Howdy Beeflandians!
We are just days away from our largest ever update, adding new stages/mode/weapons, and including tons of little tweaks. To learn more about the basics of the Remix Update, check the previous post.
I wanted to show off some of the new things you can find on Remix Island today! Let's dive in with a look at the Remix Island docks.
The Remix Island docks have a key quality of life feature: every stat upgrade shop in one convenient location! There are two NEW shops being added as well for thrill seekers. The first is the Great Reset shop. This resets every single stat shop to their default zero values. Did you buy so many damage upgrades you made the game trivial? Reset! OR! Buy in to the Remix Difficulty shop. This increases the base difficulty of the Remix Island stages, with three tiers at patch launch. This difficulty increase is steep and for folks that want a challenge and want to still endlessly buy stat increments. Difficulty too hard? The Great Reset shop will reset this one as well.
Shop menues got a glow-up! Alongside a font change for legibility, every shop now has a brief one line description about what is actually happening when you purchase something. This is applied to shops game-wide, not just Remix Island of course.
Back to Remix Island exclusives, let's take a look at two new weapons.
Uppercut is a vertical attack that passes through all enemies in it's range. It shares a damage stat with Fisticuffs, meaning upgrading one - upgrades both. Picking up multiple Uppercuts increases the range of the attack. A new level up option on Remix Island increases the damage of fist based attacks as well. Start with Tweezer and hope for some good RNG!
Gross Grass is a buildable weapon, placing down weeds every so often. Those weeds have a small chance every now and then to spawn friendly ticks. That spawn chance is shared with the chance that Pills have to spawn Ticks. And a new level up option in Remix Island increases the chance for both weapons to spawn ticks. Disco Debbie is looking good for this weapon.
If you caught a trend with the two new weapons shown here, there's a big emphasis on ~SYNERGIES~. Almost every new weapon, passive, or level up option can have a ripple effect on other weapons, passives, or level up options. With the randomness of Remix Island, building towards a cohesive and destructive build is inherently harder, but with a new focus on synergies your loadout can be given a whole new level of thought.
The Remix Update releases THIS WEEK (After Christmas). I'm stuffing every idea I can into the new upgrade options and then it'll be golden.
See you on Remix Island very soon,
Kyle