Hello everyone,

We’re excited to release our Melee Mayhem Update, a massive weapon update for Sweet Surrender focused on Melee weapons and abilities.

Sweet Surrender is fundamentally a “shooter” but we’ve always wanted to make the full use of the combat possibilities and the physicality of our systems. Melee was always present (all the OG wrench players can attest) but was never a first class citizen. With our 8th Major Update, this is changing forever!

In our Melee Update we introduce:

  • Three new melee weapons: the Plasma Katana, the Throwing Daggers and the Electrostatic Spear

  • 5 new lines of Upgrade Chips

  • A new dedicated Melee class, the eponymous Reaper

Melee Weapons

Coming with this update are three new, versatile melee weapons. Skewer your enemies from afar, or slice them up in close combat with these new additions to the game:

Plasma Katana

This beautiful reimagination of the classic Katana adds a new dimension to Melee combat. Get up close and personal with the robots. You can charge up the plasma blade field for a short time to deal extra damage and deflect projectiles!

Throwing Daggers

These beautiful daggers are perfect as a hybrid melee/range weapon. Daggers are imbued with the imprint of their owner and will always return automatically after being thrown.

You can deal additional poison damage by either throwing the daggers or performing surprise attacks on unsuspecting enemies.

Electrostatic Spear

This futuristic electrostatic spear is another great tool in the melee arsenal. When dual-wielded, its range is extended, giving you a wider radius of attack.

You can also shoot electromagnetic projectiles that damage and stun enemies, giving you a versatile weapon for both up close combat and ranged fighting.

Chips and Upgrades

We’ve introduced several new lines of chips to complement and reinforce melee builds. These include:

  • Melee Siphon: Heal when doing melee damage to enemies.

  • Gorilla Strength (3 tiers): Deal progressively more melee damage.

  • Killer Machine: Dealing damage with melee weapons increases your damage and makes you faster for 3 seconds.

  • Melee Slow-Motion: Slow Motion on doing melee attacks.

  • Hidden Uppercut: When you're undetected, you deal additional damage in melee combat.

We’re looking forward to seeing how players stack these chips together and with all the existing ones. Can’t wait for your builds!

New Reaper Class

We’re introducing a new class where you can flex your melee muscles. Tuned for intimate brawling, the Reaper class is the most proficient in close combat skills. We don’t want to reveal too much, just go and try it and let us know what you think.

Quality of Life

But that’s not all! We’ve been working closely with the community the last few months to get feedback on all aspects of the game. Off that feedback, we’ve made a ton of smaller changes and improvements since Update 7. We closed dozens of reported bugs. We’ve added and improved sound effects. We’ve improved the room generation and variety. We’ve tweaked enemy behavior, weapon effects and balancing.

Thank you for all your feedback and helping us make this the best VR shooter possible.

Roadmap and Next Steps

We’ll be back soon with more details on our roadmap and plans for the future but for now, we are focusing on a revamp of the boss system for our next update.

As we mentioned last time, we regularly run community polls and dev discussions with our Discord community. If you want to participate in future polls (and have a say in Sweet Surrender’s direction), get access to beta builds or just want to talk to us about the game, you can do so by joining our [url=discord.gg/salmigames]Discord[/url].

We are always happy about everyone who joins and are very thankful for your feedback and support.

Make sure to also check out the trailer we made for the melee update:

You can also have a look at our [url=https://trello.com/b/kfrxIbeN/sweet-surrender-public-roadmap]Public Roadmap[/url], where you can get a better look at all the updates we've already released and what we have planned for the future.

As always, thank you for your support!

Cheers, Salmi Games

Full patch notes

We are currently aware that there is an issue with melee kills not being tracked by the reaper leaderboard. We are working on this issue and will be releasing a hotfix for it.

Improvements

  • Three new weapons

  • New Reaper class with progression and achievements

  • 5 new chip lines with melee-focused upgrades

  • Fixed various issues with the final boss and made it overall more responsive

  • Added a confirmation window when you press the exit button to avoid players accidentally quitting the game

  • Various improvements to room layouts and enemy placement

  • Security turrets will now power down instead of explode when killed by a melee attack

  • Improved the laser mines to be better at hitting the player

  • Improved the pathfinding and aiming of the guardian bot

  • Added a short message from the tunnel robot to the homebase to better explain its functionality

  • Improved the climbing of ladders

  • Various new and improved sound effects

Bug fixes

  • Fixed issues with the leech grenade not working properly

  • Fixed a bug, where enemies were healing without any heal pads nearby

  • Fixed a visual issue when shooting enemies with the health siphon chip

  • Fixed an issue, where chip slots would be unusable if equipping chips in the homebase

  • The effects of the rage kit will no longer stay active indefinitely when using multiple in a row

  • Fixed an issue with the bridges in the sewers becoming unresponsive

  • Fixed various issues with controllers continuously vibrating after using a two handed weapon

  • Body parts and weapons of enemies destroyed in the homebase are no longer intractable

  • Fixed an issue where enemies killed by explosive barrels would not count as “killed by an explosion”

  • Fixed various issues with items in the inventory disappearing when pausing the game

  • Fixed an issue with the target in the homebase showing damage numbers twice

  • Fixed an issue where ziplines would not play their respective sound effect

  • Class progression for healing hp no longer increases when using health siphon while at full hp

  • Fixed an issue with the UI in the victory screen after defeating the end boss as lunatic

  • Enemies no longer play their sound effects after dying