Lost discs turn up twice as often now, and they stop vanishing: a disc you were shown and walked away from goes straight back into the pool instead of sitting in limbo overnight. The career menu tells you how many are out there waiting. Throws no longer start from the same angle every time. Weekly Tournament rounds now pay 3 coins each. Quick Play pays 1 for a full nine. Plus a clearer skill readout on every challenge screen.

Two aiming bugs, fixed. The direction bar was capped at 45° either side of straight ahead. It should never have been — that made sideways and backward shots impossible, so getting out from under a tree or back up the fairway wasn't a shot you could play. It now covers the full circle. Dragging the disc to aim was broken outright: the grab area sat in the wrong place, so it never responded. It works now.

Lost discs now go somewhere. Put one in the water and it lands in a shared pool instead of vanishing. Another player can find it — and they decide whether to keep it, hand it back, or hold it to ransom for PixelCoins. You'll hear what happened to yours next time you open the menu. Park a drive high enough in a tree and it can stay there too. Your bag now shows whose disc you're actually throwing.

Your throw, rebuilt. SKILLS Power is now two skills, one for each hand, and Scramble is a new sixth skill that sets how much power you keep on a recovery shot. Upgrades cost less than they used to. THROWING The direction and angle bars are gone. Aim along a compass arc that narrows as your accuracy improves, and set your release on a disc that really tilts. FLIGHT Throw too much anhyzer for the disc, the power and the wind, and it turns over and drops out of the sky. Ease off the power and you can save it. The preview shows you the moment it goes. The forehand is its own throw now: it holds a far deeper anhyzer than the backhand and skips harder off the ground. COMPETITION Last week's weekly top finishers carry their placing on the daily challenge board. The all-time top three are badged on Closest to Pin and Survival. CUSTOM CHALLENGE See what your challenge has earned and when it pays. All six skills can be fixed for every player. Plus fixes to menu taps, reward notices and device restore.

Custom Challenge The lobby now shows up to 100 open challenges, not 25. A tied challenge with fixed skills is now decided by strokes, then time. It was falling back to career skill points that the round never used — and favouring whoever happened to have the weaker career. The join screen no longer promises you your own discs and skills on a challenge that fixes them. Fixes Weekly daily-challenge summary: more space between weekday columns, so three-digit placements no longer collide.

Buttons no longer ignore a tap near their top edge. If you have ever pressed something and had nothing happen, that was this. Coins can never go below zero, and a balance already stuck there is repaired for you. Custom Challenges now close after 3 days instead of a week, so results and payouts land sooner.

Distances in feet. Open Settings and pick meters or feet — throws, holes and leaderboards all follow. Scores are unchanged either way, so everyone is ranked on the same numbers. The pin is a real disc golf basket now, drawn from above. The Daily Challenge is quicker: no result card after every throw, just a flash when you take a penalty. Throw results now line up in proper columns.

Lose a disc now and someone picks it up. They might hand it back, ask a couple of coins for their trouble, or just keep it. Aces and throw-ins get a badge on the Daily Challenge and Weekly Tournament boards. Release charts can be switched off in Player Settings. Fixes: the weekly tournament coin now actually pays, and leaderboard emoji are no longer clipped.

SURVIVAL SCORES WHAT YOU THREW Land in water or out of bounds and the run is over. That hasn't changed. What the run scores has. A fatal landing used to bank nothing at all. Throw your opening drive into a pond and the attempt ended at 0.0m — a whole day's single attempt gone, with nothing on the board to show for the ground you covered. It now banks the disc's last safe point: the last place it was still over legal ground, which is the near edge of whatever it flew into. A drive that crosses the shore at 140m and splashes down at 155m scores 140. A first throw into water scores the ground it cleared instead of wiping the run to zero. The rule that stops a desperate huck from paying is still in place, and it's why the bank stops at the hazard's edge rather than the resting spot. A maximum-power throw that dies at 700m banks only the shore it crossed at 480m, so it can never out-score the safe 500m throw you could have made instead. Dying still costs you the run — it just no longer costs you the metres you actually threw. BATTERY The game kept its loop running while the app sat in the background, drawing frames nobody was looking at. On Android that showed up as background battery use for an app that was doing nothing at all. The loop now stops when the app leaves the screen and picks up where it left off when you return. One consequence worth knowing: a Survival run freezes while you're away instead of the wave rolling on without you. Taking a call mid-run no longer drowns you.

