Patch Notes Page 62

v0.0.889

Increased Green Rain puddle coverage.
Green Rain now allows more poison puddles to exist at once and refills them much faster across navigable ground.
The change is authored in weather data only, so hazard density can keep being tuned without code changes.

Fixed pre-round weather rendering.
The game no longer shows ambient rain before Round 1 has actually rolled an active weather.
Weather visuals now stay off until the round weather system selects the first round-owned result.

Added a data-driven round weather system.
Each round now rolls one active weather from an authored weighted pool and keeps it until the round ends.
Round weather state now syncs through round/snapshot data so replay, persistence work, and multiplayer weather agreement can share the same source of truth.
Round-start banners and modifier toasts now announce the active weather and its effects.
Added authored special weather events and modifiers.
Regular Rain, Snow, Blood Rain, Black Rain, Green Rain, and Clear are now configured in data/weather.json with exact weights and visual intensity scaling.
Player weather bonuses now stack additively with existing RPG damage/lifesteal bonuses instead of replacing them.
Blood Rain now buffs enemies already alive in the round and newly spawned enemies, while Black Rain and Green Rain now replace the round spawn pool with authored family restrictions.
Added Green Rain poison puddles.
Poison puddles now spawn over navigable ground, render on the ground layer from poisonPools.png, expire on authored timers, and refresh the existing poison DoT when re-entered.
Green Rain also grants bonus poison damage plus authored round gold and XP rewards.

Weather now respects map exploration.
Rain and other procedural weather streaks only render over tiles the player has already explored.
Unexplored black fog-of-war areas no longer show weather effects bleeding through.

Fixed elite wave pacing and Captain promotion.
Normal wave spawning no longer marks every spawned enemy as elite, so waves return to their intended enemy mix instead of flooding with elite affix toasts.
Captain promotions now elevate a normal eligible enemy into an elite Captain directly, so Captains can still appear even when ordinary elite counts stay conservative.
Restored elite overhead identification.
Elite enemies once again render a clear badge above their health bars.
Non-nemesis enemies also shed any stale generated name component left over from prior broken runs, preventing stray generic nameplates from persisting.

Fixed forced Captain debug spawning.
spawn_captain <enemyId> now always spawns a fresh Captain near the player instead of trying to promote an existing matching elite first.

Fixed nemesis debug spawning and name reuse.
spawn_captain <enemyId> now bypasses normal wave-gating so forced Captain tests work deterministically with valid enemy ids.
Nemesis name reservation now applies across all undefeated nemesis records instead of only Captain records, reducing duplicate names across active and escaped threats.

Removed stray non-captain enemy nameplates and names.
Ordinary elites no longer get persistent generated names during the generic elite-affix pass.
Only nemesis targets keep persistent names, and only Captains render world-space nameplates.