Hollow Knight Silksong's First Major Patch — the One That Makes the Early Game Easier — Is Rolling Out Now for Most Players

Hollow Knight Silksong’s archetypal large spot is rolling retired present to astir players, developer Team Cherry has confirmed.

Silksong update 1.0.28497 — the 1 that makes the aboriginal crippled easier — is present unrecorded connected PC via Steam and GOG, and is owed retired connected Xbox and Switch platforms “very soon.” There’s a spot of a holdup connected PlayStation, however, wherever Team Cherry expects the aforesaid spot wrong 48 hours “barring unforeseen circumstances.”

Team Cherry published the spot notes, below, successful afloat connected its website.

Hollow Knight Silksong update 1.0.28497 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 the precocious game.
• Fixed trade hindrance behaving incorrectly erstwhile successful memories.
• Fixed Lace instrumentality deflect soft-lock astatine commencement of conflict successful Deep Docks.
• 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.
• Fixed Swamp Squits becoming invincible if deed nether water.
• Fixed lawsuit wherever Lugoli could permission the arena and not return.
• Reduced accidental of Silk Snippers successful Chapel of the Reaper sometimes getting stuck retired of bounds.
• 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 should present beryllium capable to proceed, Team Cherry added. Further fixes are presently being worked connected for a 2nd patch.

The spot 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.

IGN has already 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 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.

Playing Silksong? Here are immoderate indispensable guides for your travel upwards: the Silksong Interactive Map, however to grind for Rosary Beads, our ever-expanding Walkthrough with brag videos and guides, however to get your archetypal beingness barroom upgrade (first 4 disguise shards) and a large usher to the Simple Keys and the doors they open.

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