Warena: Battle for Supremacy

Warena is an intense multiplayer space battle where you pilot your own spaceship inside a huge circular arena.

At the start of each match, the arena is divided into equal sectors — each one being your designated territory.

As the battle unfolds, you can expand your territory: if you defeat your neighbor, you capture their entire sector; if a player is eliminated by someone who isn't adjacent, the victim's sector is split evenly between its two neighbors.

How It Works

The Dynamic Arena and Your Territory

• Your Starting Sector:
  When a match begins, every player is assigned an equal portion of the arena. This is your "home" area.
• Expanding Your Territory:
  • If you defeat your neighbor, you capture their entire sector.
  • If a player is eliminated by someone who isn't adjacent, the eliminated player's sector is divided evenly between the two players adjacent to that area.

Movement and Controls

• Navigation:
  Maneuver your ship using your keyboard. Common layouts include:
  • QWERTY: Use the WASD keys.
  • AZERTY: Use the ZQSD keys.
  • QWERTZ: Typically use the same physical keys as QWERTY.
  • You can also use the arrow keys.
• Mouse Controls:
  Moving your mouse in the arena will make your ship gradually rotate to face the cursor, at the same rotation speed as when using keyboard controls. Left-clicking will fire your weapon, just like pressing the spacebar.
• How Your Ship Behaves:
  Your ship behaves much like a car: pressing, for example, the right arrow won't immediately move you to the right. Instead, your ship will gradually rotate on its axis — and if you move forward at the same time, you'll execute a smooth turning maneuver.
• Border Awareness:
  Stay within your sector. If you get too close to your sector's borders, your ship will slide along them — and this sliding inflicts damage on your ship.

Weapons and Cannon Heat

• Firing Your Weapons:
  Press the spacebar to shoot. Bullets fly fast across the arena, and every shot counts!
• Cannon Heat:
  Every shot increases your cannon's heat. If you fire too rapidly, your cannon will overheat and you won't be able to shoot until it cools down.

Collectibles: Bonuses and Maluses

Throughout the match, special items (collectibles) float around the arena. When you fly over one, you pick it up and gain its effect — which may boost or reduce your firepower, affect your health or shield, or influence how quickly your cannon heats up or cools down.

Interacting by Shooting:
Your bullets can hit collectibles. When this happens, the collectible takes damage and eventually splits into two smaller items (or disappears if it's already at its smallest level); additionally, if no one collects a collectible within a set period, it will expire on its own.

Types of Collectibles:

• Bonus (vivid green): Grants benefits that enhance your firepower, health, or shield, or adjust your cannon's heat rate in a favorable way.
• Malus (red): Imposes negative effects that reduce your firepower, health, or shield, or alter your cannon's heat rate unfavorably.
• Neutral (blue): Triggers an effect on gameplay without clearly advantaging or disadvantaging you.
• Global Bonus (light green): Provides a beneficial effect that applies to all players.
• Global Malus (dark burgundy): Applies a negative effect that impacts every player.
• Anonymized Collectibles (pale yellow): These items appear generic so that you cannot tell their type before collecting them.

Fragments: A Risky Reward

• How Fragments Are Created:
  Fragments are generated when a bullet is weakened enough during collisions and vanishes — leaving behind a fragment at that spot.
• Collecting Fragments:
  As you pick up fragments, they accumulate in a counter. When you reach a certain threshold, they automatically convert into extra shield for your ship.
• The Explosive Twist:
  Occasionally, a fragment may be explosive — so collecting it will immediately damage you instead of boosting your shield.

Additional Notes

• Name Change:
  For extra fun, you can change your name at any time during the match.
• Spectator Mode:
  You can join a match as a spectator and simply watch the game live.

End of the Match and New Games

When the match concludes, the host (the player who created the game) has the option to launch a new game.

In that case, everyone still on the game page will be automatically directed to the new match and can join it. Note that the host may also choose to create a new game without joining it themselves if they prefer to set it up for others.

Jump into Warena, pilot your ship, and adapt your tactics as your territory expands. Enjoy the perfect mix of rapid, high-octane action and smart tactical decisions — and good luck out there in the arena!