ULTRAKILL News

• Added Encore levels 0-E and 1-E
  
• Added per-material footstep and scrape sounds
  
• Added per-material environmental impact and scrape particles
  
• Added performance option for disabling environmental impact particles
  
• Added new death sequence
  
• Added new main menu
  
• Added new HUD
  

• Reworked all levels in Act I and Act II to improve visual parity
  
• All levels now have a baked lighting system that greatly improves performance
  
• Each type of terminal now has a unique model
  
• Each type of altar now has a unique model
  
• Red and blue skulls and altars now have different carved symbols on them to help colorblind players
  

• Added an electric wall that can be dashed through in the dash tutorial
  
• Added two new secrets in 0-3 and 0-4 each
  
• Added visual noise effect when nearby Something Wicked for players who had difficulty hearing it
  
• Something Wicked now always runs once the player picks up the red skull
  
• Something Wicked's bestiary entry no longer shows what it looks like
  

• 1-1 Nailgun magnet tutorial now resets the blue Nailgun's ammo to maximum
  
• Changed the path to one of 1-2's soul orbs
  
• Changed the placement of one of 1-3's soul orbs
  
• 1-3 red skull path drop now ends in the opening hall instead of the blue skull path
  

• Added a shortcut to 3-2 (requires Alternate Nailgun)
  
• 3-2 Gabriel's axe throw now functions as one large projectile instead of two small ones
  

• 4-4's Whiplash Hard Damage tutorial has now been moved to the first dry arena in 5-1
  
• Added belly flop to 4-S
  
• Changed how the camera tracks the player in 4-S for easier distance gauging
  
• Changed how air momentum works in 4-S for easier precision platforming
  
• Stamina is now shown on wings in 4-S
  

• 5-2 and 5-4's water now deals a flat 20 damage and bounces the player upwards instead of dealing a non-lethal 50 damage and teleporting them back on ground
  
• Changed method for finding one of 5-3's soul orbs
  
• Leviathan now has a new phase
  
• Leviathan's projectile barrage is now a set pattern rather than randomized
  
• Leviathan's lunge is now properly parriable
  

• Added upside down city in 6-1
  
• Changed the hookpoint platforming segment in 7-4 into a tutorial for magenta attacks
  
• The 7-4 countdown length now depends on difficulty
  
• Updated 7-4 explosion sequence
  

• Schisms now fire slower projectiles which connect to each other via damaging beams
  
• Radiant enemies now have a visual and sound effect for spawning or turning Radiant
  
• Radiant Idols now cause their target to become Radiant when destroyed, rather than when active
  
• Blessed enemies have a new visual effect to make them more distinct
  
• Gabriel's spiral swords no longer break on hitting the environment until launched at player
  

• Ground slam shockwaves no longer cost stamina
  
• Ground slam shockwave hold now has a delay to reduce chances off accidental use
  
• Ground slamming on airborne enemies will launch them downwards
  
• Player can now slam bounce by jumping off of enemies, even if the slam killed that enemy
  
• Increased the damage radius for ground slam
  
• Increased the radius for jumping off enemies
  
• Simplified punch exhaustion and made the arm HUD icon display it
  
• Added a cooldown for conductive objects to reduce extremely complex recursive conduction loops
  
• Bloodstains now account for curves, corners and edges, rather than staying flat and floating in the air
  
• HUD messages now scroll in quickly instead of appearing all at once
  
• The "Checkpoint" option in the pause menu is now disabled until the player has activated one
  
• Levels that have multiple checkpoints with the same name in the Teleport cheat menu will now have a number appended to differentiate them more easily
  
• Removed "Simple Nail Physics" performance option (now always on, since there's no downside to it)
  
• Reduced Cerberus radiance speed bonus from 1.5x to 1.35x
  
• Fixed options menu navigation for controllers
  

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• Fixed Malicious Faces not taking initial impact damage from explosions when made vulnerable with gasoline
  
• Fixed Streetcleaner flamethrower flames not causing see-through enemy outlines effect
  
• Fixed Cerberus gibs not being deleted when intended
  
• Fixed gasoline particles causing inconsistent fill when hitting multiple enemy hitboxes on the same frame
  
