Visceral Combat

Visceral Combat 1.3.0

Weapon trails

• New default: pixel-art trails. Swings draw as pixellated crescents.
• Enchantment effects. Fire Aspect weapons leave fire trails, and Sharpness whitens more of the edge.
• Layered trails available as an option. Choose with Trail Style in the client config.
• Long weapons draw shorter trails. Very long reaches are compressed on screen so arcs stay readable. 
• Connecting swings still flash red in both styles.
• New client config tab, “Trails (Client)”

Lunge

• New default: snap lunge. Attacking a targeted enemy just out of reach snaps you over time to striking range during the windup. 
• Snap distance scales with weapon speed. A sword (attack speed 1.6) snaps up to 1.5 blocks past reach, slower weapons further, and faster weapons shorter. A 0.8-speed weapon reaches 3 blocks.
• Targeting matches the snap. Enemies are only highlighted at distances you could actually snap to.
• Old lunge available as an option. Set lungeStyle = IMPULSE for the original velocity lunge with Arcade, Dueling and Hybrid modes.
• New option, “Only lunge at an acquired target” (off by default). It applies to the old lunge only.
• With target assist off, lunges use the old style, since the snap needs a target.

Target assist defaults

• Acquisition angle 30° → 25°
• Max tracking angle 20° → 30°
• Max yaw per tick 3.5° → 5°

Config

• The server config file is now server_v4. Every server setting resets to the new defaults, and changes made in the old server_v3 file are no longer read. The client trail config is a separate file and isn’t reset.