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CombaTON is now Valdarian. One window style across the game, every NPC menu rebuilt, real Blink and Shadowstep in the hex battle, fair open-world PvP, and a long list of fixes.
🦅 COMBATON IS NOW VALDARIAN
• New crest on the loading screen and hero select, new name across the game in all 31 languages.
• Your hero, items and progress stay exactly as they are.
🪟 ONE LOOK FOR EVERY WINDOW
• Every dialog now uses the same new window, and there are no more plain browser pop-ups anywhere in the game.
• Every section page got the new look: one tab bar, a centred heading, painted art instead of emoji, and a slim header with your portrait, level and power.
• Item window redesigned: the item on a lit stand in its rarity colour, with a this / equipped / difference table and a one-line verdict. Rings and one-handers: pick the slot from tiles showing the Gear Score change.
• Abilities in fewer taps, with your hotbar right on the page. Primary stats show the next bonus threshold, and combat stats show whether a number is above or below players around your level.
• Talents laid out in lanes, a rebuilt Skills page, and a new info window for players, monsters and NPCs.
• Every screen and popup has a way back: its ✕, Esc or the Back button.
🧑‍🌾 NPCS
• One window for every NPC: quests first, then their services with a live status. Tap a service to open it inside the same window.
• Every shop and every crafter works the same way now: a clear list, the total before you confirm, and "can craft ×N" or exactly what's missing on each recipe.
• Class trainers, the arena master, dungeons, the market, gem exchange, pawnshop, gem cutting and bank got the same list → window look. A locked dungeon difficulty says exactly why.
• Selling, crafting, the bank, chests, paid upgrades and dungeon entry are safe against double taps and lag: you pay once, and only when you actually get it.
🎯 HEX BATTLE
• Mage's Blink really teleports now: pick a free hex up to 4 away, walls don't block it, 4 AP, and you still get full dodge for a round.
• Rogue's Shadowstep jumps behind its target (5 AP).
• Casts now line up with the hero's swing and release.
• New spell effects in the hex battle: every school has its own hit — fire bursts, frost shards, shadow, holy light, poison, nature and arcane — plus effects for freeze, stun, shields, heals and burning. Projectiles fly as the spell itself, without the ability card.
• Combos break like in the classic battle: a basic attack or an ability that isn't the next step ends your chain ("Combo broken"). Moving, potions and ending the turn don't. Monsters now finish their own chains too.
• New combat text: punchy numbers with an icon for what happened — hit, crit, block, miss, dodge, fire, poison, heal and more.
• One icon set for the whole fight: the floating word, the status chip under the portrait and its tooltip now show the same icon in the same colour.
⚔️ OPEN-WORLD PVP
• You can now attack other players right on the map: tap a player, then tap again to attack. The fight opens as a hex battle on the spot.
• Party and guild mates standing nearby join their side.
• No attacks in safe zones, in towns without PvP, on someone already in a fight, or more than 1 level apart.
• Attacking the same player again needs a 10-minute pause.
• Repeated fights between the same two accounts stop paying rewards after 3 a day.
🎲 LOOT
• Party roll redesigned: a sheet at the bottom with every player's dice and one big Need | Greed | Pass bar. The timer turns red in the last 5 seconds, and the result stays on the sheet (it no longer drifts off-screen on phones).
• Loot window is now a list, best items first, with full names, rarity and count. A full bag shows right in the window with an Open backpack button.
• Tap any drop — in the loot window, a party roll or a chest — to open its item window and compare it stat by stat with what you wear: this, worn and the difference with arrows.
🗺 WORLD
• 19 monsters got brand-new animated models: the whole Gallows Road (revenant, gallows horror and ghost, bandit taxman and veteran, bat, wolves, scout), the Old Road boar, the Mogilesye stone golem, and in Pine Skete, Drowned Isle and Brigand Haven the fire elemental, orc berserker, infected wolf, demon guard, ghost sailor, drowned abomination, harbor siren and chimera.
• Quest pointer moved into a card under the quest button: quest name, arrow and distance, the current step with its counter, and "via portal" when the way leads through one. Names are never cut off any more, and one tap opens the quest.
• Six more monsters with new models: the young dragon of Drowned Isle, the infected bear of Pine Skete, the harbor pirate of Brigand Haven, and Mogilesye's spore colossus, root horror and grave ghost. Eight more monsters move more smoothly.
• The old city screens with the 15-second travel are gone for good: the world map is the only place you play now.
