KILL KNIGHT - 1.0.1 Hotfix

Hi Knights,

It's been great to see you diving deep into the Abyssal Keep!

In case you missed it, our Lead Game Designer Sean, shared a message here on behalf of our development team for everyone who has played KILL KNIGHT and joined our community to date.

We have a new patch available now (v1.0.1), bringing updates to the game which are outlined in the list below.

Stay tuned for a game update soon.

HOTFIX NOTES

IMPROVEMENTS

Player

• Graphical improvements to Pulse Counter effect

Equipment

• Logic to handle goal unlocks completing and failing while playing on SEVER

• Equipment stat bars have had the amount of pips increased from 5 > 10 to improve readability

• Trait descriptions relating to Equipment stats have been removed from Equipment descriptions

• Trait Icon visuals have been improved

• DEMIGUARD now has proper visuals for its Wrath Explosion

• ARCHBLIGHT’s Wrath Burst cost has been increased from 73 > 95 Power Gems

• ARCHBLIGHT’s Wrath Burst’s sphere projectile lifetime has been reduced from 12 > 9 seconds

• Equipment goal objectives updated for TWILIGHT AMETHYST - Kill Stream required has been reduced from 999 > 555

• Equipment goal objectives updated for HEAVENS QUARTZ - Carnage required has been reduced from 20,000 > 15,000

• Equipment unlock Tokken costs have been slightly reduced across the board

General UI

• Implemented fallback for input actions to handle displaying actual input in the case of no prompts (previously "MISSING_PROMPT {0}") - This should show the input as plain text now if nothing is available

• Rebinding support for movement for keyboard and mouse (defaulted to WASD)

• Improved spacing and padding of the new movement controls found in Settings

• Fixed Privacy Policy text misalignment

Audio & Music Additions

• Re-mixes to Abyssal Sphere battle music tracks

Miscellaneous

• Leaderboard improvements to now scroll in pages and not 1 by 1 as it did before

• Performance and memory allocation improvements

Accessibility

• UI Flicker Reduction & High Readability Font Accessibility options added

Fixes

Enemies

• QUAKER II now has the correct health value and gives the correct amount of sword charge and score on death

• HIVEN Power Gem absorbing has been improved

• TURREKTS now correctly bounce off Blood Bombs

• Blood decals now properly appear when enemies are killed by Traps

• Ground visual effects on GHASTS & Boss have been fixed

• Abyssal Sphere subtitles behavior has been fixed when observed during Hyper Drive

• Fixed Abyssal Sphere dialogue on death

Player

• Addressed situation where Player could Wrath Absorb during any sword attack

• Timescale has been fixed when performing Hyper Drives

• Player visual effects now correctly scale at the right simulation speed if there were timescale changes during any specific effects

Abyssal Layer

• Game time now correctly pauses during the bridge sequence

Scoring

• Requirements for achieving individual Abyssal Layer ranks has been addressed

Equipment

• Scenario fixed where certain Heavy Weapons projectiles were missing enemies when shot at point-blank range

• Fixed an issue where JUDGECANNON’s wrath projectiles were exploding immediately upon performing a Wrath Burst next to a wall or Gyro Blade

• ARCHBLIGHT’s Wrath Burst explosion no longer fires off multiple times

General UI

• Fixed issue where Goals UI was not syncing with actual data after a checkpoint reset

• Fix for missing input definitions for mouse/keyboard bindings

• Addressed left & right stick press input sprites that were getting mixed up on rebinds

• “New Best” UI animation