Update 1.12.0

New

• Monsters walk continuously now. Until today every monster moved in stutters: one step, a pause, another step, another pause. Their legs ran on a clock of their own, so the animation finished before the step did and the creature froze in place waiting for the next one. Now a monster's pose is driven by the step it is actually taking, so one stride flows into the next without a stop in between. Nothing in the world moves the way it did yesterday — this is the single biggest change to how Helbreath *feels* in a long time.
• Footsteps land where the foot lands. With the walk rebuilt, every footfall was re-timed by hand: four footfalls per cycle instead of three, each one firing on the exact frame the paw meets the ground.
• The unicorn has a spellcasting pose. Until now it cast spells using its attack animation.

Improved

• The unicorn was rebuilt from scratch — all eight views. It fills its frame at the size your eye expects and keeps that size from every angle, its idle stopped fidgeting, and the horn no longer glows while the animal is at rest.
• Short Sword's combo talent actually does something now. It promised an improved combo curve and delivered a number that never moved. The curve is real: the third and fourth hits of a combo land harder, and harder still on Branch B.
• Eight talent descriptions were rewritten to match what the game does. Meditation restores mana — it never raised your maximum. The Long Sword stance bonus now names the branch it belongs to, instead of promising every branch a number only one of them gets. Colossus Slam explains what evades its knockback. Tank's Resolve and Earth's Earthen Aegis now tell you they fill the same shield, not two.

Fixed

• The unicorn no longer changes size when it dies facing north.
• Its death animation collapses where it stands instead of rolling sideways.
• Its northern views have their own gestures — the profile poses did not read from behind.
• Its casting animation was missing from the server's list, so it never played at all.