Deep dives

Main menu

// src/menu/ · src/progress.js · added 2026-10-16

A shooter-style front end: tabs down the left, the selected screen in a glass panel, and your player standing on the field at the blue start, with the camera moving to a new shot for each tab.

01The screens

The main menu: tabs on the left, the Play panel with Public Match, Private Match and Practice, and the player standing on the field to the right. — **Play**Public Match, Private Match and Practice. The player card (top right) shows your name, number, level and XP.

Loadout: the equipped Mag-fed marker with its rate of fire, magazine, spare paint, velocity and reload. — **Loadout**The equipped marker's real numbers. When there's more than one marker, the others are listed underneath to pick from.

Operators: call sign, jersey number and blue or red kit preview on a full-body player. — **Operators**Call sign, jersey number (1–99) and a blue / red kit preview on your full-body player.

Progression: level badge, XP bar, and online and practice career stats. — **Progression**Level, XP and career stats for online matches and practice.

A private lobby: host settings and both teams in the panel, your team lined up on the field beside you. — **Lobby**Your team lines up on the field: teammates, bots, and see-through figures for open slots.

Play	Public Match (matchmaking), Private Match (create a lobby or join by code) and Practice (the offline game against bots, on a map you pick: see Maps). See Multiplayer.
Loadout	Pick a marker: the stock mag-fed marker or any made in POE. Shows rate of fire, magazine, spare paint, velocity, reload and firing mode. The pick is used in practice and online, and your figure in the menu and lobby holds it, as do your teammates' figures in a lobby (each with the marker they picked).
Operators	Call sign and jersey number. Both show in lobbies and online matches; the server uses your number instead of a random one.
Progression	Level and XP, then online stats (matches, wins, eliminations, times out, elim/out, best match, hit rate, time played) and practice stats.
Settings	Mouse and controller look speed, invert look, field of view, volume, and an optional FPS counter and ping readout (top left while playing; ping in online matches). Reset to defaults keeps your name and number.
Fullscreen	Toggles fullscreen. (Quit and the Task board link were removed on 2026-10-16; the task board is at `/tasks.html` and linked from POE.)

02The 3D lobby

Same character model and marker as in a match, standing at the blue start between the base bunkers, under a darker grade with a warm key light and a lime rim light. Name plates float over each figure. The camera eases between four shots and drifts slightly:

Hero	You, just right of the panel (Play, Private Match, Progression, Settings).
Lineup	Your team in an echelon, you in front and each teammate a step back and to the right (Public Match, lobbies).
Operator	Full body, slowly turning (Operators).
Loadout	Close on the marker (Loadout).

03XP and levels

Online	100 XP per elimination, 250 per match played, plus 500 for a win or 250 for a draw.
Practice	25 XP per elimination.
Levels	Level n needs 600 · n(n+1)/2 XP in total: 600 for level 2, 1,800 for level 3, 3,600 for level 4 …
Stored	In this browser (localStorage), not on the server yet. Time played counts only while actually playing.

04Controls

Mouse	Click anything.
Keyboard	`↑` `↓` move, `←` `→` switch between the tabs and the panel, `Enter` select, `Esc` back.
Controller	D-pad or left stick move, `Ⓐ` select, `Ⓑ` back, `LB` / `RB` switch tabs. Left / right also adjusts sliders.