RACE YOUR OWN GHOST New mode, PACER: one course all week, and your best run on it flies beside you as a ghost. Beat it and you become the ghost. A new course every Monday. YOUR VOTE COUNTS NOW The next-update vote was not reaching us, while telling you it had. Fixed, and sorry. PACER came from that ballot; the new one is open: Mirrorworld, Aurora set or Duet. On Tidal, a reward no longer drifts into a trap.

RACE A FRIEND Play the daily, then send the run as a link. Whoever opens it runs the same corridor with your orb replayed beside them — the same gates, in the same order, on the same day. The link carries the run itself, so nothing is uploaded anywhere and no account is needed at either end. It also carries the DATE, which is what makes it the same course: without that, two friends either side of midnight would be racing through different corridors and neither would know. A link that arrives damaged simply starts an ordinary daily. There is no wrong ghost, only no ghost.

THE CHASE The daily run now has a number to catch. One target is chosen each day and held all day: the nearest player above you on today's board, or your own pace when the board is quiet. Catch it and the game says so. Fall short and it tells you by how much. FIXED Voice control no longer holds the microphone between runs, which is what made some phones play a system tone on the menu. Your transfer code now carries only progress, never sign-in data. If you shared one with anyone, sign out and back in.

WORLDS THAT MOVE Every world used to paint its scenery once and then hold still for the whole run. Three new ones do not. FOUNDRY - a rolling mill. A flywheel turns, gears mesh, a belt runs, and presses stamp. A gate can only enter the corridor on a stamp, so the machine tells you exactly when the next one is coming. SALTGLARE - noon on a salt flat. The heat bends the far half of the corridor, so a distant gate is drawn where the air says it is. Get close and the lie runs out. MURMURFEN - a flooded fen under a murmuration. The flock gathers while your flow refills and scatters while you burn it: the sky is the fuel gauge the game never drew. SHARE A DAY, NOT JUST A SCORE A shared card now says which Daily you played, what that day's twist was, and how long your streak is - with a link that drops a friend straight into the same run. A NEW WAY TO PLAY: HOLD Keep a finger down and slide it up and down - the orb follows it, and you thread the gaps by hand instead of by timing. Let go and gravity takes over. The world runs fast and never slows, and the openings stagger instead of queueing up in a line. THREE NEW WORLDS ASHRISE - Cappadocia an hour before sunrise: balloons going up behind a ridge of stone chimneys, sparks rising instead of dust, and a corridor where nothing sits still. Every opening floats upward. MATCHDAY - a floodlit night match. Pylons, a stand full of phone screens, and stripes mown into the grass. Die here and the revive becomes a VAR check: buy the review and the decision comes back GOAL. EVENT HORIZON - something has already eaten the rest of the sky. Everything falls inward, and it falls heavy. ALOFT: ALTITUDE IS THE THROTTLE Fly high and the wind carries the world past faster and pays more; drop low and it all slows down. The wind is visible, audible, and it pushes. THE WORLDS FINALLY LOOK DIFFERENT Every world now colours its own gates, so choosing one changes the thing you spend the whole run looking at - not just the sky behind it. The shop shows real frames of each world instead of a colour strip, with the rules each one changes written on the card. FIXED: buying a set from the SETS filter did nothing at all, and a successful purchase could end on "not enough shards". A completed set can now be put back on in one tap.

GENTLER STILL ON THE EASIER SETTINGS The first pass was not enough: the orb still travelled too fast up and down. VERY EASY and EASY are now about a third slower vertically, and the gates are spaced further apart to pay for it, so a slower orb still has time to reach the next opening. Both stay more forgiving than NORMAL. Gravity is untouched everywhere, so a tap answers exactly as fast as it always did. THE SHOP SHOWS THE WORLD YOU ACTUALLY GET Every world's card drew its gates in that world's own colour, but the game draws gates in the danger colour in every world — so the shop was promising a green or blue world and handing over a red one. The cards now show what you will really see, and each world's own colour has moved to the corridor edge, where the game puts it. THE GAME TELLS YOU WHEN THERE IS A NEW VERSION An installed copy had no way to know an update existed. Now it says so when you open it. Sakura Night and Alleycat: a sunset over Fuji with a torii on the water and real blossom, and a cat that blinks, flicks its tail and mews every time you flip.

GENTLER ON THE EASIER SETTINGS Players said the orb whipped between the walls too fast. VERY EASY and EASY now cap how fast it can travel — the openings and the spacing between gates are exactly as they were, and gravity is untouched, so a tap still answers instantly. NORMAL gets a smaller version of the same. HARD is unchanged. YOUR BEST SCORE REACHES THE BOARD Two separate faults kept personal bests off the leaderboard without ever saying so. Both are fixed, and opening the board now settles any difference between what your device knows and what the board holds. REWARDED ADS ANSWER IMMEDIATELY The ad is fetched before you ask for it instead of after, and a fetch that comes back empty is retried rather than giving up for the rest of the session. SOUND COMES BACK Leaving the game while an ad is playing no longer silences it until you restart. Also fixed: continuing with an ad could resume a run that had already ended.