PUNK DOG WARS

2026-10-08 · native-analytics

• Fixed a server permission error when recording usage statistics from the Godot build. No gameplay or balance changes.

2026-10-08 · godot-polish

• The Godot Windows build now includes the twenty new dogs' 640 attack frames and all 53 new world and combat skins, with their white sticker borders and collection unlocks.
• Godot skill information follows current damage, healing, charge values and both evolution choices. Interrupted attacks return to ready immediately, and scaled skill ranges display cleanly.

2026-10-08 · hero-attacks

• Twenty new dogs now have four-phase attacks in all eight directions: windup, strike, follow-through and recovery. All 640 frames retain the cream-white sticker border.
• Each attack animation follows its real release timing, with the same gameplay size and combat rules.

2026-10-08 · hero-hud

• Skill tooltips now show accurate damage, healing, warning times and full-charge values, and refresh after skill upgrades and evolutions. Gear & details includes skill ranks, cooldowns, effects and each dog's passive.
• The new dogs resume walking and attacking while shields and buffs remain active. Attack poses follow the actual windup and recover when an attack is interrupted.
• Projectile and impact effects better match the new dogs' weapons: fire, medicine, clockwork orbs, arrows, electricity and hammer debris.

2026-10-05 · android-icon

• Android now uses Pickles as its launcher icon, matching the Punk Dog Wars store artwork. This maintenance update keeps gameplay unchanged.
• More Android artwork now ships in the install-time art pack so the game fits Google Play's base download limit, with the same image quality.

2026-10-02 · combat-skins

• 12 new unlocks: four Bone pickup skins, four rune sets and four animated attack-effect packs. Find the new categories in Skins → Match rewards.
• Attack packs add projectile trails, muzzle flashes and melee contact sparks to your dog. Guests see the attacker's equipped pack. Weapons, attack timing, travel and hitboxes stay the same.
• Runes keep orange speed chevrons and a magenta repair cross. Bone skins also appear in your Bones counter and upgrade tray. Every set keeps the cream-white sticker border.

2026-10-02 · world-skins

• 41 new world skins join your collection: terrain, towers, cores, drone packs, Warden Hound, Tall Good Boy, relay beacons, uplinks, travel pads and supplies.
• Unlock Street Carnival, Midnight Ramen, Bone Forge and Cosmic Arcade skins by completing matches and joining objectives. Find them in Skins → Match rewards, with search and category filters.
• Every skin keeps the cream sticker border. Cosmetics keep the same stats, hitboxes and combat warnings.

2026-10-01 · october-dogs

• Twenty new dogs join the roster, bringing it to 40. Unlock them by finishing matches and try every dog in Training.
• Each new dog has two basic skills, an ultimate, a passive and a fresh set of evolutions, with white-bordered sticker art and English and Portuguese text.

2026-10-01 · first-play

• First visits reach the street sooner. The loading illustration fades as soon as the game is ready.
• Your first match is a shorter introduction: move, shoot, dodge and break the rival base. Gear and upgrades are taught as you meet them. The complete training yard is still available from Training.

2026-09-30 · telemetry-end

• Finished matches are counted again. The end-of-match report, which says how a match ended and how smoothly it ran on your device, was being turned away since September 12; it arrives again and helps us tune the game for your device.

2026-09-30 · rivals-plant

• Rival dogs now follow the same rule as yours: a ranged rival stops walking to fire its attack skills, so you can see a skill coming when a rival plants its feet.

2026-09-29 · tutorial-drop

• The tutorial now opens with an arrival: a dropship flies over the training yard, opens its hatch and drops your dog onto the street. In the shooting lesson, the training drones now march in from the rival tower instead of waiting there from the start.

2026-09-29 · evolution-variety

• Evolutions change every match. At level 4 you now pick from 3 cards drawn from the 6 to 8 your dog can have, at least one for each of its skills, and at level 9 the tray also offers an evolution for your ultimate. Every card has its own painted icon, and rival dogs pick from their own draw.

2026-09-29 · flash-flat

• Smoother on phones in big fights: a dog, tower or camp flashing when hit, and your own dog's red and green glow, cost much less to draw. They look the same.

2026-09-29 · bunsen-sounds

• Bunsen now has his own sounds: a roaring flamethrower, a whirring sentry, a glugging fuel spill and a furious swarm for Hornet's Nest.

2026-09-29 · flat-city

• On phones and computers that cannot draw the map in 3D, the match now shows the city instead of the old grey moon: the rust ground, the streets, the painted buildings, shops and signs, with the same lights. Only a device that fails at both still gets the old flat map.

2026-09-29 · first-gear-find

• The gear pause in your first match after the tutorial now also comes when that match starts from Find match.

2026-09-29 · skill-levels

• Your dog now learns its second skill at level 3 instead of level 2. The first skill still comes at level 1 and the ultimate at level 6.

2026-09-29 · uplink-fall

• The XP uplink takes longer to come down and starts right above the top of your screen, so you can watch it fall on a phone too. Before, a phone held sideways saw it for only a moment before it landed.

2026-09-29 · plaza-star

• The middle of the three-Core map now shows the whole Largo do Trilho mosaic, gold star included: the dark disc with the blue diamond that covered it is gone.

2026-09-29 · gear-pace

• Gear comes slower: after you pick an item, the next three cards wait a minute (they came every 12 seconds), so your dog buys fewer items and saves its scrap for bigger ones. From 4:00 on, every automatic item and the Vampire Blade grows into a late-game upgrade: Ghost Thruster, Getaway Engine, Purge Core, Mega Blast, Hush Jammer, Thunder Collar, Hunter Drone, Howl Shield and Blood Fang. Once you carry the old item, its upgrade comes up in your gear cards marked UPGRADE, for the difference in price, and keeps the old item's slot and Bone.

2026-09-29 · bunsen

• New dog: Bunsen, a Shiba Inu scientist and the 20th dog in the pack. His flamethrower sprays short flames while he stands still, and every flame that reaches a rival dog adds a burn. Sentry plants a hovering turret that shoots darts at the nearest enemy, up to two at once. Fuel Spill leaves a slick that slows, and his flame sets it alight. Hornet's Nest makes his sentries furious: they fire twice as fast and every dart explodes. He unlocks after Jaws on the dog track.

2026-09-29 · plaza-back

• The Largo do Trilho mosaic is back in the middle of the three-Core map. The boss crater at the crossing was painted over it as a flat dark disc; the Warden Hound still arrives there.

2026-09-29 · first-gear

• Your first solo match after the tutorial now pauses every time three pieces of gear come up, as the tutorial does, so you can read them and pick one calmly. Online matches never pause.

2026-09-29 · uplink-lands

• The XP uplink now flies in when it opens, so the dogs waiting for it see it land. Before, it came down 15 seconds early, while everyone was still in their lane. Now its landing spot is marked with a countdown, and the uplink drops in on its thrusters as that countdown ends.

2026-09-29 · sudden-death

• From 12:00 a match goes to sudden death: every Core melts, with or without drones near it, and the dogs holding the center take 10% from rival Cores. The screen now says so. Two minutes ahead, the objective card counts down to sudden death; once it starts, the card and your Core's bar show how long your Core has left; the notices say who holds the center; and a match lost that way says why.

2026-09-29 · no-sell

• Items can no longer be sold. Right-clicking an item in your bag does nothing now, and its tip no longer shows a sale price. When your bag is full, a gear card can still swap out your cheapest item.

2026-09-29 · walk-reduced

• Dogs hop again when they walk even if your device asks for reduced motion (Windows "Animation effects" off, iOS/Android "Reduce motion" on). Since the hop walk, that setting froze every dog, drone and camp into one drawing that slid across the map; now only the dust puffs and the turn flip stay off.

2026-09-29 · city-stays

• The city no longer turns into a grey moon with empty squares in the middle of a match. When a phone briefly dropped the map's 3D drawing (switching apps, low memory) or one frame failed to draw, the whole match fell back to the old lunar map with no buildings. The city now keeps its streets and buildings and picks the 3D map back up on its own.

2026-09-28 · stop-hint

• Your dog only shoots when you stop walking, and now the game says so in your first matches: walk for a moment with a rival or drone in reach and STOP TO SHOOT shows under your dog. It goes away once you have stopped and fired a few times.

2026-09-28 · lesson-fixes

• In the tutorial, the red-circle lesson always shows its circles: if your dog had dodged something by chance on the way, the lesson was skipped before you saw one, and a dog that stood in the first circles got no more to walk out of. The gear lesson now says three cards are coming, the pause over them says TAP A CARD, and the tutorial calls your money scrap, like the rest of the game.

2026-09-28 · moba-fixes

• A Core's blast now takes half of your dog's whole health if you are caught inside its red ring (it took 12%). Walk out when it is marked. The tutorial's blast stays gentle.
• Orion's shots no longer miss standing targets such as jungle camps. His shots flew toward your cursor or the last place your thumb touched instead of the target he was locked onto; now every one goes where he aimed.
• Smoother on phones while the Warden Hound is out: its flash when hit and its fog cost much less to draw.

2026-09-28 · plant-and-core

• Your dog no longer fires its attack skills while you walk. Like its shots, a ranged dog's skills go out when you stop; only the level 9 On the run card fires one on the move. Sprints, shields and heals still go out while you walk.
• On phones, the Core you are fighting now shows its health at the top of the screen, with its name and a percentage, and so does your own Core while it is under attack. Its bar used to sit above the Core, off the top of the screen.

2026-09-28 · drones-lead

• In the tutorial's tower lessons your drones are already at the tower when the lesson asks you to walk up behind them, and new ones step in if the tower wipes them out, so there is no empty wait. The "tower range" warning no longer talks over those lessons.

2026-09-28 · fast-load

• The game opens much faster on phones. Your first match downloads only what it shows, and the sound effects are about twenty times smaller. The tutorial now waits behind the loading screen until its dogs, drones and towers have arrived, instead of starting with pieces missing.

2026-09-28 · match-replays

• Some matches now keep a light recording so we can see where Punk Dog Wars is hard to learn: where the dogs walked and which controls were used, four times a second. It never includes your name, your account or anything you type, it is kept for seven days, and it covers every new player's first two matches and about one match in ten after that. The privacy policy has the details.

2026-09-28 · tutorial-clear

• In the tutorial, the enemy Core's blast now always goes off before the Core falls: a shockwave rolls across the street, and then you walk in with your drones to break it. Before, your drones could finish the Core during the warning and the blast was never seen.
• The tutorial's tower fortifies when your drones reach it, and the lesson now says to walk up behind them. It used to fortify as soon as your dog walked up alone.
• Less to dismiss in the tutorial: no pause after your first dodge (you already did it), and picking a card with its number key closes the card's explanation too.
• In the tutorial your dog casts no skills before the shooting lesson, and the 'low health: back off toward your Core' warning no longer appears on top of the 'walk out of the red circle' lessons.

2026-09-28 · walk-everywhere

• The puppy the Tall Good Boy leaves behind no longer flickers as it trots away: it keeps one clean drawing and hops, like the dogs.

2026-09-28 · rival-waits

• In the tutorial, your dog no longer shoots down the idle rival before its lesson. If you took your time on the first lessons, your dog used to take it down from the start without a word, and the lesson about defeating a rival dog was skipped. Now the rival waits, and you take it down when the tutorial asks.

2026-09-28 · paw-stick

• On phones, the walking joystick has a new look: a paw-print knob on a see-through pad with four arrows, and a cyan arc on its edge that points the way you are walking. It stays faint until your thumb is on it.

2026-09-28 · dodge-unstuck

• The tutorial's red-circle lesson can no longer get stuck. If your dog took down the rival while you stood in the circles, no more circles came and the lesson never finished; now they keep coming until you walk out of one. Each circle also gives you a little longer to leave it.

2026-09-28 · creature-walk

• Lane drones, jungle creatures and the Tall Good Boy no longer flicker while they move: each keeps one clean drawing and moves it the way its body works. Legged ones hop like the dogs, flying ones hover and bank into the turn, tracked ones rumble along, and the Tall Good Boy lurches stiffly from foot to foot. Attacks, wind-ups and the Warden Hound are unchanged.

2026-09-28 · yard-lessons

• The tutorial teaches six more things, one at a time on its own street: walk over coins to pick up your gold; gold brings three pieces of gear to pick from; a defeated dog drops bone chips, two make a Bone and you pick its upgrade; jungle camps pay gold and XP once you shoot them; a tower you attack fortifies itself for a few seconds, so back off and wait; and a Core at half health marks a blast around itself, so walk out of the ring.

