Gamble PvP
Turns the co-op survival run into a 3-day free-for-all. Take loans, wager head-to-head, hire goons, snitch on rivals, haunt the living after you die. The mob still wants their cut.
What it does
- Multi-day match. Host adjusts day count (1–10, default 3) before play. Hard stop at the final day, then a podium screen with payouts.
- Per-player ledger. Every bet's win or loss attributed via
MoneyManager. Your wealth = starting stake + cumulative gambling delta − active loan payback owed.
- Daily bankroll boost. Day 2 adds 2× starting cash, day 3 adds 4×. Comebacks stay possible.
- House clawback ending. End-of-final-day: outstanding debt comes off the top, survivor with the most cash wins. 50/30/20 weighted payout for top 3.
- Death cutscene routing. When the game ends, host transitions everyone to
LoseStateScene so the mob-death sequence plays under the standings overlay.
The booths
A cluster of three glowing kiosks spawns near the nearest casino game when you enter the casino floor:
Loan Shark (gold)
- Day-scaling principal cap ($500 day 1, $1000 day 2, $2000 day 3)
- Stacking loans, escalating interest: 1st = 1.5× → 2nd = 2.5× → 3rd = 5× → 4th attempt = instant death
- Good-customer discount: pay back a loan and your next same-day loan is 1.25×
- Default at day-end = wounded (red vignette + half bankroll the next day, then clears). Default on final day = death.
Wager Booth (blue)
- Head-to-head coin flip vs. another living player
- $50 / $100 / $250 / $500 stakes
- 60s cooldown per challenger, 50/50 RNG
Mob Favors (red/black)
- Snitch (free): 50/50 RNG. Win → target loses 25% wealth, you get 10% finder's fee. Lose → you pay a 10% false-accusation fine. 30s cooldown.
- Hire Goons ($500): Pay $500, target loses $750. 90s cooldown.
During play
- Happy Hour: Random 30s windows every 60–120s where all casino payouts are +50%.
- Right-side player widget (base game native): Repurposed to show live PvP wealth (net of loans owed), sorted descending, green-up / red-down. The same nameplate art the base game uses.
- Profit line graph (base game native): Repurposed to track cumulative PvP wealth across the day.
- Tab stats panel: Per-day per-player ledger snapshots with delta-coloring (green/red), gold/silver/bronze ranks, auto-sized for any day count.
- Local HUD (top-left): Current day, wealth, active loan + payback owed, wounded/dead status.
- Lobby UI (top-right): Host adjusts days per game from any pre-casino scene. Press F2 to toggle the picker anywhere. Use
+ / - / 0 keys to bump the day count (mouse can't reach IMGUI buttons during gameplay due to camera lock).
Round-end summary
The base game's "STATS FOR DAY N" screen gets fully repurposed:
- Title becomes "PvP Standings · End of Day N"
- Top stat bar shows your Loans taken, Sabotages used, Wagers Won (replacing the legacy QUOTA/BALANCE/PROFIT)
- Profit graph shows your cumulative PvP wealth
- Right box shows ranked player standings with $wealth, plus PvP ticket awards:
- +2 🎟 per surviving player
- +3 🎟 to top earner
- The shared ticket pool credits the base game's UPGRADES screen — earn PvP, spend on upgrades
Black Market (home base)
A back-alley booth appears in your home base every day. Spend PvP tickets you've earned to gear up:
One-shot sabotage tools (use immediately or save for the casino):
- Bandage Kit – clears your wounded status before the next casino run
- Sweet Talk – your next loan comes at 1.0× interest (no escalation)
- Mob Bribe – your next goon hit just bounces off (you keep all your money)
- Snitch Insurance – if anyone snitches on you, the mob laughs in their face instead
- False Accusation – preloads a guaranteed snitch outcome on the next target you pick
Day-long buffs (active for the whole casino visit):
- Hot Streak – +25% on every casino win (compounds with Happy Hour)
- Liquid Courage – +50% wager payout when you win a head-to-head
- Loan Shark Patience – if you can't pay your loan at day-end, the shark grants an extension instead of breaking your kneecaps
Body parts (loan exit)
Get the shark off your back by trading parts at the Black Market. Each sale clears all active loans AND claws back any wounded penalty refund you'd be owed, BUT permanently reduces your casino payouts by 10%. Visual marring is networked — everyone sees the missing eye / teeth / etc. Five sales = the shark takes everything.
Ghost Mode
When you die, a panel appears bottom-right with a target cycler and a HAUNT button. Once per minute you can curse a living player for 30 seconds — their casino payouts are halved while haunted. Losing isn't the end of the game.
Installation
Install via the Thunderstore mod manager — click Install. All friends must install the same version for multiplayer to work properly. Manual install: drop GambleWithYourFriendsPvP.dll into BepInEx/plugins/.
Config
BepInEx/config/com.chals.gamblepvp.cfg exposes:
InterestMultiplier — first-loan interest (default 1.5)InterestMultiplierAfterPayback — good-customer discount (default 1.25)StartingMoneyPerPlayer — day 1 starting cash (default 1000)DaysPerGame — match length (default 3)StripQuotaCheck — disable mob-kills-you-on-miss-quota (default true)Bots.Enabled — spawn AI rivals so you can test PvP solo (default false). Host-only.Bots.Count — how many bots to spawn 1-3 (default 2). They gamble, take loans, wager you, and snitch.Debug.StartingPvpTickets — grant N PvP tickets on first ledger creation, plus F4-hotkey to add 100 on demand (default 0 = disabled)
What's new in 0.6.0
- PvP ticket economy. Survive a day = +2 tickets. Top earner = +3. Visible on your HUD next to wealth.
- Black Market booth in your home base. Spend tickets on 5 one-shot sabotage items + 3 day-long buffs.
- Body part trade-in. Visible disfigurement persists across all clients.
- Spawn-box skip. No more cardboard-box hopping at game start or day rollover.
- All cosmetics unlocked for everyone (so you can tell players apart at a glance).
- Solo bot rivals for testing — turn on in config, get 2-3 AI players who gamble, snitch, and take loans against you.
Known limitations
- No sound effects yet. Unity 6's runtime audio API is broken for procedural clips; will revisit when the engine cooperates.
- Booth visuals are primitive geometry. Functional, not pretty.
- Mixed-version multiplayer is unsupported. Update everyone at the same time.
Credits
Designed and tested by mothfinger.
Co-developed with Claude (Anthropic), who wrote the bulk of the C# / Harmony / Mirror plumbing.
Icon art by mothfinger.
Thanks to the BepInEx team for the framework that makes any of this possible, and to the Gamble With Your Friends devs for making a game worth ruining friendships over.
