Hello everyone!

We’re back with a new (but smaller than usual) update.

We’re hard working on many different core aspects of the game at once and to avoid issues or instability during that phase, we’re releasing a ‘tweak & balance’ update. Rest assured that new content will be added in the next update.

There wasn’t a playtest phase and we’re not highlighting any particular change this time around considering the scope of this update.

We’ve been less active on the Steam forums and news recently because some of the people involved in the process have been less able to focus on that, but things should go back to normal in a month. We’re sorry for that and we hope you don’t miss us too much.

We’ll list some of the systems we’re working on here but we’ll be releasing a developer news later down the road to give you more details on certain of these.
Items - We’re trying out several ways to make them more interesting both in terms of choices and effects. In the process we’re also trying out to induce kind of a more ‘roguelike’ side to them by increasing how they influence replayability.
Perks - While we said we were happy with where the perk system stands right now, modifying other systems such as Items require us to also tweak the perk system a bit in order to make it fit properly to the changes.
Performance - Like we said before, many ingame systems are going under revision and re-coding to improve the game’s overall performance.
Multiplayer - We’re working on the different ‘smaller’ systems during a run as well as the overall public matchmaking system (being able to find a brobot directly in the game).
Basecamp - For a long time the basecamp has been left aside of our priority list but it has now risen. We started iterating on the visual side of it, to give Max and the guardian the workshop they deserve. We’re also thinking of different ways to improve its navigation and ease-of-use.
Text System Rework - While this is a boring topic since it won’t affect anything you actually get to experience in the game, we thought we’d list it here anyway as it’s a lengthy process that actually needs some production time. This will help us improve the game performance as well as enable us to more easily add new languages, keywords, fancy descriptions and build small systems to automatically track value changes between different versions (and therefore write even more detailed patch notes!).
Game Content - Aside from that, we’re always trying to bring more content to increase the game’s variety in the form of weapons, enemies, bosses, affixes, perks etc. And while none made the cut this time around, you’ll definitely get some new toys in the next update.

That being said, here is the full list of changes for the 0.8.3 update:

• Added a new ‘Ping’ action
• For now you can only ping weapons, which will highlight and share the weapon to your brobot in multiplayer
• Added an ‘anti-kill-steal’ system in multiplayer: dealing at least 40% damage to an enemy will automatically trigger any of your ‘Takedown’ effects when the enemy is destroyed, regardless of whom destroyed it

Developer’s Note: These are just the first steps towards building a better multiplayer experience, which will then enable us to implement the public matchmaking.

• Increased the frequency at which enemies drop weapons by 20%

Developer’s Note: We eventually want rewards such as weapons to be granted at specific locations to avoid breaking the flow of the combat but this new system is still a work-in-progress and in the meantime we need to increase the amount of weapon choices you encounter.

• Cells fade duration increased from 8.5s to 9s

Developer’s Note: We noticed that we were often just a little bit too short on time to gather cells when playing with a gamepad. Obviously just changing this value won’t fix the issue but we’re still thinking hard about how the cell system works. We want more time to think about it so in the meantime this is the change we made.

Developer’s Note: We also went back on our will to modify how snipers / scoping and cell gathering works. Scoping will still gather cells from afar.

• Reduced Trail Bots movement speed by approximately 30% and increased their health by approximately 20%
• Trail Bots now have a ‘Sprint’ mode triggered when you shoot them or get too close to them. It highly increases their movement speed
• Several levels have new types of Trail Bots: Speedy Trail Bots and Beefy Trail Bots
• The base critical ratio of non-critical weapons and effects reduced from 130% to 125% (triggering a lucky critical with your Rocket Launcher will therefore only deal 25% extra damage instead of 30%)

Developer’s Note: This is mostly a change made to have a critical value which is more consistent with the other game’s values rather than a balance change.

Drone
• Updated Drone behavior to cumulate their old behavior with the new one we implemented a few updates ago, they should be more aggressive than before and spend more time in the midst of the combat rather than above your robot’s ears while still closely following you
• Increased base Drone damage and health but reduced the efficiency gained from Perks and Perk Upgrades, their final power level is approximately 20% higher than before
• Drones now only take 60% damage from Bosses’ attack patterns
Scrap Blaster
• Projectile speed increased from 4200 to 7000
Rocket
• Damage increased from 70.0 to 75.0
• Radius increased from 1.85m to 2.0m

Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 9.0 to 10.0
Alternative Fire
• Damage increased from 40.0 to 50.0
• Radius increased from 1.25m to 1.5m

Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 12.0 to 14.0

Primary Fire
• Projectile speed increased from 7000 to 9000

Primary Fire
• Projectile speed decreased from 10000 to 9000

Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 15.0 to 16.0
• Impact force increased from 11.0 to 12.0
• Firerate increased from 3.57/s to 4.0/s
• Pellet amount decreased from 2 to 1
• Critical ratio increased from 1.25 to 1.5
• Range increased from 12.0 to 16.0
• Projectile speed increased from 7000 to 17500
• Heat per shot increased from 6.5 to 10.0
Alternative Fire
• Damage increased from 64.0 to 66.0

Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 12.0 to 15.0
• Projectile speed increased from 5000 to 9000

Primary Fire
• Projectile speed increased from 3600 to 4000

Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 9.0 to 9.5
• Projectile speed decreased from 12500 to 9000

Primary Fire
• Range increased from 9.0 to 12.0
• Projectile speed decreased from 12500 to 9000

Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 44.0 to 47.0
• Critical ratio increased from 1.75 to 2.0
• Projectile speed decreased from 40000 to 17500

Primary Fire
• Projectile speed decreased from 20000 to 17500

Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 15.0 to 16.0
Alternative Fire
• Damage increased from 56.0 to 58.0

Primary Fire
• Projectile speed decreased from 10000 to 9000

Primary Fire
• Projectile speed increased from 6000 to 12000

Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 32.0 to 40.0
• Projectile speed increased from 7000 to 10000
• Heat per shot decreased from 14.0 to 10.0
Alternative Fire
• Damage increased from 24.0 to 30.0
• Impact force increased from 10.0 to 15.0
• Heat per shot decreased from 5.0 to 3.0

Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 37.0 to 39.0
• Range increased from 12.0 to 16.0
• Projectile speed increased from 7000 to 10000
• Heat per shot decreased from 11.0 to 10.0

Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 7.0 to 7.5
• Projectile speed decreased from 5500 to 4000

• ‘Affinity’ now increases all stats instead of only one specific stat, all weapons previously having a specific affinity have the new ‘Affinity’ (all stats)
• ‘Dense’ now named ‘Thick’
• ‘Cadence’ no longer reduces accuracy
• ‘Sharp’ no longer reduces firerate
• Increased ‘Explosive’ explosion radius from 200 to 300 and reduced bonus damage from 50% to 30%

• ‘Low Rider’ class upgrade for Guardian and Recon now only grants an additional jump and no longer increases your movement speed
• ‘Robo-Coffee’ upgrade of ‘Favorite Weapon’ no longer increases your movement speed but only your weapons’ firerate
• ‘Shadow Strike’ now only increases melee and weapon damage instead of all damage
• ‘Sentinel Gatling’ upgrade of ‘Sentinel’ no longer reduces Decoy’s accuracy
• ‘Night Shroud’ resistance bonus reduced but now it also increases your melee and weapon damage
• ‘Tactical Mark’ now makes your next weapon shot mark all enemies hit with a short cooldown instead of marking the closest enemy in sight when deploying a decoy
• ‘Double Spread’ upgrade of ‘Tactical Mark’ now only has a chance to spread the mark to another enemy instead of spreading it automatically
• ‘Robzerker’ now increases your damage instead of your lucky critical chance in addition to increasing your resistance
• ‘Fighting Scar’ upgrade of ‘Robzerker’ removed
• Added a new upgrade to ‘Robzerker’ named ‘Lucky Scratch’ - it increases your lucky critical chance while Robzerker is active
• ‘Boom Spark’ upgrade of ‘Light Spark’ now reduces spark firerate
• Removed ‘Spark Ricochet’ upgrade of ‘Light Spark’
• Added a new upgrade to ‘Light Spark’ named ‘Spark Rain’ - it increases spark firerate
• Moved the ‘Oiled Blaster’ upgrade from ‘Triple Bombs’ to a class upgrade
• ‘Triple Bombs’ now reduces the damage of your melee but each bomb deals full damage instead of reduced damage when hitting the same target
• ‘Triple Bombs’ explosion radius decreased from 500 to 375
• ‘Scanning Process’ upgrade of ‘Triple Bombs removed
• Added a new upgrade for ‘Triple Bombs’ named ‘Surprise Load’ - it grants you a chance to instantly recover your melee cooldown after using it
• Added a new upgrade for ‘Triple Bombs’ named ‘Well-Fed Bombs’ - it increases perk’s damage and explosion radius
• ‘Menu Extra-Blast’ upgrade of ‘Triple Bombs’ now increases the cooldown of your melee
• ‘Drone Bubble’ now triggers also when using ‘Love Bond’
• ‘Safe Space’ upgrade of ‘Drone Bubble’ now increases the invulnerability duration instead of triggering when using ‘Love Bond’
• Removed ‘Oiled Cannon’ upgrade of ‘Drone Bazooka’
• Added a new upgrade for ‘Drone Bazooka’ named ‘Fairy Dust’ - it increases damage dealt by ‘Drone Bazooka’
• ‘Vaporize’ upgrade of ‘Elemental Split’ now grants a chance to execute enemies on first hit against them rather than any hits

