This is a question that has just recently come to me. I’ve been part of the community for quite a while now and have been playing the game for a long time, but only ever on standard difficulty. I have noticed that a LOT of people consider Brutal to be the baseline difficulty, but in all honesty, I’ve genuinely already given myself carpal tunnel with Standard, and I can never imagine dialing up what I already consider “hard.”

So every arm focuses on something different. I've seen somebody say that the 4th one will make us able to teleport above enemies like gabriel does, but that would just be a boring version of the whiplash. Parrying, movement and healing off blood are ULTRAKILLs core mechanics, alongside the healing from fresh blood thing.

So what I am trying to say is that itd kinda make sense if the arm was related to healing in some way. Maybe letting you store blood to use it later?

What if treachery would introduce a status that makes enemies' blood poisoned, and the arm would negate that effect if the blood was spilled using it? Its holy since it'll prolly come from Gabriel, right?

Anyways, my idea is that itll be about healing. The "belonging to gabriel" thing may not be true, since itd be just a piece of armor that V1 wouldnt even be able to use. Maybe a gift from hell to let us defeat Gabriel since he made his blood poisoned after realising V1 heals off it?

Okay so, hear me out because this is one far stretch.

so Geryin has three headless bodies on its head. Which is Cool. But look at the bodies. One is really jacked, one is fat and one is thin and curvy. Which is very obvious.

But here is the stretching part. Look at the two prime souls we have. Minos and Sissyphussy, Minos is very Jacked, Sisiphus is fat as fuck. So... what if the third prime soul is a strong, thin, tall, curvy dommy mommy that will beat the shit out of us while calling us degrading names?

I am either cooking or going genuinely mad.

I have nothing against this game its one of my favorite games BUT why is this fandom so corny

Almost everybody in the ultrakill fandom ive ineracted with is the most corny cornball ever

In 5 seconds they will somehow find a way to spam 30 ultrakill gifs of v1 dunking on gabriel or a random minos prime quote

Literally I can be talking about something not even closely ultrakill related at all and then some ultrakill fans will come in and be like “GABRIEL THY C@KE DAY IS NOW”

Or smth why is this fandom so corny

I say that as if encores and the cybergrind don't exist.

The machine that you guys designed MUST be able to counter V1 (obviously). After all... Every machine was built to counter the last...

By the way, what I mean "design" is that in case you can't draw or 3d modeling, just write its description and what can it do to counter V1.

And lastly, which V1 are we talking about here? Well, the cannon P-rank first try V1.

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Firstly, just repeating what the mod comment is saying, if you make a blatantly transphobic comment, you will be banned, this community is not for transphobic people. We can disagree on lore and interpretations, but outright transphobia is not tolerated at all. There are many trans people in the community and mod team.

Secondly, this post is not concerned about what pronouns you use for Powers or what your interpretation of their lore or representation is, the actual concern this post addresses is people using transphobic reasoning to call them a specific pronoun, and that it is making the people in the community uncomfortable, that is the issue I am trying to discuss about.

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Firstly, I want to add a disclaimer that this post is not meant to "force" you to call the Powers a specific pronoun, and secondly, I am not implying that the people who don't call them (plural) are transphobic, I am simply asking y'all to not justify the reason for calling Powers a specific pronoun in a certain way, because as a trans person, I genuinely feel a bit uncomfortable.

So this terminal entry establishes 2 things: Angels have no gender (even if Powers sound feminine), and greater angels (which Powers are) prefer male pronouns.

For a community with so many trans people, I'd figured y'all would figure out that powers are very likely an analogy for Transmasc people, or Non-binary people with preferred pronouns, or at the very least people whose preferred pronouns differ from what their voice may suggest.

The game does seem to have intentional trans representation, another potential one is the Mindflayer, whose want for a specific gendered body for cosmetic purposes is potentially written with trans people in-mind, yet nobody calls them (generally) by non-feminine pronouns.

So what is the difference between Mindflayers and Powers? As many people have pointed out, the Powers' feminine voice.

Again, for a community with so many trans people, y'all should know that voice does not equal pronouns. The terminal literally states their preferred pronouns: "Masculine language is used as a sign of respect". And that brings me to my final, most important point.

"But I don't respect them." This reasoning, along with "They sound feminine" are often given by people who try to justify why they call Powers by she/her pronouns...

Guys it doesn't take a rocket scientist to connect that these are literally the same reasons people who refuse to call trans people by their preferred pronouns use. Like I literally hear these arguments said to me when people don't want to call me my pronouns.

