CellSnake Updates & Changelog

Performance & smoothness overhaul

June 22, 2026

Perf Server CPU cut from 68% to 51% — idle rooms now tick at 10Hz instead of 30Hz.
Fix Client prediction now reconciles only on fresh server data — eliminates the "snake fighting the cursor" feel.
Fix Interpolation buffer widened — fixes the intermittent 3–5 frame freeze players reported.
Fix Respawn no longer briefly locks your snake in place — momentum carries through.
Perf Render-path gradient caching — removes tens of MB/s of allocations and the GC hitches they caused.
Perf AI food-search moved to a spatial grid — ~10× cheaper per decision.

June 20, 2026

New Five guaranteed color-matched starter pellets ring every fresh spawn — your first bite lands within seconds.
New Early milestones at 100, 250 and 500 mass — new players hit their first celebration in ~15 seconds.
New Survival milestones at 60 seconds, 2 minutes and 5 minutes alive.
New "Next milestone" progress bar under your mass counter — a visible goal at all times.
New Session streak counter on the death screen — frames retries as a run, not a failure.
Fix Auto-respawn shortened from 5s to 3s.

June 17, 2026

Mobile All-new floating virtual joystick — touch anywhere in the lower screen, drag to steer.
Mobile Integrated boost: pull the stick to its edge and boost engages automatically, with hysteresis so it never flickers.
Mobile Pointer capture — a thumb sliding off the pad no longer drops your input.
Mobile 33% wider pellet-collection radius on touch devices.
Mobile Screen wake-lock keeps your display on mid-game.
Mobile Decluttered HUD: leaderboard and minimap removed on small screens — the arena owns the display.
Mobile Haptic feedback on kills, deaths and milestones.

June 14, 2026

New Result-aware death screen: "So close!" with your rank and the exact mass gap to the next place up.
New Top-3 podium on the death screen, with your own row highlighted.
Perf Canvas-API hardening — a whole class of rendering crashes on unusual devices eliminated.

June 10, 2026

New AI rivals actively steer away from players in their first 60 seconds.
New First-join spawn shield doubled to 10 seconds.
New ✦ NEW badge over newcomers' names so veterans know to go easy.
Fix Major state-sync fix — eliminated 165,000+ buffer-overflow events that caused rubber-banding.