Jul 7, 2022

Roboquest - Elliot Yun

Howdy Guardians!

The Summer update (0.10.0) is NOW LIVE!

(on all platforms at once but it may take some time for the Summer update to be live on certain of them)

As a result, the playtest has been closed and will likely be open again for the next update. Thanks a lot to all playtesters!

You can read the comprehensive list of changes coming into the Summer Update here.

You can also check out the official video made by Jamesaroni, our partnering content creator, to highlight the main changes:

Jamesaroni is also streaming the update right here on Steam!

Now before diving into the highlights, please note that the game's localization is not ready yet and certain languages will be updated in the days and weeks to come. For now, only English is available (we will update the store to clearly reflect that).

The Summer update is a meaty one and we couldn't give the community translators the time they needed to translate that many texts. We're really sorry about this and we hope you will excuse us.

If you purchased the game because it was in your own language and find yourself unable to play because it's now missing, we totally understand the frustration and once again, we apologize. Please give us some time to bring it back. Keep in mind that the localization has always been done by kind and devoted members of the community. We initially planned to only translate the game for the final release because we've been changing the game systems and game content a lot and translating while the game is going under such heavy modifications would be pointless (most game texts changing at each major update). If there's one mistake we made was to mark on the store page that the game was available in lots of different languages. We won't make that mistake again.

Finally, we wanted to say a few things about the changes coming to the Summer update:

Some of the systems you’ve been accustomed to (such as cells and weapon categories) have been overhauled.

We think those changes were necessary to the game in its current state but also to continue healthily expanding it. We’ll talk in detail about the reasons and consequences in the ‘highlights’ section below.

We hope you’ll give those changes a chance and test them before making up your mind about whether you like them or not.

We’ll be actively following your feedback on that.

Onto the highlights now:

Cross-Platform

You may now invite brobots from other platforms to your party by sending them your session ID (found in the multiplayer menu, use the ‘copy’ button). Your brobot will then have to enter this ID in the multiplayer menu to join your game. This will work regardless of what region you’re playing in.

The friend list currently does not support displaying friends from other platforms, but that’s something we’re working on.

Please keep in mind that this is the first iteration of this system and that you may encounter problems, we’ll be monitoring that and working on it. Implementing such a feature was a hard task for our studio and we aren’t unable to extensively try things out. Please send us F10 feedback whenever you’re encountering issues.

Note: You might currently be stuck in a state where the game does not manage to generate a session ID for you (infinite session loading displayed in the multiplayer menu), making you unable to either host or use the public matchmaking system. Restarting your game will fix that issue.

Public Matchmaking

You may now search for brobots directly in the multiplayer menu of the game using the ‘quick play’ button. The matchmaking will find another player looking for a brobot in your selected region and let you play with one another. For now the search criteria are completely wide and won’t take into account things such as basecamp progression (and you may be matched with players with a different progression level than yours), but that’s something we’ll be looking to improve. You may be matched with players from any platforms.

Looking for brobots outside of your region will likely result in high-latency games. The available regions are as follows: North America, South America, Asia, Oceania, Africa and Europe and you can change directly in the multiplayer menu.

Like the previous system, this was something that was hard to implement for us and that will likely require updates to be fully operational and pleasing to use. Please, report us any issue using the F10 in-game report system if you were to come across any.

Weapons Update

We have removed the weapon categories from the game (and relocated the damage increase coming from category bonuses to several other systems in the game).

This was one of our most ancient systems (if not the most) and it was primarily used to help create a sense of build and to distinguish classes from one another (one would be using precision when another would be using demolition in most builds for example).

But with the evolution of other systems and time passing, it started to grow as an obsolete and limiting system. The perk system was also becoming the real factor of build-orientation and class distinction and the category system started to feel like a burden for the game and for the run diversity: playing one class meant playing the same weapons over and over.

In addition, the item selection process (choosing a category to buff) was never a compelling choice to make for you, regardless of how we implemented it (and some of you might remember, we tried many things).

As a result, the category system was no longer useful or bringing anything to the table and we simply removed it.

Doing so makes us able to more easily implement new weapons, new classes and makes sure a greater amount of loot is viable for your current run (effectively increasing run diversity). This also made us able to make you loot a bit less weapons considering more weapons than before are viable for your current build and consequently remove the weapon drops on enemies (which was a system breaking the combat flow).

But then you might be wondering, what about the items?

Items & Shopkeepers

Items as you knew them have been removed (those buffing category stats).

Instead, items are now granting various bonuses and effects that help you specialize your build in different ways.

And you will be able to purchase them from newly added shopkeepers.

Or rather from the Max’s Crew.

Max just crafted a bunch of new friendly robots to help you through your runs.

These new friendbots can craft weapons, reroll affixes and sell you items (among other things).

Though they need ‘Powercells’ for that. ‘Powercells’ is a new in-run currency that can be found in challenge rooms, can drop from enemies or be granted as a reward at the end of each level. Later down the road, it will also be tied to the Elite enemy system.

This group of friendbots replaces the old ‘console’ system.

You can upgrade your basecamp to encounter more friendbots in your runs. You can also trade ‘Wrenches’ for ‘Powercells’ once your Basecamp is fully upgraded.

Note: We’re still finalizing the visuals of the different shopkeepers.

Health Flow Rework

We’ve reworked health flow yet again.

The previous system had several issues:
• Taking damage from the last enemy in an encounter made it impossible to regenerate your health (as there weren’t any more enemy left to pick-up cells from)
• You were recovering health at a too high rate with every other healing effects
• The high healing possibilities made it so the only way to ‘lose’ was to take a very high amount of damage at once. This forced us to increase enemy damage, but that’s not really pleasing for a roguelite: it’s more interesting to slowly but regularly lose health when making mistakes, up to the point where any damage would kill you
• It was pretty hard to create interesting yet not overpowered healing effect
• In multiplayer, receiving heals from your brobot picking up cells kinda felt weird when you weren’t even around

We tackled those issues by preventing the damage bar from fading and by splitting the damage between permanent and temporary damage.

Basically, when taking damage, a part is stored into the ‘scratch damage’ bar and the rest is taken off your health.

The scratch damage no longer fades over time (like described above) and gathering pick-ups from enemies restores both a part of your scratch damage and a smaller part of your health.

This allows us to create many ‘repair scratch damage’ effects which effectively heal you without being overpowered while still slowly grinding your health when making mistakes (the Repair-o-Bot still restores a part of your missing health). This also makes us able to better control enemy damage to avoid ‘unfair’ spikes of damage.

Experience System

This was one of the most debated features in Roboquest and many of you request us to change it. That made us think long and hard about it.

