ULTRAKILL News

• Increased Alternate Shotgun cooldown on red hit from 5 seconds to 7 seconds
  
• Decreased Alternate Shotgun red hit damage from 12 to 10
  
• Added unique style bonuses for Alternate Shotgun
  
• Fixed the Alternate Shotgun not losing freshness when used on core ejects or rockets
  
• Alternate Shotgun no longer activates red hit cooldown when hitting a dead enemy
  
• Alternate Shotgun now applies environmental hit pushback when hitting a dead enemy
  
• Alternate Shotgun core eject vertical momentum is now no longer relative to the camera when looking downwards
  
• Alternate Shotgun core eject cooldown now no longer resets on weapon change
  
• Fixed an offset bug caused by picking up a dual wield while charging the primary fire of the alternate shotgun
  
• Added short descriptions of each Alternate weapon when they get picked up
  

• Chainsaws no longer get stuck inside the player when punched with the Feedbacker before immediately swapping arms
  
• Fixed the Sawed-On chainsaw sometimes continuing to damage enemies that are no longer in range
  
• Fixed the Sawed-On chainsaw sometimes removing limbs off the wrong enemies
  
• Chainsaw can now properly hit the same enemy again after being punched
  
• V2 can longer be damaged with the chainsaw during its intro animation
  
• Alternate Sawed-On Shotgun no longer instantly launches chainsaw if the player swaps back after swapping to another weapon while charging it
  
• Made launched chainsaws a bit quieter
  
• Added sparks when launched chainsaws hit enemies
  
• A launched chainsaw's sprite becomes smaller while touching the player so it doesn't block their vision
  

• Conduction now damages the magnets it conducts through to stop infinite conduction chains
  
• Fixed the JumpStart nailgun not losing its higher firerate after a zapper is destroyed if the player continues to fire without pause
  

• Spraying gasoline on moving objects such as doors no longer causes physics anomalies
  
• Fixed gasoline fire sustaining forever after a checkpoint restart
  
• Firestarter gasoline now explodes instead of burning when underwater
  
• Fixed gasoline stains under gasolined burning enemies lasting much longer than intended
  
• Fixed gasoline stains not being easily visible on glass
  
• Burning objects now also set gasoline stains on fire on contact
  
• Fixed gasoline fill visuals not working properly on some enemies
  
• Increased damage of fire on gasolined enemies from 0.2 to 0.5 per tick
  
• Napalm firerate is no longer framerate dependant
  

• Added "Hard Mode" in the Advanced Options
  
• Added 7-S music to the Cyber Grind jukebox
  
• 7-S no longer resets objective progress on checkpoint restart
  
• Fixed a bug where the whiplash could grab skulls through blocking doors if really far away
  
• Respawning at the 7-S courtyard checkpoint will now reset the red skull if the player is holding it to avoid softlocks
  
• Added unique cubemaps to every 7-S room's completion reflection
  
• Improved accuracy of 7-S bloodstains
  
• Fixed the alternate skybox sometimes appearing black
  
• Fixed inconsistencies with gib amount in 7-S based on gore settings
  
• Ghost Drones now have an animation when being pulled
  
• Increased range of Ghost Drone chirps to make them easier to find
  
• Removed unintended colliders from 7-S clock
  
• Blue skull case in 7-S now opens if Disable Enemy Spawns cheat is on
  

• Hideous Mass harpoon health reduced to 3 on Brutal and 2 on other difficulties
  
• Slightly reduced attack frequency of Virtues on Brutal difficulty
  
• Added Brutal difficulty to the Boss Difficulty Override Major Assist
  
• Fixed Gabriel's Brutal difficulty spiral swords attack staying after checkpoint reset
  
• Ferrymen now have a global cooldown on lightning bolt summons to avoid them being stacked
  
• Brutal Ferryman close range lightning bolt windup increased from 2 seconds to 5 seconds
  
• Ferryman oars now start glowing blue when they're charging a lightning bolt
  
• Ferryman lightning bolts can now be cancelled by attaching a JumpStart zapper to or parrying the Ferryman
  
• Added a short delay and a blue flash before a Cerberus performs a second tackle
  

• Fixed player not being able to heal while dashing
  
• Fixed bloodsplatter healing range being too small
  
• Improved performance of bloodsplatters and bloodstains
  
• Fixed performance drops caused by bloodsplatters not getting properly deleted if Blood and Gore is disabled
  
