Retro FPS Ultrakill (opens in new tab), which got here out in early entry a pair years in the past, now has a characteristic that I can safely say I’ve by no means seen in one other shooter. Its developer launched an “official mod” right this moment which provides help for open supply software program that can be utilized to manage the vibration of Xbox controllers and different units. As its identify makes apparent, the software program, known as buttplug.io (opens in new tab), is principally meant to be used with these different vibrating units.
The Ultrakill mod itself is known as “UKbutt,” and could be downloaded from Github (opens in new tab), the place you will additionally discover transient directions for its set up and use. It appears to be like just like the mod requires some primary software program tinkering information, however nothing too difficult for a motivated participant. As soon as put in, UKbutt can be utilized to set off vibrations within the person’s gadget of selection primarily based on what’s taking place in Ultrakill. The at the moment supported vibration triggers are display screen shake, weapon firing, motion (“dashing, sliding, and so forth”), and menu haptics.
UKbutt was made by buttplug.io lead Kyle “qDot” Machulis and Ultrakill programmer PITR this week after a YouTube creator, Shammy, jokingly requested the feature (opens in new tab) on Twitter. Ultrakill creator Hakita replied to Shammy’s tweet to say that it might be doable with a mod, qDot joined the thread, and now right here we’re: It is actual.
Arguably, Ultrakill has merely gotten a standard videogame characteristic: controller rumble help. Other than the Xbox controller, nonetheless, not one of the units buttplug.io works with are sport controllers I’ve ever heard of. That features the Wearable Butterfly, the Lipstick Bullet, the Yellow Rooster, the Magic Bunny, the Bean Sprout, the Telescopic Prostate Massager, and the Fancy Clamshell.
Ultrakill’s intercourse toy help hasn’t been a completely severe endeavor, but it surely’s one thing we’re certain to see extra of. As Kotaku mentioned in Could (opens in new tab), buttplug.io has been used unofficially with different video games this 12 months, and controlling intercourse toys with video games is hardly a giant conceptual leap from the existence of rumble controllers, which have all the time unofficially been dual-use objects. I feel Steam opening as much as grownup video games a number of years in the past marked the beginning of a brand new period for intercourse and video games: Most massive publishers stay cautious, however there’s so much happening within the indie intercourse sport and now peripheral scene. We’re actually a good distance away from cable information pundits going right into a frenzy as a result of they noticed Mass Impact characters lustily clip by one another’s our bodies.
As for Ultrakill’s relationship with intercourse, it is a shooter about blood-powered robots invading hell in the hunt for extra blood. That is not a premise I personally affiliate with horniness, however David Cronenberg may in all probability get a film out of the thought.
