Ten years in the past, on November 22, 2013, the workforce at Xbox Recreation Studios Publishing launched an all-new Killer Intuition for Xbox One and Home windows PC. Since then, Killer Intuition has boasted a passionate, world group that has commonly featured at tournaments.
Earlier this yr, at Evo 2023, we introduced a particular replace to mark Killer Intuition’s 10th anniversary. Effectively, with the onerous work of our companions at Iron Galaxy Studios, that replace is lastly right here – and we’re formally calling it Killer Intuition Anniversary Version. The Anniversary Version contains some adjustments that we’re hoping will welcome gamers outdated and new!
Firstly, a brand new shade scheme for our brand, theme, and remastered in-game person interface. (It’s a nod to Killer Intuition Gold, which launched on the Nintendo 64 in 1996!)
Secondly, as we introduced on Iron Galaxy’s developer stream final week, we’ve made vital steadiness updates to 19 of the 29 fighters. These updates, which vary from minor bug fixes to main tuning changes, all got here from intensive suggestions from our group and professional match gamers. This rebalancing will create a wholly new meta for combating avid gamers to discover – and we couldn’t be extra excited to see what the gamers will do with it!
One other essential replace is to matchmaking, which has now been absolutely up to date to PlayFab providers after preliminary migrations this previous Might.
We’ve additionally made some adjustments to recreation rendering, together with updating from Dx11 to Dx12 on Xbox consoles to assist optimize graphics for Collection X|S consoles. Xbox Collection X consoles now show Killer Intuition in resolutions as much as 4K at 60FPS, whereas Collection S consoles attain as much as 1440p at 60FPS. The mixed up to date theme and optimized graphics elevate the Killer Intuition expertise gamers know and love for contemporary consoles and PCs.
This replace additionally streamlines the numerous earlier editions into two variations of Killer Intuition:
- The free to play model of Killer Intuition – now accessible on Steam for the primary time! – contains all of the beforehand talked about updates. This model options one free weekly rotating Fighter and Single-Participant, Native, and Ranked Modes, to make sure new gamers can expertise all that Killer Intuition has to supply.
- The Killer Intuition Anniversary Version will substitute all paid variations of Killer Intuition, such because the Definitive Version… and the excellent news is that anybody who has purchased Premium content material for the earlier variations of Killer Intuition (Editions, Fighters, and so forth.) will get upgraded to the Anniversary Version totally free! Steam customers can even obtain, for the primary time ever, the Everlasting VIP Double XP Booster, and specialty colours for Gargos, Killer Intuition’s principal boss.
For extra data on what to anticipate from Killer Intuition Anniversary Version, you possibly can go to our Information part on the Killer Intuition web site.
We’re wanting ahead to listening to suggestions from the Killer Intuition group! We might adore it in the event you tag your social media posts with #PlayKI, so we will observe all of your suggestions. On behalf of everybody who’s ever labored on Killer Intuition, thanks for ten wonderful years!