only map for pure land warfare, train trade only (by @TsProphet94)
• The Box 🟩 - Completely flat, large land-only map, train trade only (by @sardidefcon)
• Hawaii 🏝️ - The Hawaiian island chain with real volcanic terrain (by @gabigabogabu)
• Traders Dream 🏝️ - Island-heavy map focused on trade with two large islands (by @FloPinguin)
• Yenisei re-added 🏞️ - This map got removed a while ago (technical problems), returns at ~3x smaller size (by @Duwibi)
• San Francisco - Bay area map with 21 nations based on local cities and towns (by @RickD004)
• Arctic 🐻‍❄️ - North Pole-centered map with Cold War themed nations using azimuthal projection (by @RickD004)
• Nile Delta 🏞️ - Egyptian delta region including the Suez Canal (by @gabigabogabu)
• Passage 🏝️ - Long, thin island-filled map with naval choke points, great for contested sea warfare (by @bijx)
• Bosphorus Straits - Smaller Turkey-focused map centered on one of the world's key strategic waterways (by @TsProphet94)
• Bering Strait - Smaller map of the Alaska–Russia strait with an enlarged center island for strategic battles (by @TsProphet94)
• Aegean 🏛️ - Greek-Turkish map centered on the Aegean Sea with ancient city-state nations, designed for island-hopping naval warfare (by @RickD004)

🧪 Public Game Modifiers

• Crowded modifier - New modifier simulates a youtuber lobby, cramps 125 players onto a small map - Can you handle the chaos? (by @FloPinguin)
• 25M Starting Gold modifier - New modifier creates chaotic high-gold matches with 2.5 min spawn immunity for preparation (by @FloPinguin)
• Hard Nations modifier - New modifier makes nations tougher in 20% of HvN games (Because the medium difficulty got nerfed), also in some Non-HvN-games (by @FloPinguin)
• PVP immunity in 5M gold games - 30s immunity to prevent instant nuking (by @FloPinguin)
• Alliances Disabled modifier - New modifier: no alliances allowed, pure fear (by @FloPinguin)
• x2 Gold modifier - New modifier: double gold income for faster-paced games (by @FloPinguin)

⚔️ Gameplay Changes

• World map more frequent - World map now appears much more often in public game rotation (by @evanpelle)
• Baikal & Four Islands team games - Baikal now favors 2-team games and Four Islands favors 4-team games; both appear twice as often in team playlists (by @FloPinguin)
• Alliance renewal in radial menu - Extend expiring alliances directly from the radial menu (by @deshack)
• Railroad hover highlight - Hovering a railroad highlights the entire connected line (by @DevelopingTom)
• Transport retreat to nearest shore - Troop transports now path back to your closest owned shoreline instead of their original launch point (by @bijx)
• Disable alliances option - Private lobbies can now disable alliances entirely for pure free-for-all games (by @FloPinguin)
• Confirm building with Enter/NumPad - Buildings selected via hotkeys can now be placed with Enter instead of requiring a mouse click (by @wozniakpl)
• Configurable attack ratio increment - New settings dropdown to choose the step size when adjusting attack ratio via keybinds (by @Aotumuri)
• Requeue button for Ranked - "Play Again" button after ranked matches to instantly re-queue (by @Skigim)
• Public game nations - Switched public game nation difficulty from "Easy" to "Medium" - Because easy nations got nerfed a lot in v29.11 (by @FloPinguin)
• Reduce bot farming - Bots try to delete captured structures to prevent farming exploits (by @FloPinguin)
• Block nuking teammate structures - Nukes blocked if they'd hit a teammate's structure (that was possible by nuking oceans / rivers) (by @FloPinguin)
• No gold from inactive players - Conquering players who joined but never played (0 attacks executed) no longer gives gold (by @FloPinguin)
• Nuke trajectory shows alliance break - Trajectory accounts for SAMs that become hostile on launch (by @bibizu)
• Cancel nukes on alliance accept - Nukes cancelled however an alliance is accepted (by @deshack)
• Improved team colors - LCH color space for more distinguishable team variations (by @rubenperezrial)
• **Accept al...