And after our internal analysis, we isolated several issues:
• Becoming ‘underpowered’ and not getting any perk because you’re not leveling-up is boring, especially if you are actually doing the right thing (smashing the badbots!)
• It’s not letting you play the way you want
• Becoming ‘underpowered’ means increasing the time-to-kill enemies (which feels really awful in Roboquest)
• We can encourage player to go forward through other game mechanics such as weapons, perks, affixes and health flow

The idea of making the XP cell disappear was initially there to force the player to move forward into the combat. But we initially expected that there would be a tactical choice of whether or not to go in based on the current combat situation (for example, taking down a remote threat to reduce the danger of the situation while deciding not to pick up the cells it drops). But it didn’t work like that, you eventually had to pick-up every single cell (since they are XP points).

So we decided to change the XP cells into Health cells. That creates the risk/reward decision of whether or not to pick them up more viable than before while still incentivizing the fact of going fast and forward. But going slower and taking your time is also possible, even if other systems in the game promote fast-clearing tactics.

Shifting the XP gain to simply killing the enemies ensures that you still need to destroy the badbots (which is what the game should be about) while still getting all the benefits of leveling-up.

So we changed it: destroying enemies will now automatically grant you experience.

Rail Momentum

We modified the way rails and riding work regarding the speed at which you can ride them and hop off them.

This was feedback we received numerous times and we wanted to do something about it, we just didn’t have the time. This long ‘break’ gave us some room on that side so we went for it.

When starting to ride, it will conserve your current movement speed and quickly lerp that speed towards the regular ride speed. Hopping off the rail will also conserve the momentum you had while riding and quickly lerp towards your regular movement speed.

Overall this should make the experience of riding feel way better than before.

And that’s it for the highlights of the Summer update.

Hope you'll be having a blast smashing those pesky evilbots in the hot summer of Roboquest!

You can read the comprehensive changelist here.

We also completely overhauled the Roboquest store page and the roadmap alongside.
Here is the new roadmap:

Jul 7, 2022

Summer Update Patch-Notes

Roboquest - Elliot Yun

Here’s the complete list of changes for the Summer update (0.10.0).

You can view the highlights of the patch and detailed explainations about certains changes here.

We hope you enjoy!

Note: The changelist is very similar to the playtest changelist posted two weeks ago. A few additional changes from the playtest have been added (thanks to all playtesters!).

• You may now search for brobots directly in the multiplayer menu of the game using the ‘quick play’ button
• You may now invite brobots from other platforms to your game by sending them your session ID (which you can find in the multiplayer menu)
• Doubled both the player’s health and the enemies’ damage to diminish the occurrences of rounded numbers and to make them comparable with the enemies’ health values
• ‘Headbonk’ damage increased from 25 to 45
• ‘Lucky Critical’ is now called ‘Auto-Critical’ (while less funky, it should be clearer)
• ‘Resistance’ is now called ‘Armor’
• ‘Cooling Weapons’ are now called ‘Energy Weapons’, ‘Heat Cost’ is called ‘Energy Cost’ and other subsequent name have been updated as well, ‘Overheating’ still refers to the action of reaching the maximum of your energy gauge
• Fully frozen enemies no longer automatically take critical damage

Developer's Note: That was making Cryo the best element right-on and was creating a must-have synergy between critical and Cryo which was limiting the viable builds as well as reducing the effectiveness and viability of the Auto-Critical stat.

• Added a new Melee damage type (such as Burn or Explosive). Various gameplay elements such as Affixes, Perks or Gadgets now directly reference ‘Melee’ damage (for example: Increases Melee damage)
• Some gameplay elements such as the Recon’s ‘Slash’, the Guardian’s ‘Bash’ or the ‘Chainsaw’ now deal ‘Melee’ damage
• ‘Melee Attacks’ are now called and considered as ‘Secondary Abilities’, not all secondary abilities deal Melee damage
• When your guardian is deactivated in multiplayer, you know get to spectate what your brobot is doing in third person view
• ‘Mark’ damage amplification decreased from 70% to 50%
• ‘Mark’ now lasts as long on Bosses as it does on common enemies (5 seconds)

Health Flow Update

• 60% of the damage you take is stored into the ‘scratch damage bar’ (gray bar), the rest is taken as regular damage
• Only 40% of Bosses’ damage are stored into the scratch damage bar
• The scratch damage bar does not fade over time
• Enemies loot health pickups which quickly disappear
• Health pickups are more effective at repairing your scratch damage than restoring your health
• Pickups are independant for each player in multiplayer
• Scoping no longer gathers pickups from afar
• Deployed minions (such as Drone and Sentries) do not gather pickups from afar

Developer's Note: We’re explaining this change in details in the patch highlights.

Experience Update

• Destroying enemies now automatically grants experience
• As a result, experience cells have been replaced by healing cells

Developer's Note: We’re explaining this change in details in the patch highlights.

• Experience gains have been smoothed across different runs, leading to less differences in terms of XP values between each run

Commando

Frenzy
• Passive renamed to ‘Frenzy’ (instead of ‘Fury’), but still stacks points of Fury
• Frenzy no longer increases damage and resistance but instead firerate, reload speed and other speeds related to animation time
Rocket
• Cooldown decreased from 12.0 to 9.0
• Rocket is homing again

Developer's Note: Haha. See you in the next update with a rollback of this change. Yo-yo design we call it.

Engineer

Drone
• ‘Drone’ base health increased from 50 to 60
Scrap Blaster
• Damage decreased from 65.0 to 55.0
• Cooldown increased from 4.0 to 5.0

Guardian

Bash
• Now drops healing cells on takedowns or when hitting Bosses
Top Quality
• Now called ‘Top Quality’
• Now increases the damage of the first 33% ammo or energy gauge and no longer grants a shield

Developer's Note: While Shield is an interesting mechanic on paper, it was always hard to integrate it to Roboquest both in terms of health regeneration flow and mechanic clarity. In addition, it was a bit redundant with the new ‘scratch damage’ mechanic. The Guardian is one of the hardest classes to design because of its simplicity. Being the first class in the game, it had to be somewhat simple for the player to pick-up, but that makes consequently harder to create interesting or funny perks for it. The new passive should give us more room to give it such interesting perks. Regarding the other classes, we’re starting to be quite happy with their current design.

New Weapons

• 3 new weapons have been added: ‘Pulse Blaster’, ‘Mortar’ and ‘Torpedo Gun’
Pulse Blaster
An energy weapon hurling bursts of delayed explosive blasts.

Mortar
A powerful artillery weapon.

Torpedo Gun
A quick-to-reload rocket-propelling shotgun.

General

• Weapon categories have been removed

Developer's Note: We’re explaining this change in details in the patch highlights.

