• Increased base rotation speed of vampire by ~50%.
  
• Vampire rotation speed now scales with bloodlust.
  
• Improved animation blending of the vampire during turns.
  

• Fixed an issue with the transition to the reveal camera cinematic in which the camera would occasionally move into strange locations far away from where it should be.
  

• Updated the game controls UI to reflect input changes. (Thank you, Varik Keldun)
  
• Added interstitial intro primer video.
  
• Revised how the vampire moves and animates - added idle turns, run start and stop, running turn animations.
  
• Added new animations which play when legionnaires get up after being ragdolled.
  
• Change basic attack rotation logic so that rotation direction is more consistent over time.
  
• Added ability to disable blood and gore in debug menu. (Thank you, Spikeschild)
  

• Death Waltz dash will now target in the camera direction instead of the movement input direction.
  

• Fixed an issue that would result in the Werebat cinematic playing each time the pressure plate was stepped on during Wave 8.
  
• Fixed a rare issue where movement forward during attacks would press through or into the player’s target.
  
• Fixed an issue causing the player’s aim assist to occasionally act erratically.
  
• Fixed an issue that would cause the vampire to A-pose when using telekinesis.
  
• Fixed an issue causing the pressure plate lights to remain on after the pressure plate has been activated.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Exsanguinate animation might end too soon, allowing run animations while the skill is still in progress.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Telekinesis animation is still playing and the vampire is already moving.
  

• Reduced motion blur slightly.
  

• Introducing a heavy sword attack to Danse Macabre. You can now click and hold to trigger a devastating heavy attack or tap the attack button to perform a light sword attack. The heavy attack will inflict a high level of stability and health damage on any unprepared foes.
  
• New sound effects and vocalizations for Vampire’s heavy sword attack.
  
• Added a sound cue which plays when the vampire attempts to use a skill that is on cooldown, is unavailable in the current trinary state or has a mana cost which cannot be satisfied.
  
• Added a channelled mode to Exsanguinate in the Physical and Ethereal states. Tapping the skill button will perform a standard quick cast of exsanguinate while holding the button down will channel the attack. While channelling, the vampire will continuously gain resources. In the Physical state, if the vampire receives more blood than they need to restore their vitality, the channelled blood will give the vampire additional bloodlust.
  
• New sound effects for blood and ethereal streams when using Exsanguinate’s channelled mode.
  

• Restored bloodlust gain for sword attacks.
  
• By reaching 50% Bloodlust, the chant now plays once and continues as an audible heartbeat. The heartbeat rate also increases as Bloodlust gets higher. This will only be triggered again if Bloodlust drops and rises to above 50%.
  
• Added a mana cost to exsanguinate when used in the Physical state.
  
• Slightly reduced time-of-flight for the exsanguinate spell.
  
• Added a moderate delay between gaining bloodlust and the start of the loss of bloodlust.
  
• Adjusted the speed at which the bloodlust bar will increase to provide a more accurate read on the amount of bloodlust at any given time. We will continue to evaluate and address this system.
  
• During the Werebat Cinematic, sound effects from the player, enemies and music will be muted. Once the cinematic ends, sounds will resume to previous gameplay levels.
  

• Fixed a case where a target could get stuck animating a hit reaction.
  
• Fixed an issue causing the camera transitions into the Werebat Cinematic to not work as intended.
  

• Added an interruptible run stop animation to the vampire.
  
• Added updated light hit reaction animations to the legionnaires.
  
• Added a three strike chain attack to the legionnaires.
  
• Bloodlust Chant now reacts to state changes, having a distinct sound for each of the Trinary States.
  
• Rebalanced how the vampire’s Bloodlust is handled. Bloodlust will no longer be gained through striking an opponent and no longer reduced by receiving hits of changing to a different state. Instead, bloodlust can now be gained using Exsanguinate, based on how much excess blood the vampire receives through exsanguinate. Bloodlust will also persist between states but will decay slightly faster while outside of the Physical state. This is part of ongoing development to improve how the vampire’s feeding affects the pace and balance of gameplay.
  

• Adjusted the vampire’s movement and animation to more seamlessly blend between animation states. This is part of ongoing work to balance visuals with responsiveness.
  
• Added shared information to enemy decision making. Enemies are now assigned heavy attack chances less randomly, and more player information is factored into the decision making process.
  

• Channeling Exsanguinate now uses the same targeting mechanics as Quick Casting.
  
• New animations for Quick Casting and Channeling Telekinesis.
  
• Added additional effects to the Spectral State in preparation for lore integration.
  

• Refactored how animations are being handled for characters.
  
• Made changes to how the cursor lock is handled in the UI and between levels.
  
• Better organize what information persists between levels.
  
• Additional support for character movement between levels.
  

• The Vampire's movement is now much more responsive!
  
• There are no more delays on startup movement from idle or pivots.
  
• The direction of an attack can be changed after input.
  

• Mist Form's Quick Cast no longer hitches on startup or finish.
  
• Collisions with enemies have been removed from Mist Form.
  
• The vampire can change directions during Mist Form Quick Cast.
  
• Mist Form Quick Cast distance increased.
  
