MARS🔺

CHRIST/ REPLY GUY @Ava Adaptation🔺& speed/GAMER🔺🎮

[MARS🔺 @MARSDESIGN2004]

🎮🔥 WHAT IS FORTBLOCK GAMES? WHO ARE THEY & WHAT ARE THEY BUILDING ON AVAX?🔺 A THREAD 🧵

[Tyler Foister 🔺️ Ceo @FortBlockGames @TheDJDegen]

I couldnt be more excited to welcome @giga_alpha onto our team at @FortBlockGames as an Advisor.

Since we have entered @Avax , he has lead and continues to lead some of the most ambitious and succesful ventures that have been launched in the ecosystem.

Very proud to call him an official team member now 🤝

Welcome aboard Giga 🐟🐻

[TAKEOVER @Play_Takeover]

A few more minutes until TAKEOVER Saturday begins

Gather your squad.
Choose your faction wisely.

The Alpha Playtest starts by
6PMUTC.

Get ready. The battlefield awaits

[TAKEOVER @Play_Takeover]

GM

Another TAKEOVER Saturday is almost here 🔥

Are you ready?

[Kieron🔺 @KryptoCEO]

Saturdays are underrated when you’re a founder.

Everyone talks about the grind, the late nights, the shipping, the meetings, the problems that need solving yesterday.

What people don’t talk about enough is recovery.

Some of my best ideas haven’t come from sitting behind a laptop. They’ve come from stepping away for a few hours, having a coffee, spending time with family, going for a walk, or simply letting my brain breathe.

You can’t pour creativity out of an empty cup.

The problems you’re stuck on today are often solved when you stop forcing the answer and give yourself space to think.

So today, recharge whist giving this a little read!

[PmAmTraveller @pmamtraveller]

Christian Young creates his paintings using only Microsoft Paint.

[MARS🔺 @MARSDESIGN2004]

a good read

if you want to br part of the tippikal clan

[Tippikl.com @TippiklLabs]

https://t.co/c5Mlw2yqQT

[Tippikl.com @TippiklLabs]

https://t.co/c5Mlw2yqQT

[TAKEOVER @Play_Takeover]

BATTLEFRAME OS // LAUNCHER STATUS BULLETIN
PERIOD: JUNE 2026 · SHELL REV: 0.1.58 · CHANNEL: COMMUNITY FEED
OPERATORS —

This month we hardened the native Battleframe OS launcher: the desktop shell between you, Epic auth, and TAKEOVER. Not a side project. The permanent front door.

If you've been in the playtest loop, you felt the friction: multi-gigabyte downloads stalling at "Finalizing…", UI going Not Responding, sessions dying with cryptic errors, update feeds that didn't resolve. We heard you.  33 native revisions from 0.1.25 to 0.1.58 in June alone.

WHAT CHANGED

INFRASTRUCTURE / UPLINK
- Game builds and launcher self-updates now route through our primary file CDN with automatic fallback when edge nodes lag.
- Installer feed resolves from multiple sources so you are not stuck on "temporarily unavailable."
- Launcher merges database-registered builds with CDN manifests, so the Update prompt stays correct even when one source is stale.

DOWNLOAD + INSTALL PIPELINE
- Resume support: interrupted downloads pick up where they left off instead of restarting an 8 GB transfer from zero.
- Cached installer reuse: verified zips stay on disk; reinstall skips re-download when hash, size, and version match.
- Disk-aware updates: old game files cleared before extract; partial temp files swept on startup; per-channel Clear download cache for troubleshooting.
- Worker-thread verify/extract: heavy integrity checks and unzip work moved off the UI thread so the shell stays responsive during install.
- Isolated download process (0.1.52+): multi-GB writes no longer freeze the shell during Windows security scans on file close.
- Bytes-complete handshake (0.1.57): the fix for the recurring "Finalizing download file…" hang. All bytes flush to disk during the pump; the UI resolves the moment the file is complete instead of waiting on a blocked stream close.

WINDOWS DEFENDER (0.1.54+)
- One-click "Speed up the install" exclusion for the Battleframe install folder and launcher/game processes (UAC required).
- Offer surfaces for new installs and returning operators already on the latest build. Manual fallback in each tier's troubleshooting row.

