Hotfix for crash
Hotfix for a crash introduced with previous bugfix when starting new runs
Hotfix for a crash introduced with previous bugfix when starting new runs
Robot Resistors
- Released
- Dec 5, 2023
- Platforms
- Last updated
Updates & announcements
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Tiny Bugfix
Fixed a couple small bugs including a glitch with Stage 5 achievements and difficulty unlocks, and a bug that could crash the game the first time a player purchased and used the extra passive upgrade. Thanks to shhfiftyfive, Ash Voller and others for pointing these out!
Original postFixed a couple small bugs including a glitch with Stage 5 achievements and difficulty unlocks, and a bug that could crash the game the first time a player purchased and used the extra passive upgrade. Thanks to shhfiftyfive, Ash Voller and others for pointing these out!
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Dinobot Weapon Drop
Hey Resistors! We have a quick little patch today that adds some new weapons and ultimates! Unlock requirements are listed below, or you can find the same information in the armory menu in-game. We hope you enjoy them, happy resisting as always! New Weapon - Egg Launcher: This sh
Original postHey Resistors! We have a quick little patch today that adds some new weapons and ultimates! Unlock requirements are listed below, or you can find the same information in the armory menu in-game. We hope you enjoy them, happy resisting as always!
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New Weapon - Egg Launcher:
This shoulder-mounted incubator-cannon fires eggs that leave behind poisonous slowing yolks in addition to hatching dinobots. Leveling up the Egg Launcher unlocks the potential to hatch different and rarer dinobots, as well as increase the chances of rarer spawns. Beat Scorpion Land to unlock this weapon for all characters. –Dev Note: Another “weird” weapon. The semi-random nature of the dinobots it spawns was a fun departure from our other weapon designs, and we hope players agree and enjoy it as much as we have.Watch on YouTube -
New Ultimate - Eggcellent Launcher:
This upgrade to the egg launcher splices forbidden robo-DNA into the incubator, giving a chance to hatch the mythic “Dino-Dragon” himself… Beat Scorpion Land on hard difficulty or higher with egg launcher equipped to unlock this ultimate. –Dev note: ??? All yolking aside, this weapon is a bit eggcentric, even for us… -
New Weapon - Virus Wall:
This weapon spawns perpendicular walls that slowly expand before hovering in place. Enemies passing through are stunned and lose a percentage of their current hit points while becoming immune to the wall’s effects for several seconds. Unlocked by completed Stage 4, the Servo Sea. –Dev Note: Yet another “weird” one, the virus wall is designed as an extreme support weapon. Since it does damage based on enemy health, it scales very well in late game and on harder difficulties, but is relatively underpowered in other scenarios. -
New Ultimate - Virus Field:
This ultimate upgrade causes the virus walls to spin once they reach maximum size. Unlock by infected 500+ enemies with the virus wall. –Dev Note: This ultimate is a simple behavior change, but one that drastically improves the virus wall’s effectiveness and essentially gives them a giant circular area of effect. - Various tiny bug fixes
These were our first weapons designed without needing them to be “starter” weapons attached to specific characters, so we were able to get a little stranger in terms of design. As always, feedback is appreciated, so reach out in the Steam forums or on Discord with any comments. Happy resisting!
The Crablacksmith Team
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Small Balance Patch
Small patch to ease on-boarding of new players. The Robot Graveyard now spawns the boss after 15 minutes (instead of 20) on normal difficulty Graveyard boss HP reduced by 1/6th on normal difficulty to account for less leveling time Adjusted timer in graveyard to count down instea
Original postSmall patch to ease on-boarding of new players.
- The Robot Graveyard now spawns the boss after 15 minutes (instead of 20) on normal difficulty
- Graveyard boss HP reduced by 1/6th on normal difficulty to account for less leveling time
- Adjusted timer in graveyard to count down instead of up
- Font size of timer slightly increased
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Hotfix v1.0.1
This small hotfix fixes a bug with the Flash Freeze Bomb unlock. It was always hard to get, so we opted to change it's unlock requirements entirely. Check it out in the Armory for more details! This won't change anything for anyone who had already unlocked this Ultimate Weapon.
Original postThis small hotfix fixes a bug with the Flash Freeze Bomb unlock. It was always hard to get, so we opted to change it's unlock requirements entirely. Check it out in the Armory for more details!
