Dead Reckoning v0.2.96 — Living Death Toll, Named Voices, Landing-Scenes

A narrative-correctness and clarity release. This folded additional minor releases into this release. The demo and the full game both ship from v0.2.96.

Casualties, and the people behind them

• Losses are counted from your actual colony. Impact strikes, cryo failures, and other disasters now report a toll that scales with how many people are really aboard, instead of fixed numbers — a catastrophe on a full ship and one on a near-empty ship no longer read the same.

• Voyage and ship events name the people they are about. Recurring crew — the medical officer, a schoolteacher, the colonist filing a report — are drawn from your living manifest, with the right names and pronouns, instead of a faceless role or a stand-in name.

Landing

• How a landing goes now shapes how it is remembered. The number who die in an emergency descent scales with the world and your ship's condition, and the colony's hundred-year memorial reflects the real toll.

• The first-building scene now matches the planet's air. On a world you can breathe, the colony watches the roof go up out under the open sky; on a sealed world — no breathable air — they watch from behind the shelter ports and from inside suits. No more standing "under open sky" on a toxic world, or watching "from the airlocks" on a temperate one.

Writing

• Landing, voyage, and endgame writing tightened to the dry register. The first-season accounts, the recurring voyage beats, and the endgame decision deck were rewritten.

Clarity

• KNOWLEDGE is now labelled KNOWLEDGE LOSS. The readout rose as knowledge was lost, which read backwards; the label now names what the number actually tracks.

Fixes

• The CAMERAS bay feeds no longer come up blank in some builds. The feed assets now ship reliably, and a release check guards against the gap.

• Operations-tab tooltips no longer show internal key names. Hovering a power-allocation mode (CRYO / BALANCED / HULL REP) or a subsystem action (PWR SURGE, RATION PROTO, and the rest) used to show the raw string key instead of its description; they now read as proper, translated text.

Localization

• Wider German, French, Italian, and Spanish coverage. The new and rewritten event and ending text is now translated.