Today our publisher, Surprise Attack Games, is relaunching as Fellow Traveller.
To celebrate, Super Mutant Alien Assault is on sale along with the rest of their catalogue. Check out their publisher sale page for all the details - https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/fellowtraveller.
Here’s some more from the team at Fellow Traveller on what the change is all about:
SMAA Launches Today! 20% off to celebrate!
G'day Mutant Assault Team,
Today, after eleven months of balancing, tweaks, new weapons and new bosses, Super Mutant Alien Assault is launching on PC, Xbox One and PS4! It's been a great journey here on Steam Early Access, and we cannot thank you enough for your thunderous support, your invaluable feedback, and those positive reviews!
We hope that you enjoy the near bottomless pit of unlockable weapons, explosives, sidearms, special abilities, perks and defence moves we have packed into the final product, and we cannot wait to see how far some of you can make it in Endless Mode!
To celebrate the launch, we have the game on a 20% discount for launch week, so tell your friends to pick it up and challenge your best endless results!
Speak to you all soon, and thanks again!
Steve - Community Manager
SMAA Launches Today! 20% off to celebrate!
G'day Mutant Assault Team,
Today, after eleven months of balancing, tweaks, new weapons and new bosses, Super Mutant Alien Assault is launching on PC, Xbox One and PS4! It's been a great journey here on Steam Early Access, and we cannot thank you enough for your thunderous support, your invaluable feedback, and those positive reviews!
We hope that you enjoy the near bottomless pit of unlockable weapons, explosives, sidearms, special abilities, perks and defence moves we have packed into the final product, and we cannot wait to see how far some of you can make it in Endless Mode!
To celebrate the launch, we have the game on a 20% discount for launch week, so tell your friends to pick it up and challenge your best endless results!
Speak to you all soon, and thanks again!
Steve - Community Manager
Surprise Attack Sale, Super Mutant Alien Assault 15% off
G'day Mutant Assault Team! Just a quick update to let you know that Surprise Attack Games is having a sale to celebrate a brand new localisation update for their terminal-based hacking game, Hacknet. So tell all your friends, because there are some great deals, including 15% off Super Mutant Alien Assault!
You can also view the entire Surprise Attack Games catalogue by clicking here!
Until next time, hold onto your Boomerangs!
Steve - Community Manager
Super Mutant Alien Assault leaving Early Access this summer!
Hello Mutant Assault Team!
Hope you are all well. It's been a while since the Monarch Update, and for good reason! Chris has been hard at work polishing up those enemies, adding some new features, and getting ready for the full release of Super Mutant Alien Assault! Today we are happy to announce that the game will leave Early Access this summer, and will also be launching on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One!
When the game leaves Early Access, it will also feature a brand new Endless mode. Endless is truly an endless run: after you beat the third galaxy, the game wraps back around, this time setting the game to Epic difficutly. The objectives are shorter, allowing you to smash through them and raise your score after each completed stage. Looping adds a small twist, the amount of enemy types per level increase, up to a maximum of 4 on the 3rd loop. Health drops and health machines also become rarer the further you progress.
To celebrate the announcement, we just released a brand new trailer, which can be viewed here below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3R1Ac8EJDQ
So not long to go now guys! Thanks to each and every one of you that helped to shape SMAA into the great, fluid game it is today!
Steve - Community Manager
We're At PAX South!
A short and sweet update for you all today - some of us have jumped on a plane and made our way across to San Antonio for our very first PAX South! If you're heading along, make sure you stop by the Surprise Attack Games booth (#11102) which is right near the PAX Rising area. Here you can play some Super Mutant Alien Assault, along with Screencheat and Western Press!
We'll also be giving away badges, signing up people to the Surprise Attack Dojo, and have some sweet prizes to giveaway. Also a little bit of merch and some Pinny Arcade pins will be available for purchase.
See you at the show!
Steve - Community Manager
The Monarch Update Is Here & Australia Day Sale!
The first Super Mutant Alien Assault update for 2016 is here, bringing in a big bad new boss - The Monarch. This beasty brings out a flock of pregnant boss Monarchs. When you destroy each one, they pop open and give birth to another flock of super mutated Monarchs! We're expecting that some will find this hard, others may find it easy. So make sure you leave feedback in [the update thread] so we can adjust the settings over the coming weeks based on your feedback.
The Monarch Update also makes imrpovements to Buzz AI, fixing most of those niggling issues we've had with its pathfidning. While the update may be a little light on content, there are a lot of tweaks made behind the scenes. Chris has updated the game engine to a brand new version, which brought about a number of crazy bugs that needed to be fixed. We've done some internal testing, but if any of you find anything out of the ordinary on your own machines, please throw them in the feedback thread linked above so we can track them down and squash them.
What's on the agenda now? Chris will be balancing this update based on feedback for a short time after release, and then will be pressing on with development. We'll also be hosting some live streams and a form of Q&A session with Chris via our Dojo in the coming weeks, so please stay tuned!
It's also worth noting that today is Australia Day, and being an Australian publisher, we are throwing an Australia Day sale across some of our games. If you're a fan of Super Mutant Alien Assaault, it would be great if you could spread the word, and perhaps you would like to check out some of these games while you're at it:
Dungeon League 20% off: http://store.steampowered.com/app/362310/
Fort Meow - 50% off: http://store.steampowered.com/app/352070/
Also, Hacknet will be having a 48 hour sale at 33% off as part of a Steam daily deal so get in quick on that one!
Until next time.