• Fixed the HUD Background Opacity option not working on the Speedometer when using Classic HUD
  
• Speedometer now has options for horizontal only and vertical only
  
• Fixed 0-3 and 4-2 mid-level shops still playing/muting music
  
• Fixed Mannequins continuing to be parryable after landing from a launch on Brutal difficulty
  
• Fixed the Mover Arm breaking after letting go of a chess piece
  
• Fixed 7-S pond not getting stained
  
• Fixed Speedometer not taking into account objects the player is riding
  
• Fixed SRS Cannon firing absurd amounts of simultaneous cannonballs when using a Dual Wield powerup
  
• Fixed Sawed-On Shotgun playing the chainsaw spark particle effect during the core heat release animation
  
• Made Rocket Launcher hologram display slightly dimmer
  
• Made HUD weapon icon glow slightly dimmer
  
• Fixed slide particles being blue when the player has dodge frames stored but is not currently invincible
  

• Added binds for swapping to each variation slot
  
• Added "On swap to already drawn weapon" option for changing functionality when pressing a weapon key multiple times
  
• Added Speedometer in HUD options
  
• Added new higher resolution fire sprite
  

• Hitting a tram with the JumpStart now causes it to accelerate instantly and move at double speed for 5 seconds
  
• Fixed JumpStart conduction proccing even if the zapped enemy doesn't have nails or magnets attached and isn't touching water
  
• Fixed JumpStart conduction through magnets and coins causing an unintended minimum damage override
  
• Underwater gasoline explosions are now sparser
  
• Underwater gasoline explosions can now only hit an enemy once per continuous explosion string
  
• Gasoline projectiles now ignore dead enemies
  
• Gasoline no longer burns away when No Weapon Cooldowns cheat is on
  
• Alternate Shotgun's launch direction can now be changed during hitstop
  
• Alternate Shotgun can now always hit a core, even if already hitting an enemy or object at the same time
  
• Hitting an Idol with a red hit from the Alternate Shotgun no longer triggers the cooldown
  
• Alternate Shotgun speedometer now also displays time left in the red hit cooldown
  
• Added colored lights to the Alternate Shotgun to make it easier to see which variation is being used
  
• Changed the Core Eject trajectory and velocity inheritance to be similar to the Marksman coin's
  
• Increased style points gained with the Alternate Shotgun
  
• SRS Cannon now vibrates while charging the cannonball
  
• SRS Cannon secondary fire is no longer affected by the primary fire's cooldown
  
• Magnets can now again be broken with a ground slam
  
• Screwdriver screws now only get destroyed when a dying Mindflayer explodes, rather than a second after the Mindflayer's health reaches zero
  
• The visual motor spin speed on the Alternate Shotgun is no longer FPS-dependent
  
• Improved optimization on enemy gasoline fill effect
  

• Malicious Faces and Soldiers lose their anti-explosion resistances when gasolined
  
• Radiant Soldiers no longer have their radiance speed boost applied twice
  
• Reduced Radiant Soldier speed boost from 2x to 1.5x
  
• Reduced damage of Ferryman lightning bolt from 50 to 35
  
• Ferryman lightning bolts now flash before striking
  
• Chargebacked lightning bolts can no longer deal damage to the player
  
• Ferryman, Gutterman and Guttertank can no longer hit the player through a wall with a melee attack
  
• Added hurt sounds for Virtues and Malicious Faces
  
• Drones, Virtues and Malicious Faces no longer bleed when damaged by fire
  
• Flesh Spawn no longer get set on fire when Flesh Prison/Panopticon does
  
• Flesh Prison/Panopticon now has the same resistance to sawblades as nails
  
• Cerberi no longer fall on Brutal difficulty while tackling or between two tackles
  
• Insurrectionists can now be killed by fire when gasolined
  
• Swordsmachines "Agony" and "Tundra" now properly take extra damage from JumpStart electricity and Firestarter fire respectively
  
• Stalkers now take double damage from ground slams
  
• Stalkers can now be puppeted
  

• Slide speed particles are now blue when the player has stored invincibility frames
  
