Knight vs Giant: The Broken Excalibur (Switch): all the updates (latest: Ver. 1.0.7)

1 March 2024 Lite_Agent Gambir Studios, Knight vs Giant: The Broken Excalibur, PQube

On this page, you will find all there is to know about the various updates for Knight vs Giant: The Broken Excalibur on Nintendo Switch (originally released in October 2023 in North America and Europe)!

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Knight vs Giant: The Broken Excalibur – Ver. 1.0.7

Release date: March 1st 2024 (North America, Europe)
Patch notes:

Ver. 1.0.6

Improvement & Balancing

Added 12 new Knight blessings

Added 10 new merchant items

Added MARKED, a new status effect that increases the critical chance when attacking marked enemies

Reduced Sword of Camlann’s sword stagger damage

Optimized game resolution when playing on monitors with 4:3 or 5:4 resolution

Increased invincibility duration after dodging and taking damage

Rebalanced the values of tarot card blessings and curses

Rebalanced rune values

Bug Fixes

Fixed the collider size and position of the forest giant and desert giant

Fixed the attack collider size and position of Molten Golem

Fixed the Japanese localisation text for some blessings

Fixed the calculation of the sword damage upgrade at Greybeard’s Camp

Fixed joystick vibration not stopping when pausing the game

Fixed achievements not unlocking in the Epic Game Store version of the game

Fixed the calculation of the Blood Clover item and Heartpiercer blessing instant kill value

Ver. 1.0.7

In this update, we have implemented gameplay modifiers that allow you to deeply customize the level of challenge you’ll experience during runs. This new feature will unlock after you have recruited the Jester to your kingdom and will trigger either when you head into a dungeon, or when you talk to the Jester in the kingdom. The modifier settings will remain unchanged unless altered, meaning they will not reset once you return from your run.

Each active modifier will progress the bar by 1 node, with bonus coins and giant crystals available for every 5 nodes (+125%, +150%, +200%). The more challenging your runs, the higher the amount of coins and crystals that will drop once an area has been cleared.

Enemy HP (100%, 150%, 200%) – increases the HP of enemies

Enemy Damage (100%, 150%, 200%) – increases the damage dealt by enemies

Enemy Count (100%, 150%, 200%) – increases the amount of enemies spawned (not including mini-bosses and giants)

Additional Elite Enemies (Normal, +1, +2) – increases the amount of Elite Enemies in the first wave of each room

Arthur Max HP (100%, 75%, 50%) – reduces Arthur’s max HP

Disable Active Skill Slots (none, 1 slot, 2 slots) – reduces the amount of Active Skill Slots

Merchant item Prices (100%, 150%, 200%) – increases the price of items sold by the traveling merchant

Disable Runes Drop – no runes will be dropped

Improvements & bug fixes:

Fixed Bors’ secondary skill (Slicing Orbit) knives always dealing critical damage for each of knife

Fixed roll/dodge length becoming shorter after attacking or getting damaged

Increased the spawn chance and amount of potions

Tristan’s secondary skill (Thousand Blossom Slash) now always hits 3 times even if there’s only 1 enemy left

Additional notes: none
Source: Gambir Studios (Steam) / Gambir Studios (Steam)

Knight vs Giant: The Broken Excalibur – Ver. 1.0.5

Release date: November 15th 2023 (North America, Europe)
Patch notes:

New content:

Revamped Morgana’s curse and blessing system. 20 new curse and blessing pairings have been added

Curses/blessings now come in pairs, offering different playstyles and greater risk-and-reward

Players can now see the curse/blessing effects before deciding to accept Morgana’s offer

Elite enemies will now appear as players progress through the game. These enemies are bigger, have more health, and have more dangerous attack patterns

Giants now have new additional attacks

Improvement & Balancing:

Percival’s sword’s last hit in a combo now inflicts the “weak” status effect • Increased Percival’s sword damage (30 to 45)

