Redout: Space Assault page has been updated with our new pre-alpha gameplay video and a few screenshots of the current stage of the project. Theres still a lot to do and listening to your feedback about the multiplayer focus has been of great help for us. Space Assault has now a lot more content on the single-player campaign and the arcade feel of the game greatly improved in the last couple of months. You can watch the video on its Steam page or on our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTca9fM95vU Also, we finally created the official Discord server for the game. Join now to discuss the game with us! https://discord.gg/bCR52s4

[ 2018-11-08 18:13:03 CET ] [ Original post ]

A total of 669 changes between V1.1.2 and V1.2

THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN!

The Supreme Leader was downhearted with the reception of its propaganda. After eating an unhealthy dose of chocolate, he called for a Great Warfare Maneuver to shake things up. After many fervent weeks of work, we are now ready to present the New Great Plan for conquering Mars! Of course, we will need to re-establish communications with our Explorers first... NEW DEFENSIVE STRUCTURE: BARRICADE To stop aliens from chewing on your defences, youve got to give them something else to chew on first! These Titanium barricades with an integrated Energy Field can withstand terrifying amounts of punishment, allowing your turrets do their job.
NEW DEFENSIVE STRUCTURE: MORTAR TURRET Get rid of those pesky swarms from a distance! The Mortar Turret drops shells dealing AoE damage. Its long range also allows to counter aliens shooting from afar. A must-have gadget for every interplanetary army!
NEW DEFENSIVE STRUCTURE: STUN TURRET When it comes to hand-to-hand combat, every second counts. This revolutionary installation fires a strong audiovisual shockwave that overloads alien senses, dealing moderate area damage but especially stunning them for a few precious moments.
UPGRADEABLE DEFENSIVE STRUCTURES A new Structures Upgrade System allows you to spend your Resources to strengthen your Turrets individually, up to level 10! From today, we wont depend on crate-box supplies only!
NEW ALIEN: BOMBER These strange, short creatures look like they just left Thanksgiving dinner. Problem is, they are basically mobile buckets of explosive chemicals. And, they run like stink!
NEW ALIEN: SNIPER An extremely dangerous specimen shooting extremely long-range bullets with precision. Good Mortars can take care of them: otherwise, our Explorers will need to take them on personally! NEW ALIEN: JETPACK GRUNT These obnoxious creatures can drop anywhere on the battlefield. Usually, they tend to drop behind our defence lines. This is most unfortunate, especially because they are aggressive and tough!
NEW CAMPAIGN: LIBERATION. BIGGER AND BADDER! There is a strange mutation going on: we identified 4 new alien evolutions, considerably stronger and faster than the previous one. This new 9-missions Campaign will take you to the deep recesses of the Red Planet, to find out what is the source of this formidable threat. We will need every bit of our new military technology to survive the Infection!
NEW GAME MODE: HARDCORE In case you need an even harder challenge, both the Conqvest and Liberation campaign can be played at Hardcore difficulty. NEW RESOURCES MANAGEMENT: INFINITE CRYSTALS Thanks to a more efficient extraction process, Crystal pools can be mined for longer. Also, once a pool is depleted, it will continue to grant bits and pieces of Crystals indefinitely: the income will be much lower, but this will grant more time to transfer your base to a more Hawaiian location. We also found out that Aliens love Crystals as snacks, so they always carry some. Meaning, we get free Resources for each Alien we KO! UPGRADE CRATE BOXES They can now be researched on the spot. Just make sure a Research Center is up and running, find a Crate and pick it up. It will be automatically transferred to your base and applied! BOOST-TURN We realigned and optimized propellers, so Explorers can now turn while Boosting. Exploring Mars is a breeze! Wheeeeeee!
SCOUT BEAN SHIELDS OVERHAUL Beans Shield is no longer damaged by alien projectiles. Bean can also bash enemies by boosting onto them while Shields are up. Show off your skills!
UI REVIEW The last placed structure is automatically selected on reopening the Build Menu, making it faster to build a line of defence.. A better alignment between crosshair and bullets makes shooting smoother. Enemy Health UI is now visible (can be turned off). Remaining wave duration time is now displayed. Minimap review: it now displays only Crate Boxes in proximity. AI REVIEW Companion automatically tries to reach an O2 tank when oxygen is low. Companion always comes when called (removed minimum radius for the Follow command). GAME CONTENT REVIEW Reviewed classic campaign structure, duration and goals to adapt for new content. Reviewed and recalibrated Endless mode difficulty to adapt for new content.

