Ember Knights (Switch): all the updates (latest: Skills Mastery)
On this page, you will find all there is to know about the various updates for Ember Knights on Nintendo Switch (originally released in July 2023 in North America and Europe)!
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Ember Knights – Ver. ??? (Skill Mastery)
- Release date: May 16th 2024 (North America, Europe)
- Patch notes:
New Content and FeaturesSkill UpgradesUpgrades include 3 specific upgrades and 1 Ultimate upgrade for each skill as well as a handful of general upgrades that can be applied to any skill.
General Upgrades
- Increases crit chance
- Increases damage
- Adds 1 additional charge
- Defeating an enemy with a skill heals
- Reduces the number of hits to refresh
Ember Fire
- Increases the range
- Burst an additional cone of mystical flame behind the Knight
- Shoots 3 fireballs in a spread shot
- Whenever you burn an enemy with Ember Fire, your burn effects deal increased damage
Blast Bomb
- Throws 3 bombs in a row
- Your bolts become ghosts. Whenever you defeat an enemy with a ghost bolt, another is summoned to seek and damage additional enemies
- Your bolts are imbued with a random element of burn, freeze, poison, or lightning
- Your bolts release in an expanding circle
- Arcane Bolts refreshes quicker
Rupture
- The ground is ruptured dealing damage over time
- You gain Max HP for each enemy defeated by Rupture. Enemies have a chance to turn into a potato
- Enemies below a certain HP are instantly defeated by Rupture
Chakram
- Whenever Chakram bounces off the Knight, their next weapon attack is a guaranteed crit
- Whenever you cast a perfect Chakram, your first hit is a crit
- Leaves a trail of fire that burns enemies
- Your Knight’s Charge is a decoy projectile that stuns enemies
- Whenever 3 or more enemies are hit by a perfect Knight’s Charge, it refreshes
Warrior Wisps
- Increases max Wisps by 1. Wisps no longer have a lifetime
- You gain weapon damage for each Wisp you have
- Whenever a Wisp is defeated, each Knight is healed
- Increases damage, speed, and HP for all Wisps
Frost Wall
- Whenever an enemy is defeated by Frost Wall, they explode dealing damage and freeze enemies behind them
- Increases Frost Wall damage and freezes enemies that contact the Frost Wall
- Your Frost Wall is an expanding ice ring dealing damage and freeze
- Your Frost Wall permanently freezes elite and champion enemies
Cyclone
- You gain move speed for each active Cyclone
- Whenever a Cyclone dies, lightning is summoned
- Your Cyclone stays with the Knight and no longer pulls enemies
- Chunks of earth are thrown dealing damage
Hailstone Armor
- Thrown snowballs create an ice spike dealing AOE damage around the target
- Gain a passive aura that slows enemies around you
- Whenever you cast a perfect Hailstone Armor, you become temporarily invulnerable
- Whenever you cast a perfect Hailstone Armor, you gain armor. Also releases a frost nova that freezes
Ballista
- Your Ballista is imbued with a random element of burn, freeze, poison, or lightning
- Your Ballista shoots a spread of 3 arrows
- Whenever an enemy is damaged by Ballista, you heal
- Ballista can be picked up. Whenever it’s picked up, it refreshes
Phantom Spear
- Deals bonus damage for each poisoned enemy
- Your Phantom Spear explodes dealing AOE damage
- Enemies hit by Phantom Spear are dealt max poison stacks
- Enemies hit by Phantom Spear are haunted and spawn a ghost when defeated by Phantom Spear
Arcane Orb
- Arcane Orb refreshes quicker
- Arcane Orb is a cone of damage
- Whenever Arcane Orb refreshes, 3 seeking orbs are summoned
- Whenever charging, multiple seeking orbs are released
Judgment
- Summons an additional set of lightning bolts
- Enemies in the cast radius are rooted
- Whenever you cast a perfect Judgment, your next 6 weapon attacks have lightning
- Gain a static aura that deals AOE damage
Seek and Destroy
- Your drill stays in place and deals AOE damage
- Enemies hit by your drill are rooted
- Your drill will seek indefinitely until it fails to defeat a target
Cloak and Dagger
- Your Dagger is replaced with 3 Daggers that attack in a cone
- Whenever entering or exiting invisibility, conjure up to 3 lightning bolts