v0.30.20

v0.30.20

• Increased the coefficient of restitution for nukes @DevelopingTom
• Various map improvements @FloPinguin, @RickD004, @patrickbadly-hub

v0.30.19

• Update deployment and game server to use api key to bypass bot checks

v0.30.18

• Fix: Radial menu was not updating after it was open while player gained enough gold to make a purchase @evanpelle

v0.30.17

• Fix: Fall back to default Discord avatar when profile image fails to load @evanpelle
• Fix: broken schema for users/@me in v0.30.16 @evanpelle

v0.30.16

• Add bottom left ad in crazygames @evanpelle
• Update player stats to split out ranked @ryanbarlow97
• Add not logged in warning to flags modal @evanpelle
• Add a store button to the patterns modal and flag modal @evanpelle
• bugfix: sometimes modals were not opening @evanpelle

v0.30.15

• Fix: skin modal styling, and bug where it sometimes won't open.

v0.30.14

• Display the name of the creator for flags & skins @evanpelle
• Add leave confirmation dialog to JoinLobbyModal @FloPinguin
• Fix base language preferred over regional variant in auto-detection @FloPinguin
• Support for unlockable flags @evanpelle
• Bugfix: map was not compact size in compact gamemode @evanpelle
• Remove modifiers from normal FFA/Team games (increase chance of gold multiplier for special games, decrease random spawn) @FloPinguin

v0.30.13

• Small updates and fixes in the HelpModal @VariableVince
• Possible fix for icons disappearing: Update PixiJS @VariableVince
• Max of 3 modifiers for special lobby @evanpelle
• Make 1 in every 3 games compact @evanpelle
• Make ffa the large game card @evanpelle
• Translation update @Aotumuri
• Remove modifiers from normal FFA/Team games (And increase chance of gold multiplier for special games, decrease random spawn) 🎲 @FloPinguin

v0.30.12

• Add team spawn areas for Baikal ⚡ @FloPinguin

v0.30.11

• Fix: lobby modal stuck when attempting to join full game @evanpelle
• Increase spawn immunity from 30s to 45s for 5M starting gold maps 🛡️ @FloPinguin
• Fix labels in public lobby modifier display 🏷️ @FloPinguin
• Fix "you didn't enter the lobby in time" when device clock isn't synced @VariableVince
• Fix: player name and location on wrong spot on the map @VariableVince
• Fix inverse annexation @VariableVince
• Update ads

v0.30.10

• Add better rate limits
• Fix: invalid kick_reason.too_much_data error
• Update ads
• Reduce spawn phase duration when random spawn is enabled @FloPinguin
• Rebalance HvN @FloPinguin

v0.30.9

• Fix: Strait of Hormuz boating bugs in compact map
• Fix seam lines in Nile Delta map @FloPinguin, @gabigabogabu
• ui: reduce HUD transparency for control, attacks, events, and hover panel @hkio120

v0.30.8

• Updated translations
• fix: prevent false rate-limit error from appearing

v0.30.7

• Fix public lobby timer stuck due to IPC race condition

v0.30.6

• Server-side WebSocket message rate limiting & size enforcement

v0.30.5

• Fix duplicate game creation when opening private lobby (#3423)
• Kill and restart workers when IPC send fails
• terminate public lobby ws on request

v0.30.4

• Kick players when intent too large

v0.30.3

• add rate limits for intents

v0.30.2

• increase train spawn rate ~20%
• increase gold from trade ships
• Reduce territory color range for players on the same team
• minor tweaks to UI

v0.30.1

• fix: prevent old lobbies from appearing in the public games browser

🎉 OpenFront v30 Changelog 🎉

Hey everyone! We've got an giant update packed with new features, maps, UI improvements and fixes. Here's whats new:

