• Delegate.cash support: We now support delegate.cash full-wallet delegation. A delegate wallet can be used to log into the game and play using all the NFTs of the vault wallet. You cannot log in using the vault wallet if you set up a delegate. We don’t currently provide a management interface, but you can manage your wallet delegation at Delegate.cash

• Players are removed from party when logging out

• News popup moved to after logging in

• We now attempt to detect hardware acceleration settings, and show a popup to inform the user when not turned on

PvP Change

Health

Health has been reworked. You now have one big health pool (of 100 health) instead of two segments. Damage numbers have been scaled to get the gameplay close to how the previous system played. Health regeneration has also changed because of this. You now regen continuously (once any healing blocks have expired), rather than in large chunks. This new system lets us do more interesting things, like damage over time etc.

Abilities

• Flame: applies a burn to enemies. Enemies hit will burn for 10 seconds (taking small tick damage every 2 seconds). Burn status can be cleared by shield activation. Current burn visual is the same as the slow but is being replaced.

• Nova: effect radius increased (+ ~30%)

• Blast: can now hit players multiple times (max of 3 hits on a single player). Each hit does less damage than before, but if you hit all three of them, you'll do more damage than before!

Other Changes and Fixes

• New aiming reticles for base attack and abilities.

• Bases regen is disabled for a short time after taking damage

• Added a menu for leaving PvP (hit ESC to leave PvP)

• Added a menu for re-entering an ongoing game if you lose connection or refresh

• Added a player count to matchmaking

• Matchmaking is fixed (it's faster, and doesn't lose players randomly)

• Invisible avatar bug fixed

• Fixed broken stat tracking (travel distance and longest shot)

For laptops that have a dedicated graphics card, it is also possible for the browser to default to the weaker integrated graphics, and not give you the full capabilities of your machine. At the bottom of this post are instructions for how to check for this and fix it on Windows 11

Chrome

How to check for Hardware Acceleration in Chrome

Type chrome://gpu into the URL bar. This will bring up a page that displays the hardware acceleration status of the machine. The following screenshot is an example of what the page looks like when hardware acceleration is off, and would indicate that it needs to be turned on

The following screenshot is an example of what the page looks like when hardware acceleration is on, if yours looks something like this, then you don’t need to adjust hardware acceleration settings

How to turn on Hardware Acceleration in Chrome

Go to “System” in the Chrome settings, and make sure “Use Hardware acceleration when available” is checked. You can also get to this setting by searching settings for “hardware acceleration”. Relaunch the browser.

Brave

How to check for Hardware Acceleration in Brave

Type brave://gpu into the URL bar. This will bring up a page that displays the hardware acceleration status of the machine. This looks the same as Chrome, so see the section above for more information.

How to turn on Hardware Acceleration in Brave

In the Browser settings. Go to the System settings, where you will find “Use Hardware acceleration when available”. Make sure this option is checked, then relaunch the browser.

Opera and Opera GX

How to check for Hardware Acceleration in Opera and Opera GX

Type opera://gpu into the URL bar. This will bring up a page that displays the hardware acceleration status of the machine. This looks the same as Chrome, so see the section above for more information.

How to turn on Hardware Acceleration in Opera GX

In the Browser full settings (Alt+P on Windows, or via the top-left O menu, or via the last “Go to full browser settings” in the top-right Easy Settings menu). Go to the Browser settings, and scroll down to System, where you will find “Use Hardware acceleration when available”. You can also get to this setting by searching settings for “hardware acceleration”. Make sure this option is checked.

Edge

How to check for Hardware Acceleration in Edge

Type edge://gpu into the URL bar. This will bring up a page that displays the hardware acceleration status of the machine. This looks the same as Chrome, so see the section above for more information.

How to turn on Hardware Acceleration in Edge

In the Browser full settings (Alt+P on Windows, or via the top-left O menu, or via the last “Go to full browser settings” in the top-right Easy Settings menu). Go to the Browser settings, and scroll down to System, where you will find “Use Hardware acceleration when available”. You can also get to this setting by searching settings for “hardware acceleration”. Make sure this option is checked.

