HyperParasite Update #15 - Guarding the Desert, Gamescom 2019 & Official Wiki
Hey, Parasite fans - surprise! Troglobytes are back, with new updates, bug fixes, news on Gamescom 2019, a Wiki and a ton more. So, sit back and strap yourselves in, we’re about to get started!
What’s NEW in 0.1908.0
Watch out for the Guards Towers
Added brand new rooms on the Desert level including the Guard Towers.
Added the QOL Save and Quit mechanic. Now after defeating a boss you can decide to temporarily interrupt your run, save and then play it again whenever you want!
Added the highly requested support for Steam Cloud.
Added a brand new Desert mini-boss class (as AI and playable character): the Clerk Guy.
Only wimps… or the very smart Parasite… use Save & Quit
FIXED
Fixed Geisha’s Secondary Attack.
Fixed Alien Hunter’s Primary Attack.
Fixed Karateka Master’s clones’ behaviour.
Fixed Mad Scientist’s clones’ behaviour.
Fixed Space Huntress’ Primary Attack.
Fixed Combo’s mechanic.
Fixed some Desert room’s behaviour.
New Desert Mini Boss Clerk Guy
WHAT'S COMING NEXT IN EA
Complete The Desert level with new themed rooms, traps, secrets and more.
Add Area 81 sublevel with new character classes, themed rooms, traps, secrets and more.
Gamescom 2019
Troglobytes Games going to be exhibiting at Gamescom 2019 and they can’t wait to show press, influencers and visitors what they have been working on these last four weeks. Are you going to Gamescom? If so, make sure to swing by and visit them in Hall 10.1 in the Entertainment Area of the Spanish Pavilion to get hands-on with the HyperParasite.
As well as exhibiting at Gamescom, we’re going to be announcing some big news at the same time. So if you haven’t already, don’t forget to Wishlist HyperParasite here on Steam and follow us on Twitter.
Join the Troglobytes team tonight LIVE here on Steam as Mr Kittemurt takes you through what is new in 0.1908.0 and answers your questions live on the stream. It all kicks off at 9 PM CEST. You can check our handy timezone checker right here.
If you’re a streamer on Mixer and want to be hosted by Hound Pickeds new channel whilst getting hands-on with HyperParasite, then let us know hyperparasite@houndpicked.com.
COMMUNITY NEWS
We’ve only gone and set up a brand new HyperParasite Wiki thanks to our friends over at GamePedia.
The Wiki is constantly being updated by players, as well as the Troglobytes team and already contains information on available characters, enemies, levels and gameplay. Feel free to get stuck in and update anything you spot. More will be added over time and we’d recommend keeping an eye on things.
Are you following us on social media? If not, don’t forget you can find the HyperParasite invading host bodies on…
SORRY FOR THE LACK OF IMAGES BUT STEAM UPLOAD IS BROKEN ( AGAIN )
Turn up the volume! Double Kick Heroes OST Vol 2 is here!
Hey guys, we've dragged ourselves from the moshpit, jumped back into the Gundillac, put the pedal to the metal and thought we’d update you on the happenings from the road to hell!
If you follow our social media, you may have seen that we're revealing more tracks that are being added to Double Kick Heroes and we couldn't be more thrilled to finally share a deep, dark secret we've had for quite some time now.
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We promised you all in the last newsletter some very cool metal, and so, earlier in the week we unveiled "Demon Demon" by the Fundamental Wisdom of Chaos and "Prepare to Meet Thy Doom" by Elmobo! Yesterday we released “Flesh and Bones” feat Benjamin Guerry from The Great Old Ones!
Maybe we'll have a few more surprises up our sleeve this coming week, so please be sure to follow us on Twitter to hear first.
Going Rogue down Fury Road and ass-kicking challenges. Let's talk updates...
In our most recent update, we've added some rocking new features - including an "Auto Steering" and "Chill Mode", the latter allowing players to experience the game with none of the threats, but all of the melodious moshing metal!
For those of you looking for a bit more of an ass kicking challenge, we've also added the "Fury Road", where players enter the fury road and battle levels in the “endless torment”. There's also the “daily fury” that allows for modification of Sheila and your weapons, gain perks and loop the game. Can you handle the fury? For anyone curious, a full comprehensive patch log is below which details what we’ve added to the game!
