Patch Impact Autopsy shipped

[26/04-2026] Patch Impact Autopsy shipped

ReviewBomb now overlays tracked Steam patch notes directly on chart surfaces and opens a patch-impact autopsy when a user clicks a patch marker.

• Game pages: /game/[id] now show amber patch markers in both Review velocity and Review score under History & Charts.
• Incident pages: /incident/[id] now show overlapping patch markers inside the incident velocity window when patch notes exist for that timeframe.
• Patch drilldown: Clicking a patch marker opens a Patch impact autopsy panel with baseline velocity, post-patch peak velocity, velocity lift, matched theme families, and Steam review examples when available.
• Caching: Autopsy results are cached server-side for 1 hour and also reused from browser sessionStorage to avoid refetching the same Steam review window on repeated clicks.
• Data ingestion: steam-sync now pulls Steam News patch notes and stores them in public.steam_patch_notes with created_at for ingestion/debug visibility.
• Live payloads: Live game and incident snapshot payloads now include additive patch_notes data so overlays work on both normal page loads and realtime refreshes.
• Matching model: The first MVP ships with fixed multilingual theme families for balance, performance, monetization, removal/control, and reaction terms across English, German, Spanish, and Danish aliases.
• Runtime surface: A new public first-party route, /api/game/:steamAppId/patch-impact, powers the drilldown without exposing the invite-only API surfaces.

This shipped as a production-lean MVP. It keeps the existing chart axis model, groups multiple patch notes onto the nearest snapshot marker when needed, and degrades safely when transient Steam review examples are unavailable.