Broforce beta gets fixes

Broforce is making some waves internationally, and the South African-developed game has just received some new updates and fixes on its beta.

Players can get involved in the beta by pre-ordering the game for a mere $10 (R100).

Some of the fixes to the game include:

We redoubled our liberation efforts by adding in the speed liberation mode (Explosion Run). In this new mode you can race against your fellow bros, and chuckle as the oil-fueled flames consume them while you rest comfortably on your helicopter ladder ‘seat’.

Coincidentally we discovered oil pipelines in the Vietnamese jungle.

And treacherous jungle sand.

You can now use SpawnPoints in Campaign levels – to make starting points more flexible.

You can force a specific bro in custom campaigns (first one to make a Brominator minigun challenge map gets a free high five).

You can now make your own Explosion Run and Deathmatch maps. We’ll make a better way of loading them than having to go to Custom Campaigns.

Level editor will remember your last position when returning to Edit mode from Play mode.

Fixed incorrect filename display.

Big mooks don’t invisible crouch.

Rambro runs slightly more gallantly when crouching.

Falling blocks are now disturbed by knife climbing (as is treacherous jungle sand).

Trucks no longer grainy film out when they die.

Evan managed to break everything, and then fix mostly everything in the nick of time.

The Free Lives team played a lot of brilliant levels made by the handsome bros on the forum. We laughed, we high-fived, we died in a rain of bullets and landmines.

Free Lives’ Broforce was among the games up for the Greenlight program, which allows the community to decide whether a game should make it to the Steam Store.

Well, the community has spoken and the 2D sidescrolling shooter has got the thumbs up and will make an appearance on Valve’s digital distribution platform.

MyGaming caught up with the SA bros to discuss the “tsunami of bromance” that they’ve had from the community.

Broforce is described as “a ridiculously violent platform game about being awesome action heroes from the 80s and 90s while slaying satanic terrorists and aliens while unravelling an evil plot to destroy the planet while dealing with being awesome action heroes from the 80s and 90s.”

Free Lives has also given gamers the chance to try out the “Brototype” by heading over to the Free Lives website and trying out the in-development build.