Demo Update: Gore Grind Is Back, and It Brought Toys

New toys

Freeze things. Shatter things. Set things on fire, then freeze them again out of spite. Chuy's garage has been restocked with turrets and other hardware of uncertain origin. It fell off a truck. That is the official story.

• Flamethrower and Minigun, dropped from rooftop supply drops
• HookShot, a grapple crossbow that yanks you across the block
• Molotov, Frag Mine, Cryo Bomb and Cryo Steam Emitter
• Freeze Rounds and a cryo flamethrower mode: chill, freeze solid, shatter
• Soviet cigarettes: faster reloads, worse lungs
• Weapon recycler and a workbench for bolting parts onto your guns
• Expanded weapon buffs (Explosive, Incendiary, Freeze)

New enemies

The horde has new members. Some of them wear traffic cones. Nobody knows why, and nobody is asking.

• The Unicorn, a galloping plow that bullies you out of the way
• The Stinker, who burps a travelling gas cloud
• UFO raids with a tractor beam, singularity orbs and a window to shoot back
• The RotWing King now telegraphs its beam, so you can actually react
• Smarter nights: adaptive spawns, no repeat bosses, cleanup at dawn

New friends

Chuy the mechanic now runs the garage. Buy a Hog, race him across town, and put your best time on the wall. He will not let you win. He is not that kind of friend.

• Motorcycles, with room for a co-op passenger
• Tommy and Chuy now gesture, point and react in the shop
• The building's AI talks to you over radios and sirens

New quests

More work from Tommy, more reasons to go outside, more ways to come back with less money than you left with.

Casino and co-op

• Slot machine overhaul: multi-payline spins, tossed prizes, buff jackpots and near-misses. Winnings hit the floor as cash.
• Downed players bleed out and can crawl, and dead friends can be bought back at the bar
• Three save slots with thumbnails, plus an Easy Pickin' difficulty
• Continue now remembers your clock, bosses, loot and full loadout

Looks better, runs better

• Brighter, fixed materials across the city
• Reworked HUD compass and a legibility pass on the UI
• Show HUD toggle and clearer subtitles
• Shaders now warm up during loading, so the first fight no longer stutters
• Fixes for combat hitches, a macOS audio crash and Windows crashes
• A gentler start to the first night
• Objective text no longer gets clipped
• Crawlers no longer spawn in your face or slip under fence gates
• Your shots now pass through fences and gates
• Fixes for unhittable enemies, quest doors stuck shut and floating slot prizes
• FSR is off by default, and there's an optional Performance Overlay

The AI on the radio would like to take credit for this update. It did not make this update. It is in charge of nothing.

Play the demo, tell us what broke, and wishlist Gore Grind if you liked getting eaten.

And all this for a slice of gabagool.