• ‘Power Gloves’ has been fully reworked and now only has a melee-punch as primary fire
• ‘Laser Saw’ has been reworked and now shoots sticking projectiles that deals damage over time rather than piercing projectiles
• ‘Cryo Launcher’ has been modified: projectiles no longer have gravity and it deals increased damage against fully frozen enemies
• ‘Dual Guns’ has been modified and now shoots in a burst fashion
• ‘Unreal Gun’ is now called ‘Cyclone’
• ‘Cyclone’ alt-fire now sticks to walls and enemies

Developer's Note: Regardless of how fan we are of the original weapon from Unreal Tournament, we felt like it was a bit too hard for players to properly aim and shoot the orb with its primary fire, making the weapon less viable for a vast majority of players. Making the orb stick to its target makes it much more enjoyable for everyone and we hope it will increase its pick-rate.

• Weapon ‘Mods’ are now called ‘Alt-Fire’ (which seems to be more intuitive for most players)
• Weapons that already have an alt-fire (such as the ‘Scratch Rifle’) now have a chance to spawn with alt-fire variations
• We increased alt-fires overall damage and tweaked their cooldown and amount of charges to make them feel more like a powerful utility or damage ability rather than a secondary fire you can spam
• Enemies no longer drop weapons

Developer's Note: We’re trying to get rid of the mechanics hurting the combat flow. Having to stop in the middle of the fight to compare weapons whereas the game timer is still running or when your brobot is going ham in the next corridor is one of those hurtful mechanics. We relocated weapon drops in other parts of the levels where you actually have the time (and presence of mind) to check out those juicy loot.

• Weapons rarity (number of affixes) is now displayed by a color-code (White, Green, Blue, Purple and Orange)
• Based on basecamp upgrades you have more chances to encounter weapons of higher rarity than before
• Weapon levels are now directly related to player level in terms of numerical values (you should be looting level 1 and 2 weapons when you’re level 1 and 2)
• Weapons you find now have a chance to be of 1 level higher than what you’re supposed to find at a specific game level
• Fantastic weapons always have an alt-fire
• We’re re-introducing the ‘Elemental Cannon’ under two different forms: the ‘Ice Cannon’ and the ‘Shock Cannon’

Developer's Note: The ‘Elemental Cannon’ did not fit in the alt-fire systems we implemented in one of our previous updates and that’s why we removed it back then. Now that it’s splitted into two different weapons, we can randomly plug alt-fire into it. Though we’re not currently certain of the current implementation of each of them and we’d be glad to hear your feedback about them.

Affixes

• Removed the ‘Affinity’ affix (considering weapon categories no longer exist)

Developer's Note: An interesting part of this affix was to increase the efficiency of gun weapons that are often a bit weak compared to other types of weapons. We’ll try to think of other ways to promote equipping guns.

• New weapon affix: ‘Lively’ - Increases weapon charge speed (for primary fires that needs charging)
• New weapon affix: ‘Deft’ - Increases critical damage while scoping
• New weapon affix: ‘Armored’ - Increases armor while in hand (for Melee and Heavy weapons mostly)
• ‘Crash’ has been removed from the game

Developer's Note: It was just way too strong for an affix and therefore we removed it and added it as an item instead.

• ‘Hitscan’ should work better with multiple-projectile weapons
• ‘Explosive’ now triggers an explosion every X shots instead of having a chance to trigger
• Removed the ‘Bang’ affix as a result (‘Explosive’ became a better version of it)
• ‘Surprise’ chance to auto-critical set to 10%
• ‘Lucky’ chance to auto-critical set to 20%
• ‘Buckshot’ damage increased by 10%
• ‘Neat’ range increase reduced from 25% to 20%
• ‘Heavy’ movement penalty increased from 20% to 25%
• ‘Javelin’ damage reduced from 50% to 25% of weapon base damage
• ‘Megaboom’ radius bonus decreased from 50% to 30%
• ‘Warmup’ firerate bonus decreased from 30% to 20%
• ‘Solar’ energy gauge bonus decreases from 15% to 10%
• ‘Quickload’ reload speed bonus reduced from 20% to 15%
• ‘Carbon’ movement speed penalty reduction increased from 10% to 15%
• ‘Puncture’ damage increase per target pierced increased from 30% to 50%

Alternative Fire

• You can now use Alt-Fires with energy weapons while they are overheating
• ‘Can-Opener’ modified: it now simply deals melee damage and heals on takedown instead of executing

Balance Changes

Dual Uzis

Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 6.0 to 7.5

Windmill Rifle

• Ammo in clip increased from 45 to 60

Tommy Gun

Primary Fire
• Firerate decreased from 12.5/s to 12.04/s

Light Machine Gun

Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 12.0 to 13.0
• Firerate increased from 9.09/s to 10.0/s

Blast SMG

• The Blast Ball has been renamed Blast SMG

Scratch Rifle

Alternative Fire
• Damage increased from 50.0 to 60.0
• Impact force increased from 60.0 to 80.0
• Radius increased from 1.5m to 1.6m
• Cooldown increased from 4.0 to 6.0
• Stack amount decreased from 2 to 1

Pumping Shotgun

Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 11.0 to 12.0

Grandma's Shotgun

Primary Fire
• Damage decreased from 13.0 to 12.0

Thumper

Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 40.0 to 55.0
• Impact force increased from 50.0 to 64.0
• Radius decreased from 1.9m to 1.2m

Graviton Launcher

Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 48.0 to 50.0
• Radius decreased from 1.2m to 1.0m

Throwing Knife

Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 24.0 to 25.0

Revolver

Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 42.0 to 46.0

Dual Crossbows

Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 28.0 to 30.0
• Critical ratio increased from 2.0 to 2.25

Scout Sniper

Primary Fire
• Critical ratio increased from 2.0 to 2.25
• Range increased from 22.5 to 23.0

Arquebus

Primary Fire
• Range increased from 22.5 to 23.0

Sheriff's Carbine

Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 48.0 to 53.0
• Firerate increased from 1.66/s to 1.88/s

Longbow

Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 68.0 to 70.0
• Range increased from 22.5 to 23.0

Shock Rifle

Primary Fire
• Damage decreased from 20.0 to 8.0
• Firerate increased from 5.0/s to 10.0/s
• Range increased from 12.0 to 16.0
• Heat per shot decreased from 5.0 to 3.0

Junk Beam

Primary Fire
• Damage decreased from 20.0 to 19.0

Assault Rifle

• Ammo in clip increased from 30 to 35
Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 10.0 to 10.5
• Impact force increased from 9.0 to 9.5
• Firerate increased from 11.11/s to 11.76/s

Blast Minigun

Primary Fire
• Damage decreased from 7.5 to 7.0
• Firerate decreased from 16.66/s to 14.28/s
• Heat per shot increased from 1.25 to 1.5

Assault Shotgun

Primary Fire
• Damage decreased from 7.0 to 6.0
• Firerate decreased from 3.7/s to 3.57/s

