Husk Protocol

What the team already understood, a new player could not.

Two cards in Husk Protocol both use the term "Purge" in their on-screen descriptions. Hover over either one and every other keyword gets a plain-English explanation, except Purge. On one card, the description simply ends on the word "Purge", with nothing telling the player what it means. The same keyword works and explains itself correctly on a different card. Once you have built a keyword, you know what it means, so it stops registering that a tooltip is missing or that a new player would be stuck. Husk Protocol carries dozens of these keywords across 60 cards, and there was no systematic way to check, from a first-time player's point of view, that every card's on-screen text delivered what someone needed to understand it on every new build. As cards and tooltips kept changing, Fireshine brought in ManaMind to build that check: could Wayfinder read the entire catalogue the way a brand-new player would and flag anywhere the text did not hold up?

Wayfinder became an irreplaceable part of the development team.

Wayfinder plays the real Steam build through the screen, exactly like a human tester. The team's entire setup was a Steam branch and one spreadsheet defining what every card and tooltip was supposed to say. From a single plain-language task in ManaMind's Command Centre - "Game: Husk Protocol · Task: Validate compendium husks" - it launches the build, explores the entire in-game card catalogue, hovers every card to capture the tooltip text exactly as a player sees it, and checks that text word for word against the sheet. It flags anywhere the two do not match, including cases where a number or keyword has silently gone missing, and verifies every click before moving on.

Integration

1 branch + 1 sheet

No SDKs, scripts, or engine access

Full sweep

10-12 min

40-card catalogue run

Focused sweep

2-4 min

Smaller Cards/Modules run

Five verified findings. One conservative soft flag.

Every verified finding arrived with evidence. Ambiguous runtime text was routed to a human reviewer instead of being overstated as a bug.

Verified findingMissing tooltip

Grapple invokes Purge without explaining it.

Grapple says "purge 1 random Buff". Its Buff tooltip renders correctly, but no Purge tooltip appears.

Flagged consistently across all three Husk sweeps.

Verified findingMissing tooltip

Sudden Death ends on an unexplained keyword.

The card description ends on the bare word "Purge", leaving a first-time player with no explanation of the action.

The same keyword renders correctly on a Tank card.

Verified findingText drift

Electrify drops the Shield clause.

The in-game Static Damage tooltip and the localisation sheet disagree on whether Static Damage breaks Shield.

Expected: Static Damage cannot be modified in any way and ignores defences but doesn't break Shield.

Persistent in every sweep.

Verified findingText drift

Tap Core reproduces the same stale string.

A second Husk type renders the identical truncated Static Damage text while its separate Shield tooltip appears beneath it.

Expected: Static Damage cannot be modified in any way and ignores defences but doesn't break Shield.

Resolving each card to its string ID lets the team go straight to the affected row.

Verified findingSheet gap

Honing Module existed in-game but not in the sheet.

This time the localisation sheet was stale, not the game. Wayfinder kept both sides honest instead of assuming the build was always wrong.

The team updated the reference sheet after review.

Soft flagNumeric placeholder

Reinforced Strike surfaced a zero for human review.

The card's damage line carries two runtime values. In the compendium, the second resolves to zero.

With no Block in the preview, zero may be correct. Wayfinder conservatively recorded the observation as a reviewer note rather than asserting it as a bug.

The complete validation run, in numbers.

What the development and publishing teams said.