Beetle Uprising News

We decided to push out a fix to the Task-Reset Cheat ahead of schedule today. After you patch, any "stuck" tasks that you had previously mowed down to zero will now work again. The bug only kicked in if you had run the cheat on a completely mowed task. You will need to re-run the task-reset cheat once more after the patch downloads, to get them unstuck. Our apologies.

Darrin

Big update today. Its been awhile since the last update since we had to fix a few bugs in the beta builds that prevented us from promoting them.



Here's what's new:

• There are 3 cheats added to the options menu: new Goop, reset task counts, and reset beetle needs. You won't need them if you follow the best strategy, but they are there in case.
  
• "Ow My Thorax" and "Many is the Swarm" are now available.
  
• Spitters are now nerfed. Sorry, but they were pretty OP. This works both ways, so killing enemy spitters should be easier.
  
• We added a Rock/Paper/Scissors mechanism to attack types. There is a +50% damage done to the next attack type in a circle: Biters->Spitters->Acid->Vampire->Reekers->Biters. There is a +25% damage from everyone to Healers. There is a 25% reduction in damage from anyone to Immolators. You can see the diagram on the Swarm Maker, and if you hold down in combat.
  
• Hitting in combat also shows you the attack types of each group. This should help with your combat strategy.
  
• We have randomly generated arranged music in the Nest.
  
• Some new sound effects with reduced volumes, and some UI tweaks.
  
• You can now see beetles moving around on the Lot Map when unpaused.
  
• Fixed a bug when the inventory goes entirely empty.
  

Darrin

Big update today. Its been awhile since the last update since we had to fix a few bugs in the beta builds that prevented us from promoting them.



Here's what's new:

• There are 3 cheats added to the options menu: new Goop, reset task counts, and reset beetle needs. You won't need them if you follow the best strategy, but they are there in case.
  
• "Ow My Thorax" and "Many is the Swarm" are now available.
  
• Spitters are now nerfed. Sorry, but they were pretty OP. This works both ways, so killing enemy spitters should be easier.
  
• We added a Rock/Paper/Scissors mechanism to attack types. There is a +50% damage done to the next attack type in a circle: Biters->Spitters->Acid->Vampire->Reekers->Biters. There is a +25% damage from everyone to Healers. There is a 25% reduction in damage from anyone to Immolators. You can see the diagram on the Swarm Maker, and if you hold down in combat.
  
• Hitting in combat also shows you the attack types of each group. This should help with your combat strategy.
  
• We have randomly generated arranged music in the Nest.
  
• Some new sound effects with reduced volumes, and some UI tweaks.
  
• You can now see beetles moving around on the Lot Map when unpaused.
  
• Fixed a bug when the inventory goes entirely empty.
  

Darrin

New Update: We added two new areas, Achievements, Gene Splicing, and Decorations. And lots of other new things to try out.

• We have created 19 Steam Achievements. Of which, 17 are available and visible.
  
• Steam Cloud saves are now working. So you can pick up your game on another machine, if you'd like.
  
• Enter The Beetle (map 11) map area is now complete, along with its mission.
  
• Toads of Obliteration map area is now complete. It is an always-hostile area with no combat mission. But the tasks have tasty rewards, including some interesting eggs.
  
• Beetle visuals can now be saved to flasks and applied to any other Beetle using the Beetle Inspector. To open the Beetle Inspector, just double-click a Beetle. This is useful if you want to preserve a look that you like, or want to make all Beetles with one attack type look the same. We call this Gene Splicing, since the visual change can then be inherited by this Beetle's offspring.
  
• Added decoration objects for your Nest. Beetles don't use them, but they make the Nest look nice.
  
• Your Beetles are awarded a trophy for each mission they win at 3 stars. These can be used to decorate your Nest and remind you of your accomplishments.
  
• The Game Manual now shows up in the Steam Overlay browser, instead of trying to open a PDF reader. And you can click through hyperlinks there.
  
• We are now a little more generous with Regeneration genetics in eggs from earlier missions.
  
• Made some lighting improvements in Beetle Inventory mug shots and Beetle Inspector vanity scenes.
  
• Tweaked a few visual effects and sound effects.
  
• Fixed a genetics bug that prevented cross-over in the first two genes. Should be a bit easier to get the maximum allele there, now.
  

New Update: We added two new areas, Achievements, Gene Splicing, and Decorations. And lots of other new things to try out.

• We have created 19 Steam Achievements. Of which, 17 are available and visible.
  
• Steam Cloud saves are now working. So you can pick up your game on another machine, if you'd like.
  
• Enter The Beetle (map 11) map area is now complete, along with its mission.
  
• Toads of Obliteration map area is now complete. It is an always-hostile area with no combat mission. But the tasks have tasty rewards, including some interesting eggs.
  
• Beetle visuals can now be saved to flasks and applied to any other Beetle using the Beetle Inspector. To open the Beetle Inspector, just double-click a Beetle. This is useful if you want to preserve a look that you like, or want to make all Beetles with one attack type look the same. We call this Gene Splicing, since the visual change can then be inherited by this Beetle's offspring.
  
• Added decoration objects for your Nest. Beetles don't use them, but they make the Nest look nice.
  
• Your Beetles are awarded a trophy for each mission they win at 3 stars. These can be used to decorate your Nest and remind you of your accomplishments.
  
• The Game Manual now shows up in the Steam Overlay browser, instead of trying to open a PDF reader. And you can click through hyperlinks there.
  
• We are now a little more generous with Regeneration genetics in eggs from earlier missions.
  
• Made some lighting improvements in Beetle Inventory mug shots and Beetle Inspector vanity scenes.
  
• Tweaked a few visual effects and sound effects.
  
• Fixed a genetics bug that prevented cross-over in the first two genes. Should be a bit easier to get the maximum allele there, now.