## Description:
Normal (FFA and Team) public games no longer roll random modifiers.
Special games remain fully unaffected and continue to use random
modifiers as before.
I also increased the gold multiplier ticket count in the special
modifier pool from 1 to 4 because of player feedback.
Edit: And because I saw complaints of too much random spawn I decreased
the chance of it.
## Please complete the following:
- [X] I have added screenshots for all UI updates
- [X] I process any text displayed to the user through translateText()
and I've added it to the en.json file
- [X] I have added relevant tests to the test directory
- [X] I confirm I have thoroughly tested these changes and take full
responsibility for any bugs introduced
## Please put your Discord username so you can be contacted if a bug or
regression is found:
FloPinguin
## Description:
"Baikal (Nuke Wars)" has teamGameSpawnAreas (for Random Spawn), but
Baikal not. Because teamGameSpawnAreas was intended for a "Nuke Wars"
modifier. Let's add teamGameSpawnAreas also to Baikal to improve random
spawning (special rotation) a bit (until we have a better random spawn
algo).
## Please complete the following:
- [X] I have added screenshots for all UI updates
- [X] I process any text displayed to the user through translateText()
and I've added it to the en.json file
- [X] I have added relevant tests to the test directory
- [X] I confirm I have thoroughly tested these changes and take full
responsibility for any bugs introduced
## Please put your Discord username so you can be contacted if a bug or
regression is found:
FloPinguin
## Description:
When joining a game after it fills up, the server rejects the player
join and the player leaves the lobby, but the join modal stays up.
## Please complete the following:
- [x] I have added screenshots for all UI updates
- [x] I process any text displayed to the user through translateText()
and I've added it to the en.json file
- [x] I have added relevant tests to the test directory
- [x] I confirm I have thoroughly tested these changes and take full
responsibility for any bugs introduced
## Please put your Discord username so you can be contacted if a bug or
regression is found:
evan
## Description:
Show the "footer_ad" ad type during the spawn phase.
<img width="1855" height="914" alt="Screenshot 2026-03-17 at 7 01 37 PM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9c4c1730-95a0-4fc7-a983-4fe625d38c80"
/>
## Please complete the following:
- [x] I have added screenshots for all UI updates
- [x] I process any text displayed to the user through translateText()
and I've added it to the en.json file
- [x] I have added relevant tests to the test directory
- [x] I confirm I have thoroughly tested these changes and take full
responsibility for any bugs introduced
## Please put your Discord username so you can be contacted if a bug or
regression is found:
evan
## Description:
Increases the spawn immunity duration from 30s to 45s for maps with 5M
starting gold.
The previous 30s was too short - 45s gives players 15s longer than it
takes to build a SAM, allowing them to establish basic defenses before
becoming vulnerable.
## Please complete the following:
- [X] I have added screenshots for all UI updates
- [X] I process any text displayed to the user through translateText()
and I've added it to the en.json file
- [X] I have added relevant tests to the test directory
- [X] I confirm I have thoroughly tested these changes and take full
responsibility for any bugs introduced
## Please put your Discord username so you can be contacted if a bug or
regression is found:
FloPinguin
## Description:
Fixes two issues in the join lobby modal's modifier display:
1. **Starting Gold**: Label showed "Starting Gold (Millions)" with value
"5M", duplicating "millions". Now shows "Starting Gold" as the label,
keeping "5M" as the value.
2. **Disable Alliances**: Label showed "Disable Alliances" with value
"Enabled", which is confusing. Now shows "Alliances" as the label with
"Disabled" as the value.
Join Lobby Modal needs a general rework, I will probably make an PR
## Please complete the following:
- [X] I have added screenshots for all UI updates
- [X] I process any text displayed to the user through translateText()
and I've added it to the en.json file
- [X] I have added relevant tests to the test directory
- [X] I confirm I have thoroughly tested these changes and take full
responsibility for any bugs introduced
## Please put your Discord username so you can be contacted if a bug or
regression is found:
FloPinguin
## Description:
If the time on the local device differs from the server time, users may
see the message “You did not join the lobby on time.”