This won't change anything for anyone who had already unlocked this Ultimate Weapon. - Developer post
Small art fix
Swapped out some temp art that made it into 1.0 build
Original post- Swapped out some temp art that made it into 1.0 build
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1.0 Launch Brings Stage 5: The Moon!
Version 1.0 has arrived! Whew, we made it! It took longer than we expected, and it was harder than we expected, but we’ve had so much fun along the way. All the classic tropes of montages apply to our journey with Robot Resistors: Music Fade Ins, Learning, Failure, Improvement, M
Original postVersion 1.0 has arrived!
Whew, we made it! It took longer than we expected, and it was harder than we expected, but we’ve had so much fun along the way. All the classic tropes of montages apply to our journey with Robot Resistors: Music Fade Ins, Learning, Failure, Improvement, More Learning, Thumbs-Uppery, Freeze Frame High Fives, Success, and Music Fade Outs. When we decided to make a fun little video game in our limited spare time, we thought it might take around three months to complete. Cut to almost two years later, and while we’re sheepish about our initial inexperience and ignorance, we’re very happy with where we’ve ended up. We hope all our players enjoy our game half as much as we’ve enjoyed making it!
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Release Notes
A new stage, new ultimate weapons, difficulty settings, and new weapon and passive upgrades are just some of the changes arriving as we leave Early Access.
Stage 5, The Moon, is now available!
Travel from the depths of the oceans to the moon itself while enjoying the absolute finest in 1994-era graphics technology. Battle all-new enemies as you defend the rocket drills on the lunar surface, and complete your robotic resistance!
Stage 5 Features:
- 15 new unique enemies with custom abilities!
- New gameplay mechanics!
- New art!
- New music!
Added Difficulty Settings!
Normal, Hard, and Hopeless difficulties are now available for those looking for extra challenges and rewards. Unlock harder difficulties by completing stages on easier difficulties.
- Normal Difficulty = Standard gameplay, unchanged.
- Hard Difficulty = Altered enemy waves, tougher enemies, slightly increased xp and salvage earned.
- Hopeless Difficulty = Even more alteration of enemy waves, even more challenging enemies, increased xp and salvage earned.
–Dev Note: Additional difficulties are something we’ve wanted to add for a long time. While enemies do have better stats on harder difficulties, we’ve tried to primarily increase the difficulty by changing and modifying the enemy waves. We feel it’s ultimately more fun to have a different kind of challenge than simple raw numbers whenever possible, and we hope you agree!
Other Changes:
- New Ultimate Weapon - Arcing Coils: This ultimate version of the Tesla Coils chains between nearby enemy targets. Base damage and max charge up damage is slightly reduced, and damage is reduced for enemies further along the chain. Unlock this ultimate by beating any stage on hard difficulty.
- New Ultimate Weapon - Ricochet Pulse: This ultimate version of the Cyber Pulse ricochets off solid objects and walls, dealing increased damage based on the number of times it has ricocheted. Additionally, if no solid objects are hit, the blade will ricochet back toward the player. Unlock this ultimate by beating any stage on hopeless difficulty.
- Added a purchasable upgrade to unlock an extra passive slot. –Dev note: Unlock this upgrade by beating Stage 4 on any difficulty.
- Added a purchasable upgrade to unlock an extra weapon slot. –Dev note: Unlock this upgrade by beating Stage 5 on any difficulty.
- All weapons can now reach level 10 through the newly updated Advanced Weaponry upgrade, which has had its initial cost reduced from 850 → 650 and its cap increased from 3 → 5 levels. We’ve also made some small alterations to the leveling paths of certain weapons to accommodate this change, as well as giving some weapons unique upgrades at higher levels (listed below) . –Dev Note: We wanted to increase the maximum cap for weapons as we’ve once again added a challenge in the form of higher difficulty settings. This should help advanced players keep up while not affecting balance too much on easier stages and difficulties. In addition, we are always looking for ways to increase the viability of upgrades and builds beyond flat damage increases. Increasing the level cap of the Advanced Weaponry upgrade while reducing the initial cost makes this a more attractive option.
- Chain Gun now gains 100% armor piercing at level 9.
- Orbital Lasers suck nearby enemies into their beams at level 6.
- Cyber Pulses gain size with every enemy they pierce at level 9.
- Energy Burst now pierces terrain at level 9.
- Sawblades now apply a debuff to struck enemies at level 8, causing them to take 15% more damage from all sources for 3 seconds after being hit.
