Heya adventurers! Just another friendly reminder that if you still haven’t completed the epic Chess- Arena IB Set, this will be your last week to do so! The time to hoard all the IB is now! For this week’s events, we can guarantee your excitement every day, especially on the weekends because we’ve got DAILY rewards once again! This is the easiest way to get rewards and who doesn’t want that?! Watch out for this special treat tomorrow! Also, you can check out the new changes made on a few characters for this week’s balance patch and let us know what you think! And as always, don’t forget to check out our wonderful Item Mall goodies coming tomorrow!
Weekend Fever Attendance
Starting tomorrow, all you need to do to get some SWEET rewards is to log in for 20 minutes! That’s it! Hang out with friends, do a quick dungeon run, you’ll barely notice the time but your rewards will be sent to your mailbox! • Special rewards are sent during the weekends, so don’t forget to log-in during those days! • You’ll also get [Cobo] Weekend Countdown Exchange Tickets which you can use to get even more special rewards!
Streaming Schedule for 11/13 – 11/19
Here is your schedule for this week’s Elsword Streaming! More streams may be scheduled and updated here later, and you can also keep tabs on who will be streaming and when by following our Twitch Channel.
Show off your radiance and dazzle your enemies! Who says pastel can’t spell danger? Prove them wrong and give them a mighty beating with the new Radiant Flower Ice Burner Set! Show ‘em what you got!
Hello everybody! Thanks to those who play Despotism! We gave it our all, but that doesn't mean we just sit around and count the sales. We work on a second, longer campaign with a new story! It will also introduce some new events and mechanics available to those who finished the first campaign.
Write your suggestions for the update in the comments. What do you want us to add or change? We won't implement them obviously, cause we will only listen to the great d'Spot! It would be an interesting read though ;)
We'll be hoping into this thread November 14th starting around 10 AM EST (-5 GMT) and answering questions through the day!
Of course anything about the game is fair, but don't by shy! We are also happy to talk about game development in general and handle other topics as well!
UPDATE 5: We're sorry for the radio silence. The team are hard at work on fixing tech tree/missing parts issues. We don't have an ETA on when the game will be back online. It'll be back up ASAP and not before. Thanks for hanging in there.
UPDATE 4: The game is currently in maintenance mode to address some new issues. Please bear with us as devs are fixing the problem ASAP. We apologize for the inconvenience.
UPDATE 3: Hey Robocrafters, thank you for your continued patience and support while we address the launch blocker. We're testing a new build and if all goes well, Steam players will be able to login in about an hour. Sorry for the downtime, but as you will have seen from the patch notes, this is a major update for Robocraft and sometimes issues don't show their heads until we test in a live environment.
Thanks again for your support and dedication to the game.
We will keep you updated.
UPDATE 2: Due to an issue with custom Avatars which is preventing the game from working, we are unable to exit maintenance at this time. In order to investigate and fix the issue, we need to extend maintenance by a further two hours.
We sincerely apologise for this delay.
UPDATE: Due to unforeseen issues when deploying the update, we have extended maintenance by one hour. We apologise for this inconvenience and delay.
Hey there Robocrafters, Please note that we’ll be taking the game offline from 09:00 (UTC) on Wednesday, November 14th for a period of four hours in order to add the Infinity Update to the game.
Please be aware that although the maintenance is expected to take up to four hours, if we hit any issues it may take longer.
Thank you for your patience while we update the game.
Below are the full patch notes for the Infinity Update; to find out more information about some of the new features and content, please read the accompanying post here.
NEW:
Infinity Cube System - once you unlock a part on the Tech Tree or purchase a cosmetic, you can use it as many times as you like
Tiers return to Robocraft
New Tier 3 and Tier 4 Campaigns
New Custom mothership skins (purchasable from the Item Shop when in rotation)
More colors for all players - Premium players have 32 colors; free players have 10
New Ops room Tab containing the Tech Tree, Daily Quests and Tier overview screen (to see your Tier progress)
New Quickplay system - opt in or out of TDM and Battle Arena game modes
New Item Shop for cosmetic items and custom mothership skins
New Robot Ranking system tied to the new Tiers
Infinity Factory (CRF) - If you have the parts unlocked you can download Robots freely
New Strut parts added to the game
New Tech tree layout to accommodate changes and new parts
Tech Point unlock costs reworked in line with item part Tier placement
All Tier 0 and Tier 1 parts unlocked on the Tech Tree for new players. Existing players can unlock them at zero Tech Point cost
New weapon projectile effects
New weapon projectile hit effects
Edit mode HUD updated to display shortcut commands
Robot voting system at the end of battle - vote on the best robot from the top 5 scorers
New 'incomplete parts' system that alerts a player when they only have the left version of something so they are less confused when using the mirror function in edit mode
HUD can be turned off in mothership and edit mode with ‘=’ button
Feedback/Support/FAQ buttons in the Home screen
Players matchmade by Robot Tier eg. Tier 3 Robots matched against Tier 3 Robots
All party members must play with the same Robot Tier
New Play menu layout
New loading screens for Home/Test
New battle loading screen
New Lobby screen while waiting for battle
New Login screen layout
AI-controlled robots will fill empty seats if players are queuing for battle for an extended period of time
OTHER IMPROVEMENTS & CHANGES:
All players now have improved bay visuals
The game checks a Robot has functional cubes (movement + weapons) before allowing it to enter battle
Updated settings screen with tabs for Visual/Audio etc.
