Neutral
Unlike the other weapons in the game, the Fist has a neutral attack. This is a fast-hitting jab that deals low damage. Perfect for keeping your opponent in check at point-blank range.

Side Ground
The side attack is a forward-moving dash punch. This has a slower start-up than most other side attacks in the game but is a great tool for whiff punishes and combos.

Side Air
In the air, the side attack changes to a close-range clap. This has high stun and makes juggling your opponent a piece of cake.

Up
A fairly standard uppercut that is good at anti-airs and launching grounded opponents. When used in the air, there is no upward momentum.

Down
A low angled attack that can hit through narrow platforms. The attack is the same in the air and makes for a great jump in tool.

New Achievement
A new achievement is being added for winning 25 games using the fist.


Knockback Scaling
Knockback scaling used to be determined per attack, with some attacks knocking you back much farther on subsequent hits than others. This scaling was also pretty high in general. After a few hits, your opponent was sent flying across the screen making it almost impossible to follow up. This mechanic was added to prevent infinites and combos from getting too long, which it definitely succeeded at doing, but it also caused a couple of problems.

First, while it did reset the match to neutral, it did so in a way that was a little too extreme. There were simply too many instances where players would be a fullscreen distance apart and had to move back toward each other. Not that big of a deal but it created more of a lull than I'd like.

Second, knockback scaling being specific to each attack made it hard to know how knockback would behave. This was a needless complication. All knockback scaling is now dependant on the number of hits in a combo, rather than the attack itself.

Wall Tech
Because of the reduction in knockback scaling, I needed another way to make sure players don't get destroyed in the corner. The solution is Wall Techs. By pressing the jump button just before you hit a wall, you will tech out recover without bouncing off of the wall. Like all techs, you can choose the direction you want to go. Up, down, left, right, or neutral. If you mistime the tech you will be locked out of future attempts until the combo ends. However, the window is very generous at 15 frames.

This only works against a wall! You cannot tech when you are bounced off of the floor. It is called Wall Tech, after all.

Air Stun
If you have played Knight Club + for any amount of time you probably noticed that being in the air is Extremely Good. Air mobility is very high, there is no jump start-up, you can block anything in the air, jump-ins are very powerful, the list goes on. In an effort to nerf the air a little bit so you actually have to think about jumping from time to time, I have added an additional 5 frames of hitstun if you are hit while in the air.

Now the attacking player is much more plus when hitting an airborne opponent. This, along with the knockback scaling changes, opens up more combo opportunities. And of course, it never hurts to be more plus in general.

Hit stop / Hit freeze
The final change made to the game was converting hit stop (also known as hit freeze in some communities) has been changed to no longer be global. Aka, it no longer applies to ALL players in the game. Now it only applies to the players who are attacking or being attacked. This should prevent those annoying moments where your inputs are eaten up by global hit stop.

See you in the streets.

A new weapon is coming to Knight Club + on January 8th. The Fist is a fast-hitting weapon that has a lot of combo potential. There have also been some big changes made to the core systems that make combos easier to pull off for all weapons.


Neutral
Unlike the other weapons in the game, the Fist has a neutral attack. This is a fast-hitting jab that deals low damage. Perfect for keeping your opponent in check at point-blank range.

Side Ground
The side attack is a forward-moving dash punch. This has a slower start-up than most other side attacks in the game but is a great tool for whiff punishes and combos.

Side Air
In the air, the side attack changes to a close-range clap. This has high stun and makes juggling your opponent a piece of cake.

Up
A fairly standard uppercut that is good at anti-airs and launching grounded opponents. When used in the air, there is no upward momentum.

Down
A low angled attack that can hit through narrow platforms. The attack is the same in the air and makes for a great jump in tool.

New Achievement
A new achievement is being added for winning 25 games using the fist.


