Windows fullscreen uses Godot's exclusive fullscreen mode.
Menu joystick handling run in menus improved.
Fixed temporary damage boosts reducing permanent damage, damage cards being counted twice, and boost/evolution bookkeeping.
Fixed shared co-op levels advancing the wrong player and inflating XP requirements.
Preserved purchased Orbit blade/spin upgrades and poison area upgrades through evolution.
Preserved power up drops at the XP gem cap and enforced the cap for simultaneous kills without discarding XP.
Cleared unavailable stage modifiers and validated the selected modifier at run start.
Preserved saved depth in retried leaderboard submissions.
Applied the full +2 projectile reward to Tidal Pull/Gravity Maw and made their Attack Speed upgrades affect their movement cycle.
Protected adopted Steam Cloud saves from stale queued uploads; checked temporary writes, backup, and promotion before adoption. Failed adoption blocks outbound cloud writes for that session until reconciliation succeeds.
Applied the existing authored stage spawn multiplier once, including its endless adjustment. This makes later stages harder than the previous bugged behavior and warrants a balance playtest.
Made overflowing settings scroll and follow keyboard/controller focus.
Added optional local performance logging and a unique hotfix build tag.