THANKS FOR THE ATTENTION!

If you are *still* reading, phew! That was a lot to cover. We have read some legitimate, constructive criticism after launching the game and worked hard to give you a deeper experience, more content, more strategic variety and challenges. There is much more we would have loved to do (but couldn't, due to time constraints) but for now do let us know what you appreciate, what still needs work, and what you'd love to see in the game. Mars, or Die!

[ 2018-10-08 10:06:22 CET ] [ Original post ]

Having trouble shooting down an opponent? Try a bigger gun.
Hyperdrive Massacre's Third Battle Tactics video is live! Here we talk about the most destructive weapons of the game. We take a look at the Smartbomb, raise the stakes and go for the multi kill; the Spear, short range and deadly; the Grenade, spectacular and dangerous for everyone on the battlefield; and the Homing Missile, perhaps the deadliest of them all. Time to unleash the full potential of your arsenal! You will see that we also took the chance and integrated all the previous videos in one single nice guide, so you can find everything in one place. Happy fragging! http://store.steampowered.com/app/402390

[ 2015-11-20 22:19:58 CET ] [ Original post ]

Having trouble shooting down an opponent? Try a bigger gun.
Hyperdrive Massacre's Third Battle Tactics video is live! Here we talk about the most destructive weapons of the game. We take a look at the Smartbomb, raise the stakes and go for the multi kill; the Spear, short range and deadly; the Grenade, spectacular and dangerous for everyone on the battlefield; and the Homing Missile, perhaps the deadliest of them all. Time to unleash the full potential of your arsenal! You will see that we also took the chance and integrated all the previous videos in one single nice guide, so you can find everything in one place. Happy fragging! http://store.steampowered.com/app/402390

[ 2015-11-20 22:19:58 CET ] [ Original post ]

I mean, have you seen how rad Hyperdrive Massacre’s art is? We are pretty effin proud of it. So proud that, in fact, we’d love to share it with you!


Our wallpaper’s gallery has been revamped to celebrate the fact that HDM has been on Steam for almost three weeks! (That’s a proper unbirthday alright, we just didn't want to wait until monday). Whatever the reason, enjoy!

[ 2015-10-30 22:14:22 CET ] [ Original post ]

I mean, have you seen how rad Hyperdrive Massacres art is? We are pretty effin proud of it. So proud that, in fact, wed love to share it with you!


Our wallpapers gallery has been revamped to celebrate the fact that HDM has been on Steam for almost three weeks! (Thats a proper unbirthday alright, we just didn't want to wait until monday). Whatever the reason, enjoy!

[ 2015-10-30 22:14:22 CET ] [ Original post ]

Last weekend, Hyperdrive Massacre was at the Milan Games Week. Thanks for all the players who stopped by, those who came looking for us and the (many) others who stopped by on their way to try other games. As you can see, we were in a great position :)
It's always a genuine pleasure to watch a group of friends learning the basic controls together, going from "how do I move!" to "HAHAHAHAH PWNED!" in a bunch of seconds. The yelling and laughter of our players has put a stupid smile on our faces that won't go away.

If you have come here from the GamesWeek, let us say "grazie infinite" and hope you'll enjoy many other hours of competitive space fragging!

[ 2015-10-27 15:54:21 CET ] [ Original post ]

Last weekend, Hyperdrive Massacre was at the Milan Games Week. Thanks for all the players who stopped by, those who came looking for us and the (many) others who stopped by on their way to try other games. As you can see, we were in a great position :)
It's always a genuine pleasure to watch a group of friends learning the basic controls together, going from "how do I move!" to "HAHAHAHAH PWNED!" in a bunch of seconds. The yelling and laughter of our players has put a stupid smile on our faces that won't go away.

If you have come here from the GamesWeek, let us say "grazie infinite" and hope you'll enjoy many other hours of competitive space fragging!

