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@miskibin miskibin released this 23 Jun 17:13
v0.11.0
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Warbell v0.11.0

A big visuals + UI pass: real light shafts, rolling storms, a succession beat you can actually
read, a battlefield radar, and a proper Settings menu.

New

  • God rays. Sunlight now scatters into visible light shafts through the treeline and over the
    hills — a cheap, reliable screen-space pass that's on for both High and Ultra (the old
    Ultra-only volumetric version was invisible and tanked the framerate, so it's gone).
  • Storms. Weather can roll in with lightning flashes and rolling thunder over the battlefield.
  • Legible succession. When your hero falls, a short slow-motion beat now shows the soul wisp
    fly from the corpse into the nearest villager, who rises as the new hero where they stand —
    making it clear that every heir is a townsperson.
  • "Last of the line" warning. When the town runs out of heirs, an unmissable on-screen alert
    tells you your next death ends the run.
  • Battlefield radar. The compass now shows live blips for nearby orks, bosses, and loot
    chests     so you can read the fight and spot treasure at a glance.
  • Unified Settings menu. Graphics, display, audio, and controls are now one clean tabbed menu,
    with a full graphics page: presets (Low / High / Ultra) plus individual toggles for shadows,
    anti-aliasing, ambient occlusion, bloom, depth of field, outline, god rays, terrain detail, and
    render scale.
  • Window icon and kids-at-play village ambience for a bit more life and polish.

Combat & balance

  • Tighter, more useful radar ranges — blips appear closer in (orks 46→30, bosses 78→48,
    chests 50→32) so the radar reads the immediate fight rather than the whole island.

Fixed

  • Fixed a crash when raising the graphics preset or shadow level up from Low.
  • The succession beat no longer keeps running behind an open menu (it could slow time, lose a
    villager, and teleport the hero while paused).
  • Bloom no longer fights itself frame-to-frame, so the per-preset bloom shows correctly again.
  • Camera screen-shake no longer borrows the wrong direction from a previous sword swing.
  • Fixed a Windows crash from a debug memory diagnostic running on normal launches.

Under the hood

  • Performance: render-scale support gives integrated GPUs a real framerate lever on Low, plus
    a proper profiling framework (Chrome tracing) and scheduling fixes.
  • Retired the expensive, invisible volumetric god-ray pass (~13 ms/frame) in favour of the new
    screen-space one.

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: v0.10.0...v0.11.0

Full Changelog: v0.10.0...v0.11.0

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