Status report 2026.06.22: the mobile arena overhaul

The mobile battle experience was rebuilt from the ground up, plus a wave of combat, clan and economy fixes.

The mobile battle experience has been rebuilt from the ground up, plus a wave of combat, clan, and economy fixes.

Mobile Arena (rebuilt)

All-new battle HUD: the 3D fight now fills the whole screen with a clean overlay on top, instead of the old squished half-canvas with tabs underneath.
Mech bar: enemy mechs line the left edge; your own faction’s mechs fan out from a tap button in the bottom-right, each with its portrait and HP/shield gauges.
Mech info card: tap any mech to focus it: HP, shield, abilities, pilot, and (for player mechs) who deployed it. During the pre-battle intro you just get the focused card.
Spectator abilities: now a right-edge rail of hexagon pips showing live prices and charge progress.
Tug of War: a top pop-up that takes over when a round is live, replacing the old faction-standings strip.
Floating chat: an ephemeral chat feed + compose bar over the arena; tap a player’s name to start an Emoji War and stake NXR on them.
Camera: orbit and pinch-zoom, anchored on whichever mech you’ve focused.
Aim in 3D: Airstrike / Nuke / Repair targeting now happens right on the 3D battlefield (the old 2D minimap modal is gone).
Polish: circle buttons, donut charge rings, a selection ring on only the mech you’ve focused, a slim top bar with the battle number + your wallet, and shared HUD chrome that matches desktop.

Real mech portraits: every mech now shows a rendered picture of its actual chassis wearing its actual skin (player-built and generated mechs included), not a generic silhouette.
Meatier melee: slashes reach further and last longer, and the slash now lines up properly with the swing.
Smoother dodging: heavy mechs no longer shuffle on the spot while weaving.
Storm sense: mechs flee the closing storm instead of standing on the edge bleeding out.
Repair crate now heals 30% of a mech’s max HP (was a flat 300).
Balance: BC (Enforcer) house mechs move twice as fast.
Fixed: a deployed mech now fights for its owner’s current faction instead of a stale stamp.
Fixed: mechs no longer vanish from the arena mid-fight (crash-consistent battle lifecycle).
Fixed: the empty-arena bug where a brief storage hiccup could start a battle with no mechs on the field.
Fixed: a crash on the 3D views on mobile Safari.

Clans are here (v1): create, join, leave, and view your clan and its members. Your deployed mechs wear your clan tag.
Faction lock: your faction is now locked once you pick it.
Canon names: factions use their canonical names now (ZHI is Zenkoku Heavy Industries).

Fixed: faction backing now respects the 5,000 NXR per-battle cap: MAX fills in 5,000 instead of your whole balance and bouncing, and the amount field can finally be cleared and retyped.
Fixed: the guaranteed-floor top-up on a winning back now actually pays out.
Fixed: a “charged but no skin” bug in the buy flow.
Can’t afford it? the Buy button is now disabled in the shop and on crates, instead of letting you fail at checkout.
More reliable auctions: if a skin fails to generate for one chassis, that day’s auction is skipped and retried rather than failing to start.

Fixed: duplicate deploy / post-battle toasts: notifications no longer fire twice.

Faction battle music: each faction has its own combat theme and victory outro; ZHI now leans into taiko drums and futuristic synths.
New brand mark: a single pulse-logo across the app.
Minimap colours units by faction instead of all-grey.

Spotted something off? Drop it in Discord: playtest feedback is shaping every one of these.