We’re here today to give you some secret deets straight from the aliens themselves! While we’re mostly working on creating epic boss battles to elevate your human gaming experience, we have a ton of smaller additions we’re ready to share with you.
Updates detailed in this post will include changes to enemy visuals, game difficulty, helper AI aliens, and weapon attacks. Now, what we’ve all been waiting for – juicy deets on the game updates!
1) Sweeper enemies are a lot more (visually) sweepery, and they can now swarm levels!
A swarm happens when a large amount of a single enemy type appears randomly in your level. Getting swarmed by Flybot Sweepers is a bit scary, as you’ll have to dodge (or jump over) a ton of green beams at once.
2) Shields from loot now show a rotating shield and provide lots of health!
Some alien heads have ‘shield’ modifiers on them, providing a much-needed buff to navigate the hazards that Alien Hominid Invasion brings. The shield only guards the part of the player it is facing, which makes dodging bullets more fun!
3) All aliens are now a bit squishier, making the game a tad more difficult.
*sad alien squish* Remember to dodge, jump, and dig your way around the enemy forces… and use your new fancy schmancy rotating shield to dodge bullets, of course!
4) Helper AI aliens will now stay on your shoulders and fire along with you!
Little AI aliens can spawn in to help you out; they come with their own weapons ready to crawl onto your shoulders and melt the enemy. You can also ride on their shoulders, only getting knocked off if you take damage from an enemy.
5) Danger level is now shown on the bottom of the invasion map and rises with every city block cleared.
This way, you can have a little more heads up as to what is waiting on the other side.
6) Last but certainly not least, some weapons have bigger, better, and STRONGER charge attacks!
We tweaked some of the charge shots and they look suuuuuuper cool and a lot more murdery. The Six Chambers gun now has a ricochet charge shot that bounces off the edge of the screen!
The Sawed Off gun’s charge shot now has a bouncy shotgun shell.
The alien’s Photon gun now has a better charge shot that reaches farther and deals slightly more damage, but it's projectile moves slower than before.
The Acid Shot gun now has a charge shot that has bouncing blobs of green goo!
That’s all for today’s development update! Looking for more intel? Have no fear — we actually have loads more updates to share with all of you humans, so be on the lookout for another dev stream coming early next year!
Do you have any thoughts you’d like to share about our upcoming game? If you have yet to join, be sure to check out our Discord server, where you can chat with our devs and other fans of The Behemoth’s games.
Until next time, earthlings!
Halloween 2022 Art Contest Winners are Here!
Winner winner, Behemoth chicken dinner! The results of our 2022 Behemoth Halloween Art Contest are in, and the harvest was bountiful; with over 200 entries, we not only added 20 special mention keychain winners, we also added an extra winner per category!
Thank you so much to everybody for submitting their out-of-this-world works of art. You are why We Make Games!
For the winners, please be on the lookout for a message from The Chicken on either Twitter or Discord (depending on how you entered) for instructions on how to claim your prize
Check out the post on our blog for information on the winning entries!
Behemoth Halloween Is Back With a SpooOOooky Alien Contest!
SpooOOOOooky SCAAARY aliens!!!! Did I send shivers down your spine?? We are now smack dab in the middle of spooky season, and it’s time to celebrate our favorite holiday of the year, Behemoth Halloween!
Our team wants you to decorate our little alien in his favorite Halloween costume. Use the template below, or if you’re a bit more art-savvy than me, create an original drawing from scratch to prepare this extraterrestrial pal for trick-or-treating. To download the template, check out our blog post here!
Contest Details
Because Alien Hominid Invasion is jam-packed with cool power-ups that change the player’s alien head and gun, our main requirements are that you modify his weapon and head, at the bare minimum; feel free to go above and beyond!
Dress him up as a skeleton, superhero, secret agent, school girl, hot dog, you name it – anything is fair game!
We maaaay give bonus points if you can come up with some stellar stat boosts your costume provides!!!
Categories and Prizes
(1) Our personal favorites out of all submissions will receive the Greatest Extraterrestrial Costume Award. Prizes: Choice of “Bear” or Skeleton Figurine + Troll Bag + choice of Necromancer or Alien Hominid keychain
(2) The creepiest costumes will be up for the SpooOOOOooky SCAAARY Alien Award. Prizes: Painbow Horse Throw Blanket + Classified Tote
(3) Last but not least, the silliest (the ones that make us laugh until our sides hurt) entries will be crowned with the Silly Silly Alien Award. Prizes: Raccoon Hat + Necro Socks + Troll Bag
How to Enter
When your alien is appropriately dressed head-to-gun for Halloween, you can enter by sharing your artwork to either Discord (join us here!) or Twitter. If posting on Twitter, be sure to use the hashtag #BehemothHalloween so we can share it with the universe! If entering on Discord, please join our server here and post your creation in the #behemoth-halloween-2022 channel. We’ll share any Twitter-only entries with the community there, too. *Feel free to post your event art on Steam, but please share them using one of the other methods to guarantee entry!
