DEMO PATCH NOTES - Feb 15, 2026 — FIRESTARTERS Steam update #986147

PURCHASE PHASE CHANGESPurchase Phase no longer automatically ends when the player cannot afford to buy anything, which may have led to confusion.Purchase Phase now operates on a 30 second timer that the player can manually skip at any time using the "Ready Up" key.Combined Max Health, Max Armor, and Movement Skill Upgrades into a single upgrade to increase its value and avoid clogging the purchase queue.Altered the purchase queue items for both of the currently available Storms.MULTIPLIER CHANGESHitting/Killing Sufferers now contributes to the accumulation of "Variety" and "Clean" Multipliers (though they still offer 0 direct points and don't count for Medals).We expect that this may result in an increase in the average run score.BUG FIXESFixed a bug that would cause the red icon signifying the location of the next enemy to spawn to persist if the user exits and re-enters the Arena durin...