Fixes and Scam Upgrades

Scam With Your Friends — Update 0.1.73

Major speech recognition, crash, and authentication fixes.

• Reworked Bitcoin and Meme Coin into live investment rounds: pitch the coin, get the caller to invest, then choose when to cash out for up to $700.
• Investment values now rise toward a randomly timed market crash. Reassure the caller to delay their withdrawal—but reassurance cannot prevent the crash.
• You can still cash out for the remaining value while the market crashes. Getting caught, losing the caller, or waiting too long forfeits that round’s unpaid earnings.
• Meme Coin no longer requires a purchase confirmation code or a separate Crash the coin button. Use Cash out to collect your earnings.
• Added animated investment values, market sounds, and clearer cash-out and loss effects.
• Reworked Lottery Prize: convince the caller to email you their ticket, enter the confirmation code, then scratch all three numbers to reveal your prize.
• Lottery tickets can pay $0, $200, $500, or $1,000, with a 5% jackpot chance. Scratching reveals and pays the prize, with confetti for the jackpot.
• Police Impersonation now requires entering the caller’s fine payment confirmation number to collect the payout.
• Investment Scam now requires entering the caller’s invoice number, with the payout matching the agreed investment.
• Removed Password Recovery from the app store and scam selection.
• Updated the Meme Coin and Business Investment app-store icons and translated the revised scam instructions and status messages.
• Improved caller variety: each player now works through the available caller pool before hearing repeats, with recent callers avoided where possible.
• Fixed duplicate Daily Callers entries and improved adding, removing, and resetting callers in multiplayer.
• Added automatic microphone leveling for speech recognition, enabled by default. Turn it off in General settings to adjust the phone’s microphone level manually from 50% to 200%.
• Added Moonshine English speech recognition for PCs using the speech compatibility path, including older Windows processors without AVX. You can also select Moonshine in General settings.
• Restored Whisper speech recognition on older Windows processors that support AVX but lack AVX2.
• Added experimental speech recognition and caller voices for Windows ARM and Snapdragon PCs. Qwen3 TTS remains unavailable on these PCs.
• Fixed speech recognition and voice initialization crashes on affected Windows PCs.
• Fixed uneven caller speech timing when voice generation briefly runs out of buffered audio.
• Improved Qwen3 speech startup. It now requires a compatible GPU and switches off automatically if speech takes more than seven seconds to start.
• Fixed blank or cut-off caller messages in phone history after speech stops, is interrupted, or the phone is reopened.
• Added a main-menu warning when speech recognition is unavailable, with a reminder that you can still type to callers.
• Added clearer update instructions and a Back button when a lobby uses a different game version.
• Added a backup sign-in address when the main address cannot be reached.
• Added Steam sign-in through your browser when normal in-game sign-in fails, with clearer connection messages and support guidance.
• Bug reports can now be submitted even when game sign-in is unavailable.
• Improved bug-report diagnostics for Steam sign-in failures and compatibility-tool issues.
• Restored VIP cosmetic benefits for players with legacy unlimited AI access.
• Added a backup way to transfer boss-review recordings through Steam when the usual video connection fails.
• Improved boss-review reliability when the boss returns extra reaction lines for a replay.
• Improved funny-highlight selection so qualifying moments from different players get priority.
• Fixed a Windows crash when importing WAV or MP3 voice recordings in Character Creator.
• Smoothed multiplayer prop pickup animations and improved pickup reliability.
• Fixed thrown office props briefly blocking the player who threw them.
• Corrected lighting on carried and dropped office props.
• Knockdown protection now also prevents player damage and tackles when either player has protection enabled.
• Fixed incompatible saved keybindings causing button actions to fail.
• Added a safeguard against the Windows game process staying stuck after quitting.
• Adjusted the main-menu layout to prevent controls overlapping notices on smaller screens.
• Added a warning explaining that Mac, Linux, CrossOver, Wine, and Proton are currently unsupported, with bug-reporting guidance.
• Translated the breakroom TV’s community-video promotion and reward message.

Thank you guys! Please keep the bug reports and feedback coming!