Increased Tristan’s sword damage (30 to 35)

Improved the AI behaviour of giants

Increased Bedivere’s “Furious Intent” attack speed (from 2% to 7% for other swords, 10% for Bedivere’s sword)

Increased Bedivere’s “Obtuse Cleave” radius (from 10% to 20% for other swords, 50% for Bedivere’s sword)

Increased Lancelot’s “Death Blow” health threshold for increased damage to enemies with low HP (from 10% to 25% enemy HP remaining)

Increased Percival’s “Pinpoint Attack” critical chance (from 2.5% to 5% for other swords, 4% to 7% for Percival’s sword)

Increased Tristan’s “Artisanal Swordplay” attack speed (from 5% to 10% for other swords, 7% to 10% for Tristan’s Sword)

Increased Tristan’s “Windswept Step” value (from 3% to 4% for other swords, 5% to 7% for Tristan’s sword)

Increased Percival’s critical damage multiplier (from 120% to 140%)

Increased Percival’s critical chance (from 1% to 5%)

Increased Percival’s base sword damage (from 35 to 45)

Increased Bedivere’s critical chance (from 1% to 5%)

Players must now hold the interact button to use fountains (community request)

Improved Solpion’s attack telegraph visibility

Improved enemy AI (ranged enemies will now keep their distance from the player)

Increased Road Roller’s explosion area

Sword experience won’t be displayed if the upgrade feature has not been unlocked at the blacksmith building

Increased Acidic Discharge’s poison area

Increase Acidic Discharge’s blessing damage (5 > 10)

Increased Toxic Sprout’s blessing damage (10 > 20) and poison duration (3s > 5s)

Increased Grail Blazer’s blessing burn damage (5 > 10)

Increased Poison Attack blessing poison damage (10 > 15)

Fixed the Violet flower buff giving 10 bonus Soul Orbs instead of the stated range

Fixed the cooldown duration of sword skills inaccurately displayed

Fixed the effect calculations for the following blessings and items: “Rupturing Cut”, “Stinger’s Chase”, “Nimble Streak”, “Ki Breathing”, “Wolf’s Dexterity”, “Devastating Rush”, “Furious Intent”, “Artisanal Swordplay”, and “Heartpiercer”

Fixed the effect calculations for the following items: “Wind Pendant” and “Blood Clover”

Fixed the descriptions for the following blessings: “Lethal Toxic”, “Volcanic Surge”, “Afterburn”

Collected runes are now shown on the stat window

“God Mode” is now displayed on the HUD when active

Secondary skill cooldown will now show above Arthur

Polished the enemy stagger bar

Increased text size on several UIs to improve visibility (Camelot weapon selection, Round Table blessing selection, game over, victory, and play stats screens)

Increased invulnerable duration after taking damage

Increased dodge iFrame length

Added additional iFrames after a successful dodge

Minor performance improvements

Fixed a bug where Arthur could get damaged after Rocknoid or Infernix attacks finished • Fixed health potion spawn chance

Fixed the attack speed value shown on the knight’s statue menu to accurately reflect in-game speed

Fixed an invisible blocker that appeared if the Forest Giant was defeated while casting root attack

Fixed rock enemies (Rocknoid, Rocklett, Rockling) sometimes attacking too quickly after spawning

Fixed rock enemies (Rocknoid, Rocklett, Rockling) getting stuck after attacking

Fixed Laser Totem and Hellhound attack telegraphs disappearing too quickly

Fixed Percival’s sword animation sometimes getting stuck if the player had attack speed blessing

Fixed Pincoid’s attack area differing from its telegraph

Fixed Beetonate’s bomb explosion causing no damage

Fixed Beetonate’s bomb randomly exploding while moving

Fixed the player being unable to pick up spirit orbs after using active skills

Fixed Cactopod, Cactopellet and Cactorrent not being visible behind some trees

Fixed Scarax still moving after being stunned

Fixed Hard Hit’s damage area

Minor bug fixes and game optimization

Additional notes: none
Source: Gambir Studios (Twitter)

