• New animated combat hero — your captain now reacts to the fight in real time: posture shifts with HP (he hunches and breathes heavier as he weakens), his aura changes with alignment, and he has dedicated moves for strikes, critical hits, guarding, taking damage and victory — across NPC, PvP and dungeon battles. • World Map (early access) — take the ferry into a shared strategic world. • Polish and fixes.

The island of Koh Phangan has been redrawn by hand. • Living world map — a hand-drawn 2.5D island with day/night light, drifting clouds, sea shimmer, and your hero walking the roads between locations. • Redesigned combat — full-height hand-drawn fighters, clearer body-zone targeting, ink-blue defence cues, and a battle log that shows exactly where each blow lands. • New bestiary — meet hand-drawn island monsters, each with its own short story, on Salad Beach. • Pirate dungeon — the Jungle Caves get a carved stone-vine frame and winding maze corridors. • Persistent matchmaking — your PvP search now survives switching tabs, with a handy mini-bar. • Cleaner, warmer parchment look and smoother onboarding throughout. See you on the island!

Phangan now lives on a hand-drawn pirate parchment map. Pan and pinch-zoom the whole island, markers redrawn on the new canvas.

Multiplayer dungeons fixed (1-4 players). Bigger PvP rewards — 1v1 grants 3× XP, 2v2 grants 5× XP. New 20-second combat turns with anti-AFK protection.

Phangan Rivals 4.1 — now playable in Thai! - Full Thai language support across every screen: combat, character, shop, dungeon, settings - Language picker on the welcome screen — pick your language before signing in - Faster PvP combat turns: timer lowered from 30 s to 20 s - Stability + UI polish

Welcome to Phangan Rivals 4.0 — a top-to-bottom redesign on the new parchment palette. - Warm aged-paper canvas with hand-drawn ink across every screen: combat, shops, dungeons, profile, and the island map - Six hand-drawn pirate avatars you can pick and switch any time - Stylised Phangan island map background in your profile - 2v2 Team Battle now opens at level 3 Accessibility and polish: - Full Dynamic Type support: text scales with your iOS accessibility setting - Reduce-Motion is honoured across all animations - VoiceOver labels on every interactive control

Major visual overhaul: app-wide premium minimalist redesign with gold-trim cards, serif tracked typography, and a new old-map sepia palette with nautical watermarks (compass rose, sailboats, anchors, waves). All combat modes (PvP 1v1/2v2, NPC, dungeon) get unified premium HP bars, monogram avatar emblems with HP arcs, and gold-trim zone buttons. Shop, Tattoo Studio, Daily Reward, Salad Beach, and every modal sheet harmonized.

• 5 new Sak Yant tattoos at the Tattoo Studio — combat tier: – Snake Strike: physical damage + agility (4500 PC) – Tiger Claw: physical damage + strength (6500 PC) – Falcon Eye: critical damage + intuition (5500 PC) – Stone Skin: damage reduction + endurance (5500 PC) – Arcane Eye: intelligence + magic damage — the first INT-spec tattoo (5000 PC) • Pure-attacker, crit, tank and INT-caster builds finally have mid-game tattoo paths without alignment grind.

• Every tattoo bonus now actually works in PvP duels and dungeons — phys damage, crit, lifesteal, damage reduction, armor and more. • Light alignment finally gets its +10% damage during the day on the server. • Dark alignment now strikes first at night — the opponent's swing is nullified that turn. • Poison, burn and bleed now tick every turn; tattoo HP regen heals each turn. • END is a real survival stat — gives extra damage reduction independent of armor. • High SPI grants a passive heal chance when HP drops below 50% — clutch saves for Yoga Warriors and Island Shamans. • Character tab: tap a stat to see the full breakdown — base, equipment, tattoos and potions.