- While invisible, unleash ghosts to seek and damage enemies. Enemies hit by your Dagger attack are haunted
- Whenever entering or exiting invisibility, your next weapon attack is a guaranteed crit and deals increased damage
Arlan’s Lucky Dice
- Rolling a 1 also conjures a food and rolling a 2 also conjures a gem
- Rolling a 3 also summons a Wisp and rolling a 4 also summons a Ballista
- The chance of rolling a 5 or 6 are doubled
- Rolls a second of Arlan’s Lucky Dice
Soul Siphon
- Whenever an enemy is defeated by Soul Siphon, it refreshes quicker
- Conjures 3 beams
- Enemies defeated by Soul Siphon leave a damage AOE where they were defeated
- Whenever Soul Siphon refreshes, permanently increase skill damage
Gravity Well
- Conjure a beam to pierce and pull enemies towards a black hole
- Enemies hit by Gravity Well are frozen and no longer stunned
- Gravity Well ends with an explosion of chain lightning that seeks other enemies
- Gravity Well destroys enemy projectiles
Quasar Orbs
- Quasar Orbs refreshes quicker
- Your Quasar Orbs deals 3 cones of damage
- Whenever Quasar Orbs refreshes, 3 seeking orbs are summoned
- Whenever charging, multiple seeking orbs are released
Skill Upgrade Achievements
- Unlock skill upgrading
- Unlock all upgrades for a skill
- Unlock all upgrades for all skills
PAX Competition ModeAccess this fun new game mode via the Main Menu!
Balancing & Minor AdjustmentsIn addition to the new content and features, we’ve also made the following changes.
Skills
- Increased the presence of skill rooms in all map layouts
- Renamed to Seek and Destroy
- Updated travel distance based on charge amount
- Added a knock-up to enemies in its travel path
- Added a burst of AOE damage to the end of its travel path
- Updated to seek another enemy if an enemy is killed with its AOE damage
- Updated the HUD to show the time left for being invisible
- Updated to allow the Dagger portion of the attack to be used with the attack button while invisible
Relics
- Increased frequency of legendary relics appearing
- Added the ability to upgrade relics that are limited to being owned by one player. Applies to Pristine Band and Withercore
- “Enemies that you burn deal reduced damage”
- Epic rarity
- Damage reduction of 20%
- Max owned of 1
- Reworked to “Your first skill hit on an enemy deals skill damage”
- Damage of 30 * skill damage %
- Damage growth of 10
- Max owned of 2
- Reworked to “Whenever you defeat an enemy with lightning, you gain armor.”
- Increases max armor of 10 on pickup
- Armor gain of 3
- Max armor growth of 5
- Max owned of 4
- Reworked to “Whenever a player defeats a poisoned enemy, they drop a Withering Core that heals”
- Healing growth of 2
- Max owned of 4
- Dropped item applies to all players
- Can only be equipped by one player
- Reworked to add flat bonus damage to Wisps
- Damage of 15
- Damage growth of 10
- Increased duration from 6s to 8s
- Duration growth of 2s
- Max owned of 2
- Changed from common to epic
- Can no longer be upgraded
- Increased healing from 1 to 10
- Increased growth from 1 to 5
- Increased damage from 5 to 15
- Increased growth from 5 to 10
- Increased proc chance from 25% to 75%
- Max stacks of 2 for 100% chance
- Increased damage from 3-15 to 15-30
- Increased damage from 25% to 30%
- Increased HP from 1 to 5
- Increased growth from 1 to 2
- Increased max owned from 4 to 5
- Can only be equipped by one player
- Increased skill damage from 15% to 50%
- Increased poison stacks from 1/2/3 to 3/4/5
- Increased bonus skill damage from 50% to 75%
- Increased max owned from 2 to 4
- Increased duration from 3s to 8s
- Increased damage from 5 to 25
- Increase growth from 5 to 10
- Increased damage from 15 to 25
- Increased max owned from 1 to 4
- Increased base projectiles from 1 to 2
- Added projectile growth of 1
- Increased frequency of appearing
- Increased HP threshold from 20% to 50%
- Increased bonus stats from 5% to 10%
- Increased max armor growth from 5 to 10
- Increased gained armor from 2 to 5
- Increased damage from 40 to 70
- Increased bonus skill damage from 25% to 50%
- Increased duration from 6s to 8s
- Increased damage from 15 to 25
