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The Anacrusis Has Versus Mode and Is On Sale for 50% Off!

Just wanted to let you all know that The Anacrusis is on sale during the Steam Summer Sale for 50% off! Grab it now and get in on the Versus mode craze, experience the beautiful majesty of Summer Lance (available exclusively in Steam Workshop), and save the Isolode from the Alien hordes.

We'll also push Update 39 live tomorrow morning, with the following bugfixes and adjustments to Versus mode.



  • Downed players are now properly rooted in place. Once you are down, you can’t be knocked off of ledges by Brutes or Gooper explosions
  • A reduction to Flasher melee knockback. The flasher’s melee should be a harrying attack, not something that will knock Survivors off a ledge from 10 feet away
  • When you’re spawning as an Alien in Versus, you can press crouch to increase gravity and make yourself land more quickly. If you use Toggle crouch, you’ll have to hit crouch a second time in order to jump again
  • Players knocked at the moment the episode ends should now count as alive for the ending bonus scoring, but will show up as skulls on the progress bars
  • Aliens in Ghost mode who are looking for a spot to spawn will now warp between elevator endpoints. This should prevent the “Alien ghosts get stuck in the ceiling” problem
  • Removed inadvertent duplicate item spawns in the first level of all episodes in Versus mode
  • Friendly fire against bots is turned off in Versus mode. You don’t have to worry about accidentally knocking Liu-bot if you’re a bit overzealous when she gets gooed
  • We’re starting the work required to add pre-game lobby matchmaking to The Anacrusis. We’ve added the ability to search for either in-progress games or start a new game to the menu. Next update we expect to have pre-game lobby matchmaking available for players to test
  • We optimized a visual FX that was being used frequently and had an oversized impact on framerate. The common hordes will always have some impact on framerate, but it should be significantly reduced as a result of this update