Hellish Quart News

Hellish Quart pre-alpha v.2024.08.27.0


TWEAK:
- Yendrek: "Pull" special move has new input: (LG) Back + X
- Yendrek: removed combos that had a pull special move in them
- Yendrek: less muscle power
- Yendrek: if you hit an enemy or his weapon with the axe shaft, the axe head will check for a flesh hit only once (as opposed to checking through the whole range of remaining active frames)
- Yendrek: all non-Long Guard and non-special attacks are slower by 2%

FIX:
- Marta, Marie: fixed a bug that prevented them from being pulled by Yendrek
- Yendrek, Kalkstein: fixed some dodges not having a cooldown
- Fixed a bug with some characters not being able to beat down the opponent's long guard before scoring their first hit or punch

Hellish Quart pre-alpha v.2024.08.25.0

FIX:
- Refactored hitting the weak part of the blade system ("bashing through" guards if you hit the very top part of the opponent's sword) - more precise detection and the blade actually does visually and mechanically give in using additive animation. If you hit the enemy through the weak of the blade (as opposed to a clean hit) you will deal lowered damage.
- Marta: fixed a minor bug in IK on thrust hit
- Gedeon, Barabasz: fixed minor bugs in combo timings

NEW:
- All characters now respect the attack homing multiplier slider from Gameplay Options
- Dodging left or right turns off Attack Homing for your opponent for 0.6s (this may be tweaked or disabled if it proves not fun or problematic)

Hellish Quart pre-alpha v.2024.08.23.1

FIX:
- Barabasz, Laszlo: fixed regression: some special moves not working
- Jan: fixed a physics flinch when starting guarding
- Jacek: spawns blood decals correctly now
- Jan: visual cloth and physics strands pass
- Jacek: fixed a bug that could register both edge and point hits simultaneously during a thrust attack

TWEAK:
- All attack animations in the game are slowed down by 5% (but they are still way faster than the original speeds from 3 years ago). This is to reverse the "speed creep" that accumulated across years, where I was speeding up various attacks, so they could match others, which in turn I was speeding up even further to match the sped-up ones, and so on. In some cases, it crossed the technical limits of the simulation in 60fps, so slowing things down across the board is necessary.
- Sword collision mode: Precise is now default (you can revert this in Options if you prefer Stable)
- Isabella: thinner blade edge detector
- Marie: Far Lunge special move has a better aim for the heart on startup
- Marie, Marta: if a thrust attack gets blocked, but at the same time the tip reaches the body anyway, it will only deal a small portion of the damage
- Isabella, Zera, Maryna, Yendrek: left arm and forearm have fewer hit points than characters with one handed swords
- Alexander: shorter recovery in sidestep attacks on whiff
- Alexander, Gedeon, Tarnavski: no longer have powerful attacks perk
- Weapon muscle stiffness pass

Hellish Quart pre-alpha v.2024.08.21.0

TWEAK:
- Isabella: heavier weapon, powerful strike perk (chip damage if the sword touches the body even when blocked), less stiff muscles
- Gedeon: lighter weapon, less stiff muscles
- Jacek, Alexander, Jan: less stiff muscles
- "beefier" Saber vs Longsword clash sounds
- Isabella: tweaked a few attack impact animations


FIX:
- Kalkstein: corrected the trajectory of (LFF) Y attack
- Kalkstein: fixed a bug in Push move not always connecting
- Alexander, Gedeon, Jan: fixed regression: some special moves not working
- Isabella: fixed regression: hair constraint
- Barabasz: fixed regression: scabbard constraint

NEW:
- Maryna: a skin unlock

Hellish Quart pre-alpha v.2024.08.20.1

TWEAK:
- Some minor physics solver changes
- Meadow arena: more fog

FIX:
- Jacek, Barabasz, Samuel: fixed some bugs in ragdolls which may have caused various minor issues on collision