🍝 The Full Menu — Update 1.3.0 (The Road to Full Release)
Vexa Media
Aug 26
🍝 The Full Menu — Update 1.3.0
The biggest update MEATBALLS has ever had. Everything we've been cooking since launch, served on one plate — and every bit of it is us pushing hard toward the FULL RELEASE of the game, coming soon. All free. No microtransactions. Just more game. Ciao, polpette! 👋 Since launch the kitchen has not closed. Grab a fork — here's what's new:
🎫 Order Up! — Ticket Runs
- 🧾 40 Order Tickets — optional run goals you pin before a run ("win with only melee", "never repair", …) with rewards paid on the spot
- 📋 A live ticket rail on the HUD and an "ON THE RAIL" card on pause
- 🤝 Tickets now work in co-op too
🏆 The CHALLENGES Card
- ⭐ 18 Trials — hand-built challenge runs with unique rules
- 📅 Weekly Challenge — one seeded run per week, worldwide leaderboard
- 🧪 Custom Run — build your own ruleset and share it with MB- recipe codes
- 👨🍳 Iron Chef — the score-attack gauntlet, with its own board
🎮 New Ways to Play
- 🥘 Family Dinner — the cosy co-op mode
- ⚔️ PvP — Free-for-all and Teams
- 🧑🔬 Test Kitchen — a full sandbox to experiment in
- 🎬 A proper campaign intro, real endings — and a secret true final boss for those who truly master the craft 🤫
- ♾️ Endless mode difficulty bands + milestones
- 🔁 Boss Rush lap 2+: Overcooked bosses
- 🎓 An advanced tutorial course
🛡️ New Combat Verbs
- 🛡️ Block & Parry — hold to guard, time it for a parry, riposte, even reflect projectiles (+6 new items built around it)
- 🔄 Active Reload — hit the sweet spot for an instant reload + fire-rate buff (toggleable)
- 🍴 Taste Test — dash through weakened enemies to devour them for health and gold
- 💨 6 Dash styles — slides, skewers, blinks, bun-shields
- 🥩 Boss Weak Points — flank exposed zones for forced crits, fill the meter, TENDERISE the boss into a stagger
- 🥄 7 Utensil actives on their own cooldown slot (C / D-pad Up)
- 💍 10 Boss Relic actives on Q — plus the Kitchen Prep Board to mount your trophies
🔫 The Arsenal Exploded
- 🗡️ 48 weapons — and every single one now EVOLVES (47 evolutions)
- 💣 7 grenade types that actually behave differently
- 🎒 130 items, including item sets and legendary relics
- ✨ 36 synergies to discover
🍝 The Famiglia Grew
- 🧀 7 new unlockable meatballs (Mozzarella, Polpettina, Polpettone, Smoky, Leftover, Mystery… and Kyle) — 18 playable meatballs, plus whatever you cook up in The Kitchen
- 🌶️ 7 spice jars that season your build
- 🧠 Reflexes joins the banked-XP meta-upgrade tree (now 7 deep)
👨🍳 The Kitchen Brigade Fights Back
- 🔪 12 new kitchen-brigade enemies — waiters, sous-chefs, dishwashers and worse
- 👯 4 new duo mini-bosses with bespoke tag-team attacks
- 👑 Alternate bosses for Levels 1–5 — your run can now roll a different boss
- 💀 10 Elite affixes — ringed elites with real modifiers
- 🌪️ 6 wave events (Toxic Blob, Beans on Toast…) + 7 new mutators
🛒 Nonna Runs This Town
- 🛍️ Nonna's Cart — the new between-waves shop, with renovation tiers you fund
- 🏠 Nonna's Bottega — a persistent meta-shop off the main menu: a ★ wallet earned by playing, a daily shelf, permanent utensils, and la tavola where you fatten up your meatballs
- 🍷 Spoiled goods at half price — and the Re-Cook Pot to fix them
🎩 Style & Bragging Rights
- 🎩 30 earnable hats — from the Colander to the Golden Crown, each with its own unlock
- 🏅 Achievements: 27 → 51
- 📖 A full Bestiary with lore for every enemy, boss bios, and first-seen/felled cards
- ⚰️ The Hall of Deaths — every way you've been sent back to the pantry, tracked
- 📸 Photo Mode — press P, frame it, share it
🤝 Co-op & Multiplayer
- 🎁 Full loot & power-up parity in co-op — fair, host-arbitrated pickups
- 🗳️ Lobby quality-of-life: votes, kick, ready countdown
- 👻 Spectator camera after you go down
- 🎫 Co-op order tickets
🔊 Feel & Accessibility
- 🔊 Per-weapon-class sound effects + ticket chimes
- ♿ 8 new accessibility options
- 🌍 700+ new strings translated — the whole update is playable in all 8 languages
- ⚡ Massive swarm performance work — hundreds of enemies on screen, buttery smooth
- 🐛 And yes: the Necro-Chef can no longer out-heal your entire build. We measured. 😤
🗺️ The Road to Full Release
MEATBALLS is still in Early Access — but not for much longer. Everything above is us finishing the full, complete game we promised: more balance passes, more polish, and a few more surprises are on the stove before 1.0 lands later this year. If you've been waiting to jump in: the water's boiling. 🍲 Found a bug? Got a request? Come shout at us on the community hub or Discord — half of this update started as player suggestions. Buon appetito! ❤️
This announcement was originally published by Vexa Media on Steam on Aug 26, 2026.
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