V1

Appearance

V1 is a blue vaguely humanoid machine with a long head which bears a resemblance to a security camera. Printed on the left side of V1's head is a barcode and some unreadable characters. Eight, glowing wing - like protrusions come from its back which enable its aerial maneuverability, dashing, continuous sliding, ability to store weapons that are not in use, as well as looking sick as hell. "V1" is displayed on the left side of its torso. V1 has the Feedbacker as its left arm, which it uses to punch and deflect projectiles. V1 is almost identical to its successor, V2 but with a deep blue color scheme. Unlike V2 which uses a more standardized heavy plating, V1 has thinner, more fragile chassis. This makes it capable of repairing itself via direct contact with fresh blood.

Terminal Data

The V model was built for war, with V1 boasting a new kind of exterior plating that allowed refueling through contact with blood rather than through a separate refueling process. Due to its necessary thinness, it is far less durable, but the ability to fix itself and rebuild broken parts on the fly would outweigh the negatives on an active battlefield. However, during the prototyping phase, the New Peace was established and war became irrelevant. V1’s planned production was cancelled and an updated model, V2, was developed instead, using the standardized plating, since durability was far more important during times of peace when no bloodshed was necessary.

Abilities

V1, as a blood-fueled death machine, is capable of moving in all directions with equal speed, can jump(default: SPACE on ground), dash (default: SHIFT on ground), slide (default: CTRL on ground.), wall jump (default: Space on wall by jumping into wall.), and slam onto the ground from heights (CTRL midair). By default, it has 3 stamina bars at maximum. V1's stamina regenerates at varying speeds across difficulties. Dashing allows V1 to halt its current momentum and rapidly move horizontally in a specified direction, which also grants it brief invincibility. Dashing costs 1 bar of stamina. Sliding temporarily stops stamina regeneration and does not make you invincible but allows the player to continuously move in a single direction, though V1 is almost incapable of moving in any other direction in a slide, only being able to shift its momentum by moving left or right. It does not cost stamina, and one can chain slides for as long as they are willing to. Ground Slams can be performed while in the air. While slamming, V1 will deal 2 damage to whatever it hits. Holding the slam button when landing creates a shockwave that launches light enemies straight up, increasing with time spent slamming and costing 1 bar of stamina. Time spent slamming also increases the power of slides and jumps done immediately after landing.

Abilities

V1 can also make use of its left arm for various purposes. It starts the game with its own arm, the Feedbacker (Default: F Key), mostly used for parrying attacks and punching enemies within melee range. After defeating V2, it will drop the Knuckleblaster (Default: F Key), which trades the ability to parry for an explosive second attack, activated by holding the punch button. Upon obtaining the Whiplash (Default: R Key), from the late Glass O' Machine, V1 can use the Whiplash to grapple onto hookpoints positioned around levels, onto enemies to either be pulled to it or to pull the enemies over, or to grab and place objects from a longer range. When arms are unequipped, V1 can interact with the Terminal at the beginning of each level with latent telekinetic powers but attempts to punch will be met with an error message. V1 has a unique feature shared by no other machine as of now: the ability to directly absorb blood from enemies simply by soaking it in through their armor. This is the main way to heal in ULTRAKILL, so players will need to actively hunt down enemies to obtain fresh blood.