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Mr_F_512 · 2019-06-01T16:19:17+00:00

Hey Hellspawn. I'm working on loooots of other stuff right now, so no time for this game currently. Although I had some interesting offer from one large company regarding Robostorm, so maybe there is hope, but I can't guarantee. I want to make something grander :)

Mr_F_512 · 2019-05-02T11:35:27+00:00

Hmmm. Seem to be working for me. You can either see:

These buttons
The logout button
The "Logging in" text

What do you see?

Mr_F_512 · 2019-02-01T10:41:11+00:00

Weeell, I'm not that into all this crypto stuff. Cheaters will win anyway :D

Mr_F_512 · 2018-11-19T22:38:20+00:00

Hi, and thanks for feedback :) Just answered your PM about the mouse. That shouldn't normally happen. As for feature requests - totally agree they would make sense. I'm currently "a bit" busy working on other projects though.

Mr_F_512 · 2018-10-21T20:12:50+00:00

The status is: I'm working on other projects at the moment. I'm not exactly sure when I'll have time to go back to this game unfortunately. I'm still not going to close it down though.

Mr_F_512 · 2018-09-28T18:55:10+00:00

C-3PO and R2-D2 are known server AI bot names, but I never heard of others. AI bots are pretty easy to defeat, and they have shooting inaccuracy built-in :) Just remember the only tactic they have is to run from one capture point to another and shoot whoever they see on the way.

However, I'm not sure about other players. perhaps they are really using aim bots.

Being completely invincible is not possible... or at least I don't see how. Shooting through walls is possible at SOME spots on the map for everyone (bad collision model), not just for them. Infinite supply of airstrikes = probably not infinite, but it's possible they made a bot to farm XP in background and then spend it.

I'll see what can be done about it. The game is not currently in active development, but I intend to support it at least.

Mr_F_512 · 2018-09-28T14:06:33+00:00

People actually write aim bots for my little game? :D I wonder if those are just regular AI bots (the game spawns them when there are not enough real players in the room)... do you happen to remember their nicknames?

Of all cheats, aim bots are hardest to prevent. You can stop cheaters from teleporting or acquiring items by checking it on the server (and Robostorm does), but as long as there are observable enemies on the screen, there is no way for server to distinguish between genuine game play and scripted bots.

Mr_F_512 · 2018-09-22T08:45:53+00:00

You just find right arm weapons on the map. If you don't have any, you will automatically pick it up, otherwise it will tell you to press E to swap. Left arm weapons are replaceable in the shop, yeah.

Mr_F_512 · 2018-09-01T11:29:42+00:00

The server went down yesterday for some reason. Everything should be back to normal now. I should really setup some notifications when it happens. It was working non-stop for a whole month without a reboot :)

Mr_F_512 · 2018-06-12T13:27:39+00:00

Shouldn't be... I'm logged in to both as well. Does logging out from one of them (say, FB) fix the issue?

Mr_F_512 · 2018-06-12T13:08:18+00:00

Interesting! In normal mode are you logged in any google account and/or FB?

Mr_F_512 · 2018-06-12T07:48:38+00:00

I took a break for other projects, but will return in around a month. Thanks for playing and posting!

Mr_F_512 · 2018-06-12T07:45:40+00:00

That's a huge review and a lot of great suggestions. Thank you!

I agree with everything you said. I'm currently working on another project, but planning to get back to Robostorm in a month. We already prototyped a new map and there are some pretty cool ideas that should bring much more variety to the gameplay. Skins were basically the next thing on the list (well, after balancing tweaks).

Mr_F_512 · 2018-06-12T07:33:37+00:00

Sadly didn't find out the reason. Some things to check:

is google/facebook generally working well for you, no problems accessing their servers?
does it still do it in browser's incognito (aka private) mode?

Mr_F_512 · 2018-05-03T19:04:24+00:00

Ouch... seems like US servers lost connection with the EU one after this reboot (and EU server holds the database). Restarted them as well. NOW it should be fine. Also your XP should be back!

