v0.27.1 16 October 2026

A voice for the tutorial, and the revive bar

• Playing together
• Performance & tools

• Voice-over: the tutorial is narrated by a dry old crypt-keeper, with jokes and commentary throughout. Aldric has a voice of his own. Gerald the training dummy does not, and has signed a waiver.
  • There are 54 lines (about 5 minutes) from two natural-sounding male voices, generated with the neural TTS model Kokoro-82M (British voices and ).
  • Step lines: each step has an intro line, and a quip when you finish it.
  • Reactions: remarks when you get hurt, die, miss parries, dawdle, or stand outside the waystone ring.
  • Aldric: says hello, gets cut down, says his last words, and gets back up for the finale.
  • Subtitles: shown low in the middle, with the speaker's name.
  • Pacing: only one line waits at a time. If you race ahead, the lines for steps you've already finished are skipped rather than queuing up.
• Revive bar: reviving a friend now shows a "REVIVING ALDRIC" bar wherever there's no co-op party HUD, including the tutorial. Before, the bar was missing. The interact prompt hides while you revive.
• Tidier tutorial:
  • shorter guide cards (the voice carries the colour now);
  • Aldric finishes his last words before he falls;
  • voiced lines replace the old one-off text messages.

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