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Frenetic roguelite meat 'em up action! Rip through alien worlds solo or co-op, harvest mutant body parts to wield their powers, and fulfill your delicious destiny.

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Thanks for playing — Meat Lab 5 is CLOSED!

22 May

Hopefully you got your fill of playtestin' over the past week, because it's time to shut 'er down.

Between PAX East earlier this month and Meat Lab 5 this past week, it's been a bit of a whirlwind! Watching you play the game, screaming the word "MEAT" at you, apologizing for screaming at you... sorry, got distracted. The point is, we've learned a lot about our game and your notes have led to lots of new updates and changes over the past couple weeks.

So... how did we do? What were the best parts of the game? How much did you notice the tweaks we made over the course of the week? Which meat piece did you beeline to every time you saw it drop? (I'm already missing my beloved Spider legs zoomies.)

Thanks again for joining us, both in Boston during PAX East and here during Meat Lab 5. You've given us not only a boatload of invaluable feedback that's helping make the game better, but a reminder that this weird thing we're making is freakin' fun. The playtest may be over... but we're just getting started.

Thank you once again, and stay tuned for more SWAPMEAT news as we work toward launch later this year. Until then, swap on by our Discord server[discord.gg], grill the team, and meat some new friends.

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Way too early...

OK, after 2 minutes of shooting brainless AI, 2 big mobs spawns. One you can kill but respawn 1 min later, the second keep regenerating and increasing its total HP... so it's a pain because after less than 5 minutes of gameplay, you get killed. There is a dash, but it's useless. You have a gun but it's too weak. You have a good power, but the monsters are almost invincible... As of now, this game is nothing but a waste of time. And I could figure this out in less than five minutes. No wonder why the beta...

GiantJoe202

24 May @ 1:46pm

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Meat Lab 5 (Last Chance!) - Patch Notes 2025-05-21.a

21 May

ONE DAY LEFT!

The Meat Lab closes at 5pm PT on Thursday, so get those last runs in and leave your notes over in Discord[discord.gg]. It helps us a lot!

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue where events that do not provide rewards would reduce the Hunter Threat Level
Fixed an issue where Hunters that are incapacitated would respawn and play their banish animation
Fixed a crash caused by exiting to the main menu while playing the launch sequence cinematic
Fixed the wrong animation playing for Ninja Torso’s Mandible Ripper (Katana) swipe
Fixed broken animation playing on Meat Zord Torso’s Mandible Ripper (Katana) swipe
Fixed a bug where you would receive no items on level-up (usually after level 10) if your build didn’t use many elements.
Fixed potential cause of the screen turning completely black with UI elements displayed on top
Fixed being unable to navigate to the 3rd tab of items in the item registry
Fixed a bug that would allow the harvester core to be destroyed before the event event started
Updated the text scroll for start and end of each solar system with grammar fixes and updated proper nouns for places, people, and things in SWAPMEAT
Fixed training dummies being able to die. Thanks for the report, Delirium!

Gameplay

Added “drunken” rocket squirrelly-ness to the Rocket Swarm rockets, and slightly decreased spread for easier aiming.
Increased rocket damage radius on Rocket Swarm Ability by 50%
LIV-Mas Tier 2 (green color) now has an additional laser sweep attack
Increased radius of Gravity Well 4m → 8m
Renamed Mutant Meridian to Ol'Tangus system
Renamed Extraterrestrial Expanse to Dangerous Night system
Renamed Automated Abyss to Silicon Graveyard system
Renamed Protein Paradise to Meat Heim system

Balance

In an earlier update we changed Event XP to not be reduced by player count and added an XP reduction on enemy kills as the number of enemies scales with players but the number events do not. To compensate for this, we have increased the XP requirement for each level by 12%. With these changes, solo players and larger squads should now be roughly the same level when they reach the final planet of a solar system – around lvl 30 if you complete most of the secondary objectives on all three stages
Increased by 50% the number of “scout” enemies that spawn over time and follow you

Health bars in the event status display should stay around for important event objects, even if the object reaches zero hit points. Hopefully this makes overall status more clear during events like the Payload escort and Harvester extraction
Updated Mutation / Hit Effect / Buff icons to ensure the applied buffs match the source from which they are applied

Animation

Added animation to Rocket Swarm Ability

Audio

Added SFX to Rocket Swarm Ability
Adjusted mix level on Rocket Bot’s missile attack to help it punch through a little more and warn the player

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Meat Lab 5 - Patch Notes 2025-05-20.a

20 May

Ahoy there -- new patch notes incoming! There are only a couple days left in Meat Lab 5, so keep the feedback coming over in our Discord server[discord.gg].