Resolve this by accounting for the time difference, reusing the logic in
`JoinLobbyModal` that was previously in `GameModeSelector`, and
centralizing it into `ServerTime.ts`.
Bug reports:
https://github.com/openfrontio/OpenFrontIO/issues/3428https://discord.com/channels/1284581928254701718/1482511096597315815https://discord.com/channels/1284581928254701718/1482382264011591781Resolves#3428
## Please complete the following:
- [x] I have added screenshots for all UI updates
- [x] I process any text displayed to the user through translateText()
and I've added it to the en.json file
- [x] I have added relevant tests to the test directory
- [x] I confirm I have thoroughly tested these changes and take full
responsibility for any bugs introduced
## Please put your Discord username so you can be contacted if a bug or
regression is found:
tryout33
## Description:
Fixes https://github.com/openfrontio/OpenFrontIO/issues/1021
Fixes issue that has been there since the beginning. Player name and
location and conquest FX (swords) not being in the right place. It can
happen at any time during a game and can be game-breaking in that
regard.
This makes it hard to find players, especially when trying to eliminate
their last few tiles on some island. So when clicking name in
leaderboard > wrong tiles. And when seeing name > above wrong tiles. Bug
report:
https://discord.com/channels/1284581928254701718/1444669324571967680
Also, when removing those last tiles, the wait time between updates of
player location can make it frustrating to find and eliminate them fast.
You need 2-3 clicks on their name in leaderboard, before finally being
moved to their current location.
**Cause:**
largestClusterBoundingBox not being changed when last attack happened in
same tick removeClusters last ran.
**Fix:**
Also call removeClusters, and therefore update largestClusterBoundingBox
, when LastTileChange was AT lastCalc tick.
**Also:**
Run removeClusters if player owns less than 100 tiles, don't wait for
ticksPerClusterCalc in that case. This way, sniping off the last couple
of island tiles of the player is easier. So it doesn't take 2-3 clicks
bbut just 1 click on the player name in the Leaderboard before the
camera moves to the next little island they are on. Also their last
clusters are annexed faster, only helping with the faster cleanup.
I think this is an optional to the fix in this PR, but still an
important QoL fix for sniping those last tiles quickly.
**BEFORE:**
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0960a4d3-7f8b-4368-9531-8244356bff17
**AFTER:** (also notice how it now just takes 1 click in the leaderboard
to immediately go to their next location, not 2-3 clicks)
https://youtu.be/qXJPekjsrP4
## Please complete the following:
- [x] I have added screenshots for all UI updates
- [x] I process any text displayed to the user through translateText()
and I've added it to the en.json file
- [x] I have added relevant tests to the test directory
- [x] I confirm I have thoroughly tested these changes and take full
responsibility for any bugs introduced
## Please put your Discord username so you can be contacted if a bug or
regression is found:
tryout33
## Description:
An inverse annexation could happen where the small player (even with
0,01% tiles owned) could fully annex the large player.
**TL;DR:** basically wrong use of calculateBoundingBox in
surroundedBySamePlayer, feeding it all bordertiles, making enemyBox far
bigger than it actually was in some cases. Which resulted in enemyBox of
small player with two small clusters at some distance from each other,
being seen as inscribing the largest cluster of the bigger player. While
that largest cluster is actually the border tiles of the bigger player
surrounding the main cluster of the small player. Instead of an
annexation of small by bigger, small would incorrectly annex bigger
completely.
**Situation:** bigger player fully surrounds main cluster of smaller
player. Those border tiles are also the largest cluster of the bigger
player, for which surroundedBySamePlayer is called.
SurroundedBySamePlayer finds the small player as the only bordering
enemy of this cluster. Then it needs to check which of the two players
is surrounded by the other one. EnemyBox uses calculateBoundingBox with
all border tiles of the small player as argument. The small player also
has at least one seperate cluster elsewhere, could be on another island,
which count as border tiles too. The enemyBox from the main cluster of
the small player to the seperate cluster elsewhere, can be huge. Now
inscribed() is called and it determines that largest cluster box of the
bigger player (which was in fact calculated correctly, also making use
of calculateBoundingBox) is surrounded by the bigger enemyBox. And so
the small surrounded player fully annexes the bigger player.
