Patch Notes Page 53

v0.0.965

Toughened Warden survival against late-wave melee swarms.
Melee contact hits now apply a data-driven anti-crowd mitigation curve once several enemies stack on top of the same Warden.
Higher difficulties keep less of that anti-swarm protection, so easy/normal preserve more forgiveness than Chaotic, Insane, Torment, and Infinite.
Reinforced tank Wardens at baseline.
Jack now starts runs with extra base armor, with the bonus authored in data/menu_presets.json instead of hardcoded in the contact resolver.
Added a survivability regression check.
combat_tests now covers the crowd-mitigation helper so the anti-swarm taper stays deterministic as tuning changes.

Fixed trader offer selection to require a click before buying.
Hovering trader offers no longer changes the active purchase selection in either trader UI path.
The selected trader offer now stays locked until the player clicks a different offer or changes it with non-mouse navigation.

Tightened ranged and healer cleanup behavior in enemy packs.
Ranged enemies now hold a real min/max firing window, walk back into range when the player is too far away, and switch to melee/contact pressure when the player closes the gap.
Healers now prioritize healing/follow support without endlessly fleeing the player, then turn aggressive once their personal space is breached.
Waves no longer stall on the last ranged/healer survivors because backline-only groups now collapse into melee/contact pressure instead of kiting forever.

Kalibros now queues simultaneous first-time callouts instead of dropping later ones.
If multiple tutorial-worthy events happen together, such as weather discovery, shrine spawn, boss spawn, or round-transition guidance, Kalibros now adds them all to the pending sequence and plays them in order.

Refined Kalibros tutorial paging for readability.
The enemy overview and hotzone briefing are now split across shorter Kalibros panels instead of overloading one dialogue page with too much text.
Hotzone guidance now names the actual live bonuses on the map, including Danger-Pay, XP Surge, Warp Flux, and the XP + Pay combo zone.

Hardened Kalibros tutorial advance input against held confirms.
Tutorial dialogue now ignores held left-click, E, Space, and other confirm inputs until the player fully releases them, so every Kalibros panel requires a distinct press after release to advance.

Fixed Kalibros tutorial dialogue skipping multiple messages on one click.
Advancing a tutorial beat now requires releasing the current confirm/click input before the next message can be dismissed, so one held press no longer burns through the queue.

Added Kalibros-guided first-run tutorials and one-time gameplay callouts.
First-time runs now pause into a dedicated Kalibros dialogue overlay with his portrait, center-screen topic cards, and guided onboarding for movement, combat, waves, resources, fog of war, weather, and map objectives.
First-time milestone moments such as elites, bosses, loot goblins, shrines, hidden chests, talent points, weather states, and round-two points of interest now trigger one-time Kalibros warnings or guidance without opening the regular pause menu.
Tutorial discovery now persists per profile.
Save data records which Kalibros tutorial beats have already been seen so onboarding and first-time commentary only appear once across runs.