- Hollow Knight: Silksong’s latest patch is now in public beta
- It has an ongoing simplified Chinese translation
- The new translation will replace one that was met with criticism from Chinese-speaking players
Hollow Knight: Silk Song‘s latest patch is now live via the game’s Steam public beta branch, and it looks to improve the sloppy simplified Chinese translation of the launch version, while also bringing in a host of other fixes.
For context, the simplified Chinese translation of the launch version was met with frustration from Chinese-speaking players, with some players suggesting that the game “reads like a Wuxia novel”. In response, developer Team Cherry promised improvements.
The first implementation of these improvements appears to be here now, as of Patch 1.0.28954. In the Steam patch notes, Team Cherry emphasizes that it has only included a “basic implementation” of its new simplified Chinese translation. But it encourages Chinese-speaking players to provide feedback, “whether it’s clarity, style, spelling or otherwise,” via a bug report form.
Aside from the introduction of the new simplified Chinese translation, this is a pretty small patch overall. The full patch notes, as per the game’s Steam page is as follows:
- Updated simplified Chinese translation with a new script for public testing. This is just a basic implementation, to be refined and updated based on player feedback.
- Various localization fixes implemented across all languages
- Switched to Unity’s input system to improve overall controller support. This includes rumble features that now work for different controllers and additional controllers being recognized. Some problems may remain.
- Fixed Styx not giving rosaries when delivering the Queen’s Egg.
- Fixed Druid’s Eyes sometimes not equipping correctly when first acquired.
- Fixed some down attack colliders getting stuck in rare cases.
- Fixed several instances of the Hornet’s plasmified state when it wasn’t intended (eg Bellway travel).
- Fixed issues with entering the plasmified state when a Winged Lifeseed was killed, instead of using the Plasmium Phial.
- Reduced unintentionally long binding time when using Multibinder with the Shaman emblem.
- Updated Multibinder’s initial binding for clear maggots, per community comments.
- Various minor tweaks and fixes.
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