• ‘Wheel’ now also increases reload speed in addition to firerate
• ‘Saw’ no longer increases movement speed but only melee damage
• ‘Lubricant’ now increases movement speed instead of reload speed and mod. Cooldown reduction
• ‘Nail’ now also increases accuracy in addition to lucky critical chance

• We brought back the Weapon Level-Up machine
• Modified the behavior of the level-up machine, now sets a weapon to the current power level of the stage you’re in, the cost is scaled depending on the level difference with the weapon’s current level

Developer’s Note: We read your feedback on that side and while we’re still unhappy with this mechanic we felt like it would please you to have it once more (and it wouldn’t hurt the game). We’re of course still looking at a more elegant way to make you able to carry a weapon over several levels without having it getting underpowered.

• Enemy homing missiles now stops homing the player when entering close range, this should make them a bit more fair and easier to dodge
• Reduced enemies’ and bosses’ explosive attack patterns damage by approximately 20%
• Reduced enemy sniper damage by 20%
• We tried to make bosses cleaner, fairer and overall funnier in this update and Dr. Turret underwent the most changes
Dr. Turret
• Replaced its laser pattern with another one which should make it more predictable and should make the boss look less silly
• Replaced its blaster attack with a triple laser attack
• Added movement prediction to its mortar attack
• Increased area range of the mortar attack
• Removed its shield spawning pattern
• Updated or polished several of its visual effects
Lady Bug
• Reduced its laser bar attack firerate
Judgeball
• Added back the rocket attack during its artillery pattern
• Reduced the amount of side projectiles during the artillery pattern but increased the amount of laser bars it shoots
• Its bouncing balls now explode after a few bounces
Diggy Mole
• The drill part of Diggy no longer deals damage during its missile attack pattern
• The drill part now has a danger feedback to indicate that it will deal damage during its shockwave attack pattern
Billy Boom
• Billy Boom now has a melee attack when rushing you at close range
• Reduced the damage dealt by its laser attack
• When down, Billy now gets up after triggering its lever

• Added new level chunks to Fields and Energy Center which should make them feel more randomized
• Improved and updated environment in the Act 2 levels

• Ammo count in the weapon box (bottom-right) now replaced by an infinite sign when under an infinite ammo effect

• Updated the ‘Loading Complete’ sound
• Updated and added several other sounds
• Fixed some issues when multiple sounds of the same category play in the same time

• ‘Stim-Bubble’ no longer increases melee attack speed, as it shouldn’t have in the first place
• Discrepancies of weapon mods between client and server fixed
• Stunning, slowing or freezing a boss should properly slow it down under all circumstances
• Controller haptics are now enabled by default

Hello everyone and happy new year!

We're back with a developer news to kick off this new year. We're going to talk about the next update and share with you things we’re preparing for the final release of the game. We hope you’re getting hyped!

We consider this update as a minor one in which we'll focus on general polish: better balance in the game, making bosses feel more fair and interesting, enemies too, improving the movement flow in the levels, increasing the randomness in the environment, diversifying enemy compositions, adjusting visual effects and clarity etc…
We won’t have a playtest phase this time around and we’ll be releasing the update as soon as it’s ready, around the beginning of February if all goes well.

The major part of the update focuses on optimizing the game. We are reworking a lot of core systems in order to gain performance. We still have a lot of work to do on that side to deliver a truly stable and finished game.
Same goes for balancing. We are currently happy with the perk system and can now focus on balancing and improving build capabilities and diversity. Your feedback is always super valuable in that regard and we’re closely following them.

We made some improvements to most bosses in order to make them fairer and cleaner. Dr. Turret is the one that underwent the most modifications, to the point that we can call it a "rework". We wanted to keep the essence of this boss but make it more engaging and less unfair on some attack patterns. He may end up being a bit too difficult for an Act-1 boss, in this case we will quickly update the values and his attack patterns speed. You will be able to find the details of these modifications in the next patch note, which we will pay extra attention to.

We will reintroduce the weapon upgrade machine in the next update. Though, we are still very divided on this feature internally. On one hand we want it to be possible to carry your favorite weapon throughout the game. But on the other hand, we also want to incentivize changing weapons. Failing to find the most elegant solution that could satisfy everyone, we are going to return the weapon upgrade machine for the moment, but with higher prices incrementing every time you use the machine. While waiting for our next solution (with some new things that we are going to start implementing and iterating upon soon), we hope that giving you back the choice to upgrade your weapon will be more interesting for you for the time being.

In a previous update, we enabled sniper rifles to collect cells from afar regardless of critical hits, transforming this playstyle into an easier version of the game. In the next update we will try to increase the effectiveness of snipers while suppressing their ability to collect cells from afar, to make it necessary to dive into the heap once more. To counterbalance this change we also made the choice to increase the lifespan of cells, because they put a lot of players in difficult situations. Though the most aggressive sniper players were already looking for speed and efficiency and shouldn’t feel much difference.

We are preparing new game levels that will complete the game when released. For now, you can take several paths in the game but these paths do not serve a purpose, yet. The only thing you can experience right now is the shorter "clear time" of some paths vs the others. These paths are actually part of a larger plan and will hopefully make more sense once you find out what we have prepared for the full game. Early Access allows us to better calibrate the game's "spine" based on your feedback and we’re focusing on that before expanding to the rest of the skeleton.

Howdy ho everyone.

We just came back from holidays and we'll soon keep you in touch about what we're currently working on in an incoming developer update.

In the meantime, we thought we'd post a quick hotfix of the live version, mainly to incentivize build diversity more than it currently is.

• Added Korean localization to the game

'Sentinel' - Perk
• Damage reduced from 25 to 7
• Critical Ratio reduced from 1.5 to 1.25
• Firerate increased from 2/s to 5/s
• Impact reduced from 30 to 0
• Spread pattern increased from 1.5 to 1.8
'Double Mirage' - Sentinel Perk Uprade
• Now reduces damage dealt by Decoys by 30%

Developer's Note: This means the description text of this upgrade is no longer localized (in any languages) and will appear in English regardless of your selected language.

'Drone' - Primary Ability
• Damage increased from 4 to 5
• Firerate reduced from 3.5/s to 3.3/s
• Health increased from 40 to 50

Hello guardians!

We just released the 0.8.1 hotfix.

We're still monitoring your feedback and our data regarding the new things we've implemented in the game in the Winter update and are processing them.

In the meantime, we thought we'd bring some lights modifications and fixes to the table.

We're also preparing our next developer update to keep you all in touch about what we have in store for the next update, so stay tuned for that!

Here is the (pretty light) list of changes:

• Halved Boss Speed scaling in later difficulties
• Replaced the weapon icon for the 'Blast Crossbow' by a new one (it should no longer look like a frog)
• Fixed several out-of-bounds access in 'Aqua Station'
• Fixed a hole in the 'Sir Catercoaster' arena
• Increased 'Tommy Gun' damage from 7.5 to 8
• Increased 'Tommy Gun' ammo in clip from 40 to 45

Yosh everyone!

Good news, we've spotted and should have fixed the issues which were preventing the friend list from appearing and blocking players in a black screen when joining in multiplayer.

There are still a few multiplayer issues, but these two which were introduced in the 0.8.0 Winter Update should, at least, been fixed.

We just pushed an hotfix live, let us know if you manage to play with your brobot.

