Lurid Conquest [Ongoing] - Version: 0.1.1b

What's New in Lurid Conquest Version - 0.1.1b?

### Hub and world map
– The hub merchant now arrives after your second completed run and introduces the shop through a new story beat.
– Corruption spreads across the world map with a softer, dithered edge and creeping veins. Terrain, roads, and charred scenery share the same visual boundary, and untaken rooms retain their protection.
– Enabling Lucielle or Aegira through the hub debug panel now records their capture, assigns a cell, and queues the appropriate arrival story. This fixes captives disappearing after dialogue refreshes.

### Graphics and performance
– Reduced graphics memory use and rendering work in the main menu and character selector by cropping art layers to their painted areas. Performance mode also reduces menu lighting and glow.
– Reduced hub rendering work from torch shadows, off-screen flames, fog, and the story bar’s glass blur. Full detail keeps the original glass effect.
– Restored the in-game top bars on mobile and addressed several Vulkan shader failures on Adreno 750 devices, including a fireplace shader issue.

### Fixes from player reports and crash logs
– **Maldiction:** Cards kept by temporary Retain are playable again on the following turn. Previously, a card could stay in your hand but become unresponsive.
– **Lethargy:** Repeated plays now restore the full draw penalty after the affected turn. Ending combat also clears any outstanding penalty.
– **Liberate+:** The tooltip now shows both values and makes clear that you gain Block when you play the card and draw when you Exhaust a card.
– **Combat previews and ally actions:** Fixed errors when damage previews refreshed after an enemy died, when a hovered card returned to your hand, and when Dark Will triggered the Supplicant during an action already in progress.
– **Tooltips and controller focus:** Fixed errors that could occur when hovering a status as it expired or closing a panel after its previous focus target disappeared.
– **Battle saves:** Fixed a checkpoint error that could occur just after the player died.
– **Hub save and quit:** Fixed a timing issue where an unfinished area reveal or story journal update could continue after leaving the hub.
– **Scene transitions:** If the pixel transition cannot capture the screen, the game now completes the scene change with a direct cut.
– **Compatibility rendering:** Reduced hub shader uniform usage to address errors on GPUs with lower uniform limits.