• Fixed HurtZones such as acid continuing to hurt dead enemies when not intended
  
• Level Stats overlay is now rebindable
  
• Player can no longer be damaged or killed while exiting a level
  
• Weapon wheel and leaderboards change are now also on the Previous Variation bind (more specific options to come later)
  
• Audio no longer stays muffled when restarting or quitting mission while underwater
  
• Fixed audio pops caused by pausing and unpausing
  
• Fixed auto-aim not working with some of the new weapons
  
• Checkpoints now display their text correctly from both sides
  
• Delayed the health and weapon charge reset from clearing a wave in the Cyber Grind slightly to avoid overlap with killing the last enemy
  
• Fixed Cyber Grind end screen text blurriness and Brutal difficulty title
  
• Fixed Enemy Silhouettes option not saving
  
• Fixed Enemy Silhouettes Activation Distance option not displaying in the main menu
  
• Fixed Swordsmachine's shotgun pickup sometimes getting blasted out of bounds by explosions
  
• Fixed magnets getting destroyed after 30 seconds even if No Weapon Cooldowns cheat is enabled
  
• Altered Cerberus hitboxes for less janky collision on the chest
  
• Fixed the Alter Arm menu still staying on when a Cerberus or Malicious Face dies from being both Puppeted and Sandified
  
• Fixed the insurrectionist not freezing properly with the Alter Arm
  
• Fixed jump pad physics status not saving in Sandbox saves
  
• Added Alter Arm option for enraging Guttermen
  
• Fixed the enrage texture for the casketless Gutterman in 7-2
  
• Fixed Filth getting stuck in midair after performing a jump attack while dropping down a ledge
  
• M̶i̶n̶o̶t̶a̶u̶r̶ no longer stays stuck in its back swipe animation when dying during it
  
• M̶i̶n̶o̶t̶a̶u̶r̶ chase now has an additional collider on its arm to push off players on its back
  
• Swordsmachines Agony and Tundra are no longer missing their right arms
  
• Player can no longer get Cannonball related style bonuses from dead enemies
  
• Fixed P-2 Cerberi not dying when touching the red tunnel vortex
  
• Shockwaves no longer break breakables that are only supposed to break with the Revolver
  
• Fixed forcebossbars carrying over on level change even if cheats are no longer enabled and being undisableable
  
• Fixed some enemies having the wrong names in their health bars
  
• Fixed controller look being framerate dependant
  
• Fixed an act appearing gold even when not actually gold on that difficulty after first going to chapter select on a difficulty that does have it gold
  
• Fixed an untagged wall in 1-4 first room
  
• Fixed a hole in 6-2 geometry
  
• Restored FUPs (if you don't know what this means don't worry about it)
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Size 2 fish to be uncatchable
  

Ultrakill has been a bastion of the indie FPS and boomer shooter genres ever since its initial release, cutting ahead of the competition with its ultra-violent tone, incredibly fast movement and gunplay, and face-melting metal and breakbeat hybrid soundtrack. All of this has led to Ultrakill sitting comfortably at a stunning 98% on Steam, spawning a new subgenre of 'Ultrakill-likes' in the indie space, and maintaining a dedicated player base; now, with its most recent update, Ultrakill's concurrent player count has reached one of its all-time highs.

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98% rated ultra-fast retro FPS updates with bevy of new gun variations

Given how often robots turn against their creators you'd think humanity would learn a lesson or two along the way. In Ultrakill, unfortunately, humanity hasn't learned a single thing. The robots are out there and they're hungry for our blood, so much so they're positively dripping with it. This ultra-fast boomer shooter puts you in the position of showing these robots who's boss, and it just got a big update along with a discount.

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• Added 7-S
  
• Added Alternate Weapon in 7-2 secret
  
• Added "Firestarter" red Rocket Launcher variation
  
• Added "JumpStart" red Nailgun variation
  
• Added "Sawed-on" red Shotgun variation
  
• Added Brutal difficulty
  
• Conductor aftershocks now spread damage to nearby enemies and other conducting objects
  
• Underwater electric attacks now cause conduction in all underwater enemies (and the player)
  
• Added Sound Effects Volume option
  
• Added Muffle Music While Underwater option
  
• Added "Puppeted" alter arm option for enemies
  
• Added console commands "forcepuppet", "forcesand" and "forcebossbar"
  
• Earthmover Rocket Launcher, Mortar and Tower are now spawnable with the Spawner Arm
  
• Added "Previous Variation" bind, Q by default (Last Used Weapon is now unbound by default)
  

• Bloodsplatter collision system has been rewritten to greatly improve the accuracy of environmental collisions
  