2026-09-28 · playtest

• When a Core falls, the camera now flies to it and it cracks and shatters before a big VICTORY or DEFEAT sticker slams in, then the results open. Tap to skip.
• Bones no longer wait for a trip to your base: two bone chips from defeated rival dogs make a Bone, and a Bone opens its own pick tray, like upgrades and gear. Tap Damage, Health or Speed for the item it names, or wait and one is picked for you.
• Less on screen: no banner naming your dog at the start, no level number beside your own health bar, and the Warden's ten-second warning counts down in the objective card instead of across the screen. The objective card no longer covers your status effects.
• Relays and the XP uplink stand beside the road instead of on it.
• On phones the loading screen paintings are much sharper, and the two dark bars across them are gone.

2026-09-28 · yard-clean

• The tutorial map is cleaner still: no speed track across the street, no street lamps, and no phone booths, bus stops or metro signs left over from the city. Only your base, the drones, the rival dog, the tower and the enemy base are on it.

2026-09-28 · scrap-drop

• Scrap: Scrapyard Drop now drags the rivals it stuns to Scrap's feet instead of to the middle of the crash, sends him running 160 faster for 3s, and recharges in 30s instead of 40s. His basic attack hits harder (30, was 27). Without the old leap he was winning noticeably less.

2026-09-28 · hop-all

• Every dog now hops when walking, the way Pickles has since the last update: one clean drawing for each direction instead of eight redrawn frames that flickered, a small hop on every step, a quick turn when changing direction, and paw prints and a puff of dust on each landing.

2026-09-28 · no-leaps

• No more dashes, blinks or leaps: your dog only ever goes where you walk it. Every skill that used to throw you somewhere is now a sprint you steer by walking, or a burst where you aim.
• Brutus: Stampede is a braced run. He moves faster, takes 30% less damage, and rams the first rival he runs into, knocking them back.
• Pickles: Zoomies is a quick burst of speed that leaves a sticky puddle behind, slowing whoever follows.
• Wesley: Plasma Sprint makes him faster and burns the path he runs along. Volt: Live Wire makes him faster and leaves a wire that stuns the first time a rival crosses it.
• Sarge: Claw Rake crouches, then rakes a line in front of him, reaching further the longer he crouches. Prism: Rift bursts where you aim, or on her Hologram while one stands.
• Scrap: Scrapyard Drop lands a wrecked car where you aim, stunning rivals and pulling them to the middle. Sheik: Rocket Boots make him much faster for up to 4s and hurt everyone he runs through, paid in mana as he runs.
• Shade: Grapnel Yank now pulls the rival to Shade instead of pulling Shade in. Teleport Thruster still makes a hit miss but no longer moves you, and Escape Module now makes you run much faster instead of dashing you away.

2026-09-28 · tutorial-yard

• The tutorial now has a small map of its own: one short street from your base to the rival's, with the practice drones, one rival dog, one tower and the enemy base on it, and nothing else. No jungle, camps, relays or third team to wonder about while you learn to walk, shoot and dodge.

2026-09-28 · warden-wide

• The moving Warden Hound loading screen now shows on computers and tablets held sideways too, with its own widescreen version of the scene: fog, rain and its green lantern swaying. With reduced motion turned on it stays a still picture.

2026-09-28 · hop-walk

• Pickles now hops when walking: one clean drawing for each direction instead of eight redrawn frames that flickered, a small hop on every step, a quick turn when changing direction, and paw prints and a puff of dust on each landing. The other dogs keep their walk for now.

2026-09-27 · desk-art

• On computers and tablets held sideways, the loading screen paintings are now twice as sharp, and the dark bands at the top and bottom are thinner, so more of the painting shows.

2026-09-27 · warden-loop

• On phones held upright, the loading screen now sometimes shows the Warden Hound stalking out of its green fog, moving instead of a still painting. With reduced motion turned on it stays a still picture.

2026-09-27 · boss-nerve

• Stepping out of a Warden Hound or Tall Good Boy warning before it lands now earns NERVE, the same as dodging a rival's marked circle, and a pilot with a leap ready uses it to get out of one. A marked circle that hits you and knocks you out of it no longer counts as a dodge.

2026-09-27 · coach-chip

• On phones the tutorial's instruction now shows in full for a moment, then shrinks to a small tag at the top of the screen (for example "Walk to the ring 1/6"). Tap the tag to read the full line again; it also comes back once by itself if you are still on the same step 10 seconds later.

2026-09-27 · callout-clear

• On phones, the objective strip and the kill feed step aside while a kill sticker is on screen, so double kill, triple kill and the streak stickers are never drawn over them. Defence alerts still show.

2026-09-27 · good-boy-deadly

• The Tall Good Boy is much more dangerous. Its attacks warn you for less time and cover more ground, it walks faster and vanishes more often, and its hits take a bigger bite: a swipe takes a third of your health, and moving during SIT costs 40%. When its long arms drag you in, or it appears next to you, a swipe follows right away, so step out of the warning fast.

2026-09-27 · quiet-picks

• Picking gear from the tray no longer pops a second card with its stats or a "Bought" notice: the card you tapped already said what it does.

2026-09-27 · callout-on-top

• Kill callouts (double kill, triple kill, killing spree and the rest) now always show on top of the other match panels instead of behind them.

2026-09-27 · good-boy-fixes

• Tall Good Boy fixes: in online rooms, friends who joined now see its SIT warning as a ring around the arena instead of a solid disc over the screen. Its hits burst in their own colours instead of the Warden's green, and THE GRIN now winds up in a crouch before it springs.

2026-09-27 · lb-names

• The leaderboard now gives every player without a nickname their own made-up name instead of "Player", shows your position whenever your row is on the board, and after your third match you are asked once to pick a nickname (you can say Not now).

2026-09-27 · plain-cards

• Evolution cards now say what they do in plain words (for example "Wider arc" or "Free jump back to the start") instead of the evolution's name, the pick-tray timer says "Auto in 9s", and the health bar is labelled HEALTH.

2026-09-27 · relay-turns

• Relays now take turns: on the three-Core map every lane's relay opens once per match, and on the 5v5 the two lanes alternate, instead of one relay sometimes opening twice while another never opened.

2026-09-27 · tutorial-polish

• The tutorial is easier to follow: the ghost thumb now swipes toward where you need to walk and chevrons light the lane, the dodge lesson's red circle is big and filled, gear and evolution cards wait until you finish the lesson you are on and arrive with their icons, kill stickers no longer cover the lesson line, and a finished tutorial shows your dog and what you learned.

2026-09-27 · good-boy

• A second boss now comes late in the match: at 6:00 the Tall Good Boy drops into the pit where the Warden Hound fought. It walks slowly and plays by its own rules. When it says SIT, stand still: dogs that keep moving lose a third of their health, and dogs that sit are healed. Step off the line of its long arms, stay out of its grin, and watch your back when it disappears. Beat it and it turns back into a puppy.

2026-09-27 · capsule-minute

• The Vital Capsule now lasts 1 minute after you pick it up. If you don't die in that time, it fades.

2026-09-27 · relay-marks

• The objective strip names each relay by the lane it stands beside (your lane, red lane, green lane) instead of a compass point that no longer matched where it stood. The next relay gets an amber ring on the minimap (cyan while it is open), its world label shows its bonus before it opens, and the 5v5 relays now show their surge marker too.

2026-09-27 · coin-pickup

• Gold coins from kills now stay on the ground until you walk close, then fly to you. Coins you leave behind still come to you after 10 seconds, so no gold is ever lost.

2026-09-27 · plain-numbers

• Damage numbers are just the number now: no minus sign, and your quick hits on one target add up to a plain total instead of showing how many hits it took.

2026-09-27 · uplink-drop

• The XP uplink is no longer standing in the middle from the start: it flies in on its thrusters 15 seconds before it opens, slams down, and lifts off again when its window ends.

2026-09-27 · streak-calls

• The announcer now calls every step of your streak too: killing spree, dominating, mega kill, unstoppable, wicked sick, monster kill, godlike and beyond godlike.

2026-09-27 · rampage-call

• The announcer now calls your ultra kill and your rampage.

2026-09-27 · rampage-howl

• Your dog now has a line for its biggest multi-kills: an ultra kill growls into a howl, and a rampage barks three times into a pack howl.

2026-09-27 · guest-upgrades

• Fixed: in an online room, a friend who joined your match now gets every upgrade choice. Before, they got only the first one.

2026-09-27 · kill-stickers

• Kill callouts are punk stickers now, in English and Portuguese, and they follow the full ladder: double kill, triple kill, ultra kill and rampage for kills in quick succession, and killing spree, dominating, mega kill, unstoppable, wicked sick, monster kill, godlike and beyond godlike for kills without dying.

2026-09-27 · loot-fly

• Kills now pay out where you can see it: coins and XP gems pop out of the fallen and fly into your dog, ticking up your gold and XP bar. Heals flash your dog green and throw off green plus signs.

2026-09-27 · warden-gear

• Levels come a little slower at the start: level 5 now arrives after the first minute or so instead of with the first waves. Later levels stay about where they were.
• You can no longer miss the Warden Hound: a warning comes 10 seconds before it wakes, everyone sees a card when it is out, and the minimap pings it while an arrow at the edge of the screen points to it until you find it.
• The Warden Hound is far more dangerous: a bite takes about a third of your health, its hunt ends in a pounce, it keeps chasing whoever hurts it most, and its health grows with the number of dogs and their levels. Step out of its marks and it cannot touch you.
• Gear is your choice now: when you have enough scrap, pick one of three items to buy. If you do not choose, the best one is bought for you after a few seconds. Rivals choose from three as well.

2026-09-27 · ranked-uplink

• The second match is ranked now: after the guided match, Play a match goes straight to Find match. If nobody else is searching, you still play a ranked match, worth half the usual rating change.
• New leaderboard on the home screen: the top 50 dogs by rating, with your own place highlighted.
• Fixed: being knocked out first in a ranked match no longer shows it as unranked. The dog mastery tier "Unranked" is now called "Rookie".
• Your dog keeps facing the way it walked when it stops, and keeps facing its target after an attack, instead of turning around.
• The XP uplink is back: it opens at 1:30 at the crossing in the middle of the map. Stand in it alone for 5 seconds to gain XP. It shows when it opens and leaves the map when it is done.

2026-09-27 · walk-revert

• Dog walks are back to how they were before 2.3.142. Jaws keeps his grey face in his attack and skill poses.

2026-09-27 · hound-corpse

• When the Warden Hound falls, it now collapses where it stood, its eye dark, its lantern out and its ribcage empty, while the dogs it caught run free over it.

2026-09-27 · quiet-dogs

• Fewer dog sounds: dogs no longer bark, growl or whine through every fight, level-up and death. Your dog barks when you pick it and on a double kill, and howls on a triple kill and a win.

2026-09-27 · hound-sprites

• The Warden Hound looks right now: it gallops on all eight frames, lunges when it bites, rears before a slam, recoils when it breathes fire and flinches when hit, with every pose drawn as the same monster. Its lantern lights only the ground around it instead of washing its body pale, it no longer fades when it is next to your dog, and a hit no longer turns it white.

2026-09-27 · walk-rig

• Every dog now really walks: each direction is one clean drawing whose legs swing in step, so outfits, weapons and hands no longer change mid-stride. Jaws keeps his grey face in every walk, attack and skill pose.

2026-09-27 · hurt-feedback

• Getting hit is now unmistakable: the screen edges flash red, your dog glows red a moment longer, the numbers you lose are bigger, heavy blows shake the view and make your dog yelp, and phones buzz.

2026-09-27 · strip-under-feed

• On a phone on its side, a tablet or the Steam Deck, the column of your items now starts below the kill feed in the top-right corner instead of running under it.

2026-09-27 · warden-hound

• The Colossus is now the Warden Hound: a skeletal kennel hound carrying a ghost lantern. When it appears, fog rolls over the whole map and its own horror song plays. It no longer teleports: every few seconds it howls at a different dog and runs it down faster than you can run, so step aside from its bites. Beat it and the dogs trapped in its ribcage run free.

2026-09-27 · run-at-dogs

• ON THE RUN skills (the level-9 evolution) now fire only at rival dogs. Walking past drones or a camp no longer spends them, so the skill is ready when a rival shows up.

2026-09-27 · sticker-sweep

• The whole game is now in the punk sticker style: base platforms, relays, metro pads, the minimap, pickups and core lights are flat with black outlines; warning arrows, shot lines and tower range sit on outlines; getting hit and low health show hard red edges instead of a blur; drones keep their white sticker edge in team colours; menus and the match HUD lost their last blurs; companion icons, the Defense Rally dome and the supply pod are redrawn.

