Attention Robocrafters,

The time has come to enlist in the Vanguard Testing program. We need pilots to sit in the 'seat of progress' and play early content and features in Robocraft 2 during the early stages of development.



Much like how your buttocks can shape the leathery mould of this seat over time, so too can your involvement in the Vanguard Testing Program shape the development of Robocraft 2.

Apply now

We will contact successful applicants when the game is ready to be tested by players.

Good luck!

Whilst a number of the team are working towards the first playable version of the rebuild, our artists have been continuing their efforts in recreating OG Robocraft blocks to bring them to 2024 standards! Check out the T1 and T2 lasers below:

Check out the T1 and T2 wheels coming to Robocraft Rebuild.

When the Early Access version of Robocraft 2 launched on Steam we received thousands of reviews, reactions and comments from fans of Robocraft. Whilst some players liked the new direction we had taken the game in, many many more expected and wanted something much closer to a modern version of the original game.

We took some time. We did some soul-searching. We reread every single review, word by word, considering again all the feedback we had received about the game from all of our social channels. We also looked at the stats. After all of that, we made the very tough decision to rebuild the game, from the ground up, to be much closer to a modern version of the original game. This time though, we want to build the foundations that can support a bigger game (in time) with lots of varied gameplay options, particularly introducing engaging and varied solo and co-op online PVE on top of the team PVP elements.

Robocraft 2.1 Features
We wanted to give some more information on what features will be present in Robocraft 2.1:

[h2]Building Systems[/h2]

• The core building system will stay true to OG but with modern graphics, animation, sound effects and polish - a key aim will be to make the building feel polished and satisfying.
  
• We will have Tiered blocks back and each tier will look visually different so we wont be forced to colour them to indicate tier, instead allowing users to be able to use the colours they wish for cosmetic purposes.
  
• Colour mode will let you choose from a full RBG spectrum (16 million colours) and will utilize the 6-colour palette system we created for Robocraft 2, though we will upgrade this to allow players to create their own custom palettes where they can apply as they wish.
  
• Functional blocks like Wheels and Weapons will utilize the familiar systems from OG where internal wiring is automated for rapid building and iteration.
  
• Well be making sure that where you position the parts and how you stack them will affect the performance characteristics of your robocraft, so although building new robocraft and iterating will be fairly quick the choices you make will always make a difference (e.g. old-wings not new-wings).
  
• All staple QoL features will exist such as Mirror mode, Undo, Redo, Shifting, CoM indicator, etc.
  
• There will be a unified CPU limit (no separate Weapon CPU) and a cosmetic CPU limit for cosmetics.
  
• Robot Rank and Tiers will return, with the familiar Tier meter coming back in the HUD.
  
• All HUD UI will feel familiar to the original games but will be polished to meet modern graphical quality standards and expected layouts.
  
• The Build Bay will be rebuilt with beautiful graphics and we will make the consoles and screens that appear within the bay functional and interactive.
  
• Overall, our building systems will aim to engage players in the Build Drive Fight loop, with new players able to build their own working robocraft and get into online gameplay within a relatively short period of time and for them to learn quickly and intuitively how to iterate and evolve their designs through each cycle of the loop.
  
• There will be a back door in the build bay, which will be closed, but one day we hope to open it up and let you walk around as Cray out into a new larger mothership (called The Vanguard) and meet other players akin to a character hub.
  
• Not everything will be the same as OG. Some things worked really well in OG and some other things could have been better so we will always aim to improve those areas that can be improved upon.
  

• We want to ensure that transitions into and out of Test Mode are as near instantaneous and smooth as possible to support a fast and satisfying iteration loop when testing robocraft designs.
  
• We want to focus on short queue times and short loading into online gameplay, keeping you connected to servers you have chosen to play on, so after a round of gameplay or an iteration of your robocraft you can hop back in quickly with minimal loading or waiting.
  
• We hope that all this can help to make the Build Drive Fight iteration loop fun, satisfying and engaging.
  

• We will use the Robocraft 2 server technology as a base, but by moving to the OG building system we can simulate your (less physically complex) robocraft both on your client and the server. This allows us to give you low latency responsiveness for driving and aiming regardless of your ping to the server. Simulating both on the client (your robocraft) and server (everything) will allow the server to remain authoritative on the overall game state ensuring it is extremely difficult to hack and helping with fairness in PVP gameplay.
  
• The OG building system allows us to get more out of our new Robocraft 2 server tech which can allow us to have more units in battle (e.g. for larger teams in Elimination). The OG building system should be more friendly on the client FPS side too (better FPS for you all).
  
• One of the most exciting things we can look to exploit for the first time properly in a Robocraft game is AI on the servers. We can use this to help onboard players in PVP as they progress through the lower Tiers (with higher Tiers featuring more experienced human players).
  
• Probably the most exciting element is the way we can use AI to introduce solo PVE and co-op PVE gameplay to Robocraft for the first time.
  

• We would like to introduce a World Map [bringing to life for the first time an interactive version of the large screen that always existed in the OG Build Bay]. This world map will allow you to choose which planet to play on and where on the planet to deploy to and these choices will determine what type of gameplay you will get.
  
• Some locations on the World Map can be unlocked as players progress helping to onboard new players and provide other layers of progression.
  
• PVP game modes will of course exist, also accessed via the World Map. Game modes like Elimination (with OG team sizes), Battle Arena, Deathmatch, The Pit, and new modes can all potentially exist.
  
• To focus players on specific modes and planets to ensure both shorter queue times and improved matchmaking in all PVP game modes we can hold events on specific planet locations at specific times for greater rewards.
  
• Tiered locations on the planets can provide a range of PVE mission types to overcome, with tough enemies with unique AI behaviours.
  
• When you are out in the PVE parts of the world you will encounter other players who are also doing missions and fighting PVE in those same spaces so it can feel a bit like an MMO.
  
• Some locations can offer difficult Party-only PVE missions which only top-level players working effectively together may be able to overcome.
  
• This PVE gameplay also allows us to explore adding lore and story into the game.
  
• The use of AI can potentially provide new ways for Boss Fights and Megabots to make a return in some way, both as enemy combatants and in gameplay where you can play in those larger forms.
  

• We would add layers of progression systems, some of which are more focused on the PVE side of the game (where some PVE-focused progression bonuses are removed for some PVP modes to ensure fair matches).
  
• The Build Bay will start smaller than in OG and users will be able to upgrade it to make it larger by playing the game.
  
• The CPU limit will also be able to be upgraded.
  
• The Tech Tree will be re-introduced akin to OG to unlock the blue-print to craft parts in the Block Forge. Players will earn XP, level up and acquire TP to progress on the Tech Tree.
  
• Resources (such as Robits) gathered from PVE and PVP gameplay can be used to craft individual blocks with higher Tiers offering greater resources and higher-tiered parts having a greater resource requirement to forge.
  
• We plan to look at adding more progression elements to allow players to become more powerful beyond T10 in PVE gameplay, possibly being required to attempt the toughest Party-only missions.
  

Earlier this week, we announced that we would be rebuilding Robocraft 2 from the ground up with modern graphics and technology, with a building system familiar to players of Robocraft from 2014 - 2015.

Weve been working on an experimental prototype where were just exploring ways of making placing and deleting blocks feel fluid and satisfying with animation and sound.



This is not an early version of the rebuild or anything like that, it is a simple internal prototype exploring how to make placing and deleting blocks feel satisfying that we thought wed share with you so you could try it:

BlockAnimPrototype Download

Hello Robocrafters,

As promised, here is some more information on the image of the Tier 1 cube we posted on socials earlier this week:



Given the feedback we have received from so many fans of Robocraft and the response the current version Robocraft 2 has received on its initial early access launch, we have decided to rebuild Robocraft 2 from the ground up to be much closer to OG (from the 2014-2015 era) with modern graphics and technology and with a greater variety of PVE and PVP gameplay for players to choose from which we will add over time.

We have put together this FAQ which will answer some of the questions players will have and we will monitor spaces where robocraft is being discussed and will add to the FAQ over time.

ROBOCRAFT 2 REBUILD FAQ

Hello Robocrafters!

We have just updated Robocraft to implement a number of suggestions that have been made by a community from the Robocraft Balance Patches Discord. These suggestions were discussed in detail within that discord and if youd like to join the discussions, you can join it here:

https://discord.gg/qDRmyB3


Additionally, Robocraft 2 is now available via Steam Early Access and you can download it here:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1991140/Robocraft_2/

Community Balance Patch Notes Below:

Hello Robocrafters!

The servers are now back up and running. Thank you for being patient as we adressed the issues!

Original post
Hello Robocrafters!

We were made aware of server issues for Robocraft and are currently investigating the issues now and hope to resolve them soon.

Thank you for your patience, Stay tuned for further updates and information.

Hello Robocrafters!

Cray, the unstoppable robot warrior and Mars ultimate Protonium hunter is an unstoppable SCU that has been a part of the Robocraft universe since 2015! Now, due to an assembly error, Crays thick robotic outer shell was accidentally replaced with a cuddly exterior and the manufacturing size was set to Cuddly



Act now to claim your limited edition Cray Plush! Because once our engineers fix the assembly error in the next two weeks you will not have a chance to procure one of these ultra rare Crays!

Visit this page now: https://www.makeship.com/products/cray-plush


Here are some pre-approved scenarios where your cuddly cray can be used

• Snuggle buddy
  
• Dog chew toy
  
• Ambient decoration
  
• Theatre productions
  
• Your plus one for social events
  
• Car pooling
  
• Paperweight
  
• Taunting those who do not have their own Cray plush
  
• Door stop
  
• Ally in any upcoming battles*
  
• Family portraits
  

Hello Robocrafters!

An update to Robocraft has launched which brings back a couple of cosmetic items that were previously part of the first season of Robo Pass. Were also giving away 7 days of premium and have some other exciting news to share!

Firework Vapour trail
Imagine this: you're in the heart of the action, and with just a click, you're zooming up and down the map at breakneck speed, leaving behind an awe-inspiring trail of fireworks that light up the battlefield like the Fourth of July! This cosmetic vapour trail is now available in the item shop!



Firework T5 Seeker
This T5 seeker cosmetic shoots out a beautiful trail before erupting into an epic colourful explosion! Your enemies might even thank you for making their last moments an extraordinary spectacle of light!



These items have been added to the item shop rotation right now!

Weve also got a code for 7 days premium which you can redeem using the code below:

ROBOCRAYMIUM

A character from Robocraft is going to be making their debut appearance as a plush! Cray, Mars ultimate protonium hunter is available to purchase from Makeship for the next 30 days.



Visit this link to purchase your very own cuddly Cray. https://www.makeship.com/products/cray-plush

Additionally, Robocraft 2 launches its Demo on Steam later today so make sure to add it to your wishlist so that you can be reminded when the game is available to download!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1991140/Robocraft_2/

Hello Robocrafters!

We're currently working on Robocraft 2 and wanted to provide you all with a short update on a few things. Firstly, we're planning to invite thousands of playtesters to try out the game in a playtest that will be live throughout the entirety of this weekend.

These invites are sent out randomly by Steam, but you will receive an email if you are successful.

You can register for the playtest from the Steam page:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1991140/Robocraft_2/

Invites will start going out on Friday and throughout the weekend.

The servers will be active from 16:00 UTC on Friday 25th of August to 12:00 UTC Monday 28th of August

Additionally, we wanted to share the latest Robo Herald for Robocraft 2:



Here are a few short gifs recorded over the last few weeks for Robocraft 2

We have just updated Robocraft to implement a number of suggestions that have been made by a community from the Robocraft Balance Patches Discord. These suggestions were discussed in detail within that discord and if youd like to join the discussions, you can join it here:

https://discord.gg/qDRmyB3















Robocraft Twitter
Robocraft Facebook Page

[h2]Add Robocraft 2 to your wishlist[/h2]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1991140/Robocraft_2/

Hello Robocrafters!

We will be entering maintenance on 12/07 at 09:00 UTC to deploy the latest community balance patch. This is expected to last up to 2 hours. We'll share details on the changes in a post tomorrow.

Robocraft Twitter
Robocraft Facebook Page

Add Robocraft 2 to your wishlist
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1991140/Robocraft_2/

We have just updated Robocraft to implement a number of suggestions that have been made by a community from the Robocraft Balance Patches Discord. These suggestions were discussed in detail within that discord and if youd like to join the discussions, you can join it here:

https://discord.gg/qDRmyB3

Hello Robocrafters,

Robocraft will be entering maintenance on 10/05 at 10:00 AM UTC to address ongoing issues with the CRF and to apply the latest community balance patch. this is expected to last up to 2 hours

Hello Robocrafters!

Ten years ago, on March 7th 2013, Robocrafts first-ever playable build launched! It was a huge milestone as Freejams first-ever game! We are humbled that there have been over 16 million players during that time that have built robots, driven them into battle and fought against other players online. Thank you, from everyone at Freejam.



The art above was created by Sonia, one of our artists at Freejam!

To celebrate we have a code which will provide you with 10 days of premium and 500 cosmetic credits.
How to use the code

• Open up Robocraft
  
• Press escape while in the main men
  
• Select Enter code
  
• Enter the following code:

Hello Robocrafters,

Over the last few months weve been working on a sequel to Robocraft. You can add it to your wishlist via the link below:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1991140/Robocraft_2/

Check out this trailer which was created from some very early online closed alpha battle tests with the community.

[previewyoutube=pYPAdXWFZ4o;full][/previewyoutube]

Build, Drive, Fight will continue to be our mantra for Robocraft 2. Youll construct robots out of blocks, bring them into battle and then fight online against other players. Youll earn Robits for each battle which can be spent in-game.

