ULTRAKILL News

ULTRAKILL might be one of the absolute most popular Early Access games from 2020 and it might just be a good pick for the Steam Deck, if you love fast-paced retro-styled shooters.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/02/fast-paced-brutal-fps-ultrakill-gets-full-controller-support-ready-for-steam-deck

• Added Alternate Nailgun
  
• Added 4-4 super secret
  
• Added V2, V2 2nd, Gabriel, Cancerous Rodent, Very Cancerous Rodent, Mysterious Druid Knight (& Owl), Flesh Prison and Minos Prime into the Spawner Arm spawn menu
  
• Added seperate enemy data entry for V2 2nd
  
• Added "+MAURICED" style bonus to crushing enemies with a dead Malicious Face
  
• Added option to turn off seasonal events
  

• Added controller support for all menus
  
• Tutorials and on-screen text have been updated to show controller inputs when using a controller
  
• Controller look speed is no longer affected by framerate
  
• Fixed LB and RB not scrolling through weapons if mouse wheel weapon scrolling is disabled
  
• Fixed LB and RB not scrolling through all variations when scroll type is set to "Both" and Remember Last Used Variation is enabled
  
• Fixed weapon wheel being usable when dead or paused
  
• Intro setup sequence will now have a auto-aim setting pop-up recommending to turn it on if the player has a controller plugged in
  
• Walking slower will now also make view bob, gun bob and footsteps slower
  

• Halved the game's filesize
  
• Options are now saved as files in the Preferences folder instead of in the registry (Options have gotten reset to defaults) and get synced by Steam Cloud
  
• Players can now use right-click to zoom in while using an in-game screen such as a terminal
  
• A screwdrivered enemy can now be punched with the Feedbacker to relaunch the screw, resetting its timer and dealing extra damage to the punched enemy
  
• Updated the Shotgun's model and texture
  
• Updated the Nailgun's model and texture
  
• Variation colors will now also change relevant colors on the weapons themselves
  
• Cleaned up and reworked many textures (especially Prelude textures) to make them look less compressed
  
• Updated previous levels to fix some texture misalignment
  
• Sliding no longer loses momentum if in the air or skipping on water
  
• Objects and enemies that previously spawned inside a surface when spawned with the Spawner Arm are now offset to spawn correctly
  
• Changed the painting inside the building of the final 2-2 arena from a generic angel painting to a portrait of King Minos
  
• Nails that are being affected by magnets will no longer get launched by explosions
  
• Reduced auto-aim on Whiplash to allow for greater accuracy
  
• Whiplash will no longer auto-aim to dead Malicious Faces
  
• Arms can now be swapped during the level intro falling animation
  
• Malicious Face's eyes are now properly monocolored when Enemy Silhouettes is enabled
  
• Sliding in Clash mode will now count towards the 0-4 slide length challenge
  
• Deleting enemies in the sandbox will no longer mark the navmesh as out of date
  
• Clash mode Herb skull invincibility now included in the "No Weapon Cooldowns" cheat
  
• Player can no longer enter a slide state while being pulled with the Whiplash to cause movement direction conflict
  
• Made the Nailgun's animations less extreme when using a Dual Wield powerup to improve visibility
  
• Slightly updated jump pad particle effects
  
• Updated 1-3 Hideous Mass' eyes to glow in the dark when enraged
  
• Increased accuracy of the collision checks for MDK's Full Auto attack
  
• The hand encounter in 2-4 will no longer unlock the enemy data entry for The Corpse of King Minos
  

• Enemies no longer get stuck around the stairs of a specific Cyber Grind layout
  
• Homing projectile speed is no longer affected by framerate
  
• Fixed some weapon sounds not playing correctly in frozen time
  
• Fixed some sound effects not playing at the correct pitch if the game speed has been slowed down with major assists
  
• Turning on Clash mode while in ground slam state will no longer stop the spin attack from hitting enemies
  
• Fixed Mindflayer swipe distance varying inversely per difficulty
  
• Fixed Malicious Face's beam charging effect disappearing if enraged while charging
  
• Cerberi will no longer keep an enrage particle effect when dying the moment they enrage
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Insurrectionists to get stuck horizontally after a jump attack
  
• MDK can no longer clip out of bounds if hit with great force the instant he spawns
  
• Drones will no longer explode during their death dive when touching a spot where an explosion had recently happened
  
• Fixed some options menus not rendering correctly at ultrawide aspect ratios
  
• Fixed the Marksman revolver not getting the correct amount of charge if the player skips a cutscene while holding it
  