**Fix:** instead of a global enemyBox, we only need the localEnemyBox
that touches the largest cluster of the bigger player. With that,
inscribed() can correctly conclude that largest cluster box surrounds
the localEnemyBox. As a matter of fact isSurrounded() already used the
same method to calculate its enemyBox as introduced by @scamiv for v30:
https://github.com/openfrontio/OpenFrontIO/pull/3127/changes#diff-fb1101a2b50dd7c353d082ff7a3351cff5469b8249b3ebca91c10573a3dfaaf1
- Change in PlayerExecution
- Added test NoInverseAnnexation.test.ts, which fails before and passes
after the fix
The bug was introduced in this commit 10 months ago:
https://github.com/openfrontio/OpenFrontIO/commit/c4381a9ad3828b06764ab1a21fc1514e37aacfd7
It has probably led to some weird annexations happening since then. The
bug could seemingly happen on any map. But was noted recently a few
times on square islands (Sierpinski) or maps (The Box/The Alps), where
the circumstances probably highten the chances of the bug occuring.
**Bug reports:**
https://discord.com/channels/1359946986937258015/1481916231689703477/1481916231689703477https://discord.com/channels/1359946986937258015/1481916231689703477/1481963273367851030https://discord.com/channels/1284581928254701718/1479993924432171008/1479995658302652496https://discord.com/channels/1284581928254701718/1479993924432171008/1481865495492956182https://discord.com/channels/1284581928254701718/1483047153571201034
**BEFORE:**
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4440182b-f696-45cf-bb01-b10159df8763
**AFTER**, on the same replay but with the bugfix:
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5f461ab2-eb62-4cc3-ae07-e2224adbbc6a
## Please complete the following:
- [x] I have added screenshots for all UI updates
- [x] I process any text displayed to the user through translateText()
and I've added it to the en.json file
- [x] I have added relevant tests to the test directory
- [x] I confirm I have thoroughly tested these changes and take full
responsibility for any bugs introduced
## Please put your Discord username so you can be contacted if a bug or
regression is found:
tryout33
## Description:
Simplifies the interface a bit.
## Please complete the following:
- [x] I have added screenshots for all UI updates
- [x] I process any text displayed to the user through translateText()
and I've added it to the en.json file
- [x] I have added relevant tests to the test directory
- [x] I confirm I have thoroughly tested these changes and take full
responsibility for any bugs introduced
## Please put your Discord username so you can be contacted if a bug or
regression is found:
evan
## Description:
Prevent client from spamming ws messages before joining a game server.
## Please complete the following:
- [x] I have added screenshots for all UI updates
- [x] I process any text displayed to the user through translateText()
and I've added it to the en.json file
- [x] I have added relevant tests to the test directory
- [x] I confirm I have thoroughly tested these changes and take full
responsibility for any bugs introduced
## Please put your Discord username so you can be contacted if a bug or
regression is found:
evan
## Description:
On replays, there can be a burst of traffic from hashes, so instead just
have a 2MB limit per client for the entire game. Also the winner message
can be 100s of kb on a large game with many players, so now we don't
need to put a special case for that.
## Please complete the following:
- [x] I have added screenshots for all UI updates
- [x] I process any text displayed to the user through translateText()
and I've added it to the en.json file
- [x] I have added relevant tests to the test directory
- [x] I confirm I have thoroughly tested these changes and take full
responsibility for any bugs introduced
## Please put your Discord username so you can be contacted if a bug or
regression is found:
evan
## Description:
Remove the header ad because that's where the player info overlay is,
and instead put it on the bottom left
Ad is not displayed on small screens.