We will be introducing a number of changes like getting out of your robot, the ability to stretch and scale blocks, and changing robots mid-battle. We also have plans to provide new and interesting ways to build your robots ranging from physics-based joints like axles, hinges, servos and pistons. But youll also be able to create tank tracks using a modular system. We have an example of it working in this concept video:

[previewyoutube=3VtTSwAe7BA;full][/previewyoutube]

Below is the core list of features in Robocraft 2 that were not in the original Robocraft

• Block-by-block destruction - Deal damage to the blocks of each robot to destroy their connections! Robots break block by block and this affects the structural integrity of a machine and ultimately its performance in battle.
  
• Switch robots mid-game - If your tactic in battle is not working, head to your switch plate and select a new robot.
  
• Get out of the robot - Leave the robot and hop into a teammate's spare seat. Control multi-manned machines and in the future, larger Mega-bot-like creations which could be found on the map!
  
• On-foot combat - While out of the robot you are equipped with the Quantum Machine gun, great to use against other pilots
  
• Server-side physics - Every smash, collision and projectile is handled server-side. Machines can even lift and push each other. Weight really matters! Accelerate a heavy robot into a light robot and itll tear it apart in a satisfying explosion of blocks!
  
• Stretch and scale - Blocks can be stretched into various shapes across the grid to create unique shapes for your robot.
  
• Material painting - Paint each block with a different material which affects weight, strength, friction and bounciness.
  
• A huge selection of new shapes not seen in Robocraft before - Including plates, pipes, cones, and posts which offer unrivalled robot design and functionality.
  
• New joint parts like axles, servos, pistons and hinges - Create interesting mechanical designs like robots that crush other players with deadly pincers, or a machine that is capable of launching itself into the air to quickly travel across a map.
  
• Robust logic and sensor blocks - Use a variety of logic chips to create a plethora of engineering functions which can create very unique robot mechanisms.
  
• Wiring system - Wire up the pilot seat to control various parts of your machine. Combine logic and sensor blocks for complex robot functions. Auto-wiring makes the building accessible for all!
  
• Tweakable stats - Each part of your robot can be tweaked, including max/min angle and extension. You can even tweak the fire delay of your weapons to change weapon fire rates from a single shotgun-style blast from all guns to a coordinated sequence of guns for a constant fire rate.
  

Update 19.01.2023

We are now out of maintenance. Thank you for your patience

Original post:

Hello Robocrafters,

Robocraft will be entering maintenance today (19/01) at 14:00 UTC for essential server maintenance. This is expected to last up to 2 hours

We have just updated Robocraft to implement a number of suggestions that have been made by a community from the Robocraft Balance Patches Discord. These suggestions were discussed in detail within that discord and if youd like to join the discussions, you can join it here:

https://discord.gg/qDRmyB3

Robocraft will be entering maintenance on Tuesday 20/12/2022 at 10am UTC to deploy the latest community balance patch and perform server maintenance. This is expected to last up to 2 hours.

UPDATE 05.10.2022
We have released a hotfix with the following changes:



[h2]ORIGINAL POST:[/h2]
We have just updated Robocraft to implement a number of suggestions that have been made by a community from the Robocraft Balance Patches Discord. These suggestions were discussed in detail within that discord and if youd like to join the discussions, you can join it here:

https://discord.gg/qDRmyB3









Build, Drive, Fight!

Hello Robocrafters,

Robocraft will be entering maintenance on 04/10 at 11am BST for server maintenance and to deploy the latest community balance patch. This is expected to last up to 2 hours.

We have just updated Robocraft to implement a number of suggestions that have been made by a community from the Robocraft Balance Patches Discord. These suggestions were discussed in detail within that discord and if youd like to join the discussions, you can join it here: https://discord.gg/qDRmyB3

]We have just updated Robocraft to implement a number of suggestions that have been made by a community from the Robocraft Balance Patches Discord. These suggestions were discussed in detail within that discord and if youd like to join the discussions, you can join it here: https://discord.gg/qDRmyB3

Robocraft will enter maintenance tomorrow on the 13th of July 2022 at about 10:00AM BST. It will last approximately up to two hours. This will implement a community balance patch and well share more details tomorrow via a separate announcement which will detail the specific changes made in this update. Stay tuned!

In other news we recently shared some footage of PVP combat for our upcoming free-to-play title, Techblox. Check it out below:



If you'd like to support that game's development, do add it to your wishlist via the link below. We are nearly at 20,000 wishlists and would like to thank everyone who has shown their support so far.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1991140/Techblox/

Hello Robocrafters!

We wanted to let you know that the Steam Page for Techblox is now live! This is a game that we have been developing for a little over a year and we believe that a lot of Robocraft players will be interested in it.



Like Robocraft, it will be free to play, so please add it to your wishlist to be notified when it will be available to download:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1991140/Techblox/

Techblox is a new free to play vehicle and machine build-em-up where players can build powerful weaponized creations and compete against others online in PVP vehicular combat. There are also other game modes like racing and special events like football so there will be an assortment of different reasons to build, be it for combat, racing or even art!

Check out the latest trailer below:

[previewyoutube=QusRYK18n5Q;full][/previewyoutube]

Building in Techblox will feel pretty familiar to Robocrafters as players construct their machine within a garage bay. All of the machines are built from blocks.



The main differences in building with Techblox are joints, logic and the wiring. This allows creators to construct a machine with custom logic to create something truly unique. Perhaps they will want to create a machine that flips other creations, a giant hammer that swings down to deal damage or even rotating platforms. These parts offer an insane level of customisation and we are adding more parts throughout development.

When playing in a PVP combat game mode, damage and destruction is caused not only by weapons, but by collisions of any sort. If you drive into a truck at 200 miles per hour, your machine is definitely going to feel it and parts of it will satisfyingly fly off!



If your machine is damaged too much, it may begin to affect its performance. Wheels will fall off, engine components will no longer be attached, entire logic systems will lose their wiring! You must protect the integrity of your own machine, while trying to destroy your opponents.



Techblox will also be our first ever game to utilise server side physics. This means collisions with other machines should feel truly accurate and reduces any odd client to client physics issues when playing online. It will also allow us to develop new types of weapons and gameplay modes that are only possible with server side physics.

One of the other core features of Techblox is the ability to leave your machine. This means that players can create some really interesting machines that can be operated by multiple people at once. One player will be in full control of the steering, whilst another will man a turret and fire at opponents! We are looking to have up to 60 players on a single server with further optimisations.



We have a lot of plans for the future of Techblox and we hope that youll join us. Visit the Steam page and add it to your wishlist and youll be notified when the game is available to download.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1991140/Techblox/

Twitter
Discord

Hello Robocrafters,

We have just updated Robocraft to implement a number of suggestions that have been made by a community from the Robocraft Balance Patches Discord. These suggestions were discussed in detail within that discord and if youd like to join the discussions, you can join it here: https://discord.gg/qDRmyB3











Build, Drive, Fight!

Hello Robocrafters!

Robocraft will be entering maintenance at 11:00 AM UTC+1 on 04.05.2022 to deploy a new balance patch. This is expected to last up to 2 hours.

We have just updated Robocraft to implement a number of suggestions that have been made by a community from the Robocraft Balance Patches Discord. These suggestions were discussed in detail within that discord and if youd like to join the discussions, you can join it here: https://discord.gg/qDRmyB3

















Build, Drive, Fight

Hello Robocrafters!

Robocraft will be entering maintenance at 15:00 UTC on 27.01.2022 to deploy a new balance patch. This is expected to last up to 2 hours.

Stay tuned for more info including patch notes. Thank you for your patience.

Hello Robocrafters,

We have made some changes server side to resolve an issue where players were unable to connect to our servers. We expect that some players will be able to play right now, whilst others may need to wait just a little while longer as the servers will take some time to update.

We expect that all players will be able to play by 19:00 GMT tonight.

Thank you for your patience as we resolve these issues.

Hello everyone,

We are aware that the Robocraft servers have been down, leaving players unable to log on. We are working hard to address these issues. We will share more information when it becomes available. Thank you for your patience.

Update 25.11.2021
The values on the plasma and rail fire rates in the last balance patch were incorrect, we will be entering maintenance tomorrow morning at 10:30 AM UTC to address this.

Original post:
We have just updated Robocraft to implement a number of suggestions that have been made by a community from the Robocraft Balance Patches Discord. These suggestions were discussed in detail within that discord and if youd like to join the discussions, you can join it here: https://discord.gg/qDRmyB3

Changes have been made to Chassis, Weapons and modules. The full details can be found below:



















In addition to the balance changes, Robocraft Premium For Life is now 50% Off.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/570960/Robocraft__Premium_for_Life_Pack/

Build, Drive, Fight
The Robocraft Team

Hello Robocrafters!

As you may have noticed, custom avatars were removed and players have been unable to upload replacement avatars. This is definitely not intentional and was caused by an issue with our CDN provider. We have been attempting to retrieve these avatars, however weve been informed that they have been deleted and it is unlikely that they can be recovered.

We understand that this is frustrating for players and we have taken some steps to ensure that this does not happen again. We have addressed the issue and players are now able to upload their own custom avatars.

However, we understand that there have been players who purchased a period of premium specifically to change their custom avatar. To those players affected we are providing a special code that can be during the next six months which will let you redeem seven days of premium so you have the time to re-upload your avatar. Please redeem the code below to activate your seven days of Premium

7DAYSPREMIUM

Steps on redeeming the Code

• Open the pause menu with ESC
  
• Click on the ENTER CODE button
  
• Type the code 7DAYSPREMIUM and click CONFIRM
  

Hello Robocrafters,

Robocraft is entering maintenance today. This will start at 11:00 BST. We forsee it to last no longer than one hour but will update you all if it should take longer than this.

Stay tuned for further news

Thank you for your patience
Robocraft Team

We have restored the Robocraft servers!

It has been a tough week, weve been doing our best to restore all of the backup data for 13,230,547 accounts. All data has been restored up to March 9th 2021 00:01 UTC.

This includes Robots, currency, garages, avatars, experience etc.

Whilst we shared that the cause of this outage was a serious issue with the servers provided by OVHcloud. We never explained exactly what had happened. Many players did their own digging and found that this was the result of a fire in OVHclouds data centre in Strasbourg. Here is an image of the data centre taken by Xavier Gareau (@Xgarreau)



This affected dozens of other titles that were using OVHcloud and millions of websites. Thankfully no one was injured in the fire. In response we have opened new servers for Robocraft and they are NOW LIVE! You can log in right now and play the game.

Those who do log in to Robocraft between now and the 22nd of April 2021 will be able to use a code to redeem the following items

• 10 days of Premium
  
• 500 Cosmetic Credits
  

Hello Robocrafters,

Please read the annoucnement below regarding the current Robocraft server outage.



Text version

Hello Robocrafters,

The team is making great progress on bringing the servers for Robocraft back up and running. Internally, we are now able to log into our accounts in game and are able to see all of our robots, currency, friends etc. We can also load into single player and multiplayer games.

Were still in the process of internally testing the servers and working through issues as they arise, but once we have more news we will update you as soon as it becomes available. Thanks for your patience.

Freejam Games

Hi everyone.

We have the database up and running with the data from the back up. Today, our awesome server engineer will be reconnecting our Freejam dashboard. This means that internally we'll be able to see and query user accounts.

This will be a great step forward in proving things are on the way to normality and the return of the Robocraft servers, which we are still expecting to return next week.

Thank you for all of your patience during this time. We will try to update you tomorrow if there has been any further developments.

Freejam Games

Hi Robocrafters,

We wanted to update you daily on our progress on bringing the servers back online. Please read the information below:



Text version:

Hello Robocrafters,

After an issue with our data server (provided by OVH), the team is still looking to restore the backup data for Robocraft, but we wanted to provide you with an update on our progress.

We have setup a new database server at a new data centre and it is now slowly being re-populated with the data from our backup. We have several other servers to set up too and were hoping to restore playability during next week.

Once again, thank you for your patience. Well continue to update you with more information as it becomes available

Freejam Games

Hello everyone,

Important update on the current server issues we are experiencing. Please read:



Below is the announcement in text, in case the image above is not legible:

Hello Robocrafters,

Yesterday, the data centre we use (OVH) had a severe issue that has resulted in our game servers going offline. We wanted to provide you with an update on our progress towards getting the servers back up again for all of you.

Over the last 24 hours we have prioritised reclaiming the back up data for players. This includes information like garages, robots, purchases, robits, levels etc. We have now secured the back up for this data and are now working towards restoring it along with new servers so that you can play online again.

We normally back up our data each day, however as the servers went down during the middle of our back up we unfortunately will have to use a previous days complete back up which is from 00:01 UTC on the 9th of March 2021. This will mean anyone who played past March 9th 2021 00:01 UTC will have lost the progress they made during that time once the servers are back up and running.

Thank you very much for your patience during this time. We will continue to share more news as soon as we have further information.

Freejam Games

Hello everyone,

We are aware that the Robocraft servers have been down and are working hard to address the issues that have arisen. We will share more information when it becomes available. Thankyou for your patience.

Hello everybody.

Today we have launched a new update which includes several balance changes.

The details below:

Hello everyone,

A new community balance update has just been made live with the help from the 'Robocraft Balance Patches Discord' server. If you would like to contribute to the discussion, you can join the server here: https://discord.gg/qDRmyB3

Thank you for everyone involved! The members of the community even created an infographic that details the changes generaly in terms of buffs and nerfs.:



Here is the full list of balance changes. I've also included the changes in text form underneath the images below. Let us know if you prefer the tables or the text form!















