Patch Notes

v0.7.8b4 and v0.7.8b5 rolled into this build.

• Final clear bonus box moved
• Added confirm/protect modal to reset all settings button in system menu
• Fixed pickup/button path drawing a duplicate legacy mini-icon on top of the shared item icon -- Volume Up and Eject shapes now render correctly
• Gameplay quest/status rail overlap is fixed
• Fast Forward is fixed locally
• Fixed question mark on boss name in game over screen (font missing unicode character, swapped to ASCII)
• Near-miss feedback now does the intended "aww" beat
• Weapon unlock cards now get a real hover preview instead of text-only
• Main menu and demo-shell bouncing logo now render a real wardrobe-driven player preview instead of the raw DVD texture
• Rebalanced all weapons based on tester feedback -- potentially major overhaul depending on your favored builds
• Merged multiple forks to clean up spaghetti and fix regressions -- big fix patch

• Weapon unlock cost increased
• Updated reset explanation (weapon resets)
• End screen personal best no longer sits on score lane, moved to reserved space at the top of that metabox
• Windows icon audit -- likely was getting overrun at runtime, replaced
• Added a self-healing enemy pointer at end-of-level; attempting to resolve "1 enemy remaining" etc
• Fixed preview DVD logo trail -- no longer white
• Line streaks were disappearing because of multiplying raw velocity magnitude, normalized both streak paths

• macOS: cursor offset adjusted
• Missed circular pickups resolved if moving too fast
• Fully shut down difficulty boss presentation when final clear starts in gameplay -- should help resolve invisible enemies
• Piercing Dash now gets a short exit barrier when the dash hands back to normal movement
• Menu corner-hit achievement now only tries to unlock on the actual threshold crossing instead of on every later corner hit
• Diamond Hands Forever is live again -- it had actually been cut, not merely broken
• Fired weapons now actually roll into the stat summary
• Full Arsenal is defined as "Fill every weapon slot in one run"
• Jump is now Leap
• Steam Leaderboards scaffolding (under review, expect bugs)

• Tweaks

• Demo harness prep

• Demo framework staging (not fully working, needs thorough playtesting)
• Windows titlebar, taskbar, Linux, macOS icon implemented
• Bosses cannot be shoved outside their combat zone
• Enemies cannot be left unreachable by dash/item/undo writes
• Adjusted corner hit activation SFX profile
• Cookie Clicker impacts now follow autoaim cursor
• Patched Cookie Clicker + Cookie Galaxy weapons
• Cookie Clicker and Cookie Galaxy now back off over the player instead of sitting fully on top of them
• Shop resets should no longer pop you out to main menu
• Implemented "empty slot" instead of fallback to none for empty starter slots
• BSODs (and a few other enemies) keep a short visual death echo instead of vanishing on lethal hit
• Subtitle toggle ability now drives enemy HP bar through to UI rect
• Click damage added to presentation layer
• DPS meter adds pointer row for click
• macOS cursor offset fix
• Updated shop copy on reset weapons
• Paused corner bonus inspection resolution -- z-order fixes
• Flight Control now scales defrag damage and radius + VFX changes
• Tweaked Optical Rail beam segments to better control smearing
• Added 242kb to wardrobe skins

• Demo infrastructure (not enabled yet)
• Credits update
• Minor tweaks

• Updated credits
• Minor tweaks

• Tune-In Objectives texts no longer truncated
• Firewall boundary calculation adjusted -- was pushing him off screen and locking him
• Fixed a likely crash from banner text using invalid memory -- banner text now copies into safe owned buffers
• Fixed final boss tracking so stale boss references do not crash
• Added safety checks around enemy collision query results
• Made bad enemy subtitle values safe instead of crash-prone
• Save now writes locally immediately on game over / victory
• Fixed the Steam-unavailable save retry loop
• Reduced repeated save spam from Steam achievement acknowledgements
• Stopped unchanged settings from dirtying the main save
• Hardened duel packet text parsing
• Rejected invalid duel projectile owners and malformed snapshot data
• Added audit logs for dropped bad duel data
• Added new audits for banner safety, boss-handle safety, subtitle safety, and no-op settings saves
• Added middle mouse click toggle auto aim / forced aim to mouse click action (under-test integration)

