Metal: Hellsinger
Metal: Hellsinger VR FAQ
After listening to your most asked questions, we put together this FAQ to make sure you’re not in the dark. Please let us know if you think we missed anything important though!
Q: Is Metal: Hellsinger VR going to have new content?
Metal: Hellsinger VR is going to have the same content as the base game plus post-launch features like Torment challenges, beat assist mode, and the Archdevil difficulty mode. The Leviathan mode will not be included.
Q: Do owners of Metal: Hellsinger get Metal: Hellsinger VR for free?
The Steam version of Metal: Hellsinger VR will be sold at a discounted price if you already own the game. You will have to purchase the VR version separately on other platforms.
Q: When Metal: Hellsinger VR arrives, is it going to be compatible with every VR headset?
Metal: Hellsinger VR will officially support Quest 2, Quest 3, PSVR2, HTC VIVE and Valve Index. It will also run on Quest Pro, although there won’t be a specific version for it. For other brands and models, you will have to try it out yourself.
Q: Is Metal: Hellsinger VR going to have the DLCs of the main game?
We will have some of the DLCs available to purchase at launch. We’ll share more about this soon.
Q: How is the game being adapted to VR? Is it just the same game from a VR PoV?
Metal: Hellsinger VR is being balanced and carefully rebuilt with its high-octane gameplay in mind. Combining this with the innovative gameplay style of VR, we’re aiming to create a unique but still familiar experience. Every weapon will feel very different to use. The Unknown’s Lair is a brand-new feature which will act as a hub area where you can rest between levels and plan your next gig. We’re also improving the game’s UI and UX elements for better quality of life options.
Q: Are there going to be motion sickness and/or accessibility options?
Yes, Metal: Hellsinger VR is going to have beat assist and the core UI picker from the base game. It will also include:
Strong/soft vignettes
Snap/continuous turning
Turning speed adjustment
Head vs hand directional movement
Turn on/off UI elements
Beat indicator position choice
Aim assist
Automatic weapon pumping/Manual weapon pumping
Height calibration – supports standing and seated play
Left hand support
Q: Is teleporting supported?
Metal: Hellsinger VR only has the smooth locomotion movement type.
Q: What are the system requirements for Metal: Hellsinger VR?
Minimum PC
64-bit Processor
OS: Windows 10
Processor: Core i5-7500 / Ryzen 5 1600
Memory: 12GB Ram
Graphics: GTX 1060 / RTX 580 - 6B VRAM
Recommended PC
64-bit Processor
OS: Windows 10
Processor: I7-7700 / Ryzen 5 3600
Memory: 16GB RAM
Graphics: RTX 2080
Network: Broadband
The Funcom Publisher Sale is Here!
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And for those of you who want to get further immersed, a wide range of DLC and expansions are also discounted, including for Conan Exiles, Metal: Hellsinger, Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden, and more.
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Metal: Hellsinger is coming to VR!
Did you think the music had stopped? Hells, no! We’re proud to announce Metal: Hellsinger VR, coming to Steam in 2024!
Get ready to be fully immersed in metal and mayhem. Step into the body of the Unknown in full VR and become a true demon of vengeance. Wield her full wicked arsenal in your very hands and unleash its power straight into the snarling hordes’ ugly faces.
Metal: Hellsinger VR includes everything you’ve come to know and love in Metal: Hellsinger. That means the full award-winning soundtrack performed by your favorite metal legends, and the entire campaign to wreak vengeance upon the Red Judge all in glorious VR.
The game has been rebuilt to take full advantage of the strengths of VR, creating accurate and meaty gunplay, a world that pulsates to the beat, and doing away with most menus for an immersive hub area. Aim dual pistols independently, cock your shotgun, and make them fear the beat.
Whether you want to physically move around yourself, use the joystick, standing or even seated, Metal: Hellsinger VR will deliver delicious heavy metal carnage straight into your ears and eyes.