Triple Shotgun

Primary Fire
• Impact force increased from 16.0 to 19.0

Barrel Cannon

Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 56.0 to 66.0
• Impact force increased from 78.0 to 80.0
• Radius decreased from 1.5m to 1.0m
• Projectile speed increased from 7000 to 12500

Flak Cannon

Alternative Fire
• Damage increased from 58.0 to 70.0
• Firerate increased from 2.22/s to 2.5/s
• Cooldown increased from 3.0 to 6.0
• Stack amount decreased from 2 to 1

Long Rifle

Primary Fire
• Range increased from 22.5 to 23.0

Assault Pistol

• Ammo in clip decreased from 10 to 7
Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 38.0 to 46.0
• Impact force increased from 48.0 to 50.0

Blast Sniper

Primary Fire
• Damage decreased from 47.0 to 44.0
• Firerate decreased from 2.7/s to 2.56/s
• Range increased from 22.5 to 23.0

Elite Sniper

Primary Fire
• Range increased from 22.5 to 23.0

Elite Crossbow

Primary Fire
• Critical ratio increased from 1.5 to 1.75
• Range increased from 22.5 to 23.0

Blast Palms

Primary Fire
• Damage decreased from 21.0 to 18.0

Assault Sentry

Primary Fire
• Range increased from 12.5 to 16.0

Cyclone

• The Unreal Gun has been renamed Cyclone
Primary Fire
• Range decreased from 22.5 to 16.0
• Heat per shot decreased from 16.0 to 10.0
Alternative Fire
• Radius increased from 0.8m to 0.9m
• Projectile speed increased from 3200 to 6400
• Now sticks to hit surface and enemies

• We updated most perk and upgrades in the game but all of their visual icons are temporary (and made by our game design team)
• There are neutral perks (available to all classes) and class-specific perks (that you can only choose with certain classes)
• Reduced the amount of upgrades per perk from 3 to 2

• Items are no longer available as simple rewards but are instead part of the ‘Shop’ system (read the section below or the patch highlights for more information)
• Items no longer improve weapon category stats (since categories have been removed), instead they grant various bonuses that can complement your build or provide funky effects

• Added several types of ‘Shops’ where you can purchase various game elements (such as weapon, items or reroll affixes)
• Added a new in-game currency called ‘Powercells’ to purchase items from shops
• You can loot Powercells from enemies, find them in chests or receive them as a rank reward at the end of the levels
• Powercells dropping off enemies quickly disappear
• Shops aren’t all available at the beginning of the game and unlocking specific basecamp upgrades will increases the amount and variety of shops you encounter
• Removed all consoles as a result

• Updated many basecamp upgrades
• Added some basecamp upgrades

Developer's Note: Those changes are simply temporary to follow the other game system changes. The basecamp will be overhauled later down the road as you might have read in our previous devblogs.

• ‘Soccer Shoes’ gadget removed

Developer's Note: Following the base headbonk damage increase.

• ‘Hero’s Cape’ required height to reach max damage increased by 2m
• ‘Sunglasses’ now reduces your health instead of your armor
• ‘Safety Helmet’ now grants 10% bonus health instead of reducing damage from traps
• ‘Fancy Pins’ now increases the chance for weapons to spawn with an alt-fire and reduces alt-fire cooldowns instead of buffing cooldown and damage of alt-fires
• New gadget: ‘Cooking Gloves’ - Reduces the cost to reroll weapon affixes by 1
• New gadget: ‘Sheriff Star’ - Increases your chance to have higher level weapons and more affixes
• New gadget: ‘Business Briefcase’ - Grants you 2 powercells when leveling-up
• Return of the gadget: ‘Metal Detector’ - Enemies have a chance to drop weapons when destroyed

• Arenas now open when all enemies are vanquished instead of when reaching 10% of enemies remaining
• Reduced the delay between two enemy spawns in arenas from 1.5s to 0.5s

Developer's Note: This makes sure the intensity of the combat remains high throughout the entirety of the arena fight despite the change above.

• Enemy projectiles are faster
• Enemies are faster
• Enemies move more often
• Enemies shoot a bit less often when in large groups
• Enemies load up their attack a little faster (5% in average)
• Updated enemy line across the Act 1

Developer's Note: This is only the continuation of the work we’re doing on enemy line ups and we’ll continue in that direction with the implementation of new enemies.

• Rail bots’ sprint speed reduced by 10%
• Most enemy projectiles no longer pass through enemies and instead simply disappear

Developer's Note: This should remove some of the frustration of being shot by an enemy through another one despite not being able to see the incoming projectile.

• Guardbots impact resistance increased by 10%
• Boombot, Boomfly and Rocketpawn explosion radius increased by 30%
• Icebots now trigger a cryo explosion when being destroyed
• Exploding boombots now apply impact to nearby enemies
• Shockpod base damage reduced from 10 to 2
• Smallbots tend to move more often when nearby the player
• Boombot, Boomfly and Rocketpawn no longer take double damage against burn

Developer's Note: This was a change that we thought was implemented in the game for a long time now, but apparently it wasn’t, so we’re fixing that. Right now, there is no valid reason to implement a “weakness” or “damage type” system and even less if it only works with one element out of three.

• Enemies have less health in average in higher difficulties (starting from Heroes+1)

Developer's Note: Time-to-kill is a very important metric that should always remain relatively low, because that’s how it’s fun to smash robots in Roboquest.

Bosses

• Added a system to have a better random boss rotation (and avoid encountering the same boss several runs in a row)
• Bosses’ aggro system has been changed and Bosses should more often switch target instead of targeting the same one over and over again
• Time needed for the lava to cover the ‘Sir Catercoaster’ arena’s ground decreased from 20s to 13s (total time to fully cover the arena remains at 80s)
• ‘Lady Bug’ name reverted to ‘Beetle Royale’
• ‘Dr. Turret’ rotating laser speed reduced by 20%
• ‘Billy Boom’ health increased by 5%
• ‘Billy Boom’ back-plate can no longer be destroyed (and only opens up when ‘Billy Boom’ gets down)
• ‘Sir Catercoaster’ health decreased by 10%
• ‘Beetle Royale’ health decreased by 10%
• ‘Judgeball’ health decreased by 10%

• Improved rail positioning in all levels
• Updated rail system to retain your momentum when hopping on and off of it
• Lava floors now propel you in a vertical fashion when dealing damage to you
• Added 5 new challenge rooms in Act 1
• Updated certain challenge rooms visuals
• Added transparent projectile-blocking walls to all doors, entrances and other safe areas to prevent enemies from shooting you and vice-versa
• Locked doors now have a color-code corresponding to their key color
• Quickly updated the tutorial to include all current mechanics

Developer's Note: The tutorial is something we’ll be overhauling later down the road. Considering the heavy changes the game is ongoing, it would be a waste to update it now. Though, there were (and still are) a number of mechanics that weren’t explained or were outdated so we had to make this change.

