Blosharper Early Access v0.7 Update Announcement

Hello, Sharpers!
We are excited to bring you the v0.7 update for Blosharper — one that changes how you build a run from the ground up.

The centerpiece is Hwatu Deck Customization. Tune your deck toward the combinations you intend to chase, and that specialty's final multiplier climbs higher and higher as the rounds go deep. Alongside it come the Full and New Moon synergies, a brand-new boot sequence, and UI work that finally makes your growth numbers readable at a glance.

Hwatu Deck Customization — Commit to a Strategy

• Four Decks: Equip one of the Standard Deck, the Gwang/Joker Deck, the Animal/Ribbon Deck, or the Month/Ddaeng Deck.
• Multipliers That Escalate: A customized deck amplifies your final multiplier in proportion to the round whenever you complete a combination in its specialty. The edge is slight early on, but the deeper you survive, the more it decides the match — this is the key to the late-game wall that has been stopping your runs.
• What Will You Give Up?: Specialization has a price: cards of the opposing suit score less. Choosing a deck is also choosing what to abandon.
• Skill Alone Is a Valid Path: The Standard Deck carries no specialty buff at all. Going the distance on nothing but your own hands is, and always will be, a legitimate way to play.
• Applied Next Round: To keep mid-round scoring from being distorted, a newly chosen deck takes effect when the next round begins. The UI shows both your active deck and the one you have queued.
• An Off-the-Books Offer: Deck customization is not handed to you at the start. It is taught only through an offer you will receive at the apothecary once your journey runs deep — and the right to refuse remains entirely yours. We'll let you discover that encounter for yourself.
• Buff Panel Integration: Your active deck's buff — and its multiplier at the current round — is displayed live on the in-game buff panel.

Moonlight Synergy: Full Moon and New Moon

• Moonlight on the 8-Gwang: At certain rounds the moon overhead changes phase. When the 8-Gwang (Moon) card contributes to a combination during one of them, your score multiplier detonates.
• The Moon Deepens: The full moon shines stronger than the new moon, and each time you survive long enough to meet the same phase again, its multiplier grows larger still. Reading when the moon will rise — and holding the 8-Gwang back for it — is a new layer of play.
• Advance Warning: The upcoming phase and its multiplier are previewed on the buff panel.

A New Boot Sequence

• Console Boot, Instantly: Launch the game and the console boot sequence starts immediately — no more waiting on a black screen. Resource loading progress streams alongside it.
• Digits Locking Into Place: As the boot finishes, the digits of a vacuum-tube gauge lock in one at a time until they settle on a final reading. What that number refers to… some of you will know.

Readability & UI

• Level-Up Stat Cards: Stat cards now spell out the actual effect per point and the size of the increase. Values no longer get swallowed by line wrapping, and finely-scaling stats like Insight and Luck are shown to one decimal place.
• Awakened Skill Growth Tracker: Awakened skill tooltips now show the total growth accumulated from every skill they have absorbed as material.
• Cleaner Skill Tooltips: Tooltip structure is now organized by skill type, so the information you need stands out.
• "Counterstrike" Terminology: In Korean, "Challenge" and "Challenge Bonus" are renamed to the table's own slang — 받아치기 (Counterstrike).
• Flawless & Fatality Banner Gate: FLAWLESS and FATALITY banners now appear only the first time you reach that tier within a run. The blackout and particle effects still fire every time.
• Screen Shake Gap Fix: Eliminated the black gaps that could peek in at the screen edges during shake effects.
• Tooltip Legibility: Numbers no longer split from their units (%, pts) across a line break, and emojis stay pinned to their labels.

Balance & Rules

• Moon Phase Rounds: The full moon now arrives at round 15 (was 16) and the new moon at round 30 (was 31), lining the phases up with the flow of a run.
• Month/Ddaeng Scoring: Realigned the Month/Ddaeng deck's scoring criteria to the same standard as the other specialties, and closed a path where points could leak out unintentionally.
• Per-Deck Multiplier Rebalance: The three specialty decks differ in how often their combinations trigger and how large their base scores are. Each deck's late-round multiplier ceiling is now tuned separately, so a deck that triggers often doesn't automatically become the strongest.
• The Offer Returns: Turning the deck-customization offer down once no longer closes the door — the opportunity may come around again.

Bug Fixes & Stability

• History Tooltip Restored: Fixed card tooltips failing to appear when hovering submitted cards in the round history.
• Yin-Yang Harmony Fix: Yin-Yang Harmony now triggers based on every card you actually submitted, not just the ones consumed by the combination.
• Japanese Card Theme Months: Fixed the classic Hanafuda sheet showing the November and December card art swapped, and corrected the Rain Ribbon's month label under the Japanese ruleset.
• Japanese Localization: Replaced the ゴーストップ transliteration with the native term 花札 (Hanafuda).
• Input Lockup During Effects: Closed the paths where overlapping input during an animation could freeze the screen.
• Loading & Cutscene Stalls: Fixed the loading queue stalling on a black screen, and recovered the story overlay from errors thrown during gallery cutscenes.
• Invalid Score Records: Blocked uncomputable values from ever being written as a high score; existing corrupted records are now healed safely.
• Session Restore: Protected your skill inventory from being altered when a run is restored via Continue.
• Faster Loading: Story background images have been substantially compressed, making cutscene transitions noticeably lighter.

As always, thank you for your incredible support for Blosharper.
May the luck of a sharp fingertip be with you in the dark gambling den!