The teams at Offworld Industries and Knights Peak just rolled out the 1.9 update for Starship Troopers: Extermination. This update offers up a good blend of new content along with performance optimizations and bug fixes for the game.
Starship Troopers: Extermination is a 16-player co-op FPS that has you and the team fighting off huge armies of bugs. There are six unique classes to choose from, each with their own abilities and gear. Not only will you be blasting away at the bugs, you'll be completing objectives, and even doing a bit of base defense.
Highlights of the 1.9 update can be found below, or you can check out the full 1.9 patch notes.
- A new enemy bug, the Fire Bombardier. Instead of the mercy of an immediate explosive death, these sadistic bugs prefer to burn their victims alive leaving a zone of flaming devastating in their wake making it harder for allies to rescue their downed compatriots.
- New Ambush Mutators: Be advised, early reports are indicating that the Arachnid’s may have developed new tactics. Keep your eyes peeled for new scenario modifiers! Players can now encounter Royal Guard, Inferno, and Fire Bombardier Ambushes
- Royal Guards have left the safety of their Hives, and have been spotted roaming the battlefield. Roaming Royal Guards may attack during Horde and ARC/AAS Defense.
- Armory tuning and unlockable modifications like
- ATK Rounds are purpose-built to penetrate the thickest chitin. ‘Advanced Tiger Kill’ rounds are commonly used during corporate hunting expeditions, but the loss of a sporting challenge has many hunters criticizing their usage, as a skilled Sniper using standard-issue ammo can out-perform them with a few well-placed rounds to the nerve stem and bypassing the carapace all together.
- Mag Optic provides an unobstructed, elevated sight picture with a low level of magnification. Intended for close to mid-range, these sights can offer some of the flexibility of a higher-power scope, with the battlefield awareness of a Reflex Sight.
- Napalm Grenades modification allowing the Trooper to saturate the battlefield with a scatter of incendiary death. Napalm Grenades provide an alternative ammo option for Demolishers and other pyromaniacs. These grenades create lingering flames that quickly incinerate trapped bugs, and create zones of deadly fire that bugs cannot cross unharmed, but will be less effective against mobile targets (and fire proof bugs) that can escape the flames. Napalm Grenades can also be used to destroy bug corpses.
- Tweaks and updates to weapon mod icons, Prosthetic Servos, Carnage Corpse bug piles, Mission Tuning, side objectives and several other fixes.
