Alien Hominid Invasion is a game of many words in very few letters, mostly grunts, shrieks and AAAAAAAHs! One of our favorite parts about creating our games is being allowed to further the world of that game through your ear holes. While audio design is not only incredibly fun for us, the stories and human beings behind these noises are deserving of their own special praise!
CURTAIN CALL!
It’s time to deck the headquarter halls with grenade garlands, digestor choirs, and adorably adorned aliens! That’s right, Part 1 of our Alien Hominid Invasion update has finally arrived! Part 1 is now live on Steam, with consoles to follow soon.
Along with plenty of bug squishing that we were able to implement thanks to YOU sending us your feedback, this update is loaded with alien gifts for all! Update Part 1 will be focusing on adding 23 new achievements, a more interesting map algorithm that forces harder choices, giving players larger pools of starter equipment for more interesting re-plays, boss tuning and a good number of bug fixes. And this is all LIVE NOW! Go get those new achievements and show us what you’re made of!
Coming soon… Update Part 2 will be the largest update we’ve had yet, focusing on variety and player feedback that will make level-to-level gameplay more different – featuring new hazards, vehicle usage, adjustments to objectives, some new enemies, and more dropping next year.
Happy Holidays, from our team to yours!
A whole new set of achievements have arrived! Time to show us what you’ve got. Again.
What’s that you say? You like making more meaningful decisions in your invasion paths? We have great news for you, then!
There are more deliberate pathways in the generated mission maps, making it more common to have hard choices! Uh oh! Overall Danger-Per-Level added per block has been lowered to compensate for the longer pathways that can appear.
When you defeat a boss at their HQ, you can now select from a wider initial pool of Mutations, increasing randomness and making playthroughs more curious!
The aliens have observed us and increased the discoverable alien head pool with November-esque and Winter cosmetics!
This weapon now takes 0.3 seconds longer to reach ultra-white-hot-melting on targets.
We’ve tuned the Agency’s scaling to work differently. In later Danger Levels, enemies won’t fire bullets with as much boosted velocity as before, meaning the cloud of green death will approach you a bit slower and give you a better chance to dodge!
Grunts are massacring invaders, and still will, though their damage per-bullet output has been lowered, along with a longer time to reach maximum velocity for more of a “tell.”
Damage per-bullet output is lowered when Agents are operating the Mini-Mech. They don’t know how to use them as effectively as you!
Installball’s Megaflight ability now tracks players better – “Injustice rains from above!” Stationary tantrums hurt less, because stationary tantrums shouldn’t hurt that much.
Damage per-bullet output lowered for Lozenge Man, whose main job is supposed to be more “slowing aliens down” and less “mowing aliens down like he’s holding four blasters at once.”
Speed, range, and follow time on the Hunterbot’s projectiles have been slightly reduced, but their homing has been increased. Hunterbot attacks should still be spooky, but are now a bit more satisfying to dodge.
Previously, we lowered the number of enemies that spawned per player. Now, we’ve tweaked the solo experience as well. The overall number of enemies should look less like a flood and more like a… slightly smaller flood.
Objective objects (fishbowls, ice cream, etc.) now have a greater chance of spawning lower in the level. Aliens are great climbers (and flyers!), but repeatedly needing to get to the tops of tall buildings could be especially rough on new invaders.