Contra Datamined

[Pliskin Hunter]

A bunch on stuff I datamined on the demo of Contra (Character list, stages, various modes, shop, BGMs, weapons, challenges, multiplayers leftovers, list of achievements)
https://twitter.com/redcode_team/status/1760420369532321801

[NeoRizer]

Post it on imgur... ♥♥♥♥ twitter

[Muado 93]

Originally posted by NeoRizer:

Post it on imgur... ♥♥♥♥ twitter

Agreed, I ain't signin' up for that ♥♥♥♥.

[Pliskin Hunter]

I'm not singing on imgur, so here's a pastebin, it's only text anyway
https://pastebin.com/Q5zQeh4y

[Muado 93]

Glad to see Brad Fang is gonna make it in, thanks for the info.

I'll still curb my expectations a little.....since it could just be cancelled leftover data.

[NeoRizer]

Fair, thanks for the data mine... that's actually decent stuff... the music swap is what I'm definitely looking forward to.

No Ray Poward though eh.... mmmm. Guess it would be kind of redundant seeing as he's the stand in for Bill in Hardcorps.

[MrBananaGrabber]

They've said on Twitter that there won't be any micro transactions (specifically for the in-game shop), although that begs the question of what the 'downloadable content' would be

[MachTackle]

They said the game is complete but DLC could be a possibility if there is demand for it so it likely depends on how well the game sells.

[DukeFavre]

Explain me this part:

You get a gift (not sure what) for testing out the demo, with 300 credits.

Oddly enough, there's nothing about Online multiplayer, yet, there's few things:
Online Mode
Host Game
Search
Join Game
Lobby Search
Password Entry
Game Search
Search Criteria
Lobby Type
Public
Friends

Will it have online in a future update but not a launch?

[Pliskin Hunter]

If you play the demo, you get a gift and 300 credits for the perk shop.
As for the rest, thoses are text about online multiplayer being found inside the game. So that shows they planned multiplayer at some point. I don't know if it'll be available at release, later or at all.

[Bongoboy]

The thing concerning to me is... 8 stages?

[ZaSpai / Tipper]

Oh hey thanks for the thread!
Can confirm through my own dive into the files about certain aspects of the text datamine (there's visual assets for the secret characters shockingly enough!). I may have been a bit too keen and looked at the script...

[GamerXT]

That's a lot of extras for 8 levels.

[MrBananaGrabber]

Originally posted by Bongoboy:

The thing concerning to me is... 8 stages?

I'm thinking the same, especially as the demo is made up of parts of two stages combined. So for all we know one stage could be much shorter than the demo stage.
I think stage 1 ends at the wall boss, in which case they are significantly shorter.

So the relatively high price will basically be became it's a Konami game. There are a lot of Steam indie Contra games that as just as good but less than 1/3 the price of this game.

The lack of online co-op is mind-boggling

[DukeFavre]

Originally posted by MrBananaGrabber:

The lack of online co-op is mind-boggling

If they add that, I may give it a chance. I try the demo, is ok. But ONLINE, with random or friends, that would be cool.

[Bongoboy]

Originally posted by MrBananaGrabber:

Originally posted by Bongoboy:

The thing concerning to me is... 8 stages?

I'm thinking the same, especially as the demo is made up of parts of two stages combined. So for all we know one stage could be much shorter than the demo stage.
I think stage 1 ends at the wall boss, in which case they are significantly shorter.

So the relatively high price will basically be became it's a Konami game. There are a lot of Steam indie Contra games that as just as good but less than 1/3 the price of this game.

The lack of online co-op is mind-boggling

So if the Demo is indeed 2 stages cobbled together... ugh.

I mean Contra Hard Corps did have super short stages, often times you basically just ran a screen or two and there was a boss. Bosses themselves often times where relatively simple in what they did, often had multiple phases. Which resulted in over 20 "stages" if you count in "just a boss fight".

Indeed Konami. That company name turned into a slur these days, just remember Contra Rogue Corps.

But lets wait and see, the absence of a online coop might be because... maybe this is a switch port? It is released on the Switch too, so maybe.