⚔️ One-tap first battles, tournament timeouts fixed, BTN medals backfilled
Hey Captains! v55.115.0 is live on web, mobile, Steam and the Discord Activity. No big drop this time — I spent the fortnight sanding off sharp edges, and a few of them were ones you reported.
⚔️ Straight into a battle
Brand-new players now go from the landing screen into their first battle with one tap (it used to be three screens and a menu). If you've been sending friends over: this is the version to send them to.
Accepting a friend's invite now pulls you out of the short-battle queue, so you can't get launched into two battles at once. Thanks @butterstutter — who found that one the hard way, and won both.
🏆 Tournaments and medals
A round that runs out of time now ends the battle properly instead of leaving it hanging, and a coin-flip forfeit no longer counts as a ranked result. @jedistore_82110 reported it with screenshots — exactly the kind of report I can act on.
BTN medals are now awarded on the rating you see on screen, not a hidden decimal behind it. If you sat on exactly 1750, 2000 or 2250 with no medal, that was this — I've backfilled the 59 of you it caught, so check your profile.
🔧 Smaller things
- Randomize places the biggest ships first, so it finds a valid layout far more often
- Steam: "Update now" restarts the game through Steam so the new version actually installs, and the email login window stops closing on you
- Discord: invite friends straight from the waiting and game-over screens
- iOS: with game sounds off, BattleTabs no longer cuts off your music
🧠 Fleet lab: the fourth slot
@roadster36. wrote up what actually belongs in the flexible fourth slot next to Seagulls, Mutineers and Longboat — reveals counted as half a tile, Chaos Slug's recoil weighed against Crafty Crab's obscures, Nessie priced against the rock count. Best thing I've read on fleet-building in weeks.
So here's my ask: post a fleet that beats that meta and doesn't use it in #⛵⎜battletabs, replay link if you have one. I'll play the best ones myself, and anything that holds up goes into the balance discussion.
(One more: @nitwit_blubber_oddment_tweak asked whether Bronze should wait longer than 10 seconds before handing you a bot. That short wait is only for your first 20 ranked battles, then it stretches to 20, 30 and 40 seconds — but nothing in the game tells you that, which is the real problem. Opinions welcome in the thread.)
Thanks for playing 🫡
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