- Flame Chain now does reduced damage, but applies burning. Overall damage dealt with this weapon should remain roughly equivalent. Some level up options have been changed to affect the amount of burning damage directly instead of regular damage. –Dev note: When we created the Flame Chain weapon, we didn’t have burning as a status effect implemented in the game. Now that we do, we wanted to do the obvious and make Flame Chain apply the burning status to enemies as part of its damage profile. The updated leveling path for Flame Chain now includes special burn bonuses as well.
- Chain Gun max speed firing uptime slightly reduced. At max level, total uptime bonus reduced from 13 → 11 seconds. –Dev Note: The Chain Gun is still an odd weapon that oscillates from feeling incredibly powerful to feeling incredibly weak depending on the situation. We continue to play with the numbers.
- Adjusted the Extra Projectiles passive. Old: Each level of this passive subtracted between 7-10% from the initial damage penalty, levels 1, 3 and 5 granted an extra projectile each. New: Levels 2 and 4 grant between 10-13% reduced damage penalty depending on rarity, levels 1,3 and 5 grant ONLY extra projectiles. –Dev note: We continue to play with the extra projectiles passive. We feel this change leaves it largely the same in terms of power early on, while reducing the late game power slightly to make alternate builds more attractive. Additionally, this change makes the damage penalty reduction on level 2 and 4 feel more impactful while leveling.
- Added a secret unlockable [redacted] for [redacted]. The intention is to eventually add more alternate [redacted] like this in the future, but enjoy dino-hunting for the first one. –Dev note: Hopefully people still like obtuse and secret [redacted] in video games.
- Boosted starting shields for all characters by 10% –Dev Note: As a general rule, we want to encourage risk/reward gameplay. Giving a boost to default shields is intended to make the choice to sacrifice some shields to snag xp from betwixt groups of enemies more attractive, especially in the early game. And yes, we know "betwixt" is an archaic term and a bizarre word choice, but it's still apt, and we wanted to have some fun with these 1.0 patch notes! We're celebrating here!
- Boosted Heavy Metal health bonus by 10% to compensate for the new starting shield levels of other characters. –Dev note: Heavy Metal has no shields by default, so we gave it a larger health boost since we increased the starting shields of other characters.
- Added 18 new Steam achievements. –Dev note: We think most of them are very punny.
- Added small intro and outro animations to stages –Dev note: Something we wanted for awhile. Our game has now surpassed most cinema in terms of conveying emotion.
- Fixed tiny bug. Splash effect restored for xp and salvage dropping into oases in Scorpion Land.
- Updated graphical effect of enemies falling from above.
- Updated sprites used for tesla coil weapons and ults.
- Small balance changes to stages and waves.
As we look past Early Access, expect new weapons/ultimates/characters/etc… as we continue to add to the game. Thanks so much as always to all of our playtesters and players: the feedback and support was invaluable, and now the journey continues post launch. All Robot Resistors are welcome to reach out in the Steam forums or our Discord channel, and let us know what you think! Until next time, happy resisting!
The Crablacksmith Team
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Welcome to the Servo Sea!
Stage 4 Features: A new stage mechanic and layout to challenge our players! Over 15 new unique enemies, all with custom abilities and animations! New boss! New music! Cutting edge 1990s graphics technology: parallax scrolling! Other Changes: Lowered the unlock requirements for th
Original postStage 4 Features:
- A new stage mechanic and layout to challenge our players!
- Over 15 new unique enemies, all with custom abilities and animations!
- New boss!
- New music!
- Cutting edge 1990s graphics technology: parallax scrolling!
Other Changes:
- Lowered the unlock requirements for the bonus experience upgrade from level 30 → 25. –Dev note: This was a little too onerous a requirement for such a useful and basic upgrade, so we made the unlock requirement easier
- Gauss Rifle base damage increased from 175 → 200. –Dev Note: The gauss rifle was feeling slightly underpowered in later stages vs stronger enemies, so we buffed its damage. It should function largely the same in earlier stages, but should now be a more viable pick in later stages as well.
- Removed the on-hit armored sound from armored enemies –Dev Note: The armor “plink” sound was too oppressive and constant when armored enemies were onscreen, particularly against rapid damage weapons like tesla coils and the chain gun. While we conceptually like the idea of armored enemies giving an audio cue, we’ve removed the sound effect until we can find a better implementation.
