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- 🏢 Added the complete expedition flow: Social Sector → Field Preparation → LPMDS → Level 0.
- 🛗 Added a four-seat Async deployment elevator with dynamic crew detection and a 10-second dispatch sequence.
- 👥 Added multiplayer expedition foundations with shared readiness, team objectives and synchronized LPMDS states.
- 🧭 Added four field roles: Navigator, Scientist, Documentation Lead and Security.
- 💬 Added shared team chat with a configurable key bind.
- 🎙️ Added push-to-talk voice communication, voice volume and configurable key binding.
- 📋 Added daily Field Directives with objectives and Research Value rewards.
- 📁 Added incomplete research files and evidence caches left behind by previous expeditions.
- 📷 Added typed evidence records, team claim arbitration and detailed extraction reports.
- ⚙️ Added complete settings categories for audio, controls, image, performance and communications.
- 🏚️ Added more procedural spaces, including research remnants, red rooms, pits, cubicles and vertically expanded chambers.

- 🏭 Rebuilt the Async complex with a larger, more logical late-1980s/1990s scientific-industrial layout.
- 💡 Improved lobby lighting, exposure and visibility throughout the Social, Preparation and LPMDS sectors.
- 🪑 Repositioned furniture, workstations, lockers, benches, equipment and signage around clear circulation paths.
- 🚪 Improved the LPMDS activation sequence, door behavior, return beacon and extraction flow.
- 🔦 Improved Level 0 exploration rewards by placing research evidence deeper inside uncommon rooms.
- 📸 Improved the camera shutter sound with cleaner audio and reduced static.
- 🗺️ Improved procedural generation with more believable room divisions and fewer empty open spaces.
- 💾 Settings now persist automatically and older dark visual presets are migrated to the new defaults.
- 🎮 Optimized and Realistic presets now coexist with individual graphics controls.

- 📷 Fixed the camera flash occasionally leaving the entire screen permanently white.
- ⏸️ Fixed ESC only opening the custom menu without closing it again.
- ⚡ Reduced the delay and hitch produced when opening or closing the pause menu.
- 🚪 Fixed unstable LPMDS door behavior when investigators entered or abandoned deployment.
- 👥 Deployment no longer requires four players; it adapts to the connected crew.
- 🕳️ Fixed visible void gaps between the Async complex and generated Level 0.
- 📍 Fixed coordinate-error deployment placing investigators back at the normal entrance.
- 📺 Removed the permanent VHS-style screen noise during normal gameplay.
- 🌑 Reduced excessive darkness caused by old exposure, vignette, contrast and ambient-occlusion defaults.
- 🧱 Fixed several misplaced, floating or illogically oriented lobby props.
- 🔊 Fixed excessive static and volume imbalance across camera and environmental audio.

- 🧪 Multiplayer authority and synchronization still require extended real two-client testing.
- 👁️ Some distant procedural rooms may still contain lighting or prop-placement inconsistencies.
- 🎥 Spectator behavior after an individual investigator becomes MIA is still under development.
- 🔄 Host migration during an active expedition is not yet considered fully production-ready.

🧩 Reworked procedural generation — more varied rooms (pillar halls, sunken carpet pits, cubicles, red-lit rooms) and more of them the deeper you wander.
🧱 Removed the giant empty voids — common rooms are now subdivided into believable spaces instead of one endless open floor.
🏛️ Pillars now form wide "+" clusters, and 🕳️ sunken pits drop into the floor reusing the carpet, so they read as part of the building.
🔧 Fixed walls that could float above sunken pits — every wall now meets the floor it sits on.
⚙️ Fully redesigned Settings, grouped into clean cards: a complete Image / post-processing section (exposure, contrast, saturation, bloom, sharpness, ambient occlusion) plus audio, sensitivity, FOV, brightness and an Optimized / Realistic preset.
📺 Animated glitch title on the main menu — it briefly flickers into other games (S&box, Minecraft, GTA, DOOM…) and snaps back to Back&rooms, with a glitch sound effect and a real font per title. The pause (ESC) menu keeps the clean title.
🪂 Reworked the Game Start animation into a longer free-fall dive into Level 0, with a more realistic fall speed.
🚀 Performance pass — boots in the Optimized graphics preset by default (fewer shadow-casting lights, tuned view distance).

🗺️ Procedurally generated, infinite Backrooms-style map with distinct room types (common rooms, cubicles, corridors, pillar halls, pits, red-light rooms).
📉 Distance-based architectural degradation — the building starts intact and breaks down the deeper you go.
💡 Realistic shadowed lighting, fluorescent panels and gray liminal fog.
🖥️ Animated main menu with glitch title, news panel and full Settings.
🎚️ Optimized / Realistic graphics presets.
🪂 Reworked introductory Game Start animation.

🗺️ Movie-faithful generation — coherent and solid near spawn, gradually degrading with distance.
💡 Realistic shadowed lighting with 🌫️ gray liminal fog that hides the far edge of the world.
🚪 Bigger open rooms, rare corridors, no more endless identical halls.
⬛ Removed the black void in the distance.
🎚️ Settings with an Optimized / Realistic quality preset.
⎋ ESC opens the custom Back&rooms menu.

🚧 Some areas may appear unfinished or lack detail.
💡 Visual and lighting inconsistencies can still be found throughout the map.
🧭 Pillars, pits and red rooms only emerge deeper in, away from spawn, so they take some exploration to reach.