Bug Fixes

Invulnerable enemies wont be targeted by Aim Assist (on controller) or player-deployed turrets anymore
Typo in the game’s opening text crawl has been fixed: ~~Sausage Spiral~~ Frankenstar System
Fixed certain projectiles and lasers from shooting in the wrong direction after leveling up
The Payload event now displays a marker on the control panel used to start the payload moving
Thruster VFX on non-host bolt burgers will now show up in the mission start sequence when they fly out from the ship.
Fixed missing audio when Ringo is incapacitated and teleports
Fixed in world markers not going away after defeating the alien snipers in the sniper nests event. Thanks for the report @inaudible!
Fixed not being able to fire after reloading when mashing the fire button. Thanks for the report @harmeson!
Fixed the hunters not being able to access an area of the map on Tibbler’s Run. Thanks for the report @tangent4033!
Fixed an issue where currency icons were invisible upon completing an objective

Gameplay

Hunter Updates

Hunter Threat System (Arrival & Delay)

We’re going to continue making adjustments to the Hunter Threat system and their arrival & delay timing throughout this test. Our goal is to keep the player moving and encourage objective completions – last update included a change which paid down the Threat Meter when completing secondary objectives. This update we’re increasing the time allotment of the initial delay so the player – especially on the first planet – is able to orient themselves and get going. Additional delay will primarily be provided by objective completion throughout this iteration.

Removed Hunter Primary Objective Delay time from Hunter Protection 1.1
Increased base Hunter Delay Time on Hunter Protection 1.1 180s -> 240s
Changed Starr’s behaviors so that he goes away like Ringo, instead of healing slowly
Both Hunters are gone/incapacitated for 60 seconds after their health hits zero

This is a developing system and we’re eager to hear your feedback. We’ve pushed one or more adjustments a day to this system and it’s tuning throughout this test because of your feedback. Please keep it coming, it is immensely helpful!

Managing Hunters

If the player’s Hunter Threat Meter reaches “WET PANTS NOW” and the Hunters spawn, we’ve given the player a handful of ways to manage their presence.

If you deplete Ringo or Starr’s health pool they will be incapacitated, disappearing into the ground, and respawn after 60s
While your Threat Meter is at “WET PANTS NOW” the Hunters will gain a stack of “Meatlust” every 30 seconds until they are banished
- Meatlust: +30% Move Speed, +30% Attack Speed, +6% Hunter Health
Completing an objective will lower your threat level and cause the Hunters to be banished back to the Meathedral

Fixed several issues with scrolling in Join Game list

Art

Enraged vfx added while Hunters are in their enraged state
Cosmetic updates to the Hunter Threat Meater.

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i love what ive seen cant wait to play.

just joined the play test but wanted to say that i like what ive seen and im super juiced to check it out.

jiggilowjow

24 May @ 11:08am

General Discussions

bug in mission 1 of the second world

In the mission where you must rescue the researchers there is one that does not leave the capsule and remains bugged

Sebattack

22 May @ 7:41pm

General Discussions

How do I swing my sword?

Hey Gang, I have an Xbox Controller and I have no clue how to swing my sword unless it automatically targets the nearest thing in front of me?

Lord Gek

15 May @ 1:39pm

General Discussions

Steam Deck

Just joined the playtest and I'm wondering if the game plays on the deck or not? I'm downloading right now so I figured I'd ask. Hopefully it it doesn't support deck now it will soon.

ScubaSteve

22 May @ 7:33pm

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