V1 || ULTRAKILL

V1 is a Supreme Machine (most likely), left to roam the Earth after the extinction of mankind, and the player character of ULTRAKILL. Like other machines, it fights in Hell for its own desperate survival after blood ran out on the surface, slaying all manner of husks, demons, angels, and other machines in order to sustain itself with the blood they shed.

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 Intangibility. Dashing costs 1 bar of stamina. Which makes no sense, due to the somewhat niche fact that V1 lacks any "natural" organs.

Sliding temporarily stops stamina regeneration and does not make you intangible 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.

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 to heal; though the exact means of this are not well explained, Hakita himself states this to be due to the Feedbacker being "future technology".

After defeating V2 in 1-4: CLAIR DE LUNE, it will drop the Knuckleblaster (Default: F Key), which trades the ability to effectively parry for a more powerful punch and an explosive second attack, activated by holding the punch button, which can also reflect projectiles. Upon obtaining the Whiplash (Default: R Key), from the late Glass O' Machine in 4-4: CLAIR DE SOLEIL, 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.

Among other abilities of V1 are ability to store weapons in their wings by converting matter into energy, activate a built-in flashlight, although it only does it when there are no other sources of light, and jumping extremely high by via potential energy storage.

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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, as well as the ability to store weapons that are not in use. "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 colour 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.