Q2-26 Controller Support & Convention Update

Windhelm — Q2-26 Minor Update Patch Notes

Directional Dodge Rolling: Introduced a new directional dodge roll and combat roll mechanic to give players more fluid positioning choices during fights.
Auto-Equip: Weapons will now automatically equip upon pickup if your hands or active weapon slots are currently empty.
Shield Bash Upgrades: Enhanced shield bash attacks to properly apply knockback to enemy mobs.
Smart Interaction System: Added underlying logic to prevent conflicting inputs when a player tries to pick up an item and talk to an NPC at the same exact time.
Death Camera Effects: Added a smooth camera fade-out effect whenever Garth dies.
Stat Bar Overhaul: Standardized the backend mathematical logic across the Health, Stamina, Magic, and EXP bars for clean, consistent UI animation feedback.

Hover Tooltips: Hovering your cursor or selection over items inside the inventory will now display details and descriptions of what they are.
Gamepad Slot Indicators: Added a dedicated visual hover effect to all gamepad inventory widgets so players can easily see their actively selected slot.
Dynamic Biome Banners: Implemented a new stylized pop-up banner notification that triggers on screen whenever you enter a new biome.
Active Objective Tracker: Added a live mission tracker to the top of the HUD to display your current primary objective.
Quest Page: Layout and core functionality for the main Quest Log page are now fully finalized.
Item Pickup Feed: Added a new onscreen pickup widget that displays scrolling text confirmation of what items were just added to your inventory.
Dynamic Mobs Drops: Defeated enemy mobs now have a randomized chance to drop loot bags.

Dynamic Audio Engine: Implemented immersive foley footstep sounds that procedurally adapt based on the specific surface texture the player is walking on.
Dialogue Gamepad Support: Integrated full gamepad navigation support directly into the branching dialogue UI system.
Quest Flow Visualizer: Significantly advanced the core dialogue and quest backend tools.
New Items: Added the new Parrot Herb item to the world's item pool.
Cinematic Blueprint: Created a custom two-character dialogue cutscene camera layout blueprint to smoothly frame conversations.
Ambient Atmosphere: Added procedural details like ambient birds and floating background islands to breathe more life into the overworld horizons.
Procedural Dungeons: Successfully integrated procedural dungeon spawning layouts directly into the overworld map.

Demo Executable Icon: Configured the custom game icon for when the standalone demo build is running.
Studio Audio: Upgraded the developer workspace with a licensed copy of FL Studio Producer Edition for custom music and sound production.
Web Deployment: Officially secured and purchased the production domain name for the game's website launch.

Gamepad Inventory Focus: Fixed a major bug where dropping an item via gamepad closed the action menu and caused the player to lose all inventory screen focus, freezing your controls.
Chest Widget Focus Fixes: * Fixed an issue where closing the action menu inside a chest inventory screen stripped away screen focus.
- Patched chest inventories to automatically focus the widget upon opening, matching the behavior of regular menus.
- Resolved a gamepad issue where using an item, or closing and reopening the inventory, failed to instantly refocus the active widget.
Controller Inventory Optimization: General performance overhaul to how the backend handles gamepad inputs inside menus.
Launch Polish: Turned off visible debug focus highlights across the UI for the official public launch build.

Item Duplication Glitch: Fixed a bug where dropping an item directly into an active weapon slot accidentally duplicated the slot rather than removing the item from the inventory.
Weapon Slot Deletions: Fixed a gear equipping issue where slotting a sword and then a shield caused the shield to entirely disappear from Slot 2.
Character Lighting: Fixed the lighting parameters for the character model preview window inside the inventory screen.
Floating Loot: Fixed an issue where health and mana potions would float in mid-air upon spawning.
Stray Items: Removed a misplaced gold bag from the dungeon starting spawn room.

Enemy Aggro Validation: Verified and patched AI parameters to guarantee that player characters are properly targeted and attacked by enemy mobs.
Chomper AI: Fixed a bug where the "Chompers" enemy type refused to walk or move.
Deer AI: Adjusted deer behavior so they no longer actively follow the player around the map like pets.
Overworld Cleanup: Removed accidentally placed bears from the demo level.

Robin Dialogue Glitches: Fixed separate issues that caused stuttering movement routines, talking glitches, and strange camera angles when interacting with the NPC Robin.
Dungeon Traversal Lock: Fixed an interaction lock occurring when trying to jump and interact simultaneously on the dungeon level.
Dungeon Helper UI: Ensured that the helpful onboarding UI elements now correctly display when inside dungeon areas.
Compass Tracking: Fixed the compass bar to track data correctly and added a tracker for the nearest dungeon directly to it.
Waypoint Drift: Fixed a bug where placed waypoint markers floated way above your actual crosshair placement target.
Premature Biome Triggers: Fixed a collision bug that accidentally triggered the new biome change event prematurely.
Visual Map Polish: Patched a grass rendering issue in the demo level, cleaned up rogue bushes, and fixed a material bug causing trees to glow with unintended emissive lighting.
Navigation Mesh: Fixed the navigation mesh (nav mesh) layout across the demo level to prevent AI clipping.

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