four
new robots

Until now the arena had a single horizontal spinner, the Corsário. Now there are four. Each one its own way.

If your team has a robot, horizontal or not, send it in at arena.tapout.gg/register.

The game ended up on the NHRL Discord, and people from the United States started showing up to play with us. Jamison Go, from G3 Robotics, was one of the first:

Except everything was in Portuguese. Not anymore. The game opens in your browser's language, and you can switch it in settings, the new name of the controls menu, which now has a button on the home screen.

Until now, playing in English meant running the browser's translator, and it did what it could. The A key, for one, became "the":

You don't need the translator anymore. I also marked the robot names in the fight so it leaves them alone, otherwise the Dark Matter would turn into Matéria Escura on someone's screen.

These patch notes have an English version too, which is the one you're reading.

Hits over the forks count now. The game only looked at the opponent's part closest to the weapon, and if that part was outside the hit's height, like the forks under a low weapon, it gave up right there, with the other robot's body right in front. Now it checks the next part.

The Corsário finally turns at full throttle. Holding forward and steering, the inside wheel kept pushing and dragged it against its own turn, and the turn didn't fit in the arena.

The pick screen got one more column on computers. With eleven robots it didn't fit anymore.

When joining a room failed, the message showed up and vanished before you could read it, and you landed back on the code field with no idea why. Now it stays.

This update changes the online version. If the game has been open since before it, reload the page before joining a room, or you won't find the players who already updated.