Patch Notes Page 54

v0.0.957

Fixed Steam Cloud startup sync for active profile slots.
Startup cloud pull/push now uses the actual active profile filename, so mod-hash save slots no longer try to share the vanilla profile.dat remote slot.
Cloud-restored saves now land in the same local save file the runtime is already using.

Added Valor-based Warden unlock progression.
New profiles now start with Jack, Robin, and Jade available immediately, while Ellis, Maria, Raven, Gunther, Sage, Sally, and George unlock through specific acts of Valor.
Dragon boss kills, round milestones, Toxic Dragon kills, Blood Rain survivals, total healing/shields restored, and lifetime enemy kills now feed that progression automatically across runs.
Added an Achievements screen to the main menu.
The new screen shows every Valor achievement, its current progress, and which Warden reward it unlocks even before it is earned.
Locked Wardens are now gated cleanly in character select.
Locked entries are greyed out, cannot be selected, and explain the unlock requirement in both the list and the details panel.

Fixed the Vampire Lord victory handoff on standard runs.
Killing the Vampire Lord now immediately triggers the win condition by default instead of dropping into a long post-boss delay where the run could keep progressing.
Finale victory delay logic is now hardened so authored delays cannot resume normal wave spawning or accidentally requeue the finale.

Smoothed the late-wave stat spike on standard difficulties.
Enemy HP and speed growth now taper into a gentler late-wave curve instead of continuing the full early-game compounding all the way into the Vampire Lord finale.
Milestone bosses now use a lower generic HP multiplier, reducing the wave-40 wall.
Rebalanced the Vampire Lord encounter.
The Vampire Lord now has much lower health, shields, damage, armor bonus, passive regen, and bite lifesteal, so the fight remains a finale instead of a near-immortal sustain check.

Fixed dev-command wave jumps for round-gated progression.
set_wave and native wave jumps now derive the correct round and current-round progress from the requested absolute wave instead of treating wave and round as the same number.
Jumping near the Vampire Lord finale on standard difficulties now correctly reaches the encounter timing instead of requiring dozens of extra waves.

Added Infinite difficulty unlock progression.
Defeating the Vampire Lord once now unlocks Infinite in the difficulty selector.
Infinite runs are endless, do not trigger the Vampire Lord finale, and keep scaling enemy stats every round.
Tuned Infinite mode rewards and pressure.
Infinite difficulty now pays +50% more gold rewards and spawns elites more often than the standard cadence.

Added a readable Steam achievement reference document.
Steam documentation.md` now groups every current achievement by category, explains what each one is for, and lists the exact unlock condition in plain language.
The Steam docs index in GAME_SPEC.md now points at the new achievement reference.

Added new Steam milestone tracking for rare loot and boss clears.
The profile now records the first Unique item found, the first corrupted item cleansed, the first Dragon boss defeated, the first Toxic Dragon defeated, and the first Vampire Lord defeated.
These milestones now feed the existing Steam stat snapshot and achievement evaluator so they can unlock cleanly when Steam stats are enabled again.