Our latest update, Cash of Clans comes to Robocraft tomorrow, bringing with it an exciting new way of rewarding you for your hard-fought battles. In this week’s update we will be implementing a new system which we’re calling ‘Clan Seasons’.

The purpose of Clan Seasons is to introduce regular, monthly rewards of additional Robits for all members of a clan. As each member participates in battles, it increases the Robits reward so the more active a clan, the more Robits everyone within receives. For more info on how Clans Seasons will work, check out our deep dive.

SEASON ZERO STARTS TOMORROW!

Season Zero is a short 11 day Season ending on October 31st and will provide players with TRIPLE Robit rewards!

Clan Seasons isn’t the only new thing being added to Robocraft this week; here’s what else you can expect to find.

-------------------- NEW --------------------

> New end of battle (EOB) summary screen added.



EOB screen displays the following:

> Your current personal XP for the season (SXP)
> Current player level (and XP requirement gauge for next level)
> Clan Total XP (TXP) - only displayed to those players in a clan
> Battle Experience earned
> Party Bonus XP earned for those players in a party
> Premium Bonus XP earned - Premium members receive 2x XP


> New Clan Widget:



> All clan members Personal SXP (Season XP) added to Clan Widget
> Clan TXP (Total XP) added to clan widget - This is the running total of all Clan members SXP during the current season.
> End of Season Reward summary screen added:



> Robits are added to clan member accounts at the end of each season. The amount of Clan Total XP (TXP) earned is converted into Robits

-------------------- BALANCE --------------------

> Laser, Plasma, Rail and Nano fire rate have been reduced at lower gun counts, but the maximum number of guns necessary for full attack speed hasn’t changed.
E.g. Laser Distintegrator gains its maximum benefit at 4 guns. This is still the case but having only 1 gun now shoots considerably slower than before, but having 3 guns only shoots slightly slower than before. Having 4 guns shoots at exactly the same fire rate as before.

Why?

As some of our veterans may remember, there was a period where Robocraft battles were filled almost entirely with gunbeds. Gunbeds are robots which are little more than bricks covered in lasers or plasma. They aren’t particularly creative or pretty, but they were very strong so a lot of players used them which overall stunted building creativity and robot diversity.

To resolve this, we reduced the number of guns of one type necessary to deal high damage, but this in combination with the introduction of Loadouts has allowed players to have ‘swiss army knife’ robots which can have a few lasers, plasma, rail and/or nano with a majority of the benefit without having to dedicate too much CPU into each.

We expect these changes to improve the situation in the following areas:

> Cause players to dedicate more CPU into laser, plasma, rail and nano in order to gain the same benefit.
> Increase the importance of shooting off weapons first as their fire rate will drop more rapidly than before as each one is shot off.
> Offer deeper decision making opportunities as building generalist robots will be weaker.
> Increase the effectiveness of using specalized and diversified robots when in platoons, rather than all playing generalist roles.

Although we don’t believe the above goals will be achieved perfectly, this is but one step towards improving the value of building in Robocraft, and the diversity of robots on the battlefield. We will continue to make changes in the future as part of these efforts.
We will provide more exact data of the changes once the update goes live tomorrow.


Other Balance:

> Rotor Blade Recon and Rotor Blade Invader have had their flight height reduced to match the Rotor Blade Assault.

-------------------- CHANGES --------------------

> Changes to Premium prices and discounts in pound sterling.
> Character limit for clans and usernames changed to 32.
> Clan Tab updated to clearly display the changes made by the Clans Seasons Update.


-------------------- BUG FIXES --------------------

> Fixed a bug with the reload sound effect for Rocket launchers.
> Fixed a bug which caused game servers to stall for up to an hour if they fail to load game settings.
> Fixed a bug where "Remove robot from the CRF" dialogue box was empty.
> Fixed a visual bug relating to a clan disbandment while you have a pending invite from them.
> Fixed an issue where the top HUD menu disappeared after the appearance of certain screens.
> Fixed a bug where the 'enable vertical strafing' box was unticked after making edits to the bot and entering battle.
> Fixed an issue where Searching clans failed when trying to load more clans more than seven times.
> Fixed an issue where it was possible to lose the mouse cursor and not be able to get it back.
> Fixed an audio issue where if you received a party invite and returned from a game or from another scene, you heard the sound effect again.
> Fixed an issue when a friend request is accepted by both users in game (via the TAB screen) there is no "user has come online" message.
> Fixed an issue where tower crystals would sometimes not fully display when a fusion tower was captured.
> Fixed a visual bug where the 'earth geo orbit' loading screen gets garbled just before transitioning to the menu.
> Made the ‘invite only’ message in the clan widget consistent throughout.
> Fixed a bug where users could see messages from players they had blocked.
> Fixed a rare issue with inviting the 50th member to a clan.