Changes in text form
[h2]Chassis[/h2]

[h3]Cubes[/h3]

Medium

• Health increased from 1,725 to 1,800
  

• Health increased from 992.4 to 1,250
  
• Mass increased from 0.3 to 0.8
  

• Health reduced from 2,801 to 2,800
  
• Mass reduced from 100 to 50
  

• Health increased from 4,312 to 4,500
  

• Health increased from 6,237 to 7,500
  

• Health increased from 5,175 to 5,400
  

• Health increased from 3,450 to 3,600
  

• Health increased from 8,625 to 9,000
  

• Health increased from 5,175 to 5,400
  

• Health increased from 3,450 to 3,600
  

• Health increased from 6,900 to 7,200
  

• Health increased from 3,450 to 3,600
  

• Health increased from 8,625 to 9,000
  

• Health increased from 8,625 to 9,000
  

• Health increased from 13,800 to 14,400
  

• Health increased from 8,625 to 9,000
  

• Health increased from 19,800 to 21,600
  

• Health increased from 13,200 to 14,400
  

• Health increased from 33,000 to 36,000
  

• Health increased from 19,800 to 21,600
  

• Health increased from 19,800 to 21,600
  

• Health increased from 19,800 to 21,600
  

• Health increased from 17,600 to 19,200
  

• Health increased from 26,400 to 28,800
  

• Health increased from 19,800 to 21,600
  

• Health increased from 26,400 to 28,800
  

• Health increased from 19,800 to 21,600
  

• Health increased from 33,000 to 36,000
  

• Health increased from 12,300 to 19,200
  

• Health increased from 19,800 to 21,600
  

• Health increased from 59,400 to 64,800
  

• Health increased from 59,400 to 64,800
  

• Health reduced from 48,400 to 46,200
  

• Health reduced from 52,800 to 50,400
  

• Health reduced from 61,600 to 58,800
  

T3 A



• Health reduced from 70,400 to 67,200
  

T3 B



• Health reduced from 79,200 to 75,600
  

T3 C



• Health reduced from 88,000 to 84,000
  

T4 A



• Health reduced from 96,800 to 92,400
  

T4 B



• Health reduced from 105,600 to 100,800
  

T4 C



• Health reduced from 114,400 to 109,200
  

T5 A



• Health reduced from 123,200 to 117,600
  

T5 B



• Health reduced from 266,500 to 234,000
  

T5 C



• Health reduced from 266,500 to 234,000
  


[h2]Movement[/h2]
One notable change across the majority of movement parts is the increase to the heavy machine mass cap. These changes mean robots can be much heavier before receiving agility penalties and will be spread out more evenly. Individual movement part thresholds will be listed below.

[h3]Wheels[/h3]

All Wheels



• Base speed reduced from 231.5 to 230
  

T0



• Health increased from 17,370 to 17,500
  

T1



• Health increased from 34,740 to 36,000
  

T2



• Health increased from 52,110 to 55,500
  

T3



• Health increased from 69,480 to 76,000
  

T4



• Health increased from 86,850 to 97,500
  

T5



• Health increased from 173,700 to 200,000
  
• Additional speed boost increased from 8% to 10%
  
• Steering Speed for heavy vehicles increased by 50%
  
• Time to Max Acceleration for heavy vehicles reduced by 33%
  


[h2]Tank Tracks[/h2]

All Tracks



• Base speed reduced from 195.8 to 180
  
• Heavy machine mass threshold increased by 1,000%
  

T1



• Health reduced from 120,087 to 117,000
  
• Mass reduced from 2,340 to 2,250
  

T2



• Health reduced from 133,430 to 132,500
  
• Mass reduced from 2,600 to 2,500
  

T3



• Health increased from 146,773 to 148,500
  
• Mass reduced from 2,860 to 2,750
  

T4



• Health increased from 160,116 to 165,000
  
• Mass reduced from 3,120 to 3,000
  

T5



• Health increased from 333,575 to 350,000
  
• Mass reduced from 6,500 to 6,250
  

Skis



• Health increased from 45,475 to 65,000
  
• Top speed increased from 366 to 400
  


[h2]Mech Legs[/h2]

All Legs



• Base speed increased from 163 to 170
  
• Heavy machine mass threshold increased by 1,300%
  

T0



• Health increased from 112,900 to 115,000
  
• Mass increased from 1,500 to 2,000
  

T1



• Health increased from 139,996 to 146,320
  
• Mass increased from 1,860 to 2,480
  

T2



• Health increased from 171,269 to 179,080
  
• Mass increased from 2,550 to 2,960
  

T3



• Health increased from 203,897 to 213,280
  
• Mass increased from 2,970 to 3,440
  

T4



• Health increased from 237,880 to 248,920
  
• Mass increased from 3,380 to 3,920
  

T5



• Health increased from 509,179 to 533,000
  
• Mass increased from 7,070 to 8,200
  


[h3]Sprinter Legs[/h3]

All Legs



• Base speed reduced from 216 to 200
  
• Heavy machine mass threshold increased by 600%.
  

T3



• Health reduced from 72,345 to 70,000
  
• Mass increased from 1,437.5 to 1,750
  

T4



• Health increased from 141,796 to 176,400
  
• Mass increased from 2,817 to 3,430
  


[h3]Insect Legs[/h3]

All Legs



• Heavy machine mass threshold increased by 860%
  

T3

• Health increased from 91,766 to 95,200
  
• CPU reduced from 40 to 34
  
• Mass reduced from 120 to 102
  
• Robot Ranking reduced from 4,000 to 3,400
  

T4



• Health increased from 100,943 to 123,200
  


[h2]Hovers[/h2]

All Hovers



• Base speed increased from 190 to 200
  
• Heavy machine mass threshold increased by 860%
  

T0



• Health increased from 15,000 to 16,000
  
• Optimum Carry Mass increased from 1,304 to 1,400
  

T1



• Health increased from 16,500 to 18,700
  
• Optimum Carry Mass increased from 1,434 to 1,600
  

T2



• Health increased from 18,000 to 21,600
  
• Optimum Carry Mass increased from 1,564 to 1,800
  

T3



• Health increased from 19,500 to 24,700
  
• Optimum Carry Mass increased from 1,728 to 2,000
  

T4



• Health increased from 21,000 to 28,000
  
• Optimum Carry Mass increased from 1,825 to 2,200
  

T5



• Health increased from 99,750 to 150,000
  
• Optimum Carry Mass increased from 6,256.8 to 8,000
  


[h2]Rotors[/h2]

All Rotors



• Base speed increased from 171 to 180
  
• Heavy machine mass threshold increased by 1,000%
  

T2



• Health reduced from 37,500 to 36,000
  
• Optimum Carry Mass reduced from 2,850 to 2,800
  

T3



• Health increased from 60,469 to 67,500
  
• Optimum Carry Mass increased from 4,499.2 to 5,600
  

T4



• Health increased from 84,375 to 108,000
  
• Optimum Carry Mass increased from 5,875.8 to 11,200
  


[h2]Wings[/h2]

All Wings



• Base speed reduced from 260 to 240
  
• Heavy machine mass threshold increased by 400%
  

T2



• Health reduced from 17,754 to 16,500
  
• Optimum Carry Mass reduced from 2,122.3 to 2,000
  

T3



• Health increased from 19,368 to 21,600
  
• Optimum Carry Mass reduced from 3,368.3 to 3,500
  

T4



• Health increased from 23,080 to 27,300
  
• Optimum Carry Mass reduced from 5457.4 to 5,000
  

T5



• Health increased from 27,115 to 33,600
  
• Optimum Carry Mass reduced from 7,276.5 to 6,500
  


[h2]Rudders[/h2]

All Rudders



• Base speed reduced from 260.5 to 240
  
• Heavy machine mass threshold increased by 500%
  

T2



• Health reduced from 14,250 to 12,350
  
• Optimum Carry Mass increased from 397.8 to 500
  

T3



• Health increased from 15,750 to 16,800
  
• Optimum Carry Mass increased from 717.4 to 1,000
  

T4



• Health increased from 18,975 to 21,850
  
• Optimum Carry Mass increased from 1,038.7 to 1,500
  

T5



• Health increased from 22,500 to 27,500
  
• Optimum Carry Mass increased from 1,360 to 2,000
  


[h2]Thrusters[/h2]

All Thrusters



• Base speed increased from 180 to 240
  
• Heavy machine mass threshold increased by 176%
  

T1



• Health reduced from 7,500 to 6,000
  
• Additional speed boost reduced from 0.53% to 0.50%
  

T2



• Health reduced from 9,000 to 8,400
  
• Additional speed boost reduced from 0.84% to 0.60%
  

T3



• Health increased from 10,500 to 11,200
  
• Additional speed boost increased from 1.47% to 1.75%
  

T4



• Health increased from 12,000 to 14,400
  
• Additional speed boost increased from 2.02% to 2.25%
  

T5



• Health increased from 13,500 to 18,000
  
• Additional speed boost reduced from 3.02% to 3.00%
  


[h3]Propellers[/h3]

T3 Propeller



• Mass increased from 150 to 250
  
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T4 Propeller



• Mass increased from 300 to 500
  


[h2]Weapons[/h2]

[h3]Lasers[/h3]

T0



• Base damage increased from 5,442 to 5,634
  
• Rank 10 damage increased from 7,618 to 7,887
  
• Energy use decreased from 130 to 121.5
  

T1



• Base damage increased from 7,689 to 8,053
  
• Rank 10 damage increased from 10,380 to 10,871
  
• Energy use decreased from 173 to 162.5
  

T2



• Base damage increased from 11,222 to 11,924
  
• Rank 10 damage increased from 14,588 to 15,500
  
• Energy use decreased from 237 to 225
  

T3



• Base damage increased from 14,969 to 16,222
  
• Rank 10 damage increased from 18,711 to 20,277
  
• Energy use decreased from 297 to 286
  

T4



• Base damage increased from 19,030 to 21,263
  
• Rank 10 damage increased from 22,836 to 25,515
  
• Energy use decreased from 354 to 350
  

T5



• Base damage increased from 22,431 to 24,667
  
• Rank 10 damage increased from 26,917 to 29,600
  
• Shots per second increased from 6.67 to 6.90
  


[h3]Plasma[/h3]

T0



• Base damage increased from 12,750 to 28,947
  
• Rank 10 damage increased from 17,849 to 40,24
  
• Energy use increased from 405 to 921
  
• Shots per second reduced from 20 -> 4.76
  
• Blast radius reduced from 24 to 20
  

T1



• Base damage increased from 16,600 to 37,686
  
• Rank 10 damage increased from 22,410 to 50,876
  
• Energy use increased from 486 to 1,106
  
• Shots per second reduced from 16.67 to 4
  
• Blast radius reduced from 26 to 21
  

T2



• Base damage increased from 24,030 to 54,800
  
• Rank 10 damage increased from 31,238 to 71,238
  
• Energy use increased from 653 to 1,486
  
• Shots per second reduced from 12.5 to 2.94
  
• Blast radius reduced from 26 to 22
  

T3



• Base damage increased from 35,880 to 81,000
  
• Rank 10 damage increased from 44,850 to 101,250
  
• Energy use increased from 890 to 2,025
  
• Shots per second reduced from 9.09 to 2.17
  
• Blast radius reduced from 28 to 23
  

T4



• Base damage increased from 52,965 to 124,660
  
• Rank 10 damage increased from 63,558 to 149,592
  
• Energy use increased from 1,213 to 2,760
  
• Shots per second reduced from 6.67 to 1.6
  
• Blast radius reduced from 28 to 24
  

T5



• Base damage increased from 73,204 to 166,667
  
• Rank 10 damage increased from 87,844 to 200,000
  
• Energy use increased from 1,620 to 3,687
  
• Shots per second reduced from 5 to 1.
  
• Blast radius reduced from 30 to 25
  


[h3]Rail[/h3]

T1



• Base damage increased from 61,184 to 64,100
  
• Rank 10 damage increased from 82,598 to 86,535
  
• Shots per second reduced from 2 to 1.52
  
• Accuracy recovery time reduced from 0.5s to 0.46s
  

T2



• Base damage decreased from 80,242 to 79,510
  
• Rank 10 damage decreased from 104,314 to 103,362
  
• Shots per second reduced from 1.71 to 1.33
  
• Accuracy recovery time reduced from 0.58s to 0.55s
  

T3



• Base damage decreased from 103,063 to 102,235
  
• Rank 10 damage decreased from 128,828 to 127,793
  
• Shots per second reduced from 1.5 to 1.16
  
• Accuracy recovery time reduced from 0.6667s to 0.665s
  

T4



• Base damage decreased from 139,825 to 131,600
  
• Rank 10 damage decreased from 167,790 to 157,920
  
• Shots per second reduced from 1.33 to 1
  
• Accuracy recovery time increased from 0.75s to 0.8s
  

T5



• Base damage decreased from 216,668 to 208,334
  
• Rank 10 damage decreased from 260,001 to 250,000
  
• Shots per second reduced from 1 to 0.67
  
• Accuracy recovery time increased from 1s to 1.3s
  
• Energy use increased from 5,000 to 5,208
  


[h3]Nano[/h3]

T2



• Energy use increased from 95 to 105
  

T3



• Energy use increased from 138 to 147.42
  
• Shots per second reduced from 15.38 to 15.15
  


[h3]Tesla[/h3]

T2



• Energy use reduced from 187 to 182
  
• Mass reduced from 36 to 32
  

T3



• Base damage reduced from 46,788 to 42,900
  
• Rank 10 damage reduced from 58,485 to 53,625
  
• Energy use increased from 325 to 332
  
• Shots per second reduced from 10 to 9.62
  

T4



• Energy use reduced from 700 to 675
  


[h3]Seeker[/h3]

T3



• Energy use reduced from 237 to 200
  

T4



• Base damage increased from 58,781 to 64,284
  
• Rank 10 damage increased from 70,537 to 77,140
  
• Shots per second reduced from 3.33 to 2.58
  

T5



• Shots per second reduced from 2.5 to 2.42
  


[h3]Flak[/h3]

T4



• Energy use reduced from 600 to 570
  
• Base Stack damage reduced from 5,747.5 to 3,967
  
• Rank 10 Stack damage reduced from 6,897 to 4,760
  
• Single gun fire rate reduced from 2.5 to 3.76
  

T5



• Health increased from 300,000 to 330,000
  


[h3]Chaingun[/h3]

T4



• Health increased from 173,250 to 181,500
  
• Shots per second increased from 16.67 to 18.52
  
• Single gun fire rate increased from 8.33 to 12.51
  

T5



• Health increased from 366,844 to 373,750
  


[h3]Ion[/h3]

T4



• Health increased from 145,000 to 159,500
  
• Energy use decreased from 1,875 to 1,800
  
• Single gun fire rate reduced from 0.76 to 1.15
  

T5



• Health increased from 245,000 to 254,800
  


[h3]Mortar[/h3]

T5



• Base damage reduced from 228,838 to 225,000
  
• Rank 10 damage reduced from 274,605 to 270,000
  
• Energy use decreased from 3,078 to 3,000
  
• Blast radius reduced from 50 to 40
  


[h3]Modules[/h3]

Windowmaker



• Health increased from 82,500 to 130,000
  

EMP



• Cooldown reduced from 35s to 30s
  

Blink



• Cooldown reduced from 30.5s to 25s
  
• CPU cost reduced from 255 to 200
  
• Health increased from 210,375 to 165,000
  
• Mass reduced from 765 to 600
  
• Robot Ranking reduced from 25,500 to 20,000
  

Miscellaneous



• Tihonium Canyon removed from Elimination due to AI bug
  
• Elimination team size reduced to 8v8
  
• Quest Robit rewards increased from 35,000 to 50,000
  
• Quest EXP rewards increased from 70,000 to 100,000
  
• T3 Max Robot Ranking increased from 65,652 to 90,000
  

Robocraft Premium for Life is 50% off between the 21st September and 28th September.

