Robocraft

[dortmunder]

Neat little F2P game on Steam if you're into building vehicles, strapping guns to them and going around shooting each other.

They patched and nerfed some of the weapons today though, and made the lower tiers a bit less fun. I haven't played since the patch though, so don't know if they completely ruined the early tiers or not.

It's free though, and a fairly small download. I suggest giving it a go if you like this type of thing

[Regolyth]

Okay, I'm intrigued. I checked out the gameplay video for it and it does look like fun.



It's an interesting concept. I was thinking Twisted Metal when I first read your post, but I guess it's not really like that at all.

[dortmunder]

I guess I should have put this in the Games section. Thought I did Can move it there if you want.

After playing it a bunch more I find they need to do some MAJOR balancing work if they want this game to take off.

How the tiering system works leaves a big opening for new player stomping. It seems like they went out of their way to make anyone new to the game not want to play(or hoping they will try to get around their frustration by spending money, hah!).

Parts cost points, certain amounts of points move you into the next tier, and so on, up to tier 10. You can basically make a low cost vehicle, 4 wheels, a few blocks, and then one or more(however many you can fit to stay just the tier you want) higher tier weapons on it. It basically leads to a bunch of people driving around vehicles that oneshot everything. They can still be destroyed, but it makes for a lot of un-fun gamplay for new players.

Some of the weapons are set up very poorly too. Plasma cannons, which do an explosive AoE damage, often completely destroy someones vehicle, or disable it enough they can't really fight back, fire all at once. So having 6+ of these firing all at one time is just a mess.

The Rail guns are often complained about, but if you miss, you're pretty much screwed. They take 15s to charge back up after you fire them, but if you hit they usually blow a vehicle in half or outright kill the pilot. They are constantly being nerfed and tweaked

SMG's, which are basically pew pew laser guns are set up very terribly. They all fire one at a time, so if you have a lot of these on your vehicle, it may take a lot of shots to cycle back to the first. If you have your vehicle set up weirdly, as if to be able to fire in multiple directions, this can lead to some stupid stuff, like shots firing into the sky or ground, not where your crosshairs are. Also, every shot will have a recoil(expanded crosshairs) effect if you hold the fire button down. Doesn't seem to make sense if every gun is firing in an order. The next gun in order wouldn't have a recoil effect. They are good for chipping blocks off people at long range though, since the crosshairs get tiny when stationary and you wait a second or so between shots.

It can still be a fun game if you can tough it out. But you'll be in store for a lot of getting wrecked by people using higher tier parts than you most of the time. They just need to work on some balancing, like only letting each tier use items from 1 tier above.