Regardless of lately pledging secrecy round its subsequent replace, REPO developer semiwork has spilled the beans on a brand new characteristic that’ll arrive with the replace on October 30. It is known as tumble-grab, and it just about does what it says on the tin… after which some.
As revealed and demonstrated in a playful new video replace hosted by REPO advertising head Pontus Sundström, tumble-grab will allow you to seize on to stuff even once you’re in a tumbling state. Whereas which may not look like a lot at first blush, it opens up a number of totally different prospects.
To start with, it isn’t simply gadgets you may seize; you can even latch onto surfaces, which can can help you do that awkward shamble up and round partitions and ceilings. Basically, you’ll climb stuff, however it actually does not look very like climbing in motion. There’s additionally the stamina bar that is linked to tumble-grab, so there’s some limitation.
One other helpful perform of tumble-grab is the flexibility to seize weapons once you’re being thrown round by monsters just like the Mentalist. The place you’ll in any other case be comparatively defenseless, quickly you’ll latch onto a close-by shotgun and blow that sucker to oblivion.
Semiwork makes some extent to say tumble-grab continues to be a “twerk in progress,” which is a good segue into what you are all right here for: demise by twerking. Sure, Sundström and his fellow devs spend a great portion of the video having means an excessive amount of enjoyable manipulating the tumble-grab to “twerk enemies to demise.”
Sundström did not get into a lot element about how the characteristic may “break our recreation,” because it says within the title of the video, however it appears like they’re nonetheless making an attempt to twerk, er, work, out some kinks.
You can tumble-grab to your coronary heart’s content material when REPO’s subsequent replace subsequent month, and Sundström says there are “different surprises in retailer” for us too.
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