• Goliaths in ‘Haven City’ now loot many healing cells
• The ‘Junkyard’ in ‘Road’ now provides better upgrades
• ‘Road’ visuals updated
• ‘Energy Center’ visuals updated
• Challenge rooms’ visuals updated in certain levels

• Added a visual indicator nearby the experience bar to indicate how much XP you’ve gained when destroying a badbot
• Updated the tooltips for several game settings
• Updated perk selection UI
• Added user interface feedback to several perks
• Your perks are now displayed as icons in the top-left corner of your screen
• Perk icons at the bottom of the screen have been removed
• Added other interface feedback for some perks
• Added a UI indicator to display the maximum amount of armor and movement speed you can cumulate
• Added new and updated loading tips to better reflect various game mechanic changes
• Weapon level is now displayed over the weapon pickup
• All allied deployed minions now have a floating health bar (alike enemies but green)
• Minions deployed from primary abilities now have their health bar also displayed nearby the ability icon
• You can change the game language without restarting the game
• The tab overlay now displays player’ stat tied to damage scaling per level
• Map area color changed: challenge rooms (purple), safe area (green) and special areas (orange)
• Updated weapon tooltip critical ratio display: now displayed in ratio rather than percentage (1.25 instead of 125%)
• Updated weapon tooltip range display
• Removed ‘Radius’ and ‘Range’ from melee weapons
• Updated weapon tooltip for multiple projectile weapons: now displays 5x10 instead of 50 (for instance)
• Slightly updated the visual around the player health bar and class icon
• Slightly updated the visual of your brobot’s health bar
• Updated the visuals of the player’s status effects
• Added placeholder icons for weapon alt-fires
• Updated icons for Wrenches, Powercells, Keys and Data-Logs
• Added an icon to display your current Armor value nearby your health bar
• You now see a progress bar when being rebooted by your brobot
• Dealing damage with elemental effects out of your weapon range is now displayed in gray numbers instead of coloured numbers to better indicate that you’re too far from the enemy
• The game's version is now displayed in the end-game screen
• Added a color grading for player health bar based on current health

• Added a visual effect on weapons when under the effects of various bonuses
• Updated waterfall visuals
• Updated Recon’s stealth and decoy visual
• Bosses now have a proper visual effect when affected by elemental statuses
• ‘Judgeball’ visual effects updated
• Added a new player animation when you’re being stunned
• Updated most weapon impact visual effects
• Updated most surface impact visual effects (for example when shooting grass or dirt)
• Updated the rendering and position of the burning status on all enemies
• Added a visual effect when sentries are destroyed
• Updated the laser visuals of the ‘Laser Saw’ and the Recon’s ‘Dagger’ and added color variations depending on their element
• Added new or updated old visual effects for explosion emanating from the player (alike ‘Hero’s Cape’)
• Added missing overheat visual effects on certain energy weapons
• Added a thruster visual effects to ‘Judgeball’ charge attack
• Added a shield visual effect to ‘Judgeball’ shielding beacons
• Added a ‘despawn’ visual effect to some projectiles
• Updated the visual effect when fully freezing an enemy
• Updated ‘Dr. Turret’ fire area visual effect
• Added a visual effect cue above ‘Rail Bots’ head when they start sprinting
• Updated enemy laser beams impact visual effect
• Updated ‘Mark’ visual effect
• Updated the visuals for all lava floors
• Started implementing some environment visual effects in specific levels

Developer's Note: This is just the first steps of what we would like to do regarding environmental ambient and mood. We’d like to add or adjust lighting, post-process, sounds and other visual effects for all of them.

• Added specific sounds for almost all Alt-Fires
• Added a sound for ‘Dr. Turret’ area of effect
• Added a new sound for Commando’s ‘Shorty’
• Updated ‘Shock Rifle’ shoot sound
• Updated ‘Graviton Launcher’ shoot sound
• Updated ‘Tactical Shotgun’ shoot sound
• Updated ‘Blunderbuss’ shoot sound
• Updated ‘Grenade Launcher’ shoot sound
• Updated ‘Revolver’ shoot sound
• Updated ‘Cyclone’ shoot sound
• Updated ‘Blast SMG’ shoot sound
• Updated ‘Longbow’ shoot and charge sound
• Updated ‘Scratch Rifle’ reload sound
• Updated Weapon Equip sound
• Updated Jumpad sound

• Hugely improved performance related to text display
• Updated performance of most visual effects in the game
• Updated user interface rendering performance
• Updated the performance cost of a lot of game systems
• Overall CPU performances should be better

• Fixed multiple undocumented bugs and issues
• Added a safety measure to reactivate players' inputs after a yellow jumpad automatically
• Fixed issues occuring with jumpads on client
• Fixed a crash occurring when loading a new map as a client
• Fixed issues where Beetle Royale would fail to destroy a railing
• Fixed an issue causing bouncing projectiles to hit bosses several times in a row
• Rotating the map will no longer hide certain elements
• The game systems will no-longer fail to register Goliath’s death in ‘Haven-City’ when destroyed by the client robot (leaving you unable to progress into the game)

Jun 24, 2022

Summer Playtest is live!

Roboquest - Elliot Yun

Hey Guardians!

After so much time without an update, we’re finally back!

And since it’s Summer, it seems appropriate to release the Summer update public playtest.

Before talking about it, we just wanted to sum up what happened with the Rogue’n’Roll update (if you haven’t followed this topic in the first place, you may want to skip the next section).

The Rogue’n’Roll update was canceled and most of the changes it was featuring have been incorporated to the Summer update. We took the time we needed to modify the systems you’ve been pinpointing during our previous playtest and we think they’re ready to be tried out. If you wish to read more details about the development process behind them and the issues we’ve been tackling you may want to read the devblog here.

The game will move on from the 0.8.9 version to the 0.10.0 version with the Summer update (effectively skipping the 0.9.0).

The playtest starts now (on Steam only) and will last for one to two weeks based on your feedback and the issues being reported. Once finished, the Summer update will land on all platforms at once (sometimes with a few days delay based on each platform’s validation process).

You can access the playtest by going into your game library, right-clicking Roboquest, going into ‘Properties’, heading over to the ‘Beta’ tab and opting for the ‘Roboquest Playtest’ branch.
It should download the playtest version of Roboquest (note that your progress is separated from the standard branch).
The playtest version comes with enough Wrenches to purchase all basecamp upgrades so you don’t have to grind to try out changes that would potentially be gated behind them.

