CyberJoker Patch 0.9.3 – VFX Overhaul for Cybernetic Card Immersion

Greetings, Resistance Fighters of the Rust Belt!

Thank you for all your frontline feedback in our fight against the Machine Regime. This update delivers a complete overhaul of our three core card VFX suites, fixes legacy visual bugs, and doubles down on the gritty, neon-drenched aesthetic of 2077’s cyberpunk wasteland. All parameters are fully exposed for designer tuning, and every effect maintains consistent playback speeds even at 4x game velocity.

✨ Core Optimizations

🔹 Tech Cards – Data-Flow Light VFX

• Fixed stretching artifacts on 168×196 rectangular card assets, replacing them with wave-edged, short-form data-flowing light strips that mimic ocular scanner pulses

• Eliminated visible seams along flow edges for smoother, non-distracting transitions that never obscure core card text

• Exposed independent tunable parameters: Flow Speed, Glow Intensity, Scanline Density(Tech Cards only, no cross-effect interference)

🔹 Weapon Cards – Energy Shield Ripple VFX

• Reduced ripple density and added edge falloff logic to prevent water-like distortions from obscuring card text or numeric values

• Decoupled ripple animation speed from card rarity tiers – visual behavior is now controlled exclusively by dedicated parameters

• Exposed independent tunable parameters: Ripple Speed, Ripple Strength, Scanline Density(Weapon Cards only)

🔹 Crystal Cards – Quantum Refraction VFX

• Added a new Refraction Strengthparameter to dramatically increase screen distortion, simulating the light-warping properties of quantum crystals

• Increased refraction animation speed by 60%+ to eliminate the previously sluggish, barely noticeable effect

• Fixed a bug causing sparkles to render as harsh white squares – replaced with soft, circular quantum highlights with no hard edges

• Exposed independent tunable parameters: Refraction Speed, Refraction Strength, Sparkle Density, Sparkle Brightness(Crystal Cards only)

🛠️ Additional Improvements

• Reorganized material parameter UI into collapsible, card-type-specific sections for faster designer iteration

• Fixed an issue where the global time uniform was overridden by material default values, ensuring all VFX remain synced to unscaled delta time even at 4x game speed

• Decoupled glow intensity from card rarity tiers – rarity now only affects glow tint, while brightness is controlled exclusively by the dedicated glow parameter