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[Henny]

I discovered that the thrusters in my screenshot can be mounted underneath the robot, which is pretty handy.

Are they tier 1000?

Tier 5.

Amazing.

I sense sarcasm.  Yeah, I don't get why everything needs to be so high tier to be unlocked either.

[crazysheep]

Something about progression and preventing the feeling that T10 isn't just going to be boring. (hint: T10 was already srsbizniz tier before the removal of the repair wall)

[blazing glory]

Something about progression and preventing the feeling that T10 isn't just going to be boring. (hint: T10 was already srsbizniz tier before the removal of the repair wall)

Yep, instead they make the first 5 tiers so sparse no one can be compelled to go any further.

[crazysheep]

Yeah, that's one possibly neverending argument, most often countered with "but you have a goal to work towards instead of unlocking a slightly faster and better armoured version of a T1 part!"

Still, the endgame is dominated by stuff you unlock in.. T2, I think? SMG hovers everywhere.

[blazing glory]

Still, the endgame is dominated by stuff you unlock in.. T2, I think? SMG hovers everywhere.

Yeah, but it feels nice to actually have a choice in what you use.

And I know I ditched my hover a while ago to make a half track and never looked back.

[crazysheep]

Yeah, that's why I think it was a good move to reinstate T1 thrusters, but more can be done to keep everyone interested in moving along.

[Neonivek]

It would probably be better if this game was a steady stream of new options and parts as the game becomes more and more complex with different strategies.

Instead of being a bottleneck that just sort of trickles until that mid point where you get everything... and then nothing else truly unlocks.

[crazysheep]

inb4 "feature creep", "confuses the newbies", "hard to balance" arguments come trickling in :p

[Girlinhat]

A balance between "make things gradually unlock as you tier up" and "all the fun stuff is T10".

[Henny]

OK, here's a second attempt, this time barely skirting tier 5. I discovered adding a second stearing [sic] ski gives more survivability, and it can be built more compactly and still handle well.

[MrRoboto75]

Bumping as the Megabot gamemode/parts are officially live.  There are also helicopter roters available from tier 5 upward.

Additionally, wings/rudders are available at tier 4 again, and one of the early tier electro plates are back.

SMGs do a tiny bit more damage up close, and railguns have a short delay between shots.

[Aklyon]

Bumping as the Megabot gamemode/parts are officially live.  There are also helicopter roters available from tier 5 upward.

Additionally, wings/rudders are available at tier 4 again, and one of the early tier electro plates are back.

SMGs do a tiny bit more damage up close, and railguns have a short delay between shots.

T2 electroplates, apparently. The Megaseat required to use megabot-sized CPU limits costs a million RP and who-knows how many t10 TP, and alignment rectifiers have been obsoleted by the new and improved Pilot Seat. Supposedly friends/platoons are more stable but platoon must be same-tier. Permanent bigger mothership unlockable with megabot TP, and theres some sort of new armor block.

More importantly, you forgot to mention the mirror tool!

BUILD MIRROR TOOL

    Push ‘X’ to toggle on/off
    Cubes placed are mirrored across the middle of the arrow on the ground of the Mothership Garage Bay
    Build symmetrically very quickly
    Semi-intelligent, so places left EP when you place right version, and places non-symmetrical Tank Tracks correctly when mirrored
    It does not allow you to move the mirror line, and does not allow you to build mirror with craft that are an even number of cubes in width – we know these features are very important, we just haven’t had the time to put them in yet – we will ensure these features get in with an update fairly soon after this major launch

[blazing glory]

Just saw the full update notes.

Pretty neat overall, and they are edging into making the early tiers more entertaining.

EDIT:Latest items I'd like to see would be the "aircraft wheels" which would be like the wheels that actual planes use, so that it'd be easier to place wheels on aircraft.

I'd also like to see "reinforced glass", which would come with each tier and be 10% weaker then the current tier's blocks, so we could have windshields and cockpits that can resist damage.

Though I'd much rather have reinforced glass then easier placed wheels.

[crazysheep]

Personally, I'd rather have easier placed wheels than reinforced glass, just because glass sounds more cosmetic than anything else

[SHAD0Wdump]

So I made something I've been wanting to try for a while when rotors came out...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

This is the Scythe Prototype at tier 7, guess what it's inspired by?
 It's interesting because it controls very strangely, but is VERY effective when used right. It can strafe very well up to the point where it can do what I call 'sideslip ascension', where it strafes upward. This seems to have caused plasma bombers some serious grief because this thing can ascend almost as good as they can while still moving rapidly to the side.
 It has lightweight armor around the front aerofoils designed to be able to absorb one tier +1 SMG hit along a strip with plastic blocks to extend the reach in which it can catch a shot and redirect it to be absorbed.
 5 T8 SMGs provide decent firepower.

 My first game with it managed to net me 7 kills, I was rather suprised.

 It of course dies rapidly to railgunners, and if it gets hit with plasma it stands to lose a large chunk of itself, but getting hit with plasma is not the end of the world, this thing seems very hard to stop from flying as it still can as long as one rotor remains.