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Well then... it seems M.A.S.S. Builder had an AMA for 1.0 and... it did not go well.

Looking at the community, it seems something I didn't know was a person that was the game designer left the position, but the team went on without them. They simply became the voice for the community and... well... now became the hit person for everything on the AMA.

With that, the basic answers that came up was not only bad PR responses, the overall felt like:
"This is our game, we make it however and whenever we… See More

want."

That is fair and all, but probably best not to also push doubt to the community. For instance...

In the early days of the game, there was a talk about Speed. The game was fast. Real fast. In fact, there was a trick where you could pre set your direction of frontal movement. You had to have however just enough latency for the control. Some people figured it out and thought it was cool. The game went slower and kept getting slower over time. But it sparked debate on how fast would be too fast as the lines go up in development, and to top it off, the overall question for making sure having something like a walking heavy tank filled to the teeth with armaments should be as fast as the lightest unit around wielding one weapon because of "we can build what we want, stats don't matter." The AMA had a question on if there were thoughts to reverting the speed and combat rework. The response was:
No, these were much-requested changes that we made the decision to oblige yet it is now a controversial topic.

I guarantee that no one wanted slow on the early. As it stands, when you first start the game, you just have to be lucky on your dodging and play guns only as melee is too weak with damages hitting too hard at first. You're not safe no matter what you build at the start which isn't much.

So people are now feeling a bit bummed that they kickstarted the thing for the devs to just sound like they burned out, they lack morale, and just made the game their way with no direction and want to be done soon. Still planning to bring out the 2 other leg types, but they have no eta on those and based on my view of the response... I don't see it coming enough to care going back in  

Oh well. Since Armored Core 6 though, I guess the surge back to Mecha has come so maybe there is a chance a game will redeem this one.

#massbuilder #thoughts

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Ian Bunting
"Daedalus, ByteMyAscii, ByteBlight, Bugroth." —  

Sounds like they are being a right pain in the M.A.S.S..

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