- Small Art Changes
- Small Sound Changes
We hope all of our players really enjoy Stage 4! It took us a bit longer than we expected due to some intrusions from our real life responsibilities, but we made it! As we turn our full attention to Stage 5 (our last planned stage before exiting Early Access), we are aiming for a 1.0 release sometime in the late fall/early winter. In addition to the final stage, we’re hoping to implement features such as difficulty settings, more endless modes and options, new weapons, new ultimates, and some other QoL changes, so stay tuned for updates! Thanks as always for your patience and support, and happy resisting!
–The Crablacksmith Team (James, Frank, Luke, and Adrian)
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Small update 0.8.7.1
Changes in 0.8.7.1 Some balance changes and small improvements while we get ready to release Stage 4. Details below. Adjusted cyber blade base damage from 65→70. –Dev note: Cyber blade was a little too weak overall, this buff will help it scale slightly better Changed cyber blade
Original postChanges in 0.8.7.1
Some balance changes and small improvements while we get ready to release Stage 4. Details below.
- Adjusted cyber blade base damage from 65→70. –Dev note: Cyber blade was a little too weak overall, this buff will help it scale slightly better
- Changed cyber blade weapon art to be more dynamic. –Dev note: The old art was… not great.
- Energy Burst knockback AoE increased slightly.
- Attack damage upgrade increased from 5 → 7.5% per level. –Dev note: Another change to help with scaling, this attack damage boost will help player progression in later stages.
- Floppy Disks default max range buffed slightly –Dev Note: Floppy disk range slightly increased to help with viability at medium-short ranges
- 2 Dimensional Disks firing rate (time to complete a circular rotation) buffed from 4 seconds → 3.25 seconds –Dev Note: 2 Dimensional Disks were slightly underperforming compared to their regular counterpart, this buff makes them more useful from a functional standpoint
- Reduced starting cost of Advanced Weaponry upgrade from 1500 → 850. –Dev Note: We always want to promote build diversity as much as we can, and we’ve decided to further drop the cost of Advanced Weaponry to make it a more attractive upgrade choice
- Added a passive experience multiplier for harder stages –Dev note: This experience bonus should help incentivise playing the more challenging stages, and make it slightly easier to reach higher levels if you’re having a good run.
- Changed Poisonator ultimate weapon art. –Dev note: The old version was leftover temp art, now it has dedicated sprites.
- Fixed bug causing Crystal Cavern enemies and terrain to sometimes spawn inside walls
- Fixed crash related to using Rat GPT’s Spray and Pray ability with certain weapons and ultimates.
- Misc tweaks and minor changes.
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New Character, Weapon, and Ultimate!
Changes in 0.8.7.0 A new resistor has joined the team! Introducing Rat GPT, the world’s most advanced Ratbot! Featuring cutting edge Rat-AI algorithms and chaingun welded to his back, Rat GPT is ready for action! In addition to the new character and weapons, this patch contains s
Original postChanges in 0.8.7.0
A new resistor has joined the team! Introducing Rat GPT, the world’s most advanced Ratbot! Featuring cutting edge Rat-AI algorithms and chaingun welded to his back, Rat GPT is ready for action! In addition to the new character and weapons, this patch contains several tiny tweaks and changes, and a new passive ability for Robo-Shop. We are also currently hard at work on Stage 4, which we hope to release soon!
Rat GPT- A new playable character, Rat GPT comes armed with a chaingun (also new) and a new active ability: Spray and Pray. When activated, all weapons gain +3 bonus projectiles for eight seconds. Additionally, Rat GPT starts with +100 bonus shields.
New Weapon- Chaingun: This minigun spins up and fires a continuous stream of bullets at a random enemy until the target is destroyed, then finds a new target. Enemies in the path between the player and the target of the chaingun will block bullets and take damage instead. In addition, the chaingun has an overheat mechanic: it will spin up to max firing speed and shoot very rapidly, then overheat and need to cooldown, at which point it will fire more slowly. The amount of time it is able to fire at max speed is increased by both leveling and the weapon enhancer passive ability. Additionally, the time spent cooling down can also be reduced significantly by leveling the weapon up. –Dev Note: The chaingun is a rather unique weapon. Internally, we find it to be both over and underpowered: it shines in certain situations and is incredibly strong, while in other situations it is very underwhelming. As such, we are especially interested in getting any feedback from players, as it has been a tough weapon to balance for those reasons!
