Following the success of Iron Meat’s launch again in September, the group at Retroware has been laborious 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 possibly can expertise a tremendous 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 choice that permits you to run by each stage, however this time to the left! Whereas flipping the x-axis might look like a trivial replace, going through each enemy, each boss, and each stage turns into a complete new expertise. Gamers can unlock this mode after beating the sport for the primary time on any issue!
Crimson Fast Hearth
A second new characteristic is the automated Supercharge improve–or the “third” tier of potential weapon upgrades. With the Supercharge improve energetic on a participant, all of that participant’s projectiles will now have a pink coloration, as an alternative of sustaining their blue or inexperienced colours, no matter their present improve tier.
So, if a participant has one or two weapons which can be totally upgraded (as in, they hearth inexperienced projectiles as an alternative of blue), they will attempt to decide up a 3rd copy of that gun(s) and be rewarded with an computerized Supercharge (Fast Hearth) improve, coupled along with a brand new pink coloration for his or her projectiles!
My 1UPs, Thank You
With this primary main replace, we’re completely satisfied to announce that each one further lives gamers earn whereas taking part in by a stage will likely be saved as you begin a brand new stage. In different phrases, you now get to maintain further lives should you end a stage with extra lives than you began with.
Visible Enhancements to Degree Backgrounds
We’ve gone again to the backgrounds of sure ranges and added in some extra particulars that we consider will actually drive residence a number of the unstated narrative factors related to Iron Meat’s story. A few of these new particulars embody: including a short part the place the helicopter flies in taking pictures 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 harm dealt by the “E”, “U”, and “M” weapons.
Added extra Meat to completely different sections of the Moon Base.
Retooled sure patterns of the MI-24 helicopter boss battle 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 present gamers a style of what we’ve bought in retailer for Iron Meat’s future, and we are able to’t wait to share much more new content material with updates later down the road! Iron Meat is out there 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 towards mutated victims and machines, dodge bullet barrages, and crush bosses in 9 ranges of gore-ific brutality. As Vadim, battle again towards 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 issue settings to select from, gamers can put their abilities to the check, the place the next issue is rewarded with an much more difficult boss battle.
MULTIPLAYER COUCH CO-OP
Who says it’s important to tackle The Meat invasion alone? With 2-player sofa co-op, you possibly can seize a buddy to depart 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 battle towards 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 way in which they need. Every pores and skin comes with interchangeable components, permitting for higher customization with mixing and matching. Desire a shark head on a robotic physique with dinosaur ft? DONE. Possibly a half human, half doggo? YOU BET! Or how a few cowboy with a tail and demon wings? Hmm…YEP!
