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DynOSTiC | Updates
Feb 20, 2026

This jump is a major runtime + tooling
pass: cutscenes are now treated as a
full gameplay-adjacent system, not a
side feature.
Changed


Added episodic story manifests
with ordered flow and unlock rules,
plus validation in CLI.


Added campaign cutscene lifecycle
flow support and lifecycle hooks.


Added cutscene checkpoint
persistence/resume so campaign
state can hand off and recover from
cinematic checkpoints
deterministically.


Added projection policy
enforcement:

gameplay content is validated as
isometric-only,
cutscene presentation viewpoints
remain flexible.



Expanded cutscene authoring/lint
pipeline:

cine dialogue-export
cine dialogue-import
cine locale-qa
branch report export in narrative
graph.



Added cutscene asset tooling:

preview bundle asset manifests,
preload/warmup helpers,
streaming cache eviction helpers.



Added live-reload support for
timeline/localization payloads.


Expanded audio runtime:

bus-aware playback,
crossfade on same bus,
ducking envelopes,
mix snapshots + reverb zones
integrated with background
/post_fx.



Improved caption/localization
quality controls:

locale-specific safe-zone
overrides,
overflow scaling,
QA warnings (missing locale
lines, reading speed, overflow
risk).



Improved player-facing cutscene
controls:

checkpoint/choice skipping
behavior,
unskippable beat clamping,
auto-pause-on-input
accessibility,
recap generation.



Cutscenes start faster and feel
smoother under load.


Audio transitions are cleaner
(less hard-cut feeling between cues).


Campaign progression is more
reliable when resuming around
cinematic checkpoints.


Subtitle quality is better across
locales, especially long text.


Invalid gameplay projection setup
gets caught early, before weird
in-game camera behavior leaks through.


For end-users, this update mostly means
fewer rough edges: less broken narrative
flow, fewer camera/projection surprises,
and a more stable campaign-cinematic
handoff.

For content authors, it means stricter
validation plus better tooling to
iterate quickly without flying blind.