General

• Monsters drop loot upon elimination, most commonly Ammunition or Sideways Monster Parts.
• Rarer and tougher Monsters also have the chance of dropping Weapons and Consumables.
• Players gain points from opening Chests and Ammo Boxes, eliminating Monsters, destroying Spawn Obelisks, and collecting Score Multiplier Crystals for the team.
• Players also have an individual score multiplier for points gained by eliminating Monsters in a certain period of time, stacking up to a 4x multiplier (KO Streak).
• Eliminating Monsters at this point simply refreshes the timer.
• These points do not grant any benefit to the player, other than showing on a leaderboard below the minimap, and at the end of the game.
• If eliminated at any point, players will enter Spectator Mode until the next round begins, when they respawn with their inventory intact.
• If all players are eliminated during a round, the game ends, leading to a Defeat.

Gameplay

Prepare for Battle (2m 30s)

• The Battle Bus goes over a small area in the middle of the Storm.
• They must land and gather loot by searching Chests and Ammo Boxes.
• Players have 150 seconds to loot the area, and prepare for an attack as the Storm closes in.

Survive! (3m)

• Sideways Monster Fiends, Ranged Fiends and Brutes will spawn from Obelisks.
• Players complete the round by surviving for three minutes.
• Score Multipliers occasionally spawn within the zone, interacting with which causes the team's score multiplier to increase.
  • Upon claiming one, all nearby Monsters will despawn as well.
• When the round is complete, all Monsters, Spawners and unclaimed Score Multipliers will despawn. Players who have died during any wave will also respawn above once it ends.
• During Round 2, a Boss has a chance to appear. Being either Cube Assassin, Revenant Kado Thorne, Cerberus, or Ultima Carver.

Follow the Storm (3m)

• When the Storm finishes shrinking, players must follow it to a new location, fighting randomly spawned monsters along the way.
• Loot quality is increased, as is Sideways Monster diversity - Poison Fiends, Ice Fiends, and Exploding Brutes are now added to the mix, as well as all Monsters and Obelisks spawning more often moving forward.
• At the end of the round, either Rumi, Mira, or Zoey have a chance to appear as free hireable Characters that will fight with their respective Pickaxes.

Round Modifiers

• During rounds in Demon Rush, a round modifier may be imposed that alters the conditions of the gameplay:
  • Ranged Attackers! - Only Demons that attack with projectiles will spawn.
  • Small Problem! - Only Small Fiends will spawn during the round.
  • Speed Walk! - Sprinting is disabled, but everyone's walk speed is increased.
  • Nothing Can Stop Us Now! - Players gain a pseudo-Nitro effect: they will damage and knock back enemies they collide into with the addition of a Slap effect but do not damage any structures.
  • For the Fans! - Players and enemies gain a surge of speed periodically.
  • Building Not Permitted! - Building is disabled for the duration of the round.
  • Light Headed! - Players have low gravity, increased sprint stamina use and reduced movement speed.
  • Gold Rush! - Eliminating enemies grants the Gold Rush effect.
  • Up Close and Personal! - Players do increased melee damage, but decreased ranged damage.
  • Impactful Headshots! Enemies have more health, but headshots deal more damage!
  • Dance Party! - Players and enemies randomly start dancing!
  • Feeling Ice! - Ranged Fiends will only be ice. (No normal Ranged Fiends will spawn this round.)
  • Hyper Mode! - Enemies move faster, hit harder, but are defeated easier.

Boss Battles

Caretaker (Round 3)

• Monsters spawn again from Obelisks, along with the Caretaker Boss.
• Players complete the round by eliminating the Boss.
• Storm damage is increased to 5 HP per tick, and closes in fully in 3 minutes.

The Final Peel (Round 5)

• Monsters spawn again from Obelisks, along with The Final Peel Final Boss.
• Players complete the round (and clear the gamemode) by eliminating the Boss.
• The Storm will not close, but its damage per tick is massively increased.

Score Attack

• In Demon Rush, defeating The Final Peel in Round 5 will initiate an endless score-attack mode where players fight increasingly powerful hordes of enemies until every player is eliminated.
• The Storm will close slowly during Endless, and the damage per tick can rise as high as 65 DPS by Round 15.
• Bosses will appear as the rounds progress, with the same selection as Round 2 along with the chance of The Final Peel.