> Added Chill Mode - now experience Double Kick Heroes without any threat
> Added Fury Road - enter the fury road, battle levels in the endless torment and daily fury, modify Sheila and your weapons, gain perks and loop the game.
> Added Partition Speed option, the game is too slow, let’s push speed to eleven!
> Added Auto Steering. Does Steering Sheilah give you a headache? We got you, covered brother!
> Release full OST Volume 2 on Steam, Itch and soon on YouTube.
Weekly Update #10 - New characters, bosses and 25% off!
Hey Parasites, old and new, welcome to this killer Early Access update. We’ve got a ton to get through, including of course the fact that HyperParasite is 25% off right now as part of the Steam Summer Sale. It’s never been a better time than now to take the plunge and seek out world destruction, or if you’re feeling generous, gift HyperParasite to a friend!
On top of that, we may have only just gone and added 1x new main level, 5x brand new characters, 2x new mini-bosses and 1x new main boss. I mean, holy s**t! That's a lot of content to get stuck into.
So, shall we begin?
What’s changed in 0.1906.3
Added Act 4 main level: The Desert
Added Act 4 character: the Adventurer
Added Act 4 character: the Diesel Punk
Added Act 4 character: the Android Hunter
Added Act 4 character: the Mercenary
Added Act 4 character: the Nam Veteran
Added Act 4 mini boss: the Alien Hunter
Added Act 4 mini boss: the Space Huntress
Added Act 4 boss: Sandsneaks
FIXED
Fixed a crash involving the Helicopter’s bombs
Stopped train’s sound when interacting with the train’s lever
Faded to exploration soundtrack when the Helicopter is defeated
Fixed a crash involving gamepads’ support
Fixed a crash involving Karateka’ primary attack
Fixed a crash involving Kickboxer’s primary attack
Fixed Pause Menu showing using ESC key
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4lrKbul1ks
WHAT'S COMING NEXT IN EA
Complete The Desert level incl. New themed rooms, traps and secrets
WEEKLY STREAM
Join us LIVE on the Steam store page as we showcase all of this week’s updates, discuss what's coming next in Early Access and, as always, attempt to destroy the world one host body at a time. We’re going live at 9PM CEST - Don’t miss it!
Our friends at Hound Picked Games will also soon be streaming HyperParasite action on a weekly basis. Hound Picked Games are our Co-Publisher and you’ll be able to keep up with their streams over on Mixer.
If you’re a streamer on Mixer, and want to be hosted by Hound Pickeds new channel whilst getting hands on with HyperParasite, then let us know hyperparasite@houndpicked.com.
COMMUNITY NEWS
Are you following us on social media? If not, don’t forget you can find the HyperParasite invading host bodies on…
We’re also providing a quick recap of the acts over on IMGUR, so make sure you check that out. There’s also new and exciting developments to follow in the Discord community, as we’ll be featuring more parasite themed fun, with a chance to show off your eighties knowledge and possibly win something in return.
Not only is HyperParasite on sale, but so are these other awesome indie games from Hound Picked Games.
The summer 🌞 is finally here and with it some incredible discounts up to 55% OFF across all the Hound Picked Games co-published titles. Check them out below! ⬇️
We are super thrilled to announce the VIDEOGAME OST!
We continue to update the early access with a carefully picked VIDEOGAME OST PACK.
The pack features three songs :
Enjoy The Silence by Zander Noriega from the famous roguelike shooter STEREDENN. A very powerful progcore tune. This level has specific bullet hell mechanics for our dear players.
Point Of Entry by Louis Godard, a masterful progmetal song from DRIFTING LANDS, a long and epic piece with a beautiful 16-bit mood
To The Sky by Jukio Kallio from the super punchy BLEED 2. A really bright bit of Japanese Pop Metal by the legendary composer from MINIT, NUCLEAR THRONE, LUFTRAUSERS.
update #57.6715
- normalize big of 4-3 spawn y, thanks @Void
- nerf extreme first levels in story
update #57.6714
- fixes for bosses
- fixes for dino death anims
update #57.6713
- fix score sometime going mad
- fix for bosses early death when going beyond screen ( thanks @kanevan )
- fix some zombies's deathes
- fix rat skin ( thanks @bagel )
update #57
- prepare hell
- prepare new bonuses
- add surprises
- add genital
- invoking lightning
- fixes double note on rust
- accelerated some animations
- improved some visuals here and there
- optimise memory crunch for zombie reuse
- optimise addons and additional layers for zombies (esp bullets )
- remix many track
- add vocals on fusion1
- fixed a bug on hellgate where levels would become too hard
- fixed the bug whence entering a level, it's beaten flag could be reset. sorry bout that.