2026-09-27 · deck-gear

• On a phone on its side, a tablet or the Steam Deck, your items now sit in a column on the right edge under the menu button, with the same cooldown sweep as upright, instead of a row floating beside your dog that left some items out.

2026-09-26 · dog-voices

• Every dog has a voice now, pitched to its breed: a Chihuahua yaps high and a Fila barks low. Your dog barks when you pick it, score a kill or level up, growls when it casts its ultimate, howls when it evolves, at level 6 and on a win, and whines on a loss.

2026-09-26 · patch-notes-pt

• In Portuguese, every patch note in LATEST CHANGES is translated, including the 72 older ones that were still in English.

2026-09-26 · locked-dog

• In Portuguese, a dog you have not unlocked yet reads BLOQUEADO, not BLOQUEADA.

2026-09-26 · item-icons

• Shock Collar, Fetch Drone and Bark Shield have their own painted icons in the shop and your gear, in the same punk sticker style as the other items.

2026-09-26 · sticker-units

• Towers kick back and flash when they fire, their shots and siege shells burst where they land, and a tower that drops under 30% blows up a chunk and keeps smoking. Drones bite, flash or blast when they attack and step as they walk; jungle monsters step and lunge harder.

2026-09-26 · home-words

• In Portuguese, every dog's role on the home screen reads in full (FINALIZADOR, CAÇA-TANQUES, EMBOSCADA...), and the season rank panel no longer shows an English line before you sign in.

2026-09-26 · city-looks

• The city has 26 building looks now: 13 new shops and homes, from a tiled corner bar to an arcade and a rooftop pool, and no two matching buildings stand near each other.

2026-09-26 · gear-strip

• On an upright phone, your dog's items show in a small column under the map: a shade shows how long each timed item still needs, and an item pops when it goes off.

2026-09-26 · hud-words

• In Portuguese, the rest of the match HUD is translated too: status icons (Accelerated, Marked, Thorns...), the Colossus attack names, skill, passive and summon call-outs over the dogs, the routed and sold scrap numbers, the drone and tower warnings, the minimap and death-camera labels and the music button.

2026-09-26 · no-emoji

• More emoji swapped for game art: tower counts show the tower art, the share card marks the MVP with the trophy, and watching a match uses the eye icon.

2026-09-26 · banner-portrait

• The match opening shows your dog's portrait next to its name and side, instead of an emoji.

2026-09-26 · tooltip-words

• In Portuguese, the Blast Charge and Fetch Drone descriptions are translated too, so every item tooltip reads fully in Portuguese.

2026-09-26 · hit-numbers

• Damage numbers are thrown off the hit and arc away, a heavy blow lands on a star, your quick hits on one target add up to a total (-715 ×3), and a skill shot that hits nobody says MISS where it stopped.

2026-09-26 · sticker-colossus

• The Colossus and its slams and blasts are drawn in the punk sticker style too.

2026-09-26 · sticker-fx-boom

• Big skill explosions, impacts and fireballs, the Core burst, Krohm's cyclone and companion hits are comic-book stickers now: black-outlined booms with smoke puffs and debris instead of glowing clouds.

2026-09-26 · colossus-crossing

• The Colossus is back. At 2:15 it drops on the crossing where every lane meets, so you can see it from your own lane; beat it for the Vital Capsule while a relay opens on another corridor.

2026-09-26 · sticker-map

• The map is drawn in the punk sticker style: flat-shaded ground, lanes and rocks with black outlines, and street and tower lights as flat pools instead of soft glow.

2026-09-26 · snappy-stop

• Your dog shoots the moment you stop walking: your own attacks barely wind up now, while rivals still warn before theirs. Your hits land harder too, with a brief freeze, a brighter flash and a small shove.

2026-09-26 · auto-items

• Items work by themselves now, like gear in a roguelite: nothing to press. Teleport Thruster dodges a hit, Escape Module pulls you out at low health, Cleanse Module breaks stuns, Blast Charge blasts the floor around you (walk out of the mark), and Silence Jammer silences every 4th hit. New: Shock Collar stuns every 5th hit, Fetch Drone shoots by itself, and Bark Shield keeps a shield up.

2026-09-26 · tooltip-comma

• In Portuguese, item tooltips write decimals with a comma (+3,5 de vida por segundo) and read naturally: "+60 de velocidade por 2s", "recarga de 26s".

2026-09-26 · decimal-comma

• In Portuguese, the card for new gear and Bones writes decimals with a comma (+0,6 de energia por segundo).

2026-09-26 · sticker-ink

• Hit flashes, shot trails, unit shadows, ability rings, beams, cones, slashes, lightning, shots and damage numbers are drawn in the punk sticker style: black outlines and flat colour instead of soft glow.

2026-09-26 · what-you-got

• When your dog buys gear or puts a Bone on an item, a card spells out what it got: the item's numbers (+190 max health), or the Bone's (Assault Bone on Speed Boots: +8 attack damage, +10% attack speed). It shows on a phone held upright too, and one card waits for the other instead of replacing it.

2026-09-26 · sticker-finish

• The loading screens, the menu backdrop and the status icons over your dog are drawn in the punk sticker style too.

2026-09-26 · wider-view

• On a phone held upright the camera sits further back, so you see about a third more of the street on every side: rivals casting at you, and the towers shooting you, are on screen far more often.

2026-09-26 · face-the-fight

• Your dog keeps facing what it is hitting between swings, instead of turning back to the way it walked in. Getting hit no longer makes it look like it is walking.

2026-09-26 · sticker-icons

• Rank medals, upgrade and evolution icons, mastery badges and item icons are drawn in the punk sticker style too.

2026-09-26 · sticker-fx

• Skill effects and ranged shots are drawn in the punk sticker style too. Shields and glows stay see-through, so you can still see your dog inside them.

2026-09-26 · sticker-world

• Towers, Cores, relays, travel pads, pickups, the city's buildings and street props are drawn in the punk sticker style too, so the whole match matches the dogs.

2026-09-26 · sticker-jungle

• Jungle monsters wind up before they strike: a wedge fills on the ground in front of them, and walking out of it before it fills dodges the hit. Standing and trading takes the same hits as before.
• Each jungle family strikes its own way (claw, sting, bite or slam), monsters flinch when hit and peel off like a sticker when they go down, and drones and jungle monsters are drawn in the punk sticker style.

2026-09-26 · evolve-again

• At level 9 your dog evolves again. A new tray, EVOLVE AGAIN, offers a second evolution for one of your skills. It never offers the evolution you already took at level 4.
• New in that tray: ON THE RUN. The skill fires by itself while you walk, at the nearest rival in its reach, and recharges 30% faster, but each hit deals 55% of its damage. It is still aimed, so it can still be dodged. Rivals evolve at level 9 too.

2026-09-25 · own-lane

• In your first matches, rivals spend the first three minutes on their own lane instead of crossing the map to fight each other. They level up with you, so the fight reaches you sooner and you are never far ahead by accident.
• The tip on the results screen now suggests things you can do by walking: back off when low, let your drones reach a tower first, walk with them to a rival tower, and dodge then stop. It used to tell you to spend scrap and recall, which your dog does for you or does not have.

2026-09-25 · first-steps

• Tutorial: standing in the ring the first lesson points at now finishes it. The ring sat closer than the distance the lesson counted, so a player who walked onto it and stopped was left waiting on the target.
• The death recap only says mostly skills or mostly basic attacks when a dog beat you. A tower was being described as killing you with skills.

2026-09-25 · first-fight

• Your first matches are a real fight now. Rivals play properly and keep shooting at you, with slow wind-ups you can see and walk out of, but their hits stay soft and your shots still hit them harder. Their towers and Core take longer to break, so a first match lasts long enough to learn in.
• Tutorial: the red practice circle is yours to dodge. Your dog no longer leaps out of it by itself, which finished the lesson, and praised the dodge, before you had moved.
• Tapping an upgrade or evolution card while its explanation is showing now picks that card. Before, the first tap only closed the explanation.

2026-09-25 · godot-parity

• Maintenance only, no gameplay change: an internal cleanup to how an attack that is winding up remembers the dog it is aimed at.

2026-09-25 · lane-follow

• Holding a direction roughly along the lane you are on now walks the lane. Most lanes run at angles an 8-way stick or WASD cannot hold, so your dog used to drift off the road into the jungle. Turning further away still leaves the lane.
• On an upright phone, the objective card at the top now sits beside the minimap instead of running under it.
• In Portuguese, the home screen says PUNK DOG WARS again: the game name was being translated word by word.

2026-09-25 · no-cast-pause

• The tutorial no longer pauses to point out your dog's first skill. It came three seconds after the level-4 evolve pause, when your dog had already been casting for twenty seconds; the line above your thumb still names each skill as it fires.

2026-09-25 · tour-cleanup

• The How to play tour now describes the game as you play it: you only walk, and your dog shoots, casts, levels up and gets its gear by itself. Pages about things matches no longer have are gone (Colossus, the uplink, supply pods, the revival drop), and the Core burst page gives the right number: half health, not 30%.
• The ONE PAW card on the results screen now says the rule in four short lines instead of one long paragraph.
• An upgrade tray you leave alone takes one card for you. The tutorial no longer promises the rarest card, since every tray is a single rarity.
• On the home screen, the skill icons under your dog sit centred in their buttons again on desktop, instead of spilling past the frame.

2026-09-25 · dodge-pays

• Dodging pays off at once. When an attack meant for your dog misses because you walked, your dog's next shot is ready right away, leaves with no windup and hits 40% harder. A cyan ring on your dog shows it is ready.
• NERVE only counts attacks that were aimed at your dog and missed because you moved. Standing still no longer earns it by accident from shots at the drones beside you.
• Melee swings now wind up for 0.42 seconds instead of 0.26, long enough to see the swing and step out of it. Before, stepping away got you hit more often than standing still.
• When a rival off screen starts an attack aimed at you, an arrow at the edge of the screen warns you before the shot leaves. Before, the first warning was the shot itself.
• In your first matches, rivals' attacks at you wind up for longer, and the rival that comes to challenge you keeps attacking instead of pausing, so there is something to dodge while you learn.
• Near a rival tower, its reach is drawn on the ground: amber dashes as you walk up to it, solid red while it is shooting at you. Tower shots follow your dog, so staying outside that circle is the only dodge.

2026-09-25 · loaf-spiral

• Loaf's Nanodrone Spiral hits harder: 28 + 7 per level instead of 24 + 6.

2026-09-25 · one-rarity

• The three UPGRADE cards on screen are now always the same rarity: all common or all rare. Before, one tray could mix a common card with a rare one. Rare trays come as often as rare cards did, a captured relay still pays a rare tray, and Ricochet is now a rare card.

2026-09-25 · hud-meta

• In Portuguese, the stats row of the hero panel fits on one line again on narrow screens, so the tutorial line sits right under it instead of halfway down. Skill points read simply as "pontos", and auto-level is NÍVEL AUTOMÁTICO, no longer confused with the level-4 skill evolution.

2026-09-25 · plain-words-2

• In Portuguese, the hit count over your dog now reads CÃO ATINGIDO / CÃES ATINGIDOS instead of the English DOG HIT.
• The last labels that still said hero now say dog: the YOUR DOG badge and SELECT DOG in the dog picker, Equip in dog picker on skins, and the skin-track dog counts.

2026-09-25 · rival-drone

• In the tutorial's rival lesson, your dog now shoots the rival once you stop in range. A practice drone kept coming back behind you and took every shot.

2026-09-25 · pick-keys

• On a keyboard, the number keys now pick your level-up cards: press 1, 2 or 3 to take an UPGRADE card or to choose the skill you EVOLVE. Each card shows its key. Before, the cards only answered a click.

2026-09-24 · tutorial-flow

• The tutorial's idle rival now comes before the tower, on your way in, and your dog can shoot it from the moment you see it. It used to stand beside the tower, where your dog could not touch it until its lesson opened.
• Reaching level 4 in the tutorial or your first match now pauses once to explain EVOLVE A SKILL. It used to reuse the upgrade-card pause, which you had already seen at level 2.
• The tutorial completion screen now leads with PLAY A MATCH, straight into your first real match; HOME is underneath.

2026-09-24 · cores-install

• Bones now go on by themselves. With auto-buy on, and it always is in ONE PAW, a banked Bone is fitted to one of your items the moment you are at your base, and its name floats over your dog. Before, a ONE PAW player collected Bones all match with no way to use them.