NEW: QUICK PLAY A round on your own terms, and the one mode that works with no connection at all. Set it up however you like: • 3, 6 or 9 holes • Randomised from the courses you choose, or hand-picked one hole at a time • Played with your own career skills and bag, or with skills and discs you set for the round Finishing pays 1, 2 or 3 PixelCoins depending on length — the same rate as a career course, so it is an easy round rather than a fast way to earn. There is no daily limit and no leaderboard, and your discs are never at risk, so there is nothing to lose by starting one. It needs no connection on any path: no scores to upload, no match to join, nothing to wait for. It is the round you can start on a plane, and the one that still works when everything else says it cannot reach the server. NAME YOUR DISCS A Custom Challenge that fixes the bag now lets you name each disc. A "putter only" challenge can actually say Putter, and the name travels with the challenge — everyone who plays it sees the disc you named, in their bag, on every hole. ONE COURSE, PLAYED IN ORDER Choose a single course for a challenge or a Quick Play round and you now play it forwards. Nine holes from one course is hole 1 through hole 9, as the course is meant to be played, instead of the same nine holes in a jumbled order. Pick several courses and they still interleave, which is the point of mixing them. SURVIVAL: HOW IT ENDED Survival leaderboards now show how each run finished, next to the distance — caught by the wave, out of bounds, in the water, quit, or reached the end. The board could already tell you how far someone got; now it tells you what stopped them. SMALLER THINGS Player settings moved out of the main menu list to a button beside your character, where people were already tapping. Fixed a challenge in the open list whose details ran underneath the VIEW button. Fixed the bottom of the challenge setup screen sitting flush against the footer, so the last row is no longer half-hidden.

SHORT PUTTS ARE TAP-INS NOW The most common thing you told us was that missing a one-metre putt is ridiculous. You were right, and the numbers were worse than they looked: a 1m putt was only slightly easier than a 3m one. Putts close to the basket are now far more forgiving. At a metre you will hole it almost every time, whatever your putting skill, and right under the basket it is a genuine tap-in. The help fades out completely by three metres, so longer putts play exactly as they always did. Nothing about the rest of putting has changed. NEW: CUSTOM CHALLENGE Flex Match is now Custom Challenge, and it is a proper challenge builder. Name your challenge and set the rules: • 3, 6 or 9 holes • Randomised from the courses you choose, or hand-picked one hole at a time • Played with everyone's own career gear, or with skills and discs you set for all players If you fix the loadout, it binds you too. That is what makes "putter only" mean something — you have to post your score under the same rules you are asking everyone else to play. Your challenge stays open for a week. Anyone with the code gets the exact same holes and the exact same wind, and has to beat your score. Wins pay 1, 2 or 3 coins for a 3, 6 or 9 hole challenge — a longer challenge is a longer round, so it pays more. Still free to enter, as a challenger and as a creator. CAREER PAYS BETTER Finishing a course is now worth 3 PixelCoins instead of 1, matching what a nine-hole challenge win pays. The bonuses for beating par, beating your own best, and setting a course record stack on top as before, so a strong round is worth up to 6. Unlocking a new disc or a skill level should feel like a few good rounds away, not a fortnight. SMALLER THINGS New discs now arrive with a proper reveal — the disc drops in and turns while each flight number spins down and brakes into place, instead of four numbers cutting to a stop. Leaderboards load faster when you flick in and out of them.

