Beef Cat Ultra News

Happy Monday Beeflandians,

Dropping in to give a long awaited updated on the console version of Beef Cat Ultra! So let's get the big thing out of the way first:

[h2]Beef Cat Ultra Console Version launches Friday, February 7th![/h2]

Developed in partnership with Brainium Games, Beef Cat Ultra will land on Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 worldwide. Localized in SEVEN different languages! Thanks to our publisher for that one. The console version will have full language localization in seven languages: English, German, Spanish (Spain), French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil). A simple toggle in the settings menu lets you change the language on the fly.

There are other differences between the Steam version and the Console version - a font change to help accommodate the localization, full rumble effects across the game, full colorblind accessibility integration across the whole game. The Remix Update, launched last month on Steam, will remain exclusive to the Steam version of the game. Local PvP will also remain exclusive to the Steam version, but the "vs AI" versions of Deathmatch and Volleyball are still in the console version.

Xbox and PlayStation each get a respective set of achievements to hunt. The game is available to pre-order now on Xbox:

Xbox Store

The game is available to wishlist on the PlayStation store:

PlayStation Store

The game is available to wishlist on Nintendo's store and the eShop:

Nintendo Store

And lastly, you can learn more about our publisher, who did an excellent job handling our console port on their website:

Brainium Games



Thanks for supporting us at Beef Cat and helping us make this a reality! This is such a massive moment for us! It's been my dream since I was just a lil tyke to release a videogame on a Nintendo console, and bam - it's here.

See you Friday!
Kyle

Howdy Beeflandians,

This is a major update that touches every corner of Beef Cat Ultra, adding loads of new content and improving the content that was already there. The Remix Update will kick off a series of much smaller follow-up updates adding new upgrades and items over time to keep the RNG gods of Remix Island pleased. Let's kick off with the main event:

[h2]Added Remix Island[/h2]

• Added Dock and Ship to Stinky Coast
  
• Added Blockerboy to Stinky Coast to lock Remix Island until Game Completion
  
• Added 4 new stages with new mode "Remix"
  
• --Randomized starting location, pickup locations, and enemy spawn locations
  
• --Objective to Kill 5,000 enemies
  
• --Difficulty Tier increases every 5 minutes, increasing enemy health and speed
  
• Added 7 new level up options in Remix mode
  
• --4 New Weapon Level Up Options
  
• --2 New Survival Level Up Options
  
• --1 New Bonus Level Up Options
  
• Added 4 new pickups in Remix mode loot pools
  
• New Shop: Great Reset - Resets all stat purchases at shops to ZERO and does not refund their costs
  
• New Shop: Remix Difficulty - Increases the base Difficulty Tier of Remix Mode by 1
  
• New Weapon: Uppercut - a vertical attack that deals high damage, upgrades increase range
  
• New Weapon: Gross Grass - builds in the environment, has a %chance to spawn a tick, upgrades increase tick spawn chance
  
• New Weapon: Bomb Flower - builds in the environment, trigger to set off an explosion, upgrades reduce planting cooldown
  
• New Passive: Parry Pants - a successful dodge drops a grenade at your feet, upgrades drop more grenades
  

Above is very nearly everything new in Beef Cat Ultra as of today. No bug fixes or tweaks in that section, just new things to challenge yourself on. But that doesn't mean we didn't get around to some great tweaks and fixes.

[h2]Game-Wide Changes[/h2]

• Optimized Enemy, Object, and Pickup Parent codes - reducing code by 1000+ lines, should improve engine load in late-late endless stages
  
• Bullet based weapons now factor in Damage Modification
  
• Bullet based weapons now factor in Critical Hit Chance
  
• Replaced the font in Shop menus
  
• Added a description tip to every shop
  
• Shop menus no longer display on top of settings menu
  
• Shops can no longer be interacted with while settings menu is open
  
• Re-located player spawn location in "High Seas"
  
• Volleyball pickups now correctly draw a line to Choice Signs
  
• Added subtle controller rumble to enemy kills
  
• Difficulty Tier +1 now gives enemies a single extra HP in Endless stages (at the 10 minute mark)
  
• Added Difficulty Tiers +6-8 to Endless Stages for particularly long games and broken builds
  
• Added new Stat to Stats Screen: Explosion Mod, increase in value increases radius of explosions
  
• New Passive Pickup: Cookbook - increases Explosion Mod by 5
  
• Added Cookbook to World 3/4 Loot Pools and Encyclopedia
  
• Reduced Corpse Bomb explosion radius from 20 -> 16
  
• -Reduced Corpse Bomb frag count from 12 -> 10
  
• -Corpse Bomb, Boom Sticks, and Grenades are all affected by Explosion Mod stat
  

Beyond some quality-of-life and optimization, an entire new stat was added to the game: Explosion Mod. Alongside this is a new Passive pickup that is available in the base game to increase your Explosion Mod. Shop menus are looking much cleaner and helpful, too. Beyond that was a re-configuring of Endless (and Remix) mode difficulty. Previously the difficulty curve was an amorphous thing with five tiers, it's now a much more defined 8 tier system, allowing the difficulty to get to punishing new heights. Controller players can enjoy the addition of a slight rumble as well, a small taste brought over from our burgeoning console ports.

Enjoy the Remix Update! This is not the end of Beef Cat Ultra, just another step, and we hope you follow along as the game continues to grow!

Thanks,
Kyle