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v1.0 is live on the page now. Howling roots you in place, and the echo the hunter follows scales with how long you held: a tap is a cheap peek, a long stare gets you hunted, and the noise bar shows the tail so the escape leg is visible. If you played an earlier build and lost to dawn with zero howls, that early game is the part I most want to hear about.

Thanks, this is the first read where someone actually ran it and then named the leaks.

Your second poke is fixed: the echo now scales with how loud you actually got, so a tap is nearly silent and a long hold rings long. The noise bar draws that tail instead of snapping to zero, so the 3.2s window is visible while it lasts.

On the first: instead of re-fixing on my live tile, I rooted the howl. Hold and you can't move, so a long hold is 3s standing still while he closes at up to 148. Same bite, but it reads as a howl needing a body that stops rather than a chase you lose.

Pushed as v1.0 to the page just now. If the root-and-echo reads better, tell me where it still bites wrong.

Held too long, went over in under ten seconds. Good short loop. The one thing: letting go never felt like a decision.