New Ultimate - Poisonator: This ultimate version of the chaingun spins in a constant circle, shooting poisoned bullets that damage enemies over time. Similar to the chaingun, it has an overheat mechanic, but no longer chooses random targets and instead continuously spins in a circle.
Smaller Changes:
- New Robo-Shop Passive Ability: Recovers more health from pickups. –Dev Note: Robo-Shop was missing a passive ability or bonus, now he has one!
- Crystal Cavern enemies that drop from ceiling have a slightly higher trigger radius now, and as such will drop sooner upon player approach. –Dev Note: The enemies that drop from above in the crystal caverns now trigger at a wider range, which should make them function more as originally intended.
- Tiny under-the-hood changes and miscellaneous tweaks to spawn waves and sprites.
Thanks again to all our players! We anticipate releasing Stage 4 soon, and as always, appreciate any and all feedback! Reach out to us on our Discord or the Steam forums anytime, and good luck resisting!
–The Crablacksmith Team (James, Frank, Luke, and Adrian)
Developer postTwo New Characters Join the Fray!
Players, take heart! Two more robotic resistors have joined the fight, armed with new weaponry and ready to lay waste to those that oppose you! Hunter.0 is the prototype of a line of robots created to hunt down and destroy their own kin. Armed with the Ionic Edge, a powerful ener
Original postPlayers, take heart! Two more robotic resistors have joined the fight, armed with new weaponry and ready to lay waste to those that oppose you!
Hunter.0 is the prototype of a line of robots created to hunt down and destroy their own kin. Armed with the Ionic Edge, a powerful energy sword, Hunter.0 neutralized countless targets before finally being destroyed and having its parts scattered far and wide. If found and reassembled, a powerful new ally could be added to the Resistor lineup, one who will stop at nothing to eliminate all that stands between it and its goals.
Robo-Shop has also arrived! This automated shopping cart/hovercraft hybrid comes armed with the legendary Pachelbot’s Cannon, a devastating weapon with a unique pickup mechanic for faster reloading of its giant cannonballs. Robo-Shop also comes equipped with a new ability: Man the Cannons! Fires a rapid barrage of full-strength cannonballs when triggered, devastating nearby enemies unfortunate enough to be caught in their path.
New Weapon - Ionic Edge: This powerful energy sword was created to destroy renegade robots. Each swing that doesn’t destroy an enemy makes the next swing more powerful!
New Ultimate - X-Caliber: An experimental upgrade for the Ionic Edge, this Ultimate turns the sword into a gun-blade that shoots high caliber bullets with every swing! The bullets gain the same damage bonus as the blade itself.
New Weapon - Pachelbot’s Cannon!: This slow-firing weapon shoots a giant cannonball at the nearest enemy. Cannonballs have unlimited piercing and do high damage to all enemies in their path, and can bounce off of walls and terrain. If a cannonball comes to a stop and is picked up by the player, it greatly reduces the cooldown before the next shot.
New Ultimate - Boomer Shooter!: The Ultimate form of Pachelbot’s Cannon, this weapon fires giant bombs in lieu of cannonballs. The bombs explode upon being picked up and deal damage to nearby enemies. Bombs that are not picked up will eventually explode after their fuse burns down.
New Ultimate - CD-Burner: This Ultimate upgrade for the CD-ROM adds fiery trails that set enemies on fire as they pass through them, applying the new burning status. Burning is a damage-over-time effect with a medium duration. If an enemy that is already burning would have the status applied multiple times, each subsequent application resets the duration and adds a portion of the damage from the new application.
In addition to new characters, weapons, and ultimates, we have several significant balance and progression changes in this patch, a new enemy ability, and some smaller updates. Details can be found below!
- Rebalanced progression: Completing Stage 1 now unlocks ultimate weapons for future runs. Completing Stage 2 now unlocks an extra weapon and passive slot for future runs. Added more weapons and ultimates to the base pool of unlocks (see below). –Dev Note: As we’ve added more weapons, stages, and characters, it’s become clear that we have the design space to be more generous with unlockables in general. We’ve moved up the ultimate unlocks to Stage 1 as we feel ultimate versions of weapons are fun and rewarding, and should be given to players sooner. As part of this change, the old reward for completing Stage 1 (extra passive slot unlock) has been moved to Stage 2. Additionally, we have greatly increased the starting pool of both weapons and ultimates. This change gives players more options for builds from the beginning, and pares back some of the meta-progression bloat that was starting to creep into the game as we added more content.