[ 2015-10-27 15:54:21 CET ] [ Original post ]

You already know the major point of today's HDM update, (don't you?) so let's move on to something else. Controllers! Besides Xbox 360, Xbox One and Sony DualShock 3, our favorite controllers to play HDM, we added unofficial support for a bunch of other controllers. These may work, but not all of them were tested thoroughly - I admit, we don't own most of these! If you happen to own some and could drop us a line telling us how they perform with our game, we would be really grateful! - Logitech F310 - Logitech F710 - Logitech Dual Action - Logitech RumblePad 2 - Sony DualShock 2 & 4 - Saitek P880 - Saitek P990 - GGE909 Recoil - Nyko AirFlo EX - Radio Shack Gamepad - GameCube Controller - WiiU Pro Controller - Mad Catz C.T.R.L.R - Red Samurai Gamepad - SteelSeries Free - idroid Snakebyte - ipega Gamepad - Nyko Playpad Pro - Buffalo NES Gamepad - Buffalo SNES Gamepad - OUYA Gamepad - GameStick Controller - Amazon Fire Controller - Nexus Player Gamepad - Nvidia Shield Gamepad This and, of course, we fixed a few minor bugs :) Cheers!

[ 2015-10-19 21:05:42 CET ] [ Original post ]

You already know the major point of today's HDM update, (don't you?) so let's move on to something else. Controllers! Besides Xbox 360, Xbox One and Sony DualShock 3, our favorite controllers to play HDM, we added unofficial support for a bunch of other controllers. These may work, but not all of them were tested thoroughly - I admit, we don't own most of these! If you happen to own some and could drop us a line telling us how they perform with our game, we would be really grateful! - Logitech F310 - Logitech F710 - Logitech Dual Action - Logitech RumblePad 2 - Sony DualShock 2 & 4 - Saitek P880 - Saitek P990 - GGE909 Recoil - Nyko AirFlo EX - Radio Shack Gamepad - GameCube Controller - WiiU Pro Controller - Mad Catz C.T.R.L.R - Red Samurai Gamepad - SteelSeries Free - idroid Snakebyte - ipega Gamepad - Nyko Playpad Pro - Buffalo NES Gamepad - Buffalo SNES Gamepad - OUYA Gamepad - GameStick Controller - Amazon Fire Controller - Nexus Player Gamepad - Nvidia Shield Gamepad This and, of course, we fixed a few minor bugs :) Cheers!

[ 2015-10-19 21:05:42 CET ] [ Original post ]

Good news everyone!
On Monday we'll release an update for Hyperdrive Massacre, adding Linux support. Because real men don't click, they frag! Here at 34BigThings we're very happy to welcome you to the fragfest, dear Linux friends! You've still got a few hours to enjoy the 25% launch discount, so get to it. See you!

[ 2015-10-18 19:01:32 CET ] [ Original post ]

Good news everyone!
On Monday we'll release an update for Hyperdrive Massacre, adding Linux support. Because real men don't click, they frag! Here at 34BigThings we're very happy to welcome you to the fragfest, dear Linux friends! You've still got a few hours to enjoy the 25% launch discount, so get to it. See you!

[ 2015-10-18 19:01:32 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hyperdrive Massacre’s 25% discount will be over on Sunday night!
Aww yiss discounts! As we recently said, we've got no plans for further sales just yet, so go grab it while it lasts. Also, get ready for big news tomorrow! Happy fragfest-friendly weekend!

[ 2015-10-17 18:20:43 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hyperdrive Massacres 25% discount will be over on Sunday night!
Aww yiss discounts! As we recently said, we've got no plans for further sales just yet, so go grab it while it lasts. Also, get ready for big news tomorrow! Happy fragfest-friendly weekend!

[ 2015-10-17 18:20:43 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hyperdrive Massacre is all about firing the right bullet at the right time! Or, maybe just firing a lot! While flying through debris dodging bullets, looking for the right pickup weapon is kinda important! You'll also need to know what will happen when you pull the trigger - hopefully, you are already mashing that fire button. Alas, fear not! The second Battle Tactics guide is on Steam. Learn just about everything on the Big Bullet, the Triple Shot, and the Sniper Shot, straight from the squeaky voice of the game designer. Your friendly reminder that you can still grab Hyperdrive Massacre at 25% off and save up 2.50 bucks! Think about what you could do with all that cash!

