SAFETY

The arena is unoccupied whenever turrets are armed. There is no marshal on the floor, no camera operator downrange, and no audience in the space. Everything a human needs to do — staging targets, servicing a turret, changing a set — happens with the turrets powered down and disarmed.

Every turret has a calibrated movement envelope derived from its own target field, enforced at the motor controller. A turret cannot be commanded outside that envelope, so no combination of player input can walk a barrel onto a door, a window, a camera position, or another turret. Between matches the fleet snaps back to a known level home position.

A fire command has to pass a check in the cloud — is there a live match, does this player hold this turret, is the turret armed — and again at the arena boundary before it reaches the hardware. Either layer can refuse. Losing the connection stops the gun; it does not leave it firing.

Shov fires .68 caliber rounds propelled by compressed air, the same calibre used across the paintball and less-lethal training world. There is no powder charge and no metallic projectile. The rounds are designed to mark and to trip a target's impact sensor.

The arena camera, the bench hero camera, and every turret's own side and scope cameras record continuously, and each round is archived as a replay. There is no unobserved firing on Shov — if a shot happened, there is footage of it from several angles.

Shov is for adults, and accounts are age verified. Full eligibility rules are in the terms of service.