Blasphemous – patch 2 out now on Switch

Team17 and The Game Kitchen have issued a new patch for Blasphemous. It includes platforming improvements, level changes, tons of fixes, and more.

Below are the full patch notes:

Platforming improvements

• Collision detection during jumps tweaked to improve jump feeling.
• Jumping in mid-air is now possible for a few frames after running off a platform (Coyote time / ghost jump).
• Grab cancel action added.
• The Penitent One is now be able to jump off walls, ledges and ladders by pressing the Grab cancel action.
• The Penitent One still can hold down to fall while hanging from a ledge, but the holding time has been adjusted.
• The Penitent One will only climb a ledge if the players press Up, to prevent accidental climbing.
• Damage while wall climbing now doesn’t prevent further wall climbing. Before it was only available after touching the ground again.

Moving platforms rework

• Fixed a collision issue that made some players go through them on certain jumps.
• Added and reworked some annoying moving platforms to shorten wait times and improve level navigation.
• Iterated a few areas featuring moving platforms, to improve platforming and navigation, and make wait times shorter.

Localization

• Fixed several typos in different languages.

Player fixes and changes

• Fixed a bug that caused TPO to pass through walls in certain jump conditions.
• Removed ladder landing screen shake effect
• Fixed a bug that caused falling attacks to continually loop in rare situations.
• Improved Weight of Sin timing.

Level changes

• Improved navigation in shortcut between Sleeping Canvases and Mercy Dreams (The infamous room full of spikes!)
• Slight geometry tweaks in Wasteland of the Buried Churches and Archcathedral Rooftops.

Guilt Fragment placement fixes

• All spike traps have been corrected to prevent a strange behaviour forcing guilt fragments to appear in Albero.
• Fixed a bug that caused Guilt Fragments to get stuck in between scenes under the elevator at Library of Negated Words sometimes.
• Fixed a bug that caused Guilt Fragment appearing right in front of the burning tree on Perpetva’s fight to be impossible to retrieve.

Graphical fixes

• Reflections were not working in scenes like the Halite Lake and the dark room after Melquiades.
• Fixed level sprites.
• Added decorative sprites of wax below red and blue candles on scenes.
• Socorro’s animation loops fixed.
• When using a controller to exit the teleport menu, TPO didn’t make an exit animation and remained invisible.
• Fix snow falling inside screen space (Mountains).
• Fixed door sprites clipping through the penitent one in Wasteland of Buried Churches.
• Fixed an issue with the Retribution animation
• In certain locations, the head of The Penitent One could be seen sticking out when falling down a pit.
• Fixed a bug where The Penitent One would face the wrong way when going though certain doorways.

Softlock fixes

• The Great Elevator in Archcathedral Rooftops could cause a softlock.
• Interacting with Our Lady of the Six Sorrows a second time could cause a softlock.
• Dying when falling through a pit with the inventory open could cause a softlock.
• The loading screen between the two phases of the Escribar fight could cause a softlock.

Level fixes

• Mea Culpa level could be increased several times at the same shrine.
• The Penitent One could be hit while resting on a certain Prie Dieu.
• Fixed transitions to a few screens in which enemies will start attacking The Penitent One if the loading time took too long.
• Players could bypass abyss deathtraps when falling into them using the Weight of Sin skill.
• Removed an extra blue candle on Engracias’ room that shouldn’t be there.
• Fixed transitions where TPO would be facing the opposite direction they came from.
• Hanging chains of giant clapper in Jondo sometimes disappeared when they shouldn’t
• Fixed Penitent One falling off the world when sliding through the door of the Bridge of the Three Calvaries.

Storyline/NPC fixes

• Duplicated Golden Thimble on gemino quest.
• Escribar cutscene 3 doesn’t show properly sometimes.
• Viridiana can be exploited if TPO leaves the boss room before she vanishes.
• Offering the 3rd mask to the Elevator and force quitting won’t let the player access the fourth level.
• Fixed an issue that caused the last conversation with Our Lady of Our Six Sorrows to never be played.

Item fixes

• Chalice of Inverted Verses couldn’t be refilled in certain conditions.
• Chalice of Inverted Verses empties itself after the pontiff cutscenes.

Bosses fixes

• Our Lady of the Charred Visage’s laser could still fire and doesn’t disappear even after she’s dead, and still deals damage.
• Players could skip fighting Quirce using air impulse to reach the other side of the gap that led to his battle.
• Fixed Warden of the Silent Sorrow collider.
• The Penitent One will appear and perform the execution animation from both sides of Crisanta.

Enemy fixes

• Monfràgora errors fixed.
• Tizona flickering fixed.
• Amargura collider issues fixed. Improved hitbox.
• Guardainfante shockwave animation fix.
• Fixed Wraith enemy and projectile colliders.

Misc fixes

• Map icon location fixes.
• Fixed a bug where if the player collected all cherubs before visiting Jocinero for the first time, they would not receive the rewards.
• The map can now be closed by pressing the same button used to open it.
• Fixed a bug where the map screen would immediately appear when loading a save.
• Fixed various unintended behaviours that occurred when controllers were disconnected mid-game.

Credits fixes

• Backer credits updated and fixed.
• Credits updated.
• Fixed a bug where docking/undocking Switch could cause credits to misalign. (Nintendo Switch only)

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