Today we are bringing you all a very cool update that includes some new items and features! The new items we are introducing will increase the survivability of players on higher difficulties and allows more strategic and cooperative gameplay. Let’s start off with the new items that were announced last week and how to use them!
The
S.W.A.T. drone drops care packages from time to time which help players survive and get higher multipliers. In previous versions the drone dropped 3 variants of care packages: coins (yellow), a med-pack (blue) and a temporary weapon upgrade (pink). We have now added a green package that can drop the following items:
- Shield
- Search lights
- Mines
- And…..
Turrets!These items are classified as
‘secondary’ items, which can used on your command by pressing the right mouse button or X on your controller. You can only carry one of these items with you at the same time.
Besides adding the new package we also redesigned the med-pack (blue package) to work completely different.
Picking up a green care package dropped by the drone!Shield
With the shield you can protect yourself from all incoming damage for the next 15 seconds, while damaging aliens that are attacking your shield. Use this item to get yourself out of danger!
The shield in action! Protect yourself against incoming aliens!Search lights
Search lights allow you to deal massive damage to all aliens that step into one of the three lights circling around you for 15 seconds! Use this item to wreck up your multiplier, help your friends in danger or when you are cornered!
Make sure those aliens get hit by search lights for massive damage! Mines
When you have picked up the green package you also have a chance to get landmines that you can place on choke points where a lot of aliens pass through. You will get a total of 3 mines that will explode when an alien walks over it. It will deal massive damage to all aliens standing close to the landmine and you will get the score and multipliers from the kills!
Place up to 3 mines and lure aliens in your trap.Turret
A highly requested feature by the community was to add turrets to the game. The only thing we can do is to deliver this item. You can now place turrets at strategic positions throughout the map and get an extra high multiplier, since kills made by the turret count towards your score. The turret has a total of 150 bullets and is ignored by aliens.
Plant a turret on strategic places in the map and let the points roll in!Medic 2.0
As stated before, we have redesigned the blue care package dropped by the
S.W.A.T. drone! The medic no longer just gives you +1 HP but allows you to carry the med-pack with you. You can use this medic whenever you want and when used close to fellow players they will also gain +1 HP! This creates opportunities for a more tactical gameplay session when playing with friends or strangers. Oh, and the best part? You can also use it to
resurrect players that are dead! Just make sure you stand close to your fellow players when you are using this item.
The medic bomb will allow you to save you, your friends and the dead!Customizable settings
Another requested feature by the community is to able to edit more settings, allowing players to tailor the game to their wishes. First of all, we completely revamped the menu, making it more clear what settings can be edited, but from today we also allow players to edit:
The score labels:You can now select if you want to display the score labels for every player, only yourself or turn them off completely.
Damage text:You can now select if you want to display the damage your are doing for every player, only yourself or turn them off completely.
Screen shake: You can now decide how much you want your screen to shake when you are firing guns or are on the move. You can turn the screen shaking off completely, reduce the shake, have it set to normal (how it is now) or make it even more extreme!
Turning off the score labels and damage text for all players will increase the performance for players that have a low specced PC, since the system doesn’t have to display this information anymore.System improvements & Alien Data
We have improved a lot of stuff in the code regarding the network (multiplayer) and alien data. To make a long story short: we have improved the stability of the system,
solving major multiplayer issues, networking issues and made sure that the aliens don’t eat all the performance of the game. The aliens should focus on eating your brain, not your performance! ːcruncherː
New achievements!
With the implementation of new items we are also bringing you a total of 5 new achievements. These achievements are:
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Hold the Line: Place 5 turrets.
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Tread Carefully: Place 15 mines.
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In The Spotlights: Use the searchlights 5 times.
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Loving My Bubble: Use the shield 5 times.
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Saving The Day: Revive 5 people using medkits.
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