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The update introduced bullet holes on surfaces and blood pools that remain on the ground after combat. Groundbreaking Mechanical Updates

The original SS2E used recursive functions for enemy spawn waves, causing stack overflows after wave 15 in "Land of the Damned." We replaced recursion with an iterative spawn queue system. Example diff: