An Invasion Balance Hotfix Is Here!

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After observing many, many invaders, we’ve made a few changes to some weapons and a couple of bosses to bring you an even more finely-tuned experience. Read up on the knitty-gritty below, and please keep letting us know your thoughts!

Please note that this hotfix is only currently live on Steam.

Weapon Updates

How does damage work?

When the alien pulls the trigger, each bullet will be assigned damage within the given spread of numbers randomly. The numbers represented below are MINIMUM -> MAXIMUM damage per bullet.

1. Human Machine Gun

Human Machine Gun now has more oomph per clip, due to downtime of reloads.

Damage change on REGULAR SHOT:
Before: 5.25 -> 10.5 (x5 bullet)
After: 5.7 -> 11.25 (x5 bullet)

2. Lightning Gun

This weapon originally didn’t scale well in higher tiers and will now reward aggressive chargeshot + regular shot assault combos.

Damage change on REGULAR SHOT:
Before: 3 -> 4.5
After: 3.3 -> 6.0

Damage change on CHARGE SHOT ZAP:
Before: 1.65 -> 4.2 (interval 0.15/second)
After: 2.1 -> 4.95 (interval 0.13/second)

3. Energy Knife

Energy Knives, also known as swords, can no longer come with Fire Rate modifiers, as invaders couldn’t swing fast enough to notice.

4. Minigun

Minigun now spins up faster, hits a little harder at maximums, and is a little easier to control on recoil.

Firerate Before: 0.20 -> 0.075
Firerate After: 0.10 -> 0.075

Maximum damage on a bullet:
Before: 8.70
After: 9.15

Range maximum change:
Before: 6.75 meters
After: 7.75 meters

5. Megashot

Megashot now applies its status effect on initial contact and third hit, has faster base speed bullets, and has a shorter chargeshot time.

Base Critical Hit Chance from -5% to 3%.

Apply-Status chance on REGULAR SHOT:
Before: 51% mega-acid1, 25% mega-acid2
After: 100% mega-acid1, 45% mega-acid2

SPEED change on REGULAR SHOT:
Before: 5.5 -> 7.5 meters/second
After: 6.5 -> 9.0 meters/second

CHARGE TIME on CHARGE SHOT:
Before: 1.40 seconds
After: 1.20 seconds

6. Sawed Off

When firing, the lucky high rolls of the damage for this weapon scaled incredibly with high tier gear. It should feel unchanged in most scenarios.

Damage change on each pellet REGULAR SHOT:
Before: 12 -> 28.5 (base crit chance 5%) x3 pellets
After: 10.5 –> 19.5 (base crit chance 2.5%) x3 pellets

7. Spreadshot

Needed a little more oomph. Got oomph.

Before: 3.9 -> 6.0 (x3 bullet)
After: 4.5 -> 6.45 (x3 bullet)

Boss Updates

1. Installball 2.0, Next of Spin
  • Health reduced
  • Eye projectile damage down
2. Bustletron, Spinner of Fists
  • Health reduced
  • Bustletron fist missiles now do less damage to invaders (10% health damage instead of 20%)

Other Changes

Update to Maximum # of Enemies

Aliens now add 0.75 additional enemy slots per player instead of 1.0 (4.0 maximum slots to 3.0 maximum slots). What this means in human terms is that there won’t be as many maximum enemies in 3-4 player games.

The Alien [Merch] Invasion Is HERE!

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If you were feeling a little too humanoid, a little too intergalactically underdressed for the Invasion, we’re here to give you some hominid hope! With the launch of Alien Hominid Invasion and Alien Hominid HD on November 1st, we added some new items to our merch hideout for you!

Previously only spotted at PAX West 2023, there were rumors it would soon Invade the rest of the world…introducing the ALIEN HORDE BUTTON UP! Never go anywhere alone again! Hundreds of aliens will always be with you.  Look, there are literally dozens of them!

*Not made from real aliens
**Combos beautifully with our Alien Horde Bucket Hat!

If a bucket hat isn’t for you (perhaps you are more of pail hat alien) there is no need for panic. There may be a need for an EMBROIDERED ALIEN HOMINID FLAT BILL CAP though! 

You may have noticed that hominid’s eyes aren’t actually eyes at all…if you enhance you will see that those eyes are actually ALIEN HOMINID PATCHES. You, too, could have aliens for eyes. Or you could use them as actual patches, ya know.

For those who want to rep The Big Chicken, we’ve restocked our beautimous Behemoth Crewnecks and our Chicken Pocket Tees! Maximum tee shirt pocket capacity: 21 mini aliens.

And now for a SPECIAL FEATURE! Here at The Behemoth, we like to give away FREE STUFF to you as much as we can. To continue the celebration of launching both Alien Hominid Invasion and Alien Hominid HD on November 1st, we’re hosting ANOTHER giveaway on Twitter! Every Monday from November 6th until November 27th, we’ll be picking one winner of a limited Alien Hominid x Youtooz figurine!

To enter, simply follow The Behemoth on Twitter (X?), like, and retweet our giveaway post!

Alien Hominid Invasion and Alien Hominid HD are OUT NOW!

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Do you hear it? In the distance…thousands of alien feet, pitter pattering through the streets…why are so many of them wearing flip flops? The echoes! This can only mean one thing…

Aliens are invading! Both Alien Hominid Invasion and Alien Hominid HD are out now for Xbox, Nintendo Switch, and Steam! Single file line please, and have your Mothership registration ready.

Catch our official launch trailer here:

Today, we launched our fifth title, Alien Hominid Invasion, after preparing Motherships for what felt like years…wait, it actually was years?! Time and relative dimension in space can get blurry.

We’re incredibly grateful for all the aliens who waited patiently to board their Motherships while we were laughing, crying, and laugh-crying our way through development. We couldn’t have done it without all of you.

But today is finally the day! Alien Hominid Invasion is here! What does this mean? This means that you and up to three of your gaming buddies can finally join us in the invasion! Drop down from your Mothership and complete objectives to steal the enemy agents’ intel and straight up ruin their days.

Group up with your friends through online co-op, local/couch co-op, or both! Play solo and hang out with the sewer kids and AI-liens instead. Level up your alien and destroy city block after city block as you carve out your unique path to the enemy HQ! Bring down the boss, receive new Mothership orders, unlock new alien mutations, and fulfill your alien destiny.

Feeling nostalgic? Craving a purist Alien Hominid experience? Why not go back to our crazed, unhinged alien roots that started it all with Alien Hominid HD, also out now! 

Feeling like being all bundled up now that it’s November? GOOD, because there’s a bundle for that! Don’t feel like paying full price? GOOD, because this bundle is DISCOUNTED. Did we tell you that this bundle includes lots of aliens? Check out the bundle on Steam here!

As an extra thank you, we also put our other game babies on sale! Catch Castle Crashers Remastered, BattleBlock Theater, and Pit People on sale during our Bawk Bawk, Forget-Me-Not Sale! Score some sweet deals and introduce your friends to games with strange pooping deer, just do it before the sale ends on November 8th!

Let the Invasion commence!