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Crimson Engines v0.2.46 Adds Vendor Safeguards and Fixes Offline Boss Parity

A quiet but meaningful patch addresses accidental gear sales and closes mechanical gaps between active and offline Citadel boss progression.

Distilled Oct 15, 2026·1 min read·source confidence94%
Crimson Engines

Update v0.2.46 for Crimson Engines arrives under the authorship of Gurgling The Goat with a focused set of quality-of-life and parity corrections — the kind of patch that quietly prevents hours of progress from evaporating through a stray click or an offline session gone sideways.

What changed

Trade & Inventory Safeguards

  • Selling gear to a vendor now triggers a confirmation dialog showing the item name, quantity, and exact Blood Shard offer before the transaction completes.
  • Sale totals above the thousands threshold are displayed in shorthand notation (10k, 100k, 1M) for faster readability.
  • Dismissing or canceling the merchant prompt aborts the transaction entirely, leaving inventory unchanged.

Citadel Boss Rituals & Offline Parity

  • Citadel boss battles carried into offline hunting now consume one boss sigil per defeated adversary, matching the behavior of active sessions.
  • If sigil reserves run out during an offline session, the hunting session concludes cleanly rather than producing progression discrepancies.
  • A timing anomaly that could stall combat after a boss sigil was offered has been resolved.
  • Selected adversaries and Citadel gates now hold their targets reliably when switching between hunting regions.
  • If a connection interruption prevents a Citadel boss encounter from starting, the spent sigil is automatically returned to the player's inventory.

Taken together, the update closes two categories of frustrating loss — accidental liquidation and sigil erosion during offline play — making progression feel considerably more trustworthy.

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