Patch 1.2 Live

Solo Mode & AI Bots

• Dedicated Solo PvE Mode: Play a full 4-round match directly from the main menu on the Cruise Ship map alongside 3 AI bots with full role rotation (every participant plays as Predator once).
• Smart Bot Predator: Patrols zones, detects suspicious behavior (sprinting, unmasked idling in dance crowds, carrying items), pursues targets, triggers catch duels, and uses special abilities (Hypnosis and Panic).
• Smart Bot Prey: Blends into dance crowds using mimicry, actively roams the deck to find and collect crystals, flees along safe NavMesh paths when threatened, and executes backstab shoves.
• Bot Indicators: Team crystals (plumbobs) now correctly float above ally bots for human Prey players, and bot eyelids accurately close with boredom over time.

Gameplay & Balance

• Predator Catch Reward: Catching any Prey (player or bot, directly or through a won duel) now fully restores all Predator lives.
• Predator Mimicry Sonar: Holding mimicry for 5 seconds pulses a directional sonar ping revealing the exact position of a random living Prey.
• Escalating Eye Stare: Preys that stay in the same skin too long get nervous. Glances toward the Predator become more frequent every 10 seconds. After 60 seconds without copying a new NPC skin, the Prey stares continuously at the Predator without looking away.
• Backstab Mimicry Protection: A mimicking Prey standing with their back turned to the Predator cannot be detected by bot Predators unless their boredom exceeds 20%.
• Shove Physics: Shove attacks now apply impulse strictly in the character's facing direction rather than the camera angle.
• Round Crystal Reset: Collected crystal progress cleanly resets to 0/3 at the start of each new round.

Visuals & Eye Tracking

• Edge-Pinned Gaze: When the Predator is beside or behind a Prey, the Prey's pupils pin to the edge of the eye sockets in the Predator's direction.
• Universal Typography: Integrated a unified font system across all 10 supported languages, fixing missing characters in Spanish, French, Turkish, Arabic, and Hindi.
• Streamlined Graphics Presets: Scalability settings reorganized into 3 crisp presets (Low, Medium, High), removing blurry under-sampled rendering.

UI, Audio & Quality of Life

• Near-Instant Menu Loading: Removed artificial loading pauses when starting the game and when returning to the main menu.
• HUD Toggle: Pressing T now instantly toggles all on-screen HUD elements on and off for clean screenshots and recording.
• Dynamic Scoreboard: Players on the scoreboard are dynamically sorted from top to bottom based on their current match score.
• Predator Heartbeat in Solo: Predator heartbeat audio and bloodlust detection pulses now fully detect bot Preys during solo play.