The board just got a new headliner, the whole game listens to the music harder, and THE APERTURE finally fights fair. Plus a truck of fixes.
NEW
* STYLUS, the lull-buster. A new medium boss that crashes the party when the board goes quiet. Beat-locked darts, an honest groove-line telegraph, and a full turntable finale that carves a vinyl spiral across the arena. Learn the record or get scratched.
* Komar Labs boot ident. A new animated studio open on launch: a waveform ignites the bracket wordmark and lands on a sub-thump. Skippable, always.
THE MUSIC PLAYS YOU
* Harmonic weak points. Fodder now resonates with the song's scale and flashes open on its own beat. Hit it in the window for bonus damage and score, even the 1-HP stuff.
* Timbre heralds. A vocal entry or instrument swap summons a ShapeShifter that reshapes with the track.
* Beat-graze chains. Consecutive on-beat grazes build an escalating score run. Dance the bullets.
* Your fire sings. Sustained fire plays a melodic run in the song's key; pause and it resets to the root.
* Key-locked bullet colors. Fodder bullets now read the harmony: cool for scale tones (worth a graze), warm for out-of-key threats.
SPECTACLE
* Megaboss deaths now warp the entire arena, an inward suck or an outward blowout riding the slow-mo, synced to the kill.
THE APERTURE, TAMED
* The hardest megaboss was hard for the wrong reasons: it ran on top of an unthrottled max-density swarm. Fixed. The swarm now eases back while a megaboss is on screen, mid-fight drops stop piling on extra enemies, the gravity well releases you during your mercy window, and a couple of genuinely unfair hits (an invisible pre-reveal hitbox, a lingering screen warp) are gone. Still brutal. No longer cheap.
FIXES (the big sweep)
* DANTE's supernova finale attack now actually fires (it never had).
* DANTE's ember-burnout death animation now plays in full.
* MEGALITH's sweep beam now damages along its whole visible length, no more dead outer half.
* Arena shape, color, and section choreography now update correctly on every song of a pack, not just the first.
* Your music-volume setting now sticks.
* Daily streaks count correctly across days.
* Reduced-motion is now honored by the continue blast and the DANTE supernova telegraph.
* Accuracy and its medals can no longer be gifted by clone/satellite shots.
* The LIFE pickup no longer breaks GLASS / one-hit challenge runs.
* The MAGNET's curse-pull is now escapable (curses tug at half strength; still a double-edged toy).
* Plus roughly forty more fixes to audio, HUD, pickups, and enemy behavior under the hood.