Version 1.2 Alpha Released

Knights of Crystalis - Alpha 1.2

Trusted-time protection

• Replaced gameplay timers with a monotonic trusted clock.
• Windows clock changes during an active session no longer advance Stamina, Mine carts, Aquarium eggs, auctions, Village construction, Gem Plants or other timers.
• Hosted builds attempt to verify time against the current web server.
• When trusted server time is unavailable, offline progress is capped at 60 minutes per launch.
• Suspicious forward or backward clock changes are recorded in System chat.
• Future-dated legacy timestamps are normalized when verified server time is available.

A browser-only offline game cannot be made fully tamper-proof because local files and storage remain under the player's control. The new guard prevents ordinary system-clock manipulation and limits the unverified fallback.

Equipment screen repair

• Rebuilt the desktop Party Equipment grid with responsive auto-fitting columns.
• Weapon, Helm, Armor, Gloves, Boots, Belt, Ring, Amulet and Relic are always rendered.
• Added a migration repair pass for incomplete or stale per-card equipment profiles.
• Removed the three-column clipping condition that hid Armor, Belt and Relic in narrower desktop side panels.
• Verified all nine slots at desktop, tablet and mobile widths.

Save migration and cache resilience

• Save schema increased to 12.
• The previous valid save is retained as an automatic backup before each new write.
• A damaged primary save can fall back to the automatic backup.
• Added Restore Automatic Backup in Settings.
• Added Reload Latest Build with a fresh cache token.
• Added build-version query strings to CSS and JavaScript files to reduce stale itch.io browser-cache problems.
• Existing per-card equipment, campaign and Tower data remain on the historical save key.

English and German interface

• Added English and German flag controls in the top-right header.
• Language changes apply immediately without restarting.
• Navigation, resources, settings, tutorial, story and core system terminology are translated.
• Fantasy proper names, item names, Job names and player-style chat handles remain unchanged for collection consistency.
• Added the same language controls inside Settings.

Documentation

• Rebuilt the Player Guide from a clean A4 document source.
• Rebuilt the complete version history from a clean A4 document source.
• Removed oversized callout tables that caused clipping in previous PDF viewers.
• Added verified margins, page numbering, repeated table headers and conservative typography.

Additional fixes

• Updated all Alpha 1.1 labels and patch references to Alpha 1.2.
• Added clock status and warning information to Settings.
• Added equipment-profile repair to save import and startup migration.
• Added responsive tests in both languages.
• Added test coverage for active-session clock changes, all nine equipment slots and schema-11 migration.