The battle got a new look, and the app got its voice back. Fights now play in portrait, so you can pick up a show without turning your phone sideways. Turn it anyway and the stage opens up wide. Health and BPM meters are drawn by hand now: crooked boxes filled in with marker, the way the rest of the game looks. The tutorial fights on the same stage as a real show, instead of its own screen of roster cards. Sound everywhere, not just mid-fight: button clicks, menu stings, and Maestro Magnus has a theme. Your bandmates show up as their actual photos on stage instead of emoji. New music from nopeople, including "Outside My Head", plus seven songs from Annie Babie on the green-room radio.

Inferno joins the starter bands. The hip-hop pick in the tutorial used to be a placeholder crew with invented names and no faces. It's a real act now: R1xxy, GeoFire, JVN, and D3V, four rappers and producers from Inferno Records, with real photos. More tutorial: Maestro Magnus asks your name in the intro and uses it from there on, synergy kicks in the moment your band first fields three of the same genre instead of waiting on a full lineup, and you can tap any new bandmate's reveal card to open their spotlight. The battle radio plays a whole setlist now, crossfading between songs instead of looping one track for the entire fight. You can delete your account from Settings. It asks for your password first and spells out what goes away. New logo and app icon: a stamped guitar pick with a lightning bolt through it.