Tomorrow, March 30th, we’ll be rolling back the Robocraft clocks and putting some much community-requested features back into the game. If you follow our game director Mark Simmons on Twitter, you’ll already know that he recently alluded to some game mode changes in Robocraft. Well, we’re super-excited to announce that tomorrow we’ll be introducing a new ‘Play Screen’ and with it will come unranked ‘Battle Arena’ mode with the current ranked ‘Normal Mode’ becoming ‘League Arena’. The new League Arena mode will also include some additional rewards for players participating in this mode.
Continue reading below for the full breakdown of what’s coming in tomorrow’s update. Please note that we will release the full bug fix list after the update has been rolled out tomorrow.
NEW:
Unranked Battle Arena added to the game*
New play screen
Basic Mode has been renamed to Team Deathmatch
Normal Mode has been renamed to League Arena
Custom Games placeholder added (yes it really is coming soon)
In League Arena, all players on the winning team will each receive a Protonium Crate and all players on the losing team will each receive a gold crate
All League Arena players will now earn double XP
All new players will now receive more starter blocks when they create their account so they can start building Robots straight away. In addition to the blocks on their starter Robots, new players to the game will also receive 2,000 solid square chassis cubes and 1,000 of each other common type chassis cube in their inventory
OTHER CHANGES:
New keyboard shortcuts (this affects new players only). Any player wishing to change their keyboard shortcuts can do so via the controls screen (accessed by pressing the escape key in the garage view)
Team Deathmatch - H
Battle Arena - B
League Arena - L
BRAWL - J
The name of the game mode being played is now displayed on the pause menu
Removed the game lobby for players levels 1-5 to decrease queue times for all players
Disabled the dust particle on low quality graphic settings on the following maps:
Ophiuchus Valley
Spitzer Dam
Tihonium Canyon
Tharsis Rift
*The addition of unranked Battle Arena will mean the average player may see an increase in queue times to around 90 seconds. Those players with a high MMR should see improved queue times over their current averages. The queue times between ranked and unranked modes should be similar. [ 2017-03-29 15:38:07 CET ][ Original post ]
Build insane robot battle vehicles that drive, hover, walk and fly! Add weapons from the future and jump in the driving seat as you take your bot into battle against other players in this competitive free-to-win action game.
BUILD - A futuristic robot battle vehicle from cubes, add wheels, thrusters, wings, legs, tank tracks, rail cannons and plasma launchers
DRIVE - Jump into the pilot seat of your robot and drive it into battle in jet cars, tanks, flying warships, helicopters, drones; anything your imagination desires.
FIGHT - Battle online in massively multiplayer mayhem against players from all over the world on dedicated servers.
- Over 200 cubes and components to collect and combine to make a million different Robot designs
- Be part of a constantly changing metagame with new weapons, components and functionality added every month
- Watch as your enemy's robot breaks apart cube by cube as you destroy them with powerful weaponry
- Invite friends and chat in-game
- Form Platoons and battle on the same team with your friends
- Save your robots in the garage to the cloud and share them with other players via the in-game Robot Factory.
- Free-to-win, everything required to get to the very top of the tree in Robocraft can be gained for free
MINIMAL SETUP
OS: Ubuntu 16.04
Processor: Intel Dual Core or better with SSE2 support or equivalent AMD familyMemory: 4 GB RAM
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Shader Model 3.0 Compatible GPUNetwork: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 2 GB available spaceAdditional Notes: Min resolution 1024x768