UA Reforged

15 Aug 2026 · Reforged 0.6

Wave 10: proving the AI is smarter, killing the shimmer

EngineAI

21 recorded A/B runs across six contested levels showed the new commander really behaves differently in the designed direction (one honest null result kept). An AI-written radio mode was tested and rejected: too slow, worse prose. Distant ground shimmer turned out to be texture filtering that had been silently off since wave 2.

Builds: Reforged 0.6.0

August: distant ground shimmered because texture filtering had been silently off.
Ground shimmer, before. August: distant ground shimmered because texture filtering had been silently off.
Same frame with trilinear filtering and 8x anisotropy working.
Ground shimmer, after. Same frame with trilinear filtering and 8x anisotropy working.
Close crop of the fix.
Ground filtering crop. Close crop of the fix.