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Withering cells, goals and ice skates ⛸️

Lab report 🔬 Our virus has mutated again. Here is what changed in this strain:

🧬 New mutations

  • ☀️ Sunshine like in a diorama: by day the real sun stands over your hotspot and wanders across the sky. Your cells, your hotspot virus and even the capsids cast shadows that turn with the time of day, longer in the morning, shorter at noon. Rather without? Switch off “Shadows” under Settings → Game.
  • 🥀 Withering you can see: a cell that withers turns pale and dried up, and at night it only glows faintly.
  • 🎯 Always a goal in sight: in your first days the game always shows your next goal, a capsid nearby, the next place in the ranking or the next evolution, with a button that takes you straight there.
  • ✂️ Cutting explains itself: the first time one of your veins lurks, the game tells you when it strikes and how to cut it with the scissors.
  • 🫙 Full to the brim: when all your cells are full, the game tells you once that your hotspot is working for nothing and that new veins change that.
  • 📣 Capsids call out to you: in your first days "Get me!", "Crack me!" or "Tap me!" hovers above them, and a tap cracks them right away.
  • 👆 One tap is enough on your phone: tap a free field next to your network and the vein grows straight from your cell beside it. If several of your cells border it, tap the right one first. It works at the end of a ghost chain too: a tap next to it paints it further.
  • 🥼 Dr. Virus guides you through your first steps: a little virus in a lab coat and nerdy glasses sits on every hint, blinking and bobbing, and the hints are bigger and easier to read.
  • 🚚 Stock moves up: whatever a cell has above its hold mark now travels forward with your supply, the cell furthest back gives first. Everything reaches your front, nothing piles up at the back.
  • 🖱️ On your PC just like on your phone: click your cell, then a field next to it, and the vein grows. If only one of your cells borders it, a single click is enough.
  • 💡 The game explains itself step by step: the bigger your network gets, the more Dr. Virus shows you, from invasion and “Collect here” to infecting your friends, plus a little film on how to drag. Whatever he means glows golden, and a tick says “got it”.

💪 Stronger strain

  • ⛸️ The ice skates now sit on the feet: every virus with legs wears one on each foot, the spider a whole eight.
  • 💸 Not enough viruses for a vein? The message now says what it costs and how many your cell has, and the very first learning step names the price.
  • 📖 The help now explains where to cut veins and what a vein costs on each terrain.
  • 🎓 The first steps explain more: how your cells fill up, where your viruses go while you crack a capsid, what comes after the first steps and why every branch splits the flow.
  • 🧬 Evolution is rebalanced: the first stages need a few more cells, the middle ones come sooner.
  • 📌 Swarm board: the menu on a member's photo takes you to their hotspot and always fits on the screen.
  • 🥇 Your evolution at a glance: it now sits as a golden number on the ghost up top, on your phone too, and the goal to the next one shows length and ghost cells with their signs.

🩹 Bugs in quarantine

  • 🐛 On some older phones the graphics crashed at startup. Now the device remembers and starts with simple graphics.
  • 🌆 Road numbers are readable at dusk too: no more light text on an almost white box.
  • 🔄 When you open the game, a new version now loads by itself right away. Some phones used to keep playing the old one for a while after a restart.
  • 🖥️ On some laptop screens the interface broke off after your first vein. Fixed.

Stay contagious! 🦠 Your Mad Scientist 🧑‍🔬

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BUILD 2026-10 ALPHA V0.8.1190 · #e524fb86