2026-09-24 · plain-words

• Plain words: the character you play is your dog everywhere you read about it: the home screen, the tutorial, the results and the skill text. The account panel is simply PROFILE.
• Upgrade Cores are now Bones, so Core only ever means the base you defend. Fallen dogs drop bone chips, and two chips make a Bone.
• On a phone the home screen shows your dog and FIND MATCH, with DOGS, FRIENDS and MORE underneath. Everything else (inventory, rank, history, the other modes, options and sign-in) opens from MORE.
• One account button instead of two: SIGN IN, which becomes SAVE YOUR DOGS once you have finished a match. A brand-new player on a phone is not asked to sign in at all.
• While you own six dogs or fewer, the dog picker has no search box or filter rows, and your own dogs come first.
• On a touch screen, press and hold anything that has a hint (a skill on the home screen, a medal, an icon) to read it.
• ONE PAW: the line above your thumb names what your dog just did, its job first (Heal, Dash, Burst) and then the skill.
• The death recap says who beat you and with what (mostly skills, or mostly basic attacks), and each tip is one short line.

2026-09-24 · thumb-anywhere

• On an upright phone you can now start walking with your thumb anywhere on the lower part of the screen, as the tutorial says. Before, only the joystick ring itself answered; on a phone held sideways, the touch area sat in the corner and missed the ring.
• Your skill cooldown icons and the action label no longer sit on top of the joystick ring on smaller phones. On a phone held sideways they sit beside it, and they step aside while the upgrade cards are up.
• In Portuguese, a win now reads VITÓRIA on the results screen and the share card, instead of the English VICTORY.

2026-09-24 · skill-copy

• Every skill description was rewritten for the way you play now. Your pilot casts its own skills, so the text says what each skill does instead of telling you to aim it, cast it again or line it up, and it no longer mentions skills that are not in the hero's kit.

2026-09-24 · heroes-trim

• A cleaner HEROES screen: the empty search box, the owned/locked filter and the note about where your collection is saved are gone. A hero's page no longer repeats the collection header, no longer labels a hero you own as Owned, and only offers TRY IN TRAINING for heroes you have not unlocked yet.

2026-09-24 · jaws

• Jaws attacks faster: one basic every 1.2 seconds instead of 1.65. Upright, a pilot only shoots while planted, and his was the slowest attack on the roster.
• A charged beam fired by a pilot's own judgement (Jaws' Doombeam, for rivals and for your pilot) now fires at where its target is when the charge ends, not where it stood when the charge began.
• Skill descriptions no longer tell you to hold or release a key: Hollow's Pounce, Jaws' Doombeam and Sheik's Rocket Flight describe what the skill does.

2026-09-24 · rescue-signal

• Loaf's Signal Swap is now a rescue. The orb flies straight through enemies and swaps you with the first ally it touches: pull a hurt teammate out of a fight, or escape to one of your drones. Pilots use it for exactly that and never to jump into a rival's fight.

2026-09-24 · tutorial-fixes

• The tutorial's idle rival now waits for its own lesson. Your pilot's range reached it from the tower, so it died during the siege and the lesson was skipped.
• The tutorial's red practice circle now costs about 7% of your health if you stay in it, so a missed dodge is felt.
• Your first dodge in the tutorial now gets its NERVE pause; the skill pause waits until after it.
• Winning the tutorial now counts its last lesson as finished.
• The tutorial completion screen no longer has a blank second page: it is one page with Continue.

2026-09-24 · upgrade-pace

• Fewer upgrade stops. An upgrade offer now comes every second level (3, 5, 7, 9, 11 and 13) instead of every level, and a new one always waits at least 20 seconds after your last pick. A match used to ask you to choose about thirteen times, sometimes every five seconds early on; now it is about seven, so the fight stays the game. Rivals follow the same pace, and capturing a relay still pays a bonus pick.
• The upgrade cards now sit along the bottom edge of the screen instead of over the street ahead of your pilot.

2026-09-24 · home-labels

• A tidier home screen: the small captions under the format picker, the device-storage note under hero mastery and the hero counter beside HEROES are gone. Your hero count is still inside HEROES.

2026-09-24 · loaf-stays-alive

• Loaf (Wraith) hits harder and stays alive: basic attacks deal 21 every 0.95s instead of 17 every 1.06s, the Nanodrone Spiral reaches as far as Loaf's basic shots and fans across 63° instead of 100°, and pilots no longer use Signal Swap to jump into a rival's fight.

2026-09-24 · pick-tray

• Upgrades are tapped now, not walked into. Every level-up shows three cards in a tray just above your thumb: tap the one you want, or the rarest is taken for you after a few seconds. Walking no longer grabs a card by accident while you dodge.
• Every upgrade card leads with one word for what it does (Damage, Shield, Speed, Heal on kill) above its name, so you can choose at a glance.
• Your skill evolution is no longer mixed in with the upgrade cards. At level 4 it gets its own tray, EVOLVE A SKILL, with each option named by its role; the upgrade cards wait until you have chosen.

2026-09-24 · home-trim

• The home screen has one way into the tutorial, HOW TO PLAY. PRACTICE ARENA and HOW TO PLAY started the very same guided match. HERO GUIDE & PRACTICE is gone: its drill asked you to cast each skill three times by hand, and your pilot casts its own skills now, so it could never be finished.

2026-09-24 · options-trim

• Game Options only lists settings that still do something. Auto-attack, Auto-buy, Auto-level and Aim assist are gone: your pilot shoots, shops, levels up and casts by itself in every match now, so those switches changed nothing. Control size and Thumb inset went with the skill buttons they used to place, and the desktop hotkey list no longer offers skill, Defence Rally and shop keys the game does not answer.

2026-09-24 · towers-rematch

• Your towers guard themselves in every match, not just the first one you play. The towers' own Defence Rally — the shield they raise the moment something hostile reaches them — was still counting down the previous match's cooldown when a new match began, so from your second match onward they never raised it at all and gave their lane away for free. Play again and they defend again.

2026-09-24 · tutorial-coach

• The tutorial no longer covers the fight. Its big card over the middle of the screen is now one short line at the top, beside your health, and it never sits over your pilot. Tap the line to pause and read the whole lesson.
• The tutorial shows you where instead of telling you: a ring on the ground where to go, brackets on what to hit, a ghost thumb for your first walk, and an arrow out of danger.
• New tutorial lesson: walk out of the red circle. A slow practice attack is marked under you, and dodging it earns NERVE, which the old tutorial only described.
• Three moments pause the game once, with the screen dimmed around your pilot: your first NERVE, your pilot's first skill, and your first upgrade cards. Tap to continue.
• Game features are now taught between matches: after each finished match the results show one new feature card, instead of a feature tour in the middle of the fight.

2026-09-24 · walk-to-upgrade

• Upgrades are picked by walking. Every level-up lays three upgrade cards in the street around your pilot: walk into the one you want, or the rarest is taken for you after a few seconds. Upgrades stack, come in common, rare and epic, and capturing a relay pays your team a rare-or-better pick. Your pilot's own skill upgrade turns up as an epic card.
• Your towers guard themselves: the first time rivals reach them, every tower and the Core rally on their own, on the same cooldown as before.
• Melee pilots swing on the move and hit harder: walking into reach is their commitment, and every swing is still drawn on the ground before it lands. They also carry 30% more hull and 20% more damage.
• Bruno's Rocket Flight is finally used, by your pilot and by rivals alike.
• Krohm's Hammer Cyclone reaches 130 instead of 110 and hits 40% harder; Wide Cyclone now reaches 145 and keeps 90% of its damage.

2026-09-24 · full-hull

• Melee pilots now really carry the extra hull ONE PAW gives them, and so does anyone with Thick Hide. After a level-up, an item or a speed boost, their health was being capped at the old maximum, so they could never heal back to full and every rival treated them as already wounded. In 5v5 your pilot now dies about a fifth less often and finishes nearly twice as many kills.

2026-09-24 · finish-the-kill

• Your pilot now spends its skills on the rival worth finishing — the one low on health — instead of whoever happens to be nearest, and sticks with the rival it is already fighting. In 5v5 fights ONE PAW pilots finish about 80% more kills than before, as many as any other pilot in that seat.

2026-09-24 · one-paw-is-the-game

• ONE PAW is the game now. The 1v1v1, the 2v2v2 squads and the 5v5 are all played the same way, on a phone or on a computer: you only walk, your pilot shoots when you plant your feet and fires its own skills, and every attack is drawn on the ground before it lands. The ranked 1v1v1 and its online queue play by these rules too.
• Every format keeps its jungle camps and shortcut pads. The objectives are the relays on the lanes; the 5v5 has one on each team's mid leg near the centre.
• Your skills now show on the upright screen as a row of tiny icons over the thumb area, each darkened by what is left of its cooldown. They are only there to read: nothing in the game is pressed.

2026-09-23 · corridor-relays

• ONE PAW: the match now has one kind of objective, and you can see it from your lane. A relay stands beside each team's corridor, past its second tower, and one opens every 90 seconds — each corridor in turn. The Colossus, the uplink and the supply pod stay in the landscape formats: upright, they were off the edge of the screen.

2026-09-23 · front-door

• On a phone the game now opens on ONE PAW. The big button reads Play ONE PAW and starts it, and a first match on a phone is taught upright. The ranked 1v1v1 and the other formats are still one tap away, listed under LANDSCAPE · DESKTOP; on a computer nothing changes.
• The format row is split in two: UPRIGHT · ONE THUMB on top, LANDSCAPE · DESKTOP below it, and the ONE PAW description now says what the mode actually is: you only walk, and your pilot aims and fires its skills by itself.

2026-09-23 · nothing-hits-you

• ONE PAW: nothing can hit you that you could not have walked out of. Every basic attack is drawn on the ground before it lands — a line for a ranged pilot, an arc for a melee one — and only then does the damage exist. A melee swing now crosses the ground to reach you instead of touching you the moment you are in range, and no attack follows you home any more: your pilot leads its aim and so do theirs, so walking sideways is finally an answer.
• ONE PAW: dodging pays. An attack that goes past you, or a marked circle you step out of, is NERVE — up to three of them, and each one makes your own attacks hit harder for three and a half seconds. Bait the swing, walk out of it, then plant your feet and make them pay for the miss.
• ONE PAW: the narrow view says what is coming. Arrows on the edge point at any attack aimed at you and at any marked burst off screen, a ring pulses on your own body while you are standing in one, and the edge the damage came through lights up when you are hit from a side the view cannot show.

2026-09-23 · one-paw-teaches

• ONE PAW now runs the first-match tutorial, in ONE PAW. A newcomer who picked the upright format got dropped straight into a match with no attack button and no skill buttons and no explanation; the tutorial only ever fired for the ordinary 1v1v1. It now teaches the two rules the mode actually runs on: your skills are automatic, and you only shoot while you are standing still.
• ONE PAW: the desktop no longer shows an attack crosshair over the battlefield or answers a left click with an attack order. The mode says walking is the whole control, and now the mouse agrees with it.
• ONE PAW buys your gear for you. Auto-buy is forced on when the mode starts and the shop hotkey is closed, so scrap can no longer pile up behind a shop the mode has no button for.
• The level-4 evolution choice is taken the moment you press it, instead of waiting for the button to come back up. Over a live battlefield the panel can be moved or rebuilt between the press and the release, which swallowed the choice and left a picker that visibly did nothing.

2026-09-23 · walk-out

• Every marked circle on the ground can now be walked out of from the middle of it, not just leaned out of at the rim. A floor burst waits at least as long as crossing its own radius takes, so a 230-unit ring that used to land in a quarter of a second gives you a second and a half. Fourteen skills across nine pilots warn for longer; none warns for less.
• ONE PAW: your pilot never leveled a single ability. A skill point was spent with the wrong call, so a pilot reached level 6 with every skill still locked and the level-4 evolution picker offering to evolve skills it could not cast. Points are spent the moment they are earned.
• ONE PAW: the thumb only walks now. Your pilot decides when a skill is worth spending and which body nearby it goes at, using the same judgement a rival pilot uses, and aims it the same way — so its skills can still miss. The four charging motions are gone: no ring to hold, nothing to cancel, no gesture standing in for a button.

2026-09-23 · second-key

• Every control can now carry TWO keys. Movement ships with both sets: WASD and the arrow keys, listed side by side in Game Options so you can see them. Give any other action a second key from that screen too — press it to set one, Backspace to take it away. A key can still only mean one thing, so handing it to something else takes it off whatever had it.

