WELCOME: SWAP/MEAT EMPLOYEE ORIENTATION
Welcome to your first day at Rangus Meats, humanoid Meat Scientist! I'm Rodd, VP of Humanoid Resources and Diuretics Research here at Rangus. This orientation is designed to help you embark on your SWAP/MEAT career, and to provide an overview of what to expect in the field.Before I begin, let me say this: This orientation is for humanoids who are new to the Rangus Meats corporation and are a part of the SWAP/MEAT division. If you are attending this orientation in the hopes of becoming or learning how to impersonate a humanoid, you have made a mistake. This orientation is not for you.
With that out of the way, let's begin!
EVERY PLANET IS A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO FEED THE GALAXY
In the times before galactic fast food hegemony, humanoids would describe your SWAP/MEAT experience as a "third-person shooter with roguelite progression." Primitive, amiright?!But history can still teach us a lot, even if it's technically illegal. Your goal in SWAP/MEAT is to travel around the galaxy, defeating creatures large and small to harvest their DNA (and meat) to help your fellow Meat Scientists at Rangus develop a sustainable meat product everyone can enjoy!
Use your Rangus-approved Galactic Map to choose a planet to drop into. Once you're in, our state of the art Hivemind Meat Sensor will provide missions for you to complete within a deadline. Fight your way through the local fauna, fulfill your missions, and extract the planet's meat core to finish your run.
Sounds simple, but danger is around every corner in SWAP/MEAT, valued humanoid employee! Any time you're not sure, you can always make a run for the extractor to escape with what you've harvested so far. Remember: a productive employee is a living employee!
IN SWAP/MEAT, YOU SWAP MEAT
There are some dangerous worlds out there, humanoid employees. Flying from planet to planet to harvest new meats to feed the universe at any one of Rangus Meat's billion locations requires grit, determination, and the ability to actively swap your body parts to improve yourself each time you visit a planet. That cute butterfly-looking thing flying at you? Son of a gun is packing a rocket launcher. Take him out before he uses it on you. Then, swap your meat with his to unleash rockets of your own.
THERE'S NO I IN MEAT… BUT THERE IS A ME
You can go on planetary runs with friends, single-serving co-workers, or - if you're looking for a unique career challenge - by yourself. SWAP/MEAT's tuned for co-op shootin' and lootin', but we at Rangus Meats will never stop an intrepid employee from entering the field, even if they're destined to die alone and friendless!
EVERY RUN ADVANCES YOUR CAREER
Every time you make it back to a Rangus spaceship with your body intact, you move yourself ever closer to Rangus Meats Upper Management. Corporate Leadership was inspired by early 21st century simulations like Hades and Returnal to ensure that while the worlds around you change, you yourself can consistently progress over time. Short- AND long-term goals? That's Rangus(™)!
RANGUS MEATS THANKS YOU
Once again, humanoid employee, welcome to Rangus Meats and the SWAP/MEAT division! We're sure your career will be a productive one. To meet more of your co-workers, join the Rangus Meats Microsoft Teams channel, add SWAP/MEAT to your Wishlist (MANDATORY!), and visit our corporate social media presences for additional memoranda and guidance.🕹️ Partial Controller Support
🎮 Full Controller Support
Gameplay
Elemental Meat Drops
\nMeat Drops will now randomly have an Elemental Type associated with them when they are dropped. Previously, the Elemental Type was tied to the Mutation that the player selected for that Meat Part\'s slot, but this behavior was not surfaced to players.\n\nRemoving Elemental selections from Level Up rewards gives players wider access to Elemental combinations during a run, while still requiring decisions around which Elemental abilities to slot into specific body parts.\n\nAs additional cross-elemental effects are added, this system should continue to feel better and better. Grab an Ice and Kinetic ability to easily shatter your foes feelings.\n\n
Elite Enemies
\nGolden enemies will now spawn across the map. Killing one will drop an Item Container for the player to claim. Their movement speed is slightly increased compared to non-elite enemies, but they are not particularly aggressive.\n\nLike Item Containers, Elite Enemies are designed to create fun, random, rewarding moments. Well continue to tweak this system, and early feedback is very welcome.\n\n
Luck
\nAdded a new Luck attribute. Upgrades that increase Luck will increase the chance of receiving more and/or better rewards during a run.\n\nIn this update, Luck may not feel especially powerful yet, but future updates will expand how rewards are influenced by Luck. This is the first step toward allowing players to invest early into reward-focused builds.\n\n
Abilities
Player Ability Turrets now stick to many enemies when thrown onto them (Turret Head & Wheelie Torsos Gumbo Turret). Most enemies are supported, excluding smaller enemies and bosses. This is the first sticky-style abilitylet us know what you think\n
[/*]Calibrated meat head scaling while head abilities are recharging so they are more uniform in size\n
[/*]Explosive Dash now has exit speed so it no longer dead-stops: 0 15\n
[/*]Bellygrinder Rush speed increased: 15 20, and knockback added: 0 20\n
[/*]Removed many weapon and ability lockouts during use, prioritizing freedom of choice, combinations, and experimentation over strict animation execution
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General Balance
One of the primary goals of Early Access is achieving a smoother difficulty curve. This update includes balance changes to enemies, items, abilities, and difficulty unlocks to reduce friction between Casual and Standard while making higher difficulties more demanding.