To be eligible for prizes, post your spooOOooOOky entry before October 31st, 2022, at 11:59 PM PT. We’ll spend the following week voting for our favorites before announcing and contacting the winners on social media.
Official Rules
Spooked yet? Here are the official rules for Behemoth Halloween 2022:
No purchase is necessary.
Participants must be 18 or older to enter (if in the US), or have parental consent.
International entries are welcome!
You may enter more than once, but you can only win one prize.
Similarly, you may enter as part of a group, but your group can only win one prize!
Your entry must be your own creation.
Only new entries will be accepted – artwork submitted from previous years is not eligible.
We can’t wait to see what you come up with, and have a Happy Behemoth Halloween!!!
Alien Hominid Invasion Beta !
We’re excited to announce our Alien Hominid Invasion Steam Beta coming Nov 12th - 14th.
There’s a mothership load of additions and changes since our last demo that we can’t wait to show you. New weapons, agents, bosses, objectives, music and more! Once again, you’ll be able to taste test Alien Hominid Invasion from the comfort of your own home!
For other questions about the Beta, we put together some frequently asked questions you can read through over here: https://bit.ly/AHIFAQBETA
We’ll have more information in the coming weeks, but if you want to keep up to date with the latest information join our Discord server and talk to us or something. https://discord.gg/thebehemoth
It’s time for another Alien Hominid Invasion development update, flying full force straight at you. No mercy. Better dodge quick!
Anyway… watch on, read on, beam on (up) for all that good stuff.
We’ve been fixing things up, polishing away, and of course adding in new odds and en..emies that you’ll face on your terrestrial extraterrestrial journey. Check ‘em out:
We’ve added in stationary turret hazards, similar to the ones you once knew and hated when fighting the KGB way back in Alien Hominid HD… except this time, they hurl weighted orbs that will stick to your face and lower your jump height. If you want to remove them, you’ll have to dig or roll them off
But that’s not all! There are also now airmine hazards, floating, threatening, and ready to knock you around mid-air
Loot maximum values on boosts, hats, and guns have been increased to compensate for increased difficulty and more interesting playstyles
Music will now stays intense near the end of the level to convey the DANGER
Bonus levels have been rebalanced
The alien can now look DOWN as well as up to show which way player is "aiming"
The HUD now shows if a player is at max hearts
HUD has also been reworked to show a prompt when mutations are ready to be used
The on-screen compass has been moved more towards the center of the screen so players won't miss it as often
The helicopter that you have to blow up as an objective now bobs and weaves away from the player (and flies in on-screen so that you can actually see what you’re chasing)
Insane mode, Normal mode, and Friendly mode heart maximums have all been changed to reflect a more expected result
Hunters have been added to the game -- they are ruthless, and can ambush a player at the start of levels
Mothership coins can now be spent for temporary or permanent changes to your alien or your run. Each player can only purchase one item every visit so in multiplayer this means more items can be bought each time! Friendship is OP.
The Mothership has been rearranged… and will introduce you to a new face
We also have a video recap that has flung itself your way, so if you're a visual learner, use those glorious eyes right here!
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We’re still getting transmissions from the Mothership, which means we’re still working to make our next game the best it can be! Until then, you know the drill -- keep your eyes peeled for future updates, as we’re always excited to show off what we have in store.
Flying Transmissions - Developer Livestream Headed Your Way June 3rd
FROM THE DESK OF AGENT A:
We don’t know just what those Alien ships are armed with, but when they come, we’ll be ready. At least, that’s what Headquarters is telling us, anyway. Fingers crossed that they’re right???
It’s another transmission from the one and only Mothership, and it’s headed your way -- don’t get hit! Alien Hominid Invasion development is still underway, and we’re armed and ready with a new update to share with our eager fans.
On Thursday, June 3rd at 2:00 PM PT, join us for a live Alien Hominid Invasion developer update, broadcasted to Twitch and YouTube and… any of the other places we can get our super high tech signal to reach (like here on Steam)! We’ve got some new odds and ends we’re ready to show off, and we want to see what you think about the latest in our Alien world!
We’re looking forward to appearing on your screens and monitors very soon. In a non-threatening transmission. I swear.