2026-09-23 · arrow-keys

• The arrow keys move your pilot, in every format, alongside WASD. If you have bound an arrow to a skill it keeps doing that: the alias only applies to an arrow that is not already spoken for, so nobody loses a key they set themselves.

2026-09-23 · qa-pass

• Android: the system Back button no longer closes the game. It closes whatever is in front of you — a panel, the shop, the scoreboard — opens Game Options during a match, and only leaves the game after a second press at home.
• Android: a match started with the phone held upright no longer arrives as a strip across the top of the screen. The app asks the system to rotate instead of being handed a portrait-shaped window.
• On phones, tapping a skill no longer leaves its description parked over the battlefield, and opening Gear & details now puts the reactor draft away instead of stacking two panels over a live fight. Skill descriptions are in Gear & details.
• New control setting: stick sensitivity (Steady / Normal / Quick) decides how far your thumb travels to turn. Control size and thumb inset were already there.
• Play again now sits beside NEXT on every results page, so you can queue without walking to the last one.
• Guests can sign in or create an account from the installed app: a six-digit code arrives by email, because a link would open a browser instead of the game.
• The language option reads “Follow device language” instead of “Automatic (browser)”.

2026-09-23 · one-paw-panels

• ONE PAW: the reactor and evolution panels read properly on a phone. Their titles were 10px floating in boxes built for a landscape HUD, and the evolution header was 84px tall around a 15px line because its close button had been sized like a choice. Titles are 15px, descriptions 12.5px, the header is 40px, and every card is sized by what it says.

2026-09-23 · one-paw-feel

• ONE PAW: you shoot when you plant your feet. Moving is dodging now, and it costs you your basic attacks — standing still deals about six times the damage of walking. The rule is the mode's, not yours alone: rivals cannot shoot on the run either.
• ONE PAW: the camera keeps the readable area instead of the readable width, so an upright phone is zoomed about twice as far in as before. Your pilot was reading at a twenty-third of the screen height; it is back to about a sixth, which is what this camera was tuned for.
• ONE PAW: the camera leads much harder in the direction you are walking, so most of the screen is what you are pushing into, and arrows on the edge point at rivals the narrow view cannot show.
• ONE PAW: jungle camps and transit pads are left out. The crater keeps its shape, but there is nothing off the lane to go hunting for in a view this narrow.
• ONE PAW: the reactor draft and the evolution choice are full-width sheets under your thumb instead of small panels floating mid-screen. The evolution panel was computing itself 71 pixels wide on a phone, which made it unusable.

2026-09-23 · one-paw-portrait

• ONE PAW now actually fills a phone held upright. It was drawing a portrait view into a landscape-shaped canvas wider than the screen, which stretched every sprite and left a dead band along the bottom; the canvas is now the screen, so the picture matches the shape it is drawn into.
• ONE PAW: the vitals panel is a compact strip instead of a landscape panel across a third of the screen, the objective card moved off it, and a dialog that was painting a stray box over the street is gone. The other three formats are untouched in portrait — they still ask you to rotate.

2026-09-23 · one-paw-motions

• ONE PAW: which way you move to fire a skill is now decided by that skill's own range. A shot that still reaches after you have backed away fires on the retreat, which is how a ranged pilot kites; a skill that reaches 110 units fires as you push in, the only direction that brings it into range instead of out of it. Ten of the nineteen pilots change; the nine already firing a long shot on the retreat are untouched.
• ONE PAW: a hook now fires as you push in rather than as you back off — it drags a rival toward you, so it is an opening, not an exit. Standing your ground always rallies the defence, and every pilot keeps all four of its skills on the four motions.

2026-09-23 · one-paw-aim

• ONE PAW now plays on the ordinary 1v1v1 crater instead of a map of its own: same triangle, same towers, same camps — a phone held upright simply sees a taller, narrower slice of it.
• ONE PAW skills no longer fire at nothing. A motion only charges when the cast would actually land on something within that skill's own range, so standing in an empty street no longer spends your ground skill or your Defence Rally, and the ultimate cannot be thrown at open dirt. A camp or a tower only counts once you are on top of it, not while you walk past.

2026-09-23 · one-paw

• New format: ONE PAW · ONE THUMB. The same 1v1v1 three-Core war, on the same crater map, played with one thumb on a phone held upright. Pick it in the format row; not ranked.
• It has no skill buttons at all. Your pilot attacks on its own, and each of its four skills answers a way of moving: back off, push in, stand still, or hold still and then drag and let go. A ring closes around your pilot while a motion charges, and breaking that motion at the last moment cancels the cast.
• Every skill is still aimed by the way you are moving, so every one of them can miss. The tutorial names which motion fires which of your own pilot's skills, and skill points spend themselves so nothing stops the match for a menu.

2026-09-23 · skill-pass

• Bela's monster hunts instead of standing guard: it chases enemy dogs far past the crater it landed in, and heels beside Bela whenever there is nobody left to fight.
• Prism's Time Fold now folds her straight onto her Hologram while one stands, wherever it is, and a pink rift bursts where she lands after 0.3s.
• Orion's Thruster Warhead is bigger and stuns enemy pilots caught in its blast. The farther it flew, the longer the stun: 0.4s up close, up to 1.5s at the end of its flight.
• Orion's Rocket Salvo missiles curve into any target they pass within 110 units of, so a near miss still connects.
• Volt's Chain Lightning bounces between up to 7 enemies instead of 5, and prefers pilots over the drones standing between them. His level-4 evolution is now Storm fork: two bolts that both keep bouncing, instead of a fork that lost the chain.

2026-09-22 · native-signin

• Server maintenance for the native app we are building: it can now sign in with Google, Discord and an emailed code. Nothing changes in this game.

2026-09-22 · host-handover

• When a player hosting an online match leaves and another player takes over, the match no longer stops with an error the first time an enemy skill warning appears.

2026-09-22 · godot-vfx

• Fifteen skills have new effects rendered from 3D scenes. Brutus's Hammer Cyclone is a real tornado and Jaws's Doombeam a glowing beam. Blasts: Wesley's Reactor Meltdown, Caramel's Demolition Blast and Tonho's Total Rupture explode from the ground, Jaws's Extinction Core goes up as a pink mushroom cloud, Prism's Imminent Collapse and Scrap's Blast Gyro burst in their colours, and Bela's Arcing Dart and Snow's Shatter shatter. Shots: Wesley's Plasma Charge is a fireball, Orion's Thruster Warhead and Rocket Salvo, Shade's Silent Killing Blow and Hot Dog's Psionic Lance fly as glowing bolts, and they burst where they hit. Hit areas are unchanged.

2026-09-21 · bela-monster

• Bela's ultimate, Call Companion, now crashes her monster down on the aim point: after a 0.6s warning ring it lands, damaging and stunning enemies inside for 1.2s. The monster is much bigger and tougher, and the cooldown is longer (35s instead of 20s).

2026-09-21 · jaws-charge

• Jaws can no longer walk while charging Doombeam, and its damage is lower: a full charge now doubles the hit instead of tripling it, and his basic attack deals 30 instead of 34.

2026-09-21 · loaf-requiem

• Loaf has a new ultimate, Nanodrone Requiem: after a 0.7s cast she releases 18 nanodrones in every direction that damage and slow enemies, then fly back to her and hit again on the way. It replaces Swarm Overdrive.
• Loaf's second skill is now Signal Swap: a magic orb that swaps her place with the first hero it touches, ally or enemy. It replaces Drone Shell.

2026-09-21 · no-click-move

• Clicking the map no longer walks your dog. On desktop you move with WASD; right-click only cancels a skill you are aiming. On phones you move with the joystick, and tapping the map only picks the enemy under your finger.

2026-09-21 · volt-lightning

• Volt's kit is rebuilt around lightning. His first skill is now Chain Lightning: an aimed bolt that bounces between up to 5 enemies, stunning each one (0.55s on heroes, 1s on drones and monsters). Each bounce deals 15% less damage and it never strikes the same enemy twice.
• Volt's ultimate is now Overcharge: for 8s he attacks 160% faster, deals 25% more attack damage and moves 40 faster, and every basic hit forks into bolts at 2 nearby enemies for half its damage. It replaces the map-crossing Grid Overload rail.
• Electric Jump is unchanged, but now leaves a lightning bolt between where Volt left and where he lands.

2026-09-21 · classic-seats

• In 5v5 CLASSIC, seats 7 to 10 no longer keep an old room's players: after leaving a full room, Play 5v5 fills them again, a rematch asks everyone to ready up, and friends' names in those seats show on every screen.

2026-09-21 · scrap-gyro

• Scrap has a new passive, Scrap Gyro: a saw gyro circles him and strikes whatever his hits strike, for 20% of his attack damage at his attack speed. It replaces the kill shield.
• Scrapyard Leap now pulls enemies in to Scrap's feet instead of pushing them away, so Blast Gyro and Thunder Hammer land right after it.
• Thunder Hammer: Scrap whips a fast spin with his hammer as the swing lands.

2026-09-21 · team-shield

• In 5v5 CLASSIC, Shield base now has one cooldown for the whole team: when a teammate uses it, everyone waits the full cooldown before the next one, so a team can no longer chain five protections back to back.

2026-09-21 · underdog-pact

• In 1v1v1 and 2v2v2, when one team runs away with the match, the team in second place gets an Underdog Pact: it is paid to help the last-place team instead of finishing it off.
• While the pact is on, killing a leader's hero near the last-place team's heroes or buildings pays a rescue bounty, the second-place team can clear the leader's drones pushing the last-place lane for 50% more gold, and killing a last-place hero pays half the usual gold.
• If the last-place team climbs back, every hero on the second-place team earns 150 gold and XP. Banners tell each team its role, and every hero follows the pact.

2026-09-21 · launch-format

• With 5v5 CLASSIC or 2v2v2 SQUAD picked, the big launch button now reads Play 5v5 (or Play 2v2v2) and starts that format. It used to search for a 1v1v1 match instead, since the online queue is 1v1v1 only.

2026-09-21 · tower-lock

• Tower and Core shots at a pilot can no longer miss: the shot follows the hero, so stepping aside does not dodge it. Shots at drones are unchanged.

2026-09-21 · big-jungle

• Jungle monsters and camp leaders now look twice as big, including their movement and attack animations. Their hitboxes are unchanged.

2026-09-21 · classic-5v5

• New 5v5 CLASSIC format for rooms and solo matches: two teams of five on a new square map with top, mid and bot lanes, jungle camps between them and a river of marginais across the middle. Pick it in the format row, then Play 5v5 or Play with friends; ranked Find match stays 1v1v1.
• Each lane has three towers per team. Break every tower in one lane and the enemy Core opens up. The Colossus waits in the top river pit, a relay in the bottom one, and the Ascension Uplink sits at the centre of mid.
• Every seat takes a classic role: mid, top, two in the bot lane and a jungler who clears camps between fights.

2026-09-21 · rally-splash

• Shield Base (Defense Rally) now makes your towers and Core hit in an area: while it is active, every shot also hits each enemy drone and pilot around its target, so a shielded base breaks a whole push at once.

2026-09-21 · evolution-tldr

• Level-4 evolution choices now say what they do at a glance: each card lists what you gain and what it costs, readable on phones without a hover tooltip.

2026-09-21 · lean-art

• Smaller downloads and less memory on phones: five effect and item images that were drawn far smaller than their files (upgrade cores, hit and kill cues, relay states, Tereza's skill effects and companion effects) now ship at the size the game shows them.

2026-09-21 · colossus-classic

• The Colossus is back to its original look: the basalt titan with glowing crystals on its back, in every attack, skill and hit reaction.

2026-09-21 · showcase-hd

• Sharper heroes on the home screen, hero collection and rewards: every dog and launch skin has new high-resolution art for its walk toward the camera. In-match art is unchanged.

2026-09-21 · showcase-center

• The selected hero on the home screen now stands in the middle of its panel, and hero art on the home screen and hero collection is sharper on high-resolution screens.

2026-09-21 · girl-dogs

• Three dogs are girls now: Bento is now Bela, Chico is now Chica, and Loaf stays Loaf. Their stories, kits and skins are unchanged.

2026-09-21 · resize-guard

• Fixed an error that could appear when the game window was resized or rotated while the game was still loading, most often on small phone screens.

2026-09-21 · result-pages

• Match results now show one screen at a time: your result and next-match tip, hero mastery, rewards and hero unlocks. Tap Next to continue; Play again and Back to home appear on the last screen, so nothing needs scrolling.
• The Report a problem button has been removed from match results.

