Regardless of just 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 referred to 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 and marketing head Pontus Sundström, tumble-grab will allow you to seize on to stuff even if you’re in a tumbling state. Whereas that may not look like a lot at first blush, it opens up a variety of completely different prospects.
Initially, it is not simply gadgets you may seize; it’s also possible to latch onto surfaces, which is able to will let you do that awkward shamble up and round partitions and ceilings. Basically, you can climb stuff, but it surely actually does not look very similar to 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 power to seize weapons if you’re being thrown round by monsters just like the Mentalist. The place you’d in any other case be comparatively defenseless, quickly you can latch onto a close-by shotgun and blow that sucker to oblivion.
Semiwork makes a degree to say tumble-grab continues to be a “twerk in progress,” which is a superb segue into what you are all right here for: dying by twerking. Sure, Sundström and his fellow devs spend portion of the video having approach an excessive amount of enjoyable manipulating the tumble-grab to “twerk enemies to dying.”
Sundström did not get into a lot element about how the characteristic would possibly “break our recreation,” because it says within the title of the video, but it surely seems like they’re nonetheless attempting to twerk, er, work, out some kinks.
You’ll 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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