You asked for it, part 2: first steps, graphics your way, wars between two nations

The missiles flew tens of thousands of times on TikTok in the last few days, and a lot of you played and wrote in. We read every comment, every message on Discord and every comment here. This update is the first wave of what you asked for.

Version française plus bas.

First steps

The first card of the Duel: what wins, pointed at on screen.
La première carte du Duel : ce qui fait gagner, montré à l'écran.

• "I don't understand how to play" came up again and again. Each mode (Duel, War, Living world) now starts with a few short cards that point at the real buttons and move on as soon as you do the thing: pick a weapon, aim, fire, build, raise troops, take a mine, speed up time, cast a power.
• "Skip tutorial" is on every card, and Escape closes it. It never comes back by itself; replay it any time from First steps in the main menu or the pause.
• The aiming card warns you in red when the reticle sits on your own side. One of you nuked their own base on day one. Not anymore.

Graphics your way

The same strike, frozen: Pixel art on the left, 1080p on the right.
La même frappe, figée : Pixel art à gauche, 1080p à droite.

• The graphics level (Low, Medium, High, Ultra) is now right on the main menu, with a new Resolution row: Auto, Pixel art, 480p, 720p, 1080p, 1440p and 4K. Auto works as before; any fixed choice renders exactly that many lines.
• Pixel art draws about 270 lines with crisp square pixels and no blur: a retro look, and the lightest setting of all.
• Some of you had a few frames a second on a powerful PC. Most of the time, the browser is drawing the game without the graphics card. The game now notices and tells you how to fix it in a minute.

What the game says when the browser leaves the graphics card out.
Ce que dit le jeu quand le navigateur se passe de la carte graphique.

• The game won't start on itch? For a few of you, itch's game server does not answer at all. Play the very same game here: doomsdaystudio.app/play

Wars between two nations

A nation's card, Relations tab: pick who it goes to war with.
La fiche d'une nation, onglet Relations : choisissez à qui elle déclare la guerre.

• In the living world, the war bell set everyone at war at once. Now you can pick one nation and push it to war against another, from its card or with the new Declare power: click a nation, then its target. Allies follow their pacts; for a war between those two only, turn off alliances and coalitions in the Rules of the world.

Markers over the troops

War mode: the new Fleet tab, and the markers over the battalions.
Mode Guerre : le nouvel onglet Flotte, et les icônes au-dessus des bataillons.

• An idea from the Discord: icons over the troops, in each nation's colour, so you can find your armies from far away. Close units share one marker with a count, and the markers fade as you zoom in. They can be turned off in the pause menu.

War mode

• The Units tab had grown to fourteen units and ran off the screen, even on a desktop. It is now three tabs: Army, Aircraft and Fleet. The aviation orders tab is now called Air missions.
• Capped buildings show their count (Rocket battery 1/5), and every upgrade says what it brings, as asked here in the comments.
• Fixed: with the rule "Nuclear weapons" turned off, the bombs came back at DEFCON 1. They no longer do, and the rule now takes the EMP away too, in every mode.

Also

• iPhone and iPad: version 1.4.0, with all of this, is with Apple for review.
• The Discord is linked from the game's menus: https://discord.gg/wcJ8QUK8dt. And for those who want to help the game reach the stores, the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/u79473905. Welcome, never required: the game stays free to play in your browser.
• Next, the most asked of all: playing a nation yourself in the living world.