Hello my future operators,
If you'd rather view updates in a short, here it is:
This week in my life trying to make this game not suck (and this week was rather productive so this is a lot), starting with Big Updates:
Worked out a custom soundtrack that includes background music for all stages of gameplay and events, as well as sound effects
Changed the way CPU and GPU is used to cut down a third of usage
Prestige nodes cost more to prevent the game being finished too quickly and the tree being maxed out first time
Reorganized menus and changed layout of select panels
Finally integrated the companion that was planned for literally ages
Revamped the 3D street view to be more aesthetic and to have easter egg operations
Quality of Life:
Fake crash is a real scare: covers all, stops all, stutters the music, then confesses.
Save loading covered by a load screen instead of a nav-bar flash.
Offline report fits in four lines: how long, how much, how efficient, COLLECT.
Rounder corners everywhere; instability stops squaring them.
Title screen drifts your own numbers behind the logo; tagline gone.
Corner widgets share one dock and explain themselves on hover.
Shop side systems fold behind one bar; items come first.
Lucky Pulse rides FRENZY combos with the hex glyph, never a gold coin.
Every panel keeps a steady corner ✕, windows mode or not.
Era label reads ERA ⬡ EARLY GRID with the ladder in its tooltip.
FULL EXPERIENCE warns effects build; CRT visible from frame one.
SIGNALS ranking gone (owner-directed); raw output, unit price and teaser kept.
Side systems capped at 42% of the shop window, scrolling inside themselves.
Exit to OS closes with a CRT collapse after the save, not a vanishing window.
Game asks in its own dialog: exit, overwrite, rename, then all twelve pop-ups.
Calmer title background: traces fade, rings wander, logo unboxed.
Dialogs fade out on close; Reduced Motion keeps them instant.
Last 21 colour emoji drawn as the game's own glyphs in panel colours.
Offline threshold stays 5 minutes (decided).
Nav bar moves by grip or arrow keys, remembers its place, Home resets.
Tribunal is a staged scene: ducks in an arc, lines in bubbles over speakers.
Patch Notes browses by version with CHANGE / FIX / QUIRK / NOTE badges.
META row hides its empty ADVANCED label until something unlocks.
Text size setting: 100 / 115 / 130%, same in every save.
Tribunal feather drawn, not emoji.
Zero colour emoji in interface chrome; drawn bolt, glyphs and colour-taking symbols.
Settings, Patch Notes, Load Game rise-and-fade like the windows.
In-game Help accurate: no Analytics ghost, prestige price ×3.8 stated.
Settings is four tabs (ACCESS is new) at one fixed height.
Achievements open on a category index; MISC holds 82 of 115, warned up front.
Category chips named, explained on hover, jump on click.
×10 / ×100 buy exactly that many and reprice instantly.
No more phantom top-left ACQUIRED card; first-buy lines live on the bought card.
All windows close from one steady top-right ✕.
Reduced Motion cross-fades the background in ~0.3s.
City window decluttered: no tagline, awareness bar, blueprint buttons, zoom button or map labels; compass reads MAINS IN ◀.
Shop "?" and City "?" open their guides inside their own panels.
Windows resize from all corners; open windows survive reloads.
Combo rides under ACQUIRE, smaller number, readable subtext.
Auto-Assist states its deal (+50% base until next click) and its payout.
New Game choices show real glyphs on a calm, motionless screen.
Locked achievements readable (contrast 1.6 → 7.9); icons still grey out.
Settings tab strip lost its uncolourable emoji.
Shop and city headers match the other fourteen panels; side mechanics fold, nothing hides.
Last three panel-title emoji drawn properly.
Late-game legibility: widgets lanelled, column capped, five worst overlaps gone, nothing deleted.
Accessibility:
Settings tabs announced properly with arrow/Home/End travel and focus return.
Locked achievement secrets no longer leak through alt text and filenames.
Pre-boot gate labels exactly the one preference it writes, computed live.
Six panels announce real names, not internal ids; stale map fixed both ways.
Narrator only announces ids with real overlays; toggles aren't "panels."
Reviewing the pre-boot gate from Settings can't start a new game by accident.
Bugs Fixed:
Achievements panel bonus corrected: it printed double the real +0.5%-each rate.
Prestige achievement GO → buttons work; they pointed at a renamed-away panel.
Unlocked count and category headers agree again (31 vs 28).
Settings tabs fit the screen and the dialog keeps one height.
Calm Mode remembers itself across reloads.
