[Blosharper] Early Access v0.2 Update Notes: Major Stability & QoL Improveme

Blosharper Early Access v0.2 (Build 1173) Update Notes

Hello, sharpers!
We are pleased to share the details of our latest update, which greatly improves game stability and user convenience for Blosharper.

Major Improvements & Security Stability

• System Stability Enhancements: Strengthened code integrity to prevent external tampering or unauthorized client execution, improving general launch speed and stability.
• Save Issue Resolution: Resolved an issue in certain isolated environments where local save files would fail to load properly.
• Unexpected Error Tracking: Implemented a system-level logging hook that detects and reports unexpected errors during runtime, making troubleshooting more efficient.
• Autosave & Title Screen UX Polish:
  - Improved save state visibility by pairing the saving sequence with the global autosave LED indicator.
  - Simplified the initial autosave warning text to be clear and direct, and hid overlaying menu assets during warning displays to prevent visual clutter.
• Official Rating Indicator & Photosensitivity Warning: Integrated official rating classification icons, developer notices, and photosensitivity seizure warning layouts into the intro sequence, aligning with regulatory and health standards. Enhanced responsive scaling settings to support various aspect ratios.

New Convenience Features & Dynamic Visuals

• Screen Shake Toggle: Added an option to completely disable screen shake effects in the settings menu, and repositioned options for a cleaner layout.
• Dynamic Viewer Count: Streamer viewer counts now fluctuate naturally based on gameplay situations, creating a more realistic atmosphere.
• Audio Adjustments: Added a new audio cue when starting a new adventure and balanced general sound volumes for a smoother experience.
• Intro Animation Skip Improvements: Enforced a 2-second minimum exposure for each warning cut during booting to ensure readability. Added multi-stage skipping (first input outputs all logs, second input skips) and sequential cut skipping to improve flow control.
• Translation Quality Overhaul: Significantly improved translation naturalness across all supported languages and standardized inconsistent game terminology (e.g., unified "fold" to "discard" in English/German).
• Russian UI Optimization: Fixed font rendering issues and text overflow in Cyrillic character environments. Optimized intro screen layouts so that Russian warning text displays cleanly without clipping.

Challenge Balancing & Learning Flow

• Boss Spawn Balancing: Subdivided and redistributed the spawn rounds of mysterious boss characters to create a more natural difficulty progression.
• Card Combination Learning Opportunity: If you enter a specific phase without unlocking the special card rules, opportunities to learn the combination rules from a mysterious master will now trigger dynamically based on your "Luck" stat bonus.
• Shop Dialog Flow: Standardized the dialogue and interactions when encountering certain shop NPCs to maintain a consistent tone.
• Cherry Blossom Timing: Delayed the initial cherry blossom falling animation by 3 seconds and adjusted fall speed variance for a calmer, more atmospheric title screen.

Bug Fixes & Optimizations

• Seeded Play Safety Warning: Added a warning dialog when starting a new game with a custom seed, preventing your precious existing save file from being accidentally overwritten.
• UI Text Overflow Protection: Applied text-truncation (ellipsis) styling to fixed-width buttons (.btn) to prevent long localized texts from breaking layouts.
• Demo Build Stabilization: Fixed a packaging bug in the Demo version where certain visual assets were mistakenly cleaned up, and ensured the autosave LED works properly in the Demo as well.
• Internal Optimizations: Resolved memory overheads, fixed potential crashes, and enhanced overall type safety.
• Autosave Indicator & Focus Protection: Prevented keyboard and gamepad focus from moving incorrectly while the autosave warning is displayed. Enabled dynamic layout scaling for the warning screen and added an immediate skip of the idle delay on input.
• Welcome Seed Input Reset: Fixed a minor issue where cancelling the seed configuration modal on the welcome screen left unfinished seed strings in the input field.
• Enhanced Save Data Protection: Introduced a safeguard that prevents save data corruption even if the system shuts down unexpectedly during saving. An automatic backup-based recovery path is now available.
• Crash Recovery Dialog: Added a native dialog that detects rare critical errors during gameplay and guides you to restart or exit safely.
• Rating Mark Update: Updated the official rating classification icons on the intro screen to reflect the latest rating results, and improved overall intro layout readability.

Thank you always for playing Blosharper and sharing your valuable feedback.
We will continue to do our best to provide you with a solid and exciting challenge!