• Fixed the Nailgun's nails and Screwdriver's drill not being aimed at the center of the screen when using centered weapons
  
• Fixed the standard revolver's cooldown freezing when switching to another weapon, causing the next time the player equips the weapon to take slightly longer before the player can fire
  
• Fixed Stalkers not dying from fall damage
  
• Fixed Stalkers not destroying magnets that are attached to them when exploding themselves
  
• Fixed a bug where enemies that have no weakpoints would only ever take a single point of damage from coinpunching
  
• Fixed a bug where the V2 would be unable to use its shotgun when the player pulls off a specifically timed ricoshot
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the player to be unable to spawn a sandbox block unless looking at a nearby surface
  
• The last arena of 1-2 will no longer stay locked if the player restarts from a different checkpoint
  
• Fixed a Clash mode bug where restarting from a checkpoint immediately after jumping would cause the player to enter an endless falling state
  
• Classic HUD will now properly show the maximum HP value as 200 on Harmless difficulty
  
• Fixed a bug where resetting to a checkpoint while in front of a locked door would cause it to open after the player has respawned, possibly despawning the room the player is in
  
• Black Hole will no longer stay inert if Corpse of King Minos changes phases during its spawn animation on Violent difficulty
  
• Fixed a Classic HUD bug where the weapon icon could not be disabled until another HUD icon setting had been changed
  
• Fixed the shop terminal in the Cyber Grind not closing the Sandbox window if the player has it open and clicks the Weapons button
  
• Fixed fullscreen option appearing to be off on restart even if the game is windowed
  
• Fixed the ceiling lantern inside the small house in the first arena of 2-2 not having physics
  
• Fixed the game loading the intro on startup if the player is using the second save slot without having any save on their first slot
  
• Fixed a bug where throwing coins directly vertically could cause a multi-hit beam to get cancelled by hitting a dead coin
  
• Fixed an issue where ground slam waves in 2-1 indoor areas would have outdoors lighting
  
• Fixed the spine gib not being visible when destroying a husk's chest
  

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• Controller support for all menus
  
• Tutorials and on-screen text have been updated to show controller inputs when using a controller
  
  
  
  
• Controller look speed is no longer affected by framerate
  
• Fixed LB and RB not scrolling through weapons if mouse wheel weapon scrolling is disabled
  
• Fixed LB and RB not scrolling through all variations when scroll type is set to "Both" and Remember Last Used Variation is enabled
  
• Fixed weapon wheel being usable when dead or paused
  
• Intro setup sequence will now have a auto-aim setting pop-up recommending to turn it on if the player has a controller plugged in
  
  
• Walking slower will now also make view bob, gun bob and footsteps slower
  
• Steam Deck Verification... SOON?

• We halved the game's filesize
  
• Options are now saved as files in the Preferences folder instead of in the registry (Options have gotten reset to defaults) and get synced by Steam Cloud
  
• Punching a screwdrivered enemy with the Feedbacker will relaunch the screw, resetting its timer and dealing extra damage to the enemy.
  
• Updated the Shotgun's model and texture
  
  
  
  
• Updated the Nailgun's model and texture
  
  
  
  
• Variation colors will now also change relevant colors on the weapons themselves
  
• Cleaned up and reworked many textures (especially Prelude textures) to make them look less compressed and updated previous levels to fix some texture misalignment
  
• Sliding no longer loses momentum if in the air or skipping on water
  
• Changed the painting inside the building of the final 2-2 arena from a generic angel painting to a portrait of King Minos.
  
  
• Nails that are being affected by magnets will no longer get launched by explosions
  
• Reduced auto-aim on Whiplash to allow for greater accuracy
  
• Whiplash will no longer auto-aim to dead Malicious Faces
  
• Arms can now be swapped during the level intro falling animation
  

• Made changing direction in the air in Clash mode slightly faster
  
• Stamina and velocity now reset on death in Clash mode
  
• Cerberus' and Malicious Face's player prediction will now take into account the environment and large enemies that might block the player's movement
  
• The player can no longer parry an unlimited amount of projectiles with a single punch (now only two max: one that's inside a player and one that's infront)
  
• Replaced 4-S ending hologram's texture to the default one to reduce confusion
  
• Normal spawnables are now removable with the deleter arm
  
• Added a tutorial message about holding the jump button to bounce higher in 4-S
  
• Added water surface skipping to Clash mode's slide
  
• Activating Noclip or Flight cheats will now disable Clash mode and vice versa
  
• Added a ceiling to the 4-S final section
  
• "Navmesh out of date" message now includes instructions for rebuilding it
  
• Spawner Arm now has a notification in the cheats list with instructions for accessing it
  