Added 4 weapons to the base weapon pool:
- Orbital Laser
- Shotgun
- Landmines
- Rockets
Added free ultimate unlocks for all basic starting weapons:
- Planet Killer Laser
- Molten Shotgun
- Diamond Saw
- Blue Ray
- Toxic Waste
- Charge Coils
- Shrapnel Rockets
- Cluster Mines
- Tuned Robot Graveyard difficulty. Reduced the HP gain of enemies slightly over time, and reduced the HP of the final boss by 20%. –Dev Note: We’ve decided our game plays a little too hard in the beginning, so we’ve made changes to the Robot Graveyard to ease onboarding slightly for new players. These changes should make the level slightly easier, especially in the back half of runs.
- Added a new Armor mechanic to specific enemies. Enemies with armor now gain flat damage reduction equal to their armor value, making them much tougher against rapid-firing low-damage weapons while remaining vulnerable to higher-damage weaponry. Armor cannot reduce damage below 1. Poison and burning damage is unaffected by enemy armor. Enemies with armor will play a “ting” sound when struck, and quickly flash a shield image. –Dev Note: The design goal of armored enemies is to reduce some of the inherent power of small damage weapons and make build choices more interesting. Assuming all things being equal, rapid-firing small-damage weapons have some inherent advantages over their high-damage slower-firing brethren in this type of game. One of our primary design goals is to make all builds viable and encourage variety, and abilities such as armor help with that. We like armored enemies internally as they add an interesting twist to gameplay and build choices, but we’ll also keep an eye on them going forward.
- Added a new armored [redacted] enemy to the graveyard! Watch out!
- Buffed Energy Burst. Default firing rate increased by 20% from 2 → 1.6 seconds. –Dev Note: Energy Burst is our default “vanilla” weapon that has a lot of utility, but it has long felt slightly weaker than its peers, especially in the beginning. This firing rate buff will help it be more useful, consistent, and reliable.
- Tesla Coils reworked so that it will now keep its targets until they go out of range or die (it will no longer strictly target the closest enemy). Since this change makes the Coils much stronger, their base damage is reduced from 0.45 → 0.4. –Dev Note: Tesla Coils can be frustrating to use when you’re moving around a lot and dodging enemies, since it can be very difficult to get them completely powered up. This change should make it much easier to actually power up those beams and get kills with intentional play!
- Buffed Orbital Laser. Slightly increased starting fire rate and size. –Dev Note: The Orbital Laser is really fun and unique, but can easily underperform compared to other weapons. These small buffs will make it a more appealing option.
- Adjusted Crankshaft Ability: Power Surge. Increased ability duration from 8→10 seconds. Increased ability cooldown from 35→50 seconds. –Dev Note: We are still tweaking this ability, as we want it to feel very strong when triggered and increasing the duration both increases its strength and makes it easier to use effectively with all weapons. The cooldown increase reflects the ability’s increased utility.
- Ultimate Weapons will now always be displayed when leveling up instead of only displaying when you can afford them (after you’ve unlocked ultimate weapons, and if there are any available for your current loadout). There is now a UI indicator that shows the cost of the next Ultimate. –Dev Note: We wanted to make sure that players know that Ultimate Weapons are available and display them even when the player might not have collected enough Ultimate Shards to afford them yet this run. We’re hoping this change will help make player more excited about getting ultimates by displaying them more consistently, and help to alleviate any confusion about the increasing costs of subsequent ults.
- Molten Plasma Shotgun - Updated to apply burning instead of its own unique effect.
- Adjusted a few ultimate unlock requirements to be easier.
- Adjusted beetle rings in Stage 3 to be a little easier (again) by reducing their hp.
- Added lots of Steam achievements.
- Added a weapon sound to the CD weapon.
- Updated sprite for player stunned effect.
- Fixed glitch with graveyard boss’s hands not resetting upon death.
- Miscellaneous tweaks and improvements.
- Replaced and updated Serrated Byte character sprite: It is now 73.637% more adorable.
Thank you again to all our players for your feedback and impressions. We’re hard at work as usual, reach out and let us know what you think on Discord or the Steam forums anytime! Thanks again for playing!
