ULTRAKILL News

• Full visual overhaul
  
• Full technical overhaul
  
• Improved performance
  
• New Encore Prelude & Limbo levels
  
• Layer 8 is next
  
• OMG King Gizzard
  

• 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