The Triple-i Initiative was a good time for rogues such as myself, and the event was full of big announcements, including the news that Vampire Survivors is getting an expansion themed around legendary action series Contra.
Operation Guns tasks you with saving the President’s cousin’s sister’s dog from Red Falcon. Serious business. To that end, you’ll have to blast your way through “thousands of fearsome foes and bonkers bosses from throughout the lauded lineage of Contra games.”
There’s 11 new characters joining the hunt for vampires, 22 new weapons (that’s “between base versions and evolutions”), and what looks like three new biomes inspired by the Contra series – Galuga Jungle, Neo City, and Alien Zone – across one big stage and a bonus.
What’s more, the new content is heading to all existing platforms on May 9th, and Poncle took this opportunity to announce that Vampire Survivors is also heading to PlayStation this summer.
Anyway, back to Contra. Here are the new characters, as first shared over on the Steam page:
- Bill Rizer – a big guy with a big gun, bent on vengeance against an alien menace. Loves: action movies, high-calibre rounds. Hates: Cryogenic coffins, space creatures.
- Lance Bean – known for attacking aggressively, always having hair dye on hand, and having a brain almost as impressive as his muscles, Lance is partially responsible for creating Contra Force’s strange new weapons.
- Ariana – forced to defend her home amongst the jungles of Galuga from the vile traitors of Red Falcon, Ariana is an expert in evasive manoeuvres, turning her Movement Speed into extra Armour.
- Lucia – is she a clone? A cyborg? A tabula-rasa terror tutored by Team Contra to be the perfect warrior? Her past is a mystery, but her deadliness on the battlefield is well known, as is her reputation for rebounding from any supposed defeat even stronger than ever.
- Brad Fang – the bad-butt product of twisted genetics and cutting edge cyber-tech, Brad Fang is half-man, half-wolf, half-robot, and 150% super soldier.
- Browny – designed to be an all-purpose battle bot, a string of strange bugs (or features) in Browny’s programming have caused this diminutive droid to be obsessed with partying. Fortunately, this calamitous coding error does nothing to impede Browny’s prodigious combat prowess.
- Sheena Etranzi – a guerrilla combat genius especially skilled in jungle combat and all manner of experimental weaponry, Sheena is a true survivor and no stranger to prevailing against impossible odds.
- Probotector – a hyper advanced recon robot programmed to protect humans in inimical environments, this RD009 Probotector Model can convert any enhancements to its Armour into more Might for its many modular weapons.
