# ULTRAKILL Patch 11b Changelog

- Product: ULTRAKILL (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/ultrakill)
- Vendor: Arsi "Hakita" Patala
- Date: 2022-08-28
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1229490/view/3218405707241214303
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/ultrakill/releases/2022-08-28-patch-11b-changelog

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- **changed** — Most assets are now loaded in before the main menu instead of when the player picks a chapter in the Chapter Select menu
- **changed** — Hard Damage bar now flashes yellow whenever the player takes Hard Damage
- **added** — Added 2 new major assists: Disable Whiplash Hard Damage and Disable Weapon Freshness
- **added** — Added a tutorial message in 5-3 explaining how to use the Rocket Launcher against Soldiers
- **changed** — Spawner arm slot changed from 5 to 6
- **added** — Added a weapon icon for the Spawner Arm
- **added** — Added an "Under Construction" text to the Very Hard difficulties
- **changed** — Cyber Grind score font size should now scale down to show more digits if required
- **changed** — Disabled the "Checkpoint" option in the pause menu for the Cyber Grind to reduce accidental restarts
- **changed** — A coin's max distance to attempt hitting a core eject or rocket is now based on the core's distance to the player rather than the coin to make "orbital nukes" possible again
- **changed** — Player will no longer descend 2 style ranks when getting hit at S or above
- **changed** — Whiplash will now only cause Hard Damage if the current Hard Damage is below 50
- **changed** — Whiplash no longer builds up Hard Damage while the player is underwater
- **changed** — Hard damage cooldown from Whiplashing is now relative to the previous amount of hard damage rather than always resetting to the maximum total amount
- **changed** — Reverted player momentum loss when cancelling a pull on a heavy enemy
- **changed** — Red damage overlay no longer shows up while Whiplashing on ULTRAKILL rank
- **changed** — Whiplash now passes through Idols and blessed enemies
- **changed** — Blessed enemies no longer give most style bonuses
- **changed** — Dual Wield will now reduce the decay of weapon freshness

General changes:

-  Most assets are now loaded in before the main menu instead of when the player picks a chapter in the Chapter Select menu

-  Hard Damage bar now flashes yellow whenever the player takes Hard Damage

-  Added 2 new major assists: Disable Whiplash Hard Damage and Disable Weapon Freshness

-  Added a tutorial message in 5-3 explaining how to use the Rocket Launcher against Soldiers

-  Spawner arm slot changed from 5 to 6

-  Added a weapon icon for the Spawner Arm

-  Added an "Under Construction" text to the Very Hard difficulties

-  Cyber Grind score font size should now scale down to show more digits if required

-  Disabled the "Checkpoint" option in the pause menu for the Cyber Grind to reduce accidental restarts

-  A coin's max distance to attempt hitting a core eject or rocket is now based on the core's distance to the player rather than the coin to make "orbital nukes" possible again

Whiplash, Style and Hard Damage changes:

-  Player will no longer descend 2 style ranks when getting hit at S or above

-  Whiplash will now only cause Hard Damage if the current Hard Damage is below 50

-  Whiplash no longer builds up Hard Damage while the player is underwater

-  Hard damage cooldown from Whiplashing is now relative to the previous amount of hard damage rather than always resetting to the maximum total amount

-  Reverted player momentum loss when cancelling a pull on a heavy enemy

-  Red damage overlay no longer shows up while Whiplashing on ULTRAKILL rank

-  Whiplash now passes through Idols and blessed enemies

-  Blessed enemies no longer give most style bonuses

-  Dual Wield will now reduce the decay of weapon freshness

-  Weapon freshness regain is now also different per weapon

Rocket Launcher changes:

-  Freezeframe rocket launcher will now automatically cancel its freeze if all its frozen rockets have been destroyed

-  Rockets now only track towards magnets that are attached to enemies

-  Rockets now break magnets after 3 hits on an enemy with a magnet attached to them (a mid-air hit counts as 2)

-  Chaining 3 or more rocket rides without touching the ground will cause diminishing returns on rocket riding time

-  Coins will no longer target a rocket the player is riding on

Enemy changes:

-  Punches now properly auto-aim to Idols

-  Idols are now breakable with a Knuckleblaster explosion

-  Added a vertical light shaft on Idols that shows them from a distance

-  Riding on a Malicious Face will no longer rotate the player alongside the Face

-  Removed headshot multiplier from Leviathan's heart to reduce the damage of ricoshots

-  Timer in 5-4 now stops when Leviathan dies to reduce frustration due to the length of its death animation

-  Soldier terminal now mentions their explosion resistance

-  Soldiers can no longer block explosions while blind

-  Soldiers can no longer block Mindflayer death explosions or Malicious Face explosions caused by hitting a core eject or coin

-  Reduced Soldiers' explosion resistance on Violent difficulty from 100% to 75%, matching Standard difficulty

-  Changed most Soldiers in 5-3's final rooms into Strays

-  Added enemy silhouettes and colors for Sentries, Idols and Ferrymen

-  Added custom spawn sounds for Ferryman and Idol

-  Gabriel 2nd now only takes half damage during his juggle phase

-  Altered Cyber Grind spawn rates and waves for multiple enemies

-  Uncommon type enemies can now only use a maximum of half the current Cyber Grind wave's point reserve

-  Extended the distance that Swordsmachines and Ferrymen are be brave enough to jump down

-  Increased tracking speed for Ferryman's lightning bolt

Fixes:

-  Added keybind option for Slot 5

-  Camera no longer clips through the world when shaking

-  Fixed doors in some layers not closing when supposed to, causing connected rooms to no longer load in

-  Fixed Ferryman's bestiary entry not having a Strategy section

-  Filled 2 holes in the collision mesh of the Ferryman's s

_[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1229490/view/3218405707241214303]_