HEY YOKERS,
Welcome to Muscles Monthly #8.
A monthly update about what we're cooking for GET YOKED.
FOREARMUS MAXIMUS now welcomes you with a choice from a pool of 17 new Poses. Also: a revamped HUD, controller support, a proper Settings menu, unlocks and fresh Eve art. Keep reading for more details.
If you would like to join the Steam Playtest please sign up through the Barking Dogs Discord!
FOREARMUS MAXIMUS
You can now be blessed by FOREARMUS MAXIMUS. At the start of a run you choose 1 of 3 blessings from 17 brand new Poses.
I also gave some of the sacred poses visual effects: Dainty Hands, Big Hands, Devour, Iron Veins, Supreme Focus and Short But Strong.
NEW EVE ART
All of Eve's cards now have glorious rendered art by Nix.
REVAMPED HUD
The HUD has been rebuilt:
- New Stamina UI, Gains bar, top bar and muscle column.
- Injury days remaining now shows as blips on the muscles.
- New competition start animation, and the defending champ now stands in the background.
- New camera sweeps, and fixed cameras (mostly at the temple).
- Tooltips on almost everything in the HUD.
- A new event popup animation, a day countdown banner during competitions, and an updated venue select screen.
CONTROLLER SUPPORT & SETTINGS
CONTROLLER SUPPORT
- Full controller support with glyphs for Xbox, PlayStation and Switch.
- Steam Deck Yokers: Let me know how it plays!
SETTINGS
- There's a Settings section in the main menu and the pause menu, with four tabs: General, Graphics, Sound and Input.
- Let me know if there are any settings you want.
PROGRESSION: UNLOCKS
The first version of progressive unlocks is out.
- Collection: Play a run.
- Characters: Classic unlocks Gigachad, Gigachad unlocks Eve.
- Customize bodybuilder: Play every character once.
- Leaderboards: Win a run.
- Challenges: Discover 40 cards.
As the game gets more characters this might be reorganized, but for now it feels nicer than having everything all at once.
BALANCE
THE CLASSIC
- Leg Press (NEW): Legs Workout, 2 Stamina, 6 Gains, 12 Fatigue. Gain 2(3) additional Gains for each point of Warmup.
- Hot (Rare): New competition card. Gain 1 Strength per Warmup, updates as Warmup changes.
- Legs Week: Reworked. Legs cards cost 1 less Stamina.
- Gun Show: Reworked. 0 Stamina, 3 Gains, 6 Fatigue. Put this card on top of your draw pile.
- Deadlift: Reworked. Stamina 2 to 1, Fatigue 10 to 20. It now gains 10(15) for each Sturdy in your deck, and no longer destroys them.
- Jog Memories is now Cheek to Cheek (Glutes), and Energising Squat moved to Legs.
- Heavy Cards and Silver Tongue are now Rare.
EVE
- Dumbbell: Gains 3(5) to 2(4), Fatigue 9(12) to 12(15).
- Companion Growth: Fatigue 9 to 18, additional Gains from other muscles 5(8) to 4(7).
JUICE & POLISH
- Eve and Gigachad now glow red and smoke when they're making Gains.
- New glutes framing technology for the camera.
- Gains can't overflow anymore.
- ChadGrayscale kicks in during chad mode.
- Warmup now shows as a positive number.
- Faster card hover animations.
PRIMITIVE MODDING SUPPORT
Modding is a little easier now, and there's a new modding section on the Discord with a basic readme on how to get started.
THANK YOU YOKERS
A YUGE thank you to everyone who found bugs and helped with design this month, you know who you are! Also a big thank you to our community Yokalizers.
COMING IN OCTOBER
Right now I'm working on new events and more poses. After that I still want to get to these:
- Beast Mode: Progressive difficulty mode. Each Beast Mode level adds a different difficulty modifier to your run.
- Character XP: Unlock cards, poses per character, supplements, and challenges.
Thanks for reading, more next month!
Stay YUGE.
- Greg