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Bugfixes:

• Fixed an issue where Kitty didn’t spawn into E1M3 if player already had Kitty in inventory. This caused a softlock because Kitty must be picked up for the gate to open.
  
• During Mighty Spear’s cooldown if player paused the game twice it caused weapon switching to get stuck until the cooldown was finished.
  
• Loading screen for E2M4 had a typo saying “best” instead of “beast”
  
• Loading screen for E1M4 called it E1M2.
  
  Various changes:
  
• Mighty Spear cooldown reduced from 15 seconds to 12 seconds.
  
• Carnage Accelerator now gives player a 50% weapon damage and speed buff for 45 seconds and is not affected by shooting enemies anymore. This change was done to make the powerup easy to understand and use.
  
• Jawbreaker altfire projectiles bounce 15 times instead of 8 and move faster.
  
• Player can now skip the wait fade-in at startup and immediately enter the main menu by pressing fire, altfire, use, esc or jump.

Hope your sawblades are humming with anticipation as we have more meat for you to chew through! The newest update will let you cut down the Growth in the Transitory Termination, a place filled with even more grisly obstacles and lethal encounters. To level out the playing field, we are giving you a new toy.

The new Mighty Spear ability. Hold “kick” to unleash a powerful wide-hitting melee attack that recharges over time. Mighty Spear can be used even while wielding a gun.

You are going to need it against the new new midboss, the Sentinel (The Gigachad). Ruthless, fast, with an ability to slow you down with his projectile or his great bell, he will be the absolute test of your abilities - a living reminder of the available difficulty sliders. You will have to move, react on time, and switch weapons to adapt to the situation. Worst of all, he is not the only one of his kind!

At least you can parry his bell with meele strikes...

One other thing, E2M1 and E2M2 boss “Mess” now dies from melee attacks only. This change has been made so as to address the confusion that many players had. The in-game tutorial texts now reflect this change.

Besides that, we have a plethora of smaller features and fixes - Dig in!

• New Level: E2M4 - Transitory Termination
  
• New Boss and Mini Boss: The Death-Filth Child and The Sentinel.
  
• Loading Screen Tips - To kill time, while you aren't killing stuff.
  
• New, lore-friendly first-person-view arm model and textures
  
• New ability: The Mighty Spear.

• New explosives scattered around most levels: Gas canisters and oxygen tanks.
  
• Episode Select now shows up when selecting New Game
  
• E2M1 and E2M2 endboss “Mess” now dies from melee attacks only.
  
• Autorun is preserved between levels
  
• Revolver and chaingun spin won’t get stuck randomly anymore
  
• Revolver muzzle flash should appear in right position while rapid firing
  
• “Use” distance increased by one meter
  
• Interaction hand cursor won’t get stuck on screen anymore
  
• Increased aim sensitivity slider for controller users
  
• Health can be picked up during 1-UP death invulnerability
  
• Kitty won’t absorb ammo at full health anymore
  
• Flashlight cannot be toggled during pause anymore
  
• Hemogoblins won’t get stuck if hurt while they are idle
  
• Guns can be picked up even at full ammo now
  
• Various unintended progression skips in EP2 levels have been patched
  
• E2M2 toilets can only be flushed once to avoid spawning endless ammo
  
• ESC now leaves submenus like Options or Level Select
  
• Sawspear’s damage slightly buffed
  
• Minigun’s accuracy slightly reduced
  
• Minigun’s firing sound should play as intended
  
• Blood effects shrink if player is too close to them to avoid obstructing the screen too much
  
• Credits button in main menu
  
• E1M5 elevator music now plays correctly

New Cheat, a spawn menu: All enemies and some items can be spawned by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+M, selecting an object from the menu using mouse, then aiming at the floor and pressing Use. This is a jank developer tool, but can be fun to play around with!

Did you know you can activate various developer cheats by combining CTRL+SHIFT+[number]?

• E1M4, The Filth Pit’s music after entering the indoor zone might stop for the remaining level.
  
• The screen flash when investigating a lorebit is buggy and might get interrupted or not flash at all sometimes.
  
• Enemy juggling can still cause some odd behaviors in rare cases, like bodies not gibbing when hitting the floor, or enemies refusing to walk afterwards. This system will be revamped during EP3’s development.
  
• Extremely rare bug that plays the splash sound of leaving water/swimmable blood when player comes up to dry ground.

Hello! SmoothBrainDev here, reporting at the end of E2M4 update's development. How have you been?

It sure has been a while, huh? Ever since Christmas I've been working on E2M4, Transient Termination, and the first EP2 boss, The Death-Filth Child. Along with those I've implemented one new mid-boss that will test your skills brutally and mercilessly, and there is also a new melee ability that may help even out some of that challenge.T his update is now finished on my part and is simply waiting to be released along with a trailer by Hyperstange. I believe it will be released very very soon!

