Center of Mass Indicators and more are coming soon to Robocraft. In our second Quality of Life poll you voted in your thousands and made it known to us that you wanted more information when building your robots, in particular adding a “robot center of mass, total mass and total health indicators in edit mode”. As with all the QoL polls, the winner gets priority over the other features and we got busy implementing the feature as soon as we could and we’re pleased to announce that very soon this functionality will make its way into Robocraft! We’ll be releasing the new advanced build information as part of the next BIG game update and in short, will believe this new information will help both new and veteran builders create better robots, quicker and easier. Once activated via the settings menu, you’ll have access to the following data which is updated in realtime as you build your robot: - Total health - Average health per CPU - Total shields - Average shields per CPU - Total mass - Average mass per CPU Our lovely community manager Drognin has created a video showing how it all works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KEZgaJBchQ Want to know a bit more? Here’s a quick deep-dive. New Settings Options: First off, to access these new data streams, and the CoM (Center of Mass) indicator, you’ll need to ensure they’re activated in the game settings menu (see below).
Center of Mass: With the Center of Mass (COM) indicator activated, in edit mode you will see a visual indicator where the center of your robot is; invaluable for creating more balanced robots that aren’t going to fall over, be too top-heavy or uncontrollable on the battlefield.
Advanced Robot Build Information: Once turned on in the settings menu, you’ll find the Advanced Robot Info indicator in the top-right hand corner of the screen in Edit Mode (see image below). The new information displayed will assist you in your bot building by displaying the following vital data: - Total health - Average health per CPU - Total shields - Average shields per CPU - Total mass - Average mass per CPU
Please note that shield data will only be displayed if you have shields present on your robot. While we can’t give you a concrete release date for these new and exciting additions to Robocraft, we’re hoping (fingers and toes crossed here) that we’ll be able to announce the release date tomorrow. We will of course keep you in-the-loop on release dates and other important stuff.