Hello Robocrafters, we'll be in maintenance for 1 hour tomorrow(26th Aug) at 11am (UTC +1)

Robocraft Premium for Life is 50% off between 27th July and 2nd August

All Robocraft DLC will be at a 50% discount from June 25th to July 7th as part of the Steam Summer Sale.

With the Premium for Life Pack you can get extra colors for your robot, and give your account a personal flair by uploading your own Avatar, as well as doubling the amount of experience and Robits you receive from battles and quests.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/570960/Robocraft__Premium_for_Life_Pack/

The High Flyers Bundle offers 30 days of Premium, 3,000 Cosmetic Credits and access to a variety of aerial cosmetic parts.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/490330/Robocraft__High_Flyers_Bundle/

The Speed Bundle offers 7 days of Premium, 500 Cosmetic Credits and some more cosmetic parts.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/513430/Robocraft__Speed_Bundle/

These changes were decided on by working closely with the great community members from the 'Robocraft Balance Patches Discord' server. If you would like to help contribute to these changes, you can join the server here: https://discord.gg/qDRmyB3

Again, thank you so much to the community members for taking 133 days to discuss the various balance changes that have amounted to this balance pass.



Chassis Parts


Movement Parts

[h2]Wings and Rudders[/h2]


[h2]Mech and Sprinter Legs[/h2]


[h2]Other Movement Parts[/h2]


Weapon Parts

[h2]Laser[/h2]


[h2]Plasma[/h2]


[h2]Rail[/h2]


[h2]Nano and Tesla[/h2]


[h2]Other Weapon Parts[/h2]


Modules


Other Changes

Hey Robocrafters. we'll be going into maintenance at 11:00am(BST) for 2 hours to perform some vital server maintenance as well as put some balance changes live.

Hi Robocrafters, i'd like to share the new that there will be a competition ran by the community.

Registrations will be open until the 21st of June.
Teams should have 5-10 members.
The Game scedule will be published once registration ends, with the aim for the league start in July.

The best 3 teams will earn a cosmetic badge ingame.

If intrested, please join through this server link.
Server link: https://discord.gg/U7NSV9x

Starting today (9th March 2020 5:00pm GMT) until 15th March 2020 5:00pm GMT, were running a discount across Freejam Products.

Gamecraft will be at a 25% discount, along-side one of our biggest updates. We have a series of Dev Blogs which each mention a different feature of this update and you can read the latest one here: https://steamcommunity.com/gid/103582791464559041/announcements/detail/1694981324150246172

Cardlife will be half price, a big 50% discount. Hand-draw your own character, tools and building pieces in this innovative science-fantasy creative survival game.

Robocraft - Premium for Life will also have a 50% discount. Get extra colors for your robot, and give your account a personal flair by uploading your own Avatar, as well as doubling the amount of experience you receive from matches and quests.

Hey Robocrafters,

we've put out a new client which fixes a bug causing robots to be unable to move in single player.

Weve teamed up with a bunch of fantastic, highly creative developers to bring you the Steam Builder Games Sale!



Youll find massive discounts across a whole host of great games, all focused around building, that were sure youll love as much as we do. With a couple of our own titles included of course! The sale will run from January 11, 2020 @ 9:55am PST to January 18, 2020 @ 10:05am PST so be sure to check it out and pick up some amazing games to unleash your creativity.

Gamecraft is 50% off during the sale
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Robocraft Lifetime Premium and all DLC bundles are also 50% off
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Hey Robocrafters, This winter season we will be hosting a Double XP and Robits event. From now until January the 6th 2020 you can double your experience and robits.

We've also made a balance change to the Rails

T1
Damage: 80878 -> 68746
Energy Cost: 2500 -> 2375

T2
Damage: 98851 -> 84023
Energy Cost: 2750 -> 2612.5

T3
Damage: 125000 -> 106250
Energy Cost: 3250 -> 3087.5

T4
Damage: 175000 -> 148750
Energy Cost: 4000 -> 3800

T5
Damage: 275000 -> 233750
Energy Cost: 6000 -> 5700

We will be entering maintenance tomorrow at 11am(GMT).
We'll be putting Live a double XP and Robits Event that will last until the 6th of January. We'll also put live a balance change to the Rail.

First, let us say a huge thank you to everyone in the RobocraftX community for some of the incredible games youve built with the very limited set of components weve given you so far. Your creativity and ingenuity has amazed us. With this announcement well be covering a whole suite of new upcoming features that are designed to give you Creators the parts you need to begin to turn your creations into compelling pieces of content, and to enable you to self publish them for others to download. Well also be announcing a change to the name of the game and an announcement about pricing.

First up, we'll give you the lowdown on the suite of cool game creator features were adding:

Pilot Seat, Passenger Seat and Control Panel



The Pilot Seat, Passenger Seat and Control Panel are parts that you can put on any creation. You can put seats anywhere, even on ceilings and walls.



Leo can use/sit in the seat by left clicking when the crosshair is over it (i.e. this is how you use things in RCX). As long as you have a line of sight to a seat you can get in it. When in a seat you push E to exit the seat again.

When in a seat you are seat belted to the creation/vehicle so you move where it moves. The seats come with special cameras too. When in first person, if your seat goes upside down, then you see the world upside down. The Pilot Seat and Control Panel have two different 3rd person cameras. The Pilot Seats camera works like classic Robocraft so you can view vehicles with the Alt+MouseWheel controlling zoom distance. The Control Panel will always keep character in view, so if an object gets in the way it will move forwards closer to the character. These different behaviours are useful in different scenarios.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl1syecFVDs
Pilot Seats and Control Panels allow you to assign keyboard and mouse input actions to functional parts that are connected to them (via conductivity and signal channels). You can configure Motors and Servos (and anything else) to respond to the players input when in a seat. Its pretty easy to rig up cars, cranes, etc. using them, but its also possible to rig up some incredibly creative controllable contraptions using the same system. The seat even sends a signal when you are simply sat in it, so you can make cockpits close and doors open automatically when someone sits in the seat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1BXXyNP7Jk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ_sT6nCZ1M
Text Block


The Text block is a scalable block that can be scaled from 1x1 to any size. When you place it in the world a UI pops up allowing you to input text on it. Using rich text tags you can set variable font size, colour, italic, and bold.

You can mount the Text Block on anything, static things, walls, and moving things like vehicles.

You can also give each Text Block a unique ID. Using the command console you can issue a command that can update the text on any Text Block in the world at run time. Read on to find out how the Script Block can be used to trigger console commands to change text whenever you need in your games.

Triggers


Were adding Object and Character Triggers too. Triggers are microchips that you put on your creations and then scale to define a trigger volume. Trigger volumes can be overlapped which youll find very useful for complex creations. Triggers are visible when building games, but not when playing games, so your players wont see them when they play your games.

There are multiple trigger types, OnEnter sends a pulse signal on anything connected (via conductivity) each time something enters it. OnExit is similar but sends the signal when something exits it. The OnStay trigger sends a continuous signal when anything is inside it.

You can rig up movement parts like Motors or triggerable parts like Script Blocks to the triggers to create various gameplay behaviours such as:

Using these triggers you can:

• Make lifts rise automatically when a character is stood on it
  
• Trigger a script command to change the gravity when a vehicle drives into an are
  
• Make a vehicle automatically steer when it gets near objects (its possible to attach triggers to moving things too)
  

• Teleport the player when someone enters a trigger volume
  
• Update the text on a Text Block when someone gets into a pilot seat
  
• Change the gravity when someone pulls a lever
  

Hey Robocrafters, thanks for your feedback and collaboration on getting this community balance update together.

General Changes

• Unflattened the Energy consumption of weapons to make them like they were in the boost-era days. This has meant some damage values and fire rates needed to be tweaked also, these will be listed below.
  
• Gamemode rotation is now every 30 minutes instead of every 60 minutes
  
• Tweaked the matchmaking to be faster so battles start sooner.
  
• Mars and GJ 1214b Gravity set to be the same as Earth.
  
• Changed the Score to XP/Robits conversion to be more rewarding on better plays and more punishing on worse plays.
  
• Cost of Bay upgrades has been reduced by 10% (Except Mega Bay upgrade which has the same price).
  
• Tweaked the selection of AI robots to choose higher CPU builds.
  

• Removed in-air inaccuracy from Lasers
  
• Removed Movement inaccuracy from Lasers and Rails (No weapons have movement inaccuracy now)
  
• All weapons are now 25% Lighter
  
• Compact Cube Mass changed from 3 to 2.5
  
• Heavy Cubes have a 10% increase in health.
  
• Helium has a 10% increase in health.
  
• Helium has a 20% Increase in Lift.
  

• Wheels - No changes
  
• Tank Tracks - Increase tank health by 10%
  
• Mech Legs - No changes
  
• Sprinter Legs - Increase Sprinter health by 5%
  
• Insect Legs - Increase Insect health by 10%
  
• Skis - No changes
  
• Hovers - No changes
  
• Rotors - No changes
  
• Wings - No changes
  
• Rudders - Rudder Speed now the same as their wing counter parts.
  
• Thrusters - No changes
  
• Propellers - No changes
  

• Scales from 210 - 451 Energy per shot
  
• Scales from 8,640 - 23,612 Damage per shot
  
• Scales from 16 - 6.67 Shots per second
  

• Scales from 500 - 1,620 Energy per shot
  
• Scales from 15,000 - 73,204 Damage per shot
  
• Scales from 20 - 5 shots per second (with optimal weapon count)
  
• Explosion radius scales from 4 to 6.5
  

• Scales from 2,500 - 6,000 Energy per shot
  
• Scales from 80,878 - 275,000 Damage per shot
  
• Scales from 2 - 1 Shots per second
  
• Projectile speed increased
  

• T2 uses 0 energy, T3 - T4 uses 125-200 energy per shot
  
• Scales from 4,500- 12,481 Heals per shot
  
• Scales from 20 - 13.33 Shots per second
  
• Projectile speed increased by just under 15%
  
• Projectile range increased by just over 40%
  

• T2 uses 0 Energy, T3 - T4 uses 350-700 Energy per shot
  
• Scales from 20,00 - 99,551 Damage per shot
  
• Scales from 20 - 5.99 shots per second
  

• T3 uses 244 Energy per shot, T4 - T5 uses 1,450 - 1,900 Energy per shot
  
• Scales from 3.33 to 2.50 Shots per second
  

• Scales from 600-817 Energy per shot
  
• T4 & T5 Scales from 5 - 4 Shots per second
  

• Scales from 2,250 - 2,450 Energy per shot
  
• Scales from 16.67 - 14 Shots per second
  
• Increase both tier health by 5%
  

• Scales from 1,850 - 2,650 Energy per shot
  
• Scales from 210,000 - 312,165 Damage per shot
  
• Scales from 1.33 - 1.11 Shots per second
  

• No changes
  

Hello Robocrafters,

We are now out of maintenance and loading times should be back to normal!

Build, Drive, Fight

Hello Robocrafters,

We will be entering maintenance Today (5th of July) at 15:00PM UTC+1 to address the issues with longer loading times. This is expected to last up to 1 hour.

Thank you for your patience.

Build, Drive, Fight

Hello Robocrafters,

We are now out of maintenance! We had 121 votes in the community balance feedback poll, which resulted in the following changes being made:

Weapons
Laser

• No changes
  

• Damage [10% Reduction]
  
• Shots per Second decreased [Was 6.6 shots now 5]
  

• Damage [5% Increase]
  
• Movement inaccuracy reduced
  

• Healing [5% Increase]
  
• Projectile Speed [25% Increase]
  
• Energy per shot [9% Reduction]
  

• Damage per shot [10% Increase]
  
• Projectile Speed [20% Increase]
  
• Damage per stack [5% Reduction]
  

• Damage [10% Decrease]
  
• Energy per Shot [10% Decrease]
  

• Damage [5% Increase]
  
• Shots per second decreased [Was 1.02 shots now 1.11]
  

• No changes
  

• Damage [10% Reduction]
  

• Health [10% Increase]
  
• Damage [5% Increase]
  
• Shots per second increased [Was 5.7 now 6]
  
• Energy per shot [8% Reduction]
  

• Health [5% Increase]
  
• Agility increased
  

• Health [10% Increase]
  
• Top Speed [2.5% Increase]
  
• Agility increased
  

• Health [7.5% Increase]
  
• Agility for Heavy Vehicles increased
  

• Health [Increase 5%]
  
• Top Speed [Increase 5%]
  
• Agility increased
  
• Jump Height [10% Increase]
  

• Health [Increase 5%]
  
• Top Speed [Increase 5%]
  
• Agility increased
  
• Jump Height [10% Increase]
  

• Health [10% Increase]
  
• Top Speed [5% Increase]
  

• Agility increased
  
• Optimum carry mass [10% Increase]
  

• Agility for Heavy Vehicles reduced
  

• Agility for Heavy Vehicles increased
  

• Optimum carry mass [10% Increase]
  
• Agility for Heavy Vehicles increased
  

• Top Speed [15% Increase]
  
• Spin-up Time [20% Reduction]
  

• No changes
  

• No changes
  

• Health [5% Increase]
  

• Health [10% Increase]
  

• Health [10% Increase]
  

• No changes
  

• Range [13.7% Increase]
  

• Reveal Duration [7.5 second Increase]
  
• Cooldown [5 second reduction]
  

[UPDATE]

Maintenance will now take place on Thursday the 4th July 2019 at 10:30AM UTC+1. Apologies for any confusion and inconvenience caused.


