New Build is Live! - Valmora

Hey everyone,new build's out, and this one's got a decent amount packed in.

The biggest change is under the hood:
we rebuilt the player creator from scratch. We were relying on a third-party plugin before, and we've now moved to a system fully managed by us. It's still experimental, but it means it's far easier for us to maintain and to add features to down the line.

On the content side, the village got a new face,literally.

The blacksmith is now Gwen, a woman, and we've reworked all the dialogue to fit her.
Jasper the Merchant also has a new quest waiting for you, and if you head out looking for trouble, you'll run into the new Bandit Captain, who comes swinging a Claymore.

We've added the Claymore as a usable weapon too, though fair warning:
the moveset is very WIP right now and will change.

We also started landscaping the Old Ruins above the village, added volumetric fog for a more grounded atmosphere across the map, and scattered new decorations around the village and farm.

And a quality-of-life one a lot of you asked about: Save & Load is now in the pause menu, tied to the Continue button in the main menu.

🔧 Fixes & smaller stuff

→ Helmets now show correctly on the player and followers

→ You can no longer sell equipped items (it was breaking the buy/sell system), plus various buy/sell interface fixes

→ Targeting now locks onto enemies only

→ Reworked weapon animation locomotion to be more stationary, for cleaner direct attacks

→ Fixed the camera snapping 180° while sprinting

→ Fixed player rotation after dismounting the horse

→ Bears now move smoothly, no more stuttering

→ Fixed jiggle physics on the player, plus an erection issue during sex scenes

🚧 Still cooking

Audio settings are mid-rework, so they're not fully there yet, more on that soon.
We've also temporarily pulled fall damage to give it another pass and get it feeling just right.

The build is ready to play!

→ Get the build: HERE

Give it a go and let us know how it feels!

— Iron Leaf