Loop For A While v0.2.8

v0.2.8

New

• Tile Familiarity System — every completed action on an entity (interactable, enemy, NPC) or terrain tile now increments a persistent familiarity counter that carries across loops
• Familiarity stacks with skill speed multipliers and compounds against instability
• Mastery on both axes means instability hurts proportionally less at high counts
• Tooltip action blocks now show familiarity savings inline: time reduction on the left of the timer, mana reduction on the left of the mana cost, both in green
• Entities and terrain tiles now display a familiarity title in their tooltip once you've interacted with them enough times across loops — progressing from Familiar through Practiced, Mastered, and finally Imprinted
• Instability Rework - now operates on a tier system. Below T1 threshold there is no penalty. At T1, actions cost more mana. At T2, actions cost more mana and take longer, multiplied by their current values
• Instability bar now supports tier expansion — each unique shrine completion increases max Instability threshold by 1.0, exposing a new tier.
• Now the purple left segment of Action Bar represents the mana overhead fraction caused by instability
• Instability bar now reflects tiers via fill color
• Background bar now shows marker lines at appropriate tiers
• Added a thank-you popup when the player first reaches the forest, marking the end of the current demo content.

Changes

• Instability no longer adds a flat time overhead per action. Time multiplier penalty only applies at T2 and above
• Instability narrative hints now fire relative to actual tier thresholds
• Visual display of instability effects now gated by instability thresholds
• Removed the “+?” obscured text from instability tooltip
• Action bar no longer has a separate instability phase segment that animates during execution
• Since an instability phase no longer exists, instability no longer pauses action execution — actions now run continuously without interruption.
• XP is now granted throughout the full action duration with no gap caused by an instability phase
• Familiarity order of operations: base → familiarity → skill multiplier → instability. Instability taxes whatever remains after mastery has already reduced the base

Balance

• It’s a mystery as of now, even to me (edit: suprisingly, it’s pretty good? Maybe a bit too fast?)

Fixes

• Fixed inconsistent counting of fights done for the Slime, mixing in actual fights to the queue sim
• Fixed queue sim for containers (i.e. pots) to allow queueing multiple searches
• Fixed a bug where the last action in the queue would flash empty upon completion instead of remaining fully filled
• Fixed the ability to insert actions via the queue editor popover
• Fixed doors fought via queued combat not being treated as open by the queue sim
• Fixed queue sim marking interactable containers as walkable after interaction
• Fixed cursor showing green on impassable tiles with no invalid sound before Control is unlocked