Hellish Quart News

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

TWEAK:
- Snow Hut arena: postprocessing tweaks
- Marie: small thrust hit animations tweaks

FIX:
- Fixed regression: Grab animation mechanics
- Fixed regression: Sometimes characters would turn off root motion after a defended Grab
- Blade Push (RT button) has priority over Close Attacks (punches, kicks, etc.) if they hit simultaneously
- Grabs have priority over Blade Push and Close Attacks if they hit simultaneously
- Grab and Blade Push have active frames now, instead of a single distance and angle check at the moment of pressing the button
- Isabella: Combo "Fwd, 1, 2" has now near-far blending
- Laszlo: Fixed wrong guard response on the second attack of "Fwd, 3, 4" combo
- Fixed a bug where "Down, Back, 2" attacks worked as "Down, hold Back, 2" attacks. They now work normally.

NEW:
- Procedural Feet Stabilization - due to large amount of polish needed, this will, for now, remain optional; off by default, you can turn it on in Gameplay Options

FIX:
- Procedural feet stabilization tweaks

NEW:
- Added procedural feet stabilization to minimize sliding

TWEAK:
- Further tweaks of collision and physics simulation system
- Further tweaks on weapon inertia
- Swords audio tweaks

FIX:
- In case of a double hit, a victory animation can now be interrupted by a hit animation, and not only by death animation. If the character survives, the "wounded victory" animation will play
- Fixed bug when sometimes characters wouldn't play victory animation if they get hit after the victory starts
- Fixed bug when characters would sometimes not turn on root motion back on after being grabbed
- Gedeon: fixed bug where followup attacks in a combo string often did not detect impacts

New collisions and Isabella's new attack animations:

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Red Dragon HEMA gear:

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Spes HEMA gear and new win / lose sparring animations:

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Hellish Quart pre-alpha v. 2022.02.26.0


NEW:
- Isabella: New attack animations (replacing some older attacks)
- Isabella: all new "tap-tap" defeat animations for training mode for every body part
- Isabella: training mode "win" animations
- Customization: Red Dragon HEMA training gear
- Customization: Spes HEMA training gear
- Modern School Gym Arena
- Training mode with steel blunt weapons (before it was wooden wasters only)
- New weapon impact sounds for longswords and rapiers
- Different method of triggering blade clash sounds (one independent clash sound, instead of every blade making its own)
- Separate volume slider for blade clash sounds

TWEAK:
- Different physics collision detection system (more precise blade on blade contact detection)
- Increased physics simulation iterations (more precise simulation, takes a bit more processing power, but it's worth it)
- Isabella: faster attack linking
- Isabella: tweaked longsword inertia to behave more realistic (so it feels heavier)

FIX:
- Jacek: fixed blood not showing on his blade
- Fixed bug where "tap-tap" losing animation in training mode was played with 0.7 speed, because the defeated character had 0 stamina
- Isabella: Fixed left hand IK issues
- Isabella: Fixed too much stamina consumption by some of the combos
- Zera: Fixed left hand IK issues
- Fixed bug where some of the characters couldn't grab an attacking opponent during his whole attack animation, and not only during the active frames of the attack animation
- Fixed bug where there was no sound in "win camera", when winning or losing in no blood mode

Known issues:
- Isabella's attacks are Work In Progress - more to come.
- Isabella's move list is not fully correct yet, because new attacks are a work in progress
- Level select panel: School Gym level shows Watchtower preview instead of School Gym preview
- Some characters don't have blunt steel training weapon models yet, which results in blood showing on blades, if you select to fight with blunt steel training weapons