Also, and just a friendly reminder, if you encounter bugs during the game, the F10 system is the best way to let us know. When it comes to crashes, the best way to help us fixing them is to send us your crash dumps which you can locate in Disk:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\RoboQuest\Saved\Crashes\UE4CC-Windows-000A0A0A0A0A0A0A0A0A0A0A_0001 (the latest folder should contain the information regarding your latest crash).

That being said, have a nice day ladies and gentlemen!

Howdy everyone!

The 0.8.0 Winter update is now available for download!
As a result, the playtest branch has been closed for the time being.
As usual, we thank all playtesters who helped us get this version up and running as well as the translators who are still hard at work to bring Roboquest to your favorite language. Some localizations are still not available, but we’re getting closer.

Here are the highlights of the Winter update:

A new boss has come into play in the Act 2 (in the ‘Energy Center’).
Sir Catercoaster is making its comeback into the game in a brand new arena and attack patterns. We hope you’ll like it and if not, please make sure to tell us how you think we should improve it.

The ‘Aqua Station’ has been fully reworked (visually and design-wise) and The ‘Energy Center’ has received a visual polish touch as well as a few level design changes.
‘Aqua Station’ has always been a level we were looking to improve as it felt a bit empty and lacked a strong visual identity aside from just being ‘watery’. This update was the right timing for us and we proceeded. We will be following your feedback on that side since it can be considered like a brand new addition to the game.

The visual changes of ‘Energy Center’ are mainly aimed at making it feel more different than other levels in the Act 2 and the level design changes are aimed at making the pacing and flow more pleasing. Nothing too big on that side, though we hope you’ll like and notice the changes nonetheless.


We’ve updated a lot of names and certain perk (and upgrade) values.
They should be better balanced but more importantly more builds should feel viable over the course of the game (and the different difficulty settings).
Perks and their upgrades are something we will continuously be monitoring and updating according to your feedback and our data. The balance part of it is especially hard to accomplish considering all the new combinations the 0.7.0 brought to the game.

Three new weapons have been added to the game, and we hope you’re going to have a blast with them!

And here is the fully detailed list of changes:

• Movement speed while on rails has been increased from 1475 to 1650 and from 2000 to 2200 while sprinting
• Cryo effect has been reworked, it now progressively slows enemies up to a maximum at which point enemies are considered fully ‘Frozen’. While Frozen, enemies automatically take critical damage from all sources
• The range at which you can reboot your brobot has been greatly increased
• The Craft machine can only be used once but spawns 3 weapons instead of 1, its cost has been reduced from 2 Wrenches per weapon to 4 Wrenches for all three weapons.

Developer's Note: This is simply a quality of life change since almost everyone was always spawning all three weapons anyway.

• The primary and secondary abilities damage scaling per level has been increased from 24% to 25% per level
• ‘Energy Shield’ base shield provided increased from 10 to 15 and regeneration from cells has been increased

• New weapon: ‘Flak Cannon’ - Demolition

• New weapon: ‘Tommy Gun’ - Assault

• New weapon: ‘Light Machine Gun’ - Assault

• Removed the ‘Shock Rifle’ alternate fire and added it a pool of 6 random mods. to spawn with
• Added a new ‘weapon tier’ with 4 rare affixes and 2 commons
• New weapon mod.: ‘Hoverball’ - Fires a slow moving orb which can be expanded by shooting it with your primary fire (it previously was the ‘Shock Rifle’ alternate fire)
• New weapon mod.: ‘Barrier’ - Deploys a protective barrier in front of you blocking enemy projectiles
• New weapon mod.: ‘Trigger Tap’ - Rapidly fires several primary shots in a quick succession
• Weapon modules damage scaling per level has been increased from 10% to 20% per weapon level
• Added the ‘Can-Opener’ mod. to three new weapons (Riflecrossbow, Elite Crossbow and Long Rifle)
• Reduced the ‘Heavy’ movement speed penalty from 30% to 20%
• Reduced the ‘Carbon’ speed penalty reduction from 15% to 10%
• The 'Artificer’ affix has been removed from the game

Developer's Note: This was the affix adding sparks to weapons. We found out that adding Sparks from different sources could be a source of misunderstanding for the players when it came to granting bonus to sparks. For instance, upgrades granting bonuses to sparks could be interpreted as granting bonuses to all sparks (those coming from both the perks and the affix). We therefore decided to remove that affix as we didn’t feel like it was a big loss in counterpart for the better clarity of that specific mechanic.

• Damage scaling of perk effects has been increased from 28% to 30% per character level
• Many perks and upgrades have received value changes

Developer's Note: We’re sorry we don’t have all the information on that side. We will develop a tool that allows us to automatically detect and report those changes so we can be as thorough as possible when publishing these patch notes. Thanks for your understanding.