The game is coming to Steam in 2024.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2878270/Metal_Hellsinger_VR/
We’ll have a lot more to show you before then, so get your necks ready; headbanging is always recommended, but we take no responsibility for projectile VR sets.
Stay on beat, Hellsingers 🤘
The Purgatory DLC and Horde Mode Update are Now Available!
Hell’s fires are burning hot today! The Purgatory DLC and Leviathan Update are here to slay.
Our goal with today’s DLC and Update is to give all you legends exactly what you've been telling us you want: MORE original absolute bangers, NEW ways to annihilate demons, EXTENDED play time with the free new Horde Mode.
Purgatory DLC
There’s a lot of incredible talent rocking the world right now. To catch them, and then channel their furious voices into Metal: Hellsinger, is a sight to behold. A sight – or sound, rather – that you can hear right now, with the Purgatory DLC!
Put the pedal to the heavy metal with three new original songs, written by Two Feathers:
- Goodbye, My Morning Star performed by Matt Heafy (Trivium)
- Swallow the Fire performed by Melissa Bonny (Ad Infinitum)
- Mouth of Hell performed by Joe Bad (Fit for an Autopsy)
Strongly disagree with the denizens of Hell using a new tool of destruction: The Telos bow.
- Slay demons with arrows from a powerful bow.
- Deal extra headshot damage and charge up your shots.
- Pick up fired arrows to shoot without pause.
- Unleash a hail of arrows in a wide area with your ultimate.
Lastly, slay like nobody’s watching with three new cosmetic skins, available in the Outfits screen.
Horde Mode Free Update
Horde Mode has arrived! Escape the maw of the Leviathan and battle waves of increasingly challenging demons on various arenas.
Between each wave, choose one of three power-ups, and build yourself into a mean demon-slaying machine. The farther you get, the more void echoes you’ll earn, which can be spent on permanent upgrades between runs.
You can even create your own Horde Mode playlist, so the music shuffles between songs you’ve selected when you progress to another arena.
Should you succeed in completing the new mode, you will be rewarded with a badass new skin for the Unknown, giving you the power to spread her wings and glide slowly to the ground.
Thank you, Hellsingers!
Finally, we’d like to give a huge thank you to all of you. We feel your energy through the screen, especially when we announce new things like this. We look forward to hearing your thoughts on everything we’ve just released.
Go forth, Hellsingers.
Make Hell fear the beat! 🤘
NEW ADDITIONS
New game mode: Leviathan
- Pick up from where the story ends in the Main Campaign with the new Leviathan horde game mode, accessible from the main menu.
- Find a way to escape the maw of the beast, through three arenas, hordes of demons, and a new boss fight!
- The Leviathan is ever in flux, and the order of the arenas will be different every time you begin your escape.
- To carve a path forward, you’ll need to hone your skills: kill demons, gather Echo Shards for experience, unlock new Memories and upgrade choices, at the Altar of Echoes.
- Beware of the Leviathan’s decaying aura – weapons will fade from your hands and the Unknown’s usual methods of destruction are not to be taken for granted.
- Find comfort in death by gathering Void Echoes; with enough of them, you can unlock Dreams, more permanent abilities, that will aid you in your next escape attempt. And the next one. And the next one...
- If you change your mind, you can reset your Dreams, and try a different path.
- Encounter a new foe! Defeating the final boss unlocks a new outfit (which comes with its own new ability, too. Unlock it to find out!).
- Use any of the songs you have available to create a Leviathan Playlist, which will shuffle and give each arena a song of its own.
- If you choose only one song, only that one favorite track will play.
- If no choice is made, all the songs you have available will shuffle.
- Note: the Leviathan Playlist does not affect the boss music in Leviathan.
New paid DLC: Purgatory
- 3 New Original Tracks by Two Feathers
- Mouth of Hell, performed by Joe Bad (from Fit For an Autopsy).
- Swallow the Fire, performed by Melissa Bonny (from Ad Infinitum).
