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DARKLINGS

5 years ago

----VERSION 0.16.0 RELEASED----

Training Mode Update - patch notes below.


This is more of a quality of life update and not so much a content one, mainly focused on improving the training mode.

-General-

  • Health system changes - increased health bars and changed visuals.

  • Basic combos - you can now do chain attacks in to some basic combos.

  • Hurt and Punish text - text to indicate the count of a combo and when a punish happened.

-Training Mode-

  • Added training mode Options.

  • Can set life and arcana to always be max.

  • Show hitboxes.

  • Show framedata for the startup and recovery.(will be updated further later)

  • Can reset training mode by pressing 1 on Keyboard or select on controller.

  • Can swap characters in training mode by pressing 2 on Keyboard or R3 on controller.

  • Can set CPU to active or not active.

  • Can slowdown the time of the game.

-Quality of Life-

  • If random stage is picked, on rematch the stage will randomly change again.

  • Added the option to go back to character select when pausing. (Tab or Start to pause)



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