Spatial audio engine rebuilt from scratch. Binaural rendering now tracks head orientation in real time. During QA, testers reported hearing footsteps behind them with no entity spawned.
We checked. Nothing was there. Shipping it anyway.
Save system no longer uses traditional checkpoints. The game now writes to a single persistent file that cannot be manually copied or restored. Death has weight. Progress is fragile.
If your save corrupts, you start over. That is not a bug.
Enemy AI now learns from player behavior across sessions. Patterns you rely on will stop working. Hiding spots expire. Routes get cut off. The entity adapts faster than you do.
First internal playthrough averaged 47 deaths. We consider this acceptable.
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