Arena Event

Yesterday, me and BoyC had a bit fun with the online players. :)
We quickly created an arena, and made some player Vs npc rounds :)

New patch, exploit fun! :)

The first days of 2010 were pretty interesting so lets see what did we fix... in today's patch. :)

-Our dear testers found two speedhax exploits, which have been now fixed.
-We heard many testers complaining that the resists ain't working... So we tested it, and found out they are working perfectly. But every ammo type shot kinetic damage instead of seismic. Ouch. Fixed. :D
-We even had a reload exploit. We like to fix these exploits, as this type of testing requires the most thinking/hardwork to find. ^^
-We had a bit of client fps slowdown, because the lazy shadows went to party. The party's over, so we forced them back to work. Fps is back now. Hamsters are healthy in the server room too.
-Rockets now have a nice smoke effect! Check it out asap! :)

We tried to have a bit of brake, but still, we allowed around 100 players into the game during the holiday, invitation based. :)

Dehrios has become GM in the last days, as a reward for his hard work on player support. He's really helpful for us, because he's even available, when we are sleeping or having a party... in the middle of the night! (at least for us.) You can contact with him in English language, only. Cheers ;)

Our Online player record has been now 72, and We have a new statistic on the blog, representing player death per hour. We all pray for the lost souls of our brothers, fighting for a better world, and for an enslaved Nia. Don't worry, these are just robots. Shhh, move along citizen.

Update: BoyC just told me that we accepted 200 new beta registrations. Check mailbox ;)

'Mesmers just wanna have fun'

Blood and Thunder!

Some guys posted a nice video about smaller lev npc-s getting PEW-PEW-d with Mesmers. (Actually, Mesmer is the game's high lev Magnetic robot.) Hit the video for some 1 shot-half hp magic tricks.

+1 Joker: Pvp movie

Patchday

Newest patch is released:

• Terrain Container, Dropable&lootable
• Gui Updates
• Bugfixes
• Minor terraform modifications on the terrain.

The new EW mechs still need a bit work, but the mission system goes pretty well, i hope we can fill it up with contant, and release the missions in 2 weeks.

Just messing around.

Christmas soon.

So we approved another 100 beta registrations.

Have fun&Happy holidays to everyone! :)

Info time.

Hello there everyone! :)

Another week goes by, and a few information's leaked out, so I guess I should give you some nice pictures&info about everything that's currently on the work.

First of all, we heading quite well with the mission system. Actually it's in testing, and it's working pretty well. We have a few type of mission objectives: gothere, collectitem, shootsome. These objectives can be known at the start, or we can update your objectives when the time arise. All missions can have standing requirements to the faction that offers it, or it can be linked together, as chain missions, where you can advance in story&mission. We have repeatable missions too, as we currently don't have time to create so huge number of missions to be enough for decades, we will have at least the 25% of the missions repeatable (I think). [like, go shoot those things because we hate them] Mission reward can be any thing: From money to items, and of course standing modifiers to factions. (It both can be negative or positive, we can grant you as many faction modifiers in one mission as we want. So it's possible that you gain + with a faction, and in the same time loosing standing with another one. (because they don't like each other)) There will be some missions, where you can choose where you want to finish the mission: multiple finishing points will be allowed, where you can deliver the mission, with different rewards.

Minor update: Waypoints are now shown in the landmarks, and got nice icon too. Its still just temporary, but I really like it.

Okay, other thingy. Many of you heard about "hybrids" and that we doing something about the production system. Well, first things first, hybrids. What the hell is that?

It's a kinda old feature, what we didn't implement into standard gameplay because of multiple reasons... But still, we have it. We can mix the robots head-chassis-legs, in any combo. It means you can grab a robots chasis, put a different head on it, with a different leg: Tada, Woooow. :)

So here's an example picture gallery: I grabbed the Arbalest Chassis, put on different heads&legs.

Intakt-Arbalest-Cameleon

Baphomet-Arbalest-Waspish

Argano-Arbalest-Laird

Okay, now all of this is "cool", but whats good in this, why is it soo cool? Well the trick is, that each component (head-chassis-leg) has it's own stats, it's own slots, and it's own bonuses. So it means, that when you see the whole robot, as a complex, pre-created set, i mean the original robot, the robot bonuses are coming from it's parts. If you tear it apart, each part will have a part of it's bonus, in %, or maybe a part takes a whole bonus. This way, if you mix up robots, you will be able to create new robots with new specialization: A rocket-laser user, because you mix pelistal and thelodica robot parts. It will not have the same amount of bonus, but it will work well, giving bonus to both weapon types. Or you can create a hauler, that can actually use EW modules. Of course not every combination will be allowed, to avoid graphic bugs... But many combinations will be able to get produced. But beaware: because the parts brings the stats too, it's possible to have an EW bonused robot, but if it lacks the CPU capacity, it will be unuseable.

Okay I think that's for today, see you guys later!