Hellish Quart News

FIX:
- 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

NEW:
- 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

FIX:
- 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

Hellish Quart pre-alpha v.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

TWEAK:
- Changed Physics update from Fixed Update to Update. This makes the physics simulation dependent on the framerate, but fixed issues with stuttering Cloth and makes the sword collisions to process in sync with the visuals. It seems to work well if the framerate is stable, with no obvious downsides. It may however cause some unpredicted consequences in the future - if so, it will be reverted.
- The "Start Battle" drum sound volume was moved from general to fight music volume slider and lowered to 50%.
- Jacek's Story: 2 more Bandages can be found in the Manor. If all 3 Bandages are collected, Jacek should have 4 lives during the fight with the Bandits (if none are collected he has his usual 1 life for the entire battle).
- Story Mode: if you start the story from a chapter other than the first one, the game treats your save as if you have collected all the Buffs in the previous chapter
- Jacek: tweaked attack startup phase timings, to allow better canceling

NEW:
- A tutorial pop-up about the Bandages was added to the section on the Manor courtyard
- Story Mode: Bandages UI icons were added during fights

FIX:
- Survival: fixed a bug where Marta's top score would go to Marie's account
- fixed a bug where Jan was still named Jacek in the Player vs Player Character Select screen