# Known Limitations

This page records the limitations that remain at the 0.10.0 release-candidate
stage. Items marked **blocker** must be cleared or explicitly accepted before a
public release.

## Release blockers

- **External playtest:** at least five first-time-player sessions and the
  resulting onboarding/accessibility triage have not been completed. The
  tutorial/campaign evidence is currently automated smoke coverage, not player
  observation.
- **AI asset provenance:** the image-generation provider terms and commercial
  redistribution rights for the committed AI-assisted textures/UI art still need
  legal review. See [`../CREDITS.md`](../CREDITS.md).
- **Storefront/legal approval:** age/content rating, storefront policy, trademark
  language and the mental-health-crisis/body-camera representation have not been
  externally approved.
- **macOS signing/notarization:** the 0.10.0 release candidate ships unsigned
  with right-click/`xattr` quarantine instructions. Signing and notarization are
  required before a broad public/storefront release and remain blocked until an
  Apple Developer account and signing job exist.
- **Hardware matrix:** Web, Windows and Desktop HQ have been built and checked
  structurally; a complete target-hardware performance/launch matrix is still
  pending.

## Content and presentation

- The venues are stylized reconstructions, not survey-accurate models. The Joke
  Shop is a fictional stand-in for the real Sunset Strip block.
- Character faces, hands and fabric use a deliberately low-poly style; the
  >26 m tier remains a two-quad impostor and there is no separate finger-curl
  rig. The accepted limits are recorded in
  [`npc-visual-review.md`](npc-visual-review.md).
- There is no live 3D body-camera replay; the timeline is text-based.
- There is no recorded voice/music track. Ambience and cues are procedural.
- The game is English-only and does not yet have a translator workflow or
  pseudo-locale layout sign-off.

## Persistence and platform

- Save migration is covered by synthetic 0.8/0.9 fixtures and failure-mode tests,
  not by a real player profile collected from every earlier release.
- Desktop HQ requires a Vulkan-capable GPU/driver; the default Compatibility and
  Web builds remain the broad target.
- The manual smoke checklist is completed by developers; external device
  coverage (Windows installer, macOS launch, gamepad and Web hosts) is not yet a
  complete evidence set.