Knight vs Giant: The Broken Excalibur – Ver. 1.0.2

Release date: October 24th 2023 (North America, Europe)
Patch notes:

Quality of life improvements

Secondary skills automatically refresh after clearing an area

Adjusted Arthur’s default movement speed

Adjusted Lancelot’s, Bors’s, and Bedivere’s skill cooldown

Added a quest display on the pause menu

Removed Arthur’s falling animation when teleporting to other rooms

Removed Arthur’s animation after buying from the merchant

Reduced the hold time needed to select a blessing

Added a max level upgrade indicator on the blacksmith upgrade window (up to level 20)

The mason now can be recruited in Brochalant Forest

Sword level and skill level are now displayed on the player stats menu

The merchant now sells giant souls

Fixed a misspelled name in the credits

Fixed the size of the merchant window

Bug fixes

Fixed the gem merchant’s “Envy Gem” speed bonus value

Fixed an issue where the Void Giant was unable to be attacked in certain positions

Fixed a localization error on the quest menu in FR and ES

Fixed the values of all gem blessings

Fixed Galahad’s Bounty Hunter upgrade

Fixed certain status effect blessings that did not work alongside similar blessings

Giants are now susceptible to some status effects (poison, burn, weak)

Fixed the flower cart that previously increased player attack damage

Fixed the Void Giant and Architect defeat achievements

Fixed the Totem mini boss laser attack telegraph visual bug

Fixed the game becoming unresponsive on a loading screen

Giant souls from the merchant are now retained when returning to Camelot

Fixed Percival’s “Cavalric Stance” blessing description to display 20% (priorly 2%)

Balancing

Adjusted the Pan Piper’s survival challenge duration

Rebalanced the Pan Piper’s wave challenge

Rebalanced the values of sword upgrades at the blacksmith

Adjusted the unlock requirements for knight statues/swords to be available earlier

Adjusted Arthur’s hitbox

Adjusted the attack range and damage of some swords

Adjusted the blessing effect & value of some sword blessings

Increased gold and soul orb drop amount

Reduced enemy attack anticipation duration

Increased enemy attack damage

Reduced Solpion’s attack range

Removed the attack spd. bonus from blacksmith upgrades

Reduced Toadstool Monarch’s ring attack damage

Reduced attack damage & duration of Gawain’s skills

Fixed enemy difficulty scaling

Blacksmith upgrades now increase the damage of secondary skills

Blacksmith upgrade progression will now unlock based on the kingdom level

Remove a collision block from Brochalant Forest

Additional notes: none
Source: Gambir Studios (Twitter)

Knight vs Giant: The Broken Excalibur – Ver. 1.0.1

Release date: October 13th 2023 (North America, Europe)
Patch notes:

Gameplay changes

The opening warning message has been removed

Balancing

Rebalanced enemy difficulty

Rebalanced player attack power

Rebalanced boss attack patterns and power

Optimisation

Optimized textures and video to reduce memory and game filesize

Improved game performance and loading times

Polished some dungeon rooms and removed unimportant props

Reset the Unity particle system to improve memory performance

Improved the UI system and performance

Reduced lag after moving to new area

Improved graphics resolution for game title

Bug fixes

Fixed castle texture setting to prevent blurry image

Fixed button images not dynamically changing alongside keybinding

Fixed skills/blessing localization issues

Fixed a bug where an enemy could not be killed

Fixed crashing when using Lancelot skills on the final boss

Fixed skill effects and damage

Fixed a bug where input could sometimes not be changed

Additional notes: none
Source: Gambir Studios (Twitter)

How to download updates for Knight vs Giant: The Broken Excalibur for the Nintendo Switch?

To download the updates for Knight vs Giant: The Broken Excalibur, 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;

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.