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Every gun in Flickyard is an original design with its own name, model and feel; none of them borrows a real gun's name or shape. The Wasp is a fast light pistol with growing spread if you spam it. The Mallet is a slow hand cannon with a heavy kick, and one shot to the head is a kill at any range. The Kestrel is a heavy automatic rifle with a strong, learnable recoil pattern that one-shots a head at any range. The Hornet fires faster with easier recoil. The Buzzline is an SMG that stays accurate even while its spread builds, standing in for a gun you could fire on the move. The Tally fires in three-round bursts that reward a steady rhythm, and the Longreed is a scoped marksman rifle, slow but able to drop a body shot in one hit at the cost of a long reload.

Every gun also has its own sight to aim down with a right click or the SCOPE button: iron sights on the Wasp, a ghost ring on the Mallet, a red dot on the Buzzline, a holographic ring on the Hornet, a 2× prism on the Tally, a 3× combat scope with range marks on the Kestrel and a 6× sniper scope on the Longreed. Aiming down a sight zooms in a little, slows your aim to match and tightens the spread, and the Longreed is only truly accurate through its scope.

Every gun shares the same underlying system: a fire mode (semi-automatic, full-automatic or burst), a first shot that always lands exactly on the crosshair, a spread that grows the longer you hold the trigger and recovers once you let go, a fixed recoil pattern you can learn and counter (the kick stays where it puts your aim until you pull it back, just as you would in a real match), damage that falls off over distance, and head, body and leg damage multipliers. All hits are instant (hitscan), so what matters is where the crosshair was the instant you fired.

The Dusk Dockyard is the starting range: low orange sun, wet floor reflections and cranes on the skyline. The Neon Rooftop moves training to night, lit by magenta and cyan signage with a skyline of lit windows behind it. The Desert Range is a sunlit stretch of sandstone and distant mesas. The Snow Hangar sits at blue hour with falling snow, warm lamps and mountain peaks through the open doors. The Jungle Courtyard is mossy stone ruins under sun shafts breaking through the trees, and the Orbital Station is a steel deck under the stars with a planet hanging in the sky.

Each range has its own lighting, fog, materials and far scenery, and in the Levels mode each range is its own eight-level stretch of the training complex with a tougher final level at the end.

Flick Range pops up one robot at a time from a pool and asks for a fast flick onto it before it drops again. Doorway Peek has robots slide out from behind cover and back, testing whether you can catch them in the open. Tracking Strafer is one robot moving steadily side to side that you have to track rather than flick onto. Spray Wall puts a target board in front of you with a ghost line showing exactly where your chosen gun's recoil pattern will carry your shots, so you can practise controlling it or firing through it on purpose. Tap-Tap locks you to the Wasp pistol and asks for a headshot on the beat of a steady rhythm. Duel is the odd one out: a single robot that raises its own weapon and fires back after a fair delay, testing your reaction time rather than your tracking.

Levels is a 48-level training complex across the six ranges, eight levels each. The Range Map shows the six ranges as buildings on a complex; picking one zooms into a trail of eight target-board stations. Each level's briefing shows its three goals and lets you pick a gun from the ones you have unlocked, and that gun is locked in for the level. Clearing a level unlocks the next one, clearing five levels in a range opens the next range, and your total cleared levels unlock guns one by one: the Mallet, Kestrel, Hornet, Buzzline, Tally and finally the Longreed.

Endless is for open practice: pick any drill and any range, start with any gun you have unlocked, and swap freely between your unlocked guns mid-run with the number keys, the mouse wheel or Q. A two-minute run keeps ramping up in difficulty the whole way, and your best run is kept for every drill-and-gun combination you try, shown as a small chart of your recent runs against your best. Turn on Infinite ammo on the Endless screen to practise without reloading; those runs are for practice and don't count towards your bests.

The Daily Warm-up gives everyone the same three short routines each day, picked from the date so they are the same for you and anyone else playing that day: a drill, a range and a gun, one stage after another with a short break between. Only a finished warm-up counts, and it keeps a streak of how many days in a row you have shown up.

Flickyard keeps the numbers a serious aim trainer should. Time-to-kill measures how long it takes from your first hit on a robot to the kill. Accuracy and headshot percentage are tracked for the whole run and for every gun you used in it. First-bullet accuracy looks specifically at shots fired after a pause, which is usually the hardest shot to land cleanly. Duel adds a reaction time: how long between a robot appearing and your first hit on it. All of this is broken down by gun on the results screen, so you can see which gun you are actually shooting well with, not just how the run went overall.

Sensitivity is set the way serious aim trainers expect: centimetres per 360° turn, with your mouse DPI entered alongside it, so the number you set here means the same thing it would in any other game using the same unit, and you can carry a setting you already know between them. Field of view is set in degrees, horizontal at a 16:9 aspect ratio, and the on-screen gun is drawn by its own fixed camera so changing FOV never stretches or shrinks it. The crosshair has its own style, colour and size, independent of everything else.

Every target in Flickyard is a robot: a head, body and legs built from plated armour, with a glowing visor that pops on a kill and a respawn pad that lights up when it comes back. There is no blood and nothing resembling a person anywhere in the game. A hit sparks blue off armour, orange off bare health and gold with a ring on a headshot, so you can read what you hit from across the range.

Every sound in Flickyard, from each gun's own shot and reload to hit cracks, armour clangs, kill chimes, menu clicks and a faint ambience under each range, is generated in code; nothing is a recorded sample. A Sound effects toggle in Settings turns it all off, and it follows the site's own mute as well.