Warbell v0.17.0

Warbell v0.17.0

The combat overhaul. Fights now flow like a real duel — dodge rolls, gliding attacks, combo
chains, parries and ripostes — the warband takes turns instead of dogpiling you, and the whole
cast and world got a sculpt-and-polish pass.

New

• Witcher-style combat feel. A proper dodge roll on Alt — a forward tumble with
  invulnerability frames and its own gritty grunt — plus attacks that glide you a step into the
  blow, combo chains that flow swing into swing, and parry / riposte when you block a strike
  on time.
• An earned combat stance. Get near a foe and the knight draws into a guard: he faces the
  enemy and strafes around it, Witcher-style, with a combat-aware camera that frames the fight
  instead of trailing behind you.
• The horde takes turns. A melee attack-token ring means only a few orks can commit to a
  swing at once — the rest circle and wait — so you're pressured, not instantly gang-swung by a
  whole mob. A subtle ground ring shows who's locked on.
• Sculpted warden bosses. All five biome wardens were remodeled — real sculpted silhouettes
  instead of stacked cuboids.
• A more human hero. The knight's proportions and gait were reworked to read as a person, not a
  blocky mannequin, and the held sword now sits properly in the hand at rest.
• A fuller world. Reworked pine trees (whorled, feathered boughs), new meadow life around the
  castle clearing, and a forest-edge hero spawn.

Combat & feel

• Richer hit FX and a real hostile-target set behind the new stance.
• Forward roll is the default evade; a fix so the attack-token queue can never starve (enemies
  always eventually get their turn to strike).

Atmosphere & visuals

• Cinematic haze — height fog, sun in-scatter and drifting cloud light-patches over a retuned
  filmic grade. A master on/off lives in the graphics panel, and it auto-clears while you're in
  build mode for a clean read of the plots.
• Music mix — quieter daytime bed under the world SFX; every run opens on the same signature
  day track, and later days re-roll for variety.
• Thinner roads and a smoother wetland / sea shoreline.
• Siege-scene polish: directional hit-shake, a live swinging war bell, a war-dusk surge, and shields
  on orks and guards.

Site

• The website gains itch.io links and a live GitHub-star button, with fresh in-game
  screenshots throughout.

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Windows: download Warbell-Setup.msi below and run it. The installer is self-signed, so
Windows SmartScreen shows "Unknown Publisher" — click More info → Run anyway. Also on
itch.io (Windows & Linux, auto-updating through the itch app).

What's Changed

• Witcher-style combat feel: dodge roll, attack glide, combo chain, parry/riposte by @miskibin in #47

Full Changelog: v0.16.1...v0.17.0

What's Changed

• Witcher-style combat feel: dodge roll, attack glide, combo chain, parry/riposte by @miskibin in #47

Full Changelog: v0.16.1...v0.17.0