Patch & Release v0.2.0

Initial Release

• Released the full-length Patch & Release DAI psychological traversal experience.
• Built a five-act campaign targeting approximately 2–4 hours for a first playthrough.
• Added 35 persistent major story states, including two terminal states.
• Added persistent major-state and sub-state checkpoint tracking.

Five-Act Campaign

• Maintenance

  • Opening X misdirection.
  • Blackout sequence.
  • Orphaning.
  • Green Door.
  • Cleanup revelation.

• Deprecated Content

  • Patch Archive.
  • Removed Tutorial.
  • Asset Graveyard.
  • NPC Quarantine.
  • Pathfinding Lab.
  • Integrity Sweep.

• Runtime

  • Chunk Stream.
  • Entity Pool.
  • Login Queue.
  • Memory Sector.
  • Garbage Collector.
  • Runtime Core.
  • Free-will crisis.

• Hotfix

  • Reverse Cleanup.
  • Patcher alliance.
  • Integrity Hunters.

• Release

  • Shard Border.
  • Live Gateway.
  • Fragment choice.
  • MMO meadow epilogue.

Checkpoints & Recovery

• Added persistent major-state and sub-state checkpoint mirrors.
• Added authored recovery from player death.
• Added automatic void/fall checkpoint recovery.
• Added fallback recovery for invalid positions.
• Normal quits continue to preserve the player's exact position through vanilla player data.
• Added state-aware scene rebuilding and world self-healing.

Dialogue & Interaction

• Added one-shot state-based dialogue prompts.

• Added persistent dialogue and interaction flags.

• Added authored handling for repeated interactions and backtracking.

• Added the formal interaction-completeness rule:

  • ADVANCE
  • REACT
  • FAIL / RESTORE
  • INTENTIONAL IGNORE

• No reachable authored interaction is intended to produce an undefined consequence.

Progression Reliability

• Progression gates are derived directly from persistent world state.
• Story progression is re-evaluated every tick rather than depending on transient client queues.
• Added persistent choice, failure, dialogue, phase, checkpoint, and death tracking.
• Added deterministic world rebuilding across all major acts.

Cleanup Sequence Fixes

• Corrected yellow/orange cleanup behavior.
• Orange-before-yellow now properly corrects the player.
• Cleanup dialogue is one-shot.
• Completing the cleanup interaction moves the player away from the watcher.
• Orange readiness persists across reloads and deaths.
• Returning to yellow after completion now produces an authored reaction without reopening the dialogue.

World Systems

• Added four large deterministic world sectors.
• Added state-aware self-healing geometry throughout the experience.
• Added live population systems.
• Added checkpoint-driven scene reconstruction.
• Added protection against progression corruption from death, reloads, failure, or backtracking.

DAI Integration

• Built as a DAI MAIN experience.
• Pack ID: patch_release
• Initial public version: 0.2.0
• Designed for persistent, authored gameplay across the complete Patch & Release campaign.