vAlpha.40 - Brand New Combat System! +patches — Magic Sword Steam update #1600183

Combat has been rebuilt from scratch. Five styles that play like five different games, a Practice Arena to learn them in, and opponents that learned to defend by watching real players. This may be the biggest single update we have had. TL;DR Combat is completely new. Five styles, five different things your hands actually do — drag a slash, draw a path, hold dead still, tap out a rhythm, or swing a magic sword with a wave of your own element crashing in behind it. New: Practice Arena. Real combat, no save, no server, no consequences. Any character, any opponent, any level, any time. New: Guided Walkthrough. A coached first fight with a demo attack frozen mid-flight so you can finally see what those rings mean. Opponents got smarter. Enemy defence now runs on trained models built from recorded human play, not a hand-written formula. Early fights are winnable. A low-level fighter used to ne...