Blood-drunk shooter Ultrakill is back with a whole hellworld full of lies, portals and non-Euclidean spaces

The Fraud update is out, unless that's besides a lie

Do you similar architecture that plays tricks connected you? Secret rooms successful DOOM? The Ashtray Maze successful Control? Thinking with Portals? The 5 a.m.? That coating of immoderate books extracurricular the lockers successful the British Library that bends queasily arsenic you approach, revealing itself to beryllium a horrible wedge of tomeflesh, projecting outward into our realm similar immoderate dormant author's imprisoned soul? I conjecture you’ll beryllium playing the caller Ultrakill update then.

It introduces the eighth furniture of Hell, Fraud, successful which thing you comprehend with your eyes tin beryllium trusted. A problematic prospect, for a “video” game. Here’s the trailer. I committedness you that the play fastener beneath isn’t an illusion. Are you an illusion? Blink doubly for "Yes".

If you’re yet to illustration Ultrakill, it’s a style-scoring FPS that plays similar a chainsaw joust betwixt Quake and Devil May Cry. Arsi "Hakita" Patala is the superior developer and New Blood are the publishers. While we’ve ne'er rather written up the aboriginal entree release, it’s an auld Alice O touchstone, appearing successful nary little than 4 Screenshot Saturday Mondays and 1 What’s Better.

Dirty jankster Graham Smith was besides a fan, earlier helium stabbed america successful the backmost with his ridiculous caller autarkic website, built retired of farts and hairballs. “I've started to find it hard to archer the quality betwixt the galore mid-'90s shooter revivals,” faithless loser Graham wrote backmost successful 2020. “Yer Amid Evils, DUSKs and truthful connected each lavation implicit maine and permission lone a refreshed tendency to play much Devil Daggers. Ultrakill appeals much than the others however, arsenic it's pairing its Quake-inspired weaponry with question abilities, combos and the request to recharge your wellness via getting force humor connected you. There looks to beryllium a bushed and travel to it.”

The Fraud update was expected to beryllium present months ago, but it turns retired deceiving the subordinate astatine each crook whilst inactive allowing for coherent firefights is beauteous hard! As the developers person explained connected Steam: “when we embarked connected this upside down / wrong retired travel to make a furniture afloat of lies and non-euclidean portal exertion - we underestimated conscionable however overmuch enactment would spell into not lone getting each of these things to simply work, but besides rewriting each force to beryllium capable to usage the portals, making dependable and airy and reflections question done the portals, and truthful connected and truthful forth.”

New Blood really hired a caller programmer specifically to assistance with the Fraud update. Oh, to beryllium a alert connected the partition for that peculiar occupation interview. “Are you large astatine lying?” “Yes.” “Hold on, are you lying astir being large astatine lying?” “Yes.” “Was that past reply besides a lie?” “Yes.” “Ummmmmmmmm. You’re hired.”

Read the afloat changelog here.