Big focus on making everything legible at 1080p and keeping the synthwave bed feeling cohesive across the whole soundtrack.

Fonts bumped about 20% across the menus and HUD, with cleaner edges. CRT effect default softened to 0.65 so the new larger text reads sharp; crank it back to 1.0 in Settings if you want the maxed look.

Text overlap cleanup across gameover, victory, settings, stats, the relic row, the how-to-play primer, the in-run active-trials sidebar, and the patch notes themselves. No more stat values stacking on labels at high res.

Soundtrack-wide synthwave audit — new chorus engine on every melodic synth, stronger sidechain pump under the kick, retrowave pad drone lays in earlier.

Healing dialed back about 15% across the board so stacking kill-heal relics doesn't trivialize the new wave-one density.

Quality of life: pause menu "QUIT TO TITLE" shortened to "TITLE" so it fits its button at the new font size, wide draft cards (BOON + CURSE) clamp long text inside the card, gameover unlock cells fit pilot names cleanly.