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Hello everyone!

I am incredibly excited to drop a massive update today that completely overhauls the game\'s visuals and adds a requested feature for the one completion-ist out there . We\'ve been hard at work hand-drawing over 150 unique pieces of art to give every buff and de-buff its own distinct personality.

Heres everything new:

Visual Overhaul: 150+ New Hand-Drawn Assets

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Gone are the days of placeholder icons! I have added 150 hand-drawn artworks drawn by me for every single Buff and Debuff in the game.

• Buffs: Now look as powerful as they feel.

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• Debuffs: Now look as dangerous as they are. Can you collect (or survive) them all?

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New Feature: The Compendium

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Knowledge is power! Ive added a brand new Compendium to the main menu.

• Track Your Progress: View every Buff you have successfully unlocked in your runs.

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• And the events: Be Vary of all the debuffs in the game!, all of em will be unlocked from the start.

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Quality of Life: Silhouette Controls

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• Motion Toggle: Choose between Moving or Static silhouettes depending on your preference.

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• Speed Slider: If you keep it moving, you can now adjust the Movement Speed to be as chill or as chaotic as you like.\n

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• Buff reworks : 12 buffs have been reworked for a more unique standout ness to validate there existence.

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• Buff Inventory Rework : now see more than 4 buffs in the buff inventory!

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Here are the Steam Patch Notes summarizing all the optimizations and fixes implemented in this session.

Misc Updates:

Performance & Engine Optimizations

• Hybrid Rendering Pipeline: Implemented hardware scaling for fullscreen mode to minimize CPU overhead. Windowed mode now utilizes optimized software scaling with correct aspect ratio preservation (letterboxing).

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• Background Physics Refactor: Rewrote Rain and Snow particle systems to utilize [c]numpy[/c] for vectorized position updates, replacing iterative Python loops.

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• Multithreaded Physics: Moved particle physics calculations to a separate thread ([c]ThreadPoolExecutor[/c]) to decouple simulation load from the main render thread.

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• Global Asset Caching: Implemented a global cache for particle textures to eliminate frame drops during theme transitions and boss entry.

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• UI Rendering Caching: Added surface caching for [c]draw_text_with_shadow[/c] and [c]draw_panel[/c]. Static UI elements and text are no longer re-rendered every frame.

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• Gradient Optimization: Replaced iterative line-drawing for gradients with hardware-accelerated surface scaling in card backgrounds and sky generation.

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• Physics Stability: Clamped visual delta-time calculations to prevent physics instability and object teleportation when game speed multipliers (e.g., NRG Drink) are active.

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• Module Loading: Optimized [c]buffs.py[/c] resource loading to prevent redundant module imports during boss exclusion checks.

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Bug Fixes

• Boss Encounter (Jumper): Fixed a logic error where selecting a debuff triggered a turn reset, causing an infinite loop.

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• Boss Encounter (DLSS): Fixed an issue where the 500x500 resolution challenge resulted in stretched visuals. The renderer now correctly applies letterboxing to maintain the 16:9 aspect ratio.

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• Input Handling: Corrected mouse coordinate mapping to account for black bars/letterboxing in windowed mode, resolving \"ghost button\" issues where visual hitboxes did not match logical hitboxes.

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• Crash Fix: Resolved a [c]TypeError[/c] in the [c]Cloud[/c] class update method regarding missing arguments.

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\n\nThank you for playing and your continued feedback! Let me know what you think of the new art in the discussions! Have a great day!\n[img src=\"https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/45743397/25bd473acd75a58bd4af5a8806c0671cb0b9e0c3.png\"][/img]