Low Graphics switch and effect agree; no more double-click to turn off.
City power readout no longer prints seventeen-digit percentages.
Both broken UI-corruption targets fire.
Particle Density buttons sit on one line again.
Viewport readout is live instead of a stale `0 × 0 · NaN:1` snapshot.
NULL interrogation is properly budgeted in the event queue (100, not 20).
⛔ Keyboard players can press ACQUIRE: all five activation paths work.
Notification column no longer paints itself over the title screen.
⛔⛔ Shop item list reclaimed: 148px → 299px of visible items.
City header slimmed: building list 76px → 151px.
Every panel's ✕ sits in the top-right corner where it stays.
Quitting mid-intro no longer leaves a dead main menu. Help page save-slot count reads from the game (10, not "up to 20")
⛔⛔ NEW GAME works from the title screen again, with its loading screen.
First story transmission waits for your click and a running generator.
Day is brighter than night now, as advertised.
Lucky Pulse spawns beside the button and its flash names the amount.
⛔ Quitting to menu no longer strips the nav bar from every later save.
⛔ Loading a save stops re-paying the +15% REALITY ECHO (and five other repeats).
Loading a save plays that save's music era, not the last one's.
Schism from a late save no longer leaks into the next save.
Overseer-Chan speaks her lines instead of her source code, and survives quits.
Last 12 browser pop-ups are the game's own dialog; dismissing means no.
One Escape closes one window, front first.
Offline report reads the real absence length, not "a brief absence."
Snapped windows remember their pre-snap size; dragging restores it under your pointer.
Windows snap at the edge (10px), not anywhere near it.
Controller bumpers skip the motion toggle and cycle panels.
Tribunal timer runs from game start, not app launch.
Offline pays from 5 minutes away, not 30 seconds.
Archive and NULL are normal movable windows with a fixed scrolling output.
Throughput chart drawn at display size, no more grain.
Patch Notes opens above the Escape menu.
Stats TOTALS numbers follow the live game.
Pause menu puts your windows back when it closes.
MEDUSA and THE MACHINE appear when they unlock.
Seal hint names the item to buy instead of "need 0 more."
Stats milestone buttons land on real panels; new check guards every GO → in the game.
⛔ City roads no longer run through buildings: 0 plots on roads across 40 maps.
City walkers follow the drawn streets: 0 of 144 steps through buildings, same PP rate.
Notifications, duck, birds and storm orbs draw under open windows now.
Buying flashes the card you bought from.
Museum is a normal window with a close button.
Colour key and compass no longer overlap.
New Game warning icon fades into its panel.
⛔ Achievement "permanent" bonuses survive prestige now.
50-achievement combo upgrade holds instead of lasting under a second.
Mastery tooltip says +0.5%, matching what the game pays.
Settings centred at every size.
Load Game fits its slots; all ten show on tall screens.
Title screen gets the in-game tooltips, not the browser grey box.
Menu music returns after quitting to title.
Hover tick softened from harsh hiss (−1.1 dBFS) to soft tick (−18 dBFS); no more doubled or clipping UI sounds.
Offline reports close only themselves; quitting takes the report with it.
Echo Probe hides again for saves below first prestige.
Fake RAM-lag widget removed; its cost is honest, legible and clearable.
Firewall Entity beatable on Steam via the in-game inspector (F12 / right-click).
Notification icons no longer split emoji into "�".
High-click saves load on the right button stage.
Shop blur removed (it was the crying spore, unexplained).
Event Loadout rows are real keyboard buttons.
⛔ Quitting mid-transmission no longer breaks every later game in the session.
Title shooting stars tilt and fly both ways.
Rename Slot works in the desktop game via the in-game dialog.
Title screen shows only title-screen things; duck timers stop on quit.
⛔ Steam build boots: missing packaged file restored, uploader gated on a live boot.
⛔ NULL interrogation exits on Escape; silence costs +20% instability.
Boss and Ransom wait their turn in the event queue.
Auto-Breach Firewall actually defeats bosses now.
Interface sounds levelled to spec (up to 19 dB over, now on-tier).
Surveillance policy pays what its button says (EPS 1.05 → 0.95).
Sound-off stays sound-off from launch; the ending restores your setting.
That's it for now, that was a lot of copy-pasting and formatting. Hope y'all enjoyed it I guess.
See you next week,
Your (hopefully) favorite squishy fox
(I just realised how weird that sounds... oh well too late now)