Nothing as nice as bashing your friends with a red-hot pipe, as the saying goes.

Celebrate Halloween with this bigger-than-expected update that will bring fear to any Mandrillian in pipe range. Also, Escape from Mandrillia joins the itch.io Halloween Sale by a measly 30% discount for a couple days!

This update brings the Pipe as a new weapon (with the long awaited proper-melee mechanics), as well as a bunch of bug fixing, performance improvening, and quality of life tweaking:


THE PIPE(s)

Every match, scattered around the map, there will be 3 pipes in 3 of  15 random locations. You can rip them off and use them as makeshift melee weapons:

-Hard hitting, but risky: can kill a monkey with a well placed head shot, but you'll have to get close and personal

-Ripping them off walls (or hitting them hard against any surface) will make enough noise to alert any monkey in the map (you can use this as a distraction too)

-Limited durability: hit enough monkeys and the pipe will bend. Keep hitting monkeys, and it will break, becoming unusable.

-If you're a good enough shot, you can throw it to clobber monkeys at range. Just consider that if you miss, you'll be left without a pipe and in front of a pissed off Mandrillian...

-Fire interaction: heat it up with any fire-based weapon and use the now red-hot pipe to inflict extra fire damage on the Mandrillians, at the cost of halving its durability.

-Durability changes in Horror and Supersoldier modes: they will break way more easier in Horror, and will be way, WAY more durable in Supersoldier.

THE TWEAKINGS:

-IMPACT SOUND REWORK:

Say goodbye to the CLICKCLACKCLICKCLAK when you scrape your stuff across the map; impact sound system has been greatly improved to be more subtle and accurate.

-SKIN-SPECIFIC ABILITIES:

Abilities like the inventory cloaking that were bound to specific presets now will be linked to your skin (now called "body" in the menu) selection. Right now, playing with the "Stealth" body will grant you the inventory cloaking. And more to come...

-DART GUN ADDED TO RANDOM START SIDEARM:

Until now you had to manually select it but now it will be one of the possible spawns if you set your starting sidearm as "random".

-IMPLEMENTED "BLAST DAMAGE":

You won't notice this change, but this will enable some more flexibility for damage types in the future

-IMPROVED MONKEY EXPLOSION PERFORMANCE:

There were noticeable frame drops when you exploded a monkey by using explosives. This has been greatly optimized.

THE BUGFIXING:

-Fixed bug where objects could stay floating when placed on top of a dying monkey after the corpse despawned.

-Fixed monkey gore not resetting properly after being gibbed.

-Fixed Armor Piercing damage not affecting the player (this bug had been in the game since its inception and noone noticed because the only armor piercing weapon, the Heavy Machine Gun, had too long of a barrel to shoot yourself)

-General minor fixes and visual adjustments

Well this was quite an update. Hope it brings you joy in this spooky season. I'm out.