Blood & Nectar Patch Notes
Patch 0.65Every Cast Gets a Sound
July 21–26, 2026
Every cast in the game gets a sound and a picture — and, more to the point, a bench to tune them on. A mixer with per-ability delays, anchors, blend modes and take-tools, then a standalone offline Lab so the work does not need a server. What gets tuned there is written back to the repo in one click and baked in as the defaults every match plays.
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Pushes
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Adjusted
Sound and Picture
MMedusaAdjustedTiny in live, great in the lab: the engine drew her at 150 / 100 / 150 px while the lab auditioned the same frames in a 240 px box.
VFX
- Q / W / E size: 150 / 100 / 150 px⇒240 px, times the arena VFX dial they had been ignoring
Voice
- The gorgon-lair viper takes join her Q and W dialogue pools (Q_D ×2, W_D ×3), so she stops repeating the same lines.
IIcarusAdjustedHis Q targets at random and can strike his own team, and separate takes were recorded for each outcome.
Voice
- Full kit wired: eight Q takes, four W, one E. The executor stamps whether a cast landed on an ally, and the arena plays the ally-hit take when it did. Any champion can get the same by adding
_ Ally_A files.
AAriadneAdjustedHer "missing" W and E takes were inside the Q batch all along.
Voice
- Q0-2 are Q takes, Q3 is W, Q4 is E; remapped into the sound tree where the manifest finds them.
BBellerophonAdjustedA dialogue pool and his first tuned mix.
Voice
- Six dialogue takes as a generic pool the engine falls back to when an ability has no line of its own, and his first baked mix from the lab.
EEchoAdjustedHer own empty-room echo dialogue; ability sound and picture stay mirrored from the champion she copies.
Voice
- Two dialogue takes as a pool of her own.
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SYSTEMS
🎛️ The Mixer
Per-ability VFX delay, negative sound delay for head-trim, kit-correct anchors, speed and size chips, arrow keys on the last-used stepper.
🔬 The SFX Lab
A standalone offline bench, with separate press and cast buttons and a 🩺 self-check that diagnoses broken playback locally.
🎚️ Blend Modes
Per-ability screen / black-cut / raw, then the full eighteen-mode dropdown when three chips stopped being enough.
🔊 Baked Mixes
A headless mixer plays the tuned mixes in every real and demo match, so what was tuned is what ships.
💾 One-Click Handoff
One button writes the tuned mixes straight into the repo, with an API so it works on beta and live too.
🗣️ Voice Pools
Icarus' full kit, Bellerophon and Echo dialogue pools, and Medusa's viper takes on Q and W.
Full Patch Notes
- Built the SFX/VFX mixer into the damage test, with dummy revive and quick champion swap alongside it.
- Auto-defaulted VFX from the per-champion vfx folder and assigned every gif to its ability with kit-correct anchors.
- Fixed one-frame VFX, late starts, and off-centre target anchors; stopped Q's override leaking onto W and E.
- Added bulk export and import so saved mixes can be carried between machines.
- Shipped the owner's lab mixes as the baked game defaults, and made them play in every match rather than only on the bench.
- Medusa's arena VFX went to 240px — the old 100–150 read as "tiny on live".
- Icarus' Q plays its ally-hit takes on friendly fire.