<img width="1916" height="924" alt="Screenshot 2026-03-16 at 7 27 58 PM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/e39c4be6-5270-4a77-bfbd-9521d15b9211"
/>
## Please complete the following:
- [x] I have added screenshots for all UI updates
- [x] I process any text displayed to the user through translateText()
and I've added it to the en.json file
- [x] I have added relevant tests to the test directory
- [x] I confirm I have thoroughly tested these changes and take full
responsibility for any bugs introduced
## Please put your Discord username so you can be contacted if a bug or
regression is found:
evan
## Description:
Reduces `numSpawnPhaseTurns` from 300 to 100 (matching singleplayer
duration) when random spawn is active. Since players can't choose their
spawn location in random spawn mode, there's no need for the full
300-tick spawn phase.
## Please complete the following:
- [X] I have added screenshots for all UI updates
- [X] I process any text displayed to the user through translateText()
and I've added it to the en.json file
- [X] I have added relevant tests to the test directory
- [X] I confirm I have thoroughly tested these changes and take full
responsibility for any bugs introduced
## Please put your Discord username so you can be contacted if a bug or
regression is found:
FloPinguin
## Description:
For the next v30 fix version
<img width="868" height="364" alt="imaege"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/520a999c-67e7-4c57-8651-895ad9eeb73a"
/>
HvN balancing for the revamped difficulty steps of v30 sadly doesn't
really work out...
In medium difficulty games humans nearly always win (boring)
In hard difficulty games humans usually lose
It was intended differently...
So lets get rid of medium difficulty HvN, always use hard difficulty and
disable the donation-capability for public game nations.
That will tune the human winrate towards a middle ground at about 65% I
think. Which should be nice.
Easier than in v29 (was frustrating sometimes) but not as easy as it's
now.
We can only test this in prod lol
## Please complete the following:
- [X] I have added screenshots for all UI updates
- [X] I process any text displayed to the user through translateText()
and I've added it to the en.json file
- [X] I have added relevant tests to the test directory
- [X] I confirm I have thoroughly tested these changes and take full
responsibility for any bugs introduced
## Please put your Discord username so you can be contacted if a bug or
regression is found:
FloPinguin
## Description:
Reduce HUD transparency for better readability by making the Control
Panel, Attacks panel, Events/Chat panel, and Hover panel more opaque
while keeping a subtle blur effect.
## Please complete the following:
- [ x] I have added screenshots for all UI updates
- [ ] I process any text displayed to the user through translateText()
and I've added it to the en.json file
- [ ] I have added relevant tests to the test directory
- [x ] I confirm I have thoroughly tested these changes and take full
responsibility for any bugs introduced
## Please put your Discord username so you can be contacted if a bug or
regression is found:
HulKiora
Before :
<img width="518" height="134" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/dd714a8e-5b8c-4754-b68d-a86a0f82afcf"
/>
After :
<img width="519" height="138" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/828b88be-a071-474c-a4a2-80d1c679b3df"
/>
## Description:
mls for v30
Version identifier within MLS: 4.16
## Please complete the following:
- [x] I have added screenshots for all UI updates
- [x] I process any text displayed to the user through translateText()
and I've added it to the en.json file
- [x] I have added relevant tests to the test directory
- [x] I confirm I have thoroughly tested these changes and take full
responsibility for any bugs introduced
## Please put your Discord username so you can be contacted if a bug or
regression is found:
aotumuri
## Description:
* Adds ClientMsgRateLimiter — a per-client token-bucket rate limiter
that gates all incoming WebSocket messages. Returns "ok", "limit"
(drop), or "kick" based on the violation type.
* Intent messages are capped at 500 bytes each (they are stored in turn
history for the game duration, so oversized intents
accumulate in server RAM). Violations kick the client.
* Winner messages bypass the byte rate limit (they include stats for all
players and can be 100s of KB) but are strictly capped at one per client
— a second winner message kicks the client.
* All other messages go through the standard per-second (10/s) and
per-minute (150/min) rate limits. Violations drop the message; byte
budget exhaustion kicks the client.
* WebSocket maxPayload set to 2 MB on game workers.
Invalid (unparseable) messages now immediately kick the client rather
than being silently dropped.
Unit tests added for all rate limiting behaviors.
