Hardland Release 19 is available now!

Hardland Release 19 adds completely reworked day and night cycle and much more.

FEATURES

• Day and night cycle completely redone:

  • Beautiful sunsets and during night you can see stars.
  • CycleComponent examples:
    • Certain characters are only active during day.
    • City lights are lit at night.

• Two-phased enemy attack behavior:

  • Enemies display their alert behavior and change to aggro idle, but don't immediately rush to attack.
  • As an example, Goblin Fodder is made to not be alerted whereas e.g. Goblin Captain is.

• Robust melee weapon hits using the 3d pizza slice technique.

• Added critical hits and improved knockback.

• Preliminary knockback animations for most enemies.

• Added staggered animation for Skeleton Champion.

• Reworked the concept of armor.

• Throwing characters no longer breaks their physics.

• Fixed this annoying T-pose glitch that happened upon character death: http://i.imgur.com/ZLEZLed.gif

• Treasure chest opening and loot ejection improved.

  • Trap chests can spawn characters properly.
  • Loot randomized.

• Starting areas expanded and polished.

• Objects can follow the angle of the underlying terrain.

• Improved screen-space reflection quality.

• New level up effect and other particle effects improved.

• Major game engine improvements.

• More predicable physics simulation and less CPU spiking.

• New stone fences, smaller watchtower, larger 4-wheel cart.

• Increased Ghoul attack range by adding squash and stretch animation for the striking arm. (ala Battletoads!)

• Added more characters to random generator lists.

• Larger more dangerous Ghoul variant.

• New goblin unit Goblin Bomber.

• Visual changes to Goblins.

• Added new ground foliage.

• Gold pull effect improved.

• Disabled head-tracking in death.

• Health bar is always shown for aggro characters.

• Addded support for disc shaped particle emitters.

• Graphics config changes and more graphics options.

Here's a short video comparing Release 19 mechanics and fixes to Release 18. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6aGdpW_Jiw

Until next time!

Best Regards, Timo