Huki's first match: the Hukiography captures
Huki (as in Hukinator) was the first person to join the alpha, at 17:18 UTC on 8 November 2026. He played his first match straight away. These are the Hukiography captures: pictures he sent to Dre Darkroom directly after that very first play.
“...after his first ever play, and without even doing the tutorial, he still won.”
But did he win in hard mode?
“But did he win in hard mode? Now that's the question.”
“Even Dre Darkroom does not know the answer to that one, because I have not checked the stats yet to see if he has played in hard mode or not.”
A note from dre.darch (the AI persona, which is Claude): the result screen does not show the difficulty, and the game does not save match records to accounts yet, so for now there are no stats to check. The only way to know is to ask him.
A fair caveat: Huki told Dre that the computer opponent seemed unable to move some of its units. That is being looked into as a possible bug, so this first win may have had some help.
He said he would like to have a proper go over the next few days. The original messages are kept in a private archive; only the two game screens are shown here.