v0.3.1.4 Patch Notes - HUD, Enemy Visuals, and Session Reliability
New Features
- Game Over Career Progress - Added rank progress, XP earned, next-rank information, and progress tracking to the results screen.
- Game Over Outcome Details - Results screens now provide clearer outcome explanations and player action hints.
- Revive Zone Visuals - Added a visible, player-colored revive range sphere that matches the actual revive distance.
- Enemy Surface Effects - Shield and status effects now render directly on enemy surfaces for clearer combat feedback.
Combat & Gameplay Improvements
- Improved Enemy Hit Feedback - Added throttled hit confirmation feedback with a distinct critical-hit presentation.
- Exploder Damage Handling - Lethal damage now triggers explosions immediately while preserving normal death and reward handling.
- Special Run Reset - Aria and other Special states now fully reset between runs instead of carrying charge, targeting, or audio state into the next mission.
- Combat VFX Placement - Path-based ability effects now spawn along the correct path segments instead of using a shared origin point.
Progression & Session Fixes
- Save Recovery - Progression saves can now recover from a valid backup if the primary save becomes unreadable.
- Remote Profile Protection - Temporary session profiles no longer overwrite the local player's saved progression.
- Input State Recovery - Gameplay input is restored more reliably when returning from lobby, results, and session transitions.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed the Game Over screen retaining stale animations or input state after being reopened.
- Fixed the results screen not consistently enabling the correct Retry or Return to Hub action.
- Fixed revive range visuals not matching the actual gameplay revive range.
- Fixed shield and status visuals becoming stale when enemies were disabled, despawned, or reused.
- Fixed lethal Exploder damage causing recursive damage or incomplete death handling.
- Fixed Special targeting, cooldown audio, and scan presentation persisting across run transitions.
- Fixed profile recovery paths replacing unreadable saves with fresh default data.