Hollow Knight: Silksong’s first update will make the early game a bit easier

After a stellar release, Team Cherry is getting to work on Hollow Knight: Silksong’s post-launch support. In the first patch for the game, which is planned to arrive in the coming week, the indie studio will rebalance some early game encounters to ease its difficulty.

Silksong being too difficult is one of the chief complaints from the community at the moment, so Team Cherry will be hoping to address these concerns with the planned improvements. Players on Steam and GOG can already preview the balance overhaul by opting into the beta branch of the game on their respective PC storefront.

Additionally, the first update will fix several bugs the community encountered.

Here’s a full overview of changes planned for Hollow Knight: Silksong update 1.0.28470:

• Fixed situation where players could remain cloakless after Slab escape sequence.
• Fixed wish Infestation Operation often not being completable during the late game.
• Fixed wish Beast in the Bells not being completable when Bell Beast is summoned at the Bilewater Bellway during the late game.
• Fixed getting stuck floating after down-bouncing on certain projectiles.
• Fixed courier deliveries sometimes being inaccessible in Act 3.
• Fixed craft bind behaving incorrectly when in memories.
• Fixed Lace tool deflect soft-lock at start of battle in Deep Docks.
• Fixed Silk Snippers in Chapel of the Reaper sometimes getting stuck out of bounds.
• Fixed Claw Mirrors leaving Hornet inverted if taking damage during a specific moment while binding.
• Fixed Snitch Pick not giving rosaries and shell shards as intended.
• Removed float override input (down + jump, after player has Faydown Cloak).
• Slight difficulty reduction in early game bosses Moorwing and Sister Splinter.
• Reduction in damage from Sandcarvers.
• Slight increase in pea pod collider scale.
• Slight reduction in mid-game Bellway and Bell Bench prices.
• Slight increase in rosary rewards from relics and psalm cylinders.
• Increase in rosary rewards for courier deliveries.
• Various additional fixes and tweaks.

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