# ULTRAKILL Patch 15b Changelog

- Product: ULTRAKILL (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/ultrakill)
- Vendor: Arsi "Hakita" Patala
- Date: 2024-04-19
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1229490/view/4213755760589621670
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/ultrakill/releases/2024-04-19-patch-15b-changelog

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##### Alternate Shotgun:

-  Increased Alternate Shotgun cooldown on red hit from 5 seconds to 7 seconds

-  Decreased Alternate Shotgun red hit damage from 12 to 10

-  Added unique style bonuses for Alternate Shotgun

-  Fixed the Alternate Shotgun not losing freshness when used on core ejects or rockets

-  Alternate Shotgun no longer activates red hit cooldown when hitting a dead enemy

-  Alternate Shotgun now applies environmental hit pushback when hitting a dead enemy

-  Alternate Shotgun core eject vertical momentum is now no longer relative to the camera when looking downwards

-  Alternate Shotgun core eject cooldown now no longer resets on weapon change

-  Fixed an offset bug caused by picking up a dual wield while charging the primary fire of the alternate shotgun

-  Added short descriptions of each Alternate weapon when they get picked up

##### Sawed-On Shotgun:

-  Chainsaws no longer get stuck inside the player when punched with the Feedbacker before immediately swapping arms

-  Fixed the Sawed-On chainsaw sometimes continuing to damage enemies that are no longer in range

-  Fixed the Sawed-On chainsaw sometimes removing limbs off the wrong enemies

-  Chainsaw can now properly hit the same enemy again after being punched

-  V2 can longer be damaged with the chainsaw during its intro animation

-  Alternate Sawed-On Shotgun no longer instantly launches chainsaw if the player swaps back after swapping to another weapon while charging it

-  Made launched chainsaws a bit quieter

-  Added sparks when launched chainsaws hit enemies

-  A launched chainsaw's sprite becomes smaller while touching the player so it doesn't block their vision

##### JumpStart Nailgun:

-  Conduction now damages the magnets it conducts through to stop infinite conduction chains

-  Fixed the JumpStart nailgun not losing its higher firerate after a zapper is destroyed if the player continues to fire without pause

##### Firestarter Rocket Launcher:

-  Spraying gasoline on moving objects such as doors no longer causes physics anomalies

-  Fixed gasoline fire sustaining forever after a checkpoint restart

-  Firestarter gasoline now explodes instead of burning when underwater

-  Fixed gasoline stains under gasolined burning enemies lasting much longer than intended

-  Fixed gasoline stains not being easily visible on glass

-  Burning objects now also set gasoline stains on fire on contact

-  Fixed gasoline fill visuals not working properly on some enemies

-  Increased damage of fire on gasolined enemies from 0.2 to 0.5 per tick

-  Napalm firerate is no longer framerate dependant

##### 7-S:

-  Added "Hard Mode" in the Advanced Options

-  Added 7-S music to the Cyber Grind jukebox

-  7-S no longer resets objective progress on checkpoint restart

-  Fixed a bug where the whiplash could grab skulls through blocking doors if really far away

-  Respawning at the 7-S courtyard checkpoint will now reset the red skull if the player is holding it to avoid softlocks

-  Added unique cubemaps to every 7-S room's completion reflection

-  Improved accuracy of 7-S bloodstains

-  Fixed the alternate skybox sometimes appearing black

-  Fixed inconsistencies with gib amount in 7-S based on gore settings

-  Ghost Drones now have an animation when being pulled

-  Increased range of Ghost Drone chirps to make them easier to find

-  Removed unintended colliders from 7-S clock

-  Blue skull case in 7-S now opens if Disable Enemy Spawns cheat is on

##### Brutal:

-  Hideous Mass harpoon health reduced to 3 on Brutal and 2 on other difficulties

-  Slightly reduced attack frequency of Virtues on Brutal difficulty

-  Added Brutal difficulty to the Boss Difficulty Override Major Assist

-  Fixed Gabriel's Brutal difficulty spiral swords attack staying after checkpoint reset

-  Ferrymen now have a global cooldown on lightning bolt summons to avoid them being stacked

-  Brutal Ferryman close range lightning bolt windup increased from 2 se

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