New Intel From the Mothership – Alien Hominid Invasion Update

Greetings earthlings! It’s been a while since we’ve sent an intel transmission down to Earth from the Mothership…

We’re here today to give you some secret deets straight from the aliens themselves! While we’re mostly working on creating epic boss battles to elevate your human gaming experience, we have a ton of smaller additions we’re ready to share with you.

Updates detailed in this post will include changes to enemy visuals, game difficulty, helper AI aliens, and weapon attacks. Now, what we’ve all been waiting for – juicy deets on the game updates!

1) Sweeper enemies are a lot more (visually) sweepery, and they can now swarm levels!

A swarm happens when a large amount of a single enemy type appears randomly in your level. Getting swarmed by Flybot Sweepers is a bit scary, as you’ll have to dodge (or jump over) a ton of green beams at once.

2) Shields from loot now show a rotating shield and provide lots of health!

Some alien heads have ‘shield’ modifiers on them, providing a much-needed buff to navigate the hazards that Alien Hominid Invasion brings. The shield only guards the part of the player it is facing, which makes dodging bullets more fun!

3) All aliens are now a bit squishier, making the game a tad more difficult.

*sad alien squish* Remember to dodge, jump, and dig your way around the enemy forces… and use your new fancy schmancy rotating shield to dodge bullets, of course!

4) Helper AI aliens will now stay on your shoulders and fire along with you!

Little AI aliens can spawn in to help you out; they come with their own weapons ready to crawl onto your shoulders and melt the enemy. You can also ride on their shoulders, only getting knocked off if you take damage from an enemy.

5) Danger level is now shown on the bottom of the invasion map and rises with every city block cleared.

This way, you can have a little more heads up as to what is waiting on the other side.

6) Last but certainly not least, some weapons have bigger, better, and STRONGER charge attacks!

We tweaked some of the charge shots and they look suuuuuuper cool and a lot more murdery. The Six Chambers gun (above) now has a ricochet charge shot that bounces off the edge of the screen!

The Sawed Off gun’s charge shot now has a bouncy shotgun shell.

The alien’s Photon gun now has a better charge shot that reaches farther and deals slightly more damage, but the projectile moves slower than before.

The Acid Shot gun now has a charge shot that has bouncing blobs of green goo!

That’s all for today’s development update! Looking for more intel? Have no fear — we actually have loads more updates to share with all of you humans, so be on the lookout for another dev stream coming early next year!

Do you have any thoughts you’d like to share about our upcoming game? If you have yet to join, be sure to check out our Discord server, where you can chat with our devs and other fans of The Behemoth’s games.

Until next time, earthlings!

No Tricks Only Treats Merch Sale

*aggressive knocking* Treat… or treat!!

Oh, were you looking for tricks? Well, we brought you treats and only treats! In celebration of Behemoth Halloween, a special 25% off sale is headed to our merch store!

That’s right, from October 28th through October 31st, all trick-or-treaters visiting our store will receive 25% off on all products! Score some new merch for yourself or, if you also enjoy giving treats to others, grab a little something for your family and friends. Our store is stocked with tasty goodies like comfy socks, silly print t-shirts, adorable plushies, epic keychains, and more!

Looking for something spooky in particular? Here are a couple of my picks for the occasion:

If t-shirts aren’t your thing (no offense, but they should be), we also have an adorable yet spooky Series 2 Skeleton Figurine, a scary Castle Crasher Troll Baggu, and some snug Necromancer Socks!

Ready to fill up on delicious merch? Scurry on over to our store, add any desired goodies to your cart, and receive our special 25% discount at checkout! Happy trick-or-treating!!!

Behemoth Halloween Is Back With a SpooOOooky Alien Contest!

SpooOOOOooky SCAAARY aliens!!!! Did I send shivers down your spine?? We are now smack dab in the middle of spooky season, and it’s time to celebrate our favorite holiday of the year, Behemoth Halloween!

We were so busy chasing aliens around last year that we needed to take a break from our typical Halloween shenanigans, but have no fear, we’re back with a special Alien Hominid Invasion-themed challenge.

This year, our team wants you to decorate our little alien in his favorite Halloween costume. Use the template below or, if you’re a bit more art-savvy than me, create an original drawing from scratch to prepare this extraterrestrial pal for trick-or-treating – just make sure you hold his hand and look both ways before crossing the street.

Contest Details

• Because Alien Hominid Invasion is jam-packed with cool power-ups that change the player’s alien head and gun, our main requirements are that you modify his weapon and head, at the bare minimum; feel free to go above and beyond!
• Dress him up as a skeleton, superhero, secret agent, school girl, hot dog, you name it – anything is fair game!
• We maaaay give bonus points if you can come up with some stellar stat boosts your costume provides!!!

Categories and Prizes

There will be two winners for each category, and both original and template artwork will be eligible for prizes from our merch store!

(1) Our personal favorites out of all submissions will receive the Greatest Extraterrestrial Costume Award.
Prizes: Choice of “Bear” or Skeleton Figurine + Troll Bag + choice of Necromancer or Alien Hominid keychain

(2) The creepiest costumes will be up for the SpooOOOOooky SCAAARY Alien Award. (I’m already spooked just thinking about the possibilities.)
Prizes: Painbow Horse Throw Blanket + Classified Tote

(3) Last but not least, the silliest (the ones that make us laugh until our sides hurt) entries will be crowned with the Silly Silly Alien Award.
Prizes: Raccoon Hat + Necro Socks + Troll Bag

How to Enter

When your alien is appropriately dressed head-to-gun for Halloween, you can enter by sharing your artwork to either Discord or Twitter. If posting on Twitter, be sure to use the hashtag #BehemothHalloween so we can share it with the universe! If entering on Discord, please join our server here and post your creation in the #behemoth-halloween-2022 channel. We’ll share any Twitter-only entries with the community here, too.

To be eligible for prizes, post your spooOOooOOky entry before October 31st, 2022, at 11:59 PM PT. We’ll spend the following week voting for our favorites before announcing and contacting the winners on social media.

Official Rules

Spooked yet? Here are the official rules for Behemoth Halloween 2022:

• No purchase is necessary.
• Participants must be 18 or older to enter (if in the US), or have parental consent.
• International entries are welcome!
• You may enter more than once, but you can only win one prize.
• Similarly, you may enter as part of a group, but your group can only win one prize!
• Your entry must be your own creation.
• Only new entries will be accepted – artwork submitted from previous years is not eligible.

If you’d like some creepy (or silly) inspiration, feel free to check out the winners of our 2020 Halloween Contest. Let your imagination run wild – the possibilities are endless when choosing how to dress this little guy.

We can’t wait to see what you come up with, and have a Happy Behemoth Halloween!!!