Fingers-on: ‘Clone Drone’ Will get Infinite ‘Skyscrapper’ Replace July twenty seventh, Bringing a Ton of New Content material

Clone Drone within the Hyperdome (2024) is fairly superb by itself, providing up sufficient frangible voxel-baddies to swing a katana at throughout its Crashloop story mode. Coming July twenty seventh, Clone Drone is getting a contemporary injection of content material with its new ‘Skyscrapper’ limitless mode, letting you scrap by more and more tough challenges till your final clone is slashed to bits.

I bought an opportunity to go hands-on with the Skyscrapper mode on Quest 3, which mixes and matches the video games enemies into new and distinctive patterns, serving up among the most difficult battles outdoors of marketing campaign’s finish sport.

However first, you’ll have to beat the sport’s Crashloop story mode, which is a reasonably tall order by itself. As soon as the Skyscrapper progress bar again at base fills as much as one hundred pc completion, you’ll be capable to bounce in to tackle infinite flooring of robotic combating.

And as you’d think about, the upper you go, the tougher it will get, serving up every thing from multiples of every thing, from fundamental baddies to the very hardest bots the sport can throw at you—all offered in quite a lot of attention-grabbing arenas that remix each time you tackle the Skyscrapper.

And it’s not just a few random pick-and-mix both. Every ground has a theme, like swapped weapons, all Halberd Bots, or a number of Looprunners and executives, like 10 Captains trying to finish your run, or three Katas ninja-teleporting on all sides.

Full disclosure: I’m not likely a fan of horde modes typically, though the brand new Skyscrapper mode feels much more like a roguelike, which I (rogue)like lots. But it surely’s dangerous enterprise, rather more than Crashloop ever was. Powerups aren’t doled out as readily in Skyscrapper, though you possibly can nab a couple of right here and there as you progress up degree blocks, letting you substitute clones or improve Turbofists.

That mentioned, I bought up fairly far throughout my hour and half of gameplay, though builders Doborog kindly gave me the power to pick out from all ranges—which gained’t be potential when the mode launches. As it’s, the infinite mode tops out at degree 100, which I think about will proceed on repeat till you’re ganked for good.

The Skyscrapper mode additionally comes with a couple of updates and bug fixes to the principle sport, which you’ll find beneath:

Weapons & Enemies

• Reducing Resistance / Enemy Toughness
  • We’ve added a brand new setting so you possibly can adapt the problem of your battles.
• Brains! New inexperienced brains have been added to enemy heads. Attacking the pinnacle requires the CPU of enemies to be destroyed earlier than they’re defeated.
• Two handed weapon dealing with choices
  • Now you can decide how two handed weapons work:
    • Angle and motion following the highest hand
    • Angle and motion primarily based on place of each fingers
• New Fireplace Katana and Fireplace Halberd weapons!
• 1 new degree (Exhausting problem). Plenty of bug fixes & minor updates & rebalances to present Crashloop ranges
• Sooner degree loading occasions.
• Improved Arm Extension Turbofist results.
• Extinguishing fires by waving your fingers is now rather more efficient and responsive.
• Improved sword glow impact.
• Elevated the problem of the Gauntlet.

Enemy AI Habits Enhancements

• Enemies have new strikes!
  • The Captain, MX2 and Mark 3 Samurai Bots can riposte. After clashing swords with you, they could attempt to strike at you whereas your guard is down.
  • Enemies will transfer to dam in the event you goal ranged weapons at them!
• Improved enemy leaping animation and conduct.
• FLAMEWAR has some new strikes!
• Overclock prompts her Turbofist quicker.
• Improve the weapon proficiency of some Mark 3 enemies.

Patch Notes and Bug Fixes

• Participant hand motion is smoother and has a better body charge.
• After unlocking all of the looprunners, there’s 1 fewer simple crawl earlier than the primary duel.
• Rebalances to the quantity of cash the participant will get and store costs.
• Improved colour grading to cut back colour banding.
• Fastened misoriented colliders on numerous weapons.
• Fastened zombies failing to craft in advanced environments
• Fastened a number of spots the place enemies may get caught throughout numerous ranges.

In the long run, there’s nonetheless a ton extra of Skyscrapper to play by, though it feels prefer it could possibly be a standalone title in its personal proper, which might be the very best reward anybody can provide for a post-launch mode. You’ll be capable to pop in beginning July twenty seventh throughout all supported platforms.

You could find Clone Drone within the Hyperdome over on the Horizon Retailer for Quest 2 and above, and on Steam for PC VR headsets, priced at $20.