• Updated and reorganized the options menu
  
• Replaced "Checkpoint" pause menu button in intermissions with a "Skip" button
  
• Hitting a coin in a split state with an Alternate Revolver will now reset the draw state of all equipped Alternate Revolvers, as well as play a shorter recovery animation
  
• Coins now increase the damage of the explosions of explosive hitscans
  
• Player healing block from getting hit by an explosion now only applies to bloodsplatters caused by explosions
  
• Shockwaves now fade out instead of disappearing instantly
  
• Increased style points for explosions that don't kill
  
• Added new style bonuses for the S.R.S. Cannon
  
• Screwdriver railcannon now has style bonuses
  
• Reduced style points gained from a successful projectile boost from 150 to 90
  
• Auto-aim will now also target hookpoints
  
• Nailgun magnets can now be fired immediately after changing to the weapon and will no longer interrupt standard firing
  
• Added a sound effect to firing a Nailgun magnet
  
• The hologram display of the Rocket Launcher will move to a more visible position when using the middle weapon position option
  
• Player rockets are no longer attracted to magnets that are connected to an enemy if the enemy is dead
  
• Trams will now instantly kill any enemies they hit
  
• Added arrows to UI scrollbars to make it clearer they can be scrolled
  
• Level stats HUD element and cheats overlay positions mirror when Weapon Position is set to Left in order to reduce overlay with other HUD elements
  
• Capped SSJ speed to 100u/s
  
• Ground slam no longer causes projectile interruptions
  
• Added a "Cyber Grind Only" option to the Mission Restart/Quit Warning setting
  
• No Weapon Cooldowns cheat now also stops magnet timers
  

• Minotaur now has an attack for hitting a target that's on its back
  
• Reduced Cerberus orb damage from 35 to 20
  
• Idols now give style points when destroyed
  
• Enemy projectiles will now get destroyed between Cyber Grind waves
  
• Increased Knuckleblaster damage to Drones so a single punch can still kill a radiant Drone
  
• Added a secondary bar to the Earthmover brain that shows the time until the next Idols spawn
  
• Earthmover Brain now takes increased damage from parried projectiles
  
• Added vertical line to Ferryman lightning windup to more clearly show where the lightning can be chargebacked
  
• Dying Hideous Masses can now be whiplashed to
  
• Punching a dying Mindflayer into a Gutterman now breaks its shield
  
• Mannequins in the Cyber Grind now spawn on melee tiles instead of projectile tiles
  
• Improved textures for Insurrectionists Angry and Rude
  
• Enemy hitscans no longer cause hitstop when hitting an enemy rocket unless the player is riding on it
  
• Reduced Guttertank Cyber Grind spawn cost and spawn cost increase from 55 to 40
  
• Ferryman parries can now also cause the Conductor bonus
  

• Added a new checkpoint near the start of 7-4 to reduce restart time
  
• Added a new checkpoint after the fall of the clocktower in 7-2
  
• Added terminals near Alternate weapon pick up spots for easier arsenal control
  
• Added an error message to the 7-2 payload panel when trying to lower payload without tram
  
• Tweaked 2-1 dash jump tutorial text for clarity
  
• Hard Damage related tutorials no longer show up on difficulties that have no hard damage
  
• Red Soul Orb tutorial message no longer shows up on Harmless difficulty where maximum health is already 200
  
• Using the Disable Enemy Spawns cheat now also disables background enemies from 2-1, 2-2, 2-3 and 4-1
  
• 5-2 cabin door will no longer open exclusively outwards
  

• Fixed magneted nails getting pushed by explosions again
  
• Fixed the exit/restart warning messages in appearing behind the pause menu the Intermissions, making them unclickable
  
• Slightly lowered the trigger for the Tutorial end pit so players can no longer accidentally slip out of it
  
• Fixed 6-2 Gabe only using one combo attack before the first taunt on Harmless and Lenient
  
• Fixed Sharpshooter not being able to destroy homing mortars
  
• Fixed the breaking of the first 5-2 Idol before the Filth has spawned causing the Filth to stay blessed
  
• Fixed game freezing when throwing a soap at an idoled Drone
  
• Fixed some cheats-only console commands not requiring cheats to be turned on
  
• Fixed Cyber Grind song names popping up even if the song is looping
  
• Fixed being able to punch while paused
  
• Level names now appear at a speed independent from framerate
  
• Fixed a small gap in the geometry next to the entrance door in 7-4
  
• Fixed a small gap in the floor of the 7-4 secret path that could cause players to fall through
  