- Increased bonus damage multiplier from 50% to 100%
- Increased damage from 25 to 40
- Decreased growth from 25 to 15
- Increased HP threshold from 15% to 50%
- Increased healing per enemy rooted from 2 to 5
- Increased tick damage from 3 to 10 * skill damage %
- Removed cooldown
- Increased damage from 15 to 30
- Increased HP from 100 to 550
- Increased attack rate from 1s to 0.75s
- Removed lifetime
Curses
- Updated to preserve rarity on swap
- Updated to apply to all players
Void Mantle
- Cooldown resets when entering a new room
- Reduced charge time based on the number of orbs that are stored
- Removed charge requirement when 5 orbs are already stored
- Prioritized enemies hit by the charge attack
- Removing targeting on invulnerable enemies
- Increased damage from 30 to 50
- Updated to work like Darkening. Deals base damage or 10% enemy health damage; whichever is higher
- Updated visuals
Dark Spell: Celestial Tear
- Removed requirement of hitting an enemy to activate
Scoggfirth
- Reduced spawn count
Wightsbury
- Added a green glow to indicate when the next room is a Wight room
- Reduced attack speed
- Reduced range
- Reduced number of projectiles
- Added a max spawn count
Anville
- Reduced the number of traps
- Reduced the max number of supercharged enemies
- Various visual improvements
- Reduced range to match its champion version
- Reduced attack radius
- Added a max speed to its chase attack
- Reduced active range for its projectile attack
Champion Enemies
- Reduced HP on various champions
- Reduced the number of additional enemies that can spawn during the fight
- Reduced the number of regular Rotworms
- Removed the additional spawning of regular Rotworms
Tyrant Difficulty Mod
- Reduced attack speed
- Decreased spawn rate for some attacks
- Improved attack visuals
- Updated to show Praxis with each attack
- Added a short delay before attack
- Improved attack visuals
Misc
- Adjusted and balanced the HP of most enemies
- A bunch of memory optimizations and improvements
- Various localization improvements
Bug FixesLast but not least, we fixed a bunch of issues.
- Fixed a bug that was preventing some weapon challenges from being completed if a player is dead when a boss is defeated
- Fixed a multiplayer bug that could cause a crash if a client is webbed when Arachna Za dies
- Fixed a multiplayer bug that was preventing players from reconnecting in Netherra if all the stat gem rooms were cleared
- Fixed a bug that was causing players to get stuck when their controller disconnects the moment a boss is defeated and the north door opens
- Fixed a visual issue with Praxis where he would leap offscreen if he loses his target at the start of his claw attack
- Fixed a bug with Guardian Angel where Praxis enemies could still kill the player
- Fixed a bug that was occasionally causing frozen enemies to appear invisible when spawning
- Fixed a bug where the SFX for the Healing Fountain would stop playing
- Fixed a bug that was preventing the SFX from playing for the Ember Blade’s Whirlwind mod
- Fixed a bug that was preventing the Ember Dust popup from appearing for A Greater Power
- Fixed a bug that could cause the player to get softlocked if skipping the Ember Dust unlock sequence before identifying a Skill with Evee
- Fixed a bug that could cause the Suppression Obelisk to spawn when exiting a secret room
- Fixed a bug that was causing the glow of an enemy to turn white when stunned
- Fixed a bug that was causing the Doom Shell to stop spinning on the double roll
- Fixed a bug that was preventing the VFX from appearing on Shade’s leap attack
- Fixed a bug that was causing animations on the tear in the Architect’s Realm to stop playing
- Fixed a bug that was causing DoT attacks to stop the Whirmaw from doing its spin attack
- Fixed a bug that was causing Aim Assist to target the invincible traps in the Overtime Scrapper’s room
- Fixed a bug that was preventing the Rift Hammer’s Combat Slam from converting apples into apple sauce
- Fixed a bug that was only pausing the Mimic King’s record player after being hit
- Fixed a few issues with boss health bars while having Pantheon active
- Fixed a few issues with navigating the Ember Tree UI
