Defend your meat

Shopper Softproducts has introduced the arrival of a patch for the deranged 2021 meatpunk title, Cruelty Squad. In contrast to many late-arrival patches, this patch does extra than simply repair compatibility points and squash minor bugs. It makes the armor within the recreation really do one thing.

Replace: Armor now works for the primary time in Cruelty Squad, a recreation that has been out for greater than two yearshttps://t.co/DDQ9jUtw4T

— Shopper Softproducts Oy (@CSoftproducts) March 27, 2023

As a result of Shopper Softproducts will get by on intentionally blended messages, and Cruelty Squad as a complete is presumably only one massive sick joke, I used to be truthfully not sure if this was actual. And by that, I imply many issues. I wasn’t positive if this was an actual patch. I couldn’t inform if armor was really non-functional earlier than. And I’m nonetheless not sure if this actually fixes it.

So, fortunately, I used to be capable of finding this Steam discussion board thread from again in 2021, the place customers talk about non-functional armor as if it’s a generally identified factor and speculate that it appears to be a bug. Whether or not or not the patch really fixes it’s nonetheless pending analysis by somebody braver and smarter than me.

What’s actually humorous about that is that in my evaluate of Cruelty Squad, I discussed that my most popular method to play was to “put on heavy armor and mow by way of dudes just like the T-800.” So, you’re telling me that the armor wasn’t doing something? It was simply, what, giving me the boldness I wanted to blow individuals up with out cowl or subterfuge?

Vortex of dangerous design

You is perhaps questioning how I wouldn’t have observed one thing like that, however have you ever performed Cruelty Squad? I described it as a “swirling vortex of dangerous design” and opined that it was practically unattainable to method critically. It’s arduous to separate the components of it which can be deliberately dangerous from those which can be simply poorly designed. Or damaged, on this case.

It might sound like I’m being harsh on the sport, however I completely love Cruelty Squad. It’s a fascinating expertise and a stark-raving bare method to recreation design whose affect is already being felt within the indie sphere. The self-immolation method to design is so compelling, and few video games do it with as a lot unapologetic pizazz as Cruelty Squad. It’s a troublesome recreation to advocate whereas concurrently being one which I want extra individuals would strive. I don’t assume I can gush any extra enthusiastically, so I have to resort to simply making a grunting noise to emphasise my level: Uurgh!

Cruelty Squad is at the moment contained on PC. It’s at the moment unsupported by the Steam Deck.