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What's new on the block

Every build, every fix, every new way to run the corner. Newest first.

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  1. v0.4.0

    Coming in the next APK

    Your voice, new modes and the cosmetics store

    Added

    • New Feedback screen in the menu: send a suggestion, bug report, balance note or anything else without leaving the game.
    • Feedback written while offline is saved on the phone and sent automatically once you are back online.
    • "My feedback" list shows everything you sent, its status and any reply from the team.
    • The top player suggestions are listed on the Hood Warfare website, where players can vote for the ones they want most.
    • The game version is shown on the boot screen, every menu, the pause menu and in a corner of the match HUD, so bug reports always say which build you were on.
    • An "Update available" notice tells you when a newer version of the game is out.
    • A "What's new" screen appears once after each update and lists the changes in that version.
    • Two new game modes: Free For All (first to 20 kills or 8 minutes) and Team Deathmatch (first crew to 40 kills or 8 minutes), alongside Turf War.
    • Room owners can pick the mode and map; Practice has a mode picker too.
    • Cosmetics: weapon skins, outfits, premium characters, kill-feed emotes and crew tags, with a store and locker that preview them in 3D.
    • Cosmetics are visible to everyone in a match and never change weapon stats.
    • Cosmetics can be bought with gold, by card in the browser, or with crypto (the game shows the pay address and amount).
    • Community features for the website: public profiles with bio, favorite weapon and recent matches, follows, blocks, a feed with posts and comments, and reporting.
    • Crews: create or join a crew, crew tags, rosters and a crew leaderboard.
    • Invite codes that can carry a welcome reward.
    • A rebuilt narrator with more lines, variety, cooldowns and a settings toggle, plus new sound effects and music.
    • An occasional ad between matches (at most one every three matches, never during a match).
    • Six new maps alongside The Block: The Projects, The Docks, The Strip, The Yard, The Rooftops and Dead Mall, each with turf zones, RPG stashes, team and free-for-all spawns, and bots that know every route.
    • Rooftops, galleries, bridges and container stacks to fight from; enterable shops and back alleys for flanking.
    • New lighting for every map: night skies, dusk at the docks, sodium-lit rail yard, a dim dead mall with real reflections.
    • Street art, billboards, posters and storefront signs for ToddMichael.tv, The Todd Michael Podcast, Todd's books, Thai Gold Source, 1 Matrix Tech, GhostBrain, 2Solutions, ExpatShield, TechBench Live and Hood Warfare.

    Changed

    • The game now reports its real version number instead of a development placeholder.
    • Watching a rewarded ad on the results screen now pays 150 Street Cash.
    • Matches can last up to 8 minutes in the new modes.
    • Sharper, lighter textures (mipmaps and GPU compression) and a much smaller Block scene for faster loading and less memory.

    Fixed

    • Rewarded-ad verification now passes the ad network's setup check, so rewarded ads can be switched on for real.

    Known issues

    • The extra map choices (Projects, Docks, Strip, Yard, Rooftops, Mall) can be picked but still play on the Block 01 layout.
    • Google sign-in is not configured yet; use email sign-in.
    • Crypto checkout cannot take Bitcoin directly; pick another coin such as ETH, USDT or LTC.
    • Bluetooth controller support has not been tested on a real controller yet.
    • There is no iPhone version yet.
    Technical notes
    • `POST /v1/feedback` (kinds: suggestion, bug, balance, other) with an idempotency key so offline retries never duplicate, plus a "my feedback" read and public top suggestions with votes.
    • `version.json` is the single source of truth for version name and Android versionCode (10); `changelog.json` is generated from this file for "What's new"; `GET /v1/public/version` drives the update nudge.
    • Merge 5049bb3 (upgrade3/api): cosmetics and equip slots, FixedFloat crypto checkout, `/v1/community/*`, `/v1/admin/*`; migration `202610250001_Upgrade3`; docs/UPGRADE-3-API.md.
    • Merge 5e9e93e (upgrade3/modes): `Runtime/modes.gd`, mode/map in rooms, queue, allocation and snapshots; cosmetics replicated per actor; interstitial pacing.
    • AdMob SSV callbacks that match no reward return 200 "unmatched" without a grant; optional `interstitial_unit_id` in the release ads policy.