2026-09-21 · roster-balance

• Roster balance: in thousands of test matches a few dogs won far more than their share. Shade, Caramel, Tonho, Bento and Wesley are toned down; Brutus, Prism, Scrap, Sarge, Sheik, Volt, Loaf and Chico are stronger.
• Shade: 176 speed (was 186), 24 basic damage (was 30) and 390 health (was 440). Grapnel Rush stuns for 0.2s (was 0.35s), Optical Camo lasts 2s (was 4s), and Laser Cut and Silent Killing Blow deal less damage.
• Caramel: 410 health (was 468) and 22 basic damage (was 24). Demolition Clamp stuns for 0.35s (was 0.5s), and Exo-arm Slam and Demolition Blast deal less damage.
• Tonho: Fissure deals less damage and stuns for 0.35s (was 0.5s). Total Rupture stuns for 1.4s (was 1.8s).
• Bento: Arcing Dart deals 35 base damage (was 44). Wesley: Plasma Charge deals 44 base damage (was 52).
• Brutus: 490 health (was 400) and 25 basic damage (was 21); Hammer Cyclone and Armored Charge hit harder. Prism: 450 health (was 366) and 32 basic damage (was 28); Hologram, Feedback Loop and Imminent Collapse hit harder.
• Scrap: 480 health (was 456), 27 basic damage (was 25) and a harder Thunder Hammer. Sarge: 26 basic damage (was 24), and Hull Bite and Pounce hit harder. Sheik: Rocket Knuckle hits harder.
• Volt: 345 health (was 324) and a harder Erratic Spark. Loaf: 380 health (was 336) and a harder Nanodrone Spiral. Chico: Frozen Point hits harder.

2026-09-21 · fight-finish

• Fights now finish instead of resetting. A hit from a rival hero stops your Core from repairing you for 4 seconds, and a full Core refill takes about 11 seconds instead of 6.
• Chase a hurt rival all the way back to their base and you rout them: you earn gold and half a kill's credit toward your team's final assault.
• Moving toward a wounded rival you hit in the last few seconds is 12% faster. Heroes below 30% health show a pulsing red ring.
• Sheik moves at 166 speed, up from 150.

2026-09-20 · skill-summaries

• Skill upgrades and evolutions now show role summaries such as Control, Shield and Dash, making choices easier to compare.
• Evolved skill art now follows the round mobile button instead of leaving a square over the sprite.

2026-09-20 · fullscreen-home

• The desktop lobby now fills the screen, including ultrawide displays. Controls remain reachable in shorter windows.

2026-09-20 · roster-animation

• All 19 heroes now have eight walking frames and four basic-attack frames in every direction, with improved outfit, weapon and ground alignment.

2026-09-20 · pack-voices

• New English and Brazilian Portuguese arena narration covers kills, towers, objectives and match results, with 86 recorded callouts.
• Relays, uplinks, supply pickups, the Vital Capsule, Colossus arrivals, wreck recovery, siege walkers, orbital strikes and core eliminations now have spoken announcements.
• Dog heroes bark during attacks, skills and celebrations. Narration respects mute and effects volume, and important calls take priority without overlapping.

2026-09-20 · mobile-audio

• Mobile skill and attack sounds now recover when you touch the controls or return to the game after an audio interruption.

2026-09-20 · mobile-aim

• Mobile skill previews stay aligned while you move, and returning your aiming thumb to the center keeps the last direction you chose.
• Starting a new basic attack shows its current target instead of briefly highlighting the previous attack target.

2026-09-20 · shield-cooldown

• Shield base now takes 108 seconds to recharge, up from 68.4 seconds. Its protection still lasts 7 seconds.

2026-09-20 · dog-only-roster

• Roster maintenance: removed obsolete non-dog heroes and their old art, descriptions and references. All 19 dog heroes remain available; existing dog unlocks and Merit are preserved.

2026-09-20 · faster-attacks

• All heroes attack 10% faster from the start of a match. Attack-speed items keep their existing bonuses.

2026-09-20 · engine-feel

• Movement now stops at the near side of walls even during a slow frame, with consistent corner sliding.
• Melee attacks without a target keep their cooldown ready. Damage numbers leave room for their impact animation.
• Dash and charged-beam previews follow their actual reach; blink markers show the safe landing point and ring previews leave their hollow center clear.
• Mobile previews show assisted targets before release. A second skill touch no longer steals your aim, and switching away cancels a held cast.

2026-09-20 · jungle-size

• Jungle monsters and camp leaders are 40% larger, including their movement and attack animations, making them easier to see on desktop and mobile. Combat hitboxes and Colossus size are unchanged.

2026-09-20 · next-match

• After your Core is destroyed, choose Next match to move on immediately or keep watching. Eliminated players can also leave from portrait mode on phones.

2026-09-20 · shield-hotkey

• Shield base now defaults to hotkey 4, after skills 1 and 2 and Ultimate on 3. Existing custom bindings are preserved; Reset Hotkeys restores this layout.

2026-09-20 · colossus-sprites

• Colossus keeps the same appearance while casting abilities and taking damage. Loading his sprite no longer briefly shows the old character.

2026-09-20 · level-pacing

• Leveling slows down after level 6, with progressively higher XP costs. Reaching level 18 now requires about 37% more total XP; the first ultimate keeps its current timing.

2026-09-20 · minion-teams

• Lane minions now wear blue, red or green armor matching their team, including siege units and health bars.
• Melee, ranged and siege minion sprites are 15% larger for easier reading. Movement, attack ranges and collision sizes are unchanged.

2026-09-20 · orion-animation

• Orion has smoother eight-frame walking and four-frame shooting in all directions, with consistent clothing and body size.
• Orion fires from his rifle barrel toward the aimed target. New attacks stay visible while taking damage or recovering from an older cast.

2026-09-20 · mobile-traps

• Quick taps now aim traps at nearby enemy heroes on mobile; drag to place them manually. Trap sprites are more than twice as large, and trigger areas are 60% wider with proper body-edge contact.

2026-09-20 · brutus-cyclone

• Brutus now spins his hammer for 3 seconds instead of throwing it. Move while damaging nearby enemies, surrounded by hurricane winds, debris and reactor sparks.
• Eight new spinning poses keep the hammer in his paws. Wide Cyclone increases the attack radius in exchange for weaker damage pulses.

2026-09-20 · hero-loading

• All 19 dog heroes now have illustrated loading screens matching their in-game appearance and weapons.
• Each visit randomly features one of your unlocked heroes, avoiding the previous screen. New unlocks join the rotation automatically.

2026-09-20 · gameplay-showcase

• The website trailer now shows moving heroes, aimed attacks, charged lasers, companion abilities and Colossus combat, with music and game sounds. These are staged in-game encounters; gameplay rules are unchanged.

2026-09-20 · skill-effects

• All 19 dogs have richer skill effects, with distinct trails, fragments and recovery animations.
• Pickles' ultimate now charges through converging coils and fires a bright rail discharge. Ice, fissure and energy beams have distinct effects while keeping their existing damage areas.

2026-09-20 · hero-combos

• HOT DOG's Psychic Trap now leaves a six-second mark on enemy heroes, and Psionic Lance consumes your marks for bonus damage. Dodge or block the lance, or wait out the mark.
• BRUTUS's Combat Overdrive immediately readies Recall Hammer for a second aimed throw. The throw still costs energy and starts its normal cooldown.
• Hero combo timing and counterplay notes are documented for the active dog roster.

2026-09-20 · selective-updates

• Maintenance: game updates are now published independently, with shared updates applied to the games that use them.

2026-09-20 · tutorial-completion

• The tutorial now ends with a simple completion message and a Continue button that returns home. Match stats, reward panels and the next-match prompt no longer crowd this screen.

2026-09-20 · dog-skill-art

• Brutus turns red-hot during Combat Overdrive and can keep moving and attacking after activation.
• Dog skill effects better follow their weapons and casting direction. Retired human portraits and fallback sprites have been removed.

2026-09-20 · dog-web-art

• Hero statistics now show only the 19 active dog heroes, with refreshed portraits for returning players.
• Both landing pages now show the current dog roster in screenshots, sprite previews, social cards and a new gameplay clip.

2026-09-20 · monster-follow-through

• Monster strikes now have a connected wind-up, small forward lunge and smoother return to stance. Lane creatures keep facing their attack through the final recovery pose.

2026-09-20 · new-dog-tips

• Try your newly unlocked dog with a short opening tip using its real starting skill. The tip clears after you cast, dismiss it, or read it for 12 seconds; urgent combat guidance takes priority.

2026-09-20 · monster-motion

• Four new creatures join the jungle: Cable Leech, Coil Beetle, Gutter Mantis and Ash Moth. Camps now have more distinct monster appearances.
• Monsters, lane units and the Colossus have fuller eight-frame movement and attack cycles, with clearer strikes and recovery poses.

2026-09-20 · match-focus

• Follow one clear objective with matching battlefield and minimap markers. Push with your drones, defend threatened structures, and retreat when health is low.
• A quieter combat HUD keeps active items and manual skill upgrades within reach. Open Gear & Details for your full inventory and skill guide; automation controls remain in Options.

2026-09-20 · hero-unlocks

• New players start with Pickles and Brutus. Finish a normal match, win or lose, to permanently unlock another dog hero. Short completed matches count too.
• See your next hero before playing and celebrate each unlock with its dog sprite, abilities and a Play as button. Existing heroes and Merit balances stay yours.

2026-09-20 · results

• Desktop match results now use wider reward cards and keep replay actions together.
• See match duration, kills, deaths and assists, clearer mastery progress, Merit earnings and permanent hero unlock progress. Play Again is the primary action.

2026-09-20 · surge-waves

• Siege drones never walk past a fight any more. They stop at every drone clash and shell it, final assault included, and reach a tower only when their wave wins the lane.
• Surge waves are how towers fall now: one team at a time, in rotation, sends a heavier wave with a siege drone marching behind it, announced on screen. Push with yours; clear theirs before it reaches your tower. From the final assault every wave is a surge and a team keeps it for five waves.

2026-09-20 · hud

• Clocks, scores and resources are easier to read, with clearer action buttons and improved HUD spacing on phones across our games.

2026-09-20 · mobile-controls

• Phone controls now release cleanly when you rotate the screen, switch apps or lose focus.
• Larger utility and skill-upgrade buttons make mobile taps more reliable. Manual upgrades sit apart from skill aiming.

2026-09-20 · open-cores

• Cores in first matches are no longer shielded until the final assault. A Core opens as soon as both of its towers fall, as in every other match.

2026-09-20 · dog-actions

• Dog attack poses now show the hit as damage fires, then settle back into their ready stance. Brutus now uses his new directional casting poses.
• Sarge's attack and cast sprites are cleaner, with stray divider lines removed.

2026-09-20 · skill-motion

• Skill effects now follow the casting hero, keeping their facing and recoil aligned with the body.
• Walking resumes smoothly after skills without resetting the stride.

2026-09-20 · vespera

• Welcome to Véspera: a city inspired by São Paulo, with its own place names. Explore Santa Brígida, Vila Aresta and Baixo Cedro around Largo do Trilho. Names now match across our games in English and Portuguese.

2026-09-20 · dog-sprites

• Brutus now falls over when defeated and keeps his feet planted while casting.
• Dogs now stay recognizable while their artwork loads, without briefly showing retired character designs.

2026-09-20 · websites

• Our game websites now explain how to play more clearly, with improved search previews, quick game facts and easier play access on phones.

2026-09-20 · first-wins

• Button 5 now says Shield base. Its help explains the seven-second protection for your towers and Core, and the button confirms when protection is active. Desktop players can click it or use the assigned hotkey.

• Your first three completed solo matches are more forgiving: rivals deal less damage and are easier to defeat, even when you are winning. The help gradually fades over the next five matches. Tutorials do not use up these matches.
• Desktop crowd control is now clearly labeled near the action: stun, silence, root, disarm and slow show their remaining time and explain which actions are blocked. Stun and silence also label your blocked skills.

2026-09-20 · game-discovery

• Discover all eight Westie Game Studios games from our landing pages, with direct play links and English and Portuguese descriptions.

2.3.2 · 2026-09-19-account-mastery

• Sign in to sync hero mastery and equipped mastery skins. Offline saves retry automatically; conflicting saves keep the highest progress for each hero.
• Report a problem from the match results screen. Review, copy or download a report before sending it.
• Tutorial milestones, queue exits and limited error categories help us improve the first-player experience.

