v0.0.4

What's New

Multiplayer co-op

• Play through together — over the internet (relayed via Epic Online Services: no port forwarding, no accounts), on your LAN, or by direct IP.
• Host or browse-and-join from the multiplayer menu, meet in a staging lobby with chat, then enter the world as a party.
• Shared world: see each other move and fight the same enemies — both players deal damage, with kills and deaths synced. Optional session encryption via a shared passphrase.

Gameplay

• New overhead mega map overview (TAB).
• Smarter pathing & interaction — routes around obstacles and runs up to reach enemies, breakables, and pickups.
• Combat depth — projectile spells (fireball family), NPC spellcasting, corrected arrow flight and line-of-sight, and authored item/combat audio.

What's Fixed

• Mismatched-build players are rejected with a clear version-mismatch message instead of silently desyncing.
• A player name is required to host or join, so games are easy to tell apart.
• Every session writes a diagnostics summary to the log for easy troubleshooting.
• Fixed a host that shut itself down on start, internet play silently falling back to local-only, and overlapping text on the setup screen.
• Debug hotkeys are now gated behind a dev flag; the overhead HUD is quieter.