[Original message]

Hello Robocrafters,

We will be entering maintenance on the 3rd of July 2019 at 10:30AM UTC+1. This is for essential server maintenance and is expected to last up to 2 hours, but may be extended if we encounter problems.

We will also be deploying the latest round of balance changes based on the recent community feedback form.

Thank you for your patience.

Build, Drive, Fight

Hello Robocrafters!

RobocraftX development is coming along nicely and Experiment 03 has just been released! This Experiment introduces; Levers, which allow motorised parts to be controlled manually, conductive blocks, more cube shapes, new materials with different properties such as bouncy Rubber and Slippery Oily cubes and a host of visual improvements and bug fixes.



Head over to the secret store page to learn more by following the link below.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1078000/RobocraftX/

Hi Robocrafters,

We are now out of Maintenance! This maintenance resolved an issue that prevented players from uploading custom avatars for their profile and clan.

Thanks for your patience!

Build, Drive, Fight

Hi Robocrafters,

We are now out of Maintenance! The following two issues should now be fixed.

• Altimeter when equipped does not show correct HUD or update the numbers on the display.
  
• Text chat feature is not working
  

Hello Robocrafters,

We will be entering maintenance on the 14th of June 2019 at 10:00AM UTC+1. This will last approximately one hour. We are intending to address the following issues

• Altimeter when equipped does not show correct HUD or update the numbers on the display.
  
• Text chat feature is not working (We may need more time to address this issue)
  

Hello Robocrafters,

We are now out of maintenance! Players who experienced several error messages while playing should now be able to play the game correctly. Thank you for your patience during this maintenance!

Build, Drive, Fight
ReelBigKris

We are entering emergency maintenance now to address some errors a number of players are having. We hope that this will not take very long and will update you of any further news. Stay tuned.

Hello everyone,

Robocraft is now out of maintenance. This was to address an issue where players who had a high MMR were only being matched against AI opponents. Now players with a High MMR rating are more likely to be placed against human opponents!

Build, Drive, Fight!

Hello Robocrafters!

We first mentioned Robocraft X a little while ago! The project has been evolving quite steadily and we are now at a stage where we want to invite more players to try out this new game that a team at Freejam are working on.

What is RobocraftX
Robocraft X is being built from scratch with new technology which provides incredible powerful physics simulation. We're able to create axles, hinges rotating platforms, levers and more with this technology and we're just at the very start of our development journey.

RobocraftX is designed as a sandbox physics game with competitive and co-operative elements. Players can construct incredible machines and eventually create entire game modes which others can download and play. The vision is to give players more creative power and freedom by giving them the same tools developers use to create game modes.

The latest prototype (we call them Experiments!) introduces a few new features during this early development stage. First up is our character Leo, who constructs machines and will pilot vehicles once we implement control rigs like a pilot seat.



We are going to be adding more parts over time, but for now we have a few foundations to create interesting and unique machines including tyres, axles, motors and hinges!





At this very early stage, we're experimenting with various parts and physics simulation and have been able to build some fun, interesting and even odd machines from these early parts.





And the community have built some truly remarkable vehicles including one that automatically corrects its steering to drive up a mountains highest incline.

RobocraftX will be free-to-play. But you can download the prototype now by visiting the secret steam page from the link below:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1078000/RobocraftX/

We are really early in development for Robocraft X but if you want to join us on our development journey, please do download the prototype!

The Robocraft X Team

Update
We are now out of maintenance. Players are now able to deal damage to other robots in 10 vs 10 Elimination mode. Thanks for your patience!

Original post


Hello Robocrafters,

We are deploying a fix for an issue that appeared recently where players could no longer damage each other in elimination. We will enter maintenance at 14:00 UTC+1 and will last no longer than 30 minutes. Thank you for your patience.

Build, Drive, Fight,
ReelBigKris

We will be entering maintenance at 12:30 UTC+1 to revert the Event system changes after debugging the no damage issue. We are still working on this issue, but please let us know if you experience any issues and send your Output logs to us!

Hi Robocrafters!

We are now entering maintenance to force the elimination game mode for a short while so that we can try to debug issues where during a match, players are unable to damage each other. Please let us know if you experience any issues.

Build, Drive, Fight
ReelBigKris

Hello Robocrafters,

Robocraft is now out of maintenance! The update included the following fixes.

• Players will no longer wait three minutes to join a game if another player disconnects BEFORE the match loads
  
• Fixed a bug where changes to your emotigram loadout would not be saved -
  

Hello Robocrafters,

We will be entering maintenance tomorrow on the 23rd of May 2019 UTC+1 for approximately one hour.

The update will contain the following fixes

• Players will no longer wait three minutes to join a game if another player disconnects BEFORE the match loads
  
• Fixed a bug where changes to your emotigram loadout would not be saved - or something along those lines
  

Hi everyone!

We are now out of maintenance! The update includes the following additions and fixes.

Additions

• In Test mode, players will be able to select gravity conditions to test their robots before battle
  

• Voice over on BA will now play the correct dialogue
  
• Robots with zero weapon load outs will no longer be given an error message telling them that they have a full load out.
  

We are entering maintenance today at 10:00AM UTC+1 to deploy a fix to several bugs. This will last no longer than one hour

Hello Robocrafters!

We are planning to enter maintenance on the 22nd or the 23rd of May 2019 at 10:00AM UTC+1 for one hour to address the below issues.

Additions

• In Test mode, players will be able to select gravity conditions to test their robots before battle
  

• Players will no longer wait three minutes to join a game if another player disconnects BEFORE the match loads
  
• Voice over on BA will now play the correct dialogue
  
• Robots with zero weapon load outs will no longer be given an error message telling them that they have a full load out.
  

Hello Robocrafters!

We hope that you have been enjoying the most recent update! Today we have launched a hot fix which introduces the new visibility conditions to the game. You can read more about this particular feature from the post below:

https://steamcommunity.com/games/301520/announcements/detail/1629651860413160490

Alongside this addition, we are also making one more change.

We will be removing Gliese Lake from the map rotation for BA. We noticed that one of the teams was able to attack the other team from the safety of their own base, and this causes some further issues to balancing, giving one team an unfair advantage over the other team.

However, Gliese Lake will still be present in the map rotation for Team Death Match and Elimination.

Thank you everyone who has been playing the game, we hope you enjoy the new visibility conditions!

Build, Drive, Fight
ReelBigKris

Hello Robocrafters

We have now released the latest update Plan, Adapt, Eliminate to Robocraft!

This update contains the following core highlights

• Event system added
  
• Gravity added to each of the three planets
  
• Elimination game mode added with 10 vs 10
  
• Weapon balance changes
  

• Map Name
  
• Game Mode
  
• Gravity
  
• Visibility conditions (Currently set to clear at all times)
  
• Auto healing active or disabled
  
• Air density
  

• The team size will increase to ten
  
• Auto healing will be disabled
  
• There will be no respawns
  

• Increased Healing per Shot by 5% (BUFF)
  
• Decreased Energy per Shot by 5% (BUFF)
  
• Increased Projectile Speed by 10% (BUFF)
  

• Decreased Damage per Stack by 2.5% (NERF)
  
• SEEKER (T4 & T5)
  
• Increased Projectile Range by 5% (BUFF)
  

• T2 - 48 32
  
• T3 - 60 40
  
• T4 - 72 48
  

• Increased Health by 5% (BUFF)
  
• Increased Top Speed by 2.5% (BUFF)
  
• Increased Agility (BUFF)
  

• Increased Health by 5% (BUFF)
  
• Increased Top Speed by 2.5% (BUFF)
  
• Increased Agility (BUFF)
  

• Increased Health by 5% (BUFF)
  
• Increased Agility for Heavy bots (BUFF)
  
• Increased Jump Height (BUFF)
  

• Increased Health by 5% (BUFF)
  
• Increased Top Speed by 5% (BUFF)
  
• Increased Agility (BUFF)
  
• Increased Jump Height (BUFF)
  

• Increased Health by 5% (BUFF)
  
• Increased Top Speed by 2.5% (BUFF)
  
• Increased Agility (BUFF)
  
• Increased Jump Height (BUFF)
  

• T3 - 160 120
  
• T4 - 176 132
  

• Increased Health by 5% (BUFF)
  
• Increased Top Speed by 2.5% (BUFF)
  

• Increased Top Speed by 2.5% (BUFF)
  
• Increased Agility (BUFF)
  
• Increased Optimum Carry Mass by 7.5% (BUFF)
  

• Decreased Light bot Agility (NERF)
  
• Increased Heavy bot Agility (BUFF)
  

• Increased Health by 2.5% (BUFF)
  
• Increased Top Speed by 2.5% (BUFF)
  
• Increased Agility (BUFF)
  

• Increased Top Speed by 2.5% (BUFF)
  
• Increased Agility (BUFF)
  
• Increased Optimum Carry Mass by 2.5% (BUFF)
  

• Increased Top Speed by 2.5% (BUFF)
  
• Decreased Spin-up Time (BUFF)
  

• T1 - 10 7.5
  
• T2 - 12 9
  
• T3 - 14 10.5
  
• T4 - 16 12
  
• T5 18 13.5
  

• Increased Helium Health by 5% (BUFF)
  

• Increased Cube Health by 5% (BUFF)
  

• Increased Cube Health by 5% (BUFF)
  

• Decreased Blink Cooldown by 10% (BUFF)
  
• Increased Blink Range by 10% (BUFF)
  

• Decreased Ghost Cost by 10% (BUFF)
  

• Decreased EMP Cooldown by 10% (BUFF)
  

• Decreased Window Cooldown by 10% (BUFF)
  
• Increased Window Duration by 2.5 seconds (BUFF)
  

• Event system added
  
• Elimination Mode added to event system rotation
  

• Party MMR calculations updated to avoid high level parties gettign matched against low level players
  
• Better team balancing by trying to balance MMR/Tier better across both teams where possible
  

• Ai support player spotting
  
• AI will no longer 'disconnect' when a player leaves
  

• Improved load times when editing, selecting and creating robots
  
• Balance changes to weapons and parts
  
• Localisation adjustments (thanks to our Mods!)
  

• Fixed an error when trying to upgrade a max CPU bay
  
• Cosmetics in robopass screen are now labelled as cosmetic instead of cube
  
• clicking 'Get robits' in the insufficient funds dialogue will no longer cause an issue.
  
• Robopass progress screen no longer appears at the end of custom games.
  

Hello Robocrafters!

We revealed the new Event System last week which adds a new map rotation system which lets players know exactly what map and game mode they will be entering before they even select a robot. You can read more about that system from the link below:

https://steamcommunity.com/games/301520/announcements/detail/1628525322510368490

Today we wanted to reveal a new factor which will also be included in the rotation and will affect the type of weapons that you would bring into battle. There are in total three variations that will affect map rotation and the first of which is:

Visibility
Earth, Mars and GL1214b will each have factors which will affect their visibility.

• On Earth, your visibility will be affected by a wave of fog lingering over the power plant!
  
• While on Mars, nature itself will hurl the very ground around the map with aggressive sand storms!
  
• And on the freezing planet of GL1214b, your vision will be obscured by the falling snow!
  

Hi Robocrafters,

We will be entering maintenance on 10th of May 2019 at 10:00AM UTC+1 to issue a temporary fix to the "error loading item shop bundle" error. This should last no longer than one hour.

All the best,
ReelBigKris

Hello Robocrafters!

Last week we revealed the Event system, designed to make building matter more by providing players with information on the map and game mode BEFORE entering a battle.

Today we wanted to reveal two additional parameters which will be at play for each of the three planets currently available in Robocraft.

Air density

We will be adjusting the density of the atmosphere for each of the planets, This will adjust the flight ceiling. Both Earth and GL1214b will see their air density remain much the same but Mars will be affected by these changes

Mars lower than normal air density will mean that aircraft will fly at a lower height than on any other planet. This will mean that those using aircraft as their primary robot will need to be cautious as they wont be able to fly quite so high on Mars, making them a bigger target for all players.

In addition to air density changes we will also be making adjustments to each planets gravity.

Gravity


Each planet will have its own gravity which will impact a few core factors when designing your robot.

• Jump height
  
• Falling acceleration
  
• Optimum carry mass
  

Hi everyone,

Robocraft is now out of maintenance!

This was to implement a temporary fix for an issue with our server and databases. This should remove some error messages which would allow players to continue to play the game while we continue to work on a true fix for this issue.

Thank you for your patience as we try to address these issues. We will continue to update you with further news. As we continue to fix these issues. Please let us know if the issues you have experienced over the last few days have been resolved.

Our team is still working on the server and will continue to address any issues that arise. We are currently looking at our systems to compensate players who were affected by server issues during the weekend and will reveal more news on that soon.

All the best,
ReelBigKris

Hello Robocrafters,

Over the weekend we received a number of reports from players who are experiencing issues with connecting to the Robocraft server. There were several variants of messages that have popped up and we have been working over the weekend to try and find the cause and solution to these issues.