  2. v0.3.0-beta

    Available now

    Upgrade 2: accounts, Street Cash, the arsenal and your own gangster

    Added

    • Sign in with an email code and keep your guest progress; every player claims a unique gangster name.
    • Two currencies: Street Cash earned from kills, captures, wins and rewarded ads, and Gold Bars from daily login streaks or purchase.
    • An in-game store and loadout picker: 9 guns across pistol, rifle and shotgun slots, extended, taped and drum magazines, and light or heavy body armor.
    • Grenades (one free per life), medkits and hollow-point rounds you can stock up on and bring into matches.
    • An RPG you can grab from the rooftop stashes; whoever carries it shows up on everyone's radar.
    • Enterable buildings with doorways, furnished interiors, stairs and steel fire escapes up to the roofs.
    • A third-person camera you can toggle; it shows more around you but fires with wider spread.
    • Make-your-gangster creator: pick a body, skin tone, hair, facial hair, clothes and accessories, or start from a photo analyzed on your phone (the photo never leaves the device).
    • Your name, look and loadout appear in matches; bots get gangster names too.
    • Android volume buttons can fire (Up) and throw grenades (Down) during matches, with a settings toggle.
    • Gold packs can be bought on the website.
    • Public leaderboards, player pages and live stats for the website.

    Changed

    • The HUD gains grenade, medkit and view buttons with counts, an armor bar, gun names and an RPG slot, all fitted to crowded phone layouts.
    • Matches now pay Street Cash and use up the consumables you brought.
    • The store and account screens connect on their own instead of going through Play online first.

    Known issues

    • Google sign-in is not configured yet; use email sign-in.
    • Refunded or disputed purchases are not taken back automatically.
    Technical notes
    • 4c001ee: weapons/mags/armor/consumables tables in `Runtime/rules.gd`; grenade and RPG physics, armor soak, per-player results.
    • e150b8e: accounts (email code, Google), names, wallet/inventory, store, loadout/avatar, Whop checkout and signed webhook, public reads, CORS; migration `202610240013_Economy`.
    • Contract in docs/UPGRADE-2-CONTRACT.md, API notes in docs/UPGRADE-2-API.md.
    • 1970ef4: avatar recolor shader and attachments; the server applies name/avatar/loadout from admission.
    • Merges a193946 and 5a33d29 (upgrade2/api); HUD layout passes 8868af6..9442c93.

  3. v0.2.1

    Online for everyone

    Added

    • Online matches now work over the internet, not just on the home network, through the public game address.
    • Muzzle flashes, physical brass casings and shotgun shells, with clink sounds.
    • A live phone screen in your hand when you make a call-in.
    • Call-ins upgraded: the drive-by car cruises slowly with hydraulics, underglow and music; homies pull up at the curb and hop out; snitched enemies glow red through walls.
    • Call-in countdown chips on the HUD.

    Changed

    • Slow home connections get more time to connect before the game gives up.
    • HUD layouts were reworked for small and crowded phone screens.

    Fixed

    • Phones no longer reject server updates when looking straight up or down.
    • Sounds stop cleanly when a match ends.

    Known issues

    • Narrator voice lines are stand-ins until the voice generator account is fixed; captions always work.
    • Bluetooth controller support has not been tested on a real controller yet.
    Technical notes
    • f292e6b: long-lived online CA and server bundle builder with bundle id.
    • 54a0949 / 6d8e5de: route through the GCP edge, then a DNS-only hostname (carrier DNS rejected sslip.io).
    • 235c800 / 41bbf04: dedicated online VM, `tools/boost/deploy-vm.sh`; boot deadline 10 s -> 20 s.
    • 0d74d25: full test pass with HUD and first-person fixes; 8de6562 trailer capture pipeline.
    • docs/ONLINE-HOSTING.md.

  4. v0.2.0

    Boost: night city, call-ins and a real first-person look

    Added

    • Call-ins paid for with Rep earned from kills and captures: Snitch reveals the enemy team, Homies sends two AI backups, Drive-by sends a car down the main street.
    • Making a call takes your phone out for a moment, so you cannot shoot while dialling; bots use call-ins too.
    • Block 01 rebuilt as a night-time inner-city block with a liquor store, barbershop, pawn shop, basketball court, neon, street lamps and graffiti.
    • New street characters in team colors with bandanas and full animations.
    • First-person view shows your own arms and sleeves, with aiming, reload animation, recoil and impact effects.
    • A new HUD with radar, kill feed, banners, health bar, hit markers, damage flash and a reload ring.
    • A narrator that calls out match start, captures, call-ins, multi-kills, streaks, lead changes and the final minute.
    • Real gunshot, reload, car and night-city sounds; footsteps; hit flinch and ambient effects such as neon flicker and steam.
    • A live 3D street scene behind the menus with new title fonts.