- Goodbye, My Morning Star, performed by Matt Heafy (from Trivium).
- Slay to the beats of these three hellish tunes in any of the levels via Song selector -including in the new Leviathan Mode! Note: These songs are not available for Boss fights.
- Mouth of Hell, performed by Joe Bad (from Fit For an Autopsy).
- 1 New Weapon: Telos, The Final word.
- Telos is a sharpshooting charge weapon, able to deal extra damage on headshots.
- Perfect the timing of charges to wreak unspeakable havoc on the demons of the hells.
- Telos is a sharpshooting charge weapon, able to deal extra damage on headshots.
- 3 New skins
- The Unknown’s default skin has received three new varieties, available in the Outfits screen.
- The Unknown’s default skin has received three new varieties, available in the Outfits screen.
BUG SLAYING
- Fixed a crash where the game would become unresponsive on a black screen after skipping a Torment Story quickly.
- Fixed an issue in the tutorial where Paz functionality information and Fury Meter would not appear if performing Slaughter right after picking up Paz.
- Fury Meter would not be present in the Tutorial if switching to Terminus right after picking up Paz. This has been fixed.
- The Red Right Hands' ultimate charge was not reset after resurrecting when weapon’s ultimate ability is active while dying. This is now fixed.
- Fixed an issue with the Annihilator Seraph where its wave attack would target the area behind you if you jumped during the attack.
- Vulcan's ultimate ability should now have effect on idle enemies.
- Dark Devotee's shield should no longer be removed when in the Vulcan explosion radius.
- Interrupting active The Red Right Hand's ultimate should no longer reset ultimate fired reticle.
- Annihilator Seraph’s can now be headshotted.
- Fixed a small visual issue with the Fury VFX when using Dark Devotee.
- Fixed an issue where Terminus would be held incorrectly after switching from the Red Right Hand in specific circumstances.
- Fixed an issue where outfits would sometime show in unintended situations.
- Ultimate reticle should no longer become frozen in reload state when weapons are switched during reload.
- Options on the Summary Screen should no longer appear invisible or dimmed if the summary was skipped immediately after the end of the level.
- Fixed an issue in the song selection screen where some tracks would not be visible under very specific circumstances.
- Fixed some issues that would not show the exclamation mark for new content under specific circumstances.
- Fixed some visual issues in the song selection screen when playing with certain language localizations.
- Selecting the red diamond icon for the currently displayed level via mouse cursor should no longer result in the arrow keys becoming unresponsive.
- Fixed an issue where you couldn’t select a Stage Card located on the far right side using a mouse under specific circumstances.
- Updated some text under settings that referred to deprecated settings terminology.
- 'Custom' and 'Low' Overall Graphics Quality settings should no longer override each other.
- Fixed an issue where the Stalker could may Phase outside of the Second Arena in Yhelm.
- Fixed an issue where a Marionette could move outside of the First Arena in Acheron.
- Fixed an issue where enemies could teleport outside of the Fourth Arena in Acheron.
- Fixed an issue where a Stalker could Phase outside of the Second Arena in Acheron.
OTHER CHANGES
- The Hounds turret firing is now felt in controllers based on distance from it.
Vote for Metal: Hellsinger in the Steam Awards!
The Steam Awards are back and so we call upon your powerful voices to vote for us in the “Labor of Love” category.
We don’t expect you to do so simply because you love to put the fear of the beat into Hell’s denizens though. No, we want you to vote because you truly believe this game is a labor of love for us! Ever since the game launched, your reactions have shown us that we have to keep going. More original music. More Two Feathers. More metal icons. And more mayhem.
And so, here is what we’ve done since we unleashed Metal: Hellsinger upon the world:
- Beat Assist Mode – Metal welcomes all. Play the way you prefer.
- Archdevil difficulty – For those mean, demon-slaying metronome machines.
- Song Selection – Any level, any song.
- Modding Support – Giving players the power.
