Echo Of The Void - Changelog v1.0.6.3

Date: 2026-03-26

Event Pacing & Ambient Audio

Ambient/paranoia sound events were too frequent

• Increased ambient event cooldown baseline across profiles.
• Reduced ambient trigger chance to avoid repetitive low-impact spam.
• Increased explicit cooldowns for light audio events:
  • false_container_open
  • bucket_drip
  • furnace_breath
  • lever_answer
  • pressure_plate_reply
  • campfire_cough
  • tool_answer

Tool Answer (3x mining reply sound) pacing

• Increased tool_answer manual/event cooldown to reduce repetition.
• Event remains functional, but now appears less aggressively in normal play.

Weather System Fixes

Weather not triggering naturally

• Fixed weather timer sanitization logic that could repeatedly postpone expired checks.
• Expired nextCheck and cooldown are now treated as immediately eligible instead of being pushed forward again.
• This restores natural weather triggering behavior closer to intended impact.

Specials Balancing

Requested spawn distribution tuning

• Increased practical scheduler presence for:
  • Follower?
  • Stalker?
  • Attacker?
• Reduced practical scheduler presence for:
  • Pulse?

This was done with combined weight/cooldown tuning in the shared special scheduler.

Pulse? Fixes

Spawn distance

• Natural Pulse? spawns were moved farther from the player.
• Updated distance windows and fallback ranges to reduce close surprise spawns.

Frequency reduction

• Reduced Pulse? weighted selection in special pools.
• Increased Pulse? per-entity cooldown.
• Removed Pulse? from close/guaranteed fallback special spawns.
• Special pool trigger path for pulse now uses far spawn logic (no forced close-first roll).

Follower? Behavior Fix

Attack-state sink bug

• Fixed case where Follower? could sink into the ground after being hit while in attack mode.
• Player hits no longer force sink transition during active attack behavior.

Watcher? Behavior Fix

Direct-look flee reliability (including close range)

• Improved direct-look detection so Watcher flee triggers reliably even when very close.
• Relaxed overly strict look dot threshold and improved eye-vector target computation.