Now, let’s touch a few words about the localization of the game:

So far, we’ve been relying solely on kind and devoted members of the community to translate the game. While we are thankful to them, we’re also sorry. It demanded a lot of effort on their end to maintain the translation up-to-date (because we are modifying many texts every time we update the perks). This resulted in the game not having completed translation for many languages, despite some of them being marked as completed on the Steam page. We will make sure to keep the store page up-to-date in that regard to avoid misinformation. If your language is currently not supported, please rest assured that the closer we are to the final release, the more languages will be supported and fully finalized.

Finally and before diving into the highlights of this Summer update, we wanted to say a few things about the incoming update:

The Summer update brings changes to some of the systems you’ve been accustomed to such as cells and weapon categories. You may have read about it in our previous devblogs.

We think those changes were necessary to the game in its current state but also to continue healthily expanding it. We’ll talk in detail about the reasons and consequences in the ‘highlights’ section below.

We hope you’ll give those changes a chance and test them before making up your mind about whether you like them or not.

We’ll be actively following your feedback on that.

Now, onto the highlights.

Cross-Platform

You may now invite brobots from other platforms to your party by sending them your session ID (found in the multiplayer menu, use the ‘copy’ button). Your brobot will then have to enter this ID in the multiplayer menu to join your game. This will work regardless of what region you’re playing in.

The friend list currently does not support displaying friends from other platforms, but that’s something we’re working on.

Please note that this is the first iteration of this system and that you may encounter problems, we’ll be monitoring that and working on it. Implementing such a feature was a hard task for our studio and we aren’t unable to extensively try things out. We will especially keep an eye on it during the public playtest, so please send us F10 feedback whenever you’re encountering issues.

Public Matchmaking

You may now search for brobots directly in the multiplayer menu of the game using the ‘quick play’ button. The matchmaking will find another player looking for a brobot in your selected region and let you play with one another. For now the search criteria are completely wide and won’t take into account things such as basecamp progression (and you may be matched with players with a different progression level than yours), but that’s something we’ll be looking to improve.

Looking for brobots outside of your region will likely result in high-latency games. The available regions are as follows: North America, South America, Asia, Oceania, Africa and Europe and you can change directly in the multiplayer menu.

Like the previous system, this was something that was hard to implement for us and that will likely require updates to be fully operational and pleasing to use. Please, report us any issue using the F10 in-game report system if you were to come across any.

Note: You might currently be stuck in a state where the game does not manage to generate a session ID for you (infinite session loading displayed in the multiplayer menu), making you unable to either host or use the public matchmaking system. Restarting your game will fix that issue.

Weapons Update

Items & Shopkeepers

Health Flow Rework

Experience System

Rail Momentum

And that’s it for the highlights of the Summer update.

There were a lot of changes and we would love your help regarding balancing (whether it’d be about weapons, perks or anything else) during this playtest. We thank you in advance for everyone involved.

In addition, we might have missed a few changes in the patch-note. If you happen to find one of them, please let us know and we’ll add it before the update officially lands.

On a final note, we’d like to warn you that all languages in the game aside from English aren’t translated yet (and maybe for an extended duration).

See you in the public playtest Guardians!

Find the complete list of changes here.

Jun 24, 2022

Summer Playtest Patch-Notes

Roboquest - Elliot Yun

Here’s the complete list of changes for the Summer update public playtest.

Please note that this list also includes most of the changes that were coming into the Rogue’n’Roll update.

Developer's Note: That was making Cryo the best element right-on and was creating a must-have synergy between critical and Cryo which was limiting the viable builds as well as reducing the effectiveness and viability of the Auto-Critical stat.

Health Flow Update

Developer's Note: We’re explaining this change in details in the patch highlights.

Experience Update

• Destroying enemies now automatically grants experience
• As a result, experience cells have been replaced by healing cells

Developer's Note: We’re explaining this change in details in the patch highlights.

• Experience gains have been smoothed across different runs, leading to less differences in terms of XP values between each run

Commando

Developer's Note: Haha. See you in the next update with a rollback of this change. Yo-yo design we call it.

Engineer

Drone
• ‘Drone’ base health increased from 50 to 60
Scrap Blaster
• Damage decreased from 65.0 to 55.0
• Cooldown increased from 4.0 to 5.0

Guardian

Developer's Note: While Shield is an interesting mechanic on paper, it was always hard to integrate it to Roboquest both in terms of health regeneration flow and mechanic clarity. In addition, it was a bit redundant with the new ‘scratch damage’ mechanic. The Guardian is one of the hardest classes to design because of its simplicity. Being the first class in the game, it had to be somewhat simple for the player to pick-up, but that makes consequently harder to create interesting or funny perks for it. The new passive should give us more room to give it such interesting perks. Regarding the other classes, we’re starting to be quite happy with their current design.

New Weapons

• 3 new weapons have been added: ‘Pulse Blaster’, ‘Mortar’ and ‘Torpedo Gun’
Pulse Blaster
An energy weapon hurling bursts of delayed explosive blasts.
Mortar
A powerful artillery weapon.
Torpedo Gun
A quick-to-reload rocket-propelling shotgun.

General

• Weapon categories have been removed

Developer's Note: We’re explaining this change in details in the patch highlights.

Developer's Note: Regardless of how fan we are of the original weapon from Unreal Tournament, we felt like it was a bit too hard for players to properly aim and shoot the orb with its primary fire, making the weapon less viable for a vast majority of players. Making the orb stick to its target makes it much more enjoyable for everyone and we hope it will increase its pick-rate.

Developer's Note: We’re trying to get rid of the mechanics hurting the combat flow. Having to stop in the middle of the fight to compare weapons whereas the game timer is still running or when your brobot is going ham in the next corridor is one of those hurtful mechanics. We relocated weapon drops in other parts of the levels where you actually have the time (and presence of mind) to check out those juicy loot.

Developer's Note: The ‘Elemental Cannon’ did not fit in the alt-fire systems we implemented in one of our previous updates and that’s why we removed it back then. Now that it’s splitted into two different weapons, we can randomly plug alt-fire into it. Though we’re not currently certain of the current implementation of each of them and we’d be glad to hear your feedback about them.

Affixes

• Removed the ‘Affinity’ affix (considering weapon categories no longer exist)

Developer's Note: An interesting part of this affix was to increase the efficiency of gun weapons that are often a bit weak compared to other types of weapons. We’ll try to think of other ways to promote equipping guns.

Developer's Note: It was just way too strong for an affix and therefore we removed it and added it as an item instead.

