Beta 0.65.6 Release Notes — Usurper Reborn Steam update #1271308

v0.65.6 Patch Notes: Renewable Lives, Death's Door, and Smarter NPCs Two major passes in one release. The headline: we did a full end-to-end analysis of the online player experience, from live combat telemetry down to the math of the resurrection economy, and fixed what it found. The second pass makes the NPC population meaningfully smarter about staying alive and spending its time. Full technical details live in the repo release notes; here is what changes for you. The level-40 problem The numbers said something interesting: combat was never too hard. Win rates are 97 to 99 percent in every level band. But almost nobody was getting past level 40, and the reason was math, not skill. Online characters had 3 lifetime resurrections that never regenerated, and the journey from level 20 to 40 is roughly 900 fights at about a 1 percent death risk per fight. Expected deaths over that journey: 6...