Hey everyone,

Big update! Lots of changes in this one — let's get into it:

• Add GameplayFeedbackSystem for onboarding and loop feedback

• Add wooden bridge to Stillwater Crossing

• Updating mission scenes

• Add key remapping UI to options panel

• Add per-mission leaderboard with personal best records

• Add replay modifiers (speed run, pacifist, arsonist, ghost)

• Add NPC bark sounds on state transitions

• Controller rumble, patrol randomization, instant loads

• Add Western sunset shader background

• Add floating alert state indicator above NPC heads

• Remove consumable herbal remedies from loot tables

• Add footsteps, heat shimmer, collapse audio, wind, NPC ragdoll

• Updating cliff hitboxes and positions in each new mission

• Enhance skill tree to full-screen with tree-specific accents and animations

• Add Copper Ridge, Stillwater Crossing, Brimstone Station missions

• Juice core loop, wire all Suno audio, add mission outlines

• Adding new audio

• Polish early gameplay feel with chaos meter, health pulse, and banners

• Fix fire, AI, stealth, mission, player, and weapon bugs

• \[ui] fix broken fire monitor, tumbleweed physics, minimap crash

• \[combat] fix knockback call signature and heat shimmer shader errors

• Fix is_burning called as function instead of property

• Add fire-spread scene transition wipe

• Wire playstyle bonuses (Ghost/Chaos/Speed) to mission summary

• Add contextual fire hint when matches are selected

• Add weapon recoil visual on fire for Revolver and Incendiary

• Increase debris lifetime and fire burn duration for better spectacle

• Add demo edition system, wire weapon/fire/loot audio, Suno prompt list

• \[world]\[terrain] fix shooter_latency error, tone down tumbleweeds, add heightmap tool

• Add hit-stop freeze-frame on player kills

• Add prominent active weapon/ammo label in bottom-right HUD

• Add damage vignette, voronoi prop shatter, sprint dust, money tick-up, slow-mo

• Wire screen shake to EventBus for explosions, damage, and building collapse

• Enhance building damage feedback and add gameplay polish batch

• Redesign as moving train heist level

• Updating terrain data

• Add Terrain3D to Copper Ridge, Stillwater, and Brimstone missions

• Add environmental storytelling objects

• Add 3-step guided overlay for first Dust Creek run

• Hide crafting workbench — feature is not in scope this quarter

• Add Quick Play button that drops directly into Dust Creek

• Add pulsing guidance beacon on Mission Mary for first-time players

• Fix broken onboarding by redirecting to Dust Creek instead of missing practice_town

• Fix mission summary stats, improve prop distribution, add tumbleweed punt

• Fix objective types and hide markers on completion

• Fix summary screen not showing after extraction

• Open-top cars, close-quarters camera (V), fix rail scrolling

• Fix critical security, connectivity, and sync issues

• \[ui+world] fix mission ground rendering and skill tree scaling

• Replace print() with DebugLogger in scene_manager, main_menu, game_root, game_ui

• Fix undeclared identifier 'pos' causing compilation cascade failure

• Fix mesh floating by correcting Visual node Y offset to -1.0

• Civilian kill feedback, NPC float fix, skill tree detail panel

• Fix EventBus hot path, AI memory per-frame decay, faction iteration bugs

• Fix critical thread race condition and optimize performance systems

Thanks for playing Tumblefire and for all the feedback, it genuinely shapes where this game goes next. If you run into anything weird, drop us a line in the community hub or on Discord. We read everything.

— David McHale (HeartCoded) & the Lost Rabbit Digital team

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