• Engage from range: tap a monster and your hero stops and starts the fight from weapon reach — 4 tiles for melee, 8 for ranged. No more walking right into its face.
🕰 SEASONS
• Day and night now follow the season: long nights in winter (up to 12 hours), long days in summer (up to 16 hours), the usual schedule at the equinoxes.
• The game clock shows the season and today's day and night hours.
✨ FEEL
• Skill-ups now pop up as cards at the bottom of the screen instead of a plain line on top.
• Gathered resources fly into your bag as item icons.
🛠 FIXES
• Desktop: key 2 now does exactly what the target card's button says — with Attack lit, the hero fights from range instead of walking up to the monster.
• The quest pin no longer disappears after a battle.
• Skete Catacombs: the Dead Men's Hall opens only after the smugglers' den, and a room emptied out of order can no longer keep the exit sealed.
• Chimeras, demon guards, ghosts, golems and other creatures no longer show up as black silhouettes.
• Wallet: a new in-game wallet's seed phrase stays on screen until you confirm you saved it.
• Wallet: the NFT tab loads your NFTs instead of spinning forever, and no longer shows sample items.
• Wallet: disconnecting asks for confirmation first, works only for an empty external wallet, and the button is gone from the in-game wallet, which can never be removed.
• Two potions drunk at once both heal now (one used to be wasted).
• Security: a round of fixes so nobody but you can act on your character, its effects, loot or chests.
• Skills follow the rules on the Skills page: the skill total cap now really holds, one craft trains its skill once (not twice), and salvaging pays the advertised skill bonus (+0.5% resources per skill point, up to +50%).
• Ukrainian: the whole interface is now in Ukrainian (over a thousand lines were still in English), and broken item, quest, recipe and monster names are fixed.
• Kazakh: about a thousand lines that were English words spelled in Cyrillic are now real Kazakh. Stat names that were half in English are fixed in Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Swedish, Finnish, Uzbek and other languages, and effects no longer show as raw codes like HEALING_RECEIVED.
• Italian: many word-by-word translations replaced with proper ones (guild, battle stats, world map, minting), and the Skete Cellar Warden is now the Custode dei Sotterranei dello Skete.
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See you in the arena. ⚔️
#Valdarian #TON #GameFi

Agar.io runs on one rule: you are a cell, you eat whatever is smaller and run from whatever is bigger. The rule is simple, so dozens of games picked it up. Here are six where it plays out differently: a snake, a tank, a hole in the middle of a city, a land grab, a food chain and a bubble with money inside.
What makes a game "like Agar.io"
• One map, live opponents, real-time fights.
• You grow from food and from the players you eat.
• Big means slow and easy to spot, small means fast.
• Die, and you're back in a new round right away.
• It runs in a browser or on a phone with no long install.
1. slither.io: a snake instead of a cell
Released in March 2016 by independent developer Steve Howse. You are a snake collecting glowing orbs. Whoever hits another snake's body with their head dies, so a small snake can cut off a big one. A dead snake breaks into big orbs, and the hunt for them starts instantly. Google named slither.io the most-searched video game of 2016 in the US.
2. diep.io: tanks from the creator of Agar.io
Made by Matheus Valadares, who made Agar.io. You don't eat, you shoot. You earn XP for destroying shapes and tanks, pick upgrades every level, then unlock a new tank class.
3. Hole.io: a hole that eats the city
Released in 2018 by the French studio Voodoo. You are a hole in the pavement: first people and street clutter, then cars, then buildings. A round lasts two minutes, and the biggest hole wins.
4. Paper.io 2: a land grab
Also by Voodoo, 2018. Leave your land, draw a line, come back, and everything you circled is yours. What counts is area, not mass. While you're outside your land you leave a tail, and if a rival crosses it, you're out.
5. mope.io: a food chain
A browser game from 2016. You start as a small animal, eat berries and whoever is below you in the chain, drink water and evolve into a bigger animal. Who eats whom depends on the species, not just size.
6. Crybble Wars: Agar.io with money in the bubble
Our game, played in the browser. Bubbles grow from food, the big one eats the small one, a bubble splits and shoots mass. The difference is money inside the bubble.
• Entry is free, or 1, 30 or 100 CBW.
• With a paid entry, the money sits right in your bubble.
• Get eaten, and it drops on the map as chests for others to pick up.
• You can only take money out through the house button, with a 10-second countdown.