2026-09-19 · steam-polish

• The guided tutorial now teaches buying equipment before pushing a tower, and keeps a harmless target available for your first skill.
• Returning host connections restore your controls. Stalled match recovery now ends with a clear message.
• Unavailable hero skins no longer appear as unlocked cosmetics. Your earned mastery is preserved.
• Music and effects have separate volume controls, saved on this device.
• Match results show your next mastery reward and where it is saved. After training, continue into your first match.

2026-09-19 · dog-wars-rules

• Shorter matches: the final assault now opens at 5:00 instead of 8:00 and a full match lasts about 7 to 8 minutes. Objectives arrive earlier and there is one Colossus window per match.
• Three skills per hero: two basic skills and the ultimate, on keys 1, 2 and 3. Each kit dropped its least distinctive skill.
• The roster narrows to 19 heroes. Twelve heroes retire; every retired hero you bought refunds 800 Merit. Caleb is a starter again and Glacius returns with a frost staff.
• Nicholas trades his blink for Grapnel Rush, a line that pulls him to the enemy it hits. Hollow no longer has a hook; Breach keeps his. Caleb's jump trail now burns.
• Noetic's Psychic Trap is bigger (90 units) and slows for 2.6s after its root, so the follow-up lands.
• Caesar fights at range now: a slower, longer basic attack from behind his time fields, with less hull.
• You can only attack the waves marching on your own team. Waves bound for the third team walk past, drawn faded.
• Waves have three drones instead of four, each sturdier and worth more, for the same total scrap and XP.
• Siege drones no longer slide through a fight: before the final assault they stop and shell it, and afterwards they ram through at half speed, damaging and shoving the drones in their way.
• Hits have weight: knockbacks are a short slide instead of a teleport, a pushed hero cannot act while sliding and is slowed afterwards, and melee and skill hits nudge their target.
• Reloading the page resumes your solo match where it was.
• New guided tutorial: a quiet training yard that teaches walking, attacking, a skill, taking a tower with your drones, killing an idle rival and destroying the Core, in that order.
• Every shop item is renamed after what it does: Speed Boots, Lifesteal Crown, Tank Hull and so on. Effects and prices are unchanged.
• A match announcer calls the start, kills, towers, the final assault, your Core under attack and the result, in English and Portuguese.
• Phones draw the battlefield at up to twice the resolution, so heroes and the city are sharp instead of stretched. Low quality, or a device that falls behind, returns to the old resolution and drops the HUD blur.
• The Santa Brígida cathedral and the Edifício Arco now stand beside the central crossing.
• Volt's Erratic Spark now kicks enemy heroes 80 units back along its flight.
• Prism's Hologram now appears where you aim, up to 420 units away, on an 8s cooldown instead of 16s. While it stands, Imminent Collapse explodes on the Hologram after 0.55s instead of at your aim.
• Sarge trades Hunger Sweep for Pounce: hold the key to crouch and release to leap toward your aim, 180 units on a tap and up to 470 after 1.1s. Enemies crossed are slowed and take up to 60% more damage at full charge. Pips over the hero show the charge.
• Loaf's Swarm Overdrive now changes his other skills while it lasts: Nanodrone Spiral fires 12 stronger drones instead of 8, and Drone Shell shields for double.
• Scrap is a melee hammer hero now, with more hull and no drones. Thunder Hammer stuns in an arc toward your aim and a landed stun throws a thunder gyro that spins for 2s; Blast Gyro speeds him up and explodes at his feet after 2s; Scrapyard Leap, his ultimate, jumps 380 units over walls and lands as a stunning slam.
• Bento's experiment is huge now: 60% more health, slower swings that hit an area, a ground pound that slows on every third swing, and a burst when it is killed.
• Melee dogs fight like dogs: their basic attacks are now a bite or a claw rake in the hero's colour, with a longer lunge, instead of a hammer, piston or dagger icon.
• Every hero's passive now shows at the top of the hero picker, and the dogs' passives have dog names (Mastiff Momentum, Locked Scent, Bulldog Grip...). Their rules did not change.
• Dogs sound like dogs: melee heroes snap or snarl when they bite and claw, and a falling hero whines. Big dogs sound lower, small dogs higher.
• The whole pack was redrawn meaner: scowls, scars and bared teeth on all nineteen dogs, in their walk, strike and cast art.
• Skill icons now show the dogs: every hero has new icons built from its own strike and cast poses, in each skill's colours, with a gold frame on the ultimate.
• Dogs now attack and cast in their own poses: every hero winds up, strikes and casts in all eight directions instead of sliding its walking body.
• Every hero is now a dog. The 19 heroes walk as upright dogs of the Underdogs cast, with new names, portraits and stories; their kits are unchanged. The old human skill poses and launch skins retire with the old bodies.

2026-09-16 · valentina-first

• Valentina now leads the hero picker and is the first hero a new pilot sees and plays. Her aimed shot, dash and shield are the clearest way to learn the game, so Tessa and her Westie come second.

2026-09-16 · combo-fields

• Shoot through your own field: a skill shot that crosses a damaging field you placed picks up that field's effect and hits 15% harder, and dashing through one spreads it 40 units at the cost of a second of its life.
• Reactor augments now run in ranked matches too: the same three choices at 0:30, 2:30 and 4:30 and the same single reroll. Only the guided tutorial goes without them.
• Orion's Thruster Warhead answers its own button in flight. Cast it again to detonate the missile where it is instead of where it was aimed.
• On phones the city steps back: the ground gives up some colour and contrast, the neon burns dimmer, and buildings fade earlier and further around a fight, so pilots, health bars and warnings are the brightest things on screen. Desktop is unchanged.
• A new guide card, AIM EVERYTHING, explains the rule the whole roster follows: every damaging skill is aimed and can miss, yours and theirs.
• Véspera is on Earth. The archive now places Véspera on Earth in 2187, inside the crater the Directorate dug over Largo do Trilho, with every match sold as a broadcast to the colonies. Same Cores, same Severance, same seal below.

2026-09-16 · round-thumb-controls

• On phones a skill on cooldown no longer draws a black square over its round button: the wait sweeps around the circle as a dial, so the skill art stays readable while it recharges.
• The basic attack button has new art — a heavier neon blade — sitting dead centre on the circle, with the readiness bar tucked under it instead of pushing the icon off centre.
• Skill and attack buttons now carry the city’s magenta neon instead of cyan. Gold still means your ultimate, and the ultimate ring finally lights up when it is ready.

2026-09-15 · sharper-skill-shots

• Heroes move 35% faster, and turbo tracks still add their +35% on top.
• Skill shots keep up: ability projectiles and hooks fly 25% faster over the same range, and ground-burst warnings are 25% shorter (Reactor Meltdown now lands after 0.45s, Thermite Bloom after 0.65s). Tooltips show the new timings.
• Long shots pay: straight skill shots and hooks deal up to 30% more damage to heroes the farther they travel before hitting, marked LONG SHOT.
• Piercing skill shots deal 20% more to each further hero they pass through, up to 60%, marked MULTI-HIT.
• Misses now read as misses: a skill shot that hits nothing leaves a faint puff and a soft whiff.
• Online matches: your hero's predicted movement now matches the host's speed, so it snaps back less.

2026-09-15 · first-match-director

• First matches keep a steady fight pace: when a match falls behind about one kill every 50 seconds, rivals hunt each other more often and stay in those fights longer.
• New players land their first kills: from 1:30 your hits on rivals deal extra damage until your third kill, and a badly hurt rival is easier to finish while fights are scarce.
• A new player who has died twice takes half damage from rivals (a quarter after three deaths), and earns extra XP while behind the leading hero or below level 6 before 3:00.
• If you have barely fought by 4:00, rivals challenge you twice as often and keep the fight going until you are badly hurt, so every first match has fights you can take part in.
• In first matches the final assault builds up over two minutes instead of one and a half, a team with many kills no longer gets stronger drones, and any tower falling between 8:00 and 9:00 puts every remaining tower on guard for a few seconds, so towers stop falling all at once right after 8:00.
• Towers fall before the final assault: if no tower is down by 5:00, siege drones march past creep fights straight to the towers until two have fallen. Siege drones also come every 60 seconds instead of 90.
• In first matches Cores stay shielded until the final assault at 8:00, so a match never ends in the first minutes.

2026-09-15 · finish-and-push

• Rivals finish their fights: a hero below about a third of its health gets chased down instead of escaping.
• Rivals whose drones are already hitting an enemy tower stay and push instead of leaving to hunt, so towers fall before the final assault again.
• Rivals stay in a fight longer before running, so more fights end in a kill.

2026-09-15 · no-runaways

• More fights: every 40 seconds one rival leaves its lane to hunt another, so matches have clashes across the map instead of quiet farming.
• Rivals that go easy on new pilots can no longer run away with the match: once one is three levels ahead of you, it earns half the scrap and XP from drones, camps and kills on you.
• While your first rivals go easy on you, the Colossus hunts them and only turns on you if you attack it. Its area attacks still hit anyone standing in them.

2026-09-15 · first-fights

• Your first matches have fights. Practice bots that go easy on new pilots now fight back when you hit them, when you pull ahead in levels or kills, or when you are winning the trade, and every minute one of them comes looking for you. They still miss you more often.
• The final assault builds up over ninety seconds: siege drones sent at 8:00 hit structures for a fifth of their damage and reach full strength by 9:30, so you can defend before your towers fall together.
• Levels 2 to 8 need 70 more XP each. Later levels are unchanged.
• New pilots get a warning when the Colossus is hunting them or they are hurt beside it.

2026-09-15 · rivals-fight

• Bots now fight. They take trades they can win, poke you with ready skill shots, and jump on two rivals who are brawling at low health. They no longer stand at a tower's edge or dive under enemy towers without their drones. New pilots' bots still miss you more often and never dive you.
• The drone wave that wins the central crossing surges on: 30% faster and 30% tougher against tower fire for 30 seconds.
• Every hero kill sends a bounty drone down the fallen hero's lane for the killer's team.
• The final assault is earned: kills, relay captures and tower damage make your siege drones tougher and stronger than your rivals'. Killing a siege drone near your own towers pays 60 scrap and 90 XP.
• Drone XP is shared when rival pilots stand around the same drone, so the crossing is no longer a free-for-all XP fountain. Squad allies never split XP with each other. Early levels take a little longer.
• The "outnumbered" tip now appears only when both rivals are hitting you or your health is low, and tells you to stay behind your drones.
• Your hero now stands on a bright team-colour ring with a marker above the name, and in crowded fights it draws on top while nearby units dim slightly.

2026-09-15 · match-moments

• Big kills now get a callout in the centre of the screen with both portraits: FIRST BLOOD, DOUBLE KILL and TRIPLE KILL (two or three kills within ten seconds), KILLING SPREE, DOMINATING and UNSTOPPABLE at 3, 5 and 7 kills in a row, and SHUTDOWN when a streak of three or more is ended. Your own kills show a short YOU KILLED line; everyone else's plain kills stay in the kill feed. Guests see the same callouts as the host.
• Ending a streak now pays a shutdown bounty on top of the comeback reward: 60 scrap for a streak of three, 60 more per extra kill, capped at 240. A dominant enemy is now also the most valuable target.

2026-09-15 · more-games

• The Punk Dog Wars website now ends with the other free games set in the same crater: Underdogs, Off the Leash and Old Dog, New Tricks.

2026-09-15 · bigger-crater

• Véspera is 30% larger in every direction. Lanes, marginais, camps, Metrô platforms, relays, the Colossus pit, the capsules and the Ascension Uplink keep their places but sit further apart, so nothing stands on top of anything else; hero speed, attack ranges and sprite sizes are unchanged, so walks take longer and the jungle has real room. The two capsules moved out of the inner towers' reach, the Santa Brígida cathedral and Edifício Arco keep their spots beyond the marginais, and the Dreadnought crash ring grows with the map.

2026-09-15 · skill-shots

• Every damaging ability is now a skill shot: you aim it, and a moving target can dodge it. Instant area blasts now land after a visible warning and deal 20% more damage. Reactor Meltdown, Demolition Blast, Final Verdict and Total Rupture deal 35% more in the center.
• New shapes: Reactor Jump, Blazing Leap and Cutter Step leave damaging trails. Magnet Lockdown, Foundry Collapse, Magnetic Crash, Noise Wave and Dismantle are thrown. Devour, Corrosion and the Hologram tear hit in a cone. Blade Rotor is now Rotor Throw, Personal Storm is now Storm Lance, Grid Overload is a rail that crosses the map, Broadcast Requiem and Nanodrone Spiral fire forward, and no missile homes any more.
• Damaging fields arm 0.4s after they land. Hold a skill key to see its exact shape and release to cast; Esc or right click cancels. On touch, a tap casts where your joystick points and a drag aims.
• Rivals lead moving targets and step out of your warnings. The end card shows your skill-shot accuracy as AIM.