Firefox

How to check for Hardware Acceleration in Firefox

Type about:support into the URL bar. Scroll down to the “Graphics” section, and look for “WebRender”. If it says “WebRender (Software)” then the hardware acceleration is turned off:

If hardware acceleration is turned on, it will just say “WebRender”

How to turn on Hardware Acceleration in Firefox

In the settings, settings, in the Performance section, ensure “Use recommended performance settings” is checked. OR ensure “Use hardware acceleration when available” is checked if you don’t wish to use recommended performance settings. Restart the browser after changing this setting.

Laptops with discrete GPUs, or eGPUs

There are some situations where a machine with both discrete and integrated GPUs, such as Laptops that have discrete GPUs (e.g. if your laptop has an additional Nvidia or Radeon graphics card), or machines with external GPUs, where the OS decides to use the weaker integrated GPU for the browser, rather than the more powerful discrete GPU.

On Windows, you will be able to tell if you have both discrete and integrated GPUs if your Task Manager shows two GPUs.

Also in Task Manager, you can usually see which GPU is being used by the browser. In the below screenshot, Chrome can be seen using GPU 0, which on this machine is the integrated Intel Iris graphics, which is far weaker than the available nVidia 3060 RTX card available at GPU 1.

On Windows 11, it is possible to set a preference for which GPU is used. The menu is in Windows Settings > System > Display > Graphics:

In the “Custom options for Apps” section, click “Browse”

Navigate to the executable for your browser. For example, Chrome is often installed at C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe, but other browsers and other installations may vary.

This adds a Google Chrome option to the app list. Click on Options

This brings up the Graphics preferences for the browser, where you can select to use the “High performance” GPU

Once this is selected, restart the browser.

A preparing for the economy

A key focus for us is to build a game that has an economy around player-owned apartments, and crafting of items and equipment that can be used in the world. Earlier builds of the game was designed with this in mind, but we were relatively early in the development of those features. For example, our October 2022 content pack consisted mainly of a single-player questline, combined with resource collection, crafting and trading, towards making weapons that could be used inside Rugbusterz (a single-player minigame).

From November, we started working on a new set of features focused on real-time multiplayer combat. We decided the first target was to make a PvP game mode, since this would allow us to build and refine a new player movement system and combat mechanics that would work in multiplayer (features that could also be used in future PvE), without having to also build NPCs and content in the world at the same time for players to explore.

Initially, the PvP game mode that we were going to made was a little social game that we aimed to release at Christmas 2022. It was to just involve throwing some snowballs at each other for low-stakes fun, and drew inspiration from the Club Penguin snowball fights.

However, early testing of that snowball fight showed a lot of promise. It was working a lot better than we had expected. That project got re-scoped to something much more complex. It was no longer a simple snowball fight where you threw a few snowballs at each other. We ended up with a design for a much more ambitious competitive PvP game with power pickups and capture points.

Some users who were part of the early PvP demo would have played a version of the game that still had its Christmas/winter theme, which was the theming that we had started with originally, and before it was re-skinned as Diamond Fist in January 2023. Even now, some elements of that theme still exist (though depending on when you’re reading this, those themes may have been removed).

PvP modes are step in the direction of building out multiplayer combat abilities. From there, the same building blocks can be used for PvE and other multiplayer mechanisms.

It’s worth pointing out on a technical note that the PvP modes are fully integrated into the game world. Unlike Rugbusterz which is a separate game that is launched from inside the game world, the PvP modes exist in the same world that Chain City and other locations are. It would be possible, should we decide to do it, to allow spectators to walk up to the arena as well, however at this time we are not doing that to prevent any interference that could be had by spectators (intentional or otherwise).

Version 3 improvements

Those of you watching the version numbering will have noticed the version number go from 2.21.x to 3.0.x; the large number of changes warranted a new version number.

Most of the changes between version 2 and 3 relate to player movement, and interaction. We added a new movement system that simultaneously simpler, more consistent, and flexible for our needs. This includes:

• Separate collisions for ground and flying objects, so that flying things can pass over some areas not traversable by ground objects (sorry, avatars that have a floating effect are still considered to be ground objects as far as collisions go)

• An ability to add temporary buffs/debuffs to speed, such as the long grass in PvP and mounts (allowing stacked buffs)

• More flexibility to add different cursors to hint at different interaction modes

We also changed the way player interactions are handled, you may have noticed better hitboxes on some objects, and a loading indicator for changing rooms. However we are still in the process of migrating the in-world objects over to the new system, so the improvements may not be readily apparent.

