Clear · TIDE
Sunny Hills
Green hills with turf over earth and stone. The map where nothing gets in the way of learning the rules.
Game
Arenas, weather
Arenas, weather
and arena rules
Three layers of conditions stack with each other and with the ground under your tracks. The same loadout plays differently in snow with high drift and in heat on scree.
Arenas
Four arenas, each with its own character
An arena sets the ground under your tracks and the sky above, and with them its own default weather and rule.
Snowfall · HIGH WIND
Alpine Ridge
Snow over ice, narrow crests and deep lenses of rock. Slippery everywhere, and ice gives the widest crater in the game.
Heat · SCREE
Desert Canyon
Sand and stone, wide plateaus and sheer walls. Craters are wider, slopes creep, and the heat lengthens every shot.
Storm · SCARCITY
Storm Front
Marsh, water and concrete piers under a storm sky. The wind jumps between turns and shifts mid-flight.
Weather
Six kinds of weather, each changing the physics
Weather does not tint the sky, it moves the numbers: shot range, crater depth, slipping, how much of the enemy trace is visible and how the wind behaves. Which one it will be is known before the loadout is built.
Clear
Baseline. Wind drifts gently, ±10 a turn
wind ±10
Snowfall
Blasts are 25 % weaker, every surface is slippery, snow piles up
damage ×0.75 · crater ×0.81 · slippery · wind ±12
Heat
Shells fly 15 % farther, fire burns twice as long
range ×1.12 · burning ×2 · wind ±10
Storm
Wind jumps ±60 between turns and shifts mid-flight
wind ±60 and in flight
Rain
Craters are 40 % deeper, slopes creep, fire dies within a turn
crater ×1.27 · burning ×0.34 · wind ±14
Fog
You see only 30 % of the enemy arc, their power is hidden
30 % of the trace visible · wind ±10
Arena rules
Four rules on top of the weather
An arena rule is one sentence that rewrites the whole battle. It runs for the entire game, both sides see it, and it is named in the briefing together with the map.
Arena rule
TIDE
Water rises every three turns. The low ground goes first; height decides
Arena rule
SCARCITY
Half the ammo for everything except the basic shell
Arena rule
HIGH WIND
Wind up high is twice as strong: a lobbed shot catches it three times over
Arena rule
SCREE
The whole map is sand: craters half again as wide, slopes creep — the ground kills more often than the shell
Rules stack with the weather and with the ground. Scree on sand and scree on stone
are two different battles: in the first the crater widens twice over, in the second there is
nothing for the slope to creep with.
04 · Wind
The wind lives in layers of altitude
Down low it is one thing, up top another: a lobbed shot passes through both layers and catches the difference twice. The High drift rule doubles the upper layer — and the same power puts the shell fifty pixels off to the side.
There is exactly one way to know the wind in advance: the Probe, for one action point. It shows the schedule three turns ahead. In a storm that is the only protection against the wind changing while the shell is in the air.
Wind cap ±170Free forecast 1 turn
The conditions are named before the battle
The arena, the weather and the arena rule are all in the briefing — and the loadout is built against them.