Following the success of Iron Meat’s launch again in September, the workforce at Retroware has been arduous at work charting the trail ahead with planning main content material updates to their trendy retro gem!
With the primary main replace arriving on Xbox, you’ll be able to expertise a high-quality platter of latest content material to sink your tooth into!
Mirror, Mirror
One of many extremely requested new options within the sport is Mirror Mode–an possibility that permits you to run via each degree, however this time to the left! Whereas flipping the x-axis could look like a trivial replace, dealing with each enemy, each boss, and each degree turns into a complete new expertise. Gamers can unlock this mode after beating the sport for the primary time on any problem!
Purple Speedy Hearth
A second new characteristic is the automated Supercharge improve–or the “third” tier of attainable weapon upgrades. With the Supercharge improve lively on a participant, all of that participant’s projectiles will now have a crimson coloration, as a substitute of sustaining their blue or inexperienced colours, no matter their present improve tier.
So, if a participant has one or two weapons which might be totally upgraded (as in, they fireplace inexperienced projectiles as a substitute of blue), they’ll attempt to decide up a 3rd copy of that gun(s) and be rewarded with an automated Supercharge (Speedy Hearth) improve, coupled along with a brand new crimson shade for his or her projectiles!
My 1UPs, Thank You
With this primary main replace, we’re joyful to announce that each one additional lives gamers earn whereas taking part in via a degree shall be stored as you begin a brand new degree. In different phrases, you now get to maintain additional lives should you end a degree with extra lives than you began with.
Visible Enhancements to Stage Backgrounds
We’ve gone again to the backgrounds of sure ranges and added in some extra particulars that we consider will actually drive dwelling a number of the unstated narrative factors related to Iron Meat’s story. A few of these new particulars embrace: including a short part the place the helicopter flies in capturing down at Meat monsters on Forest, including in spikes to the midboss on Base, including in surviving pilots to the ending credit animation, and explosive impacts from the Meat meteors on Practice.
Different Updates
Along with minor bug fixes on the backend, we’ve additionally:
- Buffed the default injury dealt by the “E”, “U”, and “M” weapons.
- Added extra Meat to totally different sections of the Moon Base.
- Retooled sure patterns of the MI-24 helicopter boss combat to be extra clear.
- And barely modified sections of all ranges to be extra truthful to the participant (for instance: Meat worms at the moment are killable on Base the second they seem, the Meat Mouth Doorways on Practice at the moment are killable, and different minor fixes).
We wished to offer gamers a style of what we’ve received in retailer for Iron Meat’s future, and we will’t wait to share much more new content material with updates later down the road! Iron Meat is offered now!
Iron Meat
Retroware
$19.99
Iron Meat is a fast-paced, run-and-gun shooter that immerses gamers in a world overrun by The Meat–an all-consuming interdimensional biomass. With a mixture of basic arcade and console mechanics, gamers will battle in opposition to mutated victims and machines, dodge bullet barrages, and crush bosses in 9 ranges of gore-ific brutality. As Vadim, combat again in opposition to The Meat and cease the terrors spawned from scientist Yuri Markov’s experiments on the Moon.
MULTI-PHASE BOSS FIGHTS
Iron Meat pays homage to basic run-and-gun titles from the previous, with intense boss fights mounted into a number of phases. With three problem settings to select from, gamers can put their abilities to the check, the place the next problem is rewarded with an much more difficult boss battle.
MULTIPLAYER COUCH CO-OP
Who says you must tackle The Meat invasion alone? With 2-player sofa co-op, you’ll be able to seize a buddy to go away a path of bloody, Meat-infected corpses collectively! It is double the firepower, double the carnage, and double the MEAT!
OVER 30 UNLOCKABLE SKINS
You do not have to be a soldier to combat in opposition to The Meat. Hell, you do not even must be a HUMAN to take action! With over 30 unlockable skins to select from, gamers can customise their character the best way they need. Every pores and skin comes with interchangeable elements, permitting for better customization with mixing and matching. Desire a shark head on a robotic physique with dinosaur toes? DONE. Possibly a half human, half doggo? YOU BET! Or how a few cowboy with a tail and demon wings? Hmm…YEP!