HOW TO PLAY // TACTICAL BRIEFING

• 360° Controls: Move with WASD / Arrows (or Left Virtual Stick in Mobile Mode). Aim defaults to Auto-Aim (or aim manually with Mouse / Right Stick). Your true hitbox is the glowing 3px white core.
• Crystal Drops & Health Gems: Defeated enemies drop magnetic Crystal Points. 12% of drops are Green Health Gems that repair your hull.
• 50 Evolution Paths: Each weapon/ability progresses through LV 1, LV 2, LV 3, and LV 4 APEX. Choose one upgrade from the three fixed cards at each wave end. Pay 10,000 PTS once to unlock the other two choices during that wave. Every cleared wave grants one reroll (bank up to 5). Rerolls must be used before making a selection. There is no total run upgrade cap.
• Chrono Focus & EMP Nova: Hold Shift (or tap FOCUS) for 5s of local bullet-slow while keeping 100% ship speed (5s cooldown). Graze bullets to charge EMP Nova (Space).
• 10-Wave Sector Jumps: The much larger arena expands by wave; sector difficulty spikes every 10 waves. Every incoming enemy hit increases in damage by 10% multiplicatively per wave. Aegis reduces damage but never nullifies it.