Patch Notes Page 32

v0.20.13

Upgraded Escort Duty navigation to match Captain nemesis route handling.
Escorts now use tighter navmesh corridor lookahead and boundary clearance so they corner more cleanly instead of cutting wide around chokepoints.
Escort unstuck recovery now retargets toward a real intermediate nav waypoint before falling back to a random offset, which reduces jitter and repeated wall-hugging on long routes.
Hard-stuck escorts now briefly phase their collision recovery while snapping back onto the navmesh, mirroring the stronger nemesis patrol escape behavior.

Fixed Captain nemesis intermission simulation without changing downtime pause behavior.
Intermission shops and boards still pause the world as before.
Captains now keep their movement/collision simulation alive between waves when no blocking enemies remain, so they continue patrolling once intermission is running instead of freezing until the next combat phase.

Fixed Captain nemesis wave-clear behavior.
Captains no longer stall wave advancement when they are the last enemy left alive in a wave.
Non-blocking Captain AI now keeps updating after the blocking enemy count reaches zero, so Captains can continue patrolling or escaping while the wave advances.

Tightened Captain nemesis patrol navigation.
Captains now follow patrol routes with a shorter navmesh corridor lookahead, which keeps them from cutting corners and oscillating through tight hallways.
Patrol stuck detection now also watches for real progress toward the active checkpoint instead of only raw movement distance.
Patroling Captains no longer use the random unstuck goal offsets that were making them jitter or “drunk walk” around SpawnArea routes.
Captain patrol pace now runs at full authored movement speed instead of feeling artificially damped.

Smoothed Captain nemesis patrol navigation.
Enemy stuck detection now scales its movement tolerance to actual per-tick travel instead of assuming anything under half a unit is stalled.
This reduces false stuck-repath triggers that were making Captains patrol slowly and jitter back and forth in corridors.

Reworked Captain patrol movement onto the shared enemy steering path.
Disengaged Captains now use the same navmesh, clamp, cornering, and corridor-steering stack as normal enemy movement instead of a separate lightweight patrol mover.
This fixes Captains idling in place between aggro windows and improves their ability to travel through tighter hallways and around corners while patrolling.

Fixed Captain nemesis patrol movement when disengaged.
Captains now fall back to a normalized direct route vector when nav pathing does not immediately return a usable direction, so they resume walking their patrol instead of idling in place until a Warden re-enters aggro range.
Patrol stuck tracking now treats any real patrol movement as motion, so local unstuck recovery can trigger correctly for stalled captains.

Fixed Captain nemesis route seeding.
Captains no longer count their spawn SpawnArea as a patrol checkpoint, so single-checkpoint routes no longer auto-complete the instant the nemesis appears.