• Full macOS support is live! M1 (ARM) builds only for now. Intel coming later.
• Updated credits

• macOS bundle tweaks (staging status)
• Peak DPS, Damage Dealt, and Biggest Hit rerouted through cleanup

• macOS bundle tweaks (staging status, not working yet)
• Refactored enemy damage internal and external system to resolve combat issues and report correctly to statistics
• Improved confinement boundaries for bosses and enemies
• SCT optimizations and formatting adjustments
• Fixed stationary Firewall
• Sanitized damage numbers in post-hit accounting
• Appended formation swapping correction
• Alternating spawning personalities
• Spam Email is way better
• Phosphor shader finally implemented
• Unlocked next step of formation tracking
• Boss raw damage paths respect lifetime budget and final boss shield clamps
• Kill reward bookkeeping now survives forced and deferred kills without polluting
• Buffer Overflow is source policy instead of call-site flag
• Player healing is centralized on actual healed amount with explicit heal SCT
• Damage numbers now use explicit type plus source/target merge identity instead of colour heuristics
• Live HUD, pause, and hover displays now sanitize combat values instead of exposing raw floats
• Projectile allocation prefers inactive slot before evicting projectiles in flight

• Staging macOS bundle for testing (unreliable build, unlikely to launch)

• Tweaked formatting on #% SCT -- access violation issue, might resolve two reported crashes
• Fixed write buffer overlapping read/write on input hinting in pause menu -- also potentially causing access violation

• Fixed crossfade transition in intro to gameplay
• Other UI tweaks

• Power Conditioner now requires UPS Batt Lv.1 + Water Cooling Lv.2
• Pause/SimPause: Boss health bars hoverable, rich phase info, highlight boss
• Weapon Reset moved from weapon unlocks to resets tab
• Added Photosensitivity warning to launch
• Paused streak decay timer during level up selection
• Tweaked boss spawning, tracking, movement -- bring them more on screen, more consistently
• Dash impact / parting-the-red-sea redesign
• Dash no longer slows boosted movement speed
• Resolved 0x### math on scrolling combat text
• Resolved Firewall wall-cling bug

• Full achievement audit -- local/remote sync
• Restored "Return to Main Menu" button in pause screen (regression return)
• Fixed Corner Frenzy resetting Move Speed Stance Bar
• Removed weapon-level reward in Corner Frenzy
• Leap no longer reshapes DVD collision boundary
• Pause input hinting no longer separates Dash and Defrag
• Increased all enemy sizes by 8%
• Shop hover tooltips no longer sit on top of hovered upgrade cards
• Laser moved to ramped damage, not flat (sustained on tracking)
• Tuned boss lifetime budget

Includes v0.7.5b4 through v0.7.7b9.

• Consumables now inspectable in pause states
• Increased consumable pickup radius
• Tweaked hover states in gameplay
• Enhanced visual feedback on consumable pickups
• Stack overflow achievement unlock bug resolved
• "Fire your click on upgrade" resolved
• UI tweaks / polish

• Resolved save migration iteration error
• Reduced gameplay warmup to ~8s from ~16s

• Fixed a Steam achievement bug that could flood players with unlocks
• Reworked achievement syncing so only newly earned achievements are sent to Steam
• Cleaned up achievement mapping, validation, and migration for older saves
• Improved save/load safety, legacy save compatibility, and cloud-sync reliability
• Added hold-to-fire for mouse and keyboard by holding click at the cursor position
• Fixed borderless windowed mode forcing itself always on top on multi-monitor setups
• Fixed all Setup reset actions, including full settings reset and factory reset behavior
• Removed the white box around the DVD logo in the showroom
• Fixed the Director's Cut hover tooltip showing the wrong item text
• Redesigned the kill milestone popup so it looks cleaner and no longer overlaps the streak notifier
• Added a default U shortcut for Autopilot
• Kept the Autopilot safety confirm modal so it can't be enabled by accident
• Added more internal audit coverage for achievements, settings resets, popup layout, and autopilot safety
• Redesigned the chapter transition cards to better match the rest of the game's HUD style

• Critical fix set -- resolve achievement flooding on connection