🌟 Main New Features

• Three public lobbies - Homepage now shows separate FFA, Teams, and Special lobbies - Special always has between 1 and 4 modifiers (by @ryanbarlow97 and @evanpelle)
• See who's playing - Visible lobby player list and settings after joining a public game, just like in private lobbies - Plus improved connection speed & handling (by @ryanbarlow97)
• Trade ship meta updated - Trade ship cap raised from ~100 to ~400, enabled by last version's pathfinding performance improvements (by @evanpelle)
• Railroad snapping - Structures built over railroads now properly split and connect to the network (by @DevelopingTom)
• Train gold diminishing returns - Railroad income now decreases after the 5th city stop, preventing excessive gold from long city chains (by @evanpelle)
• 1v1 ranked config updated - Now uses original tournament format - 40% Australia, 20% Iceland, 20% Asia, 20% Europe Classic - 50% normal map size, 50% compact (by @FloPinguin)
• Attacker troop loss rebalance - Adresses attack loss imbalance (by @1brucben)
• Reconnection - Internet problems or accidentally reloaded the page? Reconnects are possible now (by @ryanbarlow97)
• Attack ratio panel redesign - Is now centered and combined with the units display, more compact and mobile-friendly (by @evanpelle and @hkio120)
• Player info panel moved to top - Redesigned, optimized for mobile (by @evanpelle)
• Mobile UI improvements - Fixed numerous layout issues on mobile: overlapping elements, cutoff panels, inconsistent spacing and borders, tap-to-close overlays, ... (by @FloPinguin)
• Configurable nation count - Slider (0–400) replaces "Disable Nations" toggle in singleplayer and private lobbies (by @FloPinguin)
• SAM cooldown increased - SAM cooldown raised from 7.5s to 12s to compensate for previous SAM targeting improvements (by @evanpelle)

🗺️ New Maps

• Alps ⛰️ - Large land-only map for pure land warfare, train trade only (by @TsProphet94)
• The Box 🟩 - Completely flat, large land-only map, train trade only (by @sardidefcon)
• Hawaii 🏝️ - The Hawaiian island chain with real volcanic terrain (by @gabigabogabu)
• Traders Dream 🏝️ - Island-heavy map focused on trade with two large islands (by @FloPinguin)
• Yenisei re-added 🏞️ - This map got removed a while ago (technical problems), returns at ~3x smaller size (by @Duwibi)
• San Francisco - Bay area map with 21 nations based on local cities and towns (by @RickD004)
• Arctic 🐻‍❄️ - North Pole-centered map with Cold War themed nations using azimuthal projection (by @RickD004)
• Nile Delta 🏞️ - Egyptian delta region including the Suez Canal (by @gabigabogabu)
• Passage 🏝️ - Long, thin island-filled map with naval choke points, great for contested sea warfare (by @bijx)
• Bosphorus Straits - Smaller Turkey-focused map centered on one of the world's key strategic waterways (by @TsProphet94)
• Bering Strait - Smaller map of the Alaska–Russia strait with an enlarged center island for strategic battles (by @TsProphet94)
• Aegean 🏛️ - Greek-Turkish map centered on the Aegean Sea with ancient city-state nations, designed for island-hopping naval warfare (by @RickD004)

🧪 Public Game Modifiers

• Crowded modifier - New modifier simulates a youtuber lobby, cramps 125 players onto a small map - Can you handle the chaos? (by @FloPinguin)
• 25M Starting Gold modifier - New modifier creates chaotic high-gold matches with 2.5 min spawn immunity for preparation (by @FloPinguin)
• Hard Nations modifier - New modifier makes nations tougher in 20% of HvN games (Because the medium difficulty got nerfed), also in some Non-HvN-games (by @FloPinguin)
• PVP immunity in 5M gold games - 30s immunity to prevent instant nuking (by @FloPinguin)
• Alliances Disabled modifier - New modifier: no alliances allowed, pure fear (by @FloPinguin)
• x2 Gold modifier - New modifier: double gold income for faster-paced games (by @FloPinguin)

