Demo Update 0.5.7 released

# 🔧 Nion Forge - Patch 0.5.7

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A bit later this time, but here are the patch notes.

We actually want to slow down demo updates and fully focus on new content. Still, we’ve made a few more adjustments.

## 🚀 New Features

• When ships are particularly long, the camera now adjusts to keep the whole ship in view.

• Weight Modulators now increase the effectiveness of direction engines on larger ships.

• The stats panel now shows how many enemies and bosses were defeated during a run.

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## ⚖️ Balance Changes

• The impact of direction engines in combination with larger ships has been increased.

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## 🐞 Bug Fixes

• Fixed several issues with spheres updates. Big Photon Spheres are playable again.

• The “Infernal Zone” upgrade of the “Infernal Sphere” could heal the player without “Rising Force” – this is now fixed.

• Various text adjustments and minor fixes.

• Floating text images now fade out together with their text.

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## 🎨 Visual & Audio

• Since most pickups are particle-based, FPS dropped quickly when too many orbs were active at once. Orbs now use a form of LOD and turn into simpler objects when far away from the player.

• Enemy and district shaders were reworked to improve foreground/background separation. Lighting was also slightly adjusted in the process.

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## 🧩 Misc

• The entire enemy spawn system has been completely reworked.

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## 💬 Community

• A huge thank you to all our playtesters!

Most of these changes were made possible thanks to your feedback and bug reports.

Keep them coming – they really help us shape Nion Forge into a better game!