Unfortunately we still need a bit more time to fully eliminate these issues and thank everyone for their patience so far

We are sorry about this and are doing our very best to get you back to building, driving and fighting as soon as possible.

I will update this announcement as I receive further news.

All the best,
ReelBigKris

Hello Robocrafters,

Yesterday we shared some news regarding our next update title 'Plan, Adapt, Eliminate'. Unfortunately we will need to spend just a little more time to address several issues that were discovered during our tests. We now anticipate that the update will release on the week starting May 13th.

As we get closer to that date, we will confirm a concrete date. We are very sorry for any inconvenience caused and thank you for your patience.

All the best,
ReelBigKris

Hello Robocrafters!

Today, were revealing a new system that will help increase the optimisation of matchmaking and allow players to make impactful build decisions BEFORE they enter a match. We call it, the Event system

So what is the event system? We do have a list of our objectives below:

• Make building matter More
  
• Increase Matchmaking Quality
  
• Decrease queue times
  
• Fewer team spots taken by AI
  
• More varied gameplay and map conditions
  
• Make Building Matter More
  

Hello Robocrafters,

A team at Freejam are currently working on a series of playable prototypes titled Robocraft Experiments. We plan to release our first playable experiment very soon. If you want to find out more and become an Experimenter, please follow us on Reddit and Twitter from the links below:

Reddit and Wiki

Twitter

Hello Robocrafters!

We will be entering maintenance at 11:00AM UTC+1 today and will last about 30 minutes.

This update will be changing the way that the matchmaking rating for parties is calculated, so they tend to get matched against slightly tougher opponents than currently.

Build, Drive, Fight
ReelBigKris

Hello Robocrafters!

As you may know, we temporarily increased team sizes over last weekend as an experiment. We hope that many of you had a lot of fun and felt it would be interesting to share some of our observations with you based on this event.

We saw a lot of positive comments regarding the increased team sizes, it seemed like many of our most vocal players really enjoyed the event, however there was a call out for increased map size and better optimisation.

Our internal analytics also shed a bunch of light on this experiment.

• Load times increased when entering a match.
  
• Frame Rates for players were significantly affected.
  
• Queue times were longer.
  
• More AI bots filled team spaces.

Hello Robocrafters!

We will be entering maintenance at 11:00AM UTC+1 later today. This will be to remove the increased team size event that ran over the weekend. This maintenance should last no longer than 20 minutes.

Build, Drive, Fight
ReelBigKris

Hello Robocrafters!

Earlier this week we shared details that we will be temporarily increasing team size from 5 to 8! We received a large number of comments from players to make this happen and has been received positively from many players thus far!



Why are we doing this?
A vocal number of you had commented on increasing team size and we wanted to open this up to a wider number of players. We will be watching what players do, how many AI are placed into games and how many of you come to play Robocraft during this limited time event! If you want to see the team sizes increase, make sure you play this weekend and let us know what you think via social media and our forums.

Team Deathmatch has had a slight increase in kills required for victory due to the increase in team size. A team must now destroy 25 robots to win!

Do consider that there may be an increase to queue times and a possibility of more AI in games. Well be keeping track of these via our own tools throughout the weekend.

8 vs 8 ends on the 22nd of April, so go play it now!

In addition, we have also made some balance changes based on community feedback, see the details below:

WEAPONS

LASER

• No Changes
  

• 5% Decrease (NERF) in Damage per Shot
  

• No Changes
  

• 5% Decrease (BUFF) in Energy per Shot
  
• 5% Increase (BUFF) In Projectile Speed
  

• 5% Increase (BUFF) in Damage per Shot
  
• 5% Increase (BUFF) in Damage per Stack
  
• 5% Decrease (BUFF) in Energy per Shot
  
• 5% Increase (BUFF) in Projectile Speed
  

• 5% Decrease (BUFF) in Energy per Shot for T3 Seeker
  

• 10% Decrease (BUFF) in Energy per Shot
  

• 5% Increase (BUFF) in Damage per Shot
  
• Increase (BUFF) shot per second by 1
  

• 5% Increase (BUFF) in Damage per Shot
  
• 5% Decrease (BUFF) in Energy per Shot
  

• 5% Increase (BUFF) in Health
  
• 5% Increase (BUFF) in Damage per Hit
  

• 5% Increase (BUFF) in Health
  
• 5% Increase (BUFF) In Top Speed
  
• Increase (BUFF) in Agility for Light Vehicles
  

• 5% Increase (BUFF) in Health
  
• Increase (BUFF) In Agility for all Vehicles
  

• 5% Increase (BUFF) in Health
  
• Decrease (NERF) in Single leg Movement speed from 75% to 50%
  

• 5% Increase (BUFF) In Top Speed
  
• Increase (BUFF) in Agility for Light Vehicles
  
• Increase (BUFF) Jump Height for all Vehicles
  
• Decrease (NERF) in Single leg Movement speed from 75% to 50%
  

• 5% Increase (BUFF) in Health
  
• 5% Increase (BUFF) in Top Speed
  
• Increase (BUFF) In Agility for Light Vehicles
  
• Increase (BUFF) Jump Height for Light Vehicles
  

• 5% Increase (BUFF) in Health
  
• 5% Increase (BUFF) In Top Speed
  

• Increase (BUFF) Agility for all vehicles
  
• 5% Increase (BUFF) in Carry Mass
  

• 5% Decrease (NERF) In Top Speed
  
• Decrease (NERF) Agility for all Vehicles
  
• 5% Decrease (NERF) in Carry Mass
  

• 5% Increase (BUFF) in Health
  
• 5% Increase (BUFF) in Top Speed
  
• Increase (BUFF) Agility for all vehicles
  
• 5% Increase (BUFF) in Carry Mass
  

• Increase (BUFF) Agility for all vehicles
  
• 5% Increase (BUFF) in Carry Mass
  

• 5% Increase (BUFF) in Top Speed
  
• Increase (BUFF) Agility for all vehicles (Spin-Up Time Reduced)
  

• 5% Increase (BUFF) in Top Speed
  
• Increase (BUFF) Agility for all vehicles (Spin-Up Time Reduced)
  

• 5% Increase (BUFF) In Health
  

• 5% Increase (BUFF) in Health
  

• 10% Increase (BUFF) In Range
  

• 10% Decrease (BUFF) in Energy Consumption
  

• 5% Increase (BUFF) in Deploy Range
  

• 10 second Decrease (BUFF) In Cooldown Time
  
• 2.5 Second Increase (BUFF) in Duration
  

Hello Robocrafters!

Season 3 of the community hosted Robocraft World Cup is nearly upon us! Slap your countries flag on your robot and queue up to engage in a competitive brawl to become the best! Join their discord to register as a player.

discord.gg/U7NSV9x

Once youve joined the discord read the rules, check if a team of your nationality exists and, if so, contact the captain of said team. If there is no team of your nationality but you want to play anyway, you can search for players of your nationality in the recruitment channel, if you have enough players you can create a new team.



Best of luck to everyone who enters! Freejam are still finalising the details of prizes for this event, but the Discord server will contain more news when it becomes available.

8 vs 8 event coming soon
The 8 vs 8 limited time event will launch in just a couple of days! For more info, read the announcement from the link below!

https://steamcommunity.com/games/301520/announcements/detail/3294855378038878088

Build, Drive, Fight
ReelBigKris

Hello Robocrafters!

Last week we ran a poll regarding reducing the max party size in response to players being concerned with 5 man teams being pitted against smaller team sizes. There were several plans we had in mind but ultimately we had an overwhelming feedback to keep max party size to 5.

However, something else came from this poll while reading comments...



So were going to run a short experiment Over the easter weekend between the 18th and 22nd of April. All game modes will have their team size increased from 5 to 8!

8 v 8!
Starting from the 18th of April, all game modes in Robocraft will be 8 v 8 until the 22nd of April.



It is important to note some of the cons of bigger team sizes; we believe it may lead to longer queue times, looser matchmaking and perhaps more AI in games. Of course, were going to be keeping a very close eye on feedback from players during this period and will decide whether or not we should make the increase to team size permanent.

Well be sharing some more exciting news very soon... Let us know what you think of this experiment and we'll see you on the battlefield on the 18th of April 2019!

Build, Drive, Fight
ReelBigKris

Hello Robocrafters,

Earlier today we entered maintenance for about 30 minutes. This resulted in just a couple of changes. We have adjusted lobby config settings to reduce the number of games with multiple robot tiers in them. Our second change is adding an item to the item shop. But we should go into a little more detail as to why we've added this item!

Yesterday the first ever image of a black hole was shared with the world, taken from the event horizon telescope ! We offer our congratulations to everyone involved in this momentous achievement!


Photograph: EHT Collaboration

To celebrate we are releasing both the black hole spawn and the black hole death animations on the item shop These will be available in the item shop until 21st of April, after then there will a random chance that they will appear on the item shop. Josh is giddy with excitement in seeing more players using this awesome effect.



I'm aware some players may be wondering why these items have been added to item shop when they were previously unlockable via RoboPass Plus, I wanted to reveal some further info.

We did not promise exclusivity on the items included within RoboPass Plus. We did inform players that they would make a monetary saving if they purchased Robopass, in the case of Robopass Season 1, we calculated the items value at $100 combined. The black hole death effect is currently valued at around $8.99 while Robopass Plus season 1 cost players just $9.99. Purchasing all of the cosmetics individually over time is possible, but can cost a significant amount and you will have to wait for them to arrive on the item shop.

To confirm, RoboPass Plus items will slowly roll out to the item shop, some purchasable via Cosmic Credits, others via Robits. But you'll make a greater saving purchasing RoboPass Plus during the seasonal period.

We'll have further news on future Robocraft features very soon. Stay tuned for more info. Until then;

Build, Drive, Fight
ReelBigKris

Note: I did not include information regarding the fact that Black Hole items will be available as a featured item on the Item shop until the 21st of April. After this period, these items will appear randomly on the item shop.

Hi everyone,

Robocraft has left maintenance! The new build includes the following bug fixes.

• All completed daily quests are now replaced each day.
  
• Three daily quests are given to new users on login, rather than one.
  
• Fixed missing sprites in inventory for Radar Jammers.
  
• Emotigrams now appear in Pit custom games.
  
• Users can no longer purchase RoboPass Plus multiple times.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused emotigram audio to be offset.
  
• Tapping V will now play the default emotigram, holding V will now open the emotigram wheel.
  
• Clan player list now displays correctly if opened while in lobby queue.
  
• Fixed missing localisation on the season 2 holoflag.

Hi everyone,

Robocraft will enter maintenance at 10:00 AM UTC+1 on the 2nd of April 2019 for one hour. This is to prepare a hotfix which will include the following bug fixes.

• All completed daily quests are now replaced each day.
  
• Three daily quests are given to new users on login, rather than one.
  
• Fixed missing sprites in inventory for Radar Jammers.
  
• Emotigrams now appear in Pit custom games.
  
• Users can no longer purchase RoboPass Plus multiple times.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused emotigram audio to be offset.
  
• Tapping V will now play the default emotigram, holding V will now open the emotigram wheel.
  
• Clan player list now displays correctly if opened while in lobby queue.
  
• Fixed missing localisation on the season 2 holoflag.

Hello Robocrafters!

RoboPass Season 2 is now live! Progress through 30 Grades to unlock awesome cosmetic items. This season is very much focused on several parts which have been present in Robocraft before, including the bunny pilot seat, jammers, radars and retro cubes!

Theres just one more item to reveal

The Retro Mothership
Some veterans may remember this mothership bay from 2014! We have brought it back as an unlockable bay skin and edit area. Here is the classic old bay skin.



And here is the classic retro edit area



Over the past week weve revealed a bunch of unlockable cosmetic items here are just a few highlights:










Emotigrams
We also announced an entirely brand new feature, the emotigrams, which provides a different way to communicate with team mates and the enemy.



RoboPass will last three months and end on July the 1st at 11:00 UTC+0. This should give players plenty of time to progress through all the grades before RoboPass season 2 ends

RoboPass
This version of RoboPass is free for all players. They will be able to progress as standard through all grades but will only be able to unlock the following items for free.

• Retro Cube
  
• Bunny Holoflag
  
• Cartoon Boom Explosion Death
  
• Season 2 Holoflag
  
• Heart Emotigram
  
• 225,000 Robits
  
• LOL Emotigram
  
• Loot Crate Spawn

• Easter Egg Spawn
  
• 22,500 Robits
  
• Retro Edge Cube
  
• Chicken Face Emotigram
  
• Retro Corner Cube
  
• Easter Egg Holoflag
  
• Retro Inner Cube
  
• Jammer Part Bundle
  
• 100,000 Robits
  
• Flower Vapour Trail
  
• 150 Cosmic Credits
  
• Spring Rod Part
  
• Bunny Pilot Seat
  
• 175,000 Robits
  
• Spring Rod Part (Short)
  
• 225 Cosmic Credits
  
• Radar Part Bundle
  
• Reciever Part Bundle
  
• Retro mothership Bay Skin
  
• 300,000 Robits
  
• Warp Out Explosion Death
  
• 300 Cosmic Credit Bundle
  
• Warp In Spawn
  
• Face Palm Emotigram
  
• Egg launcher (Mortar)
  
• Flipper part Bundle
  
• 400 Cosmic Credit
  
• Nuclear Explosion Death

• Added Strut Diagonal 3d L/R short variants
  
• RoboPass Season 2
  
• Emotigrams
  
• EAC update

• Fixed a bug that caused the weapon upgrade prompts to appear on max power weapons
  
• Skis now turn correctly
  
• Fixed an issue where swapping to another screen while weapon power/rank bar is animating, youll be stuck with visual effects looping
  
• Copying a robot into a bay that requires an upgrade will set both bays to the same CPU limit
  
• Fixed an issue where players were not receiving Robits when users play with their CRF robot
  
• Fixed an issue where if you receive a rate this robot dialogue after battle, the loadout slots in the info panel will be incorrect.
  
• Clans can no longer have Chinese or Russian characters.
  