⚔️ Gameplay Changes

• World map more frequent - World map now appears much more often in public game rotation (by @evanpelle)
• Baikal & Four Islands team games - Baikal now favors 2-team games and Four Islands favors 4-team games; both appear twice as often in team playlists (by @FloPinguin)
• Alliance renewal in radial menu - Extend expiring alliances directly from the radial menu (by @deshack)
• Railroad hover highlight - Hovering a railroad highlights the entire connected line (by @DevelopingTom)
• Transport retreat to nearest shore - Troop transports now path back to your closest owned shoreline instead of their original launch point (by @bijx)
• Disable alliances option - Private lobbies can now disable alliances entirely for pure free-for-all games (by @FloPinguin)
• Confirm building with Enter/NumPad - Buildings selected via hotkeys can now be placed with Enter instead of requiring a mouse click (by @wozniakpl)
• Configurable attack ratio increment - New settings dropdown to choose the step size when adjusting attack ratio via keybinds (by @Aotumuri)
• Requeue button for Ranked - "Play Again" button after ranked matches to instantly re-queue (by @Skigim)
• Public game nations - Switched public game nation difficulty from "Easy" to "Medium" - Because easy nations got nerfed a lot in v29.11 (by @FloPinguin)
• Reduce bot farming - Bots try to delete captured structures to prevent farming exploits (by @FloPinguin)
• Block nuking teammate structures - Nukes blocked if they'd hit a teammate's structure (that was possible by nuking oceans / rivers) (by @FloPinguin)
• No gold from inactive players - Conquering players who joined but never played (0 attacks executed) no longer gives gold (by @FloPinguin)
• Nuke trajectory shows alliance break - Trajectory accounts for SAMs that become hostile on launch (by @bibizu)
• Cancel nukes on alliance accept - Nukes cancelled however an alliance is accepted (by @deshack)
• Improved team colors - LCH color space for more distinguishable team variations (by @rubenperezrial)
• Accept alliance during cooldown - Accept incoming requests via rad...

v0.30.19

v0.30.19

• Update deployment and game server to use api key to bypass bot checks

v0.30.18

• Fix: Radial menu was not updating after it was open while player gained enough gold to make a purchase @evanpelle

v0.30.17

• Fix: Fall back to default Discord avatar when profile image fails to load @evanpelle
• Fix: broken schema for users/@me in v0.30.16 @evanpelle

v0.30.16

• Add bottom left ad in crazygames @evanpelle
• Update player stats to split out ranked @ryanbarlow97
• Add not logged in warning to flags modal @evanpelle
• Add a store button to the patterns modal and flag modal @evanpelle
• bugfix: sometimes modals were not opening @evanpelle

v0.30.15

• Fix: skin modal styling, and bug where it sometimes won't open.

v0.30.14

• Display the name of the creator for flags & skins @evanpelle
• Add leave confirmation dialog to JoinLobbyModal @FloPinguin
• Fix base language preferred over regional variant in auto-detection @FloPinguin
• Support for unlockable flags @evanpelle
• Bugfix: map was not compact size in compact gamemode @evanpelle
• Remove modifiers from normal FFA/Team games (increase chance of gold multiplier for special games, decrease random spawn) @FloPinguin

v0.30.13

• Small updates and fixes in the HelpModal @VariableVince
• Possible fix for icons disappearing: Update PixiJS @VariableVince
• Max of 3 modifiers for special lobby @evanpelle
• Make 1 in every 3 games compact @evanpelle
• Make ffa the large game card @evanpelle
• Translation update @Aotumuri
• Remove modifiers from normal FFA/Team games (And increase chance of gold multiplier for special games, decrease random spawn) 🎲 @FloPinguin

v0.30.12

• Add team spawn areas for Baikal ⚡ @FloPinguin

v0.30.11

• Fix: lobby modal stuck when attempting to join full game @evanpelle
• Increase spawn immunity from 30s to 45s for 5M starting gold maps 🛡️ @FloPinguin
• Fix labels in public lobby modifier display 🏷️ @FloPinguin
• Fix "you didn't enter the lobby in time" when device clock isn't synced @VariableVince
• Fix: player name and location on wrong spot on the map @VariableVince
• Fix inverse annexation @VariableVince
• Update ads

v0.30.10

• Add better rate limits
• Fix: invalid kick_reason.too_much_data error
• Update ads
• Reduce spawn phase duration when random spawn is enabled @FloPinguin
• Rebalance HvN @FloPinguin

v0.30.9

• Fix: Strait of Hormuz boating bugs in compact map
• Fix seam lines in Nile Delta map @FloPinguin, @gabigabogabu
• ui: reduce HUD transparency for control, attacks, events, and hover panel @hkio120

