Patch Notes Page 158

v0.0.658

Fixed an intermittent main-menu idle crash.
Resolved a JobSystem worker scheduling bug that could execute the same parallel batch more than once, causing unsafe memory access in animation updates.
Hardened Dragon pylon handling so static encounter pylons are excluded from enemy AI movement and NPC collision resolution.
Stabilized collision-grid key packing to avoid undefined behavior with negative cell coordinates.

Reworked Mending Totem visuals to use the Healing Obelisk split sprite.
Bottom 16x16 tile now renders in the regular world pass and owns collision.
Top 16x32 slice now renders in the always-front pass so it overlays actors correctly.
Improved Mending Totem health/shield bar readability.
Bars now anchor above the full 16x48 obelisk silhouette instead of the base tile.
Added lifecycle cleanup for Mending Totem foreground slices.
Upper slices now follow their owner totem and are removed automatically when the owner is removed.

Added a VSync toggle to Options.
Main-menu and pause-menu Options now let players switch VSync on or off at runtime.
VSync preference is now saved with the player profile and restored on startup.

Reduced DoT damage-number spam during heavy burn/poison/bleed scenarios.
Burn/poison/bleed floating numbers now batch at a slower cadence instead of flushing every quarter-second.
Batched ticks now show larger combined values (for example one larger tick instead of repeated 1 spam).
Made DoT damage-number batching data-driven in data/gameplay.json.
Added hud.dotDamageNumbers.interval and hud.dotDamageNumbers.minimumDamage tuning keys.
Enemy status DoTs and DamageOverTime DoTs now share this batching configuration.

Refined Vampire Lord boss action timing.
The Lord now holds melee range for contact pressure instead of immediately preempting close combat with spell casts.
Batport now uses the correct exported texture path and resolves the actual teleport at mid-animation instead of snapping on cast start.
Refined Vampire Lord spell sequencing.
Heavy, single-projectile, multi-projectile, and AoE spells now stage their charge-up and discharge timing before the payload resolves.
Vampire Lord magical-effect strips now use corrected authored playback timing for the current exported assets.

Fixed Vampire Lord close-range attack presentation.
Final-boss spawn wiring now grants the Vampire Lord the same melee cooldown runtime as other enemies, preventing melee and bite from retriggering on the first frame every contact tick.
Vampire Lord and Vampire Spawn committed contact attacks now also refuse to restart while their current swing animation is still active.
Refined Vampire Lord spell staging and finale flow.
Projectile spells now hold the Lord’s Cast animation while charge-up VFX play in front of his facing direction before the projectile resolves.
Defeating the Vampire Lord now starts a 30-60 second holdout before the victory screen, driven by data/gameplay.json.

Refined Vampire Lord attack readability.
The Vampire Lord now stops moving while melee, bite, or cast swings are active so those authored strips can read cleanly on screen.
Vampire Lord walk playback now uses a faster movement-only frame cadence to better match his travel speed without speeding up melee, bite, or cast animations.

Fixed Vampire Lord melee, bite, and cast frame sequencing.
Enemy attack swings now record their authored total duration when triggered.
Vampire Lord attack-strip playback is now driven directly from swing elapsed time so melee and bite advance across their full frame sequence instead of stalling near the opening pose.