• Fixed blurriness in the text in the main menu
  
• Fixed the 5-S leaderboard's title being blurry
  
• Fixed the 5-S leaderboard sometimes overflowing
  
• Removed an invisible collider in the Credits Museum
  
• Fixed the 7-4 sand warping too much with texture warping
  
• Improved camera angle check for posing mannequins
  
• Swordsmachine AI no longer breaks after throwing a sword at a flying enemy
  
• Modified hookpoint values now get properly saved in sandbox saves
  
• Fixed the player unstucker trigger under the 7-2 bomb being visible
  
• Fixed 2-2's first checkpoint not disabling the black cube blocking off the previous area if the player has gone far enough to activate it
  
• Fixed a small gap in the ceiling of 2-2's generator room
  
• Fixed an untagged wall in 1-2
  
• Fixed the 1-2 blue skull room door not closing if the player checkpoints after picking up the skull
  
• Fixed Swordsmachines getting launched up unpredictably when attacking up a ramp
  
• Fixed the Swordsmachine spiral sword throw having an incorrect speed at lower difficulties
  
• Fixed the style meter text sometimes appearing behind weapons
  
• Fixed the Hideous Mass, Flesh Prison and Flesh Panopticon death animations not healing the player if blood is turned off
  
• Fixed 0-4 challenge counting total slide time and not uninterrupted slide time
  
• Fixed 4-1 final arena sometimes having a delay before ending
  
• Fixed issues with loading Violence layer music in the Cyber Grind
  
• Streetcleaner canister no longer gets teleported to world origin if its spawn room reaches the maximum gib count after a canister instakill
  
• Fixed Filth limbs sometimes getting teleported to world origin
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Size 2 fish to be uncatchable
  

• Added 7-S
  
• Added Alternate Weapon in 7-2 secret
  
• Added "Firestarter" red Rocket Launcher variation
  
• Added "JumpStart" red Nailgun variation
  
• Added "Sawed-on" red Shotgun variation
  
• Added Brutal difficulty
  
• Conductor aftershocks now spread damage to nearby enemies and other conducting objects
  
• Underwater electric attacks now cause conduction in all underwater enemies (and the player)
  
• Added Sound Effects Volume option
  
• Added Muffle Music While Underwater option
  
• Added "Puppeted" alter arm option for enemies
  
• Added console commands "forcepuppet", "forcesand" and "forcebossbar"
  
• Earthmover Rocket Launcher, Mortar and Tower are now spawnable with the Spawner Arm
  
• Added "Previous Variation" bind, Q by default (Last Used Weapon is now unbound by default)
  

• Bloodsplatter collision system has been rewritten to greatly improve the accuracy of environmental collisions
  
• Updated and reorganized the options menu
  
• Replaced "Checkpoint" pause menu button in intermissions with a "Skip" button
  
• Hitting a coin in a split state with an Alternate Revolver will now reset the draw state of all equipped Alternate Revolvers, as well as play a shorter recovery animation
  
• Coins now increase the damage of the explosions of explosive hitscans
  
• Player healing block from getting hit by an explosion now only applies to bloodsplatters caused by explosions
  
• Shockwaves now fade out instead of disappearing instantly
  
• Increased style points for explosions that don't kill
  
• Added new style bonuses for the S.R.S. Cannon
  
• Screwdriver railcannon now has style bonuses
  
• Reduced style points gained from a successful projectile boost from 150 to 90
  
• Auto-aim will now also target hookpoints
  
• Nailgun magnets can now be fired immediately after changing to the weapon and will no longer interrupt standard firing
  
• Added a sound effect to firing a Nailgun magnet
  
• The hologram display of the Rocket Launcher will move to a more visible position when using the middle weapon position option
  
• Player rockets are no longer attracted to magnets that are connected to an enemy if the enemy is dead
  
• Trams will now instantly kill any enemies they hit
  
• Added arrows to UI scrollbars to make it clearer they can be scrolled
  
• Level stats HUD element and cheats overlay positions mirror when Weapon Position is set to Left in order to reduce overlay with other HUD elements
  
• Capped SSJ speed to 100u/s
  
• Ground slam no longer causes projectile interruptions
  
• Added a "Cyber Grind Only" option to the Mission Restart/Quit Warning setting
  
• No Weapon Cooldowns cheat now also stops magnet timers
  

• Minotaur now has an attack for hitting a target that's on its back
  
• Reduced Cerberus orb damage from 35 to 20
  
• Idols now give style points when destroyed
  
• Enemy projectiles will now get destroyed between Cyber Grind waves
  
• Increased Knuckleblaster damage to Drones so a single punch can still kill a radiant Drone
  
