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🚨 Chain Reaction v0.35.0 is LIVE 🚨 🔥 DLSS 5 is HERE 🔥 This is a BIG one. Graphics, performance, combat, networking, audio, maps, anti-cheat and more. 🔥 ✨ ADDED: 🚀 DLSS 4.5 upscaling + Frame Generation 🎮 Upscaling options: Automatic, DLSS 4, FSR 4, FSR 3.1, XeSS 3, SGSR 2, SGSR 1 & MetalFX 🎚️ Quality levels including Off + sharpening control ✖️ Frame Generation toggle + multiplier ✅ Upscaling defaults to Quality 🎯 Frame Generation defaults OFF to avoid added input latency 🧠 DLSS 5 Neural Rendering on supported GPUs 🎨 Style + intensity controls ⛔ Off by default 🩶 Settings remain visible but greyed out on unsupported hardware 🌑 Ambient Occlusion added 🧱 Better shading in corners, crevices & where objects meet surfaces ✅ On by default with an option to disable for more FPS 🔥 Fires on Slums, Moon Base & Dune now DAMAGE players ☠️ Fire deaths count as environmental deaths, not player kills 🏆 Matches now end immediately when you're the last real player remaining 📊 Current standings become final 🤖 Bot-only matches are unaffected 🔧 CHANGED: 🌑 Moon Base updated based on our Sept. 3 playtest 🗺️ Layout changes 🪜 Ladder adjustments 💡 Re-baked lighting 🔫 Weapon spawns repositioned ❤️ Health-kit spawns repositioned 🖥️ Video Settings reorganized into Upscaling, Frame Generation & DLSS 5 🩶 Unsupported features now appear greyed out instead of disappearing ❌ Exclusive Fullscreen removed 🪟 Fullscreen Window is now default 🔳 Maximized Window + Windowed remain available 🎯 Antialiasing defaults to None since upscaling handles it 🚀 DirectX 12 is now default 🧠 Required for DLSS 5 🛟 DirectX 11 remains available as fallback 🔊 Major audio rebalance 🎵 Music sits lower under gameplay 🎮 Gameplay sits under voice chat 🔫 Gunfire carries farther 👣 Footsteps are easier to hear 💥 Landing thuds are easier to hear 🖱️ UI audio no longer drowns out voice 🎵 New profiles start Music at max 🔊 New profiles start Effects at max 💾 Existing audio settings are preserved 💣 Over-cook a Frag or Honey Grenade and it EXPLODES in your hand ☠️ Counts as suicide 🚫 No more automatic throw when the fuse expires 💀 Die while cooking a grenade and it drops at your body ⏱️ Fuse keeps running 💥 It explodes when the fuse ends 🚫 No more launching it toward whoever killed you ⚡ Photon Rifle charged shots now require commitment 🔄 No weapon swapping while charging 🔫 No primary fire 📦 No dropping 🔃 No reloading 🔪 Melee was already blocked ⚡ Release the charge or hold through it 🚀 Rockets now launch from the launcher at your shoulder 👁️ No more eye-level center-screen origin 🌐 Everyone now sees the same trajectory 🛠 FIXED: 🎥 Killcam stutter fixed 💀 Death camera follows bodies smoothly 🧱 Camera obstruction pull-in no longer jitters or clips through walls 👁️ Fixed staying in first-person on your corpse after death 🎥 Death view now switches correctly 🧱 Walls no longer push the death camera onto your body 🌫️ Fixed Slums & Dune fog disappearing after opening Video Settings or reaching Match Results ✨ Dropped weapons now correctly flicker/pulse ⏱️ Pulse starts after the weapon comes to rest instead of while flying 🍯 Fixed Honey Grenades freezing in mid-air 🌬️ Fixed detached grenades drifting 🎨 Fixed splat visuals redrawing 🔊 Fixed explosion SFX playing away from the blast 🔪 Fixed Rift Blade lunges killing without impact feedback 🔊 Impact SFX restored 🩸 Blood VFX restored 💪 Fixed other players' arms freezing when switching to Rift Blade or empty hands 🦘 Fixed swallowed jump inputs 🪜 Fixed swallowed ladder-climb inputs 📡 Each input now reaches the server exactly once 🔄 No more jumping then immediately getting pulled back down 🏃 Fixed rubber-banding when firing during sprint 🔫 Client/server sprint state now stays synchronized ⏱️ Fixed lobby countdown failing to reset when someone leaves in the final 10 seconds ✅ Players can ready again 🚫 Match no longer starts anyway 🤝 Draws now show as DRAW instead of Defeat ⚔️ TDM draws show both teams' kill totals 👤 Results now identify players by identity instead of name 🏆 Duplicate player names no longer cause both players to see Victory ⏳ Fixed matches ending while players were still loading 💰 No false loss for a match you never paid to enter ⚫ Fixed pulsing black overlay behind Match Results 🔌 Fixed players getting kicked while joining when lobby data contains an unresolved entry 💀 Fixed death-cam bodies being reused when multiple players die simultaneously ⚡ Fixed Photon Rifle charge remaining armed after releasing without firing 💥 Normal follow-up shots no longer become explosive charged shots 🛡️ CHEAT HARDENING: 🔫 Modified clients can no longer fire during weapon draw animations ⚡ Modified clients can no longer hide Photon Rifle charge glow from opponents 💣 Modified clients can no longer clear grenade-cook state 🚫 No exploiting grenade cooking to shoot mid-throw 🚫 No exploiting it to reload mid-throw 🚫 No exploiting it to sprint mid-throw ✅ Graphics got better. ✅ Performance got better. ✅ Combat got deeper. ✅ Networking got tighter. ✅ Competitive integrity got stronger. Every week the game gets better. Still early. Still shipping weekly. 🎮 Jump into v0.35.0 and see how far Chain Reaction has come. 🔥

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