• Free and paid players share one map but pass through each other.
Six games side by side
• slither.io (2016): a snake, grows from food and remains of rivals; browser and phone.
• diep.io (2016): a tank, grows from XP for shapes and tanks; browser and phone.
• Hole.io (2018): a hole, grows from everything it swallows in a round; phone, consoles, PC.
• Paper.io 2 (2018): a square, grows from land it circles; browser and phone.
• mope.io (2016): an animal, evolves through the food chain; browser.
• Crybble Wars: a bubble, grows from food and players, with chests from paid entries; browser.
Crybble Wars is 18+ for paid arenas and doesn't promise earnings. You can lose a paid entry and everything you picked up.
#GameFi #Web3Gaming #CrybbleWars

Since the last post almost every screen in CombaTON has been redrawn. Fights moved onto a hex battlefield, chests open in 3D, the maps follow a day and night clock, and the Drowned Isle and two city dungeons are open. Here's the tour, with the full battle breakdown coming in the next post.
✨ A NEW LOOK, TOP TO BOTTOM
Sign-in, the world HUD, the bottom bar, every window: nearly everything you touch outside a fight has been redrawn, and it now fits phones held either way as well as wide PC screens.
• New bottom bar: a smoked-glass capsule over the world, with your hero's portrait in the fire-rune orb in the middle. On desktop it becomes a full MMO bar: Character C, Inventory B, Loot L, Map M, then Activities J, Social O, Wallet K and Menu Esc. The bag tile shows how full it is, the loot tile lights up with new drops, and the map tile shows your coordinates and stops your route with a click. The duplicate side buttons are gone on desktop.
• New world HUD: your health, class resource and XP run as glowing threads, the zone name sits on an iron plate that is easier to read on bright maps, and every button on the map is a round painted ring. Chat, the target frame and your own panel, loot window and history, party, quest tracker, dungeon panel, cast bar, world boss alerts and the FPS counter all join the same style.
• The ember ring at the top is now the game clock: the time in the middle, the dial coloured by night, dawn, day and dusk, and a sun or moon riding around it. Tap it for the full in-game date. Your level moved next to XP («Lv 2 · XP 10%»); hover or tap that line to see how much XP is left to the next level.
• Map zoom is one magnifier button: tap it and drag the slider. It closes by itself after a few seconds. The center button in the bottom bar brings the camera back to your hero on every map.
• New look for every window: smoked glass with a smouldering ember thread on top, one style for quests, loot, backpack, settings, the pause menu and confirmations. On a phone windows slide up from the bottom, in landscape they slide in from the right, on PC they stay draggable.
• More windows moved to the new look: the quest journal, the item window (with a close button on PC), loot filters, the shop, premium, guild, party and arena match found, city travel, enchanting, the workshop, the resource market, dungeon ready check and run summary, the prologue and story cards, character select and the character card.
• Backpack: a compact status line (CBT, TON, slots used with a fill bar), tabs with icons and counters, sort and zoom behind one View button, and quiet dashed empty slots, so your items start much higher on the screen.
• Windows on desktop have two sizes: the expand button switches between a small and a large window, each keeps the place and size you gave it, and a window reopens in the size you closed it in.
• Esc on desktop now closes whatever window is on top, one at a time (item details, bag, map, chests, dialogs), and opens the pause menu only when nothing else is open.
• Phones held sideways: the world screen no longer piles buttons on top of each other. Side buttons sit in the bottom corners beside the main bar, the quest pointer moved to the top right instead of covering your hero, keyboard hints are gone on touch screens, and names above characters use the game's own lettering. Inventory, Loot and Map sit in the bottom bar like on desktop, so the screen edges stay clear; on iPhones the side buttons hug the edges and step around the notch, whichever way you turn the phone.
• Map on phones: pinching zooms around your fingers instead of throwing the map off screen, two fingers also pan, and lifting them no longer picks whatever was under the last finger.
• New sign-in, hero select and hero creation: one torch-lit hall, hero cards with level, location, health and mana, and creation that shows the server's reason when a name is taken or slots are full. Creation no longer breaks on devices where the 3D hero can't load: the painted class art stays and you can still make your hero.
• Game sounds (birds, music) now go quiet when you minimise the game or switch to another app, and come back when you return.
• Guild and team actions (kick, leave, disband, role change) now ask in a proper in-game window instead of the phone's system pop-up, and class names show in your language instead of BARBARIAN or ROGUE.