• 6-1 doors now open faster when the player is moving fast
  
• Unlocking the Drone Haunting cheat now displays a message to notify it has been unlocked
  
• Added a unique weapon icon for the other 7-S tool
  
• Hide UI cheat now also hides the dual wield powerup vignette, boss health bars, subtitles and the 7-S overlay
  
• Shop music now gets muted if music volume is set to 0
  
• Malicious Face Sandbox prop is no longer only breakable with hitscan attacks
  
• Made FUPs more consistent in non-cardinal directions (If you don't know what this means, don't worry about it)
  
• Nerfed FUP speed to 60u/s (again, don't worry about it)
  
• Changed name of Last Weapon to Last Used Weapon to clear misunderstandings with Previous Weapon
  
• Blocked off the windows in the final hallway of 5-3
  

• Disabling blood and gore no longer causes some attacks to heal the player an incorrect amount
  
• Fixed gibs not getting cleared out correctly by gorezones and Cyber Grind wave ends
  
• Fixed bloodsplatters replaying and gibs getting re-flung when the room they're in is disabled and re-enabled
  
• Fixed Filth, Strays and Schisms sometimes getting stuck in slowmo
  
• Fixed missing colliders in 7-4
  
• Fixed the 0-2 and 0-3 second arena Swordsmachines not dropping the Shotgun
  
• 3-1 checkpoint and 6-1 blood tube bloodsplatters now heal the player correctly
  
• Fixed fire and Virtue beams no longer showing the outlines of enemies behind them
  
• Fixed a chapter showing as golded or P-ranked on the wrong difficulty after first selecting a difficulty with it golded or P-ranked
  
• Fixed temporary FOV changes getting stuck while sliding sideways
  
• Fixed Shotgun and Alternate Shotgun breaking when parrying or shield breaking without having either punching arm equipped
  
• 1-3 boss terminal no longer mutes the level music
  
• Fixed gasoline exploding instead of burning in the 5-1 dry tunnels
  
• Fixed gasoline stains stretching when placed on some 5-2 geometry
  
• Fixed Gasoline stains showing on top of fire (though they may again appear buggy when placed on glass)
  
• Fixed Stalkers becoming intangible when forcepuppet is turned on
  
• Fixed Brutal Swordsmachine's unarmed attacks not having the SFX Volume setting applied
  
• Fixed Screwdriver screws detaching and falling off if attached to a Mindflayer during its death animation
  
• Magnets no longer become warped when getting stuck on a door that is both non-uniformly scaled and non-orthogonally rotated
  
• Fixed Alternate Shotgun not giving the appropriate style bonuses on killing low health Malicious Faces or with parries
  
• Fixed Alternate Shotgun not being able to transition to the cooldown idle from a chainsaw launch
  
• Fixed rockets not ignoring some body parts of dead Mannequins
  
• Fixed the restart/quit mission pop-up appearing behind the pause menu in the Early Access End screen
  
• Fixed 7-4 front balcony Sentry being able to survive being punched off if landing on the entrance building
  
• Fixed Cerberus not being able to walk to the player when they hide in a corner in the 0-5 boss arena
  
• Fixed inconsistent enrage behavior with Cerberus when enraged with the Alter Arm
  
• Spawner Arm spawned Earthmover Defense System parts now correctly stop attacking while being moved or altered
  
• Fixed Mindflayer beams inheriting the previous damage type an enemy took when hitting that enemy
  
• Fixed an untagged platform in 4-3
  
• Fixed ghost Drones not working correctly with Clash mode
  
• Guttermen can no longer open the door of the 7-2 building that houses the Alternate Shotgun
  
• Fixed inappropriate objects being outlined during 7-2 intro
  
• Fixed Knuckleblaster shells having enemy outlines
  
• Fixed the current wall jump amount not resetting when landing on a gasoline stain
  
• Fixed mis-tiled textures on the sides of stairs in one of the 7-1 arenas
  
• Fixed the weapon wheel not updating whether to use alternate or normal weapon icons mid-mission
  
• Fixed "This enemy cannot be puppeted" pop-up sometimes going offscreen
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Size 2 fish to be catchable