Players can now choose Casual or Standard immediately after completing (or skipping) the tutorial. Unlocking higher difficulties is also fasteronly one Solar System completion on your highest unlocked difficulty is required.
Overall, we reduced enemy counts and aggression on lower difficulties while increasing health to avoid overwhelming players without creating bullet sponges. Balance will continue to evolve based on feedbackplease share your thoughts on Discord or the Steam forums.
Higher-tier enemies now have up to 50% more health
[/*]Reduced enemy count in multiplayer (2.24x 2x at four players)
[/*]Removed Hunter Timer reduction in multiplayer
[/*]Removed Hunter Movement Speed multiplier in multiplayer
[/*]Increased Base Hunter Time to 600s (from 300s)
[/*]Increased Hunter Time Delay for Primary Objectives to 120s
[/*]Decreased Hunter Time penalties from reward events
[/*]Reduced Hunter Time penalties on Casual by 75%
[/*]Weapon Reload Buff duration increased: 15s 30s
[/*]Turbo Boost Ability damage increased: 60/70 100/110
[/*]Reworked Kinetic SMG back to hitscan
[/*]Adjusted Event Spawner default intervals
[/*]Increased base spawn interval across most events
[/*]Spawner intervals now decrease with higher Difficulty\n
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Items
Gelatin Salad
[list]Slime Damage: 8% 10%
[/*]+5% Critical Chance
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Hot Toddy
Fire Damage: 8% 10%
[/*]+5% Critical Damage
[/*][/*]Pork Kite
Electric Damage: 8% 10%
[/*]+5% Attack Speed
[/*][/*]Snowcone
Ice Damage: 8% 10%
[/*]+5% Shatter Damage
[/*][/*]Taco
Kinetic Damage: 8% 10%
[/*]+15% Melee Damage
[/*][/*]Random Solar System
Random Solar System is now unlocked by default for all players (except the demo), allowing players to choose between the campaign and a randomly generated run.\n\nIn a future update, Random Solar System will evolve into an infinite or looping mode tentatively titled Wormhole.
Meta Progression
Standard difficulty unlocked by default
[/*]Removed Employee Rank requirements from Weapon Terminal unlocks
[/*]Weapon unlock costs now include TIPs
[/*]Removed Mineral and Ancient Tech requirements from the first four weapon ranks
[/*]Reduced Glizzy costs per weapon rank by 25%
[/*]Added 3 new Carl side quests for unlocking 5, 15, and 25 Flair (a 37-Flair quest is planned)
[/*]Added Alien Flair (bonus damage vs Aliens)
[/*]Added Aquatic Flair (bonus damage vs Aquatic enemies)
[/*]Added Burger Flipper Flair (bonus melee crit chance & damage)
[/*]Added Close Quarters Flair (bonus short-range damage & accuracy)
[/*]Added Covert Ops Flair (reduces nearby enemy scouts)
[/*]Added Franken Flair (bonus damage vs Franken Meats)
[/*]Added Frostbite Flair (bonus ice accumulation & damage vs chilled targets)
[/*]Added Healthy Flair (bonus max health)
[/*]Added Hollow Charge Flair (bonus direct hit damage, reduced explosion radius)
[/*]Added Hunter Flair (bonus damage vs Hunters)
[/*]Added Incendiary Flair (bonus fire accumulation & burning damage)
[/*]Added Insectoid Flair (bonus damage vs Insectoids)
[/*]Added Kinetic Flair (bonus kinetic accumulation & damage vs staggered targets)
[/*]Added Lightning Flair (bonus electric accumulation & damage vs electrified targets)
[/*]Added Long Range Flair (bonus long-range damage & accuracy)
[/*]Added Machine Flair (bonus damage vs Machines)
[/*]Added Marksman Flair (bonus accuracy & spread recovery)
[/*]Added Meat Ability Flair (bonus meat ability damage)
[/*]Added Meat Shielding Flair (bonus meat durability & damage reduction)
[/*]Added Minion Master Flair (bonus minion health & damage)
[/*]Added Mutant Flair (bonus damage vs Mutants)
[/*]Added Projectile Flair (bonus projectile speed, direct hit damage & explosion radius)
[/*]Added Splatter Flair (bonus slime accumulation & damage vs slimed targets)
[/*]Added Swimmer Flair (bonus swim speed & jump height)
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Animation
