August Update — UX Enhancements, Accessibility & UI Polish

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Hey traders,

This update focuses on safer saves, clearer trading feedback, stronger controller support, responsive high-scale layouts, and a major localization pass across all seven supported languages.

There are no trading-balance, economy, or payout-math changes in this update.

Save Safety & Menus

  • Added a second confirmation before erasing saved Deep Value, Career, or Survival runs. Saves remain untouched until “ERASE & START OVER” is explicitly confirmed.

  • Restyled every save-discarding “NEW RUN” or “NEW CAREER” action with colors coded style.

Trading Feedback & Clarity

  • Unified result celebrations across cinematics, summaries, and share cards.

  • Standardized the result tiers as 10-BAGGER, MOONSHOT, TENDIES, NICE, OUCH, and GUH.

  • Deep Value’s squeeze meter now displays its real trigger threshold instead of / 100.

  • Improved squeeze messaging when pressure has cleared the threshold but other conditions remain.

  • Deep Value charts now redraw immediately after window resizing or UI-scale changes.

  • Career tabs now visibly identify the active section.

  • Career net-worth chart month markers are now localized.

  • Career option actions now say “SELL” instead of “CLOSE.”

  • Trader Profile profit, win, and loss colors now remain correct in every language.

Localization

  • Completed a broad remediation pass for English, German, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, and Japanese.

  • Updated menus, Daily play, standings, Broker, Career, Survival, Deep Value, challenges, achievements, journals, perks, the Clout Shop, tutorials, market feeds, results, and Steam rich presence.

  • Numbers, currencies, percentages, dates, ranks, streaks, XP, shares, contracts, followers, weeks, and months now consistently follow the selected locale.

  • Added proper singular and plural grammar, including Russian one/few/many forms and correct grammar for abbreviated counts.

  • Call and put contract counts can now use grammatically appropriate wording.

  • Removed hardcoded percentage labels from sell presets, order scenarios, intro tickers, and other live UI.

  • Added catalog enforcement for 343 pieces of data-driven content, including:

    • Earnings rumors and headlines

    • Market and weekly news

    • Career events, grades, and flavor text

    • Midday events and analyst whispers

    • Sector-specific tips

    • Trader ranks

    • Deep Value stock descriptions

  • Challenge summaries, Deep Value feeds, persistent overlays, and compatible legacy insider tips now re-render when the language changes instead of retaining stale English or old number formatting.

  • The colorblind preview now uses currency-neutral + and − indicators instead of +$ and -$.

Controller & Steam Deck Improvements

  • Add in0Game controller support and in-game controller keyboard with:

    • Standard Latin characters

    • Accented Latin characters

    • Cyrillic

    • Hiragana

    • Voiced and small kana

    • Katakana

    • Common Simplified Chinese name characters

  • The keyboard opens on the page best suited to the selected language.

  • Added controller-driven script-page switching.

  • Improved Unicode capitalization and multi-character input handling.

  • The keyboard now scales and stays on-screen at high accessibility scales.

  • Restored controller focus after completing or skipping the guided first trade.

  • Added controller-visible tooltips to important Main Menu actions, mode cards, and the Clout chip.

  • Added localized focus tooltips for:

    • Mode help buttons

    • Broker strategy-leg removal

    • Strategy Builder close

    • Live-market pause and resume

  • The live-market tooltip now updates immediately when its state or language changes.

  • Added deterministic controller navigation between Gain/Loss Gallery tabs and Close.

High-Scale & Responsive UI

  • Tightened Main Menu widths, spacing, typography, cards, and buttons so long translations remain usable at 200% UI scale.

  • Kept Daily status text and its action on the same scroll page.

  • Made the Career dashboard horizontally and vertically scrollable while following controller focus.

  • Added responsive resizing and horizontal scrolling to the Gallery.

  • Centralized compact-layout thresholds so Daily and Weekly layouts cannot drift apart.

Thanks for playing!
- Dev