We’re thrilled to have released Version 3 and PvP modes, and our team is looking forward to using the new features to bring more engaging content and gameplay that are now in the pipeline, and sharing the results with you in the future

We plan to invest heavily in recruitment, so that we can build a world-class team capable of delivering the most exciting & innovative metaverse project on the market. By assembling the best of the best, we're confident we can create an experience unlike anything you've seen.

In the coming weeks look out for the official release of our PvP game mode. In a world first, we're enabling thousands of NFT collections to participate in competetive in fast paced gameplay. This is a huge milestone for the web3 space we look forward to bringing you.

We'd like to thank our community for their overwhelming support of our project. We have achieved so much over the last year and can't wait to bring you so much more.

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Soulbound

@SoulBound

1/ We are thrilled to announce that Worldwide Webb has raised $10 million in a round of financing led by @PanteraCapital.

coindesk.com

Pantera Invests $10M in Metaverse Game Worldwide Webb

The Web3 game allows players to utilize their existing NFT collections as avatars.

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8:04 AM • Feb 23, 2023

Press Coverage

Pantera Invests $10M in Metaverse Game Worldwide Webb

The Web3 game allows players to utilize their existing NFT collections as avatars.

https://www.coindesk.com

Retro-Style Ethereum NFT Metaverse Game Worldwide Webb Raises $10M - Decrypt

It looks like a 16-bit game, but supports over a million NFT avatars, letting players pit Bored Apes against Cool Cats and plenty more.

https://decrypt.co

https://www.theblock.co/post/214369/worldwide-webb-pantera-funding

• News now pops up on home page when there is a new entry! (If you’re seeing this on the game homepage, then it worked)

• Valentines day furniture item now available in room editor

• It is now possible to share an apartment link that will warp players directly to an apartment. the format for the URL is (for the example of Apartment #1155) https://play.webb.blue/apartments/1155

• A few more NPCs that are part of the tutorial quest

Tomorrow at Wednesday, 15 February 2023 the vendor will open, giving you the opportunity to spend your roses on something special. We're sending these roses to all our players based on their apartment holdings.

Snapshot was taken on: Monday, 13 February 2023 15:00

• Small apartments: 50 roses

• Medium apartments: 85 roses

• Large apartments: 250 roses

• Penthouse apartments: 2500 roses

See everything available at the Valentine's Day vendor next to Teshimi! In-game tradable furniture will also be purchasable for the first time in WEBB. Items will later become a free mint NFT! So, get ready to spread the love, and maybe a little bit of trading. Happy Valentine's Day from the team at Worldwide Webb, where love is always in the air... and on your screen.

Soulbound

@SoulBound

1/ Happy Valentine's Day, ladies and gentlemen! It's time for the sweetest drop of the year! You'll find a fresh bunch of roses in your mailbox today. Trade your roses with other players and share the love!

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2:18 PM • Feb 14, 2023

Gameplay

• Momentum! Capture and hold more capture points than your enemy to cause tick damage to their base

• Spawn areas! The uncapturable reload stations are gone, and in their place, the entire spawn area provides increased ammo and health regen.

• Action Feed V2! This should look a bit cooler now.

• Ability Supply Drops! As your base health drops, you'll receive ability supply drops in your base.

• Stat tracking! Stat tracking has been enabled, you'll see some of it on the end screen (This is a VERY work in progress screen)

• Auto start! The game will auto start once enough players have joined.

Abilities

• Flame Tongue no longer treats everyone the same. It now removes ammo from enemies, and removes slows/healing blocks from teammates

• Auto pick-up will only work if you don't have an ability equipped. If you have one, you'll need to use it first.

General

• Map updates. Check out the spectators all around, and what happened to the ground... looks like a warzone.

• Visual fixes and optimisations. These are in progress, we're bringing the UI and HUD more inline with the new art style/map

Known Issues

• The capture points on the HUD don't match the ingame points (there is one missing)

• Abilities are instantly disappearing, rather than doing their fade animations

• We've replaced the square placeholder grass tiles with a placeholder grass texture. It looks quite flat, but don't worry, it'll grow soon. Not really an issue, but just pointing it out, it'll change soon.

