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.