• ‘Hitscan’ should work better with multiple-projectile weapons
• ‘Explosive’ now triggers an explosion every X shots instead of having a chance to trigger
• Removed the ‘Bang’ affix as a result (‘Explosive’ became a better version of it)
• ‘Surprise’ chance to auto-critical set to 10%
• ‘Lucky’ chance to auto-critical set to 20%
• ‘Buckshot’ damage increased by 10%
• ‘Neat’ range increase reduced from 25% to 20%
• ‘Heavy’ movement penalty increased from 20% to 25%
• ‘Ion Lance’ damage reduced from 50% to 25% of weapon base damage
• ‘Megaboom’ radius bonus decreased from 50% to 30%
• ‘Warmup’ firerate bonus decreased from 30% to 20%
• ‘Solar’ energy gauge bonus decreases from 15% to 10%
• ‘Quickload’ reload speed bonus reduced from 20% to 15%
• ‘Carbon’ movement speed penalty reduction increased from 10% to 15%
• ‘Puncture’ damage increase per target pierced increased from 30% to 50%

Alternative Fire

• You can now use Alt-Fires with energy weapons while they are overheating
• ‘Can-Opener’ modified: it now simply deals melee damage and heals on takedown instead of executing

Balance Changes

Dual Uzis

Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 6.0 to 7.5

Windmill Rifle

• Ammo in clip increased from 45 to 60

Tommy Gun

Primary Fire
• Firerate decreased from 12.5/s to 12.04/s

Light Machine Gun

Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 12.0 to 13.0
• Firerate increased from 9.09/s to 10.0/s

Blast SMG

• The Blast Ball has been renamed Blast SMG

Scratch Rifle

Pumping Shotgun

Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 11.0 to 12.0

Grandma's Shotgun

Primary Fire
• Damage decreased from 13.0 to 12.0

Thumper

Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 40.0 to 55.0
• Impact force increased from 50.0 to 64.0
• Radius decreased from 1.9m to 1.2m

Graviton Launcher

Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 48.0 to 50.0
• Radius decreased from 1.2m to 1.0m

Throwing Knife

Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 24.0 to 25.0

Revolver

Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 42.0 to 46.0

Dual Crossbows

Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 28.0 to 30.0
• Critical ratio increased from 2.0 to 2.25

Scout Sniper

Primary Fire
• Critical ratio increased from 2.0 to 2.25
• Range increased from 22.5 to 23.0

Arquebus

Primary Fire
• Range increased from 22.5 to 23.0

Sheriff's Carbine

Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 48.0 to 53.0
• Firerate increased from 1.66/s to 1.88/s

Longbow

Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 68.0 to 70.0
• Range increased from 22.5 to 23.0

Shock Rifle

Primary Fire
• Damage decreased from 20.0 to 8.0
• Firerate increased from 5.0/s to 10.0/s
• Range increased from 12.0 to 16.0
• Heat per shot decreased from 5.0 to 3.0

Junk Beam

Primary Fire
• Damage decreased from 20.0 to 19.0

Assault Rifle

• Ammo in clip increased from 30 to 35
Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 10.0 to 10.5
• Impact force increased from 9.0 to 9.5
• Firerate increased from 11.11/s to 11.76/s

Blast Minigun

Primary Fire
• Damage decreased from 7.5 to 7.0
• Firerate decreased from 16.66/s to 14.28/s
• Heat per shot increased from 1.25 to 1.5

Assault Shotgun

Primary Fire
• Damage decreased from 7.0 to 6.0
• Firerate decreased from 3.7/s to 3.57/s

Triple Shotgun

Primary Fire
• Impact force increased from 16.0 to 19.0

Barrel Cannon

Flak Cannon

Alternative Fire
• Damage increased from 58.0 to 70.0
• Firerate increased from 2.22/s to 2.5/s
• Cooldown increased from 3.0 to 6.0
• Stack amount decreased from 2 to 1

Long Rifle

Primary Fire
• Range increased from 22.5 to 23.0

Assault Pistol

• Ammo in clip decreased from 10 to 7
Primary Fire
• Damage increased from 38.0 to 46.0
• Impact force increased from 48.0 to 50.0

Blast Sniper

Primary Fire
• Damage decreased from 47.0 to 44.0
• Firerate decreased from 2.7/s to 2.56/s
• Range increased from 22.5 to 23.0

Elite Sniper

Primary Fire
• Range increased from 22.5 to 23.0

Elite Crossbow

Primary Fire
• Critical ratio increased from 1.5 to 1.75
• Range increased from 22.5 to 23.0

Blast Palms

Primary Fire
• Damage decreased from 21.0 to 18.0

Assault Sentry

Primary Fire
• Range increased from 12.5 to 16.0

Cyclone

• Updated many basecamp upgrades
• Added some basecamp upgrades

Developer's Note: Those changes are simply temporary to follow the other game system changes. The basecamp will be overhauled later down the road as you might have read in our previous devblogs.

• ‘Soccer Shoes’ gadget removed

Developer's Note: Following the base headbonk damage increase.

• Arenas now open when all enemies are vanquished instead of when reaching 10% of enemies remaining
• Reduced the delay between two enemy spawns in arenas from 1.5s to 0.5s

Developer's Note: This makes sure the intensity of the combat remains high throughout the entirety of the arena fight despite the change above.

Developer's Note: This is only the continuation of the work we’re doing on enemy line ups and we’ll continue in that direction with the implementation of new enemies.

• Rail bots’ sprint speed reduced by 10%
• Most enemy projectiles no longer pass through enemies and instead simply disappear

Developer's Note: This should remove some of the frustration of being shot by an enemy through another one despite not being able to see the incoming projectile.

Developer's Note: This was a change that we thought was implemented in the game for a long time now, but apparently it wasn’t, so we’re fixing that. Right now, there is no valid reason to implement a “weakness” or “damage type” system and even less if it only works with one element out of three.

• Enemies have less health in average in higher difficulties (starting from Heroes+1)

Developer's Note: Time-to-kill is a very important metric that should always remain relatively low, because that’s how it’s fun to smash robots in Roboquest.

Bosses

Developer's Note: The tutorial is something we’ll be overhauling later down the road. Considering the heavy changes the game is ongoing, it would be a waste to update it now. Though, there were (and still are) a number of mechanics that weren’t explained or were outdated so we had to make this change.

Developer's Note: This is just the first steps of what we would like to do regarding environmental ambient and mood. We’d like to add or adjust lighting, post-process, sounds and other visual effects for all of them.

• Fixed multiple undocumented bugs and issues
• Fixed an issue causing bouncing projectiles to hit bosses several times in a row
• Rotating the map will no longer hide certain elements
• The game systems will no-longer fail to register Goliath’s death in ‘Haven-City’ when destroyed by the client robot (leaving you unable to progress into the game)

Jun 10, 2022

Roboquest Devblog #10 - The Summer Update

Roboquest - Elliot Yun

Howdy Guardians!

Welcome to our tenth Devblog, it’s a pleasure to be back.