- add death frames on many ztypes
- added a tremendous solo on 4-4
- fixed 4-4 bullets being fired from too high
- optimized score counter so that it don't generate gc spikes
- added 5b1
Some news from HELL!
A Newsletter from hell!
Hey!
It’s been a long time since our latest love letter… if you followed our social media, you may know why but let’s sum up the latest news!
Nintendo Switch!
We are so so so thrilled about that!
Double Kick Heroes is coming to the Nintendo Switch! We partnered with Nintendo to announce the game will come to this incredible console. We also revealed one of our future Hellgate’s host, the amazing GOJIRA. Controls are not finalized, we’ll make sure to test it a lot and display it in conventions so you can make your own minds.
Announcement video :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1D5tJU3CUo
Chapter 6 is coming!
We worked a lot on chapter 6, the bosses are done, the levels are ready, we are tinkering everything and polishing. The story is now complete and we are very eager to show it to you.
Spoiler : PAIN, THERE WILL BE PAIN ( stay safe and take breaks though, we love y’all! )
Hellgate pack 3
We will soon announce all the guest in the next pack, stay tuned on the social media. Let’s just say it will feature some very cool METAL from other indie video games !
Surprises
We added many surprises in the next update but a bit of spoiler never hurts :
The next version is still TBA but expect an update in a few weeks, we are waiting for the final vocal masters to release it.
Quality Of Life
As you may know, our ingame editor and roguelike mode are still lagging behind, feature-wise... because we had to finish the core game. It took us MUCH MUCH more time than expected...well let’s say Elmobo was super generous and the new songs are long and dense. No regret.🤘
In March when core content is finalised, we will distribute quality of life patches for these modes, no worries.
This means :
Chapter 6 & Final release
As you may have understood, the game will be fully released on PC after the Switch version for reasons you may guess ( otherwise don’t hesitate to come to discord, we’ll explain ).
It doesn’t mean you don’t get to try the latest chapters... In a few weeks we will open a very special Beta for you to try the full game. So no worry if you cannot wait, we got you covered with a cool solution :)
In the meantime the PC game will receive quality of life improvements and new hellgate packs.
New Guests
Our guest list is now complete ! Here is a spoiler :
So… we have got additional content planned for months, we won’t let you down🤘
PAX East 2019
We’ll be at PAX East with some mysterious friends ! We’ll present you our latest versions and hopefully we can meet you there and have fun there!
Final words
Thank you so much for your support, this adventure is completely crazy and we owe it to you!
The Malevolent Mobula and its cohort of evil minions are on the path of the Double Kick Heroes. In this chapter 5, they’re entering Transylvania and trying to bring an end to the evil in this world! They’ll meet Jake and Cage.
As they progress through Transylvania, they will meet new types of evil minions. More evil means more METAL in their faces!
These 4 new levels include a boss level with the malevolent Dracula, also called “cute cat baby” by Man Hellsing.
“NO MORE HEROES” FEATURING
We met Suda51 and the team of Grasshopper Manufacture during Pax East. Fun story: we didn’t know it was him until he offered to get Double Kick Heroes as a t-shirt in No More Heroes! All the team was super excited and we were honored to be added into the game. Here’s the picture they recently showcased:
See you in Hell! (or ingame... as you wish!)
DOUBLE PING for DOUBLE KICK HEROES !
The HeadBang Club was awarded for the Double Kick Heroes soundtrack at the Ping Award ceremony, celebrating the best french games of the year!
We won the Best Indie Audio and mostly Best Audio awards, despite being confronted to the AAA french productions like Detroit: Become human, Vampyr & Life is strange 2!
These Awards are an acomplishment for our composer Frédéric 'Elmobo" Motte since he has written more than 100 game OSTs and produce over 50 Metal bands!
