Fall Boys Survival and Tail Rounds: HEXagon, Roll Out, Bomb

Most of Fall Boys is racing to a finish line, but the game files also define two other round types: Survival and Tails. They play differently, and the tail rounds use a key that the race maps never need. Here is what each one is, based on the map settings and on-screen text inside the Unity build.

Survival rounds

There are three survival maps. Each has a short time limit and the "one life" setting switched on, so if you fall off, you are out. The aim is to still be standing when the timer ends.

Map	Time	What the game says
Spinning Wheel	30 s	Jump over the rotating wheel in order to survive.
HEXagon	45 s	The last players who survive the time without falling win.
Roll Out	50 s	Run over the roll-out in order to survive.

HEXagon

HEXagon is a floor made of hexagonal tiles. In the game's code each tile reacts when a player walks over it and then stops being walkable, and the tile layout is shared with every player in the room. In practice the floor gets smaller the more people run around on it. Standing still on one tile will not save you for long, but running everywhere uses up the floor you need later. Move with purpose, and keep an eye on where solid tiles remain.

Spinning Wheel and Roll Out

These two are about timing your jumps with Space against something that rotates under or around you. Roll Out has a higher fall line than the other maps, so leaving the platform counts as a fall quickly. Watch the rotation for a turn before you commit to a jump.

Tail rounds and the G key

The two maps of the Tails type are where you use the G key. The game's own descriptions say so (spelling tidied):

• Tails Challenge (80 s): "run with tail and don't get caught by other players! Press g to steal tail."
• Bomb Challenge (120 s): "Press g to give bomb to other players! Don't get caught with bomb when time is up!"

Both run on the same tail system. When another player is close to you, the game shows a prompt to press G, and the tail (or, in Bomb Challenge, the bomb) passes between you. In Tails Challenge you want to be holding a tail at the end. In Bomb Challenge you want the opposite: be rid of the bomb when the timer runs out.

Tips for these rounds

• Click the game first. G, like the arrow keys and Space, only reaches the game once it has focus.
• Tails Challenge: once you have a tail, get away from the crowd, because anyone who reaches you can take it.
• Bomb Challenge: if you have the bomb, head for other players, and get close enough for the G prompt to appear. In the last seconds, stay away from whoever is carrying it.
• Survival maps: the timers are short. Not falling matters more than moving fast.

As with the races, these rounds are played online. Our test could not join a live match, so the times above are the defaults stored in the map settings.