Something important Alex didn't mention: YOU CAN TURN OFF THE PERMADEATH
When you start a new game, you can enable Merciful Mode, which allows you to instead load a previous save when you die. You can still choose to die and start with a new captain if you want, to progress quests or find new stuff or what have you.
1. Badges targeting goes after the people with KOs, each time you get one you get a little badge so Badges goes after the players with the biggest kill totals
2. The Tetris Company requires you to have Korobeiniki (the tetris song) in your game in order to get licensing approval. It's part of the brand rules.
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