The Volcano is finally out, and with it, Act 1 of the story is done! To support it, we've added a ton of new mechanics. New guns, new abilities, perks, enemies, music, world events, and more! This patch is so big, we're finally moving the price of the game up to the full $20 after the sale. Also a heads up - we have not yet updated the trailer with all this new stuff, but the demo is now updated!

Volcano

We've got a giant new zone fully implemented! The volcano fortress of an eccentric tech trillionaire, packed full of monuments to his success and corporations mining their IP. Continue unraveling the conspiracy with Anima as you wade through the miners' mischief and plenty of lava. The volcano offers multiple pathways through the caverns, and triples the game's quest content, with new missions utilizing new mechanics like one-to-many server links to untangle, servers to defend, laser and lava hazards to dodge, and secrets to find. All of this culminates in a leap of faith and a boss fight with a new enemy - the Mother of Spiders and her many eggs. Be careful you though - along the way, you might get ambushed by a corp trying to take revenge in one of the new random world events.

New Items

Get ready for even more build options and replayability, with over a dozen new unique items and about 10 new normal item classes as well. Hand Cannons are a new base weapon type - close range burst damage, utilizing a new reload-style mechanic. Not shocking enough for you? How about Chain Lightning? SMGs? Smartguns? And my personal favorite, the Pinball Launcher. We've also added a Grappling Hook and a Glide Jump, to give you even more movement options to master, complete with new perks to complement them. New affixes? Tons! Off the top of my head: shield piercing, cooldown speed, charge speed, extra projectiles, aim assist, health/ram on kill, crit kill explosion, shatter frozen enemies, double/half projectile speed, spread vulnerabilities, and more!

Multiplayer Customization

Mako is finally showing her face in multiplayer, fully modeled and animated! You can set up a unique look, changing her suit, skin, and hair colors to whatever RGB value you prefer. Personally, I think you can't go wrong with magenta and cyan. Additionally, you can customize her jacket with a bunch of great icons (some from my friend's games!). You can even mod your own icon in extremely easily - just put a .png in a folder. (Modding in general is easier with a new in-game debug display). If you don't want to see other people's icons, just uncheck "Allow custom content" in the game options, password protect your game, and kick anyone that crosses you. And don't worry, if you miss the old pill models, you can still do that too!

More!

I'm very excited to announce that we have over 24 minutes of excellent new music from V-Axys! The music system is now location-specific, so for instance, the Volcano has a different feel than other places. And what's also location-specific? Spawn points. So if you die in the volcano, you get to go right back. We've also added a new Recycle Bin mechanic, which lets you reroll 3 items into a new item which will be different from those three, of average item level, and of at least the rarity of the minimum one - so you can reroll 3 uniques into a new one! We overhauled the Scorporation firing pattern which is much easier to predict and track while still being very challenging, and the Webcrawlers can now dodge! You'll notice this right away, it's a big change. Also! Six new perks, Encrypted Server Security, better bounties (simpler, with in-game tracking and the option to reroll), and enemy path jank reduction. Of course, we've done tons of bug fixes, including a truly MASSIVE amount of optimization, resulting in a gain of *40* FPS, even on some low spec systems! Full details here.

Thanks!

We hope you like all the new stuff! If you do, please feel free to leave a review and let us know on the discord. Thanks for playing, and Happy Hacking! superdupergc and Nonadecimal

[ 2020-06-25 13:31:00 CET ] [ Original post ]