ALL-TIME BOARDS Survival and Closest to Pin each keep a permanent leaderboard now, covering every player who has ever posted a score. Open it from the button in the top right of the daily leaderboard. MARATHON (Survival) — every metre you have ever survived, added up. Forty steady days beat one lucky run. TOP LIST (Closest to Pin) — the average of your 10 best rounds out of your last 50. You need ten rounds to appear on it, one bad round cannot sink you, and old rounds drop off as you keep playing. Both boards are for bragging rights only. No coins, nothing to win. They update once a night, so today's run shows up tomorrow. SURVIVAL IS HARDER Water now appears from the very first throw instead of easing in, and there is more of it the whole way up. The release animation is gone. Your wobble and skip still get rolled and still get shown — they now appear beside the disc while it is in the air, instead of holding the screen for four seconds while the wave closed in on you. The wave moves faster to match, so the shorter throw cycle is not a free pass. CLOSEST TO PIN Rounds start immediately. The slow camera sweep at the start of a hole was showing you ground you could already see, so it is gone.

Smoother throwing Fixed a stutter that could hit the timing meter mid-throw, so the power, direction and angle bars run clean from tap to release. Flex Match now lasts a week Your challenge stays open for 7 days instead of 48 hours, giving people a real chance to answer it. Matches already running keep the deadline they were published with. Survival warns you sooner The wave distance is bigger and easier to read at a glance, and the warning now starts at 100m instead of 40m — at full wave speed, 40m was about three seconds. It stays calm when you're clear and gets more insistent as the wave closes. A better disc reveal Unwrapping a new disc now builds up its flight numbers one at a time. Tap once to skip ahead if you're in a hurry.

NEW MODE: SURVIVAL The course never stops rising. Stay ahead of the wave — every second you spend aiming costs you ground. Land out of bounds or in water and the run is over. No basket, no putting. Just distance. You get one attempt a day on the same course as everyone else, then unlimited practice on it. Finish high on the daily leaderboard to earn PixelCoins. The wave starts on your first throw and never stops again — not while you aim, not while you throw. How far can you get? Also in this update: • Cleaner throw screen — the stats overlay is gone • Main menu tidied up to make room for the new mode

Skip — discs now run out after landing. Fast stable discs skip hard off a hyzer; soft flat shots barely move. See the range in your aim preview, and roll for it on the release screen. Plus: animated disc reveals, a fix for mis-taps in the custom disc editor, and a Daily Challenge midnight fix.

• Fixed the app getting stuck on loading screens • Putting Practice and Driving Range now use your career skills — and let you change them • Driving Range throws your own discs from My Bag • Everyone who enters a competition now sees their placement, not just winners • My Bag now scrolls with a full collection • Course records now stay with whoever set them first • Flex Match and menu fixes

Flex Match — the new player-vs-player mode! Play 3 random holes with your own career skills and discs to set a hidden score, then anyone can take it on and try to beat it. Win a PixelCoin for every score you top — free to enter. Career - Sell spare discs from your bag for PixelCoins (was Discard) - Lose everything but a putter? A control driver is handed back so you're never stuck Plus scaled competition rewards, readability improvements, and bug fixes.

• New daily mode — Closest to Pin. Two tee shots, one backhand and one forehand, with the same discs, wind and hole for every player. Lowest combined distance to the basket tops the daily leaderboard. • Two new courses: Nightmare and Water World — plus several more courses now open to play. • Fixed a rare issue where the settings screen could show through during a round. • More reliable score submission and general polish.

• New: discs can lodge in trees near the basket — trickier putts when they do • Career bonus coin for beating your own course record • Millisecond timing on the Daily Challenge leaderboard • Bug fixes, incl. weekly tournament skills resetting after reinstall

Fixed problem where a users weekly tournament progress could be lost after reinstall.

- Redesigned main menu — jump straight into Daily, Weekly, or Career, with live badges showing your remaining daily attempts and weekly round status at a glance - Weekly Tournament now shows when each round opens (Course 1 Tue–Thu, Course 2 Fri–Sun), so you always know what's playable - Single Hole moved into Career mode — practice any hole with your real skills and bag discs, including the risk of losing a disc in the water - Refreshed Career menu with your character on display - Bug fixes and polish

- Increased chance of lost disc in career - Added better native version gating to keep players versions in sync - Optimized rendering during aim phase - Removed Data Assistance game mode - Added rewards for dailys and weeklys

Bug fixes and UI improvements.