While no official changelog exists, data miners have pulled three major anomalies out of Build 15032024:
A new hidden card has been discovered in the pick-up pool. It has no texture, no name, and its description is simply 0xdeadcode. What does it do? It spawns a clone of your opponent from three rounds ago. Yes, the AI runs their old deck. No, you cannot turn it off once picked. ROUNDS Build 15032024-0xdeadcode
0xDEADBEEF is used in IBM RS/6000 systems and modern debuggers to mark freed or invalid memory. By using 0xDEADCODE, the developer is signaling that this specific build is canonically corrupted. It is not meant to be stable. It is meant to be dissected. While no official changelog exists, data miners have
Build 15032024 allegedly contains functions that are executed but ignored by the game logic. User reports from closed beta testers (via anonymous Pastebin logs) suggest that in this build, projectiles that hit the "round boundary" do not despawn. Instead, they continue rendering and calculating collision while producing zero output. Add regression test:
"You'll see the bullet tracers doing loops around the arena, but they never hit anything. They're dead, but the code is still running." – Unverified tester quote.
This creates a memory leak over time, eventually leading to the 0xDEADCODE exception handler—a custom watchdog that terminates the obsolete threads.
The ROUNDS community—historically focused on mods like "The Modding Server" and custom card packs—has split into three factions regarding Build 15032024-0xdeadcode: