--- title: "Dead Cells – Enter the Panchaku (version 1.20.0) patch notes" url: "https://www.nintendoreporters.com/en/news/nintendo-switch/dead-cells-enter-the-panchaku-version-1200-patch-notes/" description: "Enter the Panchaku, the next major update for Dead Cells, is now available on Nintendo Switch. The version has move to 1.20.0." author: "Patrick Dankers" published at: "2022-09-14 09:32:47" image: "https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/dead-cells-enter-the-panchaku-version-1200-patch-notes.jpeg" markdown url: "https://www.nintendoreporters.com/en/news/nintendo-switch/dead-cells-enter-the-panchaku-version-1200-patch-notes.md" --- Dead Cells - Enter the Panchaku (version 1.20.0) patch notes | Nintendo Switch News | NintendoReporters [![Dead Cells – Enter the Panchaku (version 1.20.0) patch notes](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/dead-cells-enter-the-panchaku-version-1200-patch-notes.jpeg "Dead Cells – Enter the Panchaku (version 1.20.0) patch notes")](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/dead-cells-enter-the-panchaku-version-1200-patch-notes.jpeg)Enter the Panchaku, the next major update for Dead Cells, is now available on Nintendo Switch. The version has move to 1.20.0. There are a lot of new things in this game, like the Panchaku weapon, the Bobby Outfit outfit, content from Soul Knight, and a lot more. This is on top of balancing changes and bug fixes. ![video](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zlPJBqtiZKc/sddefault.jpg "sddefault")Please enable JavaScriptplay-rounded-fill 00:48 [Link](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/en/news/nintendo-switch/dead-cells-enter-the-panchaku-version-1200-patch-notes/) ## [](#enter-the-panchaku-version-1-20-0-patch-notes)Enter the Panchaku (version 1.20.0) patch notes - Important features - New Weapon: Panchaku Two pans tied together by a string, the perfect DIY weapon to tear through the island!Crits on enemies facing you. - New Outfit: Bobby Outfit A new outfit inspired by the Beheaded’s design from the Dead Cells trailers, flaming head included. - New crossover content with Soul Knight: Those features were already in the Mobile version of Dead Cells, we just brought them over to PC and Consoles!Weapon: Magic Bow, fires 5 slowly-moving, homing arrows.Outfit: Knight’s Outfit, inspired by Soul Knight’s character of the same name.New lore room in Prisoners’ Quarters to unlock the blueprints! - New Custom Mode Option: Legendaries OnlyTurns all weapons found in the run into legendary ones. - You can now pet your Pets when you are in transition areas, by holding interact next to them! - We completely reworked how Legendary Weapons work!– Removed the double stat scaling, but kept the colorless status. They now scale on your highest stat only. It was mostly overpowered, rather counter-intuitive (you had to split stats whereas you should do the opposite in non-legendary situations) and not really fun (just adding more damage on top of your damage).– Added a unique Legendary Affix to all Weapons. A Legendary Weapon will always have its Legendary Affix on top of its normal rolled ones. You can find a list of all the Weapons and their respective Legendary Affix below. - Added new Double Stack Legendary Affix, which doubles the number of stacks applied by the weapon. (Things like poison, fire, etc.) - Added new Global Shield on Kill Legendary Affix. - Added new Better Secrets Legendary Affix, which upgrades the quality of secrets found in the ground or walls by one tier. - Added new True Evil Legendary Affix, deals triple damage but locks out the rest of the loadout as long as the weapon is equipped. - Added new God Slayer Legendary Affix, increases the crit multiplier of the weapon’s last hit. - Added new Death Root Legendary Affix, roots nearby enemies on kill. - Added new Mega Crit Legendary Affix, increases crit damage by 75%. - Added new Cascading Tomb Legendary Affix, unique to the Tombstone, doom effect can trigger recursively. - Added new Rebuild on Kill Legendary Affix, unique to the Broken Toothpick, repairs the weapon on kill. - Added new Speed Ball Legendary Affix, reduces the pause time between the attacks. - Added new Super Slice Legendary Affix, unique to Queen’s Rapier, increases greatly the range of the reality slices. - Added new Fire on Hit Legendary Affix, puts hit enemies on fire. - Added new Double Bullets Legendary Affix, doubles the number of projectiles shot by the weapon. - Added new Triple Bullets Legendary Affix, triples the number of projectiles shot by the weapon. - Added new Golden Damage Legendary Affix, buffs the weapon’s damage based on the player’s current gold count. - Added new Stun Shield Legendary Affix, stuns any enemy parried by the shield. - Added new Double Speed Legendary Affix, projectiles shot by the weapon go twice as fast. - Added new Echo Legendary Affix, replays a grenade’s explosion a second time. - Added new Bigger Explosion Legendary Affix, increases a grenade’s explosion radius. - Added new Ice Walker Legendary Affix, unique to Ice Armor, the created armor never expires. - Added new Super Back Damage Legendary Affix, greatly increases the damage when hitting enemies in the back. - Balancing - Hard Light Sword and Pistol: slight damage buff to the sword and attack speed buff to the pistol - Hokuto’s Bow: procs less often + damage bonus buff - Repeater Crossbow: crit damage nerf - Queen’s Rapier: the delayed slice hits sooner - Maw of the Deep: attack speed buff - Wrecking Ball: first and last attack are faster - Leghugger: now jumps on a nearby target before launching its reactivation attack + keeps its growth state across instances of the object in a run - Gilded Yumi: charge time slightly decreased + now crits reliably on Mama Tick (to be consistent with Impaler) - Killing Deck: damage buff on the first 2 attacks - Hand Hook: now also crits when the thrown enemy hits another entity - Greed Shield: can now trigger once per enemy every 10 seconds + damage buff - Frantic Sword: crit multiplier is now inversely proportional to your life (when at or under 50% max life) - Abyssal Trident: slight damage buff - Shrapnel Axes: slight damage buff - Pollo Power: now fires 1 more egg + damage buff - Smoke Bomb and Grappling Hook: scaling heavily nerfed. It was scaling exponentially. - Lightning Bolt: now crits one tick earlier and damages you 1 tick later - Spiked Shield: crit damage buff - Sonic Carbine: damage nerf - Rapier: damage nerf - Boy’s Axe: damage nerf, can’t roll the Extra Ammo affix anymore and can’t be affected by Ammo mutation. - Hunter’s Grenade: no longer provides stats - Crusher: its slow is now less effective on bosses - Maw of the Deep: its root is now less effective on bosses - Bladed Tonfas: slight nerf of the crit multiplier - Lacerating Aura: cooldown now starts at the end of the effect instead of starting at cast - New Crit condition for the Crowbar: now also crits on “monster” enemies (non-humanoid, non-mechanic). It still keeps its old crit condition as well, this is not a replacement. - Increased damage of the Fire Trails affixes (projectile and running).Okay, here comes the extremely long list of every weapon and their respective Legendary Affix. - Legendary Items now have the same bonus level as S-tier Items - Reduced the chance of rolling the Full Life Damage affix. - Reduced The Boy’s Axe impact damage. - Bullets parried by the Cudgel will now stun enemies as well. - Greatly reduced the lock on Wrecking Ball’s third and fourth attacks. - Full Life Damage is not a starred affix anymore. - Barbed Tips damage of each stack is reduced the more arrows there are in the enemy. 