Profanity filter enabled for all players and can no longer be switched off
Players existing League Rank converted to new Tier 5 Rank
Updated the Altimeter and Speedometer models to remove any units from the texture (ft/m & mph/kph)
Updated old orange Robocraft branding to new blue Robocraft branding
Updated the branding across the official Robocraft website, forums and social spaces
Updated the minimum specification requirements on Steam Store
Electroplates have been reorganised so there are three per Tier (T2, T3, T4 and T5)
General lighting improvements on a number of maps
Controls can be edited via the Pause Menu when in battle
Settings can be edited via the Pause Menu when in battle
Improved visual fades between game screens
In-game user-interface now supports dynamic scaling to support higher monitor resolutions
Improvements to the battle kill feed above the mini-map to make it easier to read
Tooltips added to a number of buttons in-game to assist new players
Improvements to Factory search filters (part of a series of planned improvements)
Updated in-game buttons to 'Save and Test' and 'Save and Exit' to make it clearer for players when saving a Robot in edit mode
General improvements to menu layouts in the game
Building Gun model in Edit mode no longer displays selected cube quantity
Paint Gun model updated in Edit mode to accommodate additional colors
XP is earned more appropriately to the infinity unlocking system
Forge and Recycle functionality removed as it is no longer required with players having infinite inventory
League Arena mode removed - both TDM and BA game modes are now competitive and contribute to your Tier ranking. Players cannot drop rank any lower than their highest rank badge in each tier i.e. if you reach silver, you will never drop below silver but you can fluctuate between silver and gold
General improvements to Campaign Mode
Award Golden variants of the legendary weapon and movement parts to players who have 25+ of their regular version in their inventory prior to the Infinity Update
Main menu screen improvements including a split screen showing the player's Robot on the right-hand side
Windows XP no longer supported
Hurt Locker achievement changed to Win a Campaign
BUG FIXES:
The Gold Laser, Top 100 Holoflag, Gold Silver and Bronze badges are now displayed right at the bottom of the player's inventory rather than being grouped together
Fixed a bug which caused jagged shading on the Cardboard Ion particle effects
Campaign localisations further updated
Fixed some missing localised language text in Campaign mode
Fixed a bug which caused the wrong error message to appear when attempting to enter a Campaign with a zero CPU Robot bay
Fixed a bug which caused the wrong voice-over to play at the start of a Campaign
Fixed a bug which caused the music to clip in Test Mode
Cardboard ION and Wheel parts now darken when damaged in-battle
Fixed an issue with 'click focus' on the custom avatar image select pop-up
Fixed a bug which sometimes caused AI weapons to fire through solid objects
Fixed a collision issue on the Carbon 6 variant of T5 Plasma weapon
KNOWN ISSUES:
Robots that are uploaded by ‘new players' will not appear in search results when filtering by username
Chat channel tags ([Clan] etc.) may overflow onto another line if they are long enough
On the Battle Summary screen the get premium button displays even if you have premium
The get Premium button on the Battle Summary screen will not open the Store
Factory downloaded robots are defaulting to Keyboard Controls
If a player with a custom avatar but no active premium clicks on their avatar, it will reset to a default image
Some of the tooltip text for the T5 Chaingun (gold variant) is incorrect - please note that the actual data is correct
An active ghost module will deactivate when any player dies in battle
With today's update, an issue came to light that affects some players. Any player that copied their Robots prior to dismantling the original and recycling ALL of the parts before the Infinity Update may have broken Robots in their bays due to part data not being found. Unfortunately, it isn't possible to recover this data and fix any broken Robots. We apologise unreservedly for this error and for any time lost in building/rebuilding Robots. We will ensure that steps are in place to ensure issues like this do not happen again.
For the first time ever, the volatile Nova Prime is back from the Vault. Along with this master of antimatter is the energetic Mag Prime, high-demand Vaulted Prime Accessories, Prime Weapons and discounted Platinum.
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It's long overdue, but I've finally been able to deliver another update to Formula XD. There are all kinds of small improvements in this one, so it's definitely recommended for all users. It also fixes some long-standing issues which will have affected some people more than others.
I should also apologise for the time it's taken to issue this update. In brief, my Macbook (on which I had developed the game from the very very beginning in 2012) suddenly decided that it would no longer boot Windows 7. There was no update that caused this, it just decided that backlit black screens were much more interesting than the Windows boot sequence. That even includes the W7 installation disc, so I was completely stuck.
In fact, I had to choose between abandoning my promises to keep Formula XD maintained with updates on one hand, and spending all of the revenue it had made hitherto (and more besides) on building a new PC so that I could carry on. Because I wanted to eventually build a PC anyway, I took the latter choice, and so, after finally getting something put together on time and under budget, I was able to return to making Formula XD updates.
I still hope to make a more ambitious expansion for it in 2019, and of course there is the promised Mac version, and that's still a matter of 'when', and not 'if'.
Thank you all very much for bearing with me in my first commercial endeavour - I remain, as ever, determined to make Formula XD one of the most entertaining racing team manager games out there.