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White Knuckle Beta 0.62b Changes After beating the Nest for the first time, you no longer are psychically interrupted when first entering Mother's chamber on repeat playthroughs. A certain new scary encounter denizen will stop spawning for the remainder of a run if you encounter
Changes Raised the chances of some random spooky encounters for the season. Added the Brick Pier to the Lost Pier Rotation. Bugfixes Fixed the Engraved Door being able to show up in Arterial Bypass Fixed incorrect subtitles being applied to the Adenocells Thanks for playing the u
Boo! Got you didn't I? With that out of the way, it's time for White Knuckle to celebrate the spooky season ! As mentioned in the Shortcuts and Accessibility Update post, we've been hard at work on Core so this year's Halloween event is smaller than last year's... But that's not
Changes Rendering Switched back to DX11 to fix a couple of crashes that were happening on older systems with poor DX12 support. Performance Further reduced passive memory usage to hopefully reduce hitching and excess memory usage leading to crashes during long sessions. Perks Arm
Changes The papers in Interlude: Analysis no longer respawn if they've been grabbed during the run. The Entity Scanner now highlights Keys and Handwheel items. Reduced the cost of Grapple Pitons from 8 roaches to 5. Bugfixes Fixed being able to place items in lockers while they a
Changes Grapple Piton Increased the Grapple Piton range by 5 meters. The Grapple Piton now gets a 10 meter range boost with Piton Enthusiast. Added a light which indicates whether the target surface is in range or not. Bugfixes Fixed a bug in the Rat King's AI and navigation wher
Crash Notice Hey there! We've been getting reports about crashes on launch , and in nearly all cases they seem related to having mods previously installed that are incompatible with the newest version of the game. If you run into any issues, please uninstall any mods (including b
Bugfixes Fixed keybinds not saving properly (sorgy) Rho Lightning particles for the altars and Artifact Device is red again. Vendors in the Duct To Abyss safe area now save and load properly. You can no longer walk around while inside of the Diver to Nest safe area computer. Powe
Thank you everyone for playing and reporting issues! Here's our first hotfix of the S&A update <3 NOTICE: Due to a bug with saved keybinds and our new input backend, we've had to reset your keybinds once more to ensure a blank slate. Sorry about that! Bugfixes Fixed some p
Greetings Climbers! It's time again for a Major Update! What kind of update? Well... White Knuckle Beta 0.61 Welcome to the Shortcuts and Accessibility Update! As the name would suggest, it's got two big features: Introducing: The Rotten Duct Rotten Duct - Habitation Skip Region,
Bugfixes & Balance Changes! Changes Perks Anomalous Bonds Anomalous bonds now converts disks to special non-insertable disk trinkets on revive instead of disintegrating them. Portable Bank Unlocked earlier in general progression Now provides a minor temporary movement buff (r
Hey everyone! Big hotfix coming in with a bunch of QOL changes as well! Changes Items Reload/Shoot Pocket Buffer Your pocket button now is buffered when shooting or reloading sidearms (Handgun, Flaregun, Cryogun), so if pressed it will pocket the first frame it is able. In additi
Lotsa changes! Some big, some small, lots of fixes too. We've been trying to smash this Nest rare level gen issue and I'm hoping this hotfix does it. We haven't been able to recreate it internally, so if this update somehow doesn't fix it please let us know! Okay, onto the stuff!
Bugfixes Fixed the competitive mode perk pool not actually reducing perks. Fixed artifacts rarely not recharging. Fixed a bug which would prevent the Mother achievement from activating. Sister Grubs should no longer leap to their untimely demise in Interlude: Symbiosis Fixed two
Changes The Nest Added a flashlight spawn to the Nest safe room. Added a secret flaregun to the Nest safe room. Endless Nest Made the subregion transitional vents for the nest two meters high, allowing for walking/sprinting navigation. Lowered the Mass speed in Infested Labs Lowe
Changes Bazaar You can now get the Barnacle Hook from the Bazaar in any endless mode. You can now get the Cryo Gun (From the chimney) from the Bazaar in any endless mode. When you have the Cryo Gun, each break room spawns with a cryo-refueler. Added some directional guidance from
Bugfixes Fixed a bug preventing players from entering SSL. Fixed an issue where the mass would sometimes consume the player immediatly upon leaving the Bazaar. Fixed some achievements not granting in steam. If this affected you, simply start the game and they should auto-fill! Re
Hello Climbers! Your next challenge awaits. The fifth region, The Nest , has been released! But before we get to the details, We're on sale during this Summer Sale (Later Today!) The game's price will be increasing after the sale , so fair warning if you're thinking about picking
Greetings Climbers! We know you all have been waiting with shaking hands for any news about our next big region update: The Nest. We've been incredibly excited too! On a completely unrelated note, White Knuckle will be part of the upcoming Steam Summer Sale and we'd like to annou
White Knuckle Beta 0.55q Console Changes Added aliases, which allow for defining new commands in the console. The Delay command can now also have a frame count or second count specified. Binds can now include space in their keychords. Bug Fixes Forward+: Reworked tiling algorithm