⚔️ TACTICS BATTLE: TARGET FIRST, THEN STRIKE
Fights now play out on a hex battlefield, and this is the biggest change in the update. Here's the short version; the full breakdown is in the next post.
• Target first, then strike: tap an enemy to take it as your target, then tap an ability to cast at it. Tap your target again for a basic attack. No target picked? The ability goes to the nearest enemy in reach.
• A cleaner battle screen: with the phone held sideways the whole header (portraits, HP, resource, effects, action points, timer and round) sits in the strip between the app's Close and menu buttons. The classic compact ability bar is back with cooldowns, locks and AP costs on each tile, and the turn timer is a medallion with a ring: gold on your turn, red on the enemy's.
• Your hero acts out every ability, two one-handed weapons strike right then left, Charge rushes your hero at an enemy up to 4 hexes away, and crafter summons stand on the field for 7 rounds.
• New results screen: it slides up from the bottom over the battlefield, with your loot, XP and stats in one place.
• Balance moved too: aimed abilities hit ×1.5 harder, self buffs and self heals cost 2 AP, Barbarian rage grows with the damage again, and talents that fire on a kill or a crit work in the new battle. Full breakdown in the next post.
💎 CHESTS & ITEMS
Opening a chest is a small show now: a real 3D chest cracks open, the item rises onto a card, and the loot is safe even if the server answers late or your bag is full.
• Every chest opens with its own 3D chest: it cracks, flashes, and the item rises onto a card with Claim / Re-spin / Open again. The spinning reel is gone. If the server answers late you never lose the loot.
• The five lootbox chests (common to legendary) were remade in high quality: sharp textures with real surface detail instead of the old blurry look, and they still load fast on phones.
• Chests have their own sounds: the chest lands, its runes charge up, the lid strains against the lock, the lock bursts and the item rises, and each rarity, from common to mythic, ends on its own chime. Skipping the opening plays only the best item's chime.
• Several items in one chest? They show as cards you swipe through (arrows or ← → on desktop), with a counter and one Claim all button. A small tapping finger shows that you can tap a card to see what the item does.
• Opening a chest with a full bag no longer traps you on the Retry screen: close it, free some space, and the loot arrives on its own (it is kept for 7 days).
• 121 weapons and armour pieces got new hand-painted icons, new descriptions, and names that match the art.
💰 REWARDS, CRAFTING & GATHERING
The daily reward finally pays the CBT it shows, gathering is live in the starting lands, and crafting tells you what you actually made.
• Daily login really pays the CBT it shows, and it grows through the week: from 1 CBT on day 1 to 4 CBT on day 7, +10% for every full week you keep the streak (up to +90%), and ×1.5 on every 10th day.
• New daily login window: your streak in a ring of fire that really burns (the flames sway and flare, sparks fly up off the ring), the week as chests, today's three rewards on cards, and tomorrow's reward shown with the cycle and 10th-day bonuses counted in. On PC it opens wide: your streak on the left, the week and today's rewards on the right.
• Gathering in the Forgotten Outskirts: chop trees, mine rocks, pick herbs and fish at the rings on the lake. Each node takes a few strikes, then grows back after a few minutes. What you gather goes straight to your bag, and your Lumberjacking, Prospecting, Foraging or Fishing skill grows with it.
• Resource rings on the map are coloured by kind (wood brown, ore grey, herbs and fibre green) and show through roofs. Gathering spots that sat inside houses in Pine Skete, Brigand Harbor, Gallows Road, Crimson Thicket and Forgotten Outskirts were moved out into the open.
• Crafting results: processing (tanned leather, ingots…) now shows what you made with its picture and amount, the crafter's portrait sits on top, items get a quality-coloured frame, and the Claim button really collects the order when you're at the crafter.
• Crafting chains no longer pop the result window at every step: in-between steps show a short note, and the window opens once for the finished item.
• Trainer resets are cheaper: from level 10 you get 3 free talent resets and 3 free stat resets, then 10 CBT each (was 100 CBT). The trainer shows how many free ones you have left.
🗺️ WORLD & DUNGEONS
New places to explore, maps that follow the in-game clock from dawn to deep night, and every hero on the map now wears what they actually own.
• The Drowned Isle is open: take the boat from the lighthouse pier in Brigand Harbor. Recommended level 10.