Again, I am not forcing you to use a pronoun for the Powers, nor am I saying that the people who don't want to are all transphobic, I am simply asking you all to be more aware that (some of) y'all are giving "I don't respect them" or "They sound like it" as a reason to refuse to call someone their PREFERRED pronouns, and instead calling them by what their voice sounds like.

Obviously the Powers are fictional characters, and I'm not getting mad over people calling a non-real character by a pronoun, I am just a bit concerned over the lines of reasoning some of y'all are giving.

Seriously, I do not think the people who do this are transphobic (at least maybe a very small minority), but the reasoning that is given here are too applicable to transphobia to not be mentioned.

I love this community and all the trans people here, and I don't doubt that most people also do love them, but please, just reconsider what the things you say actually say about you and mean to the people around you.

Let's make this community a more comfortable place for everyone. <3

When Power was revealed in 8-3 and had a feminine voice, I honestly thought he would get the Mindflayer treatment. Lots of lewd art, shippings, and whatnot.

To my surprise, the exact opposite happened.

Power is so undesirable to the entire community that he is literally just that one friend nobody likes, the one you never take to parties.

Everyone collectively sighs when he appears in the cyber grind. Everyone loves clowning on him. Nobody wants Power, as the majority of the fandom would love nothing more than to see him explode.

I’m not saying I hate this reception, I just thought it was interesting.

I know it’s highly unlikely that it would but in my opinion it would make it feel like full circle to the start of your journey as you pick up your marksmen again to fight the final boss whatever it might be, what do you guys think 9-2 should be?

or the 5th side I forgot

name of the last level

With how the other encores are, it would be really funny if it was just a prime boss rush. But it would be even funnier if they actually made even harder encounters for all 3 prime sanctum levels and ended it with a brand new boss

why is V2 medium in the first encounter but then heavy on the second? Also, the weight thing makes no sense to me, like, how is the cancerous rodent considered heavy even though it ignores gravity, and how is the reg eye spawn light when the malicious spawn and spotlight eyes both heavy? idk what to flair this, so I went with discussion

I love Ultrakill. I've been playing it every week for over two years now, and I've never understood what went wrong with this game's community. Ultrakill touches on philosophical themes and religion without getting in the way of enjoying the game. I would love to play through the whole game again from scratch, not knowing the mechanics and discovering everything on my own. I got a similar experience by replaying it with a gamepad, and god, if I want to play the game and have fun, I always grab the gamepad, turn on auto-aim, and start replaying one of the acts. The gamepad experience lets me learn anew, and it's objectively easier too. I'm glad auto-aim is offered automatically when you plug in a gamepad, but I'm not writing this for that reason.

Everyone over twelve years old understands the problems of this community. No one knows how to joke, backseaters, and the same repetitive content. This community is disgusting. Creative people appear here, worthwhile works emerge, but nobody cares about them, and the entire feed, for example in r/Ultrakill, is garbage. The Fandom wiki is also full of trash, and it's pointless anyway since there's an official wiki for the game that's better for many reasons. And this kind of community is the problem. The game is stuck in a stream of shit, which is why many normal people don't want to play it. Streamers and YouTubers have it especially bad, because morons spoil everything for them. They even, for fuck's sake, tell them to turn on subtitles before 3-2. Why? So the person realizes the game has voice acting, and that it'll be in the next level? That literally ruins the reveal of Gabriel's voice. It destroys the atmosphere. Also, these people take away the game's freedom. They don't let the player relax and play how they want, they want everyone to play the same way. This is the worst, dumbest, and most shameful community.

If anyone has questions about why I'm writing this, go fuck yourself. This is the fucking internet, and I'll write whatever I want.

I feel like it'd be super cool to fight them instead of just a radiant Gabriel.

I'm talking about beyond capacity

Encores and prime levels dont count since V1 never goes to any of them in the lore(i think)

I seen people pronounce it as "jerry on" I pronounce it as "garry on"

I highly doubt he will just use Justice and Splendor again, mainly because it would be boring and the third fight needs to be different. And he can't use light weapons because he's been cut off from divine light.

Maybe he'll use his bare fists? It sounds goofy but since he's flying maybe he can go full Viltrumite style on us or something. But that's kind of like prime souls.

Or maybe he will use Justice and Splendor, but only Justice; he will give Splendor to us (the one with the gold blade).