• You can no longer select weapons in the robot info panel while in edit mode
  
• Improvements to handling when reversing with tank tracks
  
• Neon cube no longer appears in the tutorial inventory

Hello Robocrafters! Today were revealing a brand new feature to Robocraft. Emotigrams!

What are Emotigrams?!
They are a digital transmission which is conveyed via methods of iconography. When they say A picture tells a thousand words were pretty sure they were talking specifically about Emotigram technology.

Emotigrams can be used in battle to communicate with fellow teammates and even the enemy. They could be used to show your love of another players robot



Or they can be used to comment on another players shortcomings!



Several of these emotigrams are unlockable via RoboPass Plus and a couple will be available immediately as standard for all players.

How do we use the Emotigrams?
Emotigrams can be selected by clicking your avatar and selecting Emotigrams from the drop down window. This will open the Emotigram window where you'll be able to select up to six Emotigrams to use in battle.



Once in game hold V and you'll be bring up the Emotigram wheel. Hovering over one of these and letting go of V will then play that Emotigram.



The thumbs up and thumbs down Emotigrams will be automatically added to the Emotigram wheel of all players in tomorrows build. Other Emotigrams will be unlocked via RoboPass Season 2.

Planned maintenence
At 10:00AM UTC on 28th of March 2019, there will be scheduled maintenance to prepare Robocraft for the incoming update. This will last approximately two hours and a full patch note list will be released once the build has gone live.

RoboPass launches at around 12:00 UTC 28th March 2019!
We are very much looking forward to seeing you create awesome new robots with the new cosmetic items and trying out the new balance changes which we revealed yesterday. You can read more about these balance changes by clicking the link below:

https://steamcommunity.com/games/301520/announcements/detail/1827805804457687417

Tomorrow we'll reveal our last cosmetic item part of RoboPass season 2. We'll see you then!

Until then; Build, Drive, Fight
ReelBigKris

Happy Easter!

Sure, were nearly four weeks early, but if you ever went into a supermarket from early February youre bound to find a ton of Easter Eggs taking up important shelf space! Easter will take place in the middle of RoboPass Season 2 and there are several items which can be unlocked within RoboPass including an epic new weapon skin.



Some say the Easter bunny travels through the star system powered by the smiles of all the children on planet earth. Thats baloney, he travels with the star system on a basket of eggs powered by Biofuel.



Bunny Pilot Seat
The Easter Bunny takes his seat in the battle. Dont let his rotund exterior or his buck teeth fool you. He is a terrifying force of nature with an overwhelming urge to eliminate anything that is not cute and fluffy. Watch out!

Bunny holoflag
One of our probes travelled across the entire galaxy to locate any sign of life, when they came back they found only one image... A flag planted firmly on the surface of a planet which we believe is unable to sustain organic life.



Were not sure how many planets the Easter Bunny has claimed in his galactic journey across space, but we know we dont want to be on the receiving end of this ancient beings conquest through our star system. Make sure to equip this flag on Easter Sunday to avoid their wrath!

Bringing an egg to a gunfight
The Easter Bunny has designed a mortar that they have named the Egg launcher. This large scale weapon launches hefty decorative eggs designed to annihilate the opposition. We have stolen this technology and started to implement it into our own weapons.



Once the Mortar shell hits its target the surrounding area will spawn some rather beautiful flowers!



But dont let this fool you, we have reason to believe that this weapon is in fact an ancient terraforming weapon which alters the properties of an entire planet. In this case the results last but a few seconds, but we suspect that the Easter bunny is constructing a much larger scale device to terraform the planets that he has already claimed.

All of these items will be a part of RoboPass which launches on 28th of March 2018. Unlock all of these items and swear allegiance to the fluffy one before Easter Sunday on the 21st of April.

Balance Changes
Part of RoboPass Season 2's update will include a selection of balance changes. Read below for more details

Additions

• Strut Diagonal 3D Left Short part
  
• Strut Diagonal 3D Right Short part
  
• You can find these parts in the Tech Tree

• Light,and Heavy Cubes are all being set to Tier 1 to match the Medium cube Tier. (Originally Light [Tier 4], and Heavy [Tier 3]. Compact Cubes will remain Tier 5.) We are doing this to let players experiment with light, medium and heavy tiers (and the impact this has on agility) from the start of the game.
  
• All Modules will be set to Tier 3. (Originally all modules were Tier 5).
  
• In order to better position the heavy and light cubes with the change in tier, the tech tree has been updated
  
  
• Robot Ranking Re-adjusted to allow for better CPU restrictions per Tier.
  
• Rebalance of Challenges(Previously known as Campaigns)

• The Mass of the Compact Cubes will be increased from 0.666 KG/CPU to 1 KG/CPU
  
• The Mass for all Modules will be set to 3 KG/CPU
  
• The Mass for all Electroshields will be set to 1 KG/CPU

• Light Cube health will be increased from 675 to 750
  
• Medium Cube Health will be increased from 1350 to 1500
  
• Heavy Cube Health will be increased from 1620 to 2000
  
• Compact cube health will be increased from 3000 to 3750 (1000 HP/CPU to 1250 HP/CPU)
  
• Helium health changed from 2025 to 4500 (337.5 HP/CPU to 750 HP/CPU)

• Mech legs will have 2000 HP/CPU
  
• Tank Track will have 2000 HP/CPU
  
• Wheels will have 1500 HP/CPU
  
• Skis will have 1500 HP/CPU
  
• Insect Legs will have 1500 HP/CPU
  
• Rotors will have 1250 HP/CPU
  
• Sprinter Legs will have 1250 HP/CPU
  
• Propellers will have 1250 HP/CPU
  
• Hover Blades will have 750 HP/CPU
  
• Wings and Rudders will have 750 HP/CPU
  
• Thrusters will have 750 HP/CPU

• T2 Wheel and T2 Steering Wheel CPU changed from 35 to 30
  
• T3 Wheel and T3 Steering Wheel CPU changed from 50 to 40
  
• T4 Wheel And T4 Steering Wheel CPU changed from 70 to 50
  
• T2 Tank Track CPU changed from 65 to 50
  
• T3 Tank Track CPU changed from 85 to 55
  
• T4 Tank Track CPU changed from 105 to 60

• Single gun fire-rates for T3 Seeker, T4 Seeker, T4 Aeroflak and T4 Chaingun set to 2x slower instead of 1.5x slower.
  
• T3 Seeker Range decreased by 10%

Hello Robocrafters!

Blasts from the past!
We revealed a few announcements ago that we will be bringing back a few items in cosmetic form to Robocraft. Today is the day that we share further info!

Alignment Rectifier
The Alignment Rectifier is today's first part making a cosmetic return to Robocraft. Initially, these were implemented into Robocraft and would be used to flip your vehicle. However these were removed as we adjusted how players are able to flip their vehicle back into an upright position.



Jammers
No, we have not placed tiny miniature 3d recreations of the freejam team as a cosmetic part. The radar jammers were initially in the game to cause your blip on enemy radars to disappear.



Radar Receiver
This spherical device allowed you to see enemies on your team mates radar within the receivers range. This meant that in order to get a good understanding of conflict on the battlefield, a radar receiver was useful to provide you with the location of the enemy. Various updates to our radar and map system have rendered this device unnecessary.



Enemy radar
The enemy radar pointed towards the nearest in-range enemy whilst also providing the location of nearby surrounding enemies on the mini map. This item did make it much harder to be ambushed by the enemy team but changes to the mini map system have made this device unnecessary.



Retro Cubes
And finally, Retro cubes are returning in cosmetic form in Robopass! We did tease them very briefly in yesterdays Spring rod post, but seems like no one noticed them! These cubes take on the material of cubes which many veterans may remember.. We hope that this brings back some nostalgia to those who are still playing today!



There are just a few more days until RoboPass season 2 launches!

Until then; Build, Drive, Fight!
ReelBigKris

Hello Robocrafters,

Today were revealing a new cosmetic item called the Spring Rods. Coming in three flavours, these parts will bounce your robot* into battle

They're bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy Fun, fun, fun, fun, fun!
The spring rods were developed at a research facility to assist with impact force. Using teleportation technology to transport robots into battle is an expensive process. The plan was simple, launch robots from one planet to another and use spring rods to reduce the impact damage from the planets gravity.

The project was not successful and spring rods were rebranded to become a cosmetic item. Spring Rods come in three sizes; large, not so large and not very large at all.



The Spring Rods will be an unlockable item once RoboPass arrives on the 28th of March! Tomorrow well reveal more cosmetic items!

Until then; Build, Drive, Fight!
ReelBigKris

*Spring Rods are a purely cosmetic item and thus no actual bouncing will occur, pilots expecting to see increased elevation by installing these parts will be significantly disappointed.

Hello Robocrafters,

Sometimes you gotta ride fast, or face being destroyed by a volley of projectiles! Earlier today we revealed a new death effect which will be coming to RoboPass.

All robots run on electricity, until another form of power can be found. Sometimes their power cores can be a little unstable though. Which can result in this happening -



Don't panic though! The explosion is (relatively) small, and the amount of radiation released is harmless... to robots.

Our second death effect which we revealed earlier today is related to the warp in spawn effect we revealed yesterday. The Warp out death effect transports your robot the very second before it is ultimately destroyed!



Similar technology to the Short-Range Warp, the Emergency Reclamation Warp system was designed when robits were still extremely precious after the collapse of major production infrastructure during the battle of Mars. Since robits were so valuable, use of inexpensive disposable beacon drones was common to salvage robots before they were completely destroyed, to minimize loss of resources and allow robots to be repaired instead of replaced.

Where does your robot go? Damned if we know On a side note, Javier, if you are reading this, let us know youre safe, your parents wont stop calling the office.

Our final Death effect brings a sense of humour to all of the destruction you see on the battlefield.



Surely this comical display of robotic ruin will brighten anyone's day. Equip this death effect when youre feeling rather chipper!

And finally, to those of you who are so skilled that you are genuinely concerned that you will never get to experience your own destruction effects, may I present to you a new vapour trail



In a world filled with mechanical mayhem and colossal carnage, the Flower vapour trail is a breath of fresh air!

Thats it for todays cosmetic reveal, tomorrow well be sharing further cosmetic items for our RoboPass which launches on the 28th of March 2019

Until then; Build, Drive, Fight!
ReelBigKris

Hello Robocrafters!

Keeping in line with RoboPass tradition (Can it be classified as a tradition on the second occasion?) we are first revealing the new spawn effects which are part of Robopass. Earlier today we revealed the Warp in spawn effect.



An early prototype of the modern E14-designed deployment warp, which transports large objects by directed energy beam; early designs had much longer range, but targetting required the use of local warp beacons to calibrate the warp properly and prevent robots from warping into solid objects and being instantly crushed.

This spawn effect is inspired from a classic earth film where a robot travels back in time to eliminate an organic being. The sequel is our favorite though, as another version of this robot travels back in time, finds the organic beings child and through the power of love breaks all robotic protocols to initiate the dangerous thumbs up maneuver. Truly a classic.

Next. Were happy to announce the return of Loot Crates!




Just kidding! We dug up one of the old unloved crates we buried behind the office when we scrapped them last year. We then converted it into a transporter device which will deliver your robots into battle in style!



There is just one more spawn effect to unlock which well reveal in just a few days! It is part of a pack so it felt wrong to separate them!

RoboPass Season 2 launches on 28th of March 2019. Tomorrow well reveal another cosmetic type!

Until then; Build, Drive, Fight
ReelBigKris

Note from ReelBigKris on Youtube premiere: Earlier today we revealed the Warp In effect via YouTube as a live premiere. While we did mention this would have just one item to reveal, maybe it was a bit too extravagant. Players expected much more! While well still be revealing short new videos at 17:00 several days throughout the next week they will NOT be revealed via YouTube premiere. Sorry to those that were expecting more, it was an experiment and on this occasion it did not work. Any Youtube live premieres planned for the future will be significantly much more substantial!

Hello Robocrafters!

Were pleased to announce that RoboPass Season 2 is nearly upon us. In fact Season 2 will go live in just seven days! There will be thirty items to unlock, some of which will be part of a new upcoming feature.

All items in RoboPass will be purely cosmetic. Veterans may recognise some of the items which will be making a return in cosmetic form. Season 2 will cost $9.99 but Premium For Life owners will receive a 50% discount while also progressing twice as fast through all grades.

Tomorrow well be revealing the very first cosmetic item at 17:00 UTC via Youtube premiere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzeWPgKZT1E&feature=youtu.be

A blog post following shortly after at 18:00 UTC will provide further details.

Stay tuned, but until then, Build, Drive, Fight!
ReelBigKris

Hi everyone,

A new hotfix has just been made to address some issues and fix bugs. Full details are below:

Changes

• Rebalance Robot Ranking of Parts
  
• RR per CPU for T4 parts changed from 500 to 1,000
  
• RR per CPU for T5 parts changed from 2,500 to 10,000
  
• Upper boundary for T4 robots changed from 875,000 to 1,750,000
  
• T5 robots begin at a RR of 1,750,001
  
• Weapon Upgrade banner now stays on screen slightly longer to make it easier to read
  
• New weapon stats after an upgrade are highlighted green until you swap weapon to help make it clearer
  
• Player 'Rank Up' banner now has AFX and lasts a bit longer
  
• Slight tweaks to enemy spawn counts in T3 campaign to improve framerate
  
• Strut Short Diagonal 2D now has 60kg Mass and Strut Diagonal 2D has 90kg Mass
  
• Improved visual messaging in the Robot Info Panel for weapons that can be upgraded
  

• Rank/Power icons added to their bars in the Robot Info Panel to provide clearer messaging
  
• New Visual effects on the weapon Rank/Power bars
  

• Fixed an issue with the camera when opening the Body Builder with a Bay Skin equipped
  
• Fixed issues with the Battle Loading screen in 21:9 resolutions
  
• Fixed a sizing issue with the power exp label
  
• Weapons screen now uses the selected quality settings.
  
