Cicadas

This update improves the reading experience, balances voice playback, and fixes several presentation and stability issues. Bug Fixes - Fixed backgrounds, CGs, and character sprites briefly inheriting the previous image’s zoom, position, or rotation when switching assets. - Improved mouse hold-to-skip reliability during the opening movie. Holding the mouse button now immediately displays the skip h

- Restored voice playback at 10 previously silent story moments, including Xia Kong’s flashbacks and Shen Ying’s early humming scene. - Recovered the correct recording for “Does anyone love you?” - Fixed CGs being fully revealed or added to the gallery too early, including incorrect framing when loading older saves. - Updated Ouyang Yu’s corresponding ending label to TRUE END. - Removed character

This update focuses on story branching and visual presentation fixes: - Fixed repeated conversations in the shared chapter. Each route now plays its corresponding dialogue. - Corrected trigger conditions for certain route-specific flashbacks. - Fixed several CG selections and display timings to prevent later scenes from appearing too early. - Improved scene framing and character zooming to keep ch

Improved the history log so it opens at the latest line every time. Smoothed character artwork edges and improved scaling across window sizes. Added automatic language selection on first launch, with English as the fallback. Saved language preferences take priority. Fixed overlapping controls in the ending credits.

Cicadas now includes Japanese, Korean, and Russian translations.

Update Notes | Steam Achievement Fixes This update fixes Steam achievements failing to unlock and resolves a crash that could occur when processing Steam achievement callbacks. - Improved achievement tracking and synchronization. Pending records are retained and retried if synchronization fails. - Achievement progress is saved separately for each Steam account and will not roll back when loading a