Today we’re going to talk about the Rogue’n’Roll update, the Summer update and the development of Roboquest in general.

There’s a lot to talk about so tighten your seatbelt ‘cause we’re diving in right away.

About the Rogue’n’Roll Update

The last time you heard about the Rogue’n’Roll update, we were working on fixing some of its systems in order to release it.

We worked on it for several weeks now, and the more progress, the less ‘Rogue’ it seemed. To such a degree that releasing an update called Rogue’n’Roll felt less and less grounded in reality.

In addition to that, we had to keep working on the rest of the game (for future updates).

And we finally arrived at a crossroads where we had to choose whether or not calling it and releasing the Rogue’n’Roll update was still relevant.

The answer we came up with was that it’s not the case.

As a result, the Rogue’n’Roll update will be wrapped up with the Summer update (0.10.0) which should come around the end of June (at least the playtest version of it).

About the system changes

Now, let’s talk about where we’re at regarding the system rework of the now obsolete Rogue’n’Roll update.

The weapon categories, the shopkeepers, the XP orbs removal and most class changes will be included within the Summer update (with a few changes and adjustments following your feedback during the previous playtest and our analysis). The public matchmaking and cross-platform will also be included.

That means that all weapons can be equipped and scale upon your level. You get to find shops spread out in the levels where you can spend a new in-game currency to purchase weapons and other upgrades. Changes to classes' primary, secondary and passive abilities remain as well.

These changes should help the game feel more fresh each run as you’re not necessarily going to encounter the same items in the merchants, more weapons are viable for your builds and classes should feel more specialized.

The XP orb removal has been counterbalanced with the addition of health orbs dropping from enemies which was a system available within the 0.9.0 playtest but that we pushed further in our current system rework. We might be adding some other incentives through the ranking system and the drop of the ingame currency we talked about earlier.

But like we said in our latest news, we’ve backtracked on the perk system changes. Or rather, we mixed a few systems together and we reworked a lot of the 0.8.0 perks.

Factually, you will get to select class perks, class perk upgrades and neutral perks when leveling up (at different level thresholds). We also increased the maximum number of perks you end up with at the end of your character progression and increased the number of different perks in each class.

This should bring back the agency you had prior to the 0.9.0 regarding your build choices and even extend it further by adding more viable builds and more interesting perks. We’re expecting (and hoping) to see the adaptability and run differences we were aiming for in the Rogue'n'Roll update to emerge from other game systems (like some we mentioned above).

About the Summer Update

So the Summer update has ‘absorbed’ the Rogue’n’Roll update and will include the reworked systems, but what else?

While it doesn’t include one major spotlight, the Summer update is packed with lots of minor additions.

We’re continuing to add and progress on missing and placeholder visual effects, on the optimization of several aspects of the game and the rework and balance of many weapon affixes and alt-fires. Also, we're pushing some minor quality of life changes to different systems such as momentum-retainment when riding rails.

All of that (not only the VFX update!) will be coming with the Summer update.

While this may not seem much, fixing our Rogue'n'Roll mistake, updating the perk content from 0.8.0 and continuing to work on the game as a whole takes us a lot of time and as a result you might feel the next update lacks a bit of new content. But like we mentioned in our previous news, we're aiming for the long-term solutions and schedule and we didn't want to rush things. We hope you'll understand and bear with us for the time being.

About Roboquest Development

That being said, we're making progress on many different things in the meantime and we hope it will make up for the long delay between updates and content addition.

Please note that the systems and elements we'll be discussing in this section won't be included in the Summer update, they are simply some of the things we're making progress on right now.

Enemies

When we initially started Roboquest, we thought that two dozens of enemies would be enough for the entire game. We quickly realized how wrong we were and how much more variety we needed.

That’s why we’ve been spending some time designing and adding new enemies within the game.

Though, making new enemies from scratch is a hard task for a small studio like us (we only have one animator for the entire game) hence why we needed to find a solution to that issue.

Consequently, we’re finding some shortcuts like creating elemental variants of enemies we already have or modifying existing archetypes by changing their attack patterns. While still giving these new enemies unique visuals to clearly visualize them.

Here are a few examples of new enemies that will be coming in the future:

Finally regarding enemies, we're making progress on the design side of the Elite enemies and you might hear more about them in the short to mid term.

Basecamp

As you might have seen in some of our news or in our developer leaks on Discord, we’re hard at work at finally making the Basecamp you deserve. Both visually and in terms of interactivity.

The Basecamp will evolve following its level progression and slowly get larger, fancier and use better materials.

We’re also planning to add new structures to the Basecamp such as the Compendium or the merchants’ workbenches.

Finally, unlocking upgrades for the Basecamp will be done through one single user interface for all upgrades, probably in some form of “tree”.

Here's a sneak peek of our current progress on the visual side of things (WIP):

Weapons

While we currently are quite happy with the weapon roster (and so are you considering the feedback we receive), we know we still have room for more.

We carefully followed your suggestions on that side and we picked-up a few ideas to complement our own. Though, we’d like to keep the number of melee weapons limited for now as they only work in a few circumstances and only appeal to a few players.

We can’t really show anything right now as we’re still in the early prototyping phase, but we’re trying ideas that typically step out of the regular gun/shotgun/rifle/sniper path.

Boss

Let’s talk a bit about our long term plan for Bosses.

We want to add 4 new Bosses in total. One for each act and one final Boss.

And we’re currently working on two of them (Act 1 and Act 3) and we have ideas for the final one.

This should bring the number of different bosses to a comfortable amount of variations for the different acts.

We’re pretty advanced on the game and level design of the new boss for Act 3 (alongside Beetle Royale) and that will probably be… elevating! But we're still trying to find out an appealing and consistent visual.

Here’s a raw sketch of that boss (please note that this isn’t even a work-in-progress, this is simply the very first sketch of it, the final visuals of the boss might be completely different):

Corruption

The corruption is the blueish-purplish-themed structures you come across in the different levels. It slowly spreads over the world of Roboquest and soon it will take over several different levels.

We’re spending quite a lot of time to visually design this corruption and to infuse it wherever needed (noticeably the challenge rooms and soon-to-be ‘corrupted levels’).

You will already be able to experience these updated corruption visuals in some places in the Summer update, but it is just the beginning.

And that's it for this devblog! We hope it answered some of your questions and concerns, if not, don't hesitate to ask us in the comments below, we're always following and glad to answer.

We're giving it our all to provide you with the best Roboquest experience possible and yes, that takes time.

But we hope you'll stay up and pumped for the future updates.

And in the meantime, we wish you all a great week-end and happy robot bashing!

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If you have a question about the game, you can find the FAQ here on the Steam forums. And if your question is not answered there, make sure to ask us in the community forums or on our Discord server (where you can interact directly with us!).