• Increased the amount of upgrades tied to each class from 4 to 7
• Added a new upgrade to all classes: ‘Size Matters’ - Increases ammo in clip and cooling gauge
• Renamed the class upgrade ‘Cell Addiction’ to ‘Cell Gluttony’
• Added the ‘Cell Gluttony’ class upgrade to Engineer and Guardian class upgrades
• Added a new upgrade to the Engineer and Guardian classes: ‘Meteorology’ - Increases elemental lucky critical chance
Commando
• Renamed the ‘Robzerker’ upgrade ‘Pyro Maniac’ to ‘Sapper’
• Moved ‘Sapper’ from the ‘Robzerker’ upgrades to the class upgrades
• Renamed the ‘Rocket Mag.’ upgrade ‘Extra Rocket’ to ‘Extra Load’
• Renamed the ‘Rocket Barrage’ upgrade ‘Hard Headed’ to ‘Mini-Nuke’
• Renamed the ‘Rocket Barrage’ upgrade ‘New Friends’ to ‘More Rockets’
• Renamed the ‘Hot Sauce’ perk to ‘Combustion’
• Renamed the ‘Combustion’ upgrade ‘Pili-Pili’ to ‘Hot Sauce’
• Renamed the ‘Combustion’ upgrade ‘Ignite’ to ‘Scorch’
• Renamed the ‘Shorty Scanner’ upgrade ‘Extra Sauce’ to ‘Extra Guest’
• Renamed the ‘Angry Barrel’ perk to ‘Unstable Barrel’
• Moved ‘Smooth Cannon’ upgrade from ‘Unstable Barrel’ to the class upgrades
• Renamed the ‘Unstable Barrel’ upgrade ‘Angry-splosion’ to ‘Unstable Fury’
• Added a new upgrade to ‘Unstable Barrel’: ‘Surprise Load’ - Grants a chance to instantly recover Shorty cooldown after using it
• Renamed the ‘Point Blank’ upgrade ‘Shorty in the Nose’ to ‘Shorty-Nose’
• Renamed the ‘Point Blank’ upgrade ‘Tête Brûlée’ to ‘Burning Bonk’
• Moved the ‘Y.O.L.O.’ upgrade from ‘Favorite Weapon’ to the ‘Robzerker’ upgrades
• Removed the ‘Frenzy’ upgrade ‘Thrill of the Fight’
• Removed the ‘Frenzy’ upgrade ‘Alternative Path’
• Removed the ‘Frenzy’ upgrade ‘Deep Pocket’
• Added a new upgrade to ‘Frenzy’: ‘Outburst’ - Increases explosion damage and radius
• Added a new upgrade to ‘Frenzy’: ‘Battle Fever’ - Increases lucky critical chance for each fury point
• Renamed the ‘Fortifying Wrath’ upgrade ‘Skin Flower’ to ‘Fighting Pulse’
• Moved the ‘Fighting Pulse’ upgrade from ‘Fortifying Wrath’ to the ‘Frenzy’ perk upgrades
• Renamed the ‘Fortifying Wrath’ upgrade ‘Furious Healing’ to ‘Repair-o-Fury’
• Renamed the ‘Fortifying Wrath’ upgrade ‘Mind of Steel’ to ‘Concrete Chipset’
• Added a new upgrade to ‘Fortifying Wrath’: ‘Mind of Steel’ - Increases your damage when fury is at its maximum
• Added ‘Robo-Coffee’ from the Recon’s ‘Favorite Weapon’ upgrades to the Commando’s ‘Favorite Weapon’ upgrades
• Renamed the ‘Crème Brûlée’ perk to ‘Ignite’
• Renamed the ‘Ignite’ upgrade ‘Torch’ to ‘Blowtorch’
• Renamed the ‘Ignite’ upgrade ‘Extra Brown Sugar’ to ‘Chemistry’
• Renamed the ‘Ignite’ upgrade ‘Explosion of Flavor’ to ‘Red Powder’
• Renamed the ‘Quick Firefly’ perk to ‘Light Sparks’
• Renamed the ‘Light Spark’ upgrade ‘Fire Sparks’ to ‘Pyro Spark’
• Renamed the ‘Light Spark’ upgrade ‘Explosive Sparks’ to ‘Boom Spark’
Engineer
• Added a new upgrade to the Engineer class: ‘Scraplosion’ - Takedowns grant a chance to trigger an explosion
• Added a new upgrade to the Engineer class: ‘Black Powder’ - Increases explosion damage and radius
• Reworked the elemental choice upgrade for all ‘Chroma’ upgrades with a ‘Chroma Specialty’ upgrade
• Added a new upgrade to ‘Chroma Blaster’: ‘Vivid Colors’ - Increases elemental damage bonus and duration
• Removed the ‘Chroma Blaster’ upgrade ‘Unstable Blaster’
• Renamed the ‘Triple Blaster’ perk to ‘Triple Bombs’
• Modified ‘Triple Bombs’ perk - Handblaster now shoots three explosive balls
• Renamed the ‘Triple Bombs’ upgrade ‘Rabid Blaster’ to ‘Oiled Blaster’
• Removed the ‘Drone Bazooka’ upgrade ‘Black Powder’
• Added a new upgrade to ‘Drone Bazooka’: ‘Triple Zooka’ - Triggering ‘Love Bond’ makes your drone shoots multiple rockets for a short duration
• Renamed the ‘Drone Bazooka’ and ‘Drone Swarm’ upgrade ‘Oiled Barrel’ to ‘Oiled Cannon’
• Renamed the ‘Drone Bazooka’ upgrade ‘Headseeker’ to ‘Headseeker Rocket’
• Renamed the ‘Drone Swarm’ upgrade ‘Recycled Drone’ to ‘Eco-Drone’
• Renamed the ‘Chroma Bullets’ perk to ‘Chroma Weapon’
• Renamed the ‘Chroma Bullets’ upgrade ‘Pyro Bullets’ to ‘Pyro Weapons’
• Renamed the ‘Chroma Bullets’ upgrade ‘Cryo Bullets’ to ‘Cryo Weapons’
• Renamed the ‘Chroma Bullets’ upgrade ‘Electro Bullets’ to ‘Electro Weapons’
• Renamed the ‘Chroma Bullets’ upgrade ‘Hyperactive Weapon’ to ‘Carbon Grip’
• Renamed the ‘Love Spreading’ perk to ‘Elemental Split’
• Renamed the ‘Love Spreading’ upgrade ‘Long Arm’ to ‘Chroma Aberration’
• Modified the ‘Chroma Drone’ perk effects, it now only grants a random elemental to your drones and no longer reduces their health
• Renamed the ‘Chroma Drone’ upgrade ‘Drone Retaliation’ to ‘Drone Revenge’
• Renamed the ‘Quick Firefly' perk to ‘Light Spark’
• Renamed the ‘Light Spark’ upgrade ‘Recycled Spark’ to ‘Eco-Spark’
• Renamed the ‘Future’s Cooler’ perk to ‘Quick Cooling’
• Renamed the ‘Luxury Suit’ perk to ‘Body Armor’
Recon
• Modified the ‘Sharpened Wits’ effects, it now only increases Critical Damage instead of both Critical Damage and Dagger Lucky Critical Chance
• Modified the ‘Laser Cutlass’ upgrade ‘Lucky Star’, now it only increases lucky critical chance and no longer make Laser Dagger critical
• Added a new class upgrade: ‘Secret Trick’ - Laser Dagger is always critical
• Added a new class upgrade: ‘Eco Decoy’ - Increases decoy duration and efficiency
• Modified the ‘Shadowstrike’ upgrade ‘Shadow Madness’, it now only grants its bonus while the Shadowstrike bonus is active
• Renamed the ‘Shadowstep’ perk to ‘Night Shroud’
• Renamed the ‘Tactical Critical’ perk to ‘Tactical Scan’
• Modified the ‘Tactical Scan’ perk, it now triggers a marking explosion around the closest enemy in sight and taking down a marked enemy spreads the mark to another one
• Removed the ‘Tactical Scan’ upgrade ‘Deep Analysis’
• Added a new ‘Tactical Scan’ upgrade: ‘Double Spread’ - Taking down an enemy spreads the mark to more enemies
• Renamed the ‘Critical Split’ upgrade ‘Shareholders’ to ‘Chain Reaction’
• Renamed the ‘Critical Split’ upgrade ‘Fat Stacks’ to ‘Simple Geometry’
• Removed the ‘Locked and Loaded’ upgrade ‘Cunning Load’
• Removed the ‘Locked and Loaded’ upgrade ‘Gunslinger’
• Added a new ‘Locked and Loaded’ upgrade ‘Electro Mag.’ - Non-elemental weapons deal more damage when ‘Locked and Loaded’ is active
• Added a new ‘Locked and Loaded’ upgrade ‘Gun Diet.’ - Increases firerate depending on missing ammo in clip
• Renamed the ‘Locked and Loaded’ upgrade ‘Reliable Hand’ to ‘Quick Hand’
• Renamed the ‘Blue Screen Protocol’ perk to ‘Blue-Screen’
• Modified the ‘Blue Screen’ upgrade ‘Shutdown’, it now grants your first hit against an enemy a tiny chance to execute enemies
Guardian
• Added the ‘Low Rider’ class upgrade from the Recon to the Guardian class upgrades

• Most corrupted items debuffs reduced by around 50%

Developer's Note: Like we said in our previous developer news, we have specific goals for corrupted items but we’re still working on the overall design and the implementation details. In the meantime we’re trying to make these items a bit more interesting to play with and we’re reducing the debuffs they apply. We’ll keep looking at your feedback about them and we’ll keep you in touch about what we think will be a better iteration of them.

• Gasoline explosion radius bonus increased from 12% to 16% and from 8% to 12% (when mitigated)
• Reactor (Commando’s class item) now increases weapon damage instead of rocket damage

Developer's Note: The Commando’s class item was a too strong competition for the neutral item ‘Gasoline’ and was kind of overlapping in terms of build. We’re trying to separate them more so they can be relevant to different types of builds or be mixed up with each other without feeling like ‘Gasoline’ is a lower-tier pick.

• Holopad (Guardian’s class item) shield bonus increased from 12% to 25% and from 7% to 15% (when mitigated)

Developer's Note: The actual values provided by ‘Holopad’ were pretty, pretty low so we’re buffing those a bit.

• Added a basecamp upgrade: ‘Fantastic Weapon’ - Grants a tiny chance to spawn a weapon with more than the maximum amount of bonuses
• Added a new basecamp upgrade: ‘Starting Upgrade’ - You start the run with a class upgrade choice
• Removed the basecamp upgrade: ‘Level Console’

Developer's Note: That console was reducing the amount of times you would switch weapons during your runs considering you could stick with the same one. This specific issue was amplified by the new ‘Fantastic Weapon’ upgrade if you would find such a weapon at the very beginning of the run. In the future, we’ll be adding another and more healthy way to bring a weapon with you along the way as we consider it to be interesting, but we don’t want it to be mandatory or too incentivized by the game mechanics.

• Each repair-o-bot upgrade health restoration increased from 3% to 5%

• Enemies’ impact resistance scaling by difficulty level has been reduced
• Enemies’ health scaling per level increased from 28% to 30%
• Reduced enemy density by approximately 5%-10%

Developer's Note: This change is mainly aimed at giving a little more air to breathe in between encounters and reducing the number of times you ‘accidentally’ aggro enemies from other encounters (or trigger trailbots). We consequently reduced the required XP values to level-up to account for this change.

• Enemies’ damage scaling per level in multiplayer reduced from 25% to 20%
• Reworked the hitbox detection of enemies’ melee attacks
• Increased the warmup duration of enemies’ melee attacks
• The Gunpawn no longer shoots two blasts in a row, instead he shoots more often
• The Guardbot’s projectile spread has been reduced, making it a less dangerous threat at mid to long range
• Shockwave FX has been reworked to better highlight where it starts and ends
• Updated the Mine Pod visuals
• The mortar attack pattern of the Goliath has been replaced by homing missiles
• In multiplayer, the Bosses’ health scaling per level has been reworked to be different from Act to Act

Developer's Note: We previously had a linear (across the levels) multiplayer Boss’ health scaling. We’re modifying these so that Bosses don’t have too much health at the beginning of the game and too few at the end. Earlier bosses should feel less like meat-tanks and later ones should feel more challenging in multiplayer.