Security and reliability upgrade for dungeons and inventory. - Dungeon runs are now created server-side, preventing tampered start states - Equipping and unequipping items is fully server-authoritative with atomic belt updates - Consuming a stack now clears the battle belt slot in the same transaction, fixing edge-case desync

Reliability fixes for early-game progression and multiplayer. - Stat allocation now saves correctly for characters who haven't picked an alignment yet - Multiplayer dungeon lobbies accept non-host joiners again

Stat allocation reliability fix. - Spending free stat points now persists immediately and survives a tab switch - The Save button locks to the gray Saved state after a successful commit

Gameplay reliability and security fixes. - Hardened matchmaking queue writes and dungeon combat validation - Fixed multiplayer dungeon counter-damage and defense zone syncing - Fixed tattoo completion state so bonuses apply only after the timer finishes - Fixed dungeon rewards, chest inventory counts, and consumable buff application

Stat allocation: the Save button now stays as a gray Saved checkmark after you confirm — clear visual proof your changes were saved. It returns to the active green Save automatically when your next level-up grants new free stat points.

What's new in 3.11: - Combat redesign across NPC / 1v1 / 2v2 / dungeon: glowing body silhouettes for attack and defend zones, vertical side panels for fighters, on-screen action legend. - 2v2 Arena unlocks at level 2; Battle Royale renamed to Chaotic Battle, unlocks at level 4. Locked modes show "Available at level N" badge. - Locked map locations now show their unlock level on the marker; tapping shows a quick toast instead of the full sheet. Chaloklum Beach moved to level 3. - Inventory item details: octagonal HUD frame, neon Sell / Use / Add to Belt / Discard buttons across consumables and equipment. - Phangan Rivals brand title bigger and cleaner — hurricane glyph removed. - Shop tap feedback added; price pills no longer dragged a circular halo. - 27 tattoo bonus types now actually apply to combat and HP — previously only 8 stat-types stacked. Tattoo studio gains progress sparkles and ink-drop motion. - 9 NPC bots are now equipped with archetype starter gear instead of empty slots. - Stat allocation actually persists — fixed missing freeStatPoints write + listener race. - Dungeon entry no longer bounces back to the map on a transient Firestore snapshot. - Backend runtime upgraded to Node 22 / firebase-functions 7 with tattoo bonuses applied server-side.

What's new in 3.10: - Tutorial spotlights now follow real map markers and the combat tab — no more drift. - Compact map header: location, online, gold and level on a single line. - Tap an opponent in PvP to view their full character. - Dungeon party reduced to 4 — guaranteed bot teammate when you queue solo. - Backend runtime upgraded for stability.

Smoother loading effects across the shop, dungeon, and Character screens. Brand title in the Character toolbar. Fixed: PvP chat input and leaderboard no longer hide behind the floating tab bar.

A polish-focused update on top of v3.7. • Rotating hot-spot stroke on legendary shop items, daily reward and NPC combat rewards. • Numbers now count up smoothly: HP, Mana, XP, stat allocation points, shop prices. • Spring bloom feedback on class and alignment selection. • Light-sweep shimmer on primary "Open Inventory" and "Start Dungeon" buttons. • Island-map HUD fix: no more faint halo around the top pills. No gameplay changes — just a nicer feel.

Small polish: a soft rotating light now highlights rare loot cards in dungeon victories and the winning side of PvP results. Respects Reduce Motion.

Fresh coat of paint on the entire UI: unified design tokens, polished cards and buttons across combat, shop, inventory, map and social screens. No gameplay changes.

Stability and security improvements. - Fixed an HP calculation edge case in dungeon combat that could over-heal after a vampirism hit - Added protection against duplicate combat actions within the same turn - Tightened privacy of player presence data - Rate limiting and validation polish across multiplayer features

Stability fixes: • Fixed launch crash after Sign in with Apple on iPadOS 26 (Guideline 2.1(a)) • All Firebase Cloud Function calls now run in a detached task to work around a Swift runtime regression. Covers grantStarterItem, daily reward, combat, dungeon, PvP, marketplace and inventory paths • General reliability improvements

Stability improvements: • Fixed rare startup crash caused by concurrent catalog loading • Fixed crash when entering PvP matches • General performance tuning and cleanup

Fixed crash after claiming daily login reward. Root cause: Swift Concurrency async-let deallocation when sheet was dismissed. All server logic moved outside the sheet lifecycle.

Critical fix: resolved the crash that occurred after claiming the daily login reward. The reveal animation has been fully simplified and state handling stabilized.