Hellish Quart News

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Programming the footwork of this character is quite a challenge for a combat gameplay animator. I also just implemented first, basic, in-place attacks and a set of guards, so I can now actually test this guy in combat.

Next - we'll be recording some proper direction-based attacks and special moves, instructed by Da'Mon Stith, an expert on Historical African Martial Arts (HAMA).

NEW:
- New character select menu
(This change had to be made because the previous character selection concept was not optimized for more than 10 originally planned fighters; the new version, in near future, will allow customization in character select menu; the graphics are temporary)
- Menu navigation audio (content is not the final version, wip)

TWEAK:
- Further tweaks of the blade collision system
- Weapon inertia tweaks (all characters)
- Kalkstein: can now deal damage through the weak part of the opponent's blade
- Kalkstein: sword tip range tweaks
- Marie: sword tip range tweaks

TWEAK:
- Zera, Isabella: swords penetrate the body on thrust hit

FIX:
- Fixed regression: bug where some characters wouldn't deal damage on thrust attack

TWEAK:
- Further tweaks of the blade collision system
- Tweaks in linking attacks for all characters
- Limited maximum blade angular velocity to limit occurrences of "impossible" physics situations, and blades getting stuck as a result
- Kalkstein: Less sword inertia

FIX:
- Jacek: Fixed a bug with linking Fwd attacks
- Fixed some characters triggering Victory animation multiple times

Hellish Quart pre-alpha v. 2022.03.08.0

NEW:
- Isabella: New special moves

TWEAK:
- Further tweaks of the blade collision system
- Isabella: new attacks are a bit faster
- Isabella: attacks animations near-far blending tweaks
- Isabella: a bit more narrow blade collision detector
- Isabella, Zera: minor left hand IK tweaks
- Isabella: deals a bit more damage
- Isabella: minor fixes in Close Attacks animtree blends
- Kalkstein: deals a bit less damage
- Kalkstein: a bit slower low attacks
- Jacek: deals a bit more damage
- Barabasz: deals a bit more damage

FIX:
- Fixed regression: gamepad vibration now works on idle blade touch/bind
- Level select: School Gym button now plays the correct level preview