- K-Cricket now has bowler-specific delivery options, one Power Ball per over, richer post-match awards, and optional Fast Setup shortcuts.
Release Archive
3.x Updates
All release notes from the 3.x family.
- K-Cricket bots are now easier to beat, lose wickets more often, and match commentary now reads like real cricket instead of technical audit output.
- K-Cricket now treats captain, vice-captain, and wicketkeeper as match choices, removes old bowler/wicketkeeper setup blockers, and adds wicketkeeping skill growth with player aging rules.
- K-Cricket setup is now guided through a Startup Wizard, one-player-at-a-time squad creation, Player Development, and match-specific captain, vice-captain, and wicketkeeper choices.
- K-Cricket now includes virtual money, a player item store, K-Cricket God item management, stronger report exports/comparisons, and smarter active-game navigation.
- K-Cricket, CheckMate, and Secret Lakhpati now feel like separate exclusive-game spaces, and K-Cricket squad/player development saves are safer and more granular.
- K-Cricket now has its own K-Cricket God admin area, separate from the CheckMate ChessMaster portal.
- K-Cricket gameplay has a faster play-console layout with action buttons, instant commentary, clickable player intel, and scorecards beside play.
- Sponsor descriptions can now be used inside K-Cricket commentary, and notifications/settings/navigation were cleaned up for both admins and players.
- K-Cricket now has a deeper RPG progression layer with 17-player squads, Playing XI selection, reserves, fitness, sharpness, XP, and momentum lifelines.
- Players must configure seven starting attributes before selected players can enter official matches.
- Team names are now uniqueness-checked and cannot use country, state, or city names; duplicate player names are shown with team suffixes for clarity.
- The cricket game has been renamed to K-Cricket across the player and public experience.
- K-Cricket now supports 10-over, 20-over, 50-over, and test-style match formats with one active match and three starts per day.
- Each cricket leaderboard/report now has its own searchable, paginated page, plus team and player stat profiles.
- K-Cricket now has public team histories, match scorecard transparency, and expanded report leaderboards.
- Players can no longer start multiple cricket matches at once.
- Squad names are history-safe: players are retired and replaced instead of renamed.
- K-Cricket has been added as the next Khichdi Community Exclusive Game.
- Players can create a cricket team, manage a starter squad, start 10-over bot matches, and play with server-verified cricket actions.
- Public pages, Exclusive Games navigation, Help Center rules, leaderboards, and ChessMaster inspection are included.
- Public navigation now has an Exclusive Games menu for CheckMate RPG and The Secret Lakhpati.
- CheckMate RPG now has its own public details page with player login, ChessMaster login, and registration paths.
- Admin Optimization now includes dated database backups with create, download, restore, upload-restore, delete, and automatic 3:00 AM backup support.
- ChessMaster content management is now separated into dedicated pages for bots, store items, pets, homes, and upload approvals.
- Each catalog now supports creating, editing, hiding, and documenting benefits, trade-offs, pricing, and player requirements without using one crowded form.
- Players can now submit a CheckMate hero portrait for ChessMaster approval before it appears in battle.
- Install and update now use a guided server requirement and permission preflight before running.
- Post-install and post-update verification runs before changelog emails are sent.
- CheckMate RPG now includes opponent artwork, gold visibility, item requirements, pets, houses, alliances, player search, and public battle history.
- ChessMaster managers can add and tune opponents, store items, pet types, house types, and review CheckMate upload requests.
- Cron now checks recovered CheckMate characters and can email players when HP is full.
- CheckMate, a native chess-themed RPG tournament, has been added as a major game system.
- Players can enter seasons, create class-based heroes, battle enemies, recover HP and energy, use items, shop with gold, and climb RPG leaderboards.
- ChessMaster Portal is a separate management portal with its own users, permissions, server-side KCGP handoff, and audit trail.
- ChessMaster managers can review seasons, entries, characters, battles, economy ledgers, users, and permissions.
- The five-minute cron now also processes lightweight CheckMate HP and energy recovery.