Patch Notes Page 85

v0.0.692

Reworked Sally into a Cleric-style support/damage hybrid.
Replaced Sally’s 1 ability with Holy Smite, a cursor-targeted Holy spell burst.
Moved Small Heal to 2 and Heavy Heal to 3.
Removed Regeneration Aura from Sally’s active kit.
Added Holy Smite spell VFX support.
Loaded and wired assets/Sprites/Spells/HolySmite.png as a 5-frame, left-to-right 32x32 sprite-sheet cast effect.
Updated player-facing class/kit documentation.
Sally is now described as a Cleric in roster/spec docs while keeping archetype id healer for compatibility.
Updated build/version alignment.
Updated player-visible build string to Pre-Alpha | Build v0.0.692.
Updated Discord join-service test build-tag fixtures to v0.0.692.

Fixed Maria assassin ability damage typing and damage-number feedback.
Backstab now applies Shadow RPG damage typing and spawns floating Shadow damage numbers on hit.
Shadow Dance execute hits now apply Shadow RPG damage typing and render Shadow-colored floating damage numbers.
Updated build/version alignment.
Updated player-visible build string to Pre-Alpha | Build v0.0.691.
Updated Discord join-service test build-tag fixtures to v0.0.691.

Applied archetype visual upscale parity to Ellis.
Added renderScale: 1.5 to Ellis (special) in data/menu_presets.json, matching Jack’s visual upscale behavior.
Keeps gameplay hitbox sizing unchanged while improving in-game sprite presentation consistency.
Updated build/version alignment.
Updated player-visible build string to Pre-Alpha | Build v0.0.690.
Updated Discord join-service test build-tag fixtures to v0.0.690.

Expanded Steam multiplayer session orchestration.
Added Steam matchmaking lobby service integration for host/create/join/leave metadata flow.
Lobby invite action now opens Steam lobby invite dialog when a Steam lobby is active, with friends-overlay fallback.
Steam join flow now consumes both rich-presence connect tokens and Steam lobby-join callbacks.
Migrated Steam P2P runtime transport to sockets relay path.
Steam P2P networking now uses ISteamNetworkingSockets connection/poll-group flow while preserving steamid:<id> addressing.
Existing UDP transport remains available as runtime fallback.
Added explicit Steam Workshop load-order/conflict policy and upload tooling contract.
Workshop manifest now declares deterministic loadOrderPolicy and conflictPolicy behavior.
Workshop mount-root resolution now preserves service-defined precedence order during asset/data lookup.
Added optional manifest-driven Steam ContentBuilder VDF generation for workshop upload/update workflows.
Added Steam workshop policy/tooling regression coverage.
Added steam_workshop_tests to validate workshop policy parsing and upload tooling artifact generation.
Updated build/version alignment.
Updated player-visible build string to Pre-Alpha | Build v0.0.689.
Updated Discord join-service test build-tag fixtures to v0.0.689.

Expanded Steam multiplayer invite/join integration and transport coverage.
Steam rich-presence join callbacks now feed directly into the existing direct-connect lobby flow.
Steam P2P transport now sends and receives live packets through Steam networking messages (steamid:<id> addressing).
Lobby now includes an Invite Friends action that opens Steam overlay friend invites.
Completed Steam Input action mapping pass.
Steam Input now reads data-driven action sets, analog axes, digital actions, and deadzone tuning from Steam configuration data.json`.
Controller actions now merge into gameplay ActionState sampling, preserving keyboard/mouse behavior.
Improved Steam Workshop mount integration.
Workshop subscription scan now mounts validated assets/data roots for subscribed items.
Asset/data resolution now checks mounted workshop roots before base game roots.
Updated Steam documentation and task status to completion state.
Updated Steam feature matrix and integration plan to reflect completed runtime paths and ops-owned steps.
Updated backend contract sample build tag and task status notes milestone status snapshot.
Updated build/version alignment.
Updated player-visible build string to Pre-Alpha | Build v0.0.688.
Updated Discord join-service test build-tag fixtures to v0.0.688.

Added deterministic Steam cloud conflict-resolution coverage.
SteamCloudService now exposes resolveSyncAction(...) so local/cloud timestamp policies are testable without live Steam runtime.
Added steam_cloud_tests to validate pull/push/no-op conflict decisions, including timestamp tolerance behavior.
Refactored cloud sync flow to use shared resolution policy.
Runtime cloud sync now uses the same decision helper as automated tests before performing local/cloud transfer work.
Updated build/version alignment.
Updated player-visible build string to Pre-Alpha | Build v0.0.686.
Updated Discord join-service test build-tag fixtures to v0.0.686.

Improved Steam recap leaderboard UX with asynchronous around-user status handling.
Recap now shows Retrieving... while around-user leaderboard data is in flight.
Recap now shows No local rank yet when around-user entries resolve without a local ranked row.
Hardened around-user leaderboard request handling.
Around-user requests now clear stale cached rows for the requested key before re-fetch.
Duplicate queued around-user requests for the same key now coalesce instead of growing queue depth.
Expanded leaderboard regression tests.
steam_leaderboard_tests now validates around-user status transitions and duplicate-request coalescing behavior.
Updated build/version alignment.
Updated player-visible build string to Pre-Alpha | Build v0.0.685.
Updated Discord join-service test build-tag fixtures to v0.0.685.

Added Steam leaderboard around-user retrieval flow and recap integration.
SteamLeaderboardService now supports queued around-user requests and cached decoded entries.
Run end now queues around-user fetches for best_wave and best_round after leaderboard submission.
Added recap visibility for Steam leaderboard rank snapshots.
Recap Summary now shows local Steam rank/score lines for wave and round when around-user data is available.
Expanded Steam leaderboard regression coverage.
steam_leaderboard_tests now validates around-user request queue behavior and cache access invariants.
Updated build/version alignment.
Updated player-visible build string to Pre-Alpha | Build v0.0.684.
Updated Discord join-service test build-tag fixtures to v0.0.684.