Wow, what a quick response! I do enjoy the game so far and look forward to the full Steam release!
I do still just get the message of "You gotta beat everyone else first. If you can't beat them, you ain't worth my time!" for the boss, while everyone else has their own message and will no longer duel. Perhaps I would need to start a new save, now that the fix it up?
As for the messages app: there are none showing and I can exit out initially, but if I type Z, it brings up "TypeError | Cannot properly read 'name' of undefined" and then I am unable to do anything with any keys, short of Alt-F4.
Steam is currently showing the build ID as 14681356