- Fixed a few issues with navigating the Weapon Mod UI
- Additional notes: none
- Source: Twin Sails Interactive (Steam)
Ember Knights – Ver. 1.0.4
- Release date: December 12th 2023 (North America, Europe)
- Patch notes:
Ver. 1.2.0 (Knights Reforged Update)
New Content and FeaturesWeapon Mods
- Overhauled the entire mod system
- Added a new Ultimate Mod for each weapon
- Honed – No change
- Spark – No change
- Stagger (NEW)
- Your first weapon hit on an enemy has a chance to stun
- Whirlwind – No change
- Lunge – No change
- Momentum – No change
- Rapid Shot – No change
- Spread Shot – No change
- Volley – No change
- Marked Shot – No change
- Explosive Arrows – No change
- Luminescence – No change
- Auto Orbs – No change
- Wisdom – No change
- Clairvoyance – No change
- Knock Out – No change
- Unstable Rift – No change
- Safeguard – No change
- Detonate – No change
- Live Wire – No change
- Hefty – No change
- Proficiency – No change
- Empowered – No change
- Serrated – No change
- Summoner – No change
- Shroud – No change
- Refill – No change
- Added a new sequence and legendary relic reward for completing the Ember Tree
- Overhauled the entire Ember Tree
- Easy Money – No change
- Confidence – No change
- Fury – No change
- Second Wind – No change
- Relic Dice – No change
- Added 17 new relics
- When you defeat a boss, you’ll find a special new monument to that victory in the Nexus
- Beat the boss without taking damage to achieve a perfect victory version
- Interact with the trophy for a world-specific effect
Wightsbury Updating
- Changed cone attack to lobbing poison projectiles
- When festering (turning purple), it fires 3 poison projectiles and gains increased move speed, attack speed and max HP, and leaves a poison puddle upon dying
- No longer remains stuck in the ground and explodes when contacting the player
- Adjusted attack anticipation for the dive attack
- Daggers no longer remain stuck in the ground after the downward strike attack
- Daggers no longer remain stuck in the ground after the downward strike attack
- Adjusted attack anticipation for the dagger throwing attack. *Daggers now debuff the player, increasing damage taken by 25% for 5s
- Throws a whirlwind of daggers when HP drops below 20%
- Updated to jump across pits
- Swipe attack has a 25% chance to attack again in the opposite direction
- New chase attack that targeted player is rushed with 50% increased move speed. *Will jump to its target, if needed
- Will become enraged and stun is removed when HP drops below 80%. *While enraged, it gains 50% move speed, 25% attack speed, and 25% damage
- Can now teleport across pits
- Can now teleport across pits
- Removed invincibility from the floating laser attack
- New visuals to better indicate the enemy is supercharged
- Supercharged enemies no longer spawn Voltes upon death
- Supercharged enemies gain 50% move speed, 25% damage, and 25% HP
- Added attack indicator for its melee slam attack
- Added slight tracking to the projectile
- Updated to support movement during the seeking projectile attack
- Added attack indicator for the charging phase of the electric chase attack
- Overhauled the boss fight with new gear and new attacks
In addition to the new content and features, we’ve also made the following changes and fixes:
Relics
- Adjusted/reworked 14 relics
- Added an internal cooldown feature to some relics
- Changed rarity to common
- Changed to, whenever a skill refreshes fully, shoot a seeking missile that does base damage and skill damage
- Changed rarity to common
- Changed to flat damage
- Changed rarity to common
- Changed to skill damage
- Max armor + 5
- Gain 3% skill damage for each armor
- Changed rarity to epic
- Changed to show the constant amount instead of a %
- Added skill damage
- Changed from spawning a random Wisp to a Fire Wisp
- Changed functionality to, when the player rolls, they turn into a spinning shell and deal AOE damage along their travel path
- Bonus damage for each armor
- Added internal cooldown
- Changed rarity to common
- Max owned 4
- Added internal cooldown
- Changed to, whenever you defeat an enemy with lightning, summon a Lightning Wisp