The next Termination Update

E2M4 is a sort of mausoleum-furnace, a place where the Malichant store their dead in stasis, and dispose of their own kin in pits of lava and crushers. Much of their habits are a mystery, but if you trust intuition and follow the lorebits it will all make sense eventually. As always, INCISION piles on the mysteries and gives crumbs so players will have room to imagine and daydream about its story and events.

The level is dark and grim and you will meet the midboss "The Sentinel" (or as I internally call him Gigachad) a few times in this level. He can slow the player down with projectiles, and immediately goes for brutal melee berserk when the opportunity arises. Luckily for you, you can parry his melee attacks with your spear. This is where the new ability comes to play: Mighty Spear.

The Mighty Spear is engaged by holding "kick" down for a split second. It is a wide-arcing powerful move that can kill most enemies at point blank range, and parry The Sentinel's melee attacks. It has a 15 second cooldown to balance its damage output. It is also designed to soften the difficulty curve a bit in the early levels as it can dispatch many of the squishier enemies easily if player dares to approach them.

Remember, INCISION is a game that does not seek to imitate the difficulty and playstyle of other boomer shooters. It aim to be unique while still recognizable. There is no shame in playing it on lower difficulties. As the levels get harder, you should always aim to replay them starting on lower difficulty level and then raising the difficulty as your skills improve.

What have I been working on outside of this update?

I have also worked on cutscenes. I've planned to add two pre-rendered deliciously crusty retro cutscenes at the beginning and end of each three episodes. The intro of EP1 is ready, but will not be part of this update as I want to finish EP1-EP2 cutscenes fully and release them all in one package. The intro is almost *4 minutes long*. Looks like I became a movie directorwriteranimatordesigner this year!

E2M5 is also almost finished. While waiting for music, QA and going through life changes I focused on that and learned new important skills to speed up game development.

I've also started a Youtube series where I play through the game one level at a time and talk about its development, my ideas on game development, how it all came to be etc. It's very amateur stuff, but fun to make nonetheless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af2X7pjJB2E

What comes next?

Late this summer, august - september, I'm aiming to release the rest of EP2. Here's what it will contain:

E2M5 - The Ruptured Idol
E2M6 - ???
E2Boss2 - The Matriarch
Four cutscenes, intro and outro of both episodes
Possible small balance updates and fixing of old bugs.

After these are out of the way I have a clean slate to start wrapping up the game by moving onto EP3's development. I dream of releasing the 1.0 of the game in summer 2025, and immediately move onto a second project, possibly a sequel.

The updates after that will be in two chunks: First and second half of Episode 3 instead of releasing each level seperately, adding the EP3 cutscenes to the final 1.0 update as well. I want to give players more to experience, more to replay, to talk about, to experiment with in each update and the plan to release each level seperately was just a way to make the development easier for me after the burnout. I'm over the burnout and now developing stronger than ever!

I hope this was not too weird ranty, rambly post. I've wanted to give my fans a public update for a very long time now, but I decided to wait until this E2M4 update was ready. Again, I thank everyone for their amazing love, understanding and patience as I make this massive game alone and seek to give everyone the best experience that stays truest to my vision.

Have a great summer, everyone, and let me know what you thought of this upcoming update!!

- SmoothBrainDev

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Before we get to this update's changelog, we have a very special music feature offering for you, from the one and only iNi, the composer of INCISION's OST. Enjoy the full playlist of the Episode 2 music, right here and on YouTube:

And now, on to the...

• Episode E2M1 has been split into 2 seperate levels: Harvest Vivarium and Parasitic Relations.
  
• Parasitic Relations has been updated with new area.
  
• New level E2M3 has been added "Death-Filth Medicine"
  
• New enemies appeared - Sympaths, Flocks and The Favoured.
  
• Alt-Fire for Jawbreaker added.
  
• Level Select screens now have corresponding backgrounds.
  
• New Enemies now can spawn in Randomizer.
  
• E1M4 level secrets updated and fixed.
  
• Min. projectile speed set to 100%.
  
• Tweaks for Feral Armament bossfight.
  
• Multiple cosmetic fixes and additions like growth parts of level bleeding on hit.

• E2M3 music has a *very rare* chance of not playing in properly. If the music does not start playing immediately in the very first room, restart the level. Otherwise music will play out of order and may sound very odd.
  
• Health count does not update during slow motion after losing a life.
  
• "Use" hand very rarely remains on screen. Workaround is to look at an usable button again.
  
• In E1M4 "Filth Pit" music may rarely stop permanently.

ENJOY!

Hello, it has been a while since I've written to the community!

