Poll Wars

Sound is back — and the game is finally smooth with it on. We rebuilt the audio engine from scratch. The old one rewound each sound to replay it, which stalls a frame on iOS; that was the stutter. Sound effects now run on their own thread and can't touch the frame rate. Also in this update: • The difficulty keeps climbing. It used to stop getting harder around score 96 — long runs went flat. Now the pressure keeps building well past that, while the early game is exactly as it was. • Cleaner national standings. Thanks to everyone who kept telling us it felt choppy. You were right, and you were specific enough that we could find it.