    Changed

    • Smoother performance on phones with resolution scaling and lighter lighting.
    • The touch controls use a new L-shaped button cluster with a fallback grid on unusual screens.
    • Closing the Practice tips hides them instead of quitting Practice.

    Known issues

    • Online play only works on the private network in this version.
    Technical notes
    • 6df469f: server-authoritative call-ins and rep economy in `Runtime/rules.gd` / `match.gd` / `bots.gd`.
    • 1206178: Quaternius + Poly Haven kit baked into `Art/Block01/HoodBlock.scn`; Rocketbox characters; Vulkan Mobile with GL fallback.
    • 23d93a0: FSR scaling, FXAA, cached HUD styles.
    • 9346e55: validated L-shape touch cluster; docs/BOOST-UPGRADE.md.

  5. v0.1.5

    Private phone beta polish

    Added

    • Practice now opens with a guide and checklist (move, look, fire, reload, objective) and a Skip button.
    • A clearer way to join a friend's room, plus a new dusk menu background.
    • An on-screen marker that points to the objective.

    Changed

    • Menus follow the approved color palette and stay inside the phone's safe area.
    • Touch controls adapt to busy eight-player matches.
    • Settings toggles use the same button style as the rest of the menus.

    Fixed

    • Match results are no longer lost if the game server restarts right after a match.
    • Controller buttons now trigger the right menu actions.
    • Touch look works through the HUD, and quick taps are no longer missed.
    • The game no longer hangs at boot on a bad connection, and a cancelled boot cannot restore a stale session.
    • Joining a match recovers if the reply from the server was lost.
    • Long matches no longer build up an endless command history.

    Known issues

    • Not yet tested with a real Bluetooth controller.
    • The launch decision is still on hold; this is a private test build.
    Technical notes
    • e2de195 / 85a6992: persisted results are recovered before new intake; storage that cannot be read keeps the intake fence.
    • 13e1754: soak lab per-file limits and PostgreSQL protocol readiness (PARENT_SOAK_REPAIR_20261019.md).
    • a5b6a59 / 984d897: Practice guidance, friend joins, arena surfaces (PARENT_NATIVE_U2_REVIEW_20261019.md).
    • 558086a: recover authorized committed admission responses; cfb7aac: bounded match command history.

  6. v0.1.4

    Hardening and graphics finish

    Added

    • Richer street visuals: facade relief, finished materials and lighting, and better-machined first-person weapons.
    • Graphics quality tiers that are prepared before a match starts.

    Changed

    • The HUD keeps touch buttons and captions in their own lanes when you switch between touch and controller.
    • Settings can be changed even while graphics quality is still loading.

    Fixed

    • Cancelling matchmaking at the last moment no longer drops you into a match.
    • Results always match the match you just played.
    • Server maintenance mode now survives server heartbeats and needs an explicit resume.
    • Sharing stays cancelled after you cancel it.

    Known issues

    • No physical phone, controller or accessibility test pass has been completed yet.
    • There is no iPhone version yet.
    Technical notes
    • cd84feb / 53e10c5 / bf5e80e: bounded server leases, operator drain kept across heartbeats and registration, audited resume.
    • 6957874 / 283a1df: production reward adapters bound to the release policy; offline production packet verification.
    • e2c6666 / 192ceb8 / e4e20e2: urban materials, lighting, facade relief, isolated quality profiles.
    • c950478: sign and verify Android App Bundle exports; 9e0c1bf: migration-only restore of the private server.
    • 81ae6a7: dedicated server no longer creates client nodes.

