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’ infinite mode, letting you scrap via more and more troublesome 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 a number of 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 have the ability to soar in to tackle infinite flooring of robotic preventing.
And as you’d think about, the upper you go, the more durable it will get, serving up the whole lot from multiples of the whole lot, from fundamental baddies to the very hardest bots the sport can throw at you—all offered in a wide range 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 managers, like 10 Captains trying to finish your run, or three Katas ninja-teleporting on all sides.
Full disclosure: I’m probably not a fan of horde modes generally, though the brand new Skyscrapper mode feels much more like a roguelike, which I (rogue)like loads. Nevertheless it’s dangerous enterprise, far more than Crashloop ever was. Powerups aren’t doled out as readily in Skyscrapper, though you may nab a number of right here and there as you progress up degree blocks, letting you exchange clones or improve Turbofists.
That stated, I bought up fairly far throughout my hour and half of gameplay, though builders Doborog kindly gave me the flexibility to pick out from all ranges—which received’t be doable 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 number of updates and bug fixes to the primary sport, which you’ll find under:
Weapons & Enemies
- Reducing Resistance / Enemy Toughness
- We’ve added a brand new setting so you may adapt the issue of your battles.
- Brains! New inexperienced brains have been added to enemy heads. Attacking the top 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 based mostly on place of each fingers
- Now you can decide how two handed weapons work:
- New Hearth Katana and Hearth Halberd weapons!
- 1 new degree (Laborious issue). Plenty of bug fixes & minor updates & rebalances to present Crashloop ranges
- Quicker degree loading occasions.
- Improved Arm Extension Turbofist results.
- Extinguishing fires by waving your fingers is now far more efficient and responsive.
- Improved sword glow impact.
- Elevated the issue 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 may attempt to strike at you whereas your guard is down.
- Enemies will transfer to dam when you goal ranged weapons at them!
- Improved enemy leaping animation and habits.
- 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 the next body price.
- 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 shade grading to scale back shade banding.
- Mounted misoriented colliders on a lot of weapons.
- Mounted zombies failing to craft in advanced environments
- Mounted a number of spots the place enemies may get caught throughout a lot of ranges.
Ultimately, there’s nonetheless a ton extra of Skyscrapper to play via, 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 have the ability 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.
