The first Super Mutant Alien Assault update for 2016 is here, bringing in a big bad new boss - The Monarch. This beasty brings out a flock of pregnant boss Monarchs. When you destroy each one, they pop open and give birth to another flock of super mutated Monarchs! We're expecting that some will find this hard, others may find it easy. So make sure you leave feedback in [the update thread] so we can adjust the settings over the coming weeks based on your feedback.
The Monarch Update also makes imrpovements to Buzz AI, fixing most of those niggling issues we've had with its pathfidning. While the update may be a little light on content, there are a lot of tweaks made behind the scenes. Chris has updated the game engine to a brand new version, which brought about a number of crazy bugs that needed to be fixed. We've done some internal testing, but if any of you find anything out of the ordinary on your own machines, please throw them in the feedback thread linked above so we can track them down and squash them.
What's on the agenda now? Chris will be balancing this update based on feedback for a short time after release, and then will be pressing on with development. We'll also be hosting some live streams and a form of Q&A session with Chris via our Dojo in the coming weeks, so please stay tuned!
It's also worth noting that today is Australia Day, and being an Australian publisher, we are throwing an Australia Day sale across some of our games. If you're a fan of Super Mutant Alien Assaault, it would be great if you could spread the word, and perhaps you would like to check out some of these games while you're at it:
- Dungeon League 20% off: http://store.steampowered.com/app/362310/
- Fort Meow - 50% off: http://store.steampowered.com/app/352070/
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Also, Hacknet will be having a 48 hour sale at 33% off as part of a Steam daily deal so get in quick on that one!
Until next time.
Steve - Community Manager
Super Mutant Alien Assault v 0.49 - The Monarch Update
Changes
- 1 new unlockable boss - Monach.
- Buzz bosses all now use different dead sprites.
- New intro on launch. Introduces some of the games back story.
Bug Fixes
- Improvements to Buzz AI should fix most of the remaining issues with its pathfinding.
- Activating blaster special while holding fuel ball bug fixed.
- Fixed countless bugs caused by long overdue update to latest version of Game Maker.
- Fixed mistake that caused health machine to always appear on first level of the 3rd Galaxy, rather than randoming the 1st to 3rd level.