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Shields up, sweet dreams 😴

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

🧬 New mutations

  • 😴 Donotdisturbus, Filterbubblus and Guardian Angelus put one of your hotspots and everything hanging on it under a shield like on your very first day: nobody can attack it, not even while you sleep.
  • 🗡️ Attack from a shielded territory and its shield is gone; a harmful card ends every shield of yours.
  • 🏖️ Off on holiday? Guardian Angelus is also waiting for you in the shop, one for each of your hotspots.
  • ⚔️ No shield in the middle of a war: whoever just took a cell from a stranger or lost one to them fights it out first.
  • ⏳ Capsid queue: already cracking one? Tap another and it lines up behind it. Once the shell breaks, the next one gets going by itself, even while you're offline. From evolution 2 you get a spot, more come as you evolve, and the Ghost Train doubles them.

💪 Stronger strain

  • 🔨 Hammer time: tap your capsid open as fast as you like. Every tap counts and the show speeds up, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh. Grey takes 2 taps, green 3, blue 4, purple 5.
  • 🧽 Eraserus is an attack now: whoever erases is at war afterwards, just like after a conquest.
  • 📖 Collecting Fever and Cocktail now want the new cards too for gold.
  • 🔮 We fine-tuned how capsids spawn.

🩹 Bugs in quarantine

  • 📵 A block never hits your hotspot anymore: Dead Zone Fever and Brain Freeze may land right next to it, but its veins keep flowing, and your network no longer withers because of a dead zone next door.
  • 🐉 Dragon Flu and Eraserus only reach enemy cells right next to your network now: nobody nests out of nowhere next to a hotspot and wipes it out in seconds anymore.
  • 📬 Veins ×2 and Inflow multiply a stream only once now: stacking Pneumaticus and friends in a row made viruses grow without end, now it stays at double.
  • 🏷️ Cards from your swarm now show up for the friend they help: the sticker on their cell, with the ring of the time left, even after the map reloads.
  • 🐢 On slow graphics chips the start screen now waits until your device has the graphics ready, instead of freezing after your first hotspot. The very first start may take a moment.
  • 👀 Back from another tab, a capsid's shell shows what's really inside again instead of already looking full, and the ghost cell hint fits in its window again.

Stay contagious! 🦠 Your Mad Scientist 🧑‍🔬

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BUILD 2026-10 ALPHA V0.8.1226 · #124739ce