We’ve listened to all your thoughts and suggestions for the game and are tweaking accordingly. We want to give a special thank you to all you giving us your continued support in improving our game.

Below you’ll find all changes made in the latest PvP build:

• You will spawn in the PvP waiting area now rather than having to trek through Chain City.

• There is a new horizontal map that has a smaller footprint than the previous one.

• Updated visuals --- Base map --- Capture points --- Bases --- Base attack

• Ability changes: --- Abilities now spawn at capture points as well as in the middle of the map --- Abilities can be neutral or team assigned, team assigned abilities can only be picked up by that team --- Team assigned abilities are created at capture points if that point is owned by a team when the ability spawns --- Abilities despawn if not picked up after a while --- Abilities are automatically picked by being in close proximity to them

• The end screen fires now correctly show if you won, lost, or drew.

• Game length has been reduced to 6 minutes while we test the current endgame slowdown. Base health has been reduced to reflect the shorter game time

• Improved movement, you should get stuck on corners less

• Grass has been added! Currently it's just green squares - it will look nicer soon. Moving through grass will slow you down. (And there may be other mechanics coming along soon for grassy areas...)

Known issues new in this build (No need to report these):

• Attacks can skip through the corners of the bases, so aim for the middle!

• Abilities don't always visually despawn correctly, occasionally leaving a 'ghost' ability

• Your local player may be invisible after respawning (it only looks like that to you, you’re not a ninja to anyone else)

Rewards will be rewarded throughout, and KONG IS BACK!

The following alteration is intended for both new and old players as we found the game too challenging for those completely new and we wanted there to be some greater challenges in the later stages of the game.

Firstly, more bosses have been implemented to make up for the lack of rewards past 20mins.

Other enemies and bosses have been adjusted to improve the pacing of the game:

1. Cryptoads will now spawn later in the game

2. Giant Bat will spawn later

3. Epic will spawn earlier

Weapon changes:

1. Minigun base damage reduced

2. Chain Lightning base damage increased

3. Baseball Bat base damage increased

Loot changes:

1. Kong boss is the only enemy to drop blueprints

As a follow-up to our previous announcement regarding a temporary suspension of player trading, we have conducted an in-depth analysis of the affected accounts to ensure that legitimate players have been identified. In response, we have taken the following actions:

1. Any account found to have exploited the game will face an outright permanent ban. There is no excuse for this behavior and we will not accept any appeals.

2. Users who received implicated items without trading for them in-game will be temporarily banned. These users may appeal the ban by providing evidence that they were not affiliated with the group of users who exploited the game, such as communication records and on-chain records of Ethereum transactions. Purchased gold and resources that originated from the exploit will not be reinstated, but purchased weapons and avatars may be reinstated at our sole discretion. Ethereum spent may also be reimbursed at our sole discretion.

3. Users who traded items with implicated accounts will not be banned. The trade will be reimbursed or reversed (items received removed, items sent reimbursed). These users may submit an appeal if they wish, and these will be dealt with on a case-by-case basis.

4. Accounts pending further investigation will not be banned. Implicated items will be removed pending further investigation. After the investigation, items may be reinstated or further moderation action may be necessary. An appeal is possible in this case.

We apologize for the inconvenience caused by the temporary suspension of player trading, but we hope you understand that this was necessary to address the issue of exploitation and ensure that legitimate users were not unfairly affected.

We will continue to monitor the situation closely and take any necessary action to ensure that our game remains fair and enjoyable for all players. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

Player trading will be re-enabled Wednesday, 18 January 2023 14:00 GMT

Please use this form to submit your appeal: https://wgvtkxzi5uw.typeform.com/to/AyMNtyqx

• New Movement system

• New Input system

  The new input system gives more consistent and intuitive interaction with things in the world. Hovering the mouse over the ground will hint at where you can walk, while hovering over interactable objects in the world will give a hint about what will happen when the mouse is clicked

• Improved login queue. The login queue (when activated) will display your position in the queue

Other changes

• Minor Protection Potion, Soda Can, and Skateboard have been removed as default recipes on alchemy/crafting tables. These must now be gained as a recipe and taught to the table.

