Hollow Knight General - /hkg/

sitting edition

1.0.1.4 open beta patch notes steamcommunity.com/app/367520/discussions/0/135511455870902124/

Wiki is still being written so it's quite barebones still.

Such a nice moment, that is.
May be my favorite in the game.

To answer that user's question about Deepnest bosses, there is one, but it's unfortunately really easy.

the false champion is kicking my ass

I'm going all offensive with longnail + quick nail + fragile strength + mark o pride what is killing me is the zero soul gain in the fight

Joni's blessing/lifeblood charms/stalwart shell.
Just smack em. A lot. It's how I beat him.

I hate how they make the infection close so many routes in the crossroads, this is bullshit, makes it a pain in the ass to navigate.

There is one, but he's hidden.
Yeah, those should be destructible.

I cheesed the fuck out of him. I went fragile heart, fragile strength, stalwart shell, grubsong, and I think soul catcher. I just non-stop attacked him and took the damage, and each time he collapsed I healed as much as I could.

Can someone explain where all my geo went (8000)? I died in the sewers under the city and went back to retreive my shade, died again before I could get to it, and when I did kill it, it didn't have the money of the previous shade.
What happened to the first shade? I'm close to losing my shit and throwing this fucking computer out the window because it took me an aeon to get it and now it's all gone because I got gangraped by maggots.

Was white palace supposed to be difficult?

Also, what IS the void badge anyways? All it really accomplishes is that Hornet now helps in the fight, and I don't see how that correlates.

When you die without your Shade, the Shade you were hunting that had all your Geo on it is replaced with a new one.

Void Heart also causes Shades to not attack you and die in 1 hit.
You have done what the King could not, Unite the Void so that it may be harnessed against the Radiance.

So the geo's gone? The new one only had like 5 geo on it from that life.

but how does that change the ending?
Hornet adds her seal to the egg, but you still become the vessel like in the previous ending, so what does it do?

How do I kill Zote or let him die after saving him the first time? I need to know for uh...reasons

Am I missing a dreamfight? Im at 1400 essence now and have no more essence trees on the map that I can see.
Completion is 87% if that helps.

When Hornet joins the fight, hit the Hollow Knight with the dream nail

>just found a gold bug in my second playthrough

neat

also taking simple requests

Also I can't use the rancid egg to get that soul back so I lost 8000 geo forever. Is there console commands or something to spawn it?

6.5 hrs in. How am I doing?

Also, will I KNOW when I need to have this equipped, or should I keep it on just in case.

I'm still missing a single mask piece, where the hell is it

oh shit!

Hollow Knight, annoyed and with his horns jammed into the ground.

better than i was at 6.5, thats for sure

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How do you get past the black barrier shit in the fungal area? I want to get that crest thing and the map guy

You have to get the dash upgrade in the abyss before you can get through them.

5 in dirtmouth, 4 from merchant (need shopkeeper key to access), 1 Bretta (in her house), after saving her in fungal wastes near the dashmaster charm (east from the Mantis Lords)

1 Deepnest (Near Mantis Lords, drop down from above, need doublejump to access it)
1 queenstation (right side, need walljump)
1 flower quest resting grounds, hidden bottom right (go back to grey mourner after delivering flower)
1 hive (bottom of kingdoms edge, roughly center of the hive, use giant bee to break)
1 mawlek (boss in Crossroads, bottom left)
1 grub (after delivering a certain amount of grubs 25?)
1 crystal peak (laserboss v2, fought above laserboss v1, need doublejump)
1 waterways (bottom left, need ismas tear to access it)
1 seer (after around 1000-1300 essence)
1 greenpath (stone sanctuary/after beating fallen warrior)
1 crossroads under false knight (level with the unhittable worms)

The Bug/Knight theme is so great, why has nobody ever done it before? They already wear armor!
Inb4 people list tons of examples.

Are there any more charms I can get before beating Soul Master, and where could I get them? Need two more to be able to buy the last notch

yeah thanks I was looking at it

maybe it' the deepnest one, I don't remember that one

Whaaaa

how do i get this guy?

Check every wall on the right of the room for cracked walls

I hope they add new ways to spend geo in the future updates. After mid-game geo becomes useless.

They should allow you to purchase a charm that does the same thing the Kingsoul does, for the people who liked using it, or maybe just the old charm back.

Not sure what else they could put up for sale, maybe something cosmetic? Or maybe put something like abuilding with concept art behind payment.

ah, ty user; wasn't thinking about breakables

dubs decides if I sit on the bench

will post results

ALWAYS think about breakables.
Even when you're not thinking about breakables.