Incision has been in nonstop development for a whole year now, and even if I only released a single (very large) map this year, SOON(c) a lot more is coming! The shift from Episode 1's meat-hell cityscape to a more scifi alien themes was a bit more work than I could have expected. Most of this time has been just getting a whole new arsenal of enemies done, polishing the gameplay a bit, and getting the look of the scifi levels into quality that *I* expect from this game.

The next update, codename "Death-Filth" is coming soon and it will include quite a mountain of new and revamped content, bugfixes and small extras such as LUDICROUS GIBS! Here's a condensed list of what you can expect from it:



This huge level has been split into two levels due to its length, density and also performance reasons. The level now ends after the "Mess" midboss fight, and E2M2 "Parasitic Relations" is the mall area after the Mess. The mall has a whole new very challenging area with amazing new music to go with it. This split should help with reported lower framerates and to keep the levels feel more fair in length knowing that losing all of your lives after 20-30 minutes of gameplay just isn't fun, and it went too far even for my pretty demanding standards.


This alien ship full of containers of gore and blood include four new enemies of the Malichant faction, a mysterious alien race whose part in this story is still shrouded in mystery. The level also introduces underwater (or should I say underblood) sections, and a completely new theme with graphics made by pre-rendering 3D models into textures. The episode will also be renamed after this level.


Malichant Flock come in two variants, shotgun and chaingunner. They outrank most of Growth's creations in sheer damage output, but are big and slow targets.

The Sympaths are the game's first flying enemies with laser-drill eyes that may be slow to track you, but will cut you into pieces in seconds. They are weak, but move erratically and have the game's only hitscan weapon. What, a hitscan!? I am not joking.

The Favored are ninja-like experts with extreme movement speed, fastest projectiles, and ability to teleport near you to deal a nasty roundhouse kick from any distance. They will test your reflexes and reaction times more than any other foe you have faced.


Jawbreaker has an altfire which shoots ricocheting pellets that gain damage every time they bounce, eventually igniting and burning enemies as well. It's more of a fun > function firing mode, but it offers a safer way to damage enemies from behind cover, and its power is immense in tight spaces.


Next I will take a well-earned holiday vacation. After that, in January, it's time to start developing the first boss of this episode and E2M4. I want to release those two in the same update because bosses aren't very long experiences in the end. So, new boss, one new Malichant enemy, one level. I bet that sounds good for everyone.

As last message I want to thank everyone for their patience. Seriously. Incision is a solo project and the burnout from last year's crunch still haunts me occasionally. I have started changing my mindset, working habits (I'm a workaholic) and generally thinking about the game very differently, and I hope I can speed up the development next year in a healthier way. Making Harvest Vivarium taught me a hard lesson in pacing myself. I wanted to give people something after months of no updates, and I overdid it.

Going forward I want to make smaller maps more focus on making each feel unique and give players someting cool to see, more than before. It's not been wise to spend months on a single map. After all, a longer map is rarely a sign of quality! The fun you have playing a level is the only factor that matters.


Here are various screenshots of what you can expect in the coming update:

- SmoothBrainDev

The blood Gods have listened to us and here we are with news from the Meat world. A few fixes, few changes, a little sneak peak into future. A happy day but also sad day.

They have said that we praised our beloved pet Kitty too much and have taken away some of her powers but fear not, as she is still our cutest little leech that got extra animation (see for yourself in the game x>). Some of our masochists have negotiated with the Gods even more powerful enemies, they are brutal, they are fast, they will use any advantage to bring you down! Now available 500% Projectile Speed and Projectile Damage! Are you ready to Die and blame the bugs for it?

• Difficulty can be set up to 500% (Dare to enter)
  
• Fixed freeze caused by standing on falling floor after picking up Jawbreaker.

• Kitty now gains +5% blood instead of +10% from gibbed enemies.
  
• Max blood is now 150% instead of 200%
  
• Altfire costs 20% blood instead of 15%
  
• Primary fire still costs 10% blood, but now fires 8 bombs instead of 5.
  
• If Kitty doesn’t have enough blood to fire it will do a small sound and animation with a text “not enough blood!” appearing on top of your screen.

• Feral Armament will blow into pieces on second encounter
  
• All pickables have now shiny effect.
  
• Enemies are slightly glowing in dark (almost invisible but helps)
  
• End of E1M3 now has special decorations and new enemies waiting near level exit.
  
• Stoneman are properly waking up in Enemy Randomizer mode.
  
• One of secrets received missing special effect.

Lastly, there's one more update to the game, that doesn't change the gameplay, but it sure as hell can be a feast for the eyes. As of now - enjoy the new Keyart and Steam assets:

This is it, for today. Look out for yourselves out there.

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