- Dream of the Beast DLC – Cristina Scabbia and Will Ramos join the party, performing original songs composed by Two Feathers.
- Essential Hits Pack – Mixing up the beats with some classics.
- Metal: Hellsinger x DUSK – Nine free bloody brilliant songs from DUSK.
- AND MORE.
- TO.
- COME!🤘
We can’t wait to show you what’s coming, but that’s for another time. Light up the Hells, Demons, and make your voices heard if you believe we deserve this award. 🤘 Thank you.
Slay on, Hellsingers
New Songs Now Available With Hellsinger x DUSK
Metal: Hellsinger and DUSK are kindred spirits; like two strangers locking eyes across a great churning distance and raising their horns in solemn salute. Sharing a 97% overwhelmingly positive rating, these are two games that turn the slaughter of demons and cultists to thunderous music into a thing of beauty.
So, let’s scream it, and put your belly into it:
YOU CAN NOW PLAY DUSK SONGS IN METAL: HELLSINGER! 🤘
Nine songs from DUSK have been added to Metal: Hellsinger today, and they include absolute bangers like Murder Machine Inc. and Burn in Hell. It almost brings a boiling teardrop to the Unknown’s eye. Keep in mind that these songs are not layered like our own original songs, but they will still melt your face. Check out the full list:
- Departure
- Hand Cannon
- Burn In Hell
- Murder Machine Inc.
- Endless
- Mine Control
- Sacrifice
- Erebus
- Bleeding Out
DUSK is the 90s-style shooter where you wade through sinister forces and turn them to gore wielding an insane arsenal of weapons (dual-wielded double-barreled shotguns stand out), set to an incredible metal soundtrack by Andrew Hulshult.
This free update is available right now, and coincides with one of the biggest discounts ever for both games. Metal: Hellsinger and DUSK are 50% and 60% off respectively, and you can get the Bundle for an additional 15% off on top of that.
If you already own one of the games and get the bundle, the additional discount will still apply.
Burn bright, Hellsingers, and make them fear the beat!
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/33614/Metal_Hellsinger_x_DUSK/
Celebrating one year of Metal: Hellsinger!
It’s already been one year since we released Metal: Hellsinger and let me tell you, it’s been one hell of a ride. But before we delve deep into memories hell, let me start with this: none of this would have been possible without YOU.
You have been the best, most dedicated, most creative, most compassionate bunch of fun demons we could have ever asked for. You embraced the hell and chaos of the Unknown’s song since the very first day you got your claws on our game and never let go. And yes, Dave (our creative director) still gawks at the 97% Overwhelmingly Positive Steam rating every day and sighs like he was 666 years young all over again. Thank you all for that.
Over this past year you’ve been pouring your love and support for us with your kind comments, kick-ass fanart (check some examples below!), and a behemoth-ton of leaderboard records we thought impossible to beat. I’ll say it once again, you have been the best community we could ever have asked for.
But now, let’s focus on ME 💅 (tal: Hellsinger). This has been a work of passion for our devmons at The Outsiders. Even though these are grizzled vets from the industry, this has been their first published game as a kick-ass team and I believe you can tell from the very second you open the main menu that this is a work of love. So seeing all your positive reactions to it has been humbling and overwhelming.
We opened to strong reviews from the videogaming press and we have been nominated for, and won, so many awards. Shila (our executive producer) and the whole The Outsiders team are overwhelmed with gratitude. Our last award win was very recently, bagging the Professional Game of the Year award at the Swedish Game Awards! So THANK YOU once again.
We truly are thankful and humbled by all this support coming from the community and press, and that’s why we’ve been able to return the love with a bunch of free updates to the game. Since launch, we’ve added Beat Assist mode, the new Archdevil difficulty, song selection, an in-game artbook as well as sigils with unlockable cosmetics.