• We added a new “Speed” value for Bosses in order to make them easier in lower difficulties (Easy and Discovery), we also increased this value in Heroes+5 and Heroes+6 for testing purposes
Beetle Royal
• Renamed ‘Beetle Royal’ to ‘Lady Bug’
Judgeball
• Judgeball fires one less sky-rocket during its artillery pattern (‘cause he apparently wasn’t nerfed enough already)
Billy Boom
• Added a visual effect to better indicate the needed interaction with the lever
• Updated the Billy Boom ‘warning’ text to better indicate the need to take action before finishing him off

• ‘Aqua Station’ has been fully reworked
• ‘Energy Center’ level designs have been updated (more high grounds, better movement flow)
• ‘Energy Center’ visuals have been updated (models and color scheme)
• Further reduced the enemy density in ‘Haven City’ by approximately 15%
• Further reduced the enemy density in ‘Haven City - Corrupted’ by approximately 10%
• Modified the line-up of enemies in ‘Canyons’

Developer's Note: We’re currently trying to diversify the enemy encounters in different levels. The ‘Canyons’ is the first level we’re trying this out and we’ll be closely watching your feedback on that side.

• All challenge rooms in Act 2 and Act 3 are now mixed up (meaning you can find challenge rooms which were previously exclusive to Act 2 in Act 3 and vice versa)
• Added a new challenge room for Act 2 and Act 3
• Removed acid walls in all of the challenge rooms

• Added a visual ‘pause’ indicator when the game timer is paused
• Added a pop-up message when playing or switching to a language which is not yet fully translated
• Added elemental critical floating damage texts
• Added a time rank and cell rank gauge below the minimap
• Updated Cyrillic font for gameplay texts

• Reworked the cells visuals
• Shock elemental is now purple

• Fixed some issues preventing certain feedback and interface sounds from playing when other sounds of the same category would play
• Modified the way your brobot sounds are spatialized to make them less overwhelming when being really close to your brobot

Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 8.5 to 9.0

Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 34.0 to 40.0
• Firerate decreased from 2.85/s to 2.63/s
• Heat per shot decreased from 16.0 to 15.0

Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 58.0 to 68.0
• Impact force increased from 56.0 to 70.0

Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 13.0 to 20.0
• Alternate fire removed

Developer's Note: The alternate fire has been transformed into a mod. which can randomly appear on different weapons. We’re likely to continue this process over the updates for other weapons which seem to have an ‘arbitrary’ alternate fire which is not necessarily part of the weapon’s fantasy and / or for weapons which would benefit from accessing other mods.

Alternative Fire
• Impact force increased from 76.0 to 80.0

Primary Fire
• Heat per shot decreased from 3.0 to 2.5

Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 36.0 to 38.0

Primary Fire
• Firerate increased from 10.0/s to 11.11/s

Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 48.0 to 56.0
• Impact force increased from 75.0 to 78.0

Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 100.0 to 115.0
• Impact force increased from 70.0 to 80.0

Scrap Blaster
• Damage increased from 60.0 to 65.0
• Cooldown decreased from 4.5 to 4.0

• Modified and optimized the rendering of several user interface elements

Developer’s Note: This is only a small part of our ongoing optimization process. However, this may lead to some weird or new behaviors in the UI, if you notice anything of the sort, please let us know using the F10 feedback system ingame.

• Replaced some misplaced enemy spawners resulting in enemies spawning inside of the level walls
• Fixed several occurrences of range values not being properly displayed
• Fixed several text tag errors leading to wrong values being displayed
• Fixed a crash occurring when you’d come back to the basecamp during a multiplayer run
• Fixed an issue with weapon Mods. recoil pattern not properly being applied
• Speculative fix: you should no longer find yourself in a position where you can no longer jump

The playtest is now OPEN!

You can experience the playtest 0.8.0 to discover the incoming changes and help us improve it until the official release.

Like usual, if you want to participate in the playtest, just right-click Roboquest in your library, head over to the “Beta” tab and opt-in the beta branch “Playtest”. This will download the playtest version (progress is saved in a different save file than the regular branch, so this will not erase or continue your progress of the regular branch).

Please use the appropriate ‘Playtest’ channels on Steam and Discord to post your feedback about it!

Here are the highlights of the incoming 0.8.0 version:

A new boss has come into play in the Act 2 (in the ‘Energy Center’).
Sir Catercoaster is making its comeback into the game in a brand new arena and attack patterns. We hope you’ll like it and if not, please make sure to tell us how you think we should improve it.

The ‘Aqua Station’ has been fully reworked (visually and design-wise) and The ‘Energy Center’ has received a visual polish touch as well as a few level design changes.
‘Aqua Station’ has always been a level we were looking to improve as it felt a bit empty and lacked a strong visual identity aside from just being ‘watery’. This update was the right timing for us and we proceeded. We will be following your feedback on that side since it can be considered like a brand new addition to the game.
The visual changes of ‘Energy Center’ are mainly aimed at making it feel more different than other levels in the Act 2 and the level design changes are aimed at making the pacing and flow more pleasing. Nothing too big on that side, though we hope you’ll like and notice the changes nonetheless.


We’ve updated a lot of names and certain perk (and upgrade) values.
They should be better balanced but more importantly more builds should feel viable over the course of the game (and the different difficulty settings).
Perks and their upgrades are something we will continuously be monitoring and updating according to your feedback and our data. The balance part of it is especially hard to accomplish considering all the new combinations the 0.7.0 brought to the game.

Three new weapons have been added to the game, and we hope you’re going to have a blast with them!

That’s it for the highlights, now here is the detailed list of changes:

• Movement speed while on rails has been increased from 1475 to 1650 and from 2000 to 2200 while sprinting
• Cryo effect has been reworked, it now progressively slows enemies up to a maximum at which point enemies are considered fully ‘Frozen’. While Frozen, enemies automatically take critical damage from all sources
• The range at which you can reboot your brobot has been greatly increased
• The Craft machine can only be used once but spawns 3 weapons instead of 1, its cost has been reduced from 2 Wrenches per weapon to 4 Wrenches for all three weapons.

Developer's Note: This is simply a quality of life change since almost everyone was always spawning all three weapons anyway.

• The primary and secondary abilities damage scaling per level has been increased from 24% to 25% per level
• ‘Energy Shield’ base shield provided increased from 10 to 15 and regeneration from cells has been increased

• New weapon: ‘Flak Cannon’ - Demolition
• New weapon: ‘Tommy Gun’ - Assault
• New weapon: ‘Light Machine Gun’ - Assault
• Removed the ‘Shock Rifle’ alternate fire and added it a pool of 6 random mods. to spawn with
• Added a new ‘weapon tier’ with 4 rare affixes and 2 commons
• New weapon mod.: ‘Hoverball’ - fires a slow moving orb which can be expanded by shooting it with your primary fire (it previously was the ‘Shock Rifle’ alternate fire)
• New weapon mod.: ‘Barrier’ - deploys a protective barrier in front of you blocking enemy projectiles
• New weapon mod.: ‘Trigger Tap’ - rapidly fires several primary shots in a quick succession
• Weapon modules damage scaling per level has been increased from 10% to 20% per weapon level
• Added the ‘Can-Opener’ mod. to three new weapons (Riflecrossbow, Elite Crossbow and Long Rifle)
• The 'Artificer’ affix has been removed from the game

Developer's Note: This was the affix adding sparks to weapons. We found out that adding Sparks from different sources could be a source of misunderstanding for the players when it came to granting bonus to sparks. For instance, upgrades granting bonuses to sparks could be interpreted as granting bonuses to all sparks (those coming from both the perks and the affix). We therefore decided to remove that affix as we didn’t feel like it was a big loss in counterpart for the better clarity of that specific mechanic.

• Damage scaling of perk effects has been increased from 28% to 30% per character level
• Many perks and upgrades have received value changes

Developer's Note: We’re sorry we don’t have all the information on that side. We will develop a tool that allows us to automatically detect and report those changes so we can be as thorough as possible when publishing these patch notes. Thanks for your understanding.

