Hollow Knight: Silksong Developer Team Cherry Reveals First Post-Launch Patch Notes, Makes ‘Slight’ Balance Adjustments in the Early Game

Hollow Knight: Silksong developer Team Cherry has revealed details connected the game’s archetypal post-release patch, which it said mostly makes bug fixes and “slight” equilibrium adjustments successful the aboriginal game.

In a station connected Steam, the developer said spot 1.0.28470 is acceptable for each players mid-next week, truthful astir September 17. However, PC players tin entree this mentation close present via the public-beta subdivision connected Steam oregon GOG.

In presumption of equilibrium changes, it looks similar the spot makes Silksong somewhat easier, which volition beryllium invited quality to those who are struggling with the game. Silksong is 1 of the biggest launches of the year, hitting immense subordinate concurrent numbers connected Steam alongside a affirmative reception from critics. But amid the excitement implicit Team Cherry’s agelong awaited sequel is simply a statement wrong the assemblage astir whether the crippled is excessively hard — possibly adjacent unfairly so. It comes arsenic nary astonishment to spot Silksong’s aboriginal days mods dominated by those which marque the crippled easier.

Over the weekend, we reported connected however immoderate Silksong players were expressing disapproval crossed societal media, subreddits, Discords, and Steam reviews astir the game’s trouble scaling and brutal runbacks. There’s adjacent 1 precise aboriginal miniboss causing a batch of players a full heap of trouble, too.

“Is it conscionable me, oregon are immoderate of the things that marque Silksong ‘difficult’ conscionable cruel?” wondered redditor Machi-Ato. “The crippled has artificially inflated trouble and playtime owed to overtuned numbers and menial tasks/runback,” reads a station connected Steam.

Thankfully, IGN is present to help. Here's however to unlock and usage the map, however to get Rosary Beads, Achievements and Trophies list, and our ever expanding Silksong Interactive Map. Also, you whitethorn request the Bell Beast brag combat guide. It's a hard one!

Hollow Knight: Silksong update 1.0.28470 spot notes:

• Fixed concern wherever players could stay cloakless aft Slab flight sequence.
• Fixed privation Infestation Operation often not being completable during the precocious game.
• Fixed privation Beast successful the Bells not being completable erstwhile Bell Beast is summoned astatine the Bilewater Bellway during the precocious game.
• Fixed getting stuck floating aft down-bouncing connected definite projectiles.
• Fixed courier deliveries sometimes being inaccessible successful Act 3.
• Fixed trade hindrance behaving incorrectly erstwhile successful memories.
• Fixed Lace instrumentality deflect soft-lock astatine commencement of conflict successful Deep Docks.
• Fixed Silk Snippers successful Chapel of the Reaper sometimes getting stuck retired of bounds.
• Fixed Claw Mirrors leaving Hornet inverted if taking harm during a circumstantial infinitesimal portion binding.
• Fixed Snitch Pick not giving rosaries and ammunition shards arsenic intended.
• Removed interval override input (down + jump, aft subordinate has Faydown Cloak).
• Slight trouble simplification successful aboriginal crippled bosses Moorwing and Sister Splinter.
• Reduction successful harm from Sandcarvers.
• Slight summation successful pea pod collider scale.
• Slight simplification successful mid-game Bellway and Bell Bench prices.
• Slight summation successful rosary rewards from relics and psalm cylinders.
• Increase successful rosary rewards for courier deliveries.
• Various further fixes and tweaks.

All fixes volition use retroactively, truthful players who've deed a important bug that prevents advancement whitethorn privation to power implicit to public-beta to person the fix, Team Cherry said.

“Further fixes are already being worked connected for a 2nd patch. If you person an contented and you don't spot the solution successful the database above, we whitethorn beryllium moving connected it.”

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