[ 2015-10-16 21:02:17 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hyperdrive Massacre is all about firing the right bullet at the right time! Or, maybe just firing a lot! While flying through debris dodging bullets, looking for the right pickup weapon is kinda important! You'll also need to know what will happen when you pull the trigger - hopefully, you are already mashing that fire button. Alas, fear not! The second Battle Tactics guide is on Steam. Learn just about everything on the Big Bullet, the Triple Shot, and the Sniper Shot, straight from the squeaky voice of the game designer. Your friendly reminder that you can still grab Hyperdrive Massacre at 25% off and save up 2.50 bucks! Think about what you could do with all that cash!

[ 2015-10-16 21:02:17 CET ] [ Original post ]

As the first Hyperdrive Massacre after-launch weekend approaches, we'd like to share a slice of our launch party enthusiasm!


On Monday night, we gathered at the Moba, the one and only E-Sports bar in Torino. Since 34BigThings is rather big for an indie company and a good number of friends came to say hi, we basically took over the place, setup two computer and challenged each other. Some patrons got curious and ventured through our tipsy ranks to check the game out.


You still got the whole weekend to join the hyperdrive massacre at a discounted price. The launch sale terminates on Sunday night and we've got no plans for further sales just yet, so go grab it! Happy Friday!

[ 2015-10-16 12:07:30 CET ] [ Original post ]

As the first Hyperdrive Massacre after-launch weekend approaches, we'd like to share a slice of our launch party enthusiasm!


On Monday night, we gathered at the Moba, the one and only E-Sports bar in Torino. Since 34BigThings is rather big for an indie company and a good number of friends came to say hi, we basically took over the place, setup two computer and challenged each other. Some patrons got curious and ventured through our tipsy ranks to check the game out.


You still got the whole weekend to join the hyperdrive massacre at a discounted price. The launch sale terminates on Sunday night and we've got no plans for further sales just yet, so go grab it! Happy Friday!

[ 2015-10-16 12:07:30 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello Steam! Starting to wrap your head around the controls, weapon and movement system of Hyperdrive Massacre? No? Fear not! We already created a couple of Battle Tactics Videos and we'll post them in the Community Hub, under the Guides section. So stay tuned, more content will come! Have you experienced how tricky the Mine is? The first Battle Tactics Video explains how to deploy them to your advantage, and possibly not getting pwned by your own mines.
See you!

[ 2015-10-14 16:31:34 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello Steam! Starting to wrap your head around the controls, weapon and movement system of Hyperdrive Massacre? No? Fear not! We already created a couple of Battle Tactics Videos and we'll post them in the Community Hub, under the Guides section. So stay tuned, more content will come! Have you experienced how tricky the Mine is? The first Battle Tactics Video explains how to deploy them to your advantage, and possibly not getting pwned by your own mines.
See you!

[ 2015-10-14 16:31:34 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hyperdrive Massacre is now available! Grab it while it's-a-25% off! A huge thanks to everyone who made this possible, starting from the development team (we'll be out celebrating tonight, pictures incoming!), our partner Digital Tribe, all the friends and testers who gave their time and valuable feedback, and every single word or tweet of support. Looking forward to your valuable feedback as well. Grab a copy and call your friends!

[ 2015-10-12 16:19:35 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello World! Here at 34BigThings we can't wait to see that counter go down to zero and finally shout to the world: our game is on Steam! I think it's the first time we long for a Monday to come. Local multiplayer is a great genre, we love it when games bring people together for real. This may sound dull, but we worked really hard on Hyperdrive Massacre to foster that good-times feeling of playing with friends. The fact that we couldn't stop playing it ourselves during development, from the first prototype to the final product, has led us to believe that we succeeded, but now it's time for the big test! So prepare your couch, stock up your fridge for beverages, call your friends over (tell them to bring controllers!) and order pizza. I truly hope Hyperdrive Massacre will grant you many hours of loud, competitive gameplay.
See you on Monday!

[ 2015-10-10 14:47:53 CET ] [ Original post ]