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Broadcast for the QC Games Celebration 2026.
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Broadcast for the QC Games Celebration 2026.
To kick off the year, we thought it'd be fun to share some of Battle Shapers' concept art through the Steam Collectibles features, which feature trading cards, badges, emoticons, and backgrounds.
We had come up with many different iterations of Ada's suits, various enemies & Overlords, and entire biomes; some were super close to making into the game, while some others.. well, let's just not talk about the centipede with tentacles.
Anyway, this batch of Trading Cards showcases our early environment concepts including the elevator shaft between levels, the Hyperloop Station just outside the Hideout, and an aquaponics station we originally wanted in the Gravity Garden, among others.
Here's a preview of all 10 Trading Cards. You'll be able to access them through the Battle Shapers game page in your Steam Library.
And here's a preview of all 6 badges, with the Omega foil badge featured in the center. The first badge is the Ada badge, followed by Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and finally Omega. This naming reflects Battle Shapers' end game Phantom Code difficulty system.
And because we could only make so many cards, here's a few more miscellaneous concepts to discover:
Check out these beautifully detailed environments we made early on! You'll recognize some of these rooms from the game, whereas others served as references.
We imagined a scenario in which various features in the Towers could be corrupted, including this majestic tree in the Gravity Garden.
We've teased a few of these before, but here's a lineup of fully geared Ada's! We ended up going with a lighter Adamant Suit but a heavier-duty fist.
Does Ada have hair? 🤔
What was originally a single-barrel grenade launcher quickly became the three-barreled wonder you know as the Firestarter. More is more, always.
Shapers, meet the Mad Droner - the Madvatter's distant cousin. He's all buzziness and no play.
Huck was always a shopkeep, but we knew him as M1K3 before Hauly was introduced. M1K3 did not care for shoplifters.
Where do Hauly's shop items go when..? 🤷
We never gave Meemo a coffee shop, but we did make a custom limited blend for our studio! Once you get past the smell of jet fuel, it tastes a bit chocolatey and nutty. Not bad, really.
Our team's back and tirelessly tinkering away, so you'll hear from us again soon.
Happy collecting,
Metric Empire
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Meet Your Maker is a single-player & co-op shooter in which you play as a Custodian and are tasked with raiding other real players' Outposts to steal their precious resources. In doing so, you gather materials to build deathtraps reinforcing your own Outpost. It's a nuanced game with devilish base building and trap-setting, interesting weapon combinations, and satisfying gameplay.
In sync with this partnership, Battle Shapers is on sale for 50% off until December 18th in celebration of our 1-year anniversary! 🥳
A huge thanks to the team at Behaviour Interactive Inc.
Stay cozy,
Metric Empire
In this Resonance Update, we're introducing new features and balances for everything from Overlords, bosses, abilities, weapons, mods, and those pesky Curse debuffs. Our goal with this update is to improve the early game experience for new players, diversify player builds and weapon viability, and make adjustments benefiting the overall experience.
Much of this update stems from community feedback, so a huge thanks for everyone's thoughts and suggestions!
Stacks of Player Curse can quickly become overwhelming, so here are a few ways to remove it, or use it to turn Ada into a glass cannon:
New consumable called the Purge Kit can be used to remove some curse stacks
New version of the Corrupted Vault now appears close to Huck and Hauly where you can purchase the Purge Kit with credits
New override reward floor hack that gives you a Purge Kit
New weapon mod can now appear on corrupted weapons that increase your damage based on the number of curse stacks you have
We've also made adjustments to the Strike Core, Charge Rate Mods, and Steam features:
Increased the damage of the Strike Core’s Overkill ability
Heavy Assault core enhancement now doubles the Overkill ability's damage, but will no longer double the number of charges of Hunter’s Mark
Added New Common and Uncommon Increase Charge Rate mods
Moved the Mod Extractor cipher to the shop in the first floor
Added support for Steam Rich Presence, which now displays players' active tower and access level, or indicate players are in the Daily Challenge mode
Reduced the number of Grunts that spawn at once during Overlord encounters, limited to 3
Changed the number of major enemies that can spawn in Overlord encounters. The adjusted numbers are:
No major enemies in Tower 1, 1 major enemy in Tower 2, and 2 major enemies in Tower 3
Limited the types of major enemies that spawn in Overlord encounters:
Only Grinder, Juggernaut, Arbiter, or Mistmantle enemy types can spawn
This rule does not apply to VerOS
Overlords no longer retaliate during their encounters
Reduced the damage of Volt Colossus’ electric orbs
Reduced the health of Volt Colossus’ Spirit Bomb at Tower 1
Adjusted the Volt Colossus’ Spirit Bomb collision to make it easier to dodge
Reduced the damage of Strike Mantis’ laser attack
Reduced the damage of Wind Magistrate’s air blade attack
Sinister Invulnerability can no longer affect Arbiters
