Alien Hominid HD News

[h2]Message From the Big Chicken[/h2]
Calling all aliens (and earthlings) of chaos and destruction! The Big Chicken is here with great news – an update for Alien Hominid HD has arrived, full of audio and visual bug fixes, music restoration, and TURBO FIRE! Yes, you read that correctly. TURBO. FIRE!!!!!!

Sending a Big Chicken BAAAAAAAWK to the community members on Discord and social media who reported various bugs and pointed out the previously missing original music tracks. We appreciate you behemothly!

Read about all the changes below, enjoy some old tunes from your youth, and as always, let us know what you think! Bawk?



[h2]New Stuff[/h2]

1. New - A Turbo Fire option has been added for aliens tired of button spamming
   
2. New - Added option to change player hats during gameplay (destroy things fashionably 💅!)
   
3. Input - Players can now play local 2 player with a gamepad and keyboard
   

To utilize both of these new features, open up the settings menu, navigate to player options, turn on Turbo Fire, and choose your hat of choice!

1. Art - Restored the original art for 1-4 boss's body
   
2. Audio - Restored original music for the All You Can Eat minigame
   
3. Audio - Restored the background music in 2-6 to the original "BassGun" music track
   
4. Cutscene - Restored the original ending cutscene, credits, and music
   

[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]

1. Art/Animation - Fixed a visual bug with the bear in 2-2
   
2. Art/Animation - Tweaked the agent running animation in the attract screen to make it smoother
   
3. Art/Animation - Fixed visual bugs with with the helicopter and first boss in 1-5
   
4. Art/Animation - Fixed visual bugs with the Pudding Boss
   
5. Art/Animation - Fixed a visual flicker with jet enemies in 1-5
   
6. Art/Animation - Fixed a visual bug with the 2-3 flamethrower smoke animation
   
7. Audio - Properly looped the agent truck SFX in 1-1 intro cinematic
   
8. Audio - Fixed a bug with SFX continuing to play after defeating the 2-2 bear boss
   
9. Input - Fixed issues with F3 keyboard joining
   
10. Input - Fixed a bug with one controller sometimes controlling both aliens when joining with a keyboard
    
11. Input - Fixed a bug where the launcher was not using the Steam layout
    
12. Input - Fixed a bug with the B button mistakenly bringing up the player profile in the leaderboards
    
13. Input - Fixed various issues with Steam Input and X1 controllers
    
14. Input - Fixed bug with PS5 controller icons not appearing properly when using with Steam Input
    
15. Level - Fixed a softlock that would occur after Bustletron in 1-1
    
16. Level - Fixed an incorrect camera position at the start of 1-1
    
17. Level - Fixed a bug causing the 3-3 boss head to disappear and softlock
    
18. Level - Fixed visual issues with the Tank's turret cannonball fire in the 1-4 intro cutscene
    
19. Level - Fixed bug with the Pudding Boss not going into the "dazed" state when shooting after spraying them with the fire hydrant
    
20. Localization - Various translation bug fixes and additions
    

We're heading back to London for WASD Live!

April 25-27, we'll be at the Truman Brewery in London with Alien Hominid Invasion, Alien Hominid HD, and BattleBlock Theater for all of your chaotic indie game needs. Come check them out, along with over 200 other games at the event.

Be there or be Hatty!

Spring has sprung, the sand worms are singing, the vultures are…vulturing. In the distance…sirens, because Alien Hominid HD is on sale!

[h2]Alien Hominid HD - 20% Off [/h2]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1285360/Alien_Hominid_HD/

In addition to our two newest releases being on sale, the rest of The Behemoth’s Glorious Catalog is also discounted for spring cleaning! From now until March 21st, enjoy these savings during the Steam Spring Sale:

[h3]Alien Hominid Invasion - 20% Off[/h3]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/843200/Alien_Hominid_Invasion

[h3]Castle Crashers - 70% Off [/h3]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/204360/Castle_Crashers/

[h3]BattleBlock Theater - 70% Off[/h3]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/238460/BattleBlock_Theater/

[h3]Pit People - 60% Off[/h3]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/291860/Pit_People/

And now that Spring has officially sprung on Steam, this little chicken is heading to PAX East soon, more details here! See you there?

Deck the halls with deals aplenty, bawk-bawk-bawk-bawk-bawk, bawk-bawk, bawk-bawk!
Tis the season to Invade, bapi bapi ba, ba bapi ba!



From now until January 4th at 10AM PST, enjoy some savings on our games and spread the holiday cheer in the Steam Winter Sale! And as an extra holiday thank you from our team, catch our new releases Alien Hominid Invasion and Alien Hominid HD during their first discount ever!

[h2]Alien Hominid Invasion - 20% Off[/h2]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/843200/Alien_Hominid_Invasion/

[h2]Alien Hominid HD - 20% Off[/h2]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1285360/Alien_Hominid_HD/


In case you forgot your Christmas list this year and need a reminder, here are our usual sales:
[h2]Castle Crashers Remastered - 70% Off[/h2]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/204360/Castle_Crashers/

[h2]BattleBlock Theater - 70% Off[/h2]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/238460/BattleBlock_Theater/

[h2]Pit People - 60% Off[/h2]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/291860/Pit_People/

[h2]We’ve also got deals on bundles![/h2]
https://store.steampowered.com/sub/43401/
Our Can’t Stop Laughing Bundle (Castle Crashers and BattleBlock Theater) is 76% off, and Ultra Baby’s Co-Op Chaos Pack, (two copies of BattleBlock Theater, one for each hand) is also 76% off!

Wishing you a holly jolly, bapi-bapi holiday season and new year! The Chicken will see you on the other side.

[h2]Message from The Big Chicken[/h2]
Hi everyone, and happy holidays! We hope you’ve been enjoying revisiting Alien Hominid HD. If it’s your first time trying our first title out, welcome to the chaos!

We appreciate all the feedback and bug reports you’ve sent in over the last month, and today we have a quick hotfix to address some issues we’ve found. Take it away, bug fixes list!

[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]

1. Input - Fixed keyboard mapping bug when loading directly into levels 1-5 and 2-6
   
2. Input/Art - Fixed button icons for "Press Start" prompt in levels 1-5 and 2-6
   
3. Input/Art - Added new button icons for Steam Deck.
   
4. Input/Art - Fixed P2 press start button icon in Neutron Ball and Pinata Fiesta
   
5. Input - Hide the mouse during gameplay and when idle in menus
   
6. Input - Allow Esc/Start to consistently skip movie cutscenes
   
7. Input - Re-enable mouse during scoreboard screen
   
8. UI - Allow right-click to back out of leaderboard menus
   
9. Settings - Fixed bug with displaying the incorrect resolution after alt+tab in fullscreen
   
10. Settings - Fixed incorrect aspect ratio when the game starts with a maximized window
    
11. Audio - Fixed audio bug with Bluetooth headsets
    
12. Level - Fixed bug with slow-mo effect persisting when exiting to menu during 3-5 boss
    
13. Level - Fixed various visual issues in 3-5
    
14. Cinematics - Fixed a visual bug in 2-5 ending cinematic
    
15. Localization - Fixed "PRESS ANY BUTTON" translations for Russian and Brazilian Portuguese
    
16. Localization - Fixed Italian translations