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The sky is the game's protagonist. Here's how the art team spent seven weeks painting a horizon that never sits still — the technical pipeline, the reference boards, and the mistake we made twice.
Seven weeks, twenty-eight sky states, one horizon that never sits still. A pipeline walk-through with all the mistakes intact.
We rewrote combat this quarter. Parries move faster, the stagger meter behaves differently, and dashes now cost — and give back — Ether.
Bug fixes for quest routing on the Long Bridge, a change to how NPCs remember you between visits, and a small combat balancing pass.
We rebuilt the forest so every enemy on it belongs to something. It changed how encounters feel more than combat v3 did.
The third wave went out to 4,200 wishlisters. Here's the summary of what worked, what didn't, and what changes as a result.
A walk-through of how Iolen went from a two-line description to a character you can pick out of a crowd at fifty metres.
The Long Bridge finally sounds like nine miles of stone. Dodge windows widened by 30ms per stance.