Hello agents and welcome to update 1900! This update is all about the arsenal at your disposal with new models, new unlocks, new shotgun abilities, and more!
The Manta
Meet the Manta, a compact submachine gun capable of taking out multiple enemies at close to medium range. The new iron sights make for a clean sight picture, but you can also attach the newly modeled red dot sight along with it for those longer range engagements! Use the fire selector to choose between single shot, burst, or automatic fire modes to adapt to the situation at hand.
New, clearer sights:
The Manta also features weapon skins that can be traded or sold on the community market! These skins include rare patterns as well as sleek colors. If you've been around long enough, you might even remember the classic white color that the Manta used to have!
Shotgun Upgrade - Lethal Slugs & Red dots
You may recall picking up the beanbag shotgun, or maybe you thought of it as more of a novelty rather than a tactical weapon. Well, today the intruders received clearance to use lethal force and have replaced all beanbag rounds with lead slugs!
- New slug ammo, 50 damage, 100 balance damage, 50 energy damage
- Can equip red dots
- Slugs have higher velocity and door penetration at close range
- Slightly faster reload time
During testing, the intruders found that the slugs allow for a slightly faster reload, fly faster, and pack a nasty punch. You can even shoot through doors if you're less than 20 feet away from it!
Now I'm sure an intruder with a keen eye like yourself had to have noticed the red dot in that clip up above! With the slugs increasing the range on the shotgun, it only makes sense to allow the red dot to be equipped on it as well. Use it to take out enemies at longer ranges, but make sure you account for bullet drop since these slugs travel slower than most other bullets.
The Item Cache and Item Exchange
The Item Cache has been updated to more clearly show the rarities of your items and now groups your items by type. The biggest change, however, is the addition of item exchanges!
In basic training, intruders learn to sneak silently without leaving any footprints, and now they are making an effort to reduce their carbon footprint! With the item exchange, there will be no more wasted items as all agents can upcycle 5 items to create a similar item of higher rarity! Now you don't have to feel bad for your landfill full of common items and instead worry about what you are going to do with your pile of uncommon items...
Unlockable Items
You already saw a few of the new skins for the Manta, but there are more items that dropped with this update too!
- New arm patches, including clan patches
- New red dots
- New sniper reticles
- And one wall tag that is swimming around somewhere...
Quality of Life Changes
As always, we strive to make Intruder more fun and fair to play! These changes aren't necessarily new content, but are aimed at making Intruder a better experience.
Changes:
- Equip items by double clicking them in your inventory
- Auto-attach red dot to the first eligible equipped weapon
- Show preview for community maps in loading screen
- Equip attachments by dragging them to a weapon slot
- Updated red dot glass to fit entire aperture
- Buffer added to ziplines to prevent players from accidental immediate dismounts
- Item rarity colors show when you unlock an item
Bugfixes:
- Spot on Riverside vines where players would get stuck has been removed
- Fixed framerate stutter when new player joins in large rooms
- Added optimization to object markers and player info elements
- Sped up initial server connection and map selection
DiD yOu KnOw ThAt!?
Explosions can launch many objects, including gas grenades, dropped packages, and more. Use some carefully placed charges to clear out hazards or to launch a package to a more opportune location!
Thanks again to all the dedicated agents of Secret Base Alpha who tirelessly test these updates before they are ready to go live. As usual, drop into our Discord server at https://discord.gg/superbossgames for more about updates and development as well as info about events and tournaments! Stick around for a bit and you can join Secret Base Alpha too, we'd love to hear what you think!