New Content

• Added the Armored Guard enemy with charge attacks and knockback resistance.

• Added the Infected Plague Doctor ranged enemy.

• Added new enemy attack effects, charge warnings, death effects, and animations.

Combat & HUD

• Improved damage, impact, and directional enemy feedback.

• Added clearer ability cooldown indicators.

• Added an option to display middle ability icons, bottom ability icons, or both.

• Improved enemy direction indicators and animation smoothness.

• Improved enemy death visibility and ragdoll behavior.

Settings

• Added an FOV slider.

• Improved keybinding support and updated HUD binding labels.

• Expanded graphics, display mode, and frame-limit options.

• Improved menu readability and corrected overlapping elements.

Balance & Tools

• Added centralized studios for managing upgrades, attacks, and enemy balance.

• Expanded controls for enemy health, damage, speed, acceleration, spawning, and scaling.

• Improved upgrade balancing and progression tuning.

Performance & Stability

• Optimized ichor orb spawning and collection.

• Reduced lag caused by large groups of defeated or ragdolled enemies.

• Fixed several potential crashes and build-blocking compiler errors.

• General performance, animation, UI, and stability improvements.