Hi all

Just wanted to make a quick announcement here to let everyone know that we've just released our first patch for Onikira. The thing I want to bring up first is the performance issues that some players have been experiencing. We spent the first half of the week trying to nail down exactly why this is happening. In almost all cases we've seen, the hardware seems to be way above the minimum spec, and on these machines, the game should maintain a silky 60 fps almost all of the time, as seen in this video. What seems to be happening is that, when vsync is turned on, and the refresh rate of the monitor is not set to 60 hertz, and the game experiences a hiccup in frame rate, it doesn't seem to be able to recover back to 60 fps, but keeps bouncing off the vsync interval and oscillating back and forth between different frame rates, which is disastrous for gameplay. While we look for a more permanent solution, our advice is to set your monitor refresh rate to 60 hertz in Windows. Simple as that. Or if you can live with tearing, to turn off vsync.


Sound issues
Some other players have reported crackling noises when in the soul shop. One player mentioned that wiping the game and doing a fresh install fixed it. If you were an early access player, this might fix the problem for you, otherwise hold on for a fix in the next patch:)


How to patch
If you haven't already downloaded the update, go to your [SteamApps]\common\Onikira-DemonKiller\Scripts folder and delete the files in there, then perform the update. If you have already updated, first back up your [SteamApps]\common\Onikira-DemonKiller\Data\SaveInformation folder, then delete the files in your Scripts folder, and then in Steam, right click the game->Properties->Local Files->Verify Integrity of Game Cache. When that has finished downloading, copy your SaveInformation folder back into place. It's ok to override the files there. Sorry that this is more tricky than it should be. We'll fix it in the next patch.

Finally, thanks to everyone who took the time to report issues in the forums:)

Digital Furnace Games


Change log
* Fixed excessive CPU use after viewing a move video in the soul shop
* Strong, stronger, and strongest achievements now work as expected
* Items in the soul shop no longer draw on top of each other at high resolutions
* Fixed problems with the dragon fragment, soul coin, and air kill achievements not unlocking properly
* The dragon fragment collected screen now animates correctly
* Removed the soul counter from the challenge arenas
* Fixed slow down when starting a challenge encounter due to assets being loaded from disk
* The soul shop portal now shows the correct button to press depending on whether the keyboard or gamepad is the active input device
* The last level was not staying unlocked after completing Yomi
* Fixed a bug where only the first set of three collected dragon fragments would increase health. Now health increases for each set of three dragon fragments until it is maxed out
* Mouse buttons now show in tutorials when using keyboard and mouse
* Enabled adaptive vsync on machines that support it

Known issues
* Resolution resets to default when switching levels
* The game sometimes needs to be restarted for the vsync option to take effect