Project Hero

v0.14.0 - THE OATHBREAKER REBORN

THE OATHBREAKER - rebuilt as a three-phase duel boss Every attack now has a readable wind-up, a window to dodge, and a recovery you can punish. He gets more desperate the lower he gets.

• 4,000 health (+40% per extra player nearby when he's summoned, up to 4), armour, and he can't be knocked out of his own swings.
• Poise: keep hitting him and he drops to one knee - 2.5s of free hits for 30% extra damage.
• Phase 1, The Knight: Stance Dash, a four-hit combo, the Oath Guard (hit him from the front and he parries and ripostes - hit him from behind), a backstep, and a Leaping Cleave if you try to keep your distance.
• At 60%, Oath Shattered: he drives his sword into the ground, a soul-fire shockwave throws everyone back, and his armour splits with glowing soul-fire cracks.
• Phase 2, Forsworn: Soul Rend (a line of eruptions - step off it), Chains of the Forsworn (dragged in if it catches you, wide open if it misses), a five-hit combo with unpredictable pauses, and a Stance Dash that sometimes feints.
• At 25% he roars and enters Phase 3, Oathless: he runs you down, leaps into the sky for Judgement (the landing zone is marked - and keeps burning afterwards), grabs you for an unblockable Execution (a RED flash means get out - your squad can free you), and a phantom of him repeats his swings a second later.
• Reading him: a white glint = dodgeable, a red flash = unblockable, ground particles = something is about to land there.
• No cheesing: pillar up, hide in water or somewhere he can't path, and he'll throw a Soul Spear - or drag you down with his chains.
• New death: he kneels, plants his sword and fades away into soul fire. "The oath... is fulfilled."
• New loot: netherite sword, 25-40 Grave Essence, a guaranteed Abyssal Core and the new Broken Oath (a crafting material for something coming later). He also finally drops his experience - it was never dropped before.
• New look: the second skin layer is back (helm, pauldrons, plate - no more flat model), he now wields a real netherite sword, and his eyes glow in the dark.
• Fixed his attack animations being overridden by his walk/idle animation - the real reason attacks never looked right. He also no longer creeps forward during wind-ups, so dodges actually dodge.
• Fixed a world saved while he was staggered or mid-transition reloading him frozen and invulnerable, and a later-phase boss reloading back in phase 1.
• New Oathbreaker chapter in the Guidebook.

THOR

• Hammer Volley no longer hits your squadmates.
• Pressing Call Mjolnir (R) with the hammer already in your inventory now swaps it straight into your hand.
• A recalled Mjolnir arriving while your hand and inventory are both full now goes into your hand anyway and drops what you were holding, instead of waiting at your feet.

Playtested with a scripted client run and screenshots at every stage. Real multiplayer (HP scaling, a grabbed player logging out, Volley and squadmates) couldn't be tested single-player.