Hellish Quart News

Hellish Quart pre-alpha v. 2022.07.04.0

FIX:
- fixed face blurring in Win Cameras
- fixed camera double fadeout at the end of duels
- fixed Marie's active ragdoll not responding to the Muscle Strength slider in Options

TWEAK:
- you can now go absurdly low with the Muscle Strength slider
- Randomizer can't select the same arena twice in a row now (and it also makes the bug where music volume stays quiet in the second duel on the same arena obsolete)

Hellish Quart pre-alpha v. 2022.06.25.0

FIX:
- Sound Effect for chopping off hands now should respond to Audio Volume controls in Audio Menu

TWEAK:
- Reverted dynamic Depth of Field on most arenas back to fixed DoF (dynamic focusing and defocusing the background proved to be distracting and sometimes focused on less meshed parts of the arenas that should always be out of focus by design)
- FPS Optimizations in Stables Arena

FIX:
- Too much DOF blur in Stables arena, when in Free Camera
- Changed lighting in Water Mill arena to get rid of artefacts
- Fixed a bug where exact same 2 characters were picked way too often by randomizer in History Buff mode

This update brings four new historical arenas.

Nürnberg Fechtschule - a reconstruction of an actual historical fencing school:






Stables:




Wine Cellar:




Water Mill:




For HEMA lovers we also add synthetic swords mode, with 3d scanned Black Fencer blades - we know a lot of you have those at home :)





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Release notes:

Hellish Quart pre-alpha v. 2022.06.23.0

NEW:
- Wine Cellar Arena
- Nürnberg Fechtschule Arena
- Water Mill Arena
- Stable Arena
- Synthetic HEMA swords mode
- Black Fencer Synthetic swords (with audio)

TWEAK:
- Depth of Field (camera focus) is now dynamic, focuses on fencers
- Marie: a bit more accuracy with the sword tip with thrusts
- Isabella: updated Move List
- Minor tweaks of swords' inertia
- Various other tweaks

FIX:
- Father Zera: physics fixes
- Fixed a bug where changing the postprocessing quality in Menu didn't work on some arenas
- Removed obsolete and no longer working "Push Down Blade" attacks from all fencers (now you just cut-attack into the opponent's Long Guard to bash his sword away)
- Various small fixes

Hellish Quart pre-alpha v. 2022.05.25.0

FIX:
- Fixed bug when a character could still inflict damage on afterblow with a "phantom" sword after he let go of the sword (but with the hand not cut off)
- characters with custom hats and heads skins should not spawn and drop their original hats when killed
- radio music in Gym Hall arena now reacts to Fight Music Volume Slider and not Ambient Volume Slider like before
- Increased sword collision detection radius to prevent physics freezing for a moment because of unsolvable scenarios
- Fixed Father Zera's left shoulder IK bending