2026-09-15 · turbo-overlaps

• Turbo tracks now grant +35% movement speed, and a +35% SPEED tag beside your hero shows while the boost is active.
• Metrô platforms, capsules and the Colossus pit moved so they no longer overlap the marginais, the lanes or each other, and rocks no longer sit on top of objectives.

2026-09-15 · sao-paulo-2187

• Downtown gets its 2187 retrofit: every building now carries air-conditioning units, cable bundles, antennas and dishes; shop signs are written in your language (bakery, pharmacy, lottery, bar 24 hours); and each district builds in its own style: the old centre around Santa Brígida, the railway quarter of Vila Aresta with the Estação de Vila Aresta, the modernist Baixo Cedro. A Copan-style megastructure rises between the southern lanes.
• The marginais are now the Elevado do Cobre: an elevated deck with parapets, pillars and dim billboards on the far rail. Tropical rain alternates with the dust storm (dust at 4:00, rain at 9:00, then every five minutes) with wet reflections. Metro entrances stand beside every outer tower and street furniture lines the pavements. All of it is decoration you walk through: nothing is hidden and nothing changes gameplay.

2026-09-14 · marginais

• The turbo ring is gone. Three straight express corridors, the marginais, now run through the gaps between the lanes: worn bus-corridor asphalt with zipline masts along both edges, and the same +25% speed. They stop short of the lanes, so there is no highway from base to base.
• Relays, Metrô gates, the Colossus pit, capsules and the Ascension Uplink now sit along the marginais, and all jungle camps moved past them toward the map edge, so the fight spreads over the whole crater instead of the centre. Turbo track rewards colour the studs and mast lights.

2026-09-14 · metro-pads

• Teleport pads are now Véspera Metrô boarding platforms. The sign colour shows where each pad goes, the arrows on the grate point toward the real destination from every gate, and each pad sits on the side its destination lies. Teleport timing and rules are unchanged.

2026-09-14 · starters

2026-09-14 · evolution-icons

• Level-4 evolution choices now show your own hero performing the evolved skill, painted in the same style as the ability bar, instead of a generic mechanic symbol. The chosen evolution also replaces the skill's icon on your bar. No gameplay changes.

2026-09-14 · site-screenshots

• The website HUD gallery now shows Véspera instead of the retired lunar map. No gameplay changes.

2026-09-14 · soundtrack

• Eight new songs to earn by playing: two menu themes, three combat tracks and three Colossus battle themes, all new Véspera night takes. Menu and combat songs unlock as you complete matches (2, 5, 12, 15 and 30); Colossus themes unlock after your team slays the Colossus 1, 5 and 15 times. A freshly unlocked song plays first the next time its moment comes.
• The end-of-match rewards panel now shows the song you just earned or the next one on the way, and Skins → Match rewards lists every soundtrack milestone with its progress. Game Options → Music counts your unlocked songs.

2026-09-14 · trailer-recut

• The website trailer is re-recorded: heroes now walk and fight across the crater crossing instead of standing still. No gameplay changes.

2026-09-14 · squad

• New 2v2v2 SQUAD format for rooms and solo matches: two pilots per Core, so a friend (or an ally pilot) fights beside you instead of against you. Pick it under PLAY WITH FRIENDS. Ranked Find match stays 1v1v1.
• New pilots now start with Tereza and her Westie instead of Orion. If you already had Orion, it stays yours.
• In your first solo matches, rivals no longer pile onto you two at a time; they spread out until the pacing ladder decides you are ready.
• New Gameplay option: hide my nickname. Other players then see your seat label instead of your name in rooms, scoreboards and match records.

2026-09-14 · mobile-readability

• On phones the camera is closer and follows the direction you move, so your hero is larger and easier to track. Health bars and names above every unit are bigger on touch, and lane creeps now show their team colour. Heroes and jungle camps are slightly larger everywhere. Hitboxes and attack ranges are unchanged.

2026-09-14 · solo-pacing

• Solo matches now pace themselves to how your recent games have gone, so the first matches ease you in and later ones keep pushing. Nothing to configure.

2026-09-14 · city-icons

2026-09-14 · creep-colors

• Lane creeps now wear their team colour on the whole hull, not just the visor glow, so blue, red and green waves are easy to tell apart at a glance.

2026-09-14 · options

• Game Options is now organized into Audio, Display, Controls and Gameplay. Reactor augments open from their own HUD button, Hero Guide & Practice sits beside Practice Arena on the home screen, and account deletion moved into the pilot profile.

2026-09-14 · friends

• New FRIENDS entry in the home menu: share your friend code, accept requests, see which friends are online and join a friend's room in one click.
• The pilot profile panel on the home screen now has the same framed border as the other command panels.

2026-09-14 · share-card

• Links to Punk Dog Wars now show a new preview when shared in chats and social apps: a close-up hero fight with a clear play-free button, in English or Portuguese. No gameplay changes.

2026-09-14 · gameplay-trailer

• The website now has a 42-second gameplay trailer with sound: real fights in the crater city with hero and ability captions, the game's own effects and the Colossus soundtrack. No gameplay changes.

2026-09-14 · solid-cores

• Cores are now solid: heroes, creeps and summons walk around them instead of over them. The speed ring is repainted in the city charcoal, magenta and amber, rocks no longer sit on it, and music loads faster in the browser.

2026-09-14 · site-hardening

• Security maintenance: the website no longer serves server code, build tools or art generation notes. No gameplay changes.

2026-09-14 · pop-up-language

• Combat pop-ups and pause banners such as KILLED!, SHIELD, TRAP ARMED and HOOKED! now appear in your chosen language instead of always in Portuguese. The rest of this release is code cleanup with no gameplay changes.

2026-09-14 · hero-names

2026-09-14 · mobile-zoom

• On phones, holding the joystick and a skill button at the same time no longer zooms the page. The movement joystick is also a little bigger.

2026-09-13 · neon-sao-paulo

• The battlefield is now Véspera, a São Paulo-inspired city: buildings you walk around, machine Cores, kiosk turrets, city robots and a basalt Colossus.
• All 30 heroes have a new look and a new launch skin unlocked at max mastery (1,800 XP). Gold mastery skins are retired.
• The HUD moves to charcoal metal with magenta edges. Older game builds can no longer join matches with this version.

2026-09-13 · hud-compact

• The desktop combat HUD is shorter, so you see more of the battlefield. Status effects like shields now float just above the panel.

2026-09-13 · pilot-rank

• Your rank, MMR and wins/losses now show directly in the home header, with a ring around your medal tracking progress to the next rank reward. No need to open the pilot profile.

2026-09-13 · tutorial-guide

• The tutorial guide now disappears after you finish its three basic actions and returns only when a new tip or warning needs your attention.

2026-09-13 · test-cleanup

• Lighter automated release checks replace the heavy browser test suite. This maintenance release makes no gameplay changes.

2026-09-13 · sprite-scroll

• Swipes over hero sprites now scroll the home screen and skin collection on mobile, including skin previews.

2026-09-13 · home-header

• The home screen header on phones no longer leaves an empty gap above the title; Fullscreen and Options now sit beside it.

2026-09-13 · maintenance

• Reorganized recent patch notes in English and Portuguese and tidied shared interface styles. This maintenance release makes no gameplay changes.

2026-09-13 · responsive-checks

• Expanded screen-size checks help keep home navigation and combat controls reliable across phones, tablets and desktop windows.

2026-09-13 · hud-controls

• Desktop automation controls stay clear of abilities even when translated labels wrap. Find Match remains visible in compact home layouts.

2026-09-13 · mobile-hud

• A slightly smaller mobile combat HUD leaves more room for the action, with a tighter skill layout, smaller minimap and vitals panel, and touch controls that remain easy to tap.

2026-09-13 · mobile-sword

• The mobile Attack button now uses a sword icon instead of text, with its cooldown bar and accessible labels preserved.

2026-09-13 · typography

• Consistent typography now covers menus, settings, controls, combat labels, results, share images and public pages, with clearer small text in English and Portuguese.

2026-09-13 · responsive-screens

• Find Match stays visible in short windows. Home navigation, hero selection and patch notes now fit small screens and phone safe areas more reliably.

2026-09-13 · landing-gameplay

• The website now features fresh 1080p gameplay, current battlefield features, landscape phone captures and clearer guidance for your first match.

2026-09-13 · battlefield-scale

• A slightly wider camera view shows more of the battlefield, while larger heroes and lane creeps stay easy to read. Hitboxes and attack ranges are unchanged.

2026-09-13 · mouse-aim

• Ranged mouse attacks now follow the cursor, including while holding fire and in online matches. Release the mouse button to stop firing; touch attacks keep their target selection.

2026-09-13 · solo-kits

• Lumen keeps his eight-drone spiral and gains personal shielding, Beacon Snare and Swarm Overdrive for 1v1v1 combat. Overdrive readies a paid spiral and makes its drones pierce enemies.

2026-09-13 · map-skins

• Lunar Survey and Relic Moon now carry their materials across 3D lane decks, crater rims, rocks and wreckage, with matching angled previews in the skin collection.

2026-09-12 · uppercase-actions

• Action buttons now use consistent uppercase labels in English and Portuguese, including menus, dialogs and changing action states.

2026-09-13 · 1.0.0-camera75

• Refined home navigation, a brighter gold match button and a compact desktop combat dock bring the orbital HUD concept closer to the game. Core cards now show live health percentages.
• The 3D camera now looks down at 75 degrees for a higher, more overhead view of the battlefield.
• Stronger safeguards prevent repeated match-rating awards. Launch monitoring now highlights result failures and slow matchmaking.
• 3D terrain remains the default, including when opening older links that requested 2D terrain.
• Objectives now follow a shared match schedule: relays, an XP uplink, supply drops and Colossus, with warnings and a next-event countdown.
• Final assault begins at 8 minutes with siege drones and rising structure damage. Victory still requires destroying enemy cores.
• Nine heroes have reworked signature abilities, including returning hammers, execution rails, delayed blasts and rescue shielding, with matching skill artwork.
• Magnetic turbo tracks grant 25% movement speed. Match rewards include mastery progress toward cosmetic unlocks.
• Further balance adjustments cover heroes, jungle rewards, structures and items. Ion Broadcast no longer reveals enemies.
• Clearer combat text, movement and attack markers, and shields that follow their owners improve combat feedback.
• Cached scenery reduces rendering work, and Auto quality adjusts decorative effects under sustained load. An optional PixiJS renderer is available.
• The home screen remembers your selected hero and shows the online player count. Match results focus on MMR and hero mastery; gold skin previews match live sprites.
• Hero names have been revised, and the first-match tutorial has clearer guidance and mobile layouts.
• Roster expanded with Tessa with Westie, Dreadmaw and rocket brawler Bruce.
• Bruce now fights with a ranged rocket glove and powered flight; Dreadmaw skill sprites and Tessa effects have been refined.
• Hero balance updated across the roster, with role-based movement speeds, consistent stat growth and about 20% more base mana regeneration.
• Ranged heroes have more basic attack reach; towers are tougher, with updated reach and coordinated siege pressure.
• Lane creeps focus on lane units and structures. Jungle monsters have larger sprites and attack animations; Colossus is larger with aligned hitboxes.
• Ten optional signature hero evolutions and automatic companion skills add new combat choices, with compact resource and cooldown displays.
• Reactor and skill variation choices are more compact; reactor selection closes after choosing. Reactor icons and skill effects have been refreshed.
• Upgrade Cores modify owned gear at your base. The shop shows eligible upgrades and clearer component costs.
• Detailed hero and ability sprites, clearer proportions, visible hero particles, stun stars, animated towers and throne energy improve battlefield readability.
• Camera framing and world scales have been adjusted. Jungle travel pads are subtler and farther from lanes, with larger activation areas.
• Cleaner responsive HUD and settings, fewer routine notices, improved mobile layouts and protection against accidental double-tap zoom.
• Hero selection now includes playstyle and mechanic filters, plus an optional localized lore archive with mobile-friendly navigation.
• The tutorial follows your actions and includes an optional feature tour. Friend invites are more direct, and match history shows player names and hero icons.
• New game sound effects, distinct quieter hero attacks and a Westie bark. Music has evolving arrangements, a more spacious combat track and a tense Colossus encounter theme.
• Fixed music looping, first-cast skill animation loading, hero portrait flashes and rival attacks interrupting walking animations.
• Landing pages now show the full roster and current gameplay. A public account data deletion request page is available.