Knockback Scaling
Knockback scaling used to be determined per attack, with some attacks knocking you back much farther on subsequent hits than others. This scaling was also pretty high in general. After a few hits, your opponent was sent flying across the screen making it almost impossible to follow up. This mechanic was added to prevent infinites and combos from getting too long, which it definitely succeeded at doing, but it also caused a couple of problems.

First, while it did reset the match to neutral, it did so in a way that was a little too extreme. There were simply too many instances where players would be a fullscreen distance apart and had to move back toward each other. Not that big of a deal but it created more of a lull than I'd like.

Second, knockback scaling being specific to each attack made it hard to know how knockback would behave. This was a needless complication. All knockback scaling is now dependant on the number of hits in a combo, rather than the attack itself.

Wall Tech
Because of the reduction in knockback scaling, I needed another way to make sure players don't get destroyed in the corner. The solution is Wall Techs. By pressing the jump button just before you hit a wall, you will tech out recover without bouncing off of the wall. Like all techs, you can choose the direction you want to go. Up, down, left, right, or neutral. If you mistime the tech you will be locked out of future attempts until the combo ends. However, the window is very generous at 15 frames.

This only works against a wall! You cannot tech when you are bounced off of the floor. It is called Wall Tech, after all.

Air Stun
If you have played Knight Club + for any amount of time you probably noticed that being in the air is Extremely Good. Air mobility is very high, there is no jump start-up, you can block anything in the air, jump-ins are very powerful, the list goes on. In an effort to nerf the air a little bit so you actually have to think about jumping from time to time, I have added an additional 5 frames of hitstun if you are hit while in the air.

Now the attacking player is much more plus when hitting an airborne opponent. This, along with the knockback scaling changes, opens up more combo opportunities. And of course, it never hurts to be more plus in general.


See you all on January 8th!

Howdy!

Join us on November 14th at 4 pm CST for a special developer live stream! Then buy the game because paying for video games is tight! We will be covering the mechanics of the game and showcasing some high-level gameplay.

KNIGHT CLUB + v2.1.0 patch is live! Here are the patch notes.

- Implemented a change to the online lobby system which does a better job of forcing synchronization between all players before the match can start. This should eliminate most if not all desync issues we were seeing when transitioning from the lobby to the character select screen in online matches.

- Fixed an issue with camera being out of bounds when entering the character select screen.

- Menus no longer get all jerked up after an online match.

- The player can no longer be knocked outside of the boundary on certain stages.

- Screen settings now load properly on start up.

- Web links now open properly in Chrome. How to Play, Discord, Twitter, etc.

- Increased dead zone for analog sticks. This should fix an issue that some players were having with the c-stick on GameCube controllers always reading as active.

- Capped Horace bonus damage to 999 to prevent a game crash if his damage was too high.

- Increased Claudio's defense bonus from 5% per kill to 7.5% per kill. The cap has not changed and is still 50%.

- The "Never Try That Again!" achievement is now tracking counter hits properly.

Knight Club originally released as a Humble Original back in 2018, and has since been downloaded over 300,000 times! We decided it was time to release all-new "leveled up" version called Knight Club + (Knight Club Plus).

New mechanics, new artwork, new characters, new netplay features, new levels, a new dynamic camera, and balance changes set this version of the game apart from the original release.

New Character Traits!
The biggest addition to Knight Club + is the inclusion of Character Traits. Each character has a special ability that makes them unique from the rest of the cast. Be that a damage bonus when low on life, double jump, or defense buffs, all 14 characters are unique.

5 New Characters!
Brand new characters join the fight. Acorn, Pach, Chipp, Pothead, and Slump are ready to destroy their opponents in glorious combat.

New Stage Art!
We gave our stage artwork a facelift in this new version.

New Dynamic Camera!
The action gets turned up to 11 with the new dynamic camera that pans and zooms along with the fight.

Improved Netplay Features!
Knight Club + makes use of Steam for netplay which allows for a lobby browser, and matches with Steam friends.


Nathan Ranney
Studio Director