Beta v0.64.0 - The Brain — Usurper Reborn Steam update #1271316

v0.64.0 - The Brain The biggest NPC overhaul in the game's history. The simulated population around you finally has agency, real combat, persistent grudges, distinct voices, and long-arc goals that drive their behavior for weeks at a time. What's new NPCs finally have agency. The weighted-random number generator that has been picking NPC actions since the BBS port is gone. Replaced by a goal-driven system that looks at the NPC's personality, current goals, gear, recent memories, and what happened to them last time they tried this exact thing, then picks the next action based on all of it. The world stops being a meat grinder. Two weeks of telemetry showed NPCs were dying at 70 times the rate they were progressing. The whole economy is reworked: NPCs spawn with starting gear, dungeon difficulty is sized to the team, the inn no longer bankrupts them, the healer no longer drains them, and t...