Brotato is now under new management after Evil Empire recently took over the direction of everyone’s favourite potato-themed auto-shooter.
This change of leadership has, in turn, let the game’s original developer Blobfish off the leash so it can work on new projects. We’ll hear more on that in due course, I’m sure.
At the time of the Brotato X Evil Empire announcement we got a little tiny update to the game with a small injection of content, but a much bigger one just dropped and, in particular, there’s quite a few interesting quality of life changes to tell you about.
A New Dawn Arrives
The new update is called New Dawn, and it has just landed on Steam, with other platforms still to follow.
As mentioned, the new content drop is the first from Evil Empire and it brings with it a whole bunch of interesting new stuff.
It has actually been in beta for a short while now, and I had an early look the other day, and I can confirm that the handover appears to be going rather smoothly so far. Here’s what’s new:
Save this, ban that
For some the highlight will be the new gear. There are six new items, all told, and one new weapon.
What I thought was much more interesting is the new ban system, which works a treat and allows you to remove certain items (not weapons) for the draw pool.
Another nice new feature is the addition of extra save profiles, and there are several other quality of life tweaks, including new icons, animations, and accessibility tweaks. Check the changelog linked above if you want all the details, or watch the overview trailer below.
Finally, this update is available now on PC – which includes the now supported Linux and Mac versions of the game! Console and mobile folks are gonna have to wait a little while longer for the new stuff, but it’s great to see the game branch out onto new platforms.
Right, now I’m going to head to my article about auto-shooters and games like Vampire Survivors, and update the platforms for Brotato!