Steve - Community Manager
Super Mutant Alien Assault v 0.49 - The Monarch Update
Changes
1 new unlockable boss - Monach.
Buzz bosses all now use different dead sprites.
New intro on launch. Introduces some of the games back story.
Bug Fixes
Improvements to Buzz AI should fix most of the remaining issues with its pathfinding.
Activating blaster special while holding fuel ball bug fixed.
Fixed countless bugs caused by long overdue update to latest version of Game Maker.
Fixed mistake that caused health machine to always appear on first level of the 3rd Galaxy, rather than randoming the 1st to 3rd level.
Update 0.4.7: The Space Kraken Update Now Live!
Hello everyone!
What a crazy few months it has been. We've been hard at work on this sweet mega update, and we brought Chris across to PAX Australia to showcase the game, and give you all a chance to meet him. Unfortunately illness struck on the third day, and had him bed ridden for the final day of the show, but otherwise it was a smashing success! Thanks to everyone for stopping by the booth and checking out the game.
Today brings our second major content update for Super Mutant Alien Assault - The Space Kraken Update!
This freshly squeezed update is in part based on community feedback. This update is in part directly based on community feedback. There have been multiple requests for more bosses, in particular the number one alien requested to have a boss version made for was the Squid.
We are keen to hear what you think of these new bosses. Are they too hard or too easy? Chris will make some tweaks to them in future updates once we have received some feedback from you lovely people.
The update also include a boss version of The Buzz. These two bosses are unlockable, and once unlocked will now go into the pool of bosses that get randomised for each run. Each boss comes with three levels, one for each galaxy. So while the standard bosses will always appear on their respective galaxies, these new bosses can appear in any galaxy. This definitely helps to add a new random element to a run, as bosses were previously one of the most static parts of the game.
They are fairly early unlocks, so anyone who has already played the game for a few hours will probably unlock one or both of the new bosses on the first level they beat after downloading the update.
Chris has also re-written the pathfinding for The Buzz, so you should notice that they are a little more challenging than before! Of course a number of other tweaks and updates have been added as part of the update!
So log in and get cracking, and make sure you leave us some awesome feedback on the official Space Kraken forum!
Until next time.
Steve - Community Manager
Version 0.4.7 - The Space Kraken Changelog
Changes
2 new unlockable bosses. They get added to the pool of available bosses once unlocked.
Added quick-start option to game over menu.
Added force-back to magnum bullet.
Mega Chakram now less susceptible to forces.
Cerebrum boss will start a new spin if damage surpasses a certain amount scince last spin. (No more camping out on top of him forever with the pogoblaster/jetpack).
Explosions no longer clear acid pool blobs in the air before they hit the ground. They still clear the ground acid pools. This change is most noticeable when using explosions on the Bullfrog Boss.
Faster power on for energy saber. Increased time before it powers down as well.
Energy saber no longer uses ammo when you only hit a wall.
Buzz path-finding completely re-written. The mutant/boss versions will find you in any situation now.
Bug fixes
Stability improvement made to pause system. Should mitigate some pause system related bugs.
Switching weapon while attracting the Mega Chakram now cancels attraction.
Update 0.4.6 - Fixes and Tweaks
Hello everyone,
A short but sweet update has just been rolled out today that tweaks the Boomerang and addresses some bugs that have appeared. The update should auto-download, and will make everything feel super nice.
We're gearing up for the next major update and a field trip to PAX Australia. Stay tuned for a community update in the coming weeks!
Until then, keep the destruction flowing!
Steve - Community Manager
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Super Mutant Alien Assault Version 0.4.6
Changes
Boomerang max out of sight wall bounces increased to 5, from 3. Easier to juggle longer.
Bug fixes
Fixed boomerang crash when it was out of max out of sight bounces and no longer your primary weapon.
Fixed quick start difficulty loophole that let you play a locked difficulty.
Fixed crash when using new loadout menu button before player spawns.
Update 0.4.4: The Mega Chakram Update - Now Live!
Hello everyone!
As promised last week, The Mega Chakram Update is here! Your game should auto-update to add in this new insane weapon of pure awesome, a suggestion from no other than NorthernLion himself!
We've also tweaked and tuned things based on your feedback, so keep telling us what you like, what you think needs to be changed, or any cool ideas you have going forward.
Help us spread the word on social media by telling your friends about the new update using #SMAA - every bit of support really does help!
Finally, below you will find the official patch notes for the update.
Steve - Community Manager
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Super Mutant Alien Assault V 0.4.4 - The Mega Chakram Update
New Features
New Mega Chakram weapon
New Magnum weapon
Added converting animation for blaster when changing to and from overcharged state. Also updated sounds and graphics for overcharged state. Much more fun to use.
Increased Booooomerang hit wall speed threshold. Slightly easier to juggle Booooomerang now.
Unarmed Booooomerang now activates TinyBombs.
Telepod throwing is now based more off players current velocity. Gives greater control over how far and where you throw it. Making it a lot more useful. Takes practice though.
Increased Speed Boost special to 3 seconds duration, from 2.
Screen shake added to Minigun. Screen kick added to sniper, shotgun and plasma cannon.
Added loadout button to pause menu.
Faster fuel ball dispensing after delivery.
You can now pogo on acid pools without taking damage.
Hover jump effect now implies how much hover time you have left.
Your loadout now saves across game sessions.
Added quick start option to main menu. Puts you straight in game, with a random robot, and random start item. Uses last used difficulty and galaxy 1.
Explosions now clear acid pools.
Bug Fixes
Fixed hyperjump music not complying with Music volume.
