The highly anticipated indie title, Hollow Knight: Silksong, just got its second major update! Developer Team Cherry is clearly dedicated to post-launch support, and players can jump in to experience the latest improvements.
This Patch 2 (version 1.0.28650) delivers on Team Cherry’s promise, honing in on several critical bugs and polishing some specific in-game tools. You’ll find the full list of changes below!
Good news for anyone stuck! Team Cherry confirmed that all these fixes are retroactive, meaning if a nasty bug halted your progress, you should now be able to continue your adventure without a hitch.
But the work doesn’t stop here! The team is already brewing up a third patch, with a special emphasis on refining controller support for PC players. This next update will take a bit longer, as Team Cherry aims to tackle as many lingering issues as they can.
A top priority for future updates, beyond general bug squashing, is a significant overhaul of Silksong’s Simplified Chinese translation.
This focus comes after considerable feedback, including negative Steam reviews from Chinese players, who criticized the original translation. Many felt it read more like a Wuxia novel than conveying the game’s intended atmosphere, with one player lamenting, “can you imagine as a Chinese, I need to play the game by switching in English to understand [the] translation.” Another native speaker described the existing translation as “awkwardly archaic wording that makes a lot of the content unintelligible” and “downright gibberish at times.”
Team Cherry confirmed that a completely new translation script, crafted by a highly-regarded team, is already in production. They anticipate this improved translation will be ready in 3-4 weeks, with immediate implementation into the game.
For Simplified Chinese players who can’t wait, Team Cherry shared a special note: a talented group of Hollow Knight fans has created their own full-translation mod for Silksong! The developers have heard positive feedback about it and suggest players might want to check it out while awaiting the official update.
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Hollow Knight: Silksong Version 1.0.28650 patch notes:
- Added Dithering effect option in Advanced video settings (PC only). Reduces colour banding but can slightly soften the appearance of foreground assets. Defaults to ‘Off’.
- Updated Herald’s Wish achievement description to clarify that players must both complete the wish and finish the game.
- Fixed Savage Beastfly in Far Fields sometimes remaining below the lava.
- Fixed rare cases of Shrine Guardian Seth getting out of bounds during battle.
- Fixed rare case of Second Sentinel knocking the player out of bounds during battle.
- Added catch to prevent Lugoli sometimes flying off screen and not returning during battle.
- Further reduced chance of Silk Snippers getting stuck out of bounds in Chapel of the Reaper battle.
- Fixed various instances of dying to bosses while killing them causing death sequences to play messily or out of sync.
- Fixed Shaman Binding into a bottom transition causing a softlock.
- Cocoon positions in some locations updated to prevent it spawning in inaccessible areas.
- Fixed Liquid Lacquer courier delivery not being accessible in Steel Soul mode.
- Fixed some NPCs not correctly playing cursed hint dialogues in certain instances.
- Fixed Pondcatcher Reed not being able to fly away after singing.
- Fixed Verdania memory orbs sometimes replaying layered screen-edge burst effects.
- Fixed the break counter not working for certain multihitter tools eg Conchcutter.
- Fixed Volt Filament damage multiplier not applying for certain Silk Skills.
- Fixed Cogflies and Wisps inappropriately targeting Skullwings.
- Fixed Cogflies incorrectly resetting their HP to full on scene change.
- Fixed Curveclaw always breaking on the first hit after being deflected.
- Fixed Plasmium Phial and Flea Brew sometimes not restoring as intended at benches.
- Various other smaller tweaks and fixes.