The first drop of 2.0
Version 2.0.0 is live. It is the first drop of the visual overhaul: everything that was finished and checked on the overhaul branch ships today, and the rest of the 2.0 work continues in the next update. Here is what you can play right now.
Hard Money Heroes
- Gore setting. The pause menu has a three-level Gore setting: Off, Reduced or Full. Full is the default. Share cards stay gore-free whatever you choose.
- New hero animation. Lester, Lilly, Lit Commando and Lit Valkyrie carry an 80-clip animation library: movement, evasion, cover, traversal, weapon, melee, damage, death, ceremony and four idle fidgets each. It plays behind the optional 3D character mode; the classic look is unchanged.
- New Frontier (preview). The Free Mode start has a new button: Explore the New Frontier (preview). It opens the new ten-area world in the real game so you can playtest its layout and routes. Preview means unfinished: the run is unranked, there is no leaderboard, no result and no share card, and most of the world is still the grey blockout pass except where area art has landed.
Chikun’s Escape
Course two is playable as a preview in Free Mode at /play/chikun?course=2. It adds a shield, a magnet, a held-feather glide, fork lanes and seeded chases. Official Ranked verification stays on course one; course two is not a Ranked course yet.
STACKED
The longest legal replay STACKED can produce, 432,000 ticks, is now a committed test fixture, and it verifies inside the 250 ms budget in local testing. Nothing changes in play. It is an assurance that a very long Ranked run will still be checked.
Achievements and rewards
- Early Supporter. A badge that belongs to the arcade rather than to one cabinet. It is awarded for any server-verified Ranked run in any game before the cutoff, once per wallet.
- Device tilt. The focused badge on your profile can follow your phone’s tilt. It is off by default and only offered where the sensor exists.
- Trophies. Five new trophy entries in the achievement catalog: Full Roster Run and Boss Rush Fifty in Hard Money Heroes, End of the Chain in STACKED, plus World Escape and Escape Complete, which go live once the games record the stats they need.
- Twelve rewards. The twelve replacement rewards from the previous batch are in the Locker: four for each cabinet, each tied to an achievement you can already earn.
What is coming next
The remaining 2.0 work continues in the next update: final area art for all ten areas, the three new bosses, the six new enemies in play, weapon models on the hero by default, cover and traversal in the simulation, and Chikun course two as an official course.
What has not changed
Free previews are unranked and never publish a score. Ranked still runs on the LitVM LiteForge testnet, and testnet verification is not real-money settlement. Nothing in this drop changes contracts, fees, settlement or the Ranked verification of existing runs.
For the current entry steps, see How Ranked works. To try the new work without a wallet, start a Free run.