Splash Rivals

Mission briefing

Splash Rivals is an online multiplayer paint shooter where two teams of four battle to cover the arena in their colour. Spray the ground, splash your rivals and swim through your team's paint to refill your paint tank and recover health. Choose from seven weapons, customise your character and powers, and team up with friends or create private matches for up to eight players!

Field manual

Cover more ground than the opposing team before time runs out. Splatting rivals clears a path, but painting the arena wins the match! Swim through your team's paint to refill your paint tank and recover health. Enemy paint slows you down and damages you. Painting also charges your special ability, so keep covering ground and use it at the right moment to help your team push forward. - WASD / ZQSD = Move - Space = Jump - Mouse = Aim - Left mouse button = Fire - Right mouse button = Use your secondary ability - F = Activate your special when charged - Left Shift = Swim in your team’s paint - Hold Tab = View the scoreboard - P / Esc = Open the pause menu Controller support available. Controls can be remapped in Settings > Controls > Configure keys.

Launch orders: press Launch mission above and the game loads on this page itself — nothing downloads and no form stands between you and the first move. It is designed for a landscape (wide) screen and takes its orders from mouse, keyboard or touch, depending on the mission. It is built wide, for a landscape screen — rotate a phone sideways, or give it a tablet or monitor to stretch out on. If it offers a fullscreen control, use it — a fight this size deserves the whole screen.

Field notes for first person shooter operations

• Keep the crosshair at head height while you move. Most lost duels are lost in the half-second spent dragging the aim up from the floor — carry it at the height the enemy will arrive at.
• Clear corners in slices. Edge into a doorway a few pixels at a time so you only ever face one angle of danger; walking straight through the middle is how highlight reels happen to other people.
• Your minimap is a second pair of eyes. Glance at it after every engagement — the fight you just had told your opponents exactly where you are, and the map tells you where they will come from.

Splash Rivals — questions from the ranks

What does it cost to play Splash Rivals?

Nothing at all. The mission is free from the first order to the last — no sign-up, no download, no paid tier guarding the good levels. The advertising around this page is what keeps the board free.

What sort of mission is Splash Rivals?

Splash Rivals is filed in our First Person Shooter theatre. Like every operation on this board, it is a browser game — read the briefing above for the publisher's own account of what you are deploying into.

Can I run Splash Rivals on a phone or tablet?

Yes. It plays in the browser on phones and tablets exactly as it does on a computer. It is built wide, for a landscape screen — rotate a phone sideways, or give it a tablet or monitor to stretch out on.

Do I have to install anything before playing?

No installation of any kind. Splash Rivals is an HTML5 game: press the launch button and it loads on this page, and closing the tab leaves nothing behind.

After-action

Mission complete, or still pinned down? The full First Person Shooter theatre is one click away — Down the barrel: 62 first-person operations where your view is the weapon's view and cover is a lifestyle choice. Corridors, arenas and open ground, all hostile.