Ten years in the past, on November 22, 2013, the crew 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 recurrently featured at tournaments.
Earlier this 12 months, at Evo 2023, we introduced a particular replace to mark Killer Intuition’s tenth anniversary. Effectively, with the laborious 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 The Anniversary Version consists of some modifications that we’re hoping will welcome gamers outdated and new!
Firstly, a brand new shade scheme for our emblem, 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 stability updates to 19 of the 29 fighters. These updates, which vary from minor bug fixes to main tuning changes, all got here from in depth suggestions from our group and professional event gamers. This rebalancing will create a completely new meta for preventing 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 totally up to date to PlayFab companies after preliminary migrations this previous Could.
We’ve additionally made some modifications to sport 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 out there on Steam for the primary time! – consists of 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 on.) will get upgraded to the Anniversary Version without cost! Steam customers may also obtain, for the primary time ever, the Everlasting VIP Double XP Booster, and specialty colours for Gargos, Killer Intuition’s fundamental boss.
For extra data on what to anticipate from Killer Intuition Anniversary Version, you’ll be able to 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 like it in case you tag your social media posts with #PlayKI, so we will monitor all of your suggestions. On behalf of everybody who’s ever labored on Killer Intuition, thanks for ten wonderful years!