v0.30.8

• Updated translations
• fix: prevent false rate-limit error from appearing

v0.30.7

• Fix public lobby timer stuck due to IPC race condition

v0.30.6

• Server-side WebSocket message rate limiting & size enforcement

v0.30.5

• Fix duplicate game creation when opening private lobby (#3423)
• Kill and restart workers when IPC send fails
• terminate public lobby ws on request

v0.30.4

• Kick players when intent too large

v0.30.3

• add rate limits for intents

v0.30.2

• increase train spawn rate ~20%
• increase gold from trade ships
• Reduce territory color range for players on the same team
• minor tweaks to UI

v0.30.1

• fix: prevent old lobbies from appearing in the public games browser

🎉 OpenFront v30 Changelog 🎉

Hey everyone! We've got an giant update packed with new features, maps, UI improvements and fixes. Here's whats new:

🌟 Main New Features

• Three public lobbies - Homepage now shows separate FFA, Teams, and Special lobbies - Special always has between 1 and 4 modifiers (by @ryanbarlow97 and @evanpelle)
• See who's playing - Visible lobby player list and settings after joining a public game, just like in private lobbies - Plus improved connection speed & handling (by @ryanbarlow97)
• Trade ship meta updated - Trade ship cap raised from ~100 to ~400, enabled by last version's pathfinding performance improvements (by @evanpelle)
• Railroad snapping - Structures built over railroads now properly split and connect to the network (by @DevelopingTom)
• Train gold diminishing returns - Railroad income now decreases after the 5th city stop, preventing excessive gold from long city chains (by @evanpelle)
• 1v1 ranked config updated - Now uses original tournament format - 40% Australia, 20% Iceland, 20% Asia, 20% Europe Classic - 50% normal map size, 50% compact (by @FloPinguin)
• Attacker troop loss rebalance - Adresses attack loss imbalance (by @1brucben)
• Reconnection - Internet problems or accidentally reloaded the page? Reconnects are possible now (by @ryanbarlow97)
• Attack ratio panel redesign - Is now centered and combined with the units display, more compact and mobile-friendly (by @evanpelle and @hkio120)
• Player info panel moved to top - Redesigned, optimized for mobile (by @evanpelle)
• Mobile UI improvements - Fixed numerous layout issues on mobile: overlapping elements, cutoff panels, inconsistent spacing and borders, tap-to-close overlays, ... (by @FloPinguin)
• Configurable nation count - Slider (0–400) replaces "Disable Nations" toggle in singleplayer and private lobbies (by @FloPinguin)
• SAM cooldown increased - SAM cooldown raised from 7.5s to 12s to compensate for previous SAM targeting improvements (by @evanpelle)

🗺️ New Maps

• Alps ⛰️ - Large land-only map for pure land warfare, train trade only (by @TsProphet94)
• The Box 🟩 - Completely flat, large land-only map, train trade only (by @sardidefcon)
• Hawaii 🏝️ - The Hawaiian island chain with real volcanic terrain (by @gabigabogabu)
• Traders Dream 🏝️ - Island-heavy map focused on trade with two large islands (by @FloPinguin)
• Yenisei re-added 🏞️ - This map got removed a while ago (technical problems), returns at ~3x smaller size (by @Duwibi)
• San Francisco - Bay area map with 21 nations based on local cities and towns (by @RickD004)
• Arctic 🐻‍❄️ - North Pole-centered map with Cold War themed nations using azimuthal projection (by @RickD004)
• Nile Delta 🏞️ - Egyptian delta region including the Suez Canal (by @gabigabogabu)
• Passage 🏝️ - Long, thin island-filled map with naval choke points, great for contested sea warfare (by @bijx)
• Bosphorus Straits - Smaller Turkey-focused map centered on one of the world's key strategic waterways (by @TsProphet94)
• Bering Strait - Smaller map of the Alaska–Russia strait with an enlarged center island for strategic battles (by @TsProphet94)
• Aegean 🏛️ - Greek-Turkish map centered on the Aegean Sea with ancient city-state nations, designed for island-hopping naval warfare (by @RickD004)

