Echo Of The Void - Changelog v1.0.1

Date: 2026-03-10

Gameplay / Balance Fixes

1) Vanilla Music / Ambience

• Stabilized early-game audio logic:
  • clears lingering silence states in Phase 1 (deafness / void_silence) to avoid inconsistent cutoffs.
• Intentional music suppression remains active in Phase 2+ with no unintended impact expected in Phase 1.

2) Blackout (Progression)

• Blackout is no longer selected by the auto-event pool in Phase 2.
• Automatic Blackout now starts in Phase 3 (dramatic impact preserved).
• Internal fallbacks were updated to prevent too-early blackouts.
• Thunder Stroboscopic no longer triggers Blackout before Phase 3.
• The Don't turn around trap no longer chains into blackout at low phases (falls back to Flash Error before P3).

3) Early Game: More Event Variety

• Rebalanced Phase 1 auto-event pool:
  • added lighter variety (flash_red, false_fall, context-based base_replay, and underground ghost_miner / cave_collapse).
• Reduced dependence on the footsteps + corrupt_message pair in early gameplay.

4) Footsteps Too Repetitive

• Lowered base weight for footsteps in automatic rolls.
• Reduced profile multiplier for footsteps.
• Significantly increased footsteps-specific cooldown (less spam, stronger impact).

5) Ash Weather

• Removed the annoying rain_ash sound.
• Visual/atmospheric ash effect remains, without the problematic audio loop.

6) Specials: Perception Reliability

• Adjusted Special pacing:
  • reduced global cooldowns,
  • increased trigger chances.
• Added a close-range spawn fallback when a Special roll succeeds but all candidate spawns fail (improves real in-game perception).

7) ArmorBreak

• ArmorBreak now checks that at least one armor piece is equipped.
• If no armor is worn, the event will not trigger.

8) Debug Tool for Random Special Spawns

• New command:
  • /uncanny debugSpecialRoll [target]
• This command forces a roll through the real random Special system pipeline, instead of spawning a fixed entity.
• Detailed text feedback is returned for QA (success/failure + phase/profile/danger context).

9) Bed Event

• Bed disturbance event (There is something in your bed) now spawns the entity at/around the clicked bed location instead of falling back to the player position.