  7. v0.1.3

    Store, rewards, safety and accessibility

    Added

    • Ad consent screens and optional rewarded ads, with rewards that are granted exactly once even after a crash.
    • Cosmetic purchase and equip, with your cosmetics shown on match results and result cards.
    • Report and block players from rooms and matches.
    • Presentation settings that are saved on the phone, plus font scaling and safe-area aware menus.
    • Controller and keyboard remapping, controller pairing, and menu navigation by controller.
    • Room controls for bots and settings, matchmaking search progress, and a confirmation before leaving a room or match.
    • Android accessibility support so screen readers can read the menus.
    • Share friend room invites through the phone's share sheet.
    • Optional, opt-in gameplay measurement you can turn off at any time.
    • Account deletion with an explicit confirmation step.

    Changed

    • All English text lives in one catalog, ready for translation.

    Fixed

    • Bots now move toward enemies they can see but cannot yet hit.
    • Privacy choices are kept even when ads are turned off.

    Known issues

    • Ads use test units only; real ads and optional data collection stay off.
    • No controller has been tested on real hardware.
    Technical notes
    • 564fb3c..bb8ea96: native consent core, pending-grant recovery, consent refresh watchdog.
    • 03e5ce4 / 8d877a4 / 40b4d3f: event ingest, experiment enrollment, cohort reports.
    • aad732e: bounded fail-closed soak orchestration; 4e5a197: backup and restore drill.
    • 88ae429: capacity forecasts and draft store packet (docs/release/).
    • 8c20484 / 46874b6: cosmetic purchase/equip and authoritative cosmetic tags in results.

  8. v0.1.2

    A complete match loop

    Added

    • Distinct weapon roles and authored bots that fill the teams.
    • An urban look for the first block with presentation assets.
    • A match HUD with readable result cards.
    • Boot, results, progression and next-match screens that flow together.
    • An Android package with secure guest sign-in refresh.

    Changed

    • Other players now move smoothly between server updates.

    Fixed

    • Combat audio stops when a match ends.
    • Touch actions in rooms are kept, and finished results are recovered if the app was interrupted.
    • Menu dialogs keep focus where it belongs.

    Known issues

    • Online play is private: only test phones on the private network can join.
    Technical notes
    • 4c6ba77: weapon roles, authored bots, fixed-physics replay.
    • 02ef29f: Android bridge packaging and guest refresh identity.
    • bceb780 / 710cac0: supervised private target with live health checks.
    • 7f2c233: remote actor interpolation and ordered input lifecycle; 7486e15: A2 Presenter lifecycle recovery.

  9. v0.1.1

    Moved to Godot and first online match on a phone

    Added

    • The game now runs on the Godot engine, built for Android.
    • First online matches: warmup lobbies, live server-run gameplay and secure joining.
    • Reconnecting during a match puts you back in your own character.
    • Practice mode that can be restarted cleanly.
    • Rewards from the server are saved and delivered once, even after a reconnect.

    Fixed

    • Players waiting in the lobby no longer spawn before they are fully admitted.
    • Warmup and jumping stay in sync on a real phone.

    Known issues

    • Only a private test phone could play; no public release.
    Technical notes
    • 4f52bcd: native foundation ported from Unity to Godot 4 with secure API admission (Unity packet kept in docs/history/).
    • 589c2c8: Godot pool admission recovery and API journeys.
    • ba48901 / 2344d1a / 0dac1d5: warmup rosters, online gameplay, ENet lifecycle.
    • 1c87f8e: verified reward callbacks and once-only recovery grants; a62bbaa: private phone build tied to source.

  10. v0.1.0

    Foundation: plan, contracts and the backend

    Added

    • The Hood Warfare Mobile design: Android first, online PvP, bots, friend lobbies and controller support.
    • Guest accounts that are created automatically and kept on the device.
    • Friend rooms with invite codes.
    • Matchmaking that fills matches fairly and admits each player once.
    • Match results and progression that are saved on the server.
    • Moderation, configuration and privacy tools for operators.

    Known issues

    • No playable game yet; the first prototype used Unity and was replaced in 0.1.1.
    Technical notes
    • 6b4e4f0..46bd543: specification, 25-task factory plan, UI spec and wireframes (docs/superpowers/, docs/design/).
    • 7649814 / 9313b54: .NET API and test foundation with validated wire contracts.
    • d97688e / 6a39e5f: durable guest identity, transactional friend rooms, matchmaking leases with consume-once admission.
    • dc40db8: persisted progression and immutable gameplay results; 8bda62a: configuration, moderation and privacy operations.