🧪 Public Game Modifiers

• Crowded modifier - New modifier simulates a youtuber lobby, cramps 125 players onto a small map - Can you handle the chaos? (by @FloPinguin)
• 25M Starting Gold modifier - New modifier creates chaotic high-gold matches with 2.5 min spawn immunity for preparation (by @FloPinguin)
• Hard Nations modifier - New modifier makes nations tougher in 20% of HvN games (Because the medium difficulty got nerfed), also in some Non-HvN-games (by @FloPinguin)
• PVP immunity in 5M gold games - 30s immunity to prevent instant nuking (by @FloPinguin)
• Alliances Disabled modifier - New modifier: no alliances allowed, pure fear (by @FloPinguin)
• x2 Gold modifier - New modifier: double gold income for faster-paced games (by @FloPinguin)

⚔️ Gameplay Changes

• World map more frequent - World map now appears much more often in public game rotation (by @evanpelle)
• Baikal & Four Islands team games - Baikal now favors 2-team games and Four Islands favors 4-team games; both appear twice as often in team playlists (by @FloPinguin)
• Alliance renewal in radial menu - Extend expiring alliances directly from the radial menu (by @deshack)
• Railroad hover highlight - Hovering a railroad highlights the entire connected line (by @DevelopingTom)
• Transport retreat to nearest shore - Troop transports now path back to your closest owned shoreline instead of their original launch point (by @bijx)
• Disable alliances option - Private lobbies can now disable alliances entirely for pure free-for-all games (by @FloPinguin)
• Confirm building with Enter/NumPad - Buildings selected via hotkeys can now be placed with Enter instead of requiring a mouse click (by @wozniakpl)
• Configurable attack ratio increment - New settings dropdown to choose the step size when adjusting attack ratio via keybinds (by @Aotumuri)
• Requeue button for Ranked - "Play Again" button after ranked matches to instantly re-queue (by @Skigim)
• Public game nations - Switched public game nation difficulty from "Easy" to "Medium" - Because easy nations got nerfed a lot in v29.11 (by @FloPinguin)
• Reduce bot farming - Bots try to delete captured structures to prevent farming exploits (by @FloPinguin)
• Block nuking teammate structures - Nukes blocked if they'd hit a teammate's structure (that was possible by nuking oceans / rivers) (by @FloPinguin)
• No gold from inactive players - Conquering players who joined but never played (0 attacks executed) no longer gives gold (by @FloPinguin)
• Nuke trajectory shows alliance break - Trajectory accounts for SAMs that become hostile on launch (by @bibizu)
• Cancel nukes on alliance accept - Nukes cancelled however an alliance is accepted (by @deshack)
• Improved team colors - LCH color space for more distinguishable team variations (by @rubenperezrial)
• Accept alliance during cooldown - Accept incoming requests via radial menu even during cooldown (by @deshack)
• MIRV warheads land after death - Warheads continue separating even if launcher dies (by @VariableVince)
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v0.30.18

v0.30.18

• Fix: Radial menu was not updating after it was open while player gained enough gold to make a purchase @evanpelle

v0.30.17

• Fix: Fall back to default Discord avatar when profile image fails to load @evanpelle
• Fix: broken schema for users/@me in v0.30.16 @evanpelle

v0.30.16

• Add bottom left ad in crazygames @evanpelle
• Update player stats to split out ranked @ryanbarlow97
• Add not logged in warning to flags modal @evanpelle
• Add a store button to the patterns modal and flag modal @evanpelle
• bugfix: sometimes modals were not opening @evanpelle

v0.30.15

• Fix: skin modal styling, and bug where it sometimes won't open.

v0.30.14

• Display the name of the creator for flags & skins @evanpelle
• Add leave confirmation dialog to JoinLobbyModal @FloPinguin
• Fix base language preferred over regional variant in auto-detection @FloPinguin
• Support for unlockable flags @evanpelle
• Bugfix: map was not compact size in compact gamemode @evanpelle
• Remove modifiers from normal FFA/Team games (increase chance of gold multiplier for special games, decrease random spawn) @FloPinguin

v0.30.13

• Small updates and fixes in the HelpModal @VariableVince
• Possible fix for icons disappearing: Update PixiJS @VariableVince
• Max of 3 modifiers for special lobby @evanpelle
• Make 1 in every 3 games compact @evanpelle
• Make ffa the large game card @evanpelle
• Translation update @Aotumuri
• Remove modifiers from normal FFA/Team games (And increase chance of gold multiplier for special games, decrease random spawn) 🎲 @FloPinguin

