Version 1.6 Update - New Card Styles, AI Personality, UI Stability & HUD Refinements - 3 NEW CARD STYLES: Midnight Blue, Cherry Blossom, and Jade card faces. Premium styles hide the center suit and use themed joker artwork. Available in the Shop. - AI PERSONALITY ACTIVE AT ALL LEVELS: Conservative, Aggressive, Cooperative, Combo Specialist, and Adaptive personality types now fully influence Easy, Medium, Hard, and Expert AI. - AI BEHAVIORAL FIXES: Cooperative AI no longer bombs its partner's play. Conservative AI leads low-rank cards first when better options exist. All AI personalities correctly pass when their partner is about to win rather than wasting a bomb. - HUD UX REFINEMENT: The turn indicator now dynamically appears only on your active turn, and is automatically delayed when other high-priority suggestions or alerts are displaying to avoid clutter. - ULTRA STABLE LAYOUTS: Improved Swift compiler structure and updated status chips with anti-wrapping logic so they stay perfectly formatted on all iPhone sizes. - LANDSCAPE SETTINGS: Settings page now uses a 2-column layout in landscape orientation for easy access to all controls. - PREMIUM COSMETIC SHOP: Dynamic animated table backgrounds (Cyberpunk, New Year, Bamboo) and 6 card style themes. - RICH PLAYER DETAIL SHEETS: Tap any player's name chip on the table or in the play log to open their detailed info sheet (partner status, level, cards left, and AI personality trait bars). - INLINE PLAY LOG CARDS: Review play history with actual mini-cards rendered directly in the play log list.

Version 1.5 - Teammate AI Selection & AI Engine Upgrades - CUSTOMIZABLE TEAMMATE AI: You can now choose your AI partner's personality (Aggressive, Helpful, or Regular) in the Game Settings! - SMARTER MCTS AI: Completely overhauled Hard & Expert AI algorithms. AI partners now coordinate better during Jiefeng (passing the lead) and will aggressively help you finish games. - LIGHTNING-FAST AI: Brand new "Instant Finish Detection" allows the AI to play its final cards without unnecessary thinking time. - SMART ERROR MESSAGES: Invalid plays now show exactly what went wrong (e.g., "Must play a Pair", "Rank too low"). - RULE CLARIFICATIONS: The Help manual has been updated to explicitly clarify that Jokers cannot be used as Wild Cards.

Version 1.4 - Traditional Chinese Support & UI Polish - TRADITIONAL CHINESE: Full support for Traditional Chinese (繁體中文) across all game screens, tutorials, and help guides. - AI PERSONALITIES: 8 distinct AI personalities with unique names and tactical styles (v1.3 feature). - INTERACTIVE TUTORIAL: Hands-on onboarding for beginners (v1.3 feature). - VISUAL UPGRADES: Redesigned player chips, team colors, and reaction badges. - GLOBAL LEADERBOARDS: Compete globally on Game Center for Win Streaks and Highest Level. - PERFORMANCE: Modernized codebase for Swift 6 concurrency.

Version 1.3 - AI Personalities, Visual Polish & Multiplayer Improvements AI PERSONALITY SYSTEM - 8 distinct AI personalities with unique names (Lao Wang, Li Mei, Da Lei, etc.) and tactical styles. - Personalities are now consistent between single-player and multiplayer — no more generic "AI" labels. - Tap any opponent chip to see their personality profile and strategy description. - Smarter AI: bots no longer waste bombs or jokers as opening leads. INTERACTIVE TUTORIAL - New step-by-step onboarding for beginners. Learn Guandan mechanics through hands-on practice. VISUAL UPGRADES - 4 table themes: choose your background color from a sleek color swatch picker. - Card glow effects: played cards glow cyan; bombs flash orange; joker bombs flash yellow. - Player chips now show team color borders (red/blue), AI personality icons, and reaction badges. - Reaction badges: bomb and pass indicators appear on every player chip in real time. - Long player names are automatically abbreviated with a tap-to-expand popover. GLOBAL LEADERBOARDS - Compete globally on Game Center for Win Streaks, Highest Level reached, and Fastest Wins. PREMIUM SHARING - Beautifully redesigned share cards for game results and overall statistics. PERFORMANCE & STABILITY - Modernized codebase for Swift 6 concurrency, ensuring a smoother and more stable experience.

Version 1.2 - Smarter AI & UI Polish BUG FIX: WILDCARD BOMBS NOW WORK CORRECTLY - Fixed a bug where a wildcard bomb (e.g. Wildcard+3333) could not beat a regular bomb of the same size (e.g. 8888). - Wildcard bombs now correctly defeat regular same-size bombs, per standard Guandan rules. AI TEAMMATE IMPROVEMENTS - Fixed a longstanding bug where your AI partner would play over your own winning card. - All AI difficulty levels now properly respect the partner-has-lead rule. - AI players now show emoji reactions when playing bombs (bomb) or thinking (thinking), giving them more personality. COMPACT HUD REDESIGN - The top status bar now fits in a single line, giving more screen space to the game board. - Team scores, current level indicator, and control buttons are now all in one clean row. - Fixed the wildcard indicator flickering in size during gameplay. SHARING - Room sharing cards now feature a square image with a large, prominent room code for instant recognition in WeChat.

Version 1.1 - Online Multiplayer & Major Improvements Our biggest update yet brings online multiplayer, smart joining, split statistics, a richer Help guide, and elite AI performance. ONLINE MULTIPLAYER (Pro Feature) - Play online via Game Center or Local Network (up to 4 players) - Create a private room and share a 6-digit code with friends - Join quickly via shared 6-digit room codes - One-Tap Join: join games directly from shared invitation links - Clipboard Detection: automatically detects room codes on app launch/return - Self-Healing Host: rooms stay active even when the host shares the code - Choose your seat in a compass layout; AI fills any empty seats - Real-time state synchronization using Apple GameKit SPLIT STATISTICS (New!) - Win rate, streaks, and game history now split between Single Player and Multiplayer - New mode filter (All / Single Player / Multiplayer) in the Stats view - Past game records automatically backfilled into the right mode ILLUSTRATED HELP & GUIDE (New!) - All Help sections have icon-illustrated rows: Card Operations, Buttons, Hand Types, Multiplayer setup, and Strategy Tips - Hand Types Quick Reference with examples for all 11 hand types - Fonts scale with device size for better readability IPAD IMPROVEMENTS - Two-row hand display: cards spread across two lines on iPad for easier reading - Same-rank cards always stay on the same row (group-aware split) - Multiplayer lobby and all popup sheets are now full-screen on iPad EXPERT AI UPGRADE - Hard and Expert AI use a stronger Monte Carlo (MCTS) engine - Better teammate coordination and endgame prediction IMPROVEMENTS & POLISH - Multiplayer close button moved to top-right to match all other dialogs - AI players have distinct, personalized bot names - Bug fixes for statistics, trick history, and multiplayer sync - Fixed straight flush recognition: straight flushes are now correctly identified as bombs and can beat any non-bomb hand (previously misidentified as regular straights) - Updated Help guide to clarify that straight flushes are bomb-type hands