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Bug Fixes • Stackable relics can no longer exceed their stack limit through chest loot or quest rewards. • Fixed a stuck day: if you had moves left but nothing to spend them on, the day can now be ended. • Relics sharing a stat now add up instead of cancelling each other out (Golden Ring + Coffee Bean / Silver Ring, Ancient Rune + Omnipotent Grimoire / Thornblood Vial). • Fixed an error that could interrupt the post-combat chest when no artifact was left to award. • Smuggler's Map now works — it never triggered before. • Golden Ring / Silver Ring starting charge now scales with attack speed. Golden Ring truly starts full. • Double Strike now refills the bar to 95% at any attack speed. • Shovel's description now matches its actual effect, in all 14 languages.

A hunt with a deadlineDay 1 opens with a WANTED briefing naming the criminal you're after. You have 50 days to put them down. Miss the deadline and the run ends — the city gets to keep its monster. The boss doesn't just show up either. You build leads: every fight won is one, Arena victories are worth 3, finished contracts are worth 5. Gather enough and the target surfaces. In the final 5 days they surface regardless — ready or not. Four criminals, not oneKing Cat — volleys of homing bullets once cornered Tyrant Rex — ground slams that hit your whole party and leave it reeling The Croakfather — heals itself every second. Outdamage it or lose Emperor Pengu — freezes your party's charge speed solid Each one has its own sprites, its own dialogue, and its own second-phase mechanic. You meet them in order until every one is beaten — then it's whoever's left standing. Every ending is now a collectableRecruit them. Spare them. Kill them. Jail them. Or take the deal only that boss can offer — Rex's protection money, the Croakfather's toxin trade, Pengu's salvage rights. Endings used to overwrite each other. Now every one you've ever taken is recorded on the record wall in The Grid: yours in gold, the ones you haven't found still reading ???. Each ending pays a permanent reward that follows you into every future run. New Game+ — the career continuesBeating your target no longer wipes the slot. It loops. You keep: the day counter, your fame, your hero level, the skill tree, abilities, companions, artifacts, contracts and every share of stock you own. You lose: only the hunt itself. New name on the poster, clean slate on the leads. The city fights back harder every cycle: enemies at +100% per loop, bosses another +100% on top, the Arena a brutal +200%. There are 24 new encounters that only appear in New Game+, across two escalating sets. No more ceilingsHero levels never cap. Past the authored ladder each level costs 50% more fame than the last and pays a permanent +10% to dam...

This patch is a difficulty and economy pass. The mid and late game were giving up tooeasily: coin piled up faster than threats did, and enemies you had already seen stoppedmattering. Everything below pushes in the same direction — the back half of a run shouldcost you something.\Enemies\· Tier 1 / Tier 2 / Warlord / final boss: +20% Health, +50% Damage· Early enemies untouched — the difficulty curve now actually curves\Familiarity — Enemies Learn From You\· Scales with how far you've outgrown an enemy: a Tier 0 thug caps ~+50% at Hero Level 1, but +150% at Hero Level 3 — and climbs three times faster· Tier 1 / Tier 2 ramp slower· Payouts cap at +50% — farming a known enemy is no longer a money printer· Boss exempt\Arena\ · +50% Health and Damage on every combatant\Economy\· Bank Interest I & II halved (~95% → ~47% daily at max)· Rare / Epic / Legendary chests ~-10%; Common & Uncommon unchanged\Skill Tree\· Hero Level 2+ upgrades cost ~20% more; early nodes unchanged· City Morale I & II: first two ranks +10%, every rank after +60%\Hero Power\· Lifesteal I → 1/2/2/3/3 (max 15% → 9%)· Restoration / Heal All / Heal Random cooldowns +20%· Rogue — Kinetic Restoration: dodge heal 3% → 2% max Health