• Mist Form Quick Cast cooldown decreased.
  

• Fixed an issue where Bloodlust Chant stopped with no fade-out. (Reported by Varik Keldun)
  
• Fixed an issue which prevented interacting with the back button during video playback when using a controller. (Reported by Varik Keldun)
  
• Fixed an issue where Telekinesis and Exsanguinate would get stuck if the input key was released at the end of the startup animation.
  
• Fixed an issue where Telekinesis would get stuck if you lost all mana during the channeling animation (Reported by Temuldjin).
  
• Fixed an issue where screen blood splatter and blood vignette on low life were not appearing.
  
• Fixed an issue where reaching zero mana would stop mana regeneration under some circumstances (Reported by Elveone).
  
• Fixed an issue where holding the Telekinesis key when Telekinesis ends will re-cast Telekinesis.
  
• Fixed an issue with the camera passing through the environment.
  
• Fixed an issue where the sword would detach from the Vampire's hand.
  

• Changed sound effects for Vampire’s Telekinesis skill.
  
• Added sound effects for enemies’ reactions to being picked up and thrown.
  
• Added Video Explaining Stability System and Telekinesis Tarot Skill.
  
• Added initial support for character moving between levels. (feature still in progress)
  
• Telekinesis skill is now available while in Ethereal form.
  

• Fixed an issue causing the legionnaires with shields to animate incorrectly.
  
• Fixed an issue where Telekinesis skill was not displaying as unusable due to trinary state. (Thank you, Varik Keldun)
  

• New Tarot Spell: Introducing Telekinesis! (Magick Archetype). The vampire can now project a blastwave of psychic force to hurl enemies back or fling them shrieking into the sky. Telekinesis can shred enemy armour, exposing the vulnerable flesh beneath to bladed attacks. Demonstration video coming next week!
  
• New Mechanic: Introducing Stability/Impact. Every attack and ability now deals an amount of Impact on an enemy's Stability. The more an enemy's Stability is damaged, the more off-balance they are. Staggered enemies are unable to retaliate for so long as they remain staggered. Press the attack, and your foes will become stunned, opening them to Savage Blows and Knockdown. Added impact to the Rend attack, which will affect an enemy’s stability. Demonstration video coming next week!
  
• Legionnaire attack animations have been adjusted to make it easier to recognize light and heavy attacks.
  
• Decreased sound effects volume when Bloodlust is active.
  
• Pause and Debug menus can be closed with the button pressed to open them (Thank you Temuldjin).
  

• Fixed an issue where shadow computation was unnecessarily expensive when in Ethereal and Spectral states.
  

• Legionnaires now have a pursuit timeout for their attacks. If they have been moving into their desired attack position for too long, while in attack range, they will attack instead of continuing to circle.
  
• Legionnaires will now enter the arena faster.
  
• Increased the speed at which the vampire turns and moves.
  
• Increased rend stability damage to ~300% of previous value and increased armor damage by 100%.
  
• Decreased sword attack stability damage by ~25% from the previous value.
  
• Added life leech to every vampire attack in Physical form.
  
• All ethereal states now cost the same mana, an ~51% reduction in cost from the previous values.
  
• Added a short delay before mana degeneration starts upon entering mist form (2s).
  
• Reduced Rend mana cost by 30%.
  
• Tarot card hotkey binding icon will now fade out when skill has insufficient mana.
  

• Fixed an issue that allowed the player to move when the vampire’s movement should have been locked in place.
  
• Fixed an issue where bloodlust sigils could become improperly activated after a cutscene plays. (Thank you Jaina Chaosweaver of Fate)
  
• Fixed a bug causing shadows to flicker around dynamic lights.
  
• Fixed an issue where dodge would always be in the forward direction. The intended behavior is that if you tap any movement direction, then press dodge, it will dodge in that direction.
  
• Fixed an issue where Vampire’s hit react and run state don’t always coincide.
  
• Fixed an issue where shadows would not render in a small region on the far cave walls from a specific combination of camera position and angle.
  
• Fixed an issue where using mist form would cause the character to get stuck in the idle state for a short amount of time after the dodge animation is completed.
  

• Legionnaire’s walk and run animations have been refined.
  
• Mix changes for shield hit sound effect.
  
• Mix changes for Vampire dialogue lines.
  
• (Thank you Sailor Midgard)
  
• Updated keyboard bindings UI image. (Thank you Jerion 'Wyverntamer' Kràl)
  
• Adjusted the player’s movement and animations to better fit with how the character should move through the world.
  
• Legionnaires will now ragdoll when they die.
  
• Vampire footsteps now leave bloody trails and imprints in blood pools.
  

• Fixed a bug where player input would not be registered properly on the radio plays menu.
  
• Fixed a bug that would occasionally make the cursor hidden when opening menus.
  
• Fixed a case where hitting a dead character would cause the character to re-animate under certain circumstances.
  
• No longer allow cutscene to be triggered additional times while already playing. (Thank you Sailor Midgard)
  

• Input duration required for entering mist form increased from 0.2 seconds to 0.4 seconds. (Thank you Jerion 'Wyverntamer' Kràl, Sailor Midgard, and Temuldjin)
  

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