Mycopunk, the online co-op looter shooter in which players take the roles of robot rejects fighting hordes of fungus, has reached version 1.0, Rock Paper Shotgun reported. The release arrived alongside a package of new content detailed by the developers in a Steam blog post.
The game's loop has players land on a planet overrun with mushrooms, clear as many of them as possible while completing missions, earn mods, upgrade their loadout and head back out. Rock Paper Shotgun compared the result to Borderlands and Risk of Rain.
What 1.0 adds
The headline addition is a new employee class, the Mycologist, built around two abilities called Sporelift and Fungal Skewer plus a passive infection ability.
We've been working on the Mycologist for quite a while and we think you'll have a lot of fun with her set of upgrades and her abilities: Sporelift and Fungal Skewer. Plus, a passive infection ability...
A new mission type, population control, tasks squads with clearing areas of high enemy density and, in the developers' words, possibly tussling with a couple of Abominations. A smaller special assignment is built entirely around rescuing a sofa.
Two new pieces of equipment arrive with the update. The diffraction driver is described by the developers as an ion scattergun that fires in a short-range cone, with a halo that can be spun up to make the cone smaller and longer. The snowball grenade does what its name suggests. Both can be found in X11-B, a new region on New Atlas' moonlet whose missions the developers say will test players' best loadouts.
The rest of the release is a mix of systems and presentation work: sit emotes, hats, an in-game achievement system called fulfillments, a rework of the HUB, a redesign of the drop pod, and a set of other tweaks and fixes listed in full on Steam. Rock Paper Shotgun noted the game is half price at the time of the 1.0 release.