• Game files have been compressed, resulting in faster page download. (This also resolves some issues on iOS, but further issues are known to exist)

Rugbusterz Changes:

• Visual update to weapons and effects

• Score returns as a multiplier based on weapons, so you will achieve higher scores with more weapons

• Bug with tutorial fixed, when the player finishes tutorial they should have: 

  • Weeberall

  • Heartiness

  • Sleight of Hand

  • Old Pocket watch

  • Vibroshiv

  • Viper sniper

  • Baseball Bat

  • Wefco Drone

  If players are impacted by this, please reset quests from the menu. You will lose only weapons connected to quests, which is currently just the tutorial.

• Area Enhancer minor updates:

  • Now effects fire patch left from fire drone

  • Drone explosion radius

Bug Fixes

• Apartment builder correctly reports room size instead of 9999 after loading default

• Some NFT collections that don’t use apiPath now correctly showing up

• Halloween Avatars now correctly showing up again

• NFT avatars will be re-fetched more often, to allow for spritesheet changes

• Gold commission for Apartment Holders: apartment holders will receive a 10% commission on the gold cost of any recipe crafted in their apartment. Commission is delivered by mail approximately every hour. Rates and recipe costs may be adjusted in the future

Other changes

• Birthday present event ended

Bug Fixes

• Fishing is fixed

• DGS disconnect after crafting is fixed

• Add Party Hat item

• Add Login queue: During times of high traffic your login may be queued for a short time

• Add new tutorial quest

Rugbusterz Changes:

• There is no longer a limit on Rugbusterz passive slots.

We felt that limiting passives in Rugbusterz retracted from the potential of builds, things like Weeberall will always be a necessity and maxing it is essential to surviving in the late game. Whilst we think that is okay, the route to achieving that shouldn’t be so linear (we have plans for the future to further improve this dynamic). A less used passive like window shopper for example, provides the highest value earliest in the game, but late game will feel like a wasted passive slot. We hope that removing the limit hopefully gives the players more freedom.” 2. Removal of weapon selection screen, you now take all of your inventory in the game “Rugbusterz has a relationship with the total items you take into the game, the more you have the harder it is to achieve the perfect build. Having to select non-optimal passives left a sour taste on certain runs, which has been addressed with the infinite slots. The weapons are where the randomness feels more fun, and the skill expression should be about navigating your selection to find a build that works well with your current equipment.

This is the area we want to guide Rugbusterz towards, and expand in this direction to increase build variance and complexity whilst retaining a level of skill-based decision making.

• Scaling changes, the game increases in difficulty at an exponential rate.

Ultimately the current infinite game mode for Rugbusterz worked well as a stop gap for what we want to achieve, and provided a large amount of sample data to help us build forward. Going for really long runs was fun and many of you have gotten pretty good at it, however it isn’t the game experience we want as our main focus (there will still be plenty of spaces for that type of skill expression). We believe the more engaging part of Rugbusterz is managing your exp per second in the game. Focusing on game modes where bosses spawn at defined intervals (i.e. number of kills or level), and then measuring players on their time to defeat bosses is a more engaging expression of skill. Additionally, this shifts the gameplay paradigm towards players having a spare 25 minutes for a game of Rugbusterz, as opposed to needing to clear out their evening to take on a marathon run.

• Visual update

I hope everyone is enjoying the new look, a lot of work went into this and there is still a bit more work to be done with the weapons and some minor additional tweaks. We feel this has brought the game more inline with the main game world

• Total mob cap increased

This feeds into optimization and might be why people are experiencing framerate issues, we are playing with this currently and testing the outcomes. It is possible that we have bitten off more than we can chew, given the visual update in parallel. We will continue to test and tweak, and we thank you for your patience on this.”

Bug fixes:

• Inventory loading slowdown is fixed: inventory should load faster now and not require a reload

• NFTs you no longer own are correctly cleared from your inventory

• Apartment crafting table recipes are restored

• Rugbusterz 59 second pause is fixed

• Spawning into the game is more reliable (less likely to see black screen after login)

• Add energy bar

Bug fixes:

• Major Health Potion recipe now correctly shows up in inventory

• Cloaking Device and its recipe now correctly shows up in inventory

Apologies, we have not yet been able to fix the stray pixel on the Pizza Weeb building