Hellish Quart News

Hellish Quart pre-alpha v.2023.10.19.0

TWEAK:
- Jacek: (RFF) Back + X attack has a bit longer cooldown to still allow switching legs upon block
- Jacek: tweaked the trajectory of (RFF) Fwd, Fwd, X (Far Lunge) attack, it also has a bit longer recovery time on block
- Father Zera: fixed some regressions and tweaked timings on all Holy Stance attacks
- Father Zera: (RFF) Holy Spear attack triggers an anti-thrust center guard, rather than anti-thrust upper right guard
- Father Zera: Holy Stance attacks have less homing
- Father Zera: increased damage of some attacks so it fits the visuals and common sense (a big, 2 handed sword cut should deal more damage than a saber cut, etc.)
- Isabella: decreased damage of some attacks so it fits the visuals (quick snap cuts should not deal 80 damage etc.)
- Kalkstein: (RFF) Back, X attack has longer startup

FIX:
- Kalkstein: (LFF) Fwd, Fwd, X attack triggers the correct guard

Hellish Quart pre-alpha v. 2023.10.14.0

TWEAK:
- Father Zera: his Back + Y snap cut deals more reasonable damage now and has a bit longer recovery
- Jacek: Fwd + Y attack has a bit longer recovery (if not canceled)
- Isabella: rebalanced sword inertia vs. muscle power
- Isabella: doesn't lose as much movement speed when tired

- The camera has a bit wider angle
- The cutting damage detector is now connected to the graphical mesh of the weapon, instead of the ragdoll. This should improve the consistency between the background simulation and the visuals. This may be reverted in future updates if it ever causes unforeseen problems.
- Stables Arena: Fighters' start positions are now further from each other
- the default Audio Speaker Mode is now set to Stereo. Options to change this to 5.1 or 7.1 coming soon.

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Hey!

We just released the "new" Jacek.

We were originally planning to wait with releasing this character until we complete the first short story, but... this is Early Access, so I guess releasing stuff early is what we are supposed to do :)

Enjoy the new fencer, and don't worry, the original Jacek is still in the game. We had to rename him to Jan though, to avoid confusion. I hope we will somehow eventually get used to that.

Have fun!
Jakub

Hellish Quart pre-alpha v.2023.08.02.1

TWEAK:
- If you press High or Low Guard, immediately press attack, and let go of the LG button before the attack executes, the game will no longer cancel this attack. It will delay it until the character is in full High or Low guard and then execute it.
- Isabella's forward motion during normal cutting attacks is even more sensitive to distance to the enemy (easier to keep proper mid-range distance)

FIX:
- Isabella: Fixed some issues with left hand IK
- Gedeon: Fixed the (LFF) (LG) Fwd + X thrust attack triggering a wrong guard pose

Hellish Quart pre-alpha v.2023.08.01.1

TWEAK:
- Jacek, Barabasz: attacks take a bit less Stamina
- Samuel: increased size of the weak portion of the blade
- Isabella: shorter recovery time of High Guard attacks

FIX:
- Isabella: Canceling (in place) X and (in place) Y attacks now respects the "no canceling on active frames" rule
- Isabella: tweaked the Posta Di Donna Attacks trajectory