• Two new solo dungeons in the fenced yard on the east side of Volnograd. City Crypt, level 10+: Crypt Keeper Osten takes you down to the tomb of Lord Severin Vellar. Cemetery Catacombs, level 12+: Gravedigger Gavr, and the Bone King waiting at the bottom. Gates open as you clear the rooms; the first clear pays a CBT bonus.
• The Sealed Descent in Pine Skete now leads somewhere: the Cellar Warden waits by the hatch and takes you down into the Skete Dungeons.
• Maps follow the in-game clock: dawn, day, dusk and night, with smooth twilight between them. Characters and monsters are lit to match, so nobody glows in the dark.
• Every hero on the map wears their real gear: other players see your armour and weapons, and you see theirs. Two-handed weapons are held in both hands: the left hand grips the shaft, two-handed strikes play their own swing, wrists no longer twist into a cone and fists close around the handle.
• Mounted heroes: the horse looks straight ahead instead of off to the left, turns its head and leans into turns.
• Monster packs are marked on the map: target one monster, and its packmates that will join the fight get a faint ring, with ×N on the target bar.
• New world map window (M): every map in the same 3/4 view as the game, with your hero, markers and route right on it. Breadcrumbs from Known worlds to the map you're on, an all-worlds layer with every realm you've found, names sitting next to their own markers without overlapping, a points-of-interest list with quest marks, and the route card with distance, portals and travel time. Centre-on-me button on every device.
• Expeditions: routes are now a hand of painted cards. Swipe through them, flip a card to read its conditions, and the chosen one shows its facts, rewards and task. Running, evacuating and going deeper live on the same card.
• In dungeons, the panel shows how many enemies are left in the room you're clearing.
• Wide doors in Crimson Thicket, Gallows Road, Pine Skete, Brigand Harbor and the Drowned Isle are now double doors: a fixed frame and two leaves that swing outwards. The Thicket hut door no longer hangs in the air above the doorway.
• Roofs turn see-through around you and nearby creatures instead of hiding you as a gold outline, and chimney smoke no longer rises inside a house.
• Tapping a resource, chest or door you can't stand right next to: your hero walks to the closest spot and gathers or opens from there. If it's truly out of reach, you're told so instead of nothing happening.
• Heroes leave footprints on soft ground again, just like monsters.
🛠️ FIXES & TRANSLATIONS
The small things that kept getting in the way, a few class bonuses that finally apply, and three big translation passes.
• Class bonuses that never applied now do: the Barbarian's +20% and the Cleric's +50% out-of-combat regeneration were reset to the base 100% by every stat recalculation. Existing heroes were corrected.
• Crafter luck is counted once: the class's +15 luck, as listed on the class card, was being added twice.
• Fewer disconnects from the world while running with the stick, and the wallet history and skill screens no longer throw silent server errors.
• Fixed the map going dead after talking to a merchant: taps did nothing and the camera came loose until you reopened the game. If it ever happens, the next tap brings it back.
• Volnograd no longer opens to a black screen, and the crypt keeper and the gravedigger now stand in the city to send you into the crypt and the catacombs.
• After dying in the Forgotten Outskirts you no longer come back standing in the water, and on Gallows Road you no longer respawn hidden under a roof.
• Monsters no longer shuffle back and forth by one tile on patrol, and names above running heroes and monsters stay on them instead of jumping ahead.
• Roofs in Pine Skete, Brigand Harbor, Gallows Road, Drowned Isle and Crimson Thicket no longer come back when you walk between rooms inside a building.
• Phones in fullscreen mode: your health and resource numbers no longer slip under the Close button, both bars are the same width, and the map buttons on the right sit just below them.
• Windows can no longer be dragged or resized off the screen, and the route distance on the map no longer shows long decimals like 31.0103 tiles.
• Translations, pass one: about 1,300 lines in 29 languages that had been glued to the text of a neighbouring line (a word from another button tacked on the end) are translated again from English.
• Pass two: the expedition panel is now translated into all 28 languages that showed it in English, and broken lines (cut-off phrases, mixed-up gem and stat names, machine-translation slips) were fixed. Intellect now reads INTE so it is no longer confused with Intuition (INT).
• Pass three: about 1,600 half-English lines in 23 languages are fully translated, Belarusian and Serbian no longer fall back to Russian text, and Kazakh and Serbian lines that were just English spelled in Cyrillic now read as real sentences.
• Italian: the chest Claim button now reads «Preleva» so it can't be confused with a reroll.
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See you in the arena. ⚔️
#CombaTON #TON #GameFi