Team Cherry released the hugely anticipated Metroidvania experience Hollow Knight: Silksong to its ravenous fans last week, finally bringing out the sequel that was first announced in 2019. However, parts of the game haven"t been sitting well with some players, with reports of its difficulty being "unfair" slowly rising within the massive community. Now, Hollow Knight: Silksong"s first update is on the horizon, and alongside bug fixes, it also carries difficulty tweaks.
The update is only available for PC players right now as a beta, with the Steam and GOG platforms being the targets via their public beta branches.
The early game bosses Moorwing and Sister Splinter are the bosses getting tweaked, with Team Cherry saying that a "slight difficulty reduction" is happening. Reduced prices for Bellway and Bell Bench and better rewards from relics and psalm cylinders have been confirmed too.
Find the complete changelog for the first update below:
- Fixed situation where players could remain cloakless after Slab escape sequence.
- Fixed wish Infestation Operation often not being completable during the late game.
- Fixed wish Beast in the Bells not being completable when Bell Beast is summoned at the Bilewater Bellway during the late game.
- Fixed getting stuck floating after down-bouncing on certain projectiles.
- Fixed courier deliveries sometimes being inaccessible in the late game.
- Fixed craft bind behaving incorrectly when in memories.
- Fixed Lace tool deflect soft-lock at start of battle in Deep Docks.
- Fixed Silk Snippers in Chapel of the Reaper sometimes getting stuck out of bounds.
- Fixed Claw Mirrors leaving Hornet inverted if taking damage during a specific moment while binding.
- Fixed Snitch Pick not giving rosaries and shell shards as intended.
- Removed float override input (down + jump, after player has Faydown Cloak).
- Slight difficulty reduction in early game bosses Moorwing and Sister Splinter.
- Reduction in damage from Sandcarvers.
- Slight increase in pea pod collider scale.
- Slight reduction in mid-game Bellway and Bell Bench prices.
- Slight increase in rosary rewards from relics and psalm cylinders.
- Increase in rosary rewards for courier deliveries.
- Various additional fixes and tweaks.
"All fixes will apply retroactively, so players who"ve hit a significant bug that prevents progress may want to switch over to public-beta to receive the fix," says Team Cherry. "Further fixes are already being worked on for a second patch. If you have an issue and you don"t see the solution in the list above, we may be working on it."
The update is slated to leave beta land for all players sometime next week. Some of the known issues the studio is working on resolving can be found on its official website here.
Hollow Knight: Silksong is now available on PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, and the Switch 2. It is also a part of Xbox and PC Game Pass subscriptions.