Modes

Official play is four catalog modes plus a co-op raid occupancy. Community servers are separate.

Id	Name	Join	Unlock	Typical port
easy	Breezeway	Open (guest name OK)	Level 1	3001
medium	Midway	Open (guest name OK)	Level 1	3004
hard	Terminal	Open, account	Level 4	3002
ranked	Arena [BETA]	Ranked token	Level 6	3003
raid	Crossroads	Party reservation	Feature-flagged	3005

Unlock levels come from lifetime XP prestige (shared/modeUnlocks.ts). Easy and Medium stay free-to-play for guests.

Open (Breezeway / Midway / Terminal)

Drop In from Find. Official open joins go through the authority: it picks a live runtime, reserves seats, and issues a short-lived assignment token. The runtime admits that token and does not take a naked guest join when OPEN_ASSIGNMENT_REQUIRED is on.

• Up to 8 humans per process. Bots fill empty seats on official servers.
• Mid-match join is allowed when seats are free.
• Parties stay on one runtime and one team. They are never split by rebalance.
• If official servers are full, you wait. The platform can start another process on the same host when capacity allows.

Open parties

From the same Drop In modal (not a separate button):

• Account + unique username required to invite or accept. Guests still drop in solo.
• Invite by username. Default party max is 4 (OPEN_PARTY_MAX_SIZE).
• Accept opens Find and the matching mode's Drop In modal.
• Ready means that exact modal is open and heartbeating.
• Pending invites block the final drop. The leader can revoke them.
• Ranked and community joins keep their own flows.

Friends, an inbox, and a notification center live on the main menu when those flags are on.

Ranked (Arena)

One competitive lane at hard difficulty.

• Clerk session → authority join token. The runtime checks an Ed25519 token; it does not see the Clerk secret.
• Starts in pre-match: doors locked, unlimited ammo, unscored, bots do not count.
• Live match needs ≥ 4 humans, even human teams, and unanimous ready.
• First human to leave a live ranked match voids it. Only the leaver loses Skill and XP. Everyone else may leave free.
• When the last human leaves, the instance hard-resets to a clean pre-match.
• Ranked is joinable only in pre-match with free seats (no mid-live drop-in).
• Ranked parties are the older Party · Ranked lobby (invite by username, all-or-nothing join of the single ranked instance).

See Ranking.

Raid (Crossroads)

Co-op, 2–4 players, map Crossroads. Score 10 door captures within 5 minutes. A death eliminates you (no respawn). Win pays 15 XP and 15 coins. The roster waits up to 30s for reserved players, then starts with whoever is present.

Community / custom

Download the server, run it, and share IP:port — or register through the community proxy so friends join via proxy.games… without port-forwarding. Community games use guest names, do not write official progression, and use the dumb bot brain. See Hosting.

Campaign (offline)

Single-player story on the client. Acts A New Beginning and The Way It Is, starting at La Porte Line. Account progress is saved when signed in; guests can still play locally. This is not an official runtime.