Titan Development Log

Expanded the Play news panel into the space above the character cards. News excerpts now have several lines of space and a larger sentence-aware limit, showing more of each update while retaining the headline, timestamp, navigation arrows and gold indicators.

Verified live news rendering, panel bounds, character layouts and installer preservation. The launcher and installer are signed through Microsoft Artifact Signing and published through the normal updater and website downloads. No game-server restart was required.

Fixed the optional Chains addon unloading with a SetWindowFontScale nil-value error. Chains now checks whether the Ashita ImGui binding supports window font scaling before calling it in either the skillchain display or movable preview. Unsupported bindings use normal-size text and matching window width; saved scale settings are preserved.

Verified both display paths locally with the font-scaling API present and absent, including a reproduction of the old failure. The corrected 0.8.2-titan addon is delivered through the launcher-managed addon manifest. Close the game and reopen the launcher to receive it. No launcher binary update or game-server restart is required; live player confirmation remains pending.

Polished the Play news carousel with shorter display headlines while preserving the full technical titles in the Development Log. Excerpts now end at a complete sentence when one fits, with a word-boundary fallback for longer opening sentences.

Replaced the numeric counter with small gold and gray indicators, retained accessible Previous and Next arrow controls, and tightened the spacing between character cards and Manage account. Moved Website beneath Discord as a full navigation button and moved the launcher version to the bottom-left corner. Verified feed navigation, excerpt formatting, layouts, installer preservation and signed public downloads. No game-server restart was needed.

Replaced the Play welcome banner with a compact live Development Log carousel. It starts with the newest update, shows a short excerpt and timestamp, and offers Previous, Next and Read update controls. Removed the duplicate lower news strip; character cards and the full-window artwork remain in place.

Tightened the top-left server status group and embedded the approved transparent Titan icon so launcher updates use the same artwork. Adjusted scrolling to avoid forced background erasure and made dropdown erase painting use the dark launcher surface, addressing the reported white flash.

Verified live-feed parsing, carousel navigation and wraparound, correct News-page selection, account layouts, scroll behavior, installer preservation, hashes and Microsoft Artifact Signing signatures. The transient scrolling appearance still needs confirmation on affected displays. No game-server restart was required.

Updated scrollable launcher panels to repaint the viewport and child controls immediately after scrollbar and mouse-wheel messages, addressing the delayed repaint that can leave stretched or smeared content. Native scroll tests confirmed immediate painting and unchanged control dimensions; the reported transient appearance still needs confirmation on affected displays.

Added validation for forced multisampling combined with a lockable back buffer or an explicitly incompatible swap effect. Graphics Save and normal launch explain how to clear these overrides before using them. Sign-in and Compatibility Launch remain available with existing problematic settings; other saved preferences are preserved.

Selected checkbox squares now fill solid gold throughout the launcher, including plugin and addon lists. Added a short dgVoodoo2 description explaining its DirectX 11 translation and potential compatibility and performance benefits. Verified checkbox rendering, required TitanGambits enforcement, layouts, menu regression, signed installer preservation and public integrity. No game-server restart was required.

Fixed a launcher-side ObjectDisposedException when selecting an action in the Troubleshooting menu. The menu is now retained while Windows finishes dismissing it and is disposed when the launcher closes. Players do not need to delete Titan XI, reset graphics settings or reinstall the game to resolve this menu error.

Reproduced the reported ContextMenuStrip failure and verified 25 repeated selection and Escape cycles, busy-state restrictions, menu reuse and cleanup. The signed launcher and installer passed installer preservation and integrity checks. This fix addresses the menu exception; it does not establish the cause of a separate game graphics startup failure. No game-server restart was required.

Removed the sidebar navigation icons and duplicate top-right Website button. The launcher version now sits beside the minimize and close controls. Refined button typography and sentence-case labels while keeping the full-window background2 artwork and Titan colors.

Rebuilt Account preview spacing so both characters and all 18 jobs fit without horizontal or vertical scrollbars. Aligned the dgVoodoo2 checkbox and its explanation inside a padded settings panel. News uses compact titles, readable summaries and two entries per page, with smaller links and navigation through the latest eight Development Log updates.

Verified native layouts with two populated characters at 1280 by 720 and 1728 by 972, PIN controls, News pagination, graphics settings, launch guards and required TitanGambits enforcement. The launcher and installer are signed with Titan's Microsoft Artifact Signing identity, and installer preservation and updater hash checks passed. No game service restart was required; live account authentication and gameplay were not exercised.

Expanded character cards to display all 18 jobs, reduced the welcome area by 25 percent, narrowed the sidebar and shortened the Play bar. background2.jpg now spans the full launcher beneath readable dark panels. Replaced the pixel-style navigation artwork with matching website icons where available, retaining Titan's charcoal, gold, ivory and serif headings.

Added an in-launcher News page that automatically reads the latest eight public Development Log entries, with dates, titles, summaries and links to the complete log. The compact home news section shows the latest title and date. News refreshes in the background and unavailable or malformed responses do not block Play.

Fixed Troubleshooting controls to respect existing busy-state restrictions. Verified character-card layout, resizing, expandable settings, graphics INI generation, launch guards, required addon enforcement, client verification and graphics restoration. The signed launcher and installer retain Standard as default and exclude Background.png. Live account login and gameplay were not exercised during this release.