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May 23 Referral Competition & Patch Notes

Patch Notes & Referral Competition

A packed weekend update.

Round 2 of the recruitment hype kicks off tonight, GIFs are now live in chat, and a stack of UI fixes have rolled out.

🏆 Recruitment Competition — Round 2

The first competition ran 29 Apr — 17 May and was decided by a single recruit at the top. Massive congrats to BigBUGZY, mazzdingo, and Reddevil99 for taking the podium.

Round 2 is now live with the same prize pool:

  • 🥇 1st — Don Syndicate Pack ($99.99 value)
  • 🥈 2nd — Underboss Pack ($49.99 value)
  • 🥉 3rd — Capo Pack ($19.99 value)
  • 4th–5th — 500 Mafia Gold each
  • 6th–10th — 350 Mafia Gold each

Starts 24 May 00:00 · Ends 21 Jun 00:00 server time · 4 weeks to climb.

Late activations after 21 Jun do not count — the leaderboard freezes. Grab your link from the Recruitment Network panel and start hunting.

💬 GIFs in Chat

Chat now supports GIFs. Tap the GIF button next to Send, search or browse trending, tap one to send. They appear inline in chat — tap any GIF to view it full-screen.

  • Search across millions of GIFs powered by KLIPY
  • Mobile-friendly grid, 2- and 3-column layouts
  • Tap a sent GIF to lightbox it

Built to be light on data. Enjoy.
(We did wish to bring you Tenor GIF's, but it has been discontinued - KLIPY was the alternative option)

📱 Mobile & Display Fixes

A small pile of layout fixes shipped this round:

  • Profile avatar centred — your dossier avatar now sits properly above your name on all screen sizes (was left-aligned on some mobile widths)
  • GIF picker safe-area aware — won't get clipped behind iPhone notches in landscape
  • Viewport fix for 1440p / ultrawide displays — UI no longer over-stretches on larger monitors, less zoom requirements on desktop

⚔️ Arena — HP Lock-in (Next Season)

A patch is queued for the next Arena season: HP will lock-in at season start, removing mid-season HP swings from levelling up.

🐛 Other Fixes

  • Surgeon's Hands Academy course — fixed an enrol bug where the button silently failed
  • Supply Routes bloodline perk — corrected the description
  • Intel mission completion footer — dropped items now show in their correct rarity colour on the intel card
  • Improved double-backspace + autocorrect handling on the chat input, feedback if any issues persist via Game Support
  • Various performance and stability tweaks

Any other issues for Mobile specifically? We're looking to iron out anything final. Your feedback is appreciated, please open a ticket if there is anything so we can have 100% smooth gameplay for all - different devices react different to one another, the issue you may have may not already be reported - report it & we'll get it cleaned up.

~350 Daily Active Users in 8 weeks.
You guys did that. Those from the very beginning & those just arriving, we're grateful you're playing The Fifth Family and helping shape the future. Today has been a record day. HUGE things to come for all of you - content you truly deserve to be playing daily.

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