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Celebrating six months since the intial Early Access release, the awesome retro-fuelled Selaco has another really big update out now. It's actually kind of ridiculous how much they keep squishing into the game.

This follows on from a recent Beta, but now it's available to everyone. The major addition is the new Special Campaign mod which is a blend of "New Game Plus and Randomizer Mode" adding in:

  • A fully customizable campaign experience.
  • ARPG-style rarity system for both enemies and weapons.
  • Weapon Trait system where weapons can have new effects and behaviors.
  • Random Encounter system where new enemies can spawn into the level in real-time.
  • New unique enemy variants of existing enemies.
  • Randomization options including shuffled pickup locations, randomized weapon spawns, mystery boxes, and more.

By itself that would be an awesome update but there's a whole lot more to it.

Altered Orbit Studios also added in support for Steam Cloud, Geforce NOW, smarter tutorial prompts, reworked headshots, improved visuals, improved gun sound effects, more upgrades, improvements to the gore system, melee improvements, enemies will react to getting shot in the legs now, save game protection, new mutators to try and much more.

Due to how big the update is they've moved more story content to sometime in January - February 2025, with Chapter 2 development continuing "rapdily". They gave some teaser info about Chapter 2 including:

  • One of the levels takes place in a mansion.
  • New defensive items, including a deployable Mini-Turret which comes with its own upgrade tree.
  • Heavy Weapons. These weapons are extremely powerful, but cannot be stored in your inventory and are thrown away once depleted.
  • Enemy Miniguns can be picked up.
  • Drop Pods that can result in unexpected encounters when venturing outside.
  • Friendly NPC's.

Read more in the long patch notes.

See the original trailer if you missed it:

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Selaco is also 25% off during the Steam Autumn Sale so go grab it. It has an Overwhelmingly Positive recent user rating on Steam too and Very Positive overall. It has Native Linux support and is Steam Deck Verified.

Selaco | Release Date: 31st May 2024

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4 comments

Pyrate Nov 28
I wonder if I should get it now, or maybe it'll get an even deeper sale later on. Won't be playing it anytime soon anyways, just want to grab it before the price increase when it leaves early access.
CatKiller Nov 28
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Quoting: PyrateI wonder if I should get it now, or maybe it'll get an even deeper sale later on. Won't be playing it anytime soon anyways, just want to grab it before the price increase when it leaves early access.
Personally, I won't buy any game in Early Access. I'm happy to buy this when it gets officially released, and at full price since it's got Linux support.
chickenb00 Nov 28
Quoting: CatKiller
Quoting: PyrateI wonder if I should get it now, or maybe it'll get an even deeper sale later on. Won't be playing it anytime soon anyways, just want to grab it before the price increase when it leaves early access.
Personally, I won't buy any game in Early Access. I'm happy to buy this when it gets officially released, and at full price since it's got Linux support.
I broke my own No Early Access rule for Black Mesa and it was sooooo worth it -- to have already played it back then!
Lanz Nov 29
Quoting: CatKiller
Quoting: PyrateI wonder if I should get it now, or maybe it'll get an even deeper sale later on. Won't be playing it anytime soon anyways, just want to grab it before the price increase when it leaves early access.
Personally, I won't buy any game in Early Access. I'm happy to buy this when it gets officially released, and at full price since it's got Linux support.

Selaco could call itself done and leave early access now, and it would still be better than any FPS released this year.
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