Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus was considered one of my extra nice surprises this 12 months. While held again by being a bit simple and buggy, it was nonetheless one of the vital artistic and charming 40okay games launched in ages, if not ever. Today’s ‘Tiresus patch’, out now and noted here, goes an extended strategy to hammering out the kinks in Bulwark Studios’s game of tactical techno-monk versus alien terminator mummy fight. Bugs have been squished, and whereas nonetheless a bit simple (issue choices are deliberate), steamrolling the Necron is more durable now. Arguably extra essential, they’ve added one other seven hidden missions and a brand new boss battle to the game.
While I’ve but to dig into this replace for myself, enjoying by way of the game contemporary with the brand new replace is a part of my vacation plans. Interestingly, the brand new missions and boss battle will take some unearthing. They function a brand new character, and the promise of “a rather spectacular surprise at the end of the adventure”. I’m hoping that future updates are as bold. Looking over the patch notes, the modifications to stability appear good. Tech-priests are not melee gods, many weapons value extra Cognition Points to make use of, and the the Enhanced Analytics talent solely offers a Cognition Point when the gauge is empty.
I’d additionally wish to take a second to smuggle in an addendum to any Game Of The Year stuff I could write over the vacations – Mechanicus’s soundtrack by Guillaume David is superb. Not many tracks, however each one is buzzing with cyber-gothic non secular fervour. No different soundtrack may get away with dubstep wubs and breakbeats combined into an achingly sluggish pseudo-Gregorian conflict chant, however Mechanicus manages it. I may not be one for praising the Omnissiah, however I certain do like its style in music. Get an earful of it above, ideally with the quantity and bass cranked.
The Tiresus patch is dwell now. Mechanicus is on Steam and Humble and prices £23/€30/$30. You can learn Nic Reuben’s full review here, the place he calls it “so close to being fantastic it hurts” – one other patch or two like this, and the ache and frailty of flesh will as soon as extra be forgotten, changed with the sanctity of silicon and code. You’re doing okay, Omnissiah.