Added i-frames at the end of Volt Nova’s jump
Adjusted the distance at which the Occuli enemy types will retreat under cover
Made the Occuli’s projectile easier to avoid
Reduced the damage of VerOS’ breakout wall attack
Reduced the damage of Juggernaut captains and elites
Increased Bulwark’s size to offer more cover
Reduced cooldown of Crashing Syncwave from 18 to 12 seconds
Reduced Crashing Syncwave damage from 25 to 20
Increased Vibro grenade’s base chain range from 20m to 30m
Increased Sonic Boom’s damage for explosion 2 from 15 to 20 and for explosion 3 from 10 to 20
Reduced from 3 to 2 Vibro stacks each Sonic Boom explosion applies
Reduced the delay between Sonic Boom explosions to increase the chance to hit
Reduced Nanite Swarm damage from 10 to 8
Increased Shockfield damage from 6 to 10, stacks applied from 2 to 3 and duration from 8 to 10
Increased Infernal Stinger projectile per burst count from 6 to 9
Increase mag size of Infernal Stinger from 3 to 4
Reduced Infernal Stinger's charge time from 0.9 to 0.8 seconds
Increased fire rate of Sonic Lance from 1 to 3 and increased projectile speed
Increased Arc Flash rate of fire from 1.25 to 2 and increased projectile speed and lifetime
Increased Accelerator's perfect shot window
Reduced damage bonus from 100% to 75% for corrupted Accelerator
Increased reload time of corrupted Accelerator from 2.3 seconds to 3.5 seconds
Reduced Crescent Blade charge time from 1.8 to 1.1
Reduced corrupted Crescent Blade charge time from 1.8 to 1.4
Reduced Stormcaller’s charge time from 1.75 to 1.3
Reduced Havoc Hammer charge time from 1.25 to 1.1
Reduced Tectonic launcher reload time from 3.3 to 2.8
Increased Banisher's precision hit bonus damage from 25% to 35%
Reduced Vibro Kunai fire rate from 2.5 to 2.25
Reduced Corrupted Pulse rifle Mag size from 30 to 25
Reduced the time required to skip cinematics
Added an option to skip the boss selection and boss intro cinematics
Added a button in the pause menu to restart the daily challenge
Remapped the controller input to recycle gears and modifiers to Left Stick Press
Made the tabs at the top of the player menu screen interactive
Fixed an issue where enemy attacks would not have any curse application delay
Fixed an issue where the cursed variant of the Grinder would only attack with its right arm
Fixed an issue where Volt Nova would only bring you about a meter high
Fixed an issue where major enemies would not spawn during Overlord encounters in Tower 3
Fixed an issue where the damage of the explosions from the perk Obliterate (duo perk from Strike + Volt cores) was not scaling with the number of Hunter's Marks applied to the enemy
Fixed the Accelerator’s Perfect Shot window UI
Thank you for every one of your recommendations & bug reports, and inspiring content ideas.
Aaand that's it for now! See you around, Metric Empire
If you enjoyed our original soundtrack, it would mean a lot to us if you nominated Battle Shapers for Best Soundtrack by clicking in the checkbox above.
You can now also find the Battle Shapers soundtrack on all major streaming platforms.
Cheers! Metric Empire
Early this morning, Unity informed its users of a security vulnerability that affects games built on Unity versions 2017.1 and later. They assured its users that “there is no evidence of any exploitation of the vulnerability nor has there been any impact on users or customers".
They released a patch for it and we have immediately applied it to the game.
You can find their official statement here: https://discussions.unity.com/t/unity-platform-protection-take-immediate-action-to-protect-your-games-and-apps/1688031
Thanks folks!
Metric Empire
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We'll keep making bundles, so let us know if there's someone else we should partner with!
Cheers, Metric Empire
We've got a medium-sized update for you today featuring Guardian Mode, in-game balancing, changelogs, and a few community requests & bug fixes. If you're free this Friday, we've also got another Shapers vs. \ Showdown with prizes to be won.
Let's get into it.
By popular demand, Guardian Mode is a difficulty toggle designed to help players access the true ending of the game after defeating VerOs. This toggle option is located under the Gameplay Tab in the game's options menu. When enabled, players will receive incremental damage reduction starting from regular runs to Phantom Code difficulty levels. The approximate breakdown is as follows:
Baseline: 20% damage reduction
Alpha: 20% damage reduction
Beta: 30% damage reduction
Gamma: 40% damage reduction
Delta: 60% damage reduction
Omega: 60% damage reduction
We've also introduced balances based on player feedback to reduce run duration and enemy health, along with a few others adjustments.
Reduced base health of all enemies by about 10%
Reduced grunt and grunt variants health scaling by 5%
Reduced quantity of grunts and variants spawning during combat encounters from 6 to 3
Increased duration between Strike Mantis' successive dash attacks in tower 3 encounters
Reduced quantity of missiles fired from 4 to 3 when fighting Strike Mantis in tower 2 or 3 encounters
Reduced missile speed by 20% when fighting Strike Mantis in tower 2 or 3 encounters
Reduced travel speed of Wind Magistrate's tornadoes by about 15%
Increased radius of the Volt Aura perk
The Daily Challenge's points scoring will now only reward players for retaining up to the 200 HP maximum. Under this change, players with 400 HP and 200 HP at the end of their run are both rewarded the same 400 points.