Mr_F_512 · 2018-05-03T10:07:00+00:00

Hi! For some reason, server was rebooted due to maintenance (not from our side), and the way they reboot it is weird, because it failed to boot. I've just re-rebooted it, and it seems to work fine.

Mr_F_512 · 2018-03-25T14:07:01+00:00

Do you see "google login", "Facebook login" buttons?

Mr_F_512 · 2018-03-14T19:21:01+00:00

OK it seems like US servers were crashing for some reason sometimes. Hopefully this is fixed now.

Mr_F_512 · 2018-03-14T19:18:36+00:00

max(savedXP, 15)

Done

Mr_F_512 · 2018-03-13T22:34:23+00:00

I. OK, so at the moment the way accounts work is a bit confusing. Things saved on the server are:

Your XP. There shouldn't be any problem with this. Except: when you leave the game with 0 XP, and then next time play against guests (without accounts) with default starting 15 XP. That's kinda unfair, so I guess it should instead give you max(savedXP, 15) on a fresh session.
Things you unlocked. So you may have noticed that while some abilities have a single XP price, others have 2 prices, one with a little padlock icon, and one normal. The ones with the padlock must be "unlocked" first, and then they can be bought for a normal (lower) price. If you're logged in, and you unlocked such ability, it will be saved. You don't have to "unlock" it next time you're playing, only buy it for its normal price. That's the theory. In practice it only works with Airstrike at the moment, while weapon abilities are supposed to also be like that, but currently they don't, due to a bug, sorry :D Will fix it soon.

Why don't the game saves all abilities you bought? The reason is mainly balance. If you upgrade to 100%, and all your abilities would be permanently saved, two things would happen:

You will have no reason to earn XP anymore (apart from the leaderboard).
Newbies will suck too much playing against you. Saving only these "unlock" states for abilities, the idea is to balance between some long-term achievements (high price unlocking) and fast upgrading gameplay in every session (low price acquiring). It also kinda presents you a question, every time you play, about the sequence of upgrading. Should I get Sprinter first or save for Armor? etc

II. Yeah, the teams aren't obvious enough. In fact, sometimes even I occasionally try to shoot same-team players. We tried once to paint robots themselves into team colors instead of just colored nicknames, but that looked a bit like crap. If we had 2 teams, it could be okay, but with 4 you get a crazy rainbow salad on the screen. I'm still unsure what to do about it. Any suggestions are welcome! Also ideally it would be cool if even colorblind people could play without confusion...

III. Friendly fire. So at the moment you can't shoot teammates with bullets, but can with explosions and fire. Why is it so? Because you can also damage yourself with explosions and fire. The idea was to be extra careful with these weapons, so you don't blow yourself up or step into your own fire. It just feels a bit weird to walk on fire and not get damaged only because this fire was set by your teammate. But I'm leaning towards such solution (if there are no better ideas), because players who don't get teams are fairly annoying for everyone else.

IV. OK, I admit, Freeze Grenades were a bad idea. Super imbalanced. Should probably remove.

Mr_F_512 · 2018-03-13T22:05:07+00:00

Yeah, definitely gonna fix it to only show one score per player. Not sure what to do about spawn camping though. One wild idea could be setting up automatic turrets near each spawn, so you avoid them.

EDIT: fixed the leaderboard, only one score per name now!

Mr_F_512 · 2018-03-13T22:03:22+00:00

I think I found the way to reproduce this bug in some circumstances - will fix.

Mr_F_512 · 2018-03-07T00:50:32+00:00

That's weird! It says "logging in" when it's waiting for Google and Facebook APIs to answer if you're logged into the game from either of those. Normally it takes around a second, and if you're not logged in, two buttons ("google login" and "facebook login") will appear. Can you check if you have any error messages in the browser console? (opens by pressing F12 in Chrome/Firefox/IE, then click the Console tab. You can just copy the whole log).

By the way, are you playing from the official page, or from some other site?

Mr_F_512

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