Redline protocol [v0.1.1] By PotatoeStudio

v0.1.1

Roster

• Fixed Redwake’s gallery event images, which had gone missing after a reimport.

Campaign

• The campaign roadmap is expanded from 30 to 50 stages across 5 chapters, with new story beats woven through the run.
• Stage 1 is restored to its intended solo tutorial difficulty (a recent bug had it spawning a full-size wave instead of the tutorial’s smaller one).
• Enemy toughness now scales HP and damage separately per stage, so late bosses hit harder without turning every regular enemy into a damage sponge.
• The “SQUAD CHECK” advice on the stage prep screen now gives one concrete suggestion (recruit, fill a squad slot, equip available gear, deal with flying enemies, or level up) instead of a vague power estimate.
• The profile screen’s Level Up button now shows exactly how much XP is needed and spends exactly that amount.

Abyss

• Abyss now previews the exact rewards for your next floor before you deploy, split out for first-time versus repeat floors.
• The Abyss card and shop now call out the cheapest cosmetic you’re still missing, its cost in Marks, and roughly how many floors will get you there.
• New Abyss Shop cosmetics: five titles (Abyss Sovereign, Abyss Walker, Rift Veteran, Void Ascendant, Void Survivor) and three borders (Void Frame, Inferno, Storm).
• Equipped Abyss titles and borders now show up correctly on the friends leaderboard instead of only appearing on your own profile.
• Fixed a bug in the Abyss Shop.
• A new Abyss season’s Floor 1 is no longer oddly easy: its difficulty now starts in line with the campaign stage that unlocks Abyss, instead of being pinned to campaign stage 1’s difficulty.

Progression and Economy

• Daily login, Command Tower, and daily mission rewards are all increased, so newer players can afford recruiting and gear upgrades without grinding stages endlessly.
• Tanks are noticeably tankier: base HP is up about 27%, and a bug that had their HP/Defense growth per level quietly stuck at a much lower rate than intended is fixed.
• Early pulls are smarter: while you own fewer than 5 characters, Common-tier character pulls can no longer land on someone you already have.
• Gifting is now locked once a character reaches maximum affection, since there’s nothing left to gain from it.
• Support’s Heal/Buff Pulse ability now targets the lowest-HP ally anywhere in the squad, not just allies within range.

Settings

• Added a “Reset Progression” option to Settings, letting you wipe your save and start over (keeping your completed tutorial) without needing a special debug build.

Consistency and Fixes

• Hub, Combat, and the developer debug menu now all use the same alpha character roster (Combat and the debug menu previously referenced the full, unreleased roster).
• Fixed a visual scale bug affecting some characters’ combat sprites.
• Fixed your leaderboard rank being thrown off by anonymous accounts with no display name. Your rank now only counts players who could actually appear on the public board.
• Fixed a rejected display name change clearing what you’d typed.
• Fixed the game getting stuck reporting “offline” after certain backend resets instead of reconnecting automatically.
• Various additional Hub UI and stability fixes.