BPM: BULLETS PER MINUTE News

We’re happy to bring you the BPM: OVERDRIVE update. Since release, we’ve been working hard to bring more to BPM. In this update we have added five brand new characters that let you play BPM in a new unique way, three new weapons to encourage more killing of enemies to the beat, a brand new chapter with its own unique enemies, two new difficulties, and much more good stuff!

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Key Features:

5 New Characters
3 New Weapons
1 New Chapter
2 New Difficulties: Hellish and Practice

Additional Additions of Stuff:

New achievements
Over 20 new items
New abilities
New enemies
New unique room types
A new boss
Gameplay balancing
Trials (Items that make your runs more challenging)
Ultrawide FOV support
Per chapter hue slider (change colour of filter)
Optimisation
New challenges
Save game stability fixes
Crash fixes
Level fixes
Asgard has been tweaked
New rooms added
Raygun charge time shortened
Lighting changes
Little changes everywhere
New floor modifiers
Floor entry blur shorter
Windows darkened in Dark floor modifier
Some sounds tweaked
Gambling machine repurposed

We hope you’re excited to play! We’ve loved making this game, and with this update finished, we’re planning the future for games from Awe Interactive.

Key Features:

5 New Characters
3 New Weapons
1 New Chapter
2 New Difficulties: Hellish and Practice

Other Stuff

New achievements
Over 20 new items
New abilities
New enemies
New unique room types
A new boss
Gameplay balancing
Trials (Items that make your runs more challenging)
Ultrawide FOV support
Per chapter hue slider (change colour of filter)
Optimisation
New challenges
Save game stability fixes
Crash fixes
Level fixes
Asgard has been tweaked
New rooms added
Raygun charge time shortened
Lighting changes
Little changes everywhere
New floor modifiers
Floor entry blur shorter
Windows darkened in Dark floor modifier
Some sounds tweaked
Gambling machine repurposed

Thank you everyone for a great launch! We’re so happy to see people enjoying the unique experience that BPM offers. We’ve been working on a patch last week to fix some issues. This is not the end of our support for BPM but the beginning.

• Feature – Added a 3rd wave challenge chest that holds the some of the best items in the game.
  
• Feature – Added new weapon.
  
• Feature – Map goes to the middle of the screen when you press tab.
  

• Fixed – If you fall off a platform you can’t double jump. (ODR run killer)
  
• Fixed – Game restoring the player to bad locations after falling into pits.
  
• Fixed – A few unoptimised textures. (Minor improvement)
  
• Fixed – Duplicate skeleton keys and duplicate lucky dice appearing.
  
• Fixed – Mage enemy getting stuck in walls.
  
• Fixed – Audio settings not loading on launch.
  
• Fixed – Toned down some screen flashes. More to be done here.
  
• Fixed – Dragon’s Heart has been renamed “Dragon’s Skin” and the description modified to be less confusing.
  
• Fixed – “Asp's Whisper” combined with certain weapons completely stopping bosses moving.
  
• Fixed – Upped max FOV to 145 for ultrawidescreen users.
  
• Fixed – Raygun impact effect is off time. (Removed impact for raygun)
  

• Tentatively Fixed – Music changing volume as you move.
  
• Tentatively Fixed – Stuck in room with closed doors.
  

• Balance – On easy baby bats have a range limitation.
  
• Balance – On easy baby bats have fire slower projectiles.
  
• Balance – Default pistol range slightly buffed by 1.5m.
  
• Balance – Raygun is more rare.
  
• Balance – Cooldown reduction appears less. Appears in challenge chests.
  
• Balance – Drop rates for items have been changed.
  
• Balance – Less coins drop in later chapters. There was an over abundance of coins in later chapters.
  
• Balance – Some weighting towards filling all stat statues.
  
• Balance – Nidhogg health quadrupled.
  
• Balance – Vanaheim onwards boss health increased.
  
• Balance – Dragon’s Skin has been made more rare and moved into the ‘Valkyrie’ pool.
  
• Balance – Dragon’s Skin has been nerfed to build shield at 50% of the previous rate.
  
• Balance – Demon pools have been modified to favour good stuff.
  
• Balance – Mechanised Monster does a similar effect to the shield enemies to better communicate that they can’t be damaged when locked down.
  
• Balance – Gauss cannon has been slightly nerfed, but it’s still heart-rendingly OP.
  
• Balance – Gauss cannon is more often on the ‘expensive’ pedestal in the armoury.
  
• Balance – Heal ultimate is less powerful.
  
• Balance – Other small fixes.
  

You’ll have to start a new run to get some of these changes.

We’ve been reading your comments. We’ll be focusing on doing the things that improve the game for everyone over the coming months. Going forwards we want to add more: difficulties, challenges, characters, items, modes and weapons.

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