• Increased the amount of upgrades tied to each class from 4 to 7
• Added a new upgrade to all classes: ‘Size Matters’ - Increases ammo in clip and cooling gauge
• Renamed the class upgrade ‘Cell Addiction’ to ‘Cell Gluttony’
• Added the ‘Cell Gluttony’ class upgrade to Engineer and Guardian class upgrades
• Added a new upgrade to the Engineer and Guardian classes: ‘Meteorology’ - Increases elemental lucky critical chance
Commando
• Renamed the ‘Robzerker’ upgrade ‘Pyro Maniac’ to ‘Sapper’
• Moved ‘Sapper’ from the ‘Robzerker’ upgrades to the class upgrades
• Renamed the ‘Rocket Mag.’ upgrade ‘Extra Rocket’ to ‘Extra Load’
• Renamed the ‘Rocket Barrage’ upgrade ‘Hard Headed’ to ‘Mini-Nuke’
• Renamed the ‘Rocket Barrage’ upgrade ‘New Friends’ to ‘More Rockets’
• Renamed the ‘Hot Sauce’ perk to ‘Combustion’
• Renamed the ‘Combustion’ upgrade ‘Pili-Pili’ to ‘Hot Sauce’
• Renamed the ‘Combustion’ upgrade ‘Ignite’ to ‘Scorch’
• Renamed the ‘Shorty Scanner’ upgrade ‘Extra Sauce’ to ‘Extra Guest’
• Renamed the ‘Angry Barrel’ perk to ‘Unstable Barrel’
• Moved ‘Smooth Cannon’ upgrade from ‘Unstable Barrel’ to the class upgrades
• Renamed the ‘Unstable Barrel’ upgrade ‘Angry-splosion’ to ‘Unstable Fury’
• Added a new upgrade to ‘Unstable Barrel’: ‘Surprise Load’ - Grants a chance to instantly recover Shorty cooldown after using it
• Renamed the ‘Point Blank’ upgrade ‘Shorty in the Nose’ to ‘Shorty-Nose’
• Renamed the ‘Point Blank’ upgrade ‘Tête Brûlée’ to ‘Burning Bonk’
• Moved the ‘Y.O.L.O.’ upgrade from ‘Favorite Weapon’ to the ‘Robzerker’ upgrades
• Removed the ‘Frenzy’ upgrade ‘Thrill of the Fight’
• Removed the ‘Frenzy’ upgrade ‘Alternative Path’
• Removed the ‘Frenzy’ upgrade ‘Deep Pocket’
• Added a new upgrade to ‘Frenzy’: ‘Outburst’ - Increases explosion damage and radius
• Added a new upgrade to ‘Frenzy’: ‘Battle Fever’ - Increases lucky critical chance for each fury point
• Renamed the ‘Fortifying Wrath’ upgrade ‘Skin Flower’ to ‘Fighting Pulse’
• Moved the ‘Fighting Pulse’ upgrade from ‘Fortifying Wrath’ to the ‘Frenzy’ perk upgrades
• Renamed the ‘Fortifying Wrath’ upgrade ‘Furious Healing’ to ‘Repair-o-Fury’
• Renamed the ‘Fortifying Wrath’ upgrade ‘Mind of Steel’ to ‘Concrete Chipset’
• Added a new upgrade to ‘Fortifying Wrath’: ‘Mind of Steel’ - Increases your damage when fury is at its maximum
• Added ‘Robo-Coffee’ from the Recon’s ‘Favorite Weapon’ upgrades to the Commando’s ‘Favorite Weapon’ upgrades
• Renamed the ‘Crème Brûlée’ perk to ‘Ignite’
• Renamed the ‘Ignite’ upgrade ‘Torch’ to ‘Blowtorch’
• Renamed the ‘Ignite’ upgrade ‘Extra Brown Sugar’ to ‘Chemistry’
• Renamed the ‘Ignite’ upgrade ‘Explosion of Flavor’ to ‘Red Powder’
• Renamed the ‘Quick Firefly’ perk to ‘Light Sparks’
• Renamed the ‘Light Spark’ upgrade ‘Fire Sparks’ to ‘Pyro Spark’
• Renamed the ‘Light Spark’ upgrade ‘Explosive Sparks’ to ‘Boom Spark’
Engineer
• Added a new upgrade to the Engineer class: ‘Scraplosion’ - Takedowns grant a chance to trigger an explosion
• Added a new upgrade to the Engineer class: ‘Black Powder’ - Increases explosion damage and radius
• Reworked the elemental choice upgrade for all ‘Chroma’ upgrades with a ‘Chroma Specialty’ upgrade
• Added a new upgrade to ‘Chroma Blaster’: ‘Vivid Colors’ - Increases elemental damage bonus and duration
• Removed the ‘Chroma Blaster’ upgrade ‘Unstable Blaster’
• Renamed the ‘Triple Blaster’ perk to ‘Triple Bombs’
• Modified ‘Triple Bombs’ perk - Handblaster now shoots three explosive balls
• Renamed the ‘Triple Bombs’ upgrade ‘Rabid Blaster’ to ‘Oiled Blaster’
• Removed the ‘Drone Bazooka’ upgrade ‘Black Powder’
• Added a new upgrade to ‘Drone Bazooka’: ‘Triple Zooka’ - Triggering ‘Love Bond’ makes your drone shoots multiple rockets for a short duration
• Renamed the ‘Drone Bazooka’ and ‘Drone Swarm’ upgrade ‘Oiled Barrel’ to ‘Oiled Cannon’
• Renamed the ‘Drone Bazooka’ upgrade ‘Headseeker’ to ‘Headseeker Rocket’
• Renamed the ‘Drone Swarm’ upgrade ‘Recycled Drone’ to ‘Eco-Drone’
• Renamed the ‘Chroma Bullets’ perk to ‘Chroma Weapon’
• Renamed the ‘Chroma Bullets’ upgrade ‘Pyro Bullets’ to ‘Pyro Weapons’
• Renamed the ‘Chroma Bullets’ upgrade ‘Cryo Bullets’ to ‘Cryo Weapons’
• Renamed the ‘Chroma Bullets’ upgrade ‘Electro Bullets’ to ‘Electro Weapons’
• Renamed the ‘Chroma Bullets’ upgrade ‘Hyperactive Weapon’ to ‘Carbon Grip’
• Renamed the ‘Love Spreading’ perk to ‘Elemental Split’
• Renamed the ‘Love Spreading’ upgrade ‘Long Arm’ to ‘Chroma Aberration’
• Modified the ‘Chroma Drone’ perk effects, it now only grants a random elemental to your drones and no longer reduces their health
• Renamed the ‘Chroma Drone’ upgrade ‘Drone Retaliation’ to ‘Drone Revenge’
• Renamed the ‘Quick Firefly' perk to ‘Light Spark’
• Renamed the ‘Light Spark’ upgrade ‘Recycled Spark’ to ‘Eco-Spark’
• Renamed the ‘Future’s Cooler’ perk to ‘Quick Cooling’
• Renamed the ‘Luxury Suit’ perk to ‘Body Armor’
Recon
• Modified the ‘Sharpened Wits’ effects, it now only increases Critical Damage instead of both Critical Damage and Dagger Lucky Critical Chance
• Modified the ‘Laser Cutlass’ upgrade ‘Lucky Star’, now it only increases lucky critical chance and no longer make Laser Dagger critical
• Added a new class upgrade: ‘Secret Trick’ - Laser Dagger is always critical
• Added a new class upgrade: ‘Eco Decoy’ - Increases decoy duration and efficiency
• Modified the ‘Shadowstrike’ upgrade ‘Shadow Madness’, it now only grants its bonus while the Shadowstrike bonus is active
• Renamed the ‘Shadowstep’ perk to ‘Night Shroud’
• Renamed the ‘Tactical Critical’ perk to ‘Tactical Scan’
• Modified the ‘Tactical Scan’ perk, it now triggers a marking explosion around the closest enemy in sight and taking down a marked enemy spreads the mark to another one
• Removed the ‘Tactical Scan’ upgrade ‘Deep Analysis’
• Added a new ‘Tactical Scan’ upgrade: ‘Double Spread’ - Taking down an enemy spreads the mark to more enemies
• Renamed the ‘Critical Split’ upgrade ‘Shareholders’ to ‘Chain Reaction’
• Renamed the ‘Critical Split’ upgrade ‘Fat Stacks’ to ‘Simple Geometry’
• Removed the ‘Locked and Loaded’ upgrade ‘Cunning Load’
• Removed the ‘Locked and Loaded’ upgrade ‘Gunslinger’
• Added a new ‘Locked and Loaded’ upgrade ‘Electro Mag.’ - Non-elemental weapons deal more damage when ‘Locked and Loaded’ is active
• Added a new ‘Locked and Loaded’ upgrade ‘Gun Diet.’ - Increases firerate depending on missing ammo in clip
• Renamed the ‘Locked and Loaded’ upgrade ‘Reliable Hand’ to ‘Quick Hand’
• Renamed the ‘Blue Screen Protocol’ perk to ‘Blue-Screen’
• Modified the ‘Blue Screen’ upgrade ‘Shutdown’, it now grants your first hit against an enemy a tiny chance to execute enemies
Guardian
• Added the ‘Low Rider’ class upgrade from the Recon to the Guardian class upgrades

• Most corrupted items debuffs reduced by around 50%

Developer's Note: Like we said in our previous developer news, we have specific goals for corrupted items but we’re still working on the overall design and the implementation details. In the meantime we’re trying to make these items a bit more interesting to play with and we’re reducing the debuffs they apply. We’ll keep looking at your feedback about them and we’ll keep you in touch about what we think will be a better iteration of them.

