Challenge Mode is coming in a free update to Valfaris: Mecha Therion on 26th August. Designed to give skilled players another way to play through the game, Challenge Mode includes some arcade-style changes, such as lives instead of health, a scoring system, and weapon upgrades via pick-ups.
Challenge Mode details:
Score
- Increase your score by killing enemies and destroying anything that's destructible!
- Defeat bosses quickly for bonus points
Lives + Checkpoints
- Number of current lives are represented by red bars on the HUD
- Start with 2x lives. Lose a life when you take a hit
- Lose all lives and you restart from the last checkpoint
- When you respawn at a checkpoint, 1x life is deducted from the total lives you had when the checkpoint was activated e.g. if you activate a checkpoint with 3x lives and then subsequently lose all those 3x lives, you respawn at that checkpoint with 2x Lives. It's game over when you have 0x lives left
- Gain extra lives at score increments, starting at 100,000 and then every 120,000 after that i.e. 100,000 / 220,000 / 360,000
- You also gain an extra life for every 5x Blood of Valfaris you collect
- Score multiplier increases with your current amount of lives: 2x Lives = 1.0 Multiplier / 3x Lives = 1.2 Multiplier / 4x Lives = 1.4 / 5x Lives = 1.6
- Destroying a checkpoint yields 1x Blood of Valfaris. Only melee attacks can destroy a checkpoint
- WARNING: You can't utilise a destroyed checkpoint
- Weapon and Module loadouts can still be changed at checkpoints
Upgrades
- Weapons are no longer upgraded at checkpoints
- Defeated enemies can drop weapon pick-ups. Collect these to upgrade your Destroyer, Melee, and Auxiliary weapons
- Weapon ranks are displayed on the HUD
- As well as losing a life, taking a hit can also downgrade weapons
All hail Challenge Mode - we hope you enjoy it!
Matt | Big Sugar