## Please complete the following:
- [x] I have added screenshots for all UI updates
- [x] I process any text displayed to the user through translateText()
and I've added it to the en.json file
- [x] I have added relevant tests to the test directory
- [x] I confirm I have thoroughly tested these changes and take full
responsibility for any bugs introduced
## Please put your Discord username so you can be contacted if a bug or
regression is found:
evan
## Description:
- Prevent `BaseModal.open()` from firing `onOpen()` twice when
Navigation.showPage() re-calls `open()` on inline modals
- Adds an `isModalOpen` early-return guard, matching existing behavior
in `OModal.open()`
## Please complete the following:
- [ ] I have added screenshots for all UI updates
- [ ] I process any text displayed to the user through translateText()
and I've added it to the en.json file
- [ ] I have added relevant tests to the test directory
- [ ] I confirm I have thoroughly tested these changes and take full
responsibility for any bugs introduced
## Please put your Discord username so you can be contacted if a bug or
regression is found:
Jish
## Description:
**Homepage layout:** Reorder the game mode cards so FFA is the left
(large) box, Teams is the upper-right box, and Special Games is the
lower-right box. Mobile order updated to match (FFA → Teams → Special).
**Special game modifiers:**
- Adjusted modifier count roll to 40%/40%/15%/5% for 1/2/3/4 modifiers
(was 30%/40%/20%/10%) because having so many special games with 3/4
modifiers while we only have 8 modifiers in the pool is a bit dumb (from
the 8 modifiers two are mutually exclusive and 4 should be quite rare).
- Changed ticket counts in `SPECIAL_MODIFIER_POOL` so
isAlliancesDisabled and isHardNations are more rare.
## Please complete the following:
- [X] I have added screenshots for all UI updates
- [X] I process any text displayed to the user through translateText()
and I've added it to the en.json file
- [X] I have added relevant tests to the test directory
- [X] I confirm I have thoroughly tested these changes and take full
responsibility for any bugs introduced
## Please put your Discord username so you can be contacted if a bug or
regression is found:
FloPinguin
## Description:
To give more space in the center of the screen remove the top & bottom
margin. Also make the control panel & player info panel slightly shorter
& longer.
<img width="1167" height="961" alt="Screenshot 2026-03-12 at 7 20 40 PM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/15baf640-daf0-4394-9107-d175130e7754"
/>
## Please complete the following:
- [x] I have added screenshots for all UI updates
- [x] I process any text displayed to the user through translateText()
and I've added it to the en.json file
- [x] I have added relevant tests to the test directory
- [x] I confirm I have thoroughly tested these changes and take full
responsibility for any bugs introduced
## Please put your Discord username so you can be contacted if a bug or
regression is found:
evan
After a player left, the server would fall back to Lobby phase if player
count dropped below the max — even if the game had already started.
Now checks hasStarted() before reporting Lobby phase.
## Description:
In v30 we have the following change to prevent teammates from destroying
your structures:
**Block nuking teammate structures** - Nukes blocked if they'd hit a
teammate's structure (that was possible by nuking oceans / rivers) (by
@FloPinguin)
Original idea was from Wonder.
I think it makes sense, but it has a side effect: The aftergame, which
many players love, will be dead because of this change.
<img width="835" height="103" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/521b7915-be28-4d83-8d45-65835e7385ab"
/>
<img width="1101" height="105" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/db74a9c6-da12-44a2-aa06-f042b8e58b8a"
/>
I think a lot of complaints will follow after v30 is live.
So why not add a little bit of logic for the aftergame?
After a team wins/loses, players can nuke their teammates. No longer
need to aim for water. SAMs also intercept teammate nukes in this phase.
## Please complete the following:
- [X] I have added screenshots for all UI updates
- [X] I process any text displayed to the user through translateText()
and I've added it to the en.json file
- [X] I have added relevant tests to the test directory
- [X] I confirm I have thoroughly tested these changes and take full
responsibility for any bugs introduced
## Please put your Discord username so you can be contacted if a bug or
regression is found:
FloPinguin
FloPinguin