v0.30.12

• Add team spawn areas for Baikal ⚡ @FloPinguin

v0.30.11

• Fix: lobby modal stuck when attempting to join full game @evanpelle
• Increase spawn immunity from 30s to 45s for 5M starting gold maps 🛡️ @FloPinguin
• Fix labels in public lobby modifier display 🏷️ @FloPinguin
• Fix "you didn't enter the lobby in time" when device clock isn't synced @VariableVince
• Fix: player name and location on wrong spot on the map @VariableVince
• Fix inverse annexation @VariableVince
• Update ads

v0.30.10

• Add better rate limits
• Fix: invalid kick_reason.too_much_data error
• Update ads
• Reduce spawn phase duration when random spawn is enabled @FloPinguin
• Rebalance HvN @FloPinguin

v0.30.9

• Fix: Strait of Hormuz boating bugs in compact map
• Fix seam lines in Nile Delta map @FloPinguin, @gabigabogabu
• ui: reduce HUD transparency for control, attacks, events, and hover panel @hkio120

v0.30.8

• Updated translations
• fix: prevent false rate-limit error from appearing

v0.30.7

• Fix public lobby timer stuck due to IPC race condition

v0.30.6

• Server-side WebSocket message rate limiting & size enforcement

v0.30.5

• Fix duplicate game creation when opening private lobby (#3423)
• Kill and restart workers when IPC send fails
• terminate public lobby ws on request

v0.30.4

• Kick players when intent too large

v0.30.3

• add rate limits for intents

v0.30.2

• increase train spawn rate ~20%
• increase gold from trade ships
• Reduce territory color range for players on the same team
• minor tweaks to UI

v0.30.1

• fix: prevent old lobbies from appearing in the public games browser

🎉 OpenFront v30 Changelog 🎉

Hey everyone! We've got an giant update packed with new features, maps, UI improvements and fixes. Here's whats new:

🌟 Main New Features

• Three public lobbies - Homepage now shows separate FFA, Teams, and Special lobbies - Special always has between 1 and 4 modifiers (by @ryanbarlow97 and @evanpelle)
• See who's playing - Visible lobby player list and settings after joining a public game, just like in private lobbies - Plus improved connection speed & handling (by @ryanbarlow97)
• Trade ship meta updated - Trade ship cap raised from ~100 to ~400, enabled by last version's pathfinding performance improvements (by @evanpelle)
• Railroad snapping - Structures built over railroads now properly split and connect to the network (by @DevelopingTom)
• Train gold diminishing returns - Railroad income now decreases after the 5th city stop, preventing excessive gold from long city chains (by @evanpelle)
• 1v1 ranked config updated - Now uses original tournament format - 40% Australia, 20% Iceland, 20% Asia, 20% Europe Classic - 50% normal map size, 50% compact (by @FloPinguin)
• Attacker troop loss rebalance - Adresses attack loss imbalance (by @1brucben)
• Reconnection - Internet problems or accidentally reloaded the page? Reconnects are possible now (by @ryanbarlow97)
• Attack ratio panel redesign - Is now centered and combined with the units display, more compact and mobile-friendly (by @evanpelle and @hkio120)
• Player info panel moved to top - Redesigned, optimized for mobile (by @evanpelle)
• Mobile UI improvements - Fixed numerous layout issues on mobile: overlapping elements, cutoff panels, inconsistent spacing and borders, tap-to-close overlays, ... (by @FloPinguin)
• Configurable nation count - Slider (0–400) replaces "Disable Nations" toggle in singleplayer and private lobbies (by @FloPinguin)
• SAM cooldown increased - SAM cooldown raised from 7.5s to 12s to compensate for previous SAM targeting improvements (by @evanpelle)