• Gasoline explosion radius bonus increased from 12% to 16% and from 8% to 12% (when mitigated)
• Reactor (Commando’s class item) now increases weapon damage instead of rocket damage

Developer's Note: The Commando’s class item was a too strong competition for the neutral item ‘Gasoline’ and was kind of overlapping in terms of build. We’re trying to separate them more so they can be relevant to different types of builds or be mixed up with each other without feeling like ‘Gasoline’ is a lower-tier pick.

• Holopad (Guardian’s class item) shield bonus increased from 12% to 25% and from 7% to 15% (when mitigated)

Developer's Note: The actual values provided by ‘Holopad’ were pretty, pretty low so we’re buffing those a bit.

• Added a basecamp upgrade: ‘Fantastic Weapon’ - Grants a tiny chance to spawn a weapon with more than the maximum amount of bonuses
• Added a new basecamp upgrade: ‘Starting Upgrade’ - You start the run with a class upgrade choice
• Removed the basecamp upgrade: ‘Level Console’

Developer's Note: That console was reducing the amount of times you would switch weapons during your runs considering you could stick with the same one. This specific issue was amplified by the new ‘Fantastic Weapon’ upgrade if you would find such a weapon at the very beginning of the run. In the future, we’ll be adding another and more healthy way to bring a weapon with you along the way as we consider it to be interesting, but we don’t want it to be mandatory or too incentivized by the game mechanics.

• Each repair-o-bot upgrade health restoration increased from 3% to 5%

• Enemies’ impact resistance scaling by difficulty level has been reduced
• Enemies’ health scaling per level increased from 28% to 30%
• Reduced enemy density by approximately 5%-10%

Developer's Note: This change is mainly aimed at giving a little more air to breathe in between encounters and reducing the number of times you ‘accidentally’ aggro enemies from other encounters (or trigger trailbots). We consequently reduced the required XP values to level-up to account for this change.

• Enemies’ damage scaling per level in multiplayer reduced from 25% to 20%
• Reworked the hitbox detection of enemies’ melee attacks
• Increased the warmup duration of enemies’ melee attacks
• The Gunpawn no longer shoots two blasts in a row, instead he shoots more often
• The Guardbot’s projectile spread has been reduced, making it a less dangerous threat at mid to long range
• Shockwave FX has been reworked to better highlight where it starts and ends
• Updated the Mine Pod visuals
• The mortar attack pattern of the Goliath has been replaced by homing missiles
• In multiplayer, the Bosses’ health scaling per level has been reworked to be different from Act to Act

Developer's Note: We previously had a linear (across the levels) multiplayer Boss’ health scaling. We’re modifying these so that Bosses don’t have too much health at the beginning of the game and too few at the end. Earlier bosses should feel less like meat-tanks and later ones should feel more challenging in multiplayer.

• We added a new “Speed” value for Bosses in order to make them easier in lower difficulties (Easy and Discovery), we also increased this value in Heroes+5 and Heroes+6 for testing purposes
Beetle Royal
• Renamed ‘Beetle Royal’ to ‘Lady Bug’
Judgeball
• Judgeball fires one less sky-rocket during its artillery pattern (‘cause he apparently wasn’t nerfed enough already)
Billy Boom
• Added a visual effect to better indicate the needed interaction with the lever
• Updated the Billy Boom ‘warning’ text to better indicate the need to take action before finishing him off

• ‘Aqua Station’ has been fully reworked
• ‘Energy Center’ level designs have been updated (more high grounds, better movement flow)
• ‘Energy Center’ visuals have been updated (models and color scheme)
• Further reduced the enemy density in ‘Haven City’ by approximately 15%
• Further reduced the enemy density in ‘Haven City - Corrupted’ by approximately 10%
• Modified the line-up of enemies in ‘Canyons’

Developer's Note: We’re currently trying to diversify the enemy encounters in different levels. The ‘Canyons’ is the first level we’re trying this out and we’ll be closely watching your feedback on that side.

• All challenge rooms in Act 2 and Act 3 are now mixed up (meaning you can find challenge rooms which were previously exclusive to Act 2 in Act 3 and vice versa)
• Added a new challenge room for Act 2 and Act 3
• Removed acid walls in all of the challenge rooms

• Added a visual ‘pause’ indicator when the game timer is paused
• Added a pop-up message when playing or switching to a language which is not yet fully translated
• Added elemental critical floating damage texts
• Added a time rank and cell rank gauge below the minimap

• Reworked the cells visuals
• Shock elemental is now purple

• Fixed some issues preventing certain feedback and interface sounds from playing when other sounds of the same category would play
• Modified the way your brobot sounds are spatialized to make them less overwhelming when being really close to your brobot

Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 8.5 to 9.0

Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 34.0 to 40.0
• Firerate decreased from 2.85/s to 2.63/s
• Heat per shot decreased from 16.0 to 15.0

Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 58.0 to 68.0
• Impact force increased from 56.0 to 70.0

Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 13.0 to 20.0
• Alternate fire removed

Developer's Note: The alternate fire has been transformed into a mod. which can randomly appear on different weapons. We’re likely to continue this process over the updates for other weapons which seem to have an ‘arbitrary’ alternate fire which is not necessarily part of the weapon’s fantasy and / or for weapons which would benefit from accessing other mods.

Alternative Fire
• Impact force increased from 76.0 to 80.0

Primary Fire
• Heat per shot decreased from 3.0 to 2.5

Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 36.0 to 38.0

Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 100.0 to 115.0
• Impact force increased from 70.0 to 80.0

Scrap Blaster
• Damage increased from 60.0 to 65.0
• Cooldown decreased from 4.5 to 4.0

• Fixed an issue with weapon Mods. recoil pattern not properly being applied
• Speculative fix: you should no longer find yourself in a position where you can no longer jump

Howdy hey!

With December just kicking in, it’s time for another developer news!

We’ll be talking about a few of the incoming changes as well as other more long-term objectives we have. Let’s dive right in!

It’s becoming a habit, we can’t do our developer news without talking about localization, which is still being worked on.
Almost all languages are still incomplete, so we decided to mark them as “unavailable” on the Steam page for the time being. We’ll turn them back on once they are complete. We apologize to all players who purchased the game thinking their language would be available. We didn’t think it would take that much time.
That being said, if you wish to help us localize the game in your language, we’d be really happy to welcome you aboard the localization crew. If you happen to be interested in helping us, please join the Discord server and tell us.
The current languages needing help include: German, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Polish and Portuguese-Brazilian.

We hear your feedback and we agree about Corrupted items: they aren’t the most compelling part of the player progression system. More infuriating, they are kinda hindering your runs by competing with regular items in loot chests.
So right now, they’re kind of a failed experiment. Though they provided us tons of information through our data and your feedback.
And this is definitely something we’re working on. Here are our goals for corrupted items:

• Make them funnier
  
• Make them not compete with other regular items in term of loot position
  
• Make them more diverse
  
• Make them viable
  
• Make them build-inducing (in both ways: picking up one can open up a build possibility or picking up one can complement your build)

This is not something that will be included in 0.8.0 since we still need to find the proper implementation for them. This is more of a “long-term” system that we’re looking to refine.
In the meantime, we tried to ‘hotfix’ some of the issues by reducing the stat debuffs they give. We know it’s not the most ideal solution but it’s the best we can do right now without reworking the system.

Data-Logs are ingame loot you’ll be able to find in the levels in 0.8.0.
They are (relatively) hidden in different spots of the levels and they provide Wrenches. Once found, they can’t be picked up again (and won’t appear anymore).
Right now, Data-Logs do nothing else than providing Wrenches. In the future, they’ll contain story bits which you’ll be able to read and review. Placing them in the levels and making them useful to the basecamp progression is the first step we’re taking towards their full integration in the game. This makes us able to collect data and analyze players’ behavior with them as well as see if they’re in the right spots or if we need to think of a different approach.
There is a fixed amount of Data-Logs in each level and you can see how many you already found over the maximum you can find in each level.