Shortened Rangus Legs knockdown animation: 2.7s 1s
[/*]New animations for Machine Enemies: Boxface & Ballguy
[/*]New animations for Mutant Enemy: Paper Bobby\n
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Enemies
New Machine Enemies: Boxface & Boombox
[list]Boxface spawns Boombots that rush targets and explode
[/*]Boombots can be meleed and will knock back enemies
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New Mutant Enemy: Paper Bobby
[list]Throws Rangus Times newspapers at high speeds
[/*]Pro-Tip: You can shoot or melee them out of the air
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Wheelie updates:
[list]Weak point multiplier reduced: 6x 3x
[/*]Shorter downed duration
[/*]Only near-miss charge attacks trip him (melee still works)
[/*]Movement and state logic improvements
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Bugzapper tuning:
[list]Tier 1 moves less below 50% health
[/*]Tier 2/3 move occasionally above 50% health
[/*]Tier 2 no longer receives weapon buffs
[/*]Tier 3 now receives former Tier 2 buffs
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Looger deals slightly less damage
[/*]Rocketbot appears later and has reduced health: 900 600
[/*]Enemy hostility reduced by 30% on Casual and 10% on Standard
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Localization
Added Japanese, Korean, and Simplified Chinese language support with full localization pass
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UI / UX
Quest updates from Carl now appear on the right side of the HUD
[/*]Weapon Terminal and Upgrade Screens have additional SFX
[/*]Employee Handbook has moved directly across from Carl in the lobby
Employee Handbook\nThe Employee Information Terminal has been reworked into a digital Employee Handbooka centralized knowledge hub unlocked as you progress.
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Rangus Files Game lore and world details
[/*]Meat Parts Swappable heads, torsos, and legs with abilities
[/*]Items & Resources Item stats and information
[/*]FAQ Reviewable tutorial content\n\nThe Employee Handbook can be accessed via the Employee Terminal in the ROX-1 lobby. More content is comingtell us what youd like to see next.
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Art
Updated enemy hit VFX
[list]Added Invulnerable Hit effect
[/*]Changed insect blood from green to orange to avoid slime confusion
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Players and enemies flash brighter when hit
[/*]Adjusted VFX sizes for Cold As Ice and Bombard Core to match damage radius
[/*]Audio
Improved elemental explosion SFX impact
[/*]Adjusted enemy sound attenuation for better audibility
[/*]Added SFX for hitting invulnerable enemies
[/*]Added universal player damage sound
[/*]New voiceover dialogue from Carl and ROX-1 is beginning to roll out
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Bug Fixes
Fixed weapon upgrades being unusable with controllers
[/*]Fixed missing icicle mesh on Tier 2 Bugzapper when frozen
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Known Issues
Elemental icons above Meat Drops are not displaying for clients
[/*]Performance tuning is still ongoinglower graphics settings if needed
[/*]Some input glyphs are missing and display as text\\\\
[/*]Observer mode HUD may display incorrect reload information
[/*]Most cutscenes and voiceover remain work-in-progress
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Minimum Setup
- OS: Linux Kernel 5
- Processor: Intel i5 7th generation or equivalentMemory: 4 GB RAM
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 5670 / Nvidia GeForce 8800
Recommended Setup
- OS: Linux Kernel 6
- Processor: 3.00 Ghz Intel or AMDMemory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 5670 / Nvidia GeForce 8800Network: Broadband Internet connection
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