u/SimesBis

This update is entirely about mobile. Short version: a chunk of the audience was playing a quietly broken game, and the one channel that would've told us was itself broken on their device. Fixed all of it.

The big stuff

• You could barely see your own soldier on a phone. The camera showed the same fixed slice of the map on every device — on a phone that meant your soldier rendered at around 6 pixels tall. Phones now zoom in to keep everyone a legible size. Desktop is pixel-for-pixel unchanged.
• The UI stopped fighting itself. The team roster, the touch controls, even your own virtual joysticks were rendering on top of the tactical map. The death screen's respawn timer collided with the feedback box. The victory screen's shareable replay clip — the whole point of that screen — was squeezed into a thin, half-height strip. All decluttered; before/after below.
• Phones can leave feedback now. The suggestion box was silently disabled on every touch device to dodge a layout bug, so it's been invisible to mobile players since launch. That bug's fixed — it's back, and it actually fits on every screen size now.

Fixes

• Landing page buttons were too small to tap reliably on touch.
• Victory screen buttons overlapped on some phones.
• Match replay captures could get corrupted if read mid-write.

Coming next
Death-screen votes are still the roadmap — rate what you want built next.

Play: https://crowdwar.io — no download, no account. Suggestion box is in-game (death screen) — it actually shows up on phones now.

This one is mostly about a single fix that changes how the whole game feels.

Hit registration is fixed at the root. A bunch of you reported shots going clean through people, and you were right. It was never the hitboxes: your screen shows every enemy a fraction of a second in the past, and the server was checking your shot against where they are NOW. Strafing targets were nearly unhittable by aiming at what you see. The server now rewinds every target to the exact moment you fired, so if your crosshair was on them on your screen, the hit counts. This is the same class of netcode big shooters use, adapted for our projectiles. It works on mobile too.

The balance pass you voted for (death-screen polls + suggestion box):

• Bullets fly faster. Less leading your shots, snappier gunfights.
• The pistol got real. More damage and a faster trigger. Still the starter gun, no longer a wet noodle.
• Bots miss like humans now. Their aim error grows with distance, so they stop sniping weapon crates from across the map. Up close they still fight.
• Factories restock faster. Less running around starving for ammo.

Artillery got the cinematic treatment. The warning ring now ticks down to a landing ping on the exact impact spot, then the shell screams in from off screen and slams into it: fireball, shockwave, dirt and sparks, smoke plumes that drift for seconds, and craters that scar the battlefield behind you. Nearby hits shake your screen. Same artillery, it just finally FEELS like artillery.

You can remap fire now. Settings → keybinds → FIRE WEAPON: bind any key (space, whatever feels right) and hold it to shoot. Left-click always works too. Good for trackpad players especially.

Small but requested: the suggestion box on the death screen no longer closes mid-sentence when you respawn. Click into it and it stays until you're done.

Play: https://crowdwar.io — no download, no account. Suggestion box is in-game (death screen).

You asked for mags more than anything else — top of the feature vote, and all over the suggestion box ("mags", "changable mags", rifle mag voted "too few"). We heard you. This update is mags.

The big stuff

• Carry spare magazines. You now hold two full mags instead of one — a loaded mag plus a reserve on your belt. Run dry and you top up from your own reserve instead of sprinting to a crate every 20 shots. Crates still matter; you're just not helpless between them.
• Tactical reload on [R]. Reload before you're empty — it only pulls the rounds you're missing, so nothing's wasted. You can't fire mid-swap, so do it in cover, not mid-duel. Heavier guns reload slower.
• Ammo reads mag / reserve. The HUD shows what's in the gun and what's left on your belt, and turns red before both run out.

Fixes

• Your own shots landing but doing no damage should now actually be fixed — the earlier pass missed the exact case most of you hit.
• Mobile: your soldier finally moves the instant you touch, instead of a beat behind.

Coming next
Build-and-destroy cover is next up on the vote board — rate it on the death screen.

Play: https://crowdwar.io — no download, no account. The suggestion box is in-game (death screen); mags came straight out of it.

Game Title: CrowdWar

Playable Link: https://crowdwar.io

Platform: Browser (desktop + mobile)

Description: 100v100 top-down war. Two armies, one continuous front line that bends based on where each side is actually pushing , first breakthrough into the enemy base wins the match. Bots fill every open slot so it's always a full 200-player war; every human who joins replaces a bot. Carry ammo crates to the front to keep your team armed, call in artillery strikes, defend with turrets, check the live tactical map. No download, no account.
You're in the fight in about 5 seconds.

Free to Play Status: Free to play, no ads, nothing to buy

Involvement: Solo developer. Used an AI coding assistant while building , no generative-AI art or assets, all visuals are procedural canvas code.