YOUR CAPTAIN STAYS YOURS Reinstalling the game used to hand you a brand new captain. The id your phone identifies itself with was stored inside the app, so deleting the app took it too — and your matches were written to an account you had never seen. It comes from the device now, so a reinstall lands back on the captain you already had. THE HARD OPPONENTS ARE ACTUALLY HARD Veteran and Elite were not harder than Regular: they searched the board the same way and only spent power ups more often. They aim properly now, at the water where a ship can still fit, and clear a fleet in 53 shots where they needed 58. ALSO FIXED • Your rank matches the trophies shown beside it. • Screens no longer run off the right edge on some phones. • Nothing can erase your captain remotely any more.

TRIPLE STRIKE — A SECOND WAY TO FIGHT Call three squares at once and fire them together, taken straight from the old board game. Same number of shots, a third of the turns, so a match plays out in about half the time without a single moment being cut short. Pick your ruleset before every battle — Classic or Triple Strike — and it travels with you online: both captains play the one you chose. Your three targets light up on the grid as you name them, tapping one again takes it back out, and nothing leaves until you say so. ALSO IN THIS UPDATE • The game opens properly now, with a studio card and a loading screen instead of appearing out of nowhere. • Reinstalling no longer starts you from nothing. Your trophies, level and fleet come back with you. • The rankings card no longer shows a zero it does not mean. • The battle-mode screen speaks your language. • Every captain now arrives with a name of their own, instead of everyone being called AdmiralNova.

The arena is drawn on every pixel your phone has. The grid, the hulls and the markers are all sharper. Fixed: a Repair Kit from the captain across from you could freeze a live battle for both of you. Carrying two scan powers no longer kills whichever one you did not fire first. A timer running out with a power armed no longer leaves the turn hanging. And Decoy Hull no longer made a fleet impossible to sink. Battles against other captains now pay the way they should: spent charges come back, badges arrive the moment you earn them, and the first battle with a friend pays both of you. Reinstalling, or moving to a new phone? Your captain comes back with you.

Friends are here. Add captains, challenge them any time, and remove, report or block anyone.

Settings now credits the studio behind the game.

Balance and matchmaking improvements, plus fixes across the game.

Challenge captains to live battles with faster, synchronized shots, turns and Power Ups. Results now use verified battle progress with fairer Trophy rewards and duplicate safeguards. World Rankings stay consistent with public profiles and returning Game Center captains.

YOUR FIRST ARSENAL BONUS - New captains now earn a 500-Credit purse at Level 3, ready to unlock Sonar Pulse in the Arsenal. - Opening a captain from the rankings now shows the same face and the same trophy total the list promised.

All-Time rankings now show real captains only—never offline bots—and combine current live profiles with captains from earlier builds. Published country flags now appear immediately, even if an optional profile refresh is slow or unavailable. Fresh starts, wins and losses stay accurate, Trophy totals are whole numbers, and profile sync, Victory artwork sharing, smoother scrolling and Home launch are included.

Every captain has a flag, and a say. Pick your flag and it flies on your profile card and your rankings row. Tap any captain on the world board to open their card — names in every alphabet, real ranks for everyone, and a ladder with no bottom. A first battle that explains itself: power-ups stay hidden until you have one, and three short prompts walk a new captain from tap to sink. The camera stays put while you drag across the board. Bring a friend: the first friend challenge played to the end pays 200 Credits to each captain, and the battle report links them straight in. Walk out of a battle and your fleet will call you back two hours later; seven silent days and your rank will too. Tell us what you think from Settings, in two taps. Plus: Find a Battle scrolls, My Profile fits every phone, and nothing hangs off the edge of the screen.

Eleven Power Ups, and a reason to keep playing. Every Power Up now carries its own artwork and a clear job — sonar, torpedoes, decoys, repairs, and seven more. You take two into a battle. Your level offers them, and credits earned in battle buy them. Fuel is part of a fight now, and it resupplies every match. A scan you have paid for stays on the grid for good instead of fading away. Each cosmetic fleet unlocks at one clearly shown level, and every fleet portrait was rebuilt from the clean models. New captains start with a face of their own, and your achievements now sit directly beneath your flagship. Quick Match finds a battle in one shuffle, every ranking shows its exact number, and the end of a battle no longer drags. Your captain no longer lives only on this phone. A copy of your progress is kept safe off the device, so a new phone or a reinstall finds your captain waiting instead of an empty one. Nothing is asked of you for it. Delete my data clears that copy as well, not only what is on the phone, and says so before you confirm. Leaderboards and achievements are live.