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.

[h2]HOTFIX NOTES[/h2]

[h3]IMPROVEMENTS[/h3]

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

[h2]Fixes[/h2]
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 fixes

Audio & Music

REFLECTION music no longer cancels out randomly
Boss music track now loops correctly
Addressed Execution tutorial where some QUAKER I sounds were not playing
Drop-downs were not playing the select sound when clicking with the mouse
Teleport sound no longer doubles up when going from the bridge to the Boss

Achievements

“Kill X Demons” Achievements no longer increment multiple times per kill
Achievements for completing all Abyssal Layers at a higher difficulty now unlock for lower difficulties or mixed difficulties
Beating all Abyssal Layers on a higher difficulty unlocks the Achievement on all lower difficulties (e.g. Knight completion should unlock Acolyte and Regret completion).
Beating all Abyssal Layers on mixed difficulties unlocks lower difficulty Achievements (e.g. Levels 1-3 on Acolyte then, Levels 4-5 on Regret, should unlock Regret all Abyssal Layers completion).

Leaderboards

Leaderboard entries now correctly load on the overview section
Fixed an issue that broke end of level Leaderboards
Fixed rapidly changing Leaderboards not showing correct data
Addressed font issues on Leaderboards when swapping back and forth between accessible & normal fonts

Miscellaneous

Fixed a crash that occurred when closing the game upon just finishing a run
Updated localization strings in several areas: Network Error, DIVINATION, Movement Key Rebinds, Sword Attack & Sword Surge Rebinds
Traditional Chinese localization fixes
Language drop-down missing character box text
Setting screen keyboard controls navigation has been fixed
Fixed an issue where game would lock on start sometimes
Mortars no longer Z-Fight
Fixed a disconnect popup that was hidden during splash screen and was causing bad input behavior
Accessibility font is now only available for non-fallback font locales
Fixed issue where resolution would revert when in windowed mode
Other miscellaneous fixes

[h2]Known Major Issues[/h2]

We have made some improvements to try and address a black screen bug players were getting but if this still occurs, please let us know!
We have also made some Player movement input fixes. If you come across any issue with movement, please let us know as well!

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KILL KNIGHT is available on Steam now - and is now fully optimised for Steam Deck compatibility.

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