v1.52

Version 1.52

• Chat can now be used during combat encounters.
• Fixed chat bubble rendering issues that caused rectangular top edges.
• Added Guilds.
• Guilds provide passive bonuses.
• Guild level cap is 10.

• Added Vigilance profession, focused on movement speed progression.
• Added Slayer profession, which progresses through combat last hits.
• Added Total Level display above player characters.
• Total Level is calculated using the player's base level plus the average of all profession levels.

• Fixed vanity item handling in Premium Cosmetics.
• Added 30–40 new item icons.
• Adjusted profession resource node shadows for: Foraging, Crafting, Smithing, Cooking
• Resource nodes now use compact contact shadows instead of oversized cast shadows.

• Reworked inventory and inventory management systems.
• Removed the Status Menu and merged its functionality into the Inventory Menu.
• Fixed player inspection panels rendering off-screen by clamping them to the visible viewport.

• Fixed screen zoom behavior.
• Default game zoom is now set to 1.75x.
• Restored correct 1.75x zoom scaling behavior on mobile devices.
• Fixed mobile touch overlay coordinates after scaling changes.

• Fixed a mobile FPS regression.
• Reworked weather rendering on mobile devices:
• Rain and snow effects now remain active instead of being incorrectly hidden.
• Active precipitation now renders every frame.
• Removed precipitation draw striding that caused flickering and fading.
• Prevented weather spawn rates from scaling incorrectly with performance settings.
• Fixed precipitation count reductions caused by performance scaling.
• Rain streak opacity is now constant.
• Weather particles now recycle instead of disappearing when expiring or leaving the viewport.
• Extended precipitation lifetimes to prevent particles from vanishing mid-fall.
• Added camera-bound particle recycling.

• Expanded authoritative server-side weather handling.
• Server now sends current weather state during login.
• Added weather_state_request support for client weather synchronization.
• Added server-side seasonal weather rotation.
• Weather packets now include: Current weather mode, Current season, Thunder state, Next weather change timestamp, Previous weather change timestamp
• Added seasonal thunder probability handling.
• Season changes now immediately select and broadcast valid weather states.
• Added optional weather debugging metrics for: Drawn particles, Camera bounds, Performance scaling
• Moved precipitation rendering after lighting, cloud, and night overlays to prevent visual fading.

• Fixed bosses remaining alive after HP dropped below zero.
• Fixed boss defeat resolution after large overkill damage.
• Improved boss AI to better handle over-leveled players and attack spam.
• Added boss protection mechanics involving spawned allies.
• Improved scaling for spawned boss allies.
• Bosses now receive damage protection while spawned allies remain alive.

• Improved boss reward and drop handling.
• Added server-side boss detection for reward logic.
• Boss encounters now use boss-specific loot roll behavior.

• Hardened battle defeat processing.
• Added deduplication for repeated defeat packets.
• Server now ignores legacy client-generated non-defeat battle end packets.
• Added authoritative party defeat broadcasts.
• Server now tracks defeated party member deaths.

• Added authoritative battle victory processing.
• Added victory deduplication to prevent duplicate rewards.
• Added victory driver and submitter tracking.
• Added defeated-member tracking during victory resolution.
• Battles can now be completed even if the party leader is KO'd.
• KO'd members may be excluded from standard victory rewards and routed through defeat handling.
• Victory dismissal is now fully server-authoritative.
• Followers now wait for authoritative victory and dismissal packets before finalizing combat state.

• Fixed enemy defeat state during server-side action resolution.
• Enemies reduced below 0 HP are now properly clamped and marked defeated.
• Added server-side defeated enemy tracking.
• Defeated enemies are removed from turn queues.
• Prevented stale battle snapshots from reviving defeated enemies during combat transitions.

• Fixed leaderboard functionality.
• Improved leaderboard population performance.
• Added leaderboard request handling that returns leaderboard data.
• Added fallback leaderboard computation when the leaderboard module is unavailable.
• Added leaderboard snapshots for: Level, Experience, Kills, Deaths, Time Played, Professions
• Added leaderboard cache invalidation support.
• Expanded leaderboard payload handling for faster and more reliable population.

• Added boss cooldown persistence and synchronization.
• Added boss cooldown snapshot requests.
• Added boss cooldown update broadcasts.
• Added automatic cleanup of expired boss cooldown data.