Hellish Quart
Update 2024.08.20.0
TWEAK:
- better looking IK on blade bind (aiming more with the arm, rather than the wrist)
- louder sword swing sounds
- all small audio clips are now loaded in the background from a different thread
- Maryna: when in Long Guard, she actively tries to adjust the shield position to block thrusts only when the opponent attacks (8% autoaim; down from 26%)
- Maryna: a bit shorter sword
- Marta: less stiff dress
FIX:
- hit reactions coding pass
Update 2024.08.19.0
TWEAK:
- Maryna: renamed the "Cut, Cut, Cut!" special move to "Flurry of Blows", and changed the input scheme for this move
- Maryna: tweaked some attack animations so they provide better shield protection for most common opponent's counters
- Maryna: when in Long Guard, she actively tries to adjust the shield position to block thrusts (26% autoaim)
- Maryna: Lunge attack has a different input scheme
NEW:
- Maryna: two new attacks from Long Guard
Update 2024.08.18.0
TWEAK:
- Maryna: a bit more damage for certain attacks
- Maryna: shorter recovery from attacks blocked by the opponent
Hellish Quart pre-alpha v.2024.08.18.0
TWEAK:
- Maryna: longer startup in "Cut, Cut, Cut" special move
- Tarnavski: shorter startup in most attacks
- Tarnavski: shorter recovery in Taunts and punches (you can follow up with an attack quicker)
Update 2024.08.17.0
FIX:
- fixed a bug where the game sometimes would not scale time to x0 when pausing right before swords clash
- fixed a bug where sometimes root motion would keep moving the character, even when paused
TWEAK
- disabled the option to have mouse cursor visible in Character Selection Screen (character menus and the fighting system are not designed to be played with a mouse, but with controllers or keyboard keys)
- changed music in the Character Selection Screen from stock to an original track (plays only after returning to this screen after a fight)
New Character: Maryna
Maryna is a relentless iron lady, hardened by the harsh life on the Borderlands. As the leader of a small army of Cossacks, she is untouchable in her fortified manor. Living by her own rules, she thrives on robbery, extortion, and kidnapping.
Maryna’s character is inspired by a real 17th-century Borderlands She-Wolf, Anna Łahodowska, whose life of mischief was documented by Władysław Łoziński in "Prawem i lewem. Obyczaje na Czerwonej Rusi w pierwszej połowie XVII wieku" volume II, 1903. (loosely: Law and Disorder or Lawful and Unlawful. Ways of conduct in Red Ruthenia in the first half of XVII century).
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Hellish Quart pre-alpha v.2024.08.16.0
NEW:
- New character: Maryna
FIX:
- Fixes for numerous minor bugs, typos, etc.
Online Leaderboards in Survival Mode
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Update 2024.07.09.0
- Updated Easy Save 3 plugin (for saving games) to the newest version and re-created all savegame scripts on all levels, to address a few reports of broken saves or the game crashing when trying to save or load data.
TWEAK:
- Build size optimizations, stripping down from unused assets
Update 2024.07.07.0
- Story Mode, Jacek's side quest: new chapter released
FIX:
- "Anti-ragdoll explode" bug fix tweak: the level will reset only when the ragdoll is 5m from where it should be, instead of 3m, to avoid false-positive results (which should not be even possible in the first place, but some players report it happens)
- Story Mode, Jacek's side quest: some minor animation tweaks in cutscenes
- Jacek: fixed a bug where a followup attack would not play before the whole Taunt animation finished
- Gedeon, Alexander, Kalkstein: active ragdoll tweaks
- History Buff: no picture will be shown twice across multiple play sessions, until the game runs out of pictures. Then the list will reset (currently 128 pictures).
Known issues: When you pause during a fight and go to Free Camera Mode, ragdolls still retain some movement, despite the time being frozen. This can result in characters being in different place after unpausing, sometimes even "stuck" in a wall.
Note: Thank you for all the bug reports. Those will be handled after Jacek's Side Story is done.
IMPORTANT: As always, please verify the integrity of the Steam files after the update, to make sure there are no bugs resulting from potentially corrupted files:
1. Load Steam
2. From the Library tab, right-click on the game and select Properties from the menu
3. Select the Local files tab and click Verify integrity of game files...
4. Steam will verify the game's files
Update 2024.06.15.0
- Kalkstein: matched his actual reach to the length of his sword
- Boss fight arena: brighter lighting
- Alexander: fixed the kontusz skin Cloth component
- Gedeon: fixed some internal errors caused by Engine migration, that could have caused bugs
- Cutscene and adventure gameplay music now respond to Music volume slider in Options
- Samuel: corrected the Death March special move input
- Jacek: Move List pass; added some missing attacks, fixed wrong inputs
- Jacek's Story: fixed a bug where the Pause would not work during the first round of the Father Blashey fight
TWEAK:
- Gedeon: a bit more muscle power for better sword trajectories
- Alexander: some attacks are 5% faster
- Marta: thicker "weak" blade portion detector to ensure it works properly
- Jacek: Translated the Movelist with ChatGPT4o rather than Google Translate. It may still be wrong, but I hope less wrong than before. (there is no point in hiring localization companies for respective languages, since the texts change all the time and new ones are added almost every day; we'll do that, if it's still needed, after the content is all done and locked).
- Samuel: some attacks are a bit faster
Update 2024.06.10.0
FIX:
- Interactive Tutorial: Moved the UI a bit to the right, so it doesn't get cut off by Steam Deck's screen aspect ratio
- Interactive Tutorial: fixed Attacked Canceling section
- Jacek's Story, River: fixed a bug where some text is still visible during cutscene fade-outs
- Jacek's Story, Courtyard: fixed a bug where Bandages tutorial launched again after cutting practice minigame
- fixed some instances where Jan was still called Jacek in Character Selection Menu
- fixed a bug where Auto-distance option appeared in Survival mode (in survival it's disabled)
- added yet another failsafe to prevent potential "ragdolls exploding into space" bug on spawn (level should restart immediately if that happens, and then there's another, different check which should do the same, and then every 0.1s there is yet another check)
TWEAK:
- the default Graphics Quality is now "High" instead of "Medium"
- moved character spawn points 5cm above the ground in Watermill, Gallows and Bossfight arena to prevent potential "ragdoll exploding into space" on spawn
- rebaked lighting and occlusion in those arenas as well as optimized enviro collisions
- converted all Terrains to GPU instanced for better optimization