Pareidolia

Pareidolia 2.0.0: The Mindbreaker Update (Major Overhaul)

This is the biggest update in Pareidolia's history. The entire mod has been rewritten from a random-event system into an intelligent, adaptive psychological horror AI.

🔥 MAJOR ADDITIONS

• The Event Director AI: Replaced all random chance triggers with a central intelligence that monitors player stress, environment, and isolation to trigger events at the worst possible moments.
• Player Psych Profiles: The mod now remembers you. It tracks your behavior across sessions, learns your fears, and actively avoids repeating the same tricks.
• Adaptive Horror System: An anti-pattern engine that breaks your expectations. If you keep checking behind you, it will stop spawning things behind you and use your peripheral vision instead.
• Massive Event Expansion: Added over 80+ new psychological events, bringing the total to well over 100+ unique horror effects.
• New Categories: Events are now split into Micro, Acoustic, Environmental, Visual, Entity, Impossible, and Legendary tiers.

👻 NEW HORROR EVENTS

• 68+ Micro & Acoustic Events: Dozens of subtle new sounds. Whispers, phantom footsteps, distant mining, dripping water, breaking branches, and eerie echoes.
• Visual Anomalies: Shadow figures at the edge of your vision, faces in the dark, and fog silhouettes that vanish when looked at.
• Legendary & Impossible Events: Extremely rare reality-breaks. Time skips, gravity pulses, empty villages, and the "Mirror Walk" (your Doppelgänger perfectly retraces a path you walked earlier).
• Entity Manipulation: Animals might suddenly freeze and stare at you, or bolt in panic from an unseen presence.

⚙️ ENGINE & CLIENT UPDATES

• Perception Engine: Added subtle client-side visual manipulations (micro FOV shifts, vignette darkening, color desaturation).
• Ambience Tension Layer: Dynamic tension audio that plays barely-audible bass drones and underground pressure hums based on your current fear level.
• FPS Booster Integration: Built-in performance optimizations to ensure the heavy AI calculations don't drop your framerate.
• Fully multiplayer compatible. The AI tracks and torments each player individually.