>Boy, he sure has a point. I'm beat.
>Maybe I could rest for a little bit.
>I've earned a little shut-eye!
>Plus, these trustworthy folk will keep an eye out for me.

What could go wrong?!

don't!

RADIANCE
PORN
WHEN?

I'd like a family portrait with the main character, Hollow Knight, Lost Kin, Hornet, and a bunch of glowing white eyes in the background

There friends, bro. Relaaaaax!

Not... Friends...

When's the alternate character DLC coming?

so i have the awakened dream nail, but i need the kingsoul to access the abyss, right? how do i get the queen's half of the soul if i can't get through the shade barrier? i had heard you get the shade cloak in the abyss?

yes

Well I took your advice, and now THIS "friend" is trying to eat me!! I should have rested on the bench. Why lie to me bugbro?

King SEAL, not soul, for the abyss. Look up.

You need the King's Brand to get into the Abyss, not the Kingssoul

ahhh, okay. gracias. time to go charm hunting

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may be later
W A H

Is this a leaked screenshot from the playable Zote campaign?

maybe

does long nail+pride stack?

Oh-ho-ho yes it does. It's glorious. Try hitting through walls.

DUDE
WHERE DO I GET MORE CHARM SLOTS
LMAO

Seriously though I need more, and don't have enough to buy them off the vendor in the crossroads.

What do I need the Shaman Stone for?

There's a merchant who'll sell them to you. Southeast corner of Forgotten Crossroads.

Whoops. Umm you get one from killing the Mushroom Fungus Twins in Greenpath.

The Coliseum gets you one, and there's another in the Foggy Canyon

can someone record their WAH or something?

I am fucking adoring this game so far.

My only complaint is for a 2D game it sure gives my toaster a run for its money. I have to force it to run at 854*480 and even then some environments make it chug and increase the difficulty by a factor of 10 due to input lag.

>2D

Not exactly.

so, is there actually a map for the white palace? getting the "updating map" shit and whatnot when i sit on a bench, but somehow doubt cornifer's hanging out nearby

By which I mean there is only movement in the xy plane and the vast majority of the art assets aren't volumetric.

After playing hollow knight i tried Ori, holy shit this game is annoying, i died like 600 times and only halfway through, main character literally made of glass. And i like hollow knight much more.

>Someone saved my webm

th- thanks. Heres a subtitled gif too

I saved that one too. They're cute. Thanks for making them.

>do white palace today
>finish it
>get thrown out
>can't get back in
>quit game
>respawn inside
wat.

You're more fragile in Ori, but you can place down a savepoint whenever you feel like it so dying doesn't matter as much.

shroomposting needs to stop

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Shiiet i love those guys

Anyone want any more webms/gifs of cute things? I dont have time right now, but I can try to get some much later

sure user

Do some of Hornet.

Perfect.

I'll do my best!

Bump

Gave up on trial of fools

What, are you not a Fool?

No

Then I have no reason to further speak with you.

How far you get? What charms were you running?

What charms should I use for Soul Master?

>mfw THE RADIANCE
>mfw this whole fucking game, when i came in expecting a shitty neo-metroidvania like ori and got an old-school, backtracky, non-linear metroidvania with an hr giger-y aesthetic, legitimate challenge, and dark souls-tier dialogue, quests, world design, and lore/story
holy shit what a ride, this game came out of left field and i figured it'd be another overhyped piece of shit

>get to what I think is almost the end of the game
>rescue a grub
>Achievement unlocked: Rescued half the grubs

FUG

can someone post the screenshot where we find the dead guy in kingdom's edge? his dead corpse saying but...why?

I half-expected the same and I bought it day-1.

>that moment when Hollowbro shows up to help you wreck his shit

Loved it too, but in retrospect, I wanted more still.
I'm 25h in, which is pretty good for a game that price, but I'm already doing final cleanup around 95% progress, and only have the radiance left to beat, I think.
Can't wait for the alternate characters.

How do I get up here brehs? It's in the Ancient Basin and it's the only area that I can't access other than the wall on the far side of the pit of spikes to the left of the bench. It seems to lead to an open area with a building. Am I too early or do I need another ability (like walljumping)?

You need to get past the spikes first. For that, you need to go to Crystal Peak on the other side of the map.

Which are best for Hornet pt. 2

Got real close last run, but I'm wondering if there's a more effective way.

Get rid of your long range charm and add grub song, stalwart, and defender's.

What does Defender's do? I don't have enough room for Grubsong with that combo.