Hi everyone!

This release brings the new ice platforms mechanic alongside a broad polish pass: a sweeping audio overhaul, new VFX, smoother camera, and more.

Thanks for playing!

⭐ Highlights

• Ice platforms: new ground effect with melt-into-water lifecycle, and refined ice-fire interactions.

• Audio pass: many new and improved SFX across combat, footsteps, steam, and ice.

• Improved HUD: new layout and assets for player unit HUD widgets.

• Environment-phase camera: now tracks environment actions properly for better readability.

• Evasive teleport: more predictable, easier to anticipate and counter.

🎥 Controls & Camera

• Fixed several camera sensitivity bugs.

✨ Visuals & VFX

• New steam VFX.

• Added activation VFX to additional monuments.

• Fixed decals incorrectly appearing on characters.

• Improved spawn VFX at level start.

• Improved main character run animation and walk animation speed.

🖼️ UI & UX

• New tile overlay assets for player units.

• Improved some HUD widgets.

• Fixed tooltip showing for discovered but hidden points of interest.

• Fixed point-of-interest halos preventing their own visibility loss.

🎓 Tutorials

• Fixed the Murmur tutorial step.

• Tutorial steps with completion conditions can now be interrupted.

• Fixed tutorial popup occasionally not hiding correctly.

📖 Content

• Improved some maps.

• Fixed tiles blocked by small rocks.

🛡️ Stability & Performance

• Fixed a crash when a spell effect resolved out of the grid.

• Fixed medium-scalability fogs not enabling on level load.

• Music no longer starts during shader loading.