Daily Challenge - Capped max health points to the base max
Daily Challenge - Leaderboards now default to Global view
Fixed persisting enemies & enemy effects when Overlord retaliation triggered during combat ending sequence
Fixed Puzzle Switch chest in Robotics Factory that remained locked after completing the switch challenge
Fixed connectivity bug preventing players from launching and playing the game offline
Fixed Robotics Hub trophy not appearing after all ciphers were discovered and decoded
Fixed Golden Ada trophy not appearing after defeating VerOS with all Phantom Code Fragments enabled, despite some players receiving corresponding achievement
Fixed Volt Colossus trophy that always loaded in gold by default
Fixed VFX bug in which the VFX for new trophies persisted after initial interaction
Fixed 'Quad Conquerer' achievement not being awarded when criteria was met
🔗Event Link 📅 Date: May 16 🎁 Battle Shapers Game Key + Goodies 🏆 Custom Discord Role + Bragging Rights In the last showdown on April 25th, \ Devs narrowly defeated the Shaper community with a top score of 1568, with only 12 points over InkAssassn's score! They say third time's the charm and we can feel it in our bones - our reign is nearing its end. As always, whoever holds the #1 position at the end of the day will be rewarded a Battle Shapers Key and sent a Battle Shapers package in the mail. We'll also award you the coveted "Top Daily Runner" role on our community Discord; an exclusive golden speed token fit for royalty.
And that's it for now! See you around, Metric Empire
ALL score marked enemies become exposed during takedowns.
A few players have asked for more predictable scoring when it comes to enemy takedowns. This new change means all score marked enemies (⭐) will go into exposed state when they die, making it both easier and faster to maximize combat scores. By eliminating a layer of luck or chance, this will better reward player awareness and decision-making.
Carpe Diem: Earn a total of 3000 points in Daily Challenges.
What's the point if there isn't something shiny to show for your success, am I right?
While details will always vary between unique Daily Challenges, here's the general advice from our top-scoring \ developers:
Get your health as high as possible for the end of the run. Perks that grant more max HP also grant more points (as long as you don't lose it 😏 )
Take down starred enemies. Marked enemies will enter an exposed state and you will score additional combat points if you manage to kill an enemy with a punch. Be careful not to let your ricocheting bullets or pulsing grenade effects accidentally kill your exposed enemies before you land that punch!
Replay the daily challenge. Having a good synergy within your build is key to getting a high score. Replay the challenge and reroll your choices to see all your options and figure out your best course of action.
Complete optional challenges. Optional challenges give you a lot of points and equipment that could be the deciding factor of a run.
🔗Event Link 📅 Date: April 25 🎁 Battle Shapers Game Key + Stickers 🏆 Custom Discord Role + Bragging Rights Last Friday April 11, our \ Devs triumphed against our Shaper community with a top score of 1492! This glory will be short-lived, however, as our next Showdown is right around the corner. As always, whoever holds the #1 position at the end of the day will be rewarded a Battle Shapers Key and sent a Battle Shapers package in the mail. We'll also award you the coveted "Top Daily Runner" role on our community Discord; an exclusive golden speed token fit for royalty. Alright, that's all for now. Thank you, Forrest at Metric Empire
Hello Shapers! 👋 A new update for Battle Shapers has arrived! Version 1.1 brings a brand new mode for Shapers: the Daily Challenge! Designed to last about 10 minutes, this is a snack-sized feature where you race against fellow players to top the daily leaderboard in this time and point-based challenge. This feature is unlocked by defeating the first boss.
Every day, there will be a new configuration of weapons, abilities, enemies, cores, and more to tinker with as you battle your way through the challenge. You’ll earn bonus points for taking down enemies, defeating the Overlord, keeping your health bar full, and of course, time remaining on the clock. This new mode is perfect for new and experienced Shapers alike. Whether you’re looking for the highest score or to discover dozens of loadout configurations available, the Daily Challenge has something for you.
Don’t forget to join the Community Discord to compete with fellow players, talk strategy, debate which core is the best, and participate in future Daily Challenge contests & livestreams. If you run into any bugs or have feedback on the update or the game, you can do so on our Discord as well! A special shoutout to our Playtesters for v1.1! We had many champions vying to be the best, but these are our top three scorers from our community playtest: 🥇 1495 - @Zentafix 🥈 1428 - @InkAssassn 🥉 1341 - @Auseawesome Now go out and see what scores you can set! If today’s challenge isn’t for you, tomorrow is always a whole new set of toys to tinker with. Thank you again for being a wonderful community and supporting Battle Shapers. 💜 👋 See you in New Elysium, Colin & the team at Metric Empire
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