• Added a secondary bar to the Earthmover brain that shows the time until the next Idols spawn
  
• Earthmover Brain now takes increased damage from parried projectiles
  
• Added vertical line to Ferryman lightning windup to more clearly show where the lightning can be chargebacked
  
• Dying Hideous Masses can now be whiplashed to
  
• Punching a dying Mindflayer into a Gutterman now breaks its shield
  
• Mannequins in the Cyber Grind now spawn on melee tiles instead of projectile tiles
  
• Improved textures for Insurrectionists Angry and Rude
  
• Enemy hitscans no longer cause hitstop when hitting an enemy rocket unless the player is riding on it
  
• Reduced Guttertank Cyber Grind spawn cost and spawn cost increase from 55 to 40
  
• Ferryman parries can now also cause the Conductor bonus
  

• Added a new checkpoint near the start of 7-4 to reduce restart time
  
• Added a new checkpoint after the fall of the clocktower in 7-2
  
• Added terminals near Alternate weapon pick up spots for easier arsenal control
  
• Added an error message to the 7-2 payload panel when trying to lower payload without tram
  
• Tweaked 2-1 dash jump tutorial text for clarity
  
• Hard Damage related tutorials no longer show up on difficulties that have no hard damage
  
• Red Soul Orb tutorial message no longer shows up on Harmless difficulty where maximum health is already 200
  
• Using the Disable Enemy Spawns cheat now also disables background enemies from 2-1, 2-2, 2-3 and 4-1
  
• 5-2 cabin door will no longer open exclusively outwards
  

• Fixed magneted nails getting pushed by explosions again
  
• Fixed the exit/restart warning messages in appearing behind the pause menu the Intermissions, making them unclickable
  
• Slightly lowered the trigger for the Tutorial end pit so players can no longer accidentally slip out of it
  
• Fixed 6-2 Gabe only using one combo attack before the first taunt on Harmless and Lenient
  
• Fixed Sharpshooter not being able to destroy homing mortars
  
• Fixed the breaking of the first 5-2 Idol before the Filth has spawned causing the Filth to stay blessed
  
• Fixed game freezing when throwing a soap at an idoled Drone
  
• Fixed some cheats-only console commands not requiring cheats to be turned on
  
• Fixed Cyber Grind song names popping up even if the song is looping
  
• Fixed being able to punch while paused
  
• Level names now appear at a speed independent from framerate
  
• Fixed a small gap in the geometry next to the entrance door in 7-4
  
• Fixed a small gap in the floor of the 7-4 secret path that could cause players to fall through
  
• Fixed blurriness in the text in the main menu
  
• Fixed the 5-S leaderboard's title being blurry
  
• Fixed the 5-S leaderboard sometimes overflowing
  
• Removed an invisible collider in the Credits Museum
  
• Fixed the 7-4 sand warping too much with texture warping
  
• Improved camera angle check for posing mannequins
  
• Swordsmachine AI no longer breaks after throwing a sword at a flying enemy
  
• Modified hookpoint values now get properly saved in sandbox saves
  
• Fixed the player unstucker trigger under the 7-2 bomb being visible
  
• Fixed 2-2's first checkpoint not disabling the black cube blocking off the previous area if the player has gone far enough to activate it
  
• Fixed a small gap in the ceiling of 2-2's generator room
  
• Fixed an untagged wall in 1-2
  
• Fixed the 1-2 blue skull room door not closing if the player checkpoints after picking up the skull
  
• Fixed Swordsmachines getting launched up unpredictably when attacking up a ramp
  
• Fixed the Swordsmachine spiral sword throw having an incorrect speed at lower difficulties
  
• Fixed the style meter text sometimes appearing behind weapons
  
• Fixed the Hideous Mass, Flesh Prison and Flesh Panopticon death animations not healing the player if blood is turned off
  
• Fixed 0-4 challenge counting total slide time and not uninterrupted slide time
  
• Fixed 4-1 final arena sometimes having a delay before ending
  
• Fixed issues with loading Violence layer music in the Cyber Grind
  
• Streetcleaner canister no longer gets teleported to world origin if its spawn room reaches the maximum gib count after a canister instakill
  
• Fixed Filth limbs sometimes getting teleported to world origin
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Size 2 fish to be uncatchable