• Fixed an issue where Bronze Rank Steam achievement was not being awarded
  
• Swapping screen during the 'weapon upgraded' banner animation no longer causes it to get stuck
  
• Challenge badge award screen no longer uses a poorly scaled badge
  
• Fixed lighting on Weapons screen
  
• Fixed an issue where languages were not being updated when you change language in game
  
• Idle weapon upgrade animation no longer plays when you open the weapons screen after the first time
  
• Fixed an issue where after upgrading a bay in edit mode, any changes to the loadout will not be saved/displayed correctly
  

Hi everyone,

At 10:00AM UTC on 15th of March, Robocraft will enter scheduled maintenance for one hour. This is to prepare the game for a bug fixing update. Patch notes will follow once maintenance has completed

All the best,
ReelBigKris

Hello Robocrafters!

A massive update has just gone live to Robocraft! The team have been working on a new feature which will provide greater progression across all weapon types! That feature is called Weapon Ranking!

Weapon Ranking
Any time you deal damage with a weapon or heal with nano's you will be earning XP for that weapon. Earn enough XP and you'll be able to upgrade that guns power with the help of Crays giant robot claw!



There are currently thirty weapons to upgrade, each of which have ten levels to progress though. You can read more about the weapon upgrade system by clicking the link below:

https://steamcommunity.com/games/301520/announcements/detail/1821048502382338610

Leaderboards
The global and regional leader boards will track player ratings and weapon ratings. You can participate as an individual, or you and your friends can rise to the top as part of a clan.

Read more about the leader boards by clicking the link below:

https://steamcommunity.com/games/301520/announcements/detail/1776011874558230316

Try out the latest update now!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/301520/Robocraft/

Manual Display name Change!
In addition we have also given players the chance to change their name manually! You can log into your account and change your name by clicking the link below:

Change my Display name

You will however be unable to change your name if you have received a warning or a mute in the past. In these cases, you must contact support.

Update notes

Additions:

• Allow Player name changes in account settings (website)
  
• Weapon upgrades
  
• Leaderboards
  
• AI Support for Nano, Chainguns & Rotors
  
• 6th Birthday Holoflag added to the Item Store for 0 Robits

Hi Robocrafters!
A major update launches tomorrow! This is the first major update to Robocraft in 2019 and we plan to create even bigger and better updates as we progress throughout the rest of the year!

Below are the core highlights for this update:

1) Weapon upgrading
2) Leaderboards
3) AI Support Nano
4) AI Support Rotors
5) AI Support Chaingun
6) Maximum Loadouts reduced from 5-3
7) Player can change their own name manually (On Account settings on Website)
8) Agility changes for Aerofoils
9) Agility changes for Tank tracks
10) Agility changes for Insect Legs
11) Agility Changes for Wheels
12) Improved loading speed when logging in and when returning to garage.
13) Balances changes based on community feedback

As we revealed earlier in the week, Weapon upgrading will use Robits which you earn at the end of matches. Play Robocraft now, and begin earning Robits!

Build, Drive, Fight
ReelBigKris

Hello Robocrafters!

Last week we revealed that players will be able to level up their weapons with Crays giant robotic claw! Today we wanted to reveal more information on how you upgrade weapons.



As you deal damage (or heal) in matches, your gun will earn XP. Lets say you have a robot equipped with lasers and nanos. If you spend all of your time dealing damage with lasers, the XP you earn in game will be given exclusively to that weapon. If you ONLY used nanos, then you would only receive experience for your nano weapon.



However, if you deal damage and heal at the same time, the amount of XP that youll earn will be split between the two respective on much damage or healing you caused with each weapon. So if you spent a lot of time dealing damage and only a little time healing, then youll gain a significant amount of XP for the damage dealing weapon compared to the healing based weapon.

Level up!
Once you have filled the XP bar for a weapon, youll be able to spend Robits to level up that weapon! There are ten levels to progress through for over 30 weapons which means there are 300 opportunities to level up your arsenal! The weapons level will be shown in your inventory.



But you will upgrade your weapons from the weapons tab on the home screen.



But what happens once you level up a weapon? They will increase in firepower. Here are the stats of a level 1 Tier 0 laser



And here are the stats for a level 5 Tier 0 laser



It will take a significant amount of time to level up a weapon completely and well reveal how all of these these new changes will affect Matchmaking very soon!

Build, Drive, Fight
ReelBigKris

Hello Robocrafters!


Earlier this week we revealed the full image of the next new feature were working on. This featured Cray and a giant robot claw looming over a laser.



And today we wanted to reveal just a little more information on this image.



We shared this image in yesterdays tease. That blast from the robot arm is used to level up weapons! There are ten levels in total for each weapon. Progressing through each level will increase your weapon ranking and will play a factor into the matchmaking process (but more on that later)

On March 7th you'll be able to upgrade 30 weapons, each with ten levels of progression. We'll reveal a little more info on the weapon level system on Monday! Until then; Build, Drive, Fight

ReelBigKris

Hello Robocrafters!

In one of our last updates we revealed that we were planning to introduce leaderboards into the next major build on March 7th! We already revealed weapon ratings but today were going to talk about player ratings and clan ratings

Player Ratings
Player ratings will be used to factor in a players diversity across all weapon types. Should a player solo one single weapon, they will see a significantly lower player rating than another who has mastered several weapons.

Clan Ratings
Clan ratings can be split across weapon and player rating. The clans rating is based on the sum of the ranking criteria for all players. So if a clan has several inactive players this will likely bring their overall rank down.

Leaderboard scopes
It is going to be a tough road to the top of a leaderboard. It may seem a very tough goal to reach, but there will be several ways to encourage competitiveness among friends and regionally!

Global And Regional
While there can only be one global person at the top of the leaderboards, there will also be several regional leaderboards:

• Africa
  
• Antarctica
  
• Asia
  
• Europe
  
• North America
  
• Oceana
  
• South America
  

Hello Robocrafters,

Earlier today I lured the server team away from their desks and managed to get a little more info on the new system they are working on for the next update.



This image is still very much work in progress*

Leader boards!
Thats right, looks like were going to be tracking core data to celebrate the top players and clans in Robocraft. The leaderboards will track two core factors in game. Player Rank and Weapon Rank.

Today we wanted to talk a little bit more about one of those core factors in the leaderboard system

Weapon Rank Explained:
Weapons will now have their own individual matchmaking rating. This means that the more you use a weapon and win battles, the higher your weapon rank will increase. There will be 5 main ranks to progress through starting from Bronze and moving through Silver, Gold, Diamond and ultimately Protonium.

Each main rank will have 5 sub ranks to progress through before you are able to rank up to the next main rank. This means in total there will be 24 opportunities to rank up across each weapon. Putting this into greater perspective, there will be over 30 weapons which will have their own weapon rank and this means there will be at least 750 sub ranks for you to progress through!

How Does Winning And Losing Affect My Weapon Rank?
The amount of weapon ranking points that you will earn or lose is dependant on that weapons current weapon rank. To start it will be easy to climb through the ranks, but over time it will be tougher to increase your weapon rank. Below are the points youll earn for winning and losing for each rank.



To show the epic sacel of this weapon progression ranking, in order to reach maximum rank for ALL weapons in game you would need to play over 4,000 games and never lose a single match.

Be the best
With this new Weapon ranking system we are hoping to see players refine their skills and talents to become the best with their favorite weapon! But were also hoping the allure of ranking up other types of weapons will provide players with a greater reason to try other weapon types.

These systems will play a larger role in matchmaking and we plan to provide a greater skill level match among all players

Tomorrow well share details on the player rank system and clan rankings.

Build, Drive, Fight!
ReelBigKris

*The leader board will not exclusively track the accomplishments of the user 'very very very very long name'... The final leader board will represent all players, regardless of the length of their name

Hello Robocrafters!

A little while ago we made some changes to the physics of several movement parts. We are still gathering core feedback from these changes.

On March 7th, further adjustments to movement parts will be made to factor in F=MA. Those parts include

• Tank treads
  
• Wheels
  
• Insect legs
  
• Aerofoils
  

Hello Robocrafters!

Over the past week weve been teasing you with a few images of our upcoming feature planned to go live on the 7th of March. We promised that today well place something on that particularly empty platform.



At the end of this week well reveal what Cray and his giant robot claw are going to be doing to this little laser!

Until then; Build, Drive, Fight
ReelBigKris

Hello Robocrafters,

Over the last few days we have teased a few zoomed in images which alludes to a new feature launching on March 7th

The first image we shared were two crays at a control panel.



This sparked some comments about rotating platforms, mini bot builders, a bonding table and suggestions that Cray was trying to look busy with his tablet!

The following day we then shared another zoomed in image!



This led to players alluding to a few other ideas including a mega nano, bot switching, and the ability to build tiny support bots

And finally, today we share the whole picture zoomed out completely!



This is a new area that can be accessed within Robocraft that will launch on March 7th. This is still currently in the concept stage so a few things may change up to its public release. Do you think the platform is a bit empty right now? Well sort that out on Monday! Until then; Build, Drive, Fight!

ReelBigKris

Hello Robocrafters!

Our next big update is planned for March the 7th! With it will come a few new additions. Some of which will provide new content for all players to achieve, more uses for Robits and of course more movement parts being introduced to the new Physics overhaul.

Further Agility overhauls
The following parts will be overhauled to make way for the F=MA physics system we have made available to previous parts.

• Wheels
  
• Tanks
  
• Insect Legs
  
• Aerofoils
  

Hello Robocrafters!

We will be launching our next major update to Robocraft on March 7th* and more info will be revealed in the coming days. Everyone is hard at work including Cray who is overseeing the next new feature to Robocraft! Can you guess what hes working on?



Build, Drive, Fight!
ReelBigKris

*This is an estimated date and may be impacted should we come across any issues during the development period Of course, if we dont hit that date, blame Josh!

Hello Robocrafters!

We are now out of maintenance. We have addressed the following bugs in this update:

Fixes

• Robots at 10,000CPU with extra cosmetic CPU can now be downloaded from the factory into a new bay without bringing up an error.
  
• Copying a robot that exactly fits in a bay into another bay of the same size will no longer show a cost to perform this action.
  
• Fixed a bug that could trigger an error if the confirm button of the Bay Upgrade screen was clicked multiple times
  
• Fixed visual issues with EMP effects
  
• The tutorial can now be skipped.
  
• Single leg builds can now be controlled without needing to force a respawn.
  

Hello Robocrafters!

We will be issuing out a hot fix on February 20th at 10:00AM UTC which will address several bugs. This maintenance period should last just one hour.

Thank you for your patience! Patch notes for this update will be made live once the update is live.

Build, Drive, Fight!
ReelBigKris

Hello Robocrafters! The big physics agility update is now live! Josh and Chris live streamed a developer build last night, showing off the changes to the agility system, the CPU progression system and revealed the NEW flying AI robots. We uploaded that video to our YouTube channel where you can watch it on demand!

https://youtu.be/JeNdlJxoL3g

MAJOR PHYSICS OVERHAUL



This massive update includes big changes to the way robots feel. Gifs, screenshots and text dont do it justice, you HAVE to play it in order to really experience the types of changes that F=ma has on all existing and new robots! So what are you waiting for?! Play it now, install the game if you havent done so already and then let us know how the new robots FEEL when controlling them.

For those of you who arent able to access a PC to play Robocraft RIGHT NOW, read on for further details on the changes in this major update.

AGILITY OVERHAUL
Heavy robots feel heavier, lighter robots are much more nimble. Robots will also rotate at different speeds to factor in these new changes, meaning if you have created a completely fearsome robot with Weapons attached to one side, you should be even more cautious of being flanked if you haven't factored in your rotation speed! We expect players will create new strategies, playstyles and even builds to consider for this major change to movement.

Sprinter Legs have also had a particularly nice adjustment made to them which removes the delay in movement after landing from a jump. They are now more agile than ever before, and will be able to jump in and out of battle quickly.



The movement parts that have received the F=ma physics overhaul include

• Sprinters
  
• Mechs
  
• Hovers
  
• Rotors
  
• Thrusters
  
• Propellers

• Decrease Damage by 5%
  
• Decrease Energy consumption by 5%
  
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• Decreased Damage by 15%
  
• Reduced Energy consumption by 10%
  
• Increased time between shots by 0.025
  
• Increased explosion radius by 5%
  

• Increased damage per shot by 10%
  
• Increased energy consumption by 10%
  
• Increased time between shots by 0.25
  
• Decreased movement inacuracy by 5%
  

• Increased healing per shot by 5%
  
• Decreased energy consumption by 5.25%
  

• Increased damage by 5%
  
• Decreased energy consumption by 10%
  

• Decreased damage by 5%
  
• Decreased energy consumption by 5%
  
• Increased projectile range by 5%
  

• Increased damage per shot by 2.5%
  
• Decreased energy consumption by 5%
  
• Decreased time between shots by 2.5%
  

• No changes
  

• Increased damage by 2.5%
  
• Increased projectile range by 5%
  

• Increased health by 5%
  

• Agility Physics for Sprinters, Mechs, Hovers, Rotors, Thrusters and Propellers
  
• New Garage Bays now have a 750 CPU limit and can be upgraded using Robits
  
• Changed Starter Robots and Body Builder parts to fit within the 750 CPU limit
  
• Rebalanced Tier brackets to give an effective CPU limit for each tier
  
• Weapon balance changes based on player survey feedback
  
• The AI can now use flying robots with Wings and Rudders
  
• Reverted intro video trailer
  
• Extra Robits can now be bought in the Store using CC
  
• CC renamed from Cosmetic Credits to Cosmic Credits

• Mortar VFX improved
  
• Single gun fire rate for Plasma didn't match the stats shown on the weapon info tooltip
  
• Neon cubes no longer have a darker border
  
• Clicking 'back to the game' after a successful purchase in a non-Steam client now closes the store instead of going to another thank-you page
  
• Further Improvements to lobby queue time accuracy