v0.1.5-alpha — initial keyboard and mouse support

Heads-up before you open an issue

This is an early alpha. Playable for a lot of people, not polished. Glitches, lighting weirdness, crashes, and unfinished bits are expected.

Please read these notes before posting that "it doesn't work." If something is actually broken, say what you did, what you saw, and add a screenshot or logs\warriors.log / logs\compile.log.

Antivirus / "trojan" flags

Some AVs (including Defender) may flag the zip or exes. False positive. The release ships a compiler folder that compiles and loads a DLL from your dump on first PLAY — that pattern trips heuristics. Download only from this GitHub release; allow/exclude the folder if needed. Source is public.

What's new in v0.1.5-alpha

• Initial keyboard and mouse support — enough to play and navigate menus for now
  • WASD to move, click the game window to capture mouse look (F1 toggles, Esc releases)
  • Space / Shift / E / F for common actions; Backspace for Back
  • Full key remapping comes in a later release
• Graphics presets in the launcher (Performance / Balanced / Quality) with a GPU-tier recommendation
• Vulkan is disabled for now (Direct3D 12 only)
• Running Warriors.exe before FIRST SETUP opens the launcher

Still alpha

Expect visual glitches (lighting especially), remaining audio quirks, and some instability. Keyboard/mouse layout is fixed for this build — remapping is next. Save when you can.

Bring your own legally owned European disc dump — nothing from the game is in this zip.

Needs the .NET 8 Desktop Runtime.

How to run

1. Unzip the whole archive (compiler next to the exe)
2. Open WarriorsLauncher.exe
3. FIRST SETUP → install ISO into assets
4. PLAY (first compile can take a while)

If something blows up, check logs\warriors.log and logs\compile.log.