Hollow Knight: Silksong Patch 2 Live Now, Team Cherry Offer Early Patch 3 Details

Team Cherry’s post-launch enactment of monolithic indie deed Hollow Knight: Silksong continues, with Patch 2 present live.

As the developer had signalled, Silksong's 2nd large spot (1.0.28650) focuses connected a fewer captious issues inactive remaining, portion besides cleaning up immoderate bugs astir circumstantial tools. The spot notes, per Team Cherry’s website, are below.

All fixes volition use retroactively, Team Cherry added, truthful players who've deed a important bug that prevents advancement should present beryllium capable to proceed.

Further fixes are presently being worked connected for a 3rd patch, the developer continued, with immoderate further absorption astir improving controller enactment connected PC platforms. “Expect this 1 to travel a small later, arsenic we’re aiming to screen arsenic galore remaining issues arsenic possible,” Team Cherry said.

Meanwhile, Team Cherry said for upcoming patches, beyond regular fixes, “our archetypal precedence remains to amended Silksong’s Simplified Chinese translation.”

This is successful effect to high-profile disapproval of Silksong’s Simplified Chinese translation, which had led to Chinese players leaving antagonistic Steam reviews. "The existent Silksong [Chinese] translation reads similar a Wuxia caller alternatively of conveying the game’s tone," said 1 player. "This isn’t astir effort, but astir sensation and direction, and speaking from acquisition apt can’t beryllium fixed without replacing the translator." Another said: "can you ideate arsenic a Chinese, I request to play the crippled by switching successful English to recognize [the] translation."

"Native Chinese talker here. The translation uses awkwardly archaic wording that makes a batch of the contented unintelligible," added idiosyncratic else. "I’m talking astir connection crockery benignant of situation. On apical of the anachronistic pretentiousness, it’s downright gibberish astatine times."

“A caller script, by a well-regarded team, is already good underway,” Team Cherry confirmed. “We’re expecting this caller translation to beryllium delivered successful 3-4 weeks, with implementation to travel instantly after.

“In the meantime, for Simplified Chinese players, we’ve precocious been informed that a talented radical of Hollow Knight fans has already produced their ain full-translation mod for Silksong! We’ve heard bully things astir the mod, and players whitethorn privation to see shifting implicit to it.”

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Hollow Knight: Silksong Version 1.0.28650 spot notes:

• Added Dithering effect enactment successful Advanced video settings (PC only). Reduces colour banding but tin somewhat soften the quality of foreground assets. Defaults to 'Off'.
• Updated Herald's Wish accomplishment statement to clarify that players indispensable some implicit the privation and decorativeness the game.
• Fixed Savage Beastfly successful Far Fields sometimes remaining beneath the lava.
• Fixed uncommon cases of Shrine Guardian Seth getting retired of bounds during battle.
• Fixed uncommon lawsuit of Second Sentinel knocking the subordinate retired of bounds during battle.
• Added drawback to forestall Lugoli sometimes flying disconnected surface and not returning during battle.
• Further reduced accidental of Silk Snippers getting stuck retired of bounds successful Chapel of the Reaper battle.
• Fixed assorted instances of dying to bosses portion sidesplitting them causing decease sequences to play messily oregon retired of sync.
• Fixed Shaman Binding into a bottommost modulation causing a softlock.
• Cocoon positions successful immoderate locations updated to forestall it spawning successful inaccessible areas.
• Fixed Liquid Lacquer courier transportation not being accessible successful Steel Soul mode.
• Fixed immoderate NPCs not correctly playing cursed hint dialogues successful definite instances.
• Fixed Pondcatcher Reed not being capable to alert distant aft singing.
• Fixed Verdania representation orbs sometimes replaying layered screen-edge burst effects.
• Fixed the interruption antagonistic not moving for definite multihitter tools eg Conchcutter.
• Fixed Volt Filament harm multiplier not applying for definite Silk Skills.
• Fixed Cogflies and Wisps inappropriately targeting Skullwings.
• Fixed Cogflies incorrectly resetting their HP to afloat connected country change.
• Fixed Curveclaw ever breaking connected the archetypal deed aft being deflected.
• Fixed Plasmium Phial and Flea Brew sometimes not restoring arsenic intended astatine benches.
• Various different smaller tweaks and fixes.

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