Today we traveled back from the future and brought back some old friends - Megabots!

We listened to you guys have have brought them back in a bigger, better and ultimately more free-er way than before. You can now build MEGA-sized Robots up to 10,000 CPU and take them into Custom Games as well as Play vs AI mode. Megabots are free for all players, a premium membership is not required to enjoy them.

In addition to the awesomeness that is Megabots, we’ve made a number of other improvements to Robocraft including some pretty big changes to searching the CRF. We’ve fixed a stack of bugs too.

NEW:

• Megabots added to both Custom Games and Play vs AI modes*

• FREE to all players

• Highest CPU is now 10,000

• Any Robot over 2,000 CPU is flagged as a Megabot on the edit bay floor

• Megabots can only be played in Custom Games or Play vs AI modes

• Weapon Energy doesn’t change building beyond 2,000 CPU

• Megabots in garage bay slots are highlighted with a red flag

• Megabots can be uploaded and downloaded to/from the CRF

• New CPU filter added to the CRF to accommodate Robots 2k - 10k CPU

• New Custom Games sliders:

• Health Multiplier - set down to 10% or up to 500% Health multiplier for all Robots in battle

• Weapon Energy Multiplier - set down to 10% or up to 500% Weapon -
  Energy multiplier for all Robots in battle

• If any player in a Custom Game clicks on their player avatar on any screen, they can chose to leave the Custom Game

IMPROVEMENTS:

• Improvements to the CRF with added search/sorting filters

• Sort CRF results for specific parts or Robots with no movement or weapon parts

• Sorting by cost

• “Any weapon” now rejects robots with no cubes from “weapon” inventory category

• “Any movement” now rejects robots with no cubes from “movement” inventory category

• Helium removed from CRF movement filter

• Thrusters added to the CRF movement filter

• Removed the hover over info pane from the CRF

• Play Screen updated to lock-out game modes if player has a Megabot selected

• Improved Nano VFX and SFX as a direct result of player feedback

• Improvements to team buff UI

• Visual improvements to the drag-and-drop of players in Custom Games

• Added missing SFX to some Custom Games actions/events

BALANCE CHANGES:

• To make the Nano projectiles look more like a beam, we increased their fire rate to 20 shots per second and proportionally reduced their energy consumption and heal per hit. The overall heal per second should remain the same

BUG FIXES:

• Fixed Pit Mode to work with Tharsis Rift Map

• Fixed a visual bug that caused some module icons in the loadout to repeatedly flick between small and expanded circles when being used

• Fixed a typo on the Hellion Crater name in the Custom Games map list
  Reverted zero mass change for Helium Cube because it was causing unexpected issues

• Fixed a bug which caused the party widget to appear on the crate screen when returning from a match

• Fixed a bug which allowed a custom game leader to interact with the party widget while in the queue for battle

• Fixed a bug which caused the Custom Games damage slider to be in the incorrect position to some players when they returned from a Custom Game

• Fixed a bug which caused the wrong score to be displayed under player names in the Pit

• Fixed a bug that caused the + button in Custom Games to sometimes fail when switching between Pit and another mode

• Fixed a bug which caused the in-game camera to be off-centre when using the Blink module in certain situations

• Fixed a bug which caused the active garage bay to zoom in/out when using the scroll wheel anywhere on the screen (including chat)

• Changes to Custom Games invalid invites to ensure consistency with party invites

• Fixed a bug which caused the mouse icon to appear as a hand when in the CRF

• Fixed a bug which caused early leaver penalties to carry over into Custom Games

• Fixed a bug which permitted Custom Games party members to interact with the party widget

• Fixed a bug which allowed party invitees to interact with the party widget

• Fixed a bug which prevented players from using the scroll wheel in -
  Custom Games chat unless they were hovering over the scrollbar

• Fixed a bug in the Pit which caused players to spawn in and around the same area as everyone else

• Fixed an audio bug which caused the wheels engine sound to continue playing when a player loaded back to the mothership

• Custom Games sliders and checkboxes are now greyed out for players joining a custom game

• Fixed a bug which prevented the pending clan invite “!” from disappearing if an invite has been accepted/rejected

KNOWN ISSUES:

• Excessive use of flags on a Megabot will result in severe game lag for the player using the Megabot

• Setting the Weapon Energy Multiplier in Custom Games to 10% may cause some weapons to not fire. This is caused by a player having less weapon energy available than what is required for a weapon to fire

*With Megabots in Custom Games we wanted to give you the freedom to have maximum Megabot craziness without restrictions. However, depending on your PC’s power/spec, pushing things to the max such as a 5v5 10k Megabot Battle Arena fight may result in some lag.