• Slightly raised enemy step height in the sandbox so they can climb onto the lowest possible custom block height
  
• Breaking or deleting baked static objects will now mark the Navmesh as out of date
  
• Made the orange damaging shockwaves' flat sprite white to make the shockwave easier to track in yellow/orange environments
  
• Changed the sentence "Your failure will not be tolerated" to "Your treachery will not be tolerated" in the Act I intermission for consistency and accuracy
  
• Changed the phrase "The Chamber of Dreams" to "The Chamber of the feline and the rodent" in the 4-3 tablet to make it easier to understand
  

• Fixed most cases of Intel graphics cards crashing from the color palette option
  
• Fixed cheats not turning off properly sometimes when exiting Sandbox with the spawner arm equipped
  
• Fixed 2-2's water causing movement issues when the player tried sliding in it
  
• Fixed Sandbox saving not working if the player had placed a Whiplash hookpoint
  
• Breaking a breakable while holding it with telekinesis will no longer break the arm
  
• Dead enemies no longer get saved as alive in sandbox saves
  
• Fixed 4-2 moon not emitting light when looking down at the secret exit
  
• Fixed soldiers in the final rooms of 2-3 and 3-1 spawning early even if enemy spawns had been disabled
  
• While in dual wield mode, switching to the spawner arm and then back to the original weapon will now spawn the dualwielded guns correctly
  
• Restarting from checkpoint or dying a second time during a Clash mode death animation will no longer cause the player to reset twice
  
• Sisyphean Insurrectionists will no longer keep tracking the player if knocked down by a parry while in a horizontal or vertical swing animation
  
• Fixed major assists game speed control not working correctly
  
• Fixed screenshake continuing indefinitely while paused
  
• Game no longer freezes when picking up a new secret soul orb in Clash mode
  
• Game no longer freezes when switching to Clash mode during hitstop
  
• Hitstop no longer breaks when no arms are equipped
  
• Fixed inverted crosshair
  
• Fixed the 4-S desert not getting unloaded properly when traversing back and forth between the beginning and end of the level
  
• Fixed jumping OOB not killing the player in 4-S
  
• Fixed Something Wicked not killing the player when touching them
  
• Fixed blue Nailgun not having spread
  
• Fixed a Clash mode related bug that would cause the spawner arm to only spawn objects in one specific spot
  
• Fixed a terminal issue that would cause telekinesis effects to persist
  
• Fixed a spawner arm positioning problem when trying to spawn an object that's outside the spawning range
  
• Fixed the Chamber of Dreams in 4-4 not spawning in if circling around through a specific route
  
• Fixed the camera unlocking if the player pauses and unpauses in the results screen
  
• Fixed mouse invert not working in Clash mode
  
• Fixed the underwater filter not working in Clash mode in some levels
  
• Fixed the underwater sound filter breaking when the player dies underwater
  
• Enemies are no longer killable with parries when the Invincible Enemies cheat is on
  
• Fixed the sky not returning in 4-S after going back to the outdoors section
  
• Fixed the indoors death pit not being disabled when returning to the outdoors section through a checkpoint restart
  
• Fixed hurting surfaces not killing in Clash mode if the player has a protector and doesn't jump off the surface before the invincibility frames run out
  
• 4-2 nighttime sand no longer kills in Clash mode
  
• Clash mode unlock can now be picked up while in standard mode
  
• Fixed pumpkin textures turning blank when an enemy enrages
  
• Chapter select buttons for each act will no longer unlock one level too early
  
• Nailgun now shoots nails correctly when auto-aimed
  
• Railcannon meter is no longer broken on the classic white HUD
  
• Fixed dithering slider offset
  
• Fixed the red skull hallway in 2-3 not spawning in if the player backtracks through a specific route
  
• Fixed the Railcannon meter (no weapon icon version) not updating properly when always on top HUD is enabled or disabled
  
• Fixed dashes not working if the player whiplashes towards an enemy without pausing the game at any point during the level
  
• Fixed "Keep enabled" cheat remembering wrong cheats when set off and on again
  
• Fixed some sounds not lowering in volume in reverbarated zones
  
• Fixed the Cerberi in the 4-1 final arena not being lit correctly
  
• Fixed the Nailgun not aiming at the center of the screen when using middle weapon position