Necro Mutex will be 70% off for the next few days as part of Steam's Lunar New Year Sale. I also found this new review from VoodooDE VR. He seems to have had fun, and it's a good sample of some very early gameplay. Thanks for the review, VoodooDE VR!
Thanks to KeepCalmAndGameOn for some cool new review/gameplay videos. I'd suggest his second video as a great example of early gameplay. The newest game update adds 3 new Chrono Mutator skills, to increase your ammo, cheapen the ElectroGun, and boost the Chrono Mutator points you get from killing shuggoids and guardians. This should help hardcore players aiming to defeat the ultimate sector, 99…
Attack Of The Retro Bots is now available! This is a family friendly reskin of Necro Mutex that has retro robots instead of weaponized undead. Since it's a reskin rather than a completely different game, I've made it part of a bundle with Necro Mutex, so if you own one you can get the other at a very big discount. Also version 1.5.0 has been released. Apart from minor bug fixes, the main change…
Version 1.4.6 has been released and has added a new method of doing step rotation in VR, called "Simple." This will be active by default for new players, while returning players will need to select it from the start screen options or VR options page. In the new method, you click the left or right side of your pad/stick, and you'll turn 30 degrees in that direction. Hopefully users will find thi…
Version 1.4.4 is now live. No huge changes, just a few minor bug fixes and a new game config that can be accessed from the graphics option menu. The new config is called STANDARD_BETTER.cfg. It uses higher polygon models for the environment and has higher resolution shadows. It's better than STANDARD.cfg but not as demanding as STANDARD_HI_SPEC.cfg, and should run well on cards as good or bette…
The Steam Summer Sale is here, and Necro Mutex is 50% off! To conincide with the sale, Version 1.4.0. is now available. Apart from adding support for 3 new languages (Chinese, Japanese and Korean), the mechanics of the gameplay have been updated, which I generally refer to as "Gameplay Version 2" And if you don't like it, fear not, just go to the non-standard game options and you can play the o…
Today I've started work on Gameplay Version 2. This will consist of a lot of tweaks and changes, both big and small, that'll make the game more fun (and intense) for new players and old players alike. The goal is to have this ready in time for the Steam Summer Sale, so it should take between 2 and 4 weeks. Depending on how fast the coding goes, some of the things I'd like change or add are: * U…
To celebrate the additions made in the 1.3 updates, Necro Mutex will be discounted 34% for two weeks, starting March 28, 2019 10:00am. (US Pacific Time.) If you were waiting to blast some weaponized undead into blood and bone slurry, now's your chance! Sale ends April 11, 2019 10:00am.
Necro Mutex now has a new gun. The alt fire shocker attack from the flamer has been promoted to its own weapon, the Electrogun. It ranks above the rocket launcher in terms of price. Its alt fire is a concentrated long range arc of electricity, a handy complement to the short range area effect of the primary fire. The Flamer has a new alt mode, blasting a rapid fire stream of incendiary grenades…
As the player goes to higher and higher sectors, Necro Mutex is supposed to gradually become impossible. Unfortunately, user Kiddster didn't get the memo, and with a skillful and well honed playstyle has been thrashing tougher and tougher sectors without problem, recently beating sector 9998, the second last sector and the last "normal" sector. (Meaning, not an escape pod sector) So to toughen…
There had been an issue introduced by a buggy steamworks update that broke VR last weekend, buttons on the controllers weren't responding. Steam support has now fixed the issue, so Necro Mutex is good to go in VR again! Now you can try out the new 180 degree tracking and rotation. ;)
Version 1.2.0 is now available, with a number of big changes. New Maps. All the maps from sectors 0000 to 1999 have been redone, with the emphasis on getting more map variation and more thanatoid monsters into the game sooner. Also, Cortex Guardian sectors are now worth x5 instead of x2. New Options. Several new game options have been added so the player can customize the game to their liking.…
Since people are spending more time in the sub-1000 sector maps than I had expected, I've decided to redo most of those maps to make them more interesting. Originally the maps below sector 500 were just made from 2 rooms, which makes them quite easy but also means they lack the variety that later maps have. Now the sectors from 0 to 999 range from the original 2 rooms up to 3, 4 and 5 rooms, wh…
Latest update makes some changes to the gameplay which I hope will add extra enjoyment for users. The first 1000 sectors are supposed to be pretty easy, just a warm up for the larger sectors and a chance to build up basic skills. But I noticed most new players seemed to be finding them more difficult than intended, with very few people reaching even sector 250. That's a pity, because the later…
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