We’re currently reworking FXs and other visual effects to improve gameplay readability by clearly differentiating the colors and shapes of the different game elements (like enemy and player projectiles, perk effects and other looting pick-ups such as powercells and repair-o-cells).
In the 0.8.0 you will already be able to have a glimpse of that through the powercells, the sparks and the elemental effects. Though most of it is still a work-in-progress and we’ll continue to work to improve those.

The mighty, the great, the famous… Sir Catercoaster is making its comeback.
For those of you who don’t know him, he was a boss we decided to remove in the earlier updates of Roboquest. He wasn’t working as well as intended and was creating a bit of frustration for the players.
We made another attempt at bringing him back and you’ll be able to try it out in 0.8.0. Like usual with bosses and like we said in the previous developer news, he might not be in a perfect spot (in terms of balance, fairness and frustration). But we had a blast trying him out internally and we hope you’ll like it as well. If not... well... we’ll be iterating again on this rollercoaster of a boss.

The playtest 0.8.0 is just around the corner. It will be a public test branch like usual and anyone will be able to tune in to try out the new update. We expect the playtest to release in less than one week and the 0.8.0 in about two weeks. You can head over to the bottom of the previous developer update (https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/692890/view/3079894017737054099) for a more detailed breakdown of the incoming changes. We’ll also publish the full patch-note when the playtest lands.

That concludes our developer news and we’ll soon be back with the playtest...

In the meantime, happy robot smashing!

Hey everyone!

We just released another hotfix for the Autumn Update.

As usual, you can see the quick change notes below:

• Added approximately 50% of translations for Russian, Dutch and Spanish
• Fixed errors in English, French and Japanese texts

• Fixed a multiplayer crash occurring when your brobot selects a perk
• Speculative Fix: Reduced occurrences of infinite loading issues in multiplayer
• Finishing the game in 'Discovery' difficulty will no longer unlock all other difficulties

Hello everyone!

We’re back for our new developer news!

Today, we’re going to talk about the Autumn update, our current work for the incoming update and a few other things.

Once more, we’re still figuring out the right format for these updates, so don’t hesitate to let us know what you think about them. That being said, let’s dive right in!

The first thing we learned about the Autumn update is that… There was too much time between this one and the previous. Many of you were wondering where the heck we’ve been. And the answer is simple, we took a break after the Summer update and then we worked hard on bringing the Autumn update, which was one of our meatiest updates (at least on our side) so far.
In the absence of communication on our side, we understand that you might have this kind of question. But rest assured that we won’t be ‘leaving’ anytime soon, we’re hard at work on the game for several years now and we’ll keep on going.
Another thing we learned is that system reworks such as the Core rework and the Perk rework can be a bit scary, both for us and you players. It might feel as if we’re ‘removing’ a part of what people consider “fun” about the game. When doing such reworks, we always try to keep what was composing the ‘fun’ of the systems and to re-inject it into the reworked system. We received a vast majority of positive feedback regarding both the perks and the items and that’s a relief.
Some of you are wondering if we know what we’re doing with our game, and the truth is we are to some extent. To some others, there are many things that require tinkering and figuring out the right amount of Roguelite, Fast FPS, replayability, random, progression and such to inject. And that’s why we’re often modifying or reworking the systems linked to those subjects. Though in reality, the backbone of the game does not differ that much, regardless of our reworks. We have a clear direction in mind and we’re looking at ways to make it as good and fun as we can. Even if that means breaking things to recreate them afterwards.
But we feel like we’re reaching a point where the different parts of the game are starting to piece together. Of course, the game’s still in Early Access and we’ll be closely monitoring our data and following your feedback to continue to improve the game.

While this section could totally be contained within the previous, we thought it would be a good idea to highlight it a bit more.
We received numerous feedback regarding Billy Boom and its… explosion mechanic, and we wanted to talk a bit about it and bosses in general.
First off, regarding Billy Boom, we’re working towards giving its unique mechanic more feedback so that players can get a hint, understand and react to it in advance. Though, we think it will still be something that surprises players at least the first time they encounter it.

Now, regarding Bosses in general, we often start and finish the development of a single boss in the lifespan of a single update. This means they are far from being perfect at the moment we release them, especially when they contain some weird or unique mechanics. Brainstorming and developing bosses is a huge piece of work and we definitely need to see them in action with you to improve them. They are like risky gambles, we don’t really know in advance how you’ll be reacting to them (even if we obviously try hard to predict and give them as much feedback as possible).
In that sense, we’re sorry that you may feel like our new bosses are sometimes a bit weird or frustrating, but we’re continuously trying to improve them as we receive your feedback. We have good hopes that Billy Boom (and other new Bosses) will find their place in the game as legitimate ‘good’ Bosses after a few iterations.
Thank you for your patience!

All languages are missing their translation in this update.
As you might know, the translation of Roboquest is made by kind members of our community willing to help us. They usually have 2+ weeks to translate the incoming update and we’re testing the translation during playtest.
This time around, they only had one week, we reworked 70% of the texts of the game and nobody had the chance to try out the translation during playtest. This was all our fault, but since there was so much delay in between the Summer and the Autumn update, we didn’t want to delay the Autumn update as many of you were already waiting.
There was clearly an organization issue on our side, we overlooked that aspect and we’re sorry for all players who are not playing in English. Translators are working hard right now to localize the new update and we’ll be injecting those as soon as they’re ready.
Once again, we’re sorry for the inconvenience!

Among the many reports and feedback we’ve had, numerous were about the issues we’re going to discuss here. And these seem to be recurring problems we have to deal with.
Obviously, the game still has many bugs and crashes. This is something we need to work on continuously as new bugs and crashes appear as we develop the game and add things to it. To help us fix those issues, please remember to always send a F10 feedback when you’re facing a bug in the game, this will send us the logs of the game and make us able to track what happened which lead to the situation you’re in. When it comes to crashes, we need a little more from you to be able to fix them. As mentioned in the ‘how to report a bug’ section, we need your ‘crash dump’. There are two places you can send them to us: on Steam and on Discord. In both cases, it’s the fastest way for us to fix these issues so we thank you in advance for spending a little time helping us.
Considering ‘gamefeel’ is one of our primary priorities, we’re pretty concerned about that issue (mouse inputs failing to register). We know there are two main sources to that issue, the first one being the game not being in “Fullscreen” but instead in “Borderless”, leading to mouse inputs registering outside of the game screen. The second source is closely related to the Unreal Engine and we have yet to find out how to solve that in our game. We also have a lead about this issue being especially occurring for players on laptops, but we’re unsure if this is real data or just a coincidence.
Whether that’d be failing to connect to your brobot or rubber banding in multiplayer. This is something we’re continuously trying to improve by reducing the amount of data travelling between the two players (among other things). To reduce that issue, you must preferably play with people of the same region and with a good connection. Though, even in the best of circumstances, you will likely still experience these issues.
We received several reports about hardware heating more when playing our game than other games. This is partly coming from the fact that the game is not yet optimized but also mainly because setting the game in high graphic quality or playing with unlimited FPS will tell your computer to use every resource available to it. If that happens to you, consider reducing the graphics quality or the FPS cap.

These three latest technical issues are pretty advanced and hard to fix. We’re a small studio and we’re working hard to solve them. But we can’t invest all of our work-time in those, or else we’d be delaying the entirety of the game. So we’re slowly making progress, but it’s not something we can fix ‘right away’. We’re really sorry if that takes (too much) time, but we’re doing our best considering our situation and workforce. If you want to help on that side, please consider sharing your exact spec when communicating about these kinds of issues.

Is planned to be released around mid-December.
We’re working hard on it and it will feature a new Boss, new enemies, new weapons, new mods, a little visual update of ‘Energy Center’ level and a fully reworked ‘Aqua Station’ level. On top of that, we’ll rework, improve and add a bunch of new perk upgrades following your feedback and our data.
We’ll probably be back around mid-November or end of November to give you more information on that side. The Roadmap on Discord and Steam will also be updated accordingly.
As usual, we’ll launch a public playtest version a few days / a week before the update for you to try out the new version and help us fix the issues it contains.

And that’s it for this dev update!

We hope you appreciated it and we wish you a happy robot smashing!