ParrySense

Learn the timing. Keep the skill.

ParrySense is a lightweight client-side parry training tool for Valheim.

It provides post-impact timing feedback to help you understand when you started blocking relative to Valheim's timed-block window — without changing combat mechanics or making parries easier.

⚔️ Features

• 🎯 Post-impact parry timing feedback
• ⏱️ Timing displayed in milliseconds
• 🔵 TOO EARLY
• 🟢 PARRY
• 🔴 TOO LATE
• 📊 Visual timeline showing Valheim's 250 ms timed-block window
• 🌐 English and French HUD localization
• ⚙️ Configurable HUD position and appearance
• 🎚️ Configurable early and late detection limits
• ⌨️ Toggle training mode with F8
• 🖥️ Client-side only — no server installation required

🛡️ How It Works

Valheim considers a timed block successful when the block has been active for less than 250 milliseconds when the attack is blocked.

ParrySense observes the timing and displays feedback after the combat interaction.

Positive values mean that blocking started before impact. Negative values mean that blocking started after impact.

The visual timeline represents the real 250 ms timed-block window between 250 ms and Impact.

Timing markers outside the displayed range are visually clamped, while the actual measured timing is still displayed.

🎯 Philosophy

ParrySense is designed as a training aid, not a combat-assistance mod.

It does not:

• increase the parry window
• modify timed-block bonuses
• modify damage or stamina costs
• predict incoming attacks
• automatically block or parry
• alter enemy behavior
• change combat mechanics

Feedback is provided after the relevant combat interaction.

Learn the timing. Keep the skill.

📦 Installation

Mod manager

Install ParrySense through a Valheim-compatible Thunderstore mod manager such as r2modman.

BepInExPack for Valheim is required.

Manual installation

1. Install BepInExPack for Valheim.
2. Copy ParrySense.dll into BepInEx/plugins/.
3. Start Valheim.

The configuration file is generated automatically after the first launch.

⚙️ Configuration

General

HUD

Training

🌐 Localization

The HUD automatically follows Valheim's selected language for the currently supported languages.

Impact and 250 ms remain unchanged.

Currently supported:

• English
• French

🌍 Multiplayer

ParrySense is client-side only.

It does not modify the server or the underlying combat rules, so the server does not need ParrySense installed.

It is intended to work while connecting to a vanilla Valheim server.

⚠️ Limitations

TOO LATE detection is inferred from a recent attacker-sourced damage event followed by the start of blocking.

Because of this, some unusual damage interactions may potentially produce an incorrect late-block association.

Parry and early-block feedback are based directly on Valheim's block timing.

📋 Requirements

• Valheim
• BepInExPack for Valheim

📄 License

ParrySense is released under the MIT License.

# Changelog

## 0.1.1

### Changed

• Simplified the Thunderstore/r2modman README for better readability.
• Removed unnecessary promotional wording from the package presentation.

## 0.1.0

Initial public release.

### Added

- Post-impact parry timing feedback.

- TOO EARLY, PARRY, and TOO LATE classifications.

- Signed millisecond timing display.

- Visual representation of Valheim's 250 ms timed-block window.

- Configurable early and late detection limits.

- Configurable HUD position and appearance.

- English and French HUD localization.

- F8 toggle with on-screen status notification.

### Design

- Client-side only.

- No server installation required.

- No changes to combat mechanics.

- No modification of the parry window.

- No attack prediction or automatic blocking.