Hey Marines!
Happy New Year, marines! A new major update is live now—forget your new year resolutions and just appreciate that your marines get to live to see another day!
Our new major update brings an end to the limited-time Xmas event. Time to discover your rewards! Explore the murky waters of the new environment: Hydroponics, and face a new insect-like flying alien!
New alien
Acidya: An insect-like flyer and quite a nasty bug.
- Its flying abilities allow it to avoid ground hazards.
- This one will prefer to target you from afar with highly acidic ranged AOE attacks.
- Interestingly, you won’t see it in previous Operations, but it’ll show up in Single Missions and Defend the Base! mode.
New environment
Hydroponics: This new environment adds its share of changes in terms of gameplay with an environmental modifier! Single Mission mode now has two new map types: Hydroponic Labs and Hydro-engineering level. A new Operation is now available in the Hydroponics environment too.
- Flooding (in Hydro-engineering level map type and in specific missions in the new Operation for now): Water reaches you at waist-height. Your movements and aliens’ are hindered, costing more APs. Because the area is flooded, fire doesn’t affect you in this watery environment.
- Good news is, you won’t find Scorpions, Skitters, Swarmers, or Leeches there! Bad news is, your Flamethrower and Bio-rifle are not a good fit in such a place since dispersion won’t work there.
End of the limited-time Xmas event
We hope you enjoyed your presents and that they lifted your marines’ spirits! Here’s the list of the rewards depending on the number of presents you’ve collected during the event:
- 100+ presents: "Rambo Ducky" squad logo
- 125+ presents: "Golden Ducky" yellow squad livery
- 150+ presents: A Commanducky-inspired, modified Assault rifle, the "Quacker" (simultaneously better and worse than the default AR, we’ll let you discover this piece of weaponry and see if it suits your needs! Quack quack!)
Community suggestions
Your feedback allowed us to add a new way of unlocking gear without completing missions in higher difficulties by gathering Gear Tokens and spending them on the Squad Assembly screen. Gear Tokens can be obtained by completing a game in any non-Campaign mode, and the amount received depends on the difficulty level. You can still acquire items by completing the corresponding challenges (and while also obtaining Gear Tokens).
Read the full patch notes here.
Over and out! Stay on the lookout for more updates on USC: Counterforce and challenges to face!
❄️ The USC: Counterforce team