- Added internal cooldown
- Changed from first use in a room to casting a perfect skill
- Added internal cooldown
- Changed from first kill to every kill
- Added internal cooldown
- Added internal cooldown
Misc
- Separated champion enemies from their champion rooms so they can now appear anywhere
- Updated skill damage numbers (cast, charged, perfect) to be displayed in all instances where skills are referenced
- Added the concept of Perfect Rooms and Perfect Bosses; rooms cleared without taking any damage
- Updated the player HUD to show the Knight color and armor
- Various localization improvements
- Fixed a bug that was interrupting the Netherra music with room-specific tracks
Ver. 1.2.1
Adjustments
- Adjusted various Ember Tree upgrade costs
- Updated a few enemy values for endless looping
- Loop 1
- Enemy Health – 400% (was 200%)
- Loop 2
- Enemy Health – 800% (was 400%)
- Loops 3+
- Enemy Health – continues to double on every loop
- Enemy Damage – continues to double on every loop
- Note: No change to scaling on enemy attack speed, move speed, or spawning
Fixes
- Fixed a bug with the Ember Blade where attacks couldn’t be canceled by rolling
- Fixed a bug with Doppleganger’s seeking projectiles that prevented them from spawning
- Fixed a bug with Cleanup Crew that was causing voltage traps to be destroyed when one of the minibosses is defeated
- Fixed a bug with Praxis where he could dash or teleport out of bounds
- Fixed a bug where the revive prompt wasn’t clearing after being revived by defeating a miniboss or boss
- Fixed a bug with Super Rerolls where it was causing the game to lock when used in the Relic Refinement selectors and shops
- Fixed a bug with Absolute Ambition where it was multiplying its skill damage increase
- Fixed a bug with Steward’s Gift where it wasn’t spawning the Steward properly
- Fixed a bug with the Ember Tree’s Bonus Gems upgrade where it was showing the wrong icon when locked
- Fixed some visual issues with overlapping elements in the Ember Tree
- Fixed a bug that was preventing costs from showing in the swap menu of the Ember Tree
- Fixed a bug that was causing the Perfect Room and Perfect Boss banners to stop animating when the game is paused or the player inventory is viewed
- Fixed a multiplayer bug where Perfect Rooms and Perfect Bosses were desyncing between the host and clients
- Fixed some minor localization issues
- Fixed a bug where players were unable to revive in online multiplayer games
- Fixed a bug with Overlord Mack where he was getting stuck and locking players from progressing
- Fixed a bug where Guardian Bow’s Perfectionist charge attack was registering as a third attack
- Fixed a bug that was preventing duplicate projectiles from Eye of the Storm being destroyed
- Additional notes: none
- Source: Twin Sails Interactive (Twitter) / Twin Sails Interactive (Steam) / Twin Sails Interactive (Steam)
Ember Knights – Ver. 1.0.3
- Release date: October 25th 2023 (North America, Europe)
- Patch notes:
No patch notes available.
- Additional notes: none
- Source: Twin Sails Interactive (Twitter)
Ember Knights – Ver. 1.0.2
- Release date: September 12th 2023 (North America, Europe)
- Patch notes:
No patch notes available. This update brings the following to the game:
- includes a bunch of optimizations specifically for the Switch
- adds the content currently available on PC
- brings fixes currently available on PC
- Additional notes: none
- Source: Twin Sails Interactive (Steam)
How to download updates for Ember Knights for the Nintendo Switch?
To download the updates for Ember Knights, you have three options:
- let the console do its thing if you have automatic downloads activated, and didn’t completely turn it off
If not…
- try to launch the game from the Home Menu while being connected to the internet. You should get a prompt when doing so: simply follow the instructions on screen;
OR
- select the game > press either + or – to go to the Options page > select Software update > select Via the Internet.
To check that you have the latest version installed, simply select the game on the Home Menu, and press – or + to go to the Options: the version number is displayed just below the game title.