Along with these we also released Mod Tools on PC so you can add your music to the game, and improved support for it in a later update. And to top it all off, we’ve been working on fine-tuning the already hellish balance and mechanics of the game to make it feel more enjoyable and rewarding to blast through the hells.
Earlier this year we also released Dream of the Beast, our first DLC pack which added Cristina Scabbia and Will Ramos to the already goated lineup with two new songs that quickly became fan-favorites. We also introduced new outfits for the Unknown (and of course, you did the thing and fan-arted the hell out of it), and a new weapon. And thanks to your input, we released the Essential Hits Pack a few months later, with 8 new licensed songs for those of you who wanted new genres added into the game!
To celebrate our first year anniversary, we have started a sale on Steam where you can grab the base game, as well as the released DLC and bundle for a discounted price! We’re running this sale from today, September 15, until September 25! Complete your collection and/or tell your best friend about it!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1061910
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/32420
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2252490
This has been one exciting year for us all, but it doesn’t mean it’s the end! We have been working on some surprises we’re pretty confident you will love, so keep an eye out for any news in our social channels (or little teases in celebration pictures haha…HA).
Thank you for this amazing year and rock on, demons!
The Metal: Hellsinger team.
PS: Before you ask, we are still working hard on bringing the soundtrack to streaming services. We will keep you updated once we have more news to share.
Introducing the Funcom Creator Program
Your creative talent and unmatched dedication are a constant source of inspiration to us. For a while now, we have been quietly working in the background on a way to better amplify and support your quest for creating epic content. Today, we are pleased to announce that we are launching the official Funcom Creator Program in collaboration with our good friends at Lurkit!
This is the first of many essential steps toward supporting creators who regularly engage with, entertain, and inform our players . We believe this will both unlock exciting new opportunities for established content creators, and help those getting started find the help and confidence they need.
Check out the information about the program on our official page, and—should you feel like throwing your hat in the ring—sign up to Lurkit to start receiving exclusive perks that will help your channels grow!
- Funcom game and DLC keys
- Unique opportunities for channel promotion
- Networking with likeminded creators
- Continuous access to exclusive campaigns, missions, and quests
- Official asset support
- More to be announced soon!
We plan to continue developing, expanding, and improving the program regularly. This is only the beginning of a wonderful journey, and we cannot wait to reveal more exciting stuff soon.
Hellsingers, we look forward to hosting you!
Complete Your Hellsinger Discography at a Discount
The Demons Unleashed Sale has begun, bringing a massive sale to games that delve into the demonic, no matter the publisher, developer, genre, or release date. It’s an incredible lineup from publishers like BANDAI NAMCO, Devolver Digital, Konami, and many more. Check out the games on offer here!
Metal: Hellsinger was the ember that sparked the idea for the entire event in the first place and joins the infernal sale with the brand-new Demons Unleashed Bundle, giving you a 14% discount on top of any existing individual discounts! This is your chance to complete your Metal: Hellsinger discography and slay to new beats and with new weapons.
The Bundle contains:
- Metal: Hellsinger
- Dream of the Beast
- Essential Hits Pack
If you already own any of these, you will only pay for what you don’t have, and still get the 14% discount on what remains.
Thank you all for your support! Don’t forget to keep an eye on our channels for more news on the game.
The Hells salute you, Hellsingers!
Go to Sale
New Language Accidentally Arrives in Hell
Last week someone hit the publish button to the rhythm and released the Ukrainian localization for the game to your neighborly demons outside Steam. We have no clue how that happened, but witnesses remember seeing a floating object leaving the scene laughing diabolically.
In light of these mysterious events, we have rolled out the localization to Steam to not upset the headbanging balance. There are no takebacks in hell, so we'll keep rocking and hope that Red Judge doesn't notice. Remember that our devmons still have more work to do on the localization, so expect some untranslated text or bugs to pop up as you rhythmically crush your enemies.
We are stoked to bring the game to our Ukrainian players in their native language. Thank you for your continuous support!
Keep slaying to the beat!