AUTH + SESSION
- Epic sign-in loads in the main shell on Windows. No separate auth popup.
- Expired sessions route back to Sign in, not a dead-end error screen.
- Session tokens encrypted at rest via OS keychain.

UX / HUD POLISH
- Launch CTA at the top of the signed-in view: update banner, then Launch, then hero, then channel cards.
- Test pilots see a simplified view: channel selector hidden for non-staff; clearer install/reinstall progress labels.
- Shared design tokens between web launcher and native shell. Same phosphor-green HUD chrome everywhere.
- Deep links from web to installed app: open shell, sign in, launch, or launch a specific channel after handoff.
- Tier card titles cleaned up. Channel badge already says PUBLIC/INTERNAL; version reads V0.2.x without redundant prefix.

RELIABILITY BACKSTOPS

- Download cancel, disk-space preflight, fetch timeouts, verify/repair per tier, patch-aware update checks (no false "update available"), expanded automated test coverage.

IF YOU'RE STILL STUCK

- Update Battleframe OS. Self-update prompt on launch, or grab the latest from the web launcher DOWNLOAD button.
- Accept the Defender exclusion when offered. Tamper Protection may block silently; use the manual button if needed.
- If a prior install left files on disk but Launch stayed grayed out, 0.1.53+ detects the cached zip and re-extracts without re-downloading.
- Still broken? Hit playtest Discord with your launcher version (titlebar or About) and launcher logs. Support will tell you what to send.

VECTOR / WHERE WE'RE HEADED

Battleframe OS is our first-party launcher, replacing third-party builder dependencies with a shell we own end-to-end. Same auth, legal, and build-admin flows as the web launcher; native token handoff; automatic launch token write before every game launch.

[MARS🔺 @MARSDESIGN2004]

you should read this

[MARS🔺 @MARSDESIGN2004]

🎮🔥 WHAT IS FORTBLOCK GAMES? WHO ARE THEY & WHAT ARE THEY BUILDING ON AVAX?🔺 A THREAD 🧵

[Tyler Foister 🔺️ Ceo @FortBlockGames @TheDJDegen]

I highly recommend each of the following- I work closely with them at @FortBlockGames and theyre all very talented and dedicated.

@theKingPilot
@TheWeb3Anniiee
@MARSDESIGN2004
@unique_yeesha

Also highly recommend @theCPTFIVE , I think with a little extra guidance from you he / anyone else above could really go far!

[MARS🔺 @MARSDESIGN2004]

Thanks bosss

the big boss has spoken 🔺️🔺️🔥

[Tyler Foister 🔺️ Ceo @FortBlockGames @TheDJDegen]

I highly recommend each of the following- I work closely with them at @FortBlockGames and theyre all very talented and dedicated.

@theKingPilot
@TheWeb3Anniiee
@MARSDESIGN2004
@unique_yeesha

Also highly recommend @theCPTFIVE , I think with a little extra guidance from you he / anyone else above could really go far!

[BKL 🔺️ @BKL1023]

Get your tickets to @avax Summit. I want to meet you, and first round is on me ;)

[MARS🔺 @MARSDESIGN2004]

@KryptoCEO @AvaxTeam1 @TippiklLabs @TheArena @blaze_stream @salvor_io @avax tippikal always number 1

[MARS🔺 @MARSDESIGN2004]

@TippiklLabs @FortBlockGames @avax what a tippikal TAKEOVER

[Tippikl.com @TippiklLabs]

A game studio tipped a gamer.

FortBlockGames used Tippikl to support someone creating content around their game, TAKEOVER, after seeing the moment on X.

Both teams are building in the Avalanche ecosystem, and this is the kind of business to community support we love to see.

Simple support. Real appreciation. Right where it happens.

[BKL 🔺️ @BKL1023]

Resist the urge....resist the urge...resist the urge...

[MARS🔺 @MARSDESIGN2004]

@23ffect prayers up brother my mom was in one a week ago

bro all I can say is just pray and hand him over to God because he's the only one who can heal him

prayers up bro and quick recovery to

[MARS🔺 @MARSDESIGN2004]

@chocolate_xo3 @Romeo_Onchain nah cant beat big mama

[MARS🔺 @MARSDESIGN2004]

@_smkotaro still learning Haha

[MARS🔺 @MARSDESIGN2004]

@BKL1023 @RapidResponse47 lol