Guests on the board, a podium in the menu, and Evil Corp in its own red

Sharing a score no longer needs an account.

Since 1.4, every score on the leaderboard belonged to an account. That stopped anyone from posting under someone else's name, but it also meant an email, a login link and a username before your best run could go anywhere. For a lot of people, that was one step too many.

So there is a second way in. When you share a score, the leaderboard page now offers a plain name field next to the login. Type a name, press the button, done. Accounts still work exactly as before, and they still own their names: a guest can't pick a name that already belongs to one.

A guest always looks like a guest.

The whole point of accounts was that a name on the board means something. A guest name therefore always carries "(guest)" behind it, on the leaderboard, on the homepage and in the game itself. It isn't stored as part of the name, it's added wherever a name is shown, so nobody can type their way around it. The daily challenge still counts one attempt per player, guests included.

The board, from the main menu.

The game has had a button to send a score to the leaderboard for a while, but no way to look at it without leaving. Next to the daily challenge there is now a small podium. It shows today's top three and the all-time top ten, fetched only when you press it. Offline, it says so instead of pretending.

Evil Corp gets its own red.

At the end of every phase, Evil Corp's proposal waits on the map. Its card used the same bright alarm red as the scope bar, which made it look less like a competitor's bid and more like a fire drill. It now takes the dark brick red from its own illustrations. Dark red text is hard to read on a dark card, so the button carries the colour instead.

Smaller things.

Winning a tender used to announce that it was awarded to Pico Bello, whichever firm you were actually running. It now names yours. Playing with a keyboard, picking a card no longer throws the selection back to the top-left corner; it stays where you were. And the tips for a first run got a proper look: two tips arriving at once used to overwrite each other, one tip existed but was never shown, and two new ones explain debt cards and Evil Corp's proposal.

A leaderboard that asks less of you, and a competitor that finally dresses for the occasion. Evil Corp has submitted a formal objection to the new colour. It was four times the length of anyone else's.