1 arrow = 40dmg, 2 arrows = 74dmg, 3 arrows = 104dmg, etc. - Removed Hand Hook’s first hit and greatly reduced the lock of the last attack. - Added new Legendary Affix, exclusive to Serenade: Durability Up, the sword pet never expires. Please note that the only translations of this affix are in french or english for now. - Gilded Yumi rework. - Reduced the ammo count to 2. - Now has a 2-hit combo, which shoots the second arrow faster. - Is now considered to be a Heavy Weapon. - Increased the overall weapon speed. - Increased the base damage, reduced the crit multiplier. - Damage no longer gets split between hit enemies. - Arrows now pierce all enemies. - Bosses get dragged by the arrow more. - Reduced the arrow’s speed. - No longer stuns in an AoE on hit. - Reduced the unlock prerequisite of Random Melee Weapon to 2 Unlocked Items. - Counter Attack Buff affix now applies to any enemy instead of only the parried one, and can only be triggered by player attacks. - Talisman DoT Affixes now scale based on the highest tier stat, instead of the tier average. - Gold Gorgers now can’t attack or teleport to the player if they didn’t see the player at least once. - Level design - In Prisoners’ Quarters, if the player has the Spider Rune but not the Vine Rune, the passage to the Sewers door will now use a specific room. Yes, this is a very specific change, don’t ask about it. - Added Teleportation Monoliths before the exits leading to Forgotten Sepulcher. - Added an exit to Clock Tower in Graveyard, for cases where the player would get softlocked otherwise. - In Ramparts, prevented the exit leading to Conjunctivius from being locked behind a Breakable Ground. - Graphics & UI - Reworked the Outfit Selection UI. It is now a grid displaying the icons of all the unlocked outfits, as well as an in-game preview. - Weapons’ icons on the HUD now fade away when their controls are locked. - Fixed options text getting out of the frame when opened on the main menu. - Quality of life - Uniformized the different speed bonus feedbacks. - Made double tap input option for Dive Attack more reliable and consistent. - Bug fixes - Fixed Corrosive Cloud not triggering the Bleed Propagation affix. - Fixed Serenade sometimes losing its affixes on use. - Fixed Explosive Barrels not updating properly when not on screen. - Disabled gravity when picking up a scroll, to prevent a softlock when falling offscreen. - Fixed tier icons not displaying properly on colorless items. - Fixed the Bank Pop-up and the 1BC Pop-up overlapping. - Corrosive Cloud now correctly displays its synergy with Bleed. - Fixed the Cherry on the Cake bombs not dealing any damage to the player. - Added the missing world map transition of Distillery -> Lighthouse. - Fixed Conjunctivius sometimes shooting projectiles during the death animation. - Fixed the Hunter’s Grenade not spawning back when thrown off a cliff, or when an enemy converted to elite fell of a cliff. - Fixed a crash when picking up an amulet with the Homunculus Rune in the Daily Challenge. - Fixed Mushroom Boi getting stuck in the dash animation after triggering the explosion. - Fixed Mutineers’ melee attack not having the attack warning. - Fixed Invisibility not affecting the player’s head or scarf. - Fixed Armored Shrimps moving while frozen. - Fixed the player getting stuck off-screen in some specific situations. - Fixed pets sometimes dying for no apparent reasons. - Fixed the Leghugger not teleporting back to the player when too far away. - Fixed minimap refresh hiding part of the maps revealed by Explorer’s Instinct. - Fixed Scrolls on the minimap not displaying their Stat icon, when triggering Explorer’s Instincts. - Fixed mutations going higher and higher on the HUD every time the player changes the “place backpack next to weapons” option. - Fixed Queen sometimes getting stuck on the “Reality Slices” phase. - Fixed some powers and effects not working properly after going through a ZDoor, as well as their visual disappearing: - – Ice Armor’s sprite. - – Cell Bonus FX. - – Lacerating Aura FX. - – Wings of the Crow FX. - Fixed elite Gold Gorgers using Elite Skills when transformed by the Hunter’s Grenade. - Fixed the way DoT Effects damage scale was calculated, leading to some of them dealing less damage than intended. - Fixed DPS display on weapons not working properly with damage multipliers. - Fixed DPS display for the Bone. 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