🗺️ New Maps

• Alps ⛰️ - Large land-only map for pure land warfare, train trade only (by @TsProphet94)
• The Box 🟩 - Completely flat, large land-only map, train trade only (by @sardidefcon)
• Hawaii 🏝️ - The Hawaiian island chain with real volcanic terrain (by @gabigabogabu)
• Traders Dream 🏝️ - Island-heavy map focused on trade with two large islands (by @FloPinguin)
• Yenisei re-added 🏞️ - This map got removed a while ago (technical problems), returns at ~3x smaller size (by @Duwibi)
• San Francisco - Bay area map with 21 nations based on local cities and towns (by @RickD004)
• Arctic 🐻‍❄️ - North Pole-centered map with Cold War themed nations using azimuthal projection (by @RickD004)
• Nile Delta 🏞️ - Egyptian delta region including the Suez Canal (by @gabigabogabu)
• Passage 🏝️ - Long, thin island-filled map with naval choke points, great for contested sea warfare (by @bijx)
• Bosphorus Straits - Smaller Turkey-focused map centered on one of the world's key strategic waterways (by @TsProphet94)
• Bering Strait - Smaller map of the Alaska–Russia strait with an enlarged center island for strategic battles (by @TsProphet94)
• Aegean 🏛️ - Greek-Turkish map centered on the Aegean Sea with ancient city-state nations, designed for island-hopping naval warfare (by @RickD004)

🧪 Public Game Modifiers

• Crowded modifier - New modifier simulates a youtuber lobby, cramps 125 players onto a small map - Can you handle the chaos? (by @FloPinguin)
• 25M Starting Gold modifier - New modifier creates chaotic high-gold matches with 2.5 min spawn immunity for preparation (by @FloPinguin)
• Hard Nations modifier - New modifier makes nations tougher in 20% of HvN games (Because the medium difficulty got nerfed), also in some Non-HvN-games (by @FloPinguin)
• PVP immunity in 5M gold games - 30s immunity to prevent instant nuking (by @FloPinguin)
• Alliances Disabled modifier - New modifier: no alliances allowed, pure fear (by @FloPinguin)
• x2 Gold modifier - New modifier: double gold income for faster-paced games (by @FloPinguin)

⚔️ Gameplay Changes

• World map more frequent - World map now appears much more often in public game rotation (by @evanpelle)
• Baikal & Four Islands team games - Baikal now favors 2-team games and Four Islands favors 4-team games; both appear twice as often in team playlists (by @FloPinguin)
• Alliance renewal in radial menu - Extend expiring alliances directly from the radial menu (by @deshack)
• Railroad hover highlight - Hovering a railroad highlights the entire connected line (by @DevelopingTom)
• Transport retreat to nearest shore - Troop transports now path back to your closest owned shoreline instead of their original launch point (by @bijx)
• Disable alliances option - Private lobbies can now disable alliances entirely for pure free-for-all games (by @FloPinguin)
• Confirm building with Enter/NumPad - Buildings selected via hotkeys can now be placed with Enter instead of requiring a mouse click (by @wozniakpl)
• Configurable attack ratio increment - New settings dropdown to choose the step size when adjusting attack ratio via keybinds (by @Aotumuri)
• Requeue button for Ranked - "Play Again" button after ranked matches to instantly re-queue (by @Skigim)
• Public game nations - Switched public game nation difficulty from "Easy" to "Medium" - Because easy nations got nerfed a lot in v29.11 (by @FloPinguin)
• Reduce bot farming - Bots try to delete captured structures to prevent farming exploits (by @FloPinguin)
• Block nuking teammate structures - Nukes blocked if they'd hit a teammate's structure (that was possible by nuking oceans / rivers) (by @FloPinguin)
• No gold from inactive players - Conquering players who joined but never played (0 attacks executed) no longer gives gold (by @FloPinguin)
• Nuke trajectory shows alliance break - Trajectory accounts for SAMs that become hostile on launch (by @bibizu)
• Cancel nukes on alliance accept - Nukes cancelled however an alliance is accepted (by @deshack)
• Improved team colors - LCH color space for more distinguishable team variations (by @rubenperezrial)
• Accept alliance during cooldown - Accept incoming requests via radial menu even during cooldown (by @deshack)
• MIRV warheads land after death - Warheads continue separating even if launcher dies (by @VariableVince)
• Nuke wars necessities: disable boats & team spawn zones - Boats can now be disabled...