Knights End news & patch notes

Join us while we play through upcoming additions to the game!

Testing out some new weapons on the "Unstable" branch!

Controls

• added option to invert X/Y controls in the settings

Gameplay

• updated the penalty for skipping to the next day

  • cost is 100 honor per "unsafe" player outside the gatehouse, PLUS

  • 100 honor per incomplete quest

VOIP

• added option to use push-to-talk instead of toggle for voice

Gameplay

• added field of view setting for players in menu

• added new hint system

  • non-quest hints can now show when e.g. items are picked up

  • turn them on/off in menu settings

• added hints for many items including:

  • crossbow and flame staff, to say max ammo and that it replenishes on the next day

  • potions to indicate effect

Enemies

• increase enemy max power on later nights

• increase spawn rate of enemies on later nights

Weapons

• flame staff now costs 1600 honor instead of 2000, available from night 14 instead of 15

• flame sword now available from night 7 instead of 10

Environment

• added more sounds and hiding places in forest

• added more item spawners in village

Bugfixes

• fixed angel sometimes getting stuck on dead players

• fixed horse quest being broken on second play in the same load

• fixed spot in the village ruins where players could get stuck

We are streaming with Drekyll and a few others! You can watch and root us on!

Cosmetics

• added 3 new wearable helmets

• fixed orientation of quest shield on hotbar

Enemies

• tweaked enemy pathing behavior

• increased crawler health

• fixed followers sometimes stabbing through walls

Merchant

• fixed merchant not always having light on when open

• fixed items bought by server host not being equippable by other players

Quests

• fix for certain quest items being able to complete more stages than they should

Environment

• added colored cornhole balls to gatehouse for playing cornhole

• added more signs pointing to the castle

• tweaked random spawners for health potions, health mushrooms, etc.

• tweaks to fix players getting trapped inside gatehouse

• fixed cauldron not resetting on the next day, if used outside of quest

Core Game

• set default lobby size to 8

• changed default backend to DX11 for wider compatibility, will add back option for DX12 soon

Merchant

• add flame sword and fire staff to merchant

• add min/max night available for merchant items

Quests

• increase max quests per day to 7

• change quest number to increase every 7 days

Enemies

• tweaks to hollowman to make it slower, have shorter hearing range

• updated meatman attack animation

• tweak to cultist attack pattern

• added global max for enemy spawning

UI/Settings

• add setting to adjust camera sway intensity

• updated some hotbar icons

Environment

• clean up area across from merchant at the gates

• made player bell more obvious

• tweaked area leading to beacon at the east tower

• adjust log next to the lumbermill that players got stuck on

• adjusted pans in the inn's kitchen

• replaced many static bottles with equipable ones

• adjusted rock players were getting stuck on in the forest

• removed blue glowing basin near lumbermill

• adjusted castle area props

• updated some notes

• tweak to bouncy mushroom in lumbermill area

• tweak firefly particles

Fixes

• backend performance optimizations

• fixed doors sometimes not opening/closing for clients

• fixed quest turn-in door sometimes sticking closed/open

• fixed issue with spectators not hearing players or seeing certain things happen

• fixed questgivers sometimes getting stuck on each other

• fixed chicken double-grab duplication and infinite fire death bug

• fixed spike wall trap not triggering

• fixed bug with getting too much honor from killing enemies

• fixed merchant items being grabbable by clients without buying and falling through map

• fixed incorrect quest description for one of the quests

Items

• crossbow

  • arrow damage back to 2 on players, unless headshot

  • fixed animation not resetting on the next day

Sounds

• fixed cooking sound not playing properly on client

• fixed cooking sound fading after pulling off early

• fixed clients not hearing candles blowing out

• fixed torch sound on totem not fading out when broken

UI

• added hint for next page in quest journal

• day count shows when all players die but game is not over

• fixed spectator HUD not disappearing on respawn

Other

• fixed crash caused by clicking "Next player" while spectating and all players dead

• adjusted spawn points in knight's room

• female merchants no longer have helmets due to clipping

• fixed player bell not ringing

• fixed poppable cork in the inn barrel not popping

Quest System

• players now receive multiple quests per day, starting at different days:

  • 2 quests starting day 10

  • 3 quests starting day 20

  • 4 quests starting day 30

  • 5 quests starting day 50

• improved quest selection per day, to minimize repeated quest types

Character Customizer

• added new faces

• added new hair style

• added new helmets

Miscellaneous

• fixed bug where quitting to menu from solo would get stuck on loading screen

• update hammer texture

VOIP

• fixed issue with voice input not setting properly

Quests

• adjusted some less obvious spawn locations for items

• popup at bed to skip night now says if there are missing knights

• adjusted quest picking to repeat areas less frequently

• cauldron quest

  • fixed potion boxes not being interactable

• gate sword fetch

  • adjust spawn points

• chop wood

  • remove quest particles from chopping block

Enemies

• fixed issue with dangler not forgetting player location

• reduce crawler health and speed when aggroed, wandering behavior

• reduced min and max sprint range for hollowman

• reduced health and chance to charge for followers

• reduced health for the meatman

Environment

• knight's room

  • add compendium with notes on monsters

  • add meat leg spawner to knight's room

• adjust apothecary layout

• increase light radius for lanterns in the environment

• swing speed for sword, axe, mace increased

• fixed most quest items not deleting

• added barrier so that players/items can't go behind gate door

• chickens drop meat on death

• tweak to crawler chase pattern to minimize door clocking

• fix for lobby session not closing, potentially causing failure to rejoin lobbies etc.

• Fix for save system not properly loading held equipment

• Reduced Quest Growth health from 5 to 3

• Decreased player fall damage

  • Players should no longer take 2 damage from falling from small heights

• Cultist adjustments

  • Reduced Cultist aggression and health

• Weeping Angel adjustments

  • Fixed not teleporting away in houses and blocking players in doorways

• Hand axe adjustments

  • Increased damage from 1 to 2

  • Cost increased to 100 honor

• Increased hammer swing speed

• Weapons will not longer be used by pressing "E key"

• Decreased head explode chance from Green Goo Potion

Updates with Spoilers (!!)

• Decreased head explode chance from Green Goo Potion

  • \ Upon damage from Good Potion there is now a 10% (from 50%) chance that your head will explode \

• Cultist adjustments

  • Reduced Cultist aggression and health

  • Cultists are less likely to charge you at first sight \

  • Cultists health reduced from 6 to 4 \

  • Cultist will build aggro slower when looking at them from farther away

• Weeping Angel adjustments

  • Fixed not teleporting away in houses and blocking players in doorways

  • Will now aggro onto players that try to damage them

⚔️ Your time on the nights watch begins here, with the full version of Knights End! ⚔️

Begin your first night's deadly task. How many nights can you survive in this medieval horror roguelike?

• play endless thrilling nights to complete your quests of increasing difficulty

• use your wits to escape from the horrifying enemies that threaten your life -- fight them if you dare

• gather honor by completing lowly tasks to serve your villagers' will

• play through the eerie areas of the map and venture into the deep forest

• reveal the full story of the knights told in the hidden notes

You are conscripted, the King has spoken . . .

The Knight Shift thanks you for your support! Do not perish to the night!