For now, the soundtrack already features some famous guests:
PJ666 from LOKURAH
Matt Dumas from HELL IN TOWN
Ludo Faraille from ANTHEUS
Fanalo from PLUGIN
Mathieu Pascal from GOROD
Olli Samsara from SAMSARA CIRCLE
Sab Elvenia from THE FUNDAMENTAL WISDOM OF CHAOS
Jay Kloeckner from SEVEN EYED CROW
Arno Strobl from CARNIVAL IN COAL
Don't forget to play these licensed songs in the HELLGATE (more to come):
Kammthaar by ULTRA VOMIT
The Scarecrow Paradox by THE FUNDAMENTAL WISDOM OF CHAOS
Cold by HELL IN TOWN
End Of The Day by ANTHEUS
This Means War ACT I by VOLKOR X
Against The Waves by TEMNEIN
Let's Metal the world!
The hell train is back in the EVIL SNOW update!
We’re glad to say we released chapter 4 of Double Kick Heroes onto Steam! Get into the game and discover this new content in Arcade & Story mode.
Discover the trailer here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQPbXvoI1yA
5 new tracks with custom songs & backgrounds provide new challenge! Beware though, the difficulty ramps up as we enter the second half of the planned story mode.
Patch note:
update #45
- add some better splatter particules
update #44
- improved rope rendering for spiderclown and her offspring
- optimize all boss bars that generated allocation churn
- optimized 2-3 and reset leaderboards
- optimize engine low level allocations
- fine tune worldmap
- create wm elements for chap 4 5 6 ( wip )
- groundwork for custom difficulties
- groundwork for more advanced experience customization
- english texts reworked
- Condemned To Slaughter now has vocals!
- add cinematics for tree of pain burning
- add particles for cathedral escape
update #43
- working on chap4
- extended invincibility window to 4 sec
- added a supplementary invincibility frame to you can't be hit when blink finishes
update #42
- fixing for some speed and health not correctly reset on large levels
- ease 2-1 a tiny bit.
update #41
- reworks for chinese integration
- sharmungus achievement goes from 90% to 75% reqs.
SCORING UPDATE with VolkorX + Antheus + Temnein
Today is Update day! It's time to make some scoring on old & new levels with our SCORING UPDATE!
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Guest level: This means war Act 1 by VOLKOR X
Face the dark lord and its stupid agents! Yes it's SYNTHWAVE, and yes it's AWESOME! If you play the level and don't find it epic as fack, you can definitely throw synths TO MY FACE!
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Guest level: End of the day by ANTHEUS
Prepare to shoot radiated zombies in a dystopian environment! A bit of grass, some explosions and bam, an epic level!
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Guest level: Against the waves by TEMNEIN
Evade this gloomy hospital where patients have become zombz'! Yes a car in a hospital is nonsense but WHATEVER MAN! Just shoot'em'all!
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Scoring local & worldwide
Who has the longest DRUM STICK HUH??!! It's time to take the #1 place on the Worldwide leaderboard!
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End game Stats
The best feeling is scoring a 100% on a hard level! Send it to your friends and be the "rhythm god guy" among your peers!
We have some pretty hot news but... we have... to keep the secret...
Sorry, just know that we'll have HUGE guests in the next months!
update #41
- reworks for chinese integration
- sharmungus achievement goes from 90% to 75% reqs.
update #40
- reworks for japanese integration
- fix for typos in French
- lotta tiny beta fixes
update #39
- massive reworks to integrate a better fonting system for japanese and chinese
- update leaderboard mechanic so that levle versionning actually works and is transparent to users.
update #38
- improved loose screen characters
- reworked end of the day, this means war and against the waves for Easy difficulty
- improved char placement on leaderboards
- tiny fix over friends leaderboards
update #37
- hiding advanced grahics options as adobe doesn't seem concerned about fixing.
- reducing collected data as they are no longer necessary for leadernoards
- fixed Sharmungus that correctly indicated how to avoid him
- fixed character name showing even if character is not in the safezone
- fixed initial player name transmission
- fixed desert road height, chicken will go out of reach less often
- fixed wrong leaderboards showing on worldmap
- can not longer invoke leaderboards on safezones
- fixed a potential errors on dialog actions
- fixed a potential error on level designs with whole zombie families having wrong properties
- fixed arcade menu hover effect
