Battle Type

FRESH TEXT, EVERY SINGLE MATCH Words battles now pull a live passage from Wikipedia, matched to the era and category you chose credited on screen, and never the same text twice. Speeches come from real transcripts on Wikisource instead of prose about them. A SCORE THAT SAYS WHAT YOU DID Every correct keystroke is exactly one character. The extra reach some characters take is paid separately as BONUS: punctuation and capitals are worth +1, numbers and symbols +2. The battle screen names each category and what it pays while you type, so you always know what a stretch of text is worth. ONE LADDER DECIDES EVERY MATCH Characters, then total bonus, then errors. That is what settles a battle, what sets your personal best, and what promotes a run to your ghost, one rule everywhere instead of three different ones. A REBUILT FINISH SCREEN Results now open with the battle you just played: outcome, grade, character score, match time and category in a single card, with the replay button built into it. Head-to-head reads as the ladder itself, whichever side won a rung lights up, and the pace chart draws both runs, yours and theirs. BATTLE PEOPLE YOU KNOW • Game Center invites finally arrive. Send one from the channel screen or the lobby, and accept one straight into a match. • SEARCH FOR ANYONE now runs inside Battle Type instead of a full-screen sheet, and tells you how many players are actually queued. • RUN IT BACK rematches the opponent you just faced, online or nearby, instead of dropping you back in the queue with a stranger. SHARPER EVERYWHERE • The home type selector shows what you would be typing and reads as swipeable. • Both progress meters in a battle now measure the same thing at the same scale. • Timed matches size their passage properly and always end on a whole word. • Live typing rides a faster channel, so a lossy connection cannot stall your opponent's progress bar. • Leaving a match tells your opponent immediately, instead of leaving them on a countdown that was always going to end in MATCH ABANDONED.