Hello, everyone! This update focuses on combat performance, skill behavior, and overall stability, delivering a smoother experience when large numbers of enemies and projectiles are on screen at the same time.
## Large-Scale Enemy Performance
- Significantly optimized enemy AI, movement, separation, and target searching when large groups of enemies are active.
- Improved enemy spawning and object reuse to reduce processing overhead during extended battles.
- Optimized damage-over-time updates, reducing the cost of applying skill effects to many enemies simultaneously.
- Enemy spawning now adjusts its per-frame workload based on current game performance, reducing sudden stutters caused by large spawn batches. Total enemy counts, enemy strength, drops, and Boss appearances are unaffected.
- Fixed periodic background checks that could cause brief, recurring pauses during gameplay.
- Retested the complete game flow and Boss battles, including pausing, damage-over-time effects, enemy deaths, and respawning.
## Combat Improvements
- Improved skill activation and cooldown scheduling, reducing irregular pauses during extended battles.
- Optimized performance when large enemy groups, damage-over-time effects, and area hazards are active simultaneously.
- Multi-projectile homing skills now distribute targets by distance. When there are more projectiles than enemies, targeting cycles again from the nearest enemy.
- Improved calculation consistency for skill damage, critical hits, elemental bonuses, and various Buffs.
## Damage Display
- Similar damage dealt by the same skill to the same enemy within a short period is now combined, reducing screen obstruction from excessive damage numbers.
- Normal hits, critical hits, different elements, different skills, and terrain damage are still displayed separately.
- Optimized sorting and data processing on the damage statistics screen.
## Skill and Visual Effect Fixes
- Fixed cases where the visual size of certain projectiles and terrain skills did not match their actual collision area.
- Fixed unstable sizing when certain progressively enlarging skills were reused from the object pool.
- Fixed incorrect split-projectile sizes for Rolling Rock, Snow Ball, and Flesh Missile.
- Improved the formation of multiple Lightning Bolts around the player character.
- Fixed calculation and display issues affecting certain skills at high levels or with multiple projectiles and damage-over-time effects.
## Stages and Game Flow
- Reworked stage phases, game-time handling, and Boss flow to improve stability during longer sessions.
- Improved consistency in stage transitions, low-intensity phases, enemy spawning, and Boss appearance timing.
- Endless Mode now continues to spawn regular Bosses correctly and will no longer spawn the final Boss by mistake.
- Improved game-state handling while paused, selecting skills, receiving magic upgrades, or evolving a character. Game time and skill behavior now resume from the correct state.
- Improved result processing when winning, dying, abandoning a run, returning, or exiting, preventing duplicate result screens, rewards, and record updates.
## Stability
- Improved the stability of skill object reuse, target selection, and damage tracking.
- Completed object-pool improvements for enemies, skills, visual effects, drops, statues, indicators, and animations, reducing repeated object creation and search costs.
- Large quantities of uncollected experience gems are now combined by area while preserving the correct total experience value.
- Fixed duplicate pool returns and lingering Trail states when Poison Squirt objects were reused.
- Improved cleanup after defeating the final Boss, preventing overlapping contact damage from continuing to hurt the player.
- Fixed multiple issues that could cause brief combat stutters or inconsistent skill behavior.
- Improved overall stability for complete runs and extended Endless Mode sessions.
Thank you for your continued support! If you encounter any issues after the update, please let us know through the in-game feedback link.