New Gameplay Core - A complete reimagining of the game’s foundation

WARAG - What's New

Brutality and Blood

• Full enemy gib system: a corpse bursts into 10 chunks of meat plus a cloud, 9 blood jets, 14 droplets and a pool beneath — no fire, pure gore.

• Blood droplets arc through the air and settle into small puddles on the floor.

• On-screen blood: a nearby gib splatters the screen — drops run down (accelerating, weaving, stretching, fading over ~3s).

• Unified gib for everyone — even the boss croc (sybercroc) now only gibs, with no regular death animation.

• Gib chance: 70% with normal weapons, 100% on alt-fire.

• Corpse finishing: pump 30 damage into a downed corpse and it bursts.

• Meaty gib sounds (wet splat plus a bass-heavy chunk-fall).

• Doom-style HP face: 5 expressions by health level, plus a pain face on damage, a berserk face, and a frozen grimace on death.

Upgrades and Progression

• Level-up system with a pick-an-upgrade screen, evolution sets (two abilities at 3 stacks each unlock a combo), and an XP combo multiplier for kill streaks (up to x3).

• Cold of Veles — a slow aura plus shadow-enemy summons on every level.

• Wrath of Veles (killed enemies explode and hurt their neighbors) — now carries a debuff: max HP drops to 65.

• Whirlwind / Rapid Fire — reworked: was a one-time x2 fire rate, now +25% per pick and stacks up to 4.

• Magnet — pulls loot, but no longer grabs keys and won't stick to health packs when HP is full (it respects the 65 debuff and any boosts).

• Plus lifesteal, regen, crit, dodge, Perun's Thorns, adrenaline, Stribog's Wings, Heavy Stomp, Bloodthirst, Gold Fever, alt-fire unlocks for every gun, and the paired blaster.

• 25 upgrades are available right now — and this is only the beginning.

Weapons

• Blaster damage +30%.

• Mace deals damage only at the end of the swing, with its own hit and wall-hit sounds.

• Paired blaster as a starting weapon on hard/nightmare.

• Base jump height +7%.

• Lava and plasma now hurt monsters too, and enemies path around the hazard (the croc barges straight through).

Balance

• Player damage +10% (blaster +15%, paired blaster +10%), incoming damage -30%, and higher difficulty means more enemies rather than just tankier ones.

Interface and Crosshair

• Stock crosshair is a dot, with a crosshair-size slider in the menu.

• Always-run and crosshair are always on.

• Side skill panel raised so it no longer covers HP/armor.

• Custom options menu without engine render clutter.

• "Recommended" tag on the 4th difficulty.

Atmosphere

• Custom retro VHS/CRT post-process (scanlines, glow, grain, curvature) with in-menu settings.

• Underwater camera distortion.

Localization

• 14 languages for the interface and the upgrade cards.