Changelog

Display and scaling

• No flicker between screens. Every screen change fades through the loading cover. The cover used to load a few frames late, so each new screen flashed before it appeared; it now loads with the screen. Leaving the campaign screen, Flappy Tank or a match from the in-game menu now fades instead of cutting, and the cover also hides the buttons while it fades.
• Windowed mode no longer flashes to fullscreen and back on every screen change.
• Full-screen scaling. The game now fills high-resolution screens. Every Request fullscreen used Centered, which drew the 1920×1080 canvas unscaled inside a black box; it now uses Stretch (letterbox scale).
• HTML controls scale with the canvas. Buttons, dropdowns, text boxes and checkboxes are sized in layout pixels (--ui-px) instead of vw, so they match the game at any window size or aspect ratio.
• Controls aligned to their artwork. Every button sits exactly on the frame drawn under it (measured from the texture pixels). A pressed button no longer moves out of its frame.

Fonts and text

• Text hierarchy.
  • Titles: warm off-white with an outline and drop shadow.
  • Section labels: khaki.
  • Values: white.
  • Prompts: amber.
  • Results: green or red.
• Number formatting. Money, costs, stats and large ticket counts read 100.000 / 1.100.000 everywhere (HUD, build and research buttons, supports, stats, campaign).
• Proof-reading. Every campaign briefing and all tutorial texts are proof-read (spelling, grammar, “morale” instead of “moral”, and similar). Labels are fixed: ENEMIES, MORALE BAR, MONEY SPENT, TICKETS.

Menus

• Skirmish panel.
  • Modes: RANDOM / CLASSIC / CONQUEST / RUSH.
  • CLASSIC has a VARIANT (Standard, USA, Russia, Hardcore).
  • CONQUEST has TICKETS (500 / 1.000 / 3.000).
  • Each choice gives exactly the settings of the old separate modes, and multiplayer syncs it.
  • New DIFFICULTY setting (Easy / Normal / Hard) for the AI.
  • The last skirmish settings are remembered.
• Options.
  • The checkboxes are readable: Construct styles the label inline, so the old CSS never reached it.
  • The Options page no longer runs off-screen.
• Key rebinding page.
  • Readable key names (LEFT ARROW, SPACE, …).
  • A PRESS A KEY state, cancelled by ESC or a second click.
  • Binding a key that is already used swaps the two keys.
  • RESET TO DEFAULTS.
  • A new TOGGLE MINIMAP key (N).
• Campaign screen.
  • A DAY n OF 7 title, a framed briefing panel with CONTINUE, and the current day’s pin pulses and reopens its briefing.
  • Fixed: saved money was reset to 500.000 on every visit; a briefing could be skipped; the page arrows showed on the map.
• Tooltips work again. Builds from the first fix pass had switched them off for good; they are reset to on once, and the Options checkbox switches them directly. The tooltip text has an outline so it reads over bright skies.
• Reset confirmations. Campaign RESET and Options › RESET STUFF need a second click (a red CONFIRM appears).

Responsiveness

• Buttons. Every HTML control has immediate hover, press, focus and disabled feedback. Canvas buttons (arrows, link icons, game-speed buttons, the minimap tab) glow on hover, shrink on press and play a click sound.
• Panels. Panels fade in quickly without delaying input.
• Values. Money, tickets and settings flash green when they go up and amber when they go down. A refused build, research or support click flashes the money (or the blocked support) red.
• Tabs. The in-game tabs show which one is selected: Build/Research, Infantry/Vehicle/Tank/Air and Support 1/Support 2/Dropship. The selected tab has a bright, underlined label and an amber bar.
• Speed buttons. The active one of PAUSE / PLAY / 4× is lit.

Minimap

• Look. A new plate and frame, with crisp rectangle markers:
  • units are solid squares, blue for yours and red for the enemy, with a dark border;
  • Conquest flags are hollow boxes in their owner’s colour (grey while neutral);
  • your incoming strikes are a pulsing amber box.
• Camera frame. An amber frame shows your current view, including zoom.
• Glide. Clicking or dragging on the minimap glides the camera there in about 0.5 s, at any frame rate and while paused. Any manual scroll cancels the glide.
• Show/hide. A tab on its edge, or the N key, slides the minimap in and out. The state is stored in the Options “Minimap” setting.
• Fixed. A minimap click no longer deselects your units, no longer sends selection messages as player 2, and no longer fires a strike you are aiming.

Gameplay

• Full re-balance, written up as a design (roles, counters, value per cost). Both sides stay identical.
  • Specialist infantry is cheaper.
  • The MLRS, Sniper, Tiger, Pavelow and Special Forces reload faster.
  • Transports cost more than their cargo.
  • The Harrier and cluster bomb drop more bombs.
  • Every tooltip matches the code.
• AI.
  • The skirmish and campaign AI fields all 17 enemy unit types, adding them gradually by wave or day.
  • Its transports unload.
  • It flies a Tornado.
  • It calls cruise missile, artillery, Harrier and cluster strikes on groups of your units, and announces each strike in the chat.
  • Player income per wave stays about where it was.
• Mirror fixes. Enemy and friendly stats that differed by mistake now match (Heavy Soldier, Jaguar 3, LMG and Jeep range, artillery speed, the MLRS’s extra wait, the dropship speed).
• Cluster bombs tumble. Each bomblet spins the way it is thrown, as in the original (the port had lost the spin). The carrier no longer gets knocked sideways just before it hits the ground.
• Enemy barrels aim from their own barrel. Enemy tanks and AA rarely fired before, so enemy armour is noticeably tougher.

Bug fixes

Performance and code

• Physics collision filtering. Each new bullet runs 9–15 setup actions instead of 51, with the identical collision matrix.
• Change-only updates.
  • Outlines are set only when the setting changes.
  • Line-of-sight checks test cheap conditions first.
  • Minimap unit markers update every 0.2 s by UID, instead of once a second with a search over every unit.

Assets

• Effects redrawn.
  • Explosions are an orange fireball, rising grey smoke and falling sparks. They grow, drift and fade instead of three white glows.
  • Debris is charred with a light rim, so it shows on night maps.
  • Muzzle flashes are short yellow-orange bursts.
  • The explosion flash is warm and expands.
  • An explosion now uses about half the particles.
• New minimap images.