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@miskibin miskibin released this 22 Jun 22:24

Warbell v0.10.0 — Eyes Up

A HUD overhaul — a new compass and a clean, glanceable night readout — riding on an engine upgrade
to Bevy 0.19 and a clean bill of health from a performance hunt.

New

  • A strip compass across the top. A thin heading bar with N/E/S/W that slides as you turn, plus
    two landmark markers — a gold house for your keep and a red axe for Gnashfang Hold. They
    swing into view only when you face their way, so a glance tells you where home (or the fight) is.
  • Redesigned objective readout, top-right, no panel. Just an icon + the number that matters:
    • By day — a sun + the countdown to nightfall, which pulses red in the final 10 seconds so
      you look up before the assault lands.
    • By night — a red axe + the orks remaining, and a shield + your keep's HP % (blue
      while healthy, reddening as the keep takes damage).
  • Settings now live in the pause menu. First-person view, graphics preset, sound, and fullscreen
    moved into the Esc menu, clearing the play-screen corner. The M / F10 / F11 / V shortcuts still
    toggle them directly.

Combat & world

  • Wildlife shows health bars in combat now, just like orks.
  • Ork lunge attacks no longer clip through the hero.
  • Buildings sit at a corrected scale, with castle window shutters realigned, and props settle at
    the right size when they pop in.
  • Townsfolk stand more naturally — a wider stance and fuller legs replace the old pinched,
    spindly look, plus general behaviour polish.
  • Smoother follow camera over hills — the camera no longer lurches as the hero walks up and down
    the terraced ground; vertical tracking now floats over the steps.

Under the hood

  • Upgraded to Bevy 0.19 — GPU clustering (free performance) and contact shadows on the
    High/Ultra presets; also fixed a post-processing flicker that crept in during the port.
  • Performance hunt — added profiling instrumentation and stress-tested the core loop: combat,
    roaming, and menus are leak-free (no unbounded entity/asset/memory growth behind the
    long-session FPS drop).

The Windows installer is self-signed, so SmartScreen shows an "Unknown Publisher" warning on
first run — click More info → Run anyway. (A trusted certificate authority cert is needed to
remove that prompt.)

Full Changelog: v0.9.0...v0.10.0

Full Changelog: v0.9.0...v0.10.0