Version 1.6.0 M4 Released

M4 is not the public Version 1.6.0 release. Keep a portable stable-save backup before testing.

Browser rendering verification still required

The automated local Chromium smoke test did not complete in the build environment. Chromium timed out after 30 seconds without producing rendered DOM output. Syntax, VM, deterministic, regression and package tests passed, but they do not replace a real itch.io browser pass.

A private itch.io draft should be tested on current Chrome/Chromium, Firefox, Safari/iOS and Android Chrome before M5 acceptance.

Manual M4 checks

• Complete the guided practice expedition in English and German.
• Save and reload after every tutorial stage and confirm the run remains loss-free.
• Confirm tutorial battles do not change currency, inventory, Resonance, Pity, records, achievements, Bestiary totals, victories or Artisan charges.
• Operate Setup, Guide, Archive, choices and extraction using only the keyboard.
• Check focus visibility and screen-reader announcements with a real assistive technology.
• Test High Contrast, Reduced Motion and every available Font Scale setting.
• Test narrow portrait screens, landscape rotation, sleep/wake and page restoration.
• Fill the Chronicle and verify pagination, page boundaries and acceptable rendering performance.

Existing development constraints

• Final Tier, Fracture, Boss and reward values are not frozen until M5.
• The Nexus Chronicle remains local browser data and is intentionally capped by state normalization.
• No online synchronization, multiplayer or account recovery is provided.