–The Crablacksmith Team (James, Frank, Luke, and Adrian)
- Rebalanced progression: Completing Stage 1 now unlocks ultimate weapons for future runs. Completing Stage 2 now unlocks an extra weapon and passive slot for future runs. Added more weapons and ultimates to the base pool of unlocks (see below). –Dev Note: As we’ve added more weapons, stages, and characters, it’s become clear that we have the design space to be more generous with unlockables in general. We’ve moved up the ultimate unlocks to Stage 1 as we feel ultimate versions of weapons are fun and rewarding, and should be given to players sooner. As part of this change, the old reward for completing Stage 1 (extra passive slot unlock) has been moved to Stage 2. Additionally, we have greatly increased the starting pool of both weapons and ultimates. This change gives players more options for builds from the beginning, and pares back some of the meta-progression bloat that was starting to creep into the game as we added more content.
Added 4 weapons to the base weapon pool:
Developer postIntroducing DDOS!
We’re happy to be able to introduce the newest member of the Robot Resistors: DDOS! Armed with his razor-bladed floppy disks and new abilities, he’s ready for action! In addition, we’ve added five new rare drops to the game, as well as some minor improvements and under-the-hood c
Original postWe’re happy to be able to introduce the newest member of the Robot Resistors: DDOS! Armed with his razor-bladed floppy disks and new abilities, he’s ready for action! In addition, we’ve added five new rare drops to the game, as well as some minor improvements and under-the-hood changes. You can read more details about the additions and changes below, happy resisting!
- New Character: DDOS! Starts with the floppy disk weapon (also new). Passive ability: +30% to the duration of effects from rare drops. Active Ability - Lottery: Generate a random rare drop that can be picked up. Unlock requirements listed in the character menu in-game. –Dev Note: Our newest addition to Robot Resistors came together very fast, and we hope players enjoy him as much as we have. His active ability “Lottery” is internally a new favorite, especially with the new rare drops we’ve added with this patch (see below).
- New weapon: Razor Disks! Burst-fire sharpened floppy disk projectiles at nearby enemies every few seconds. Projectiles have short range, unlimited piercing, and do bonus damage to the first enemy they strike. Level up to increase range, firing rate, number of projectiles, and damage. –Dev Note: Razer Disks are an auto-targeting weapon that chooses targets from nearby enemies (if available). Since they are very short range (especially before leveling them up), with low damage and unlimited piercing, they are designed primarily as a support weapon that works best at softening up nearby clumps of enemies.
- New Ultimate Weapon: 2-Dimensional Floppy Disks! Fires impossibly thin 5-inch floppy disks continuously in a never ending circle. Deals bonus damage to the first enemy struck. —Dev Note: 2D disks fire in a circle and never stop. It takes 4 seconds at base level to shoot 12 projectiles in a circle before beginning again. Extra projectile upgrades and passives will effectively boost attack speed, as it will take the same amount of time to shoot a higher number of projectiles, as well as adjusting the angle change per shot. Firing rate bonuses will reduce the time between shots as normal.
- New Rare Drops for pickup! Rapid Fire Protocol, Damage Protocol, Cloaking Protocol, Intelligence Protocol, and Mobility Protocol. –Dev Note: We’ve wanted more variety for random rare drops for a while, so we added five new ones! Loot tables have been adjusted to accommodate the new additions.
- Rapid Fire Protocol: Increase firing rate of weapons by 35% for 10 seconds.
- Damage Protocol: Increase weapon damage by 100% for 10 seconds.
- Cloaking Protocol: Become invisible to enemies for 10 seconds.
- Intelligence Protocol: Gain 35% more experience from orbs for 25 seconds.
- Mobility Protocol: Gain a large boost to movement speed for 10 seconds.
- New and improved sprites for Dinobot3000 and Non-Binary
- Made the beetle ring waves in Scorpion Land a little less tough
- Some temple rooms now scale their objectives based on how many temples you’ve completed
- Fixed a bug that was causing there to occasionally be times when the enemies felt more sparse than intended
- Improvements to menu appearance
- Fixes/improvements to item shadows
- Added heal particles to regeneration effects for increased legibility
- Changed some internal code regarding weapons. Any bug reports appreciated! —Dev Note: We made some backend changes to streamline the code dealing with weapon behavior to make development easier on our end. If we did a good job, everything should be the same! Let us know if that’s not the case!
Looking to the near-future, expect to see some new characters and weaponry, quality of life improvements, and other gameplay additions and tweaks as we begin work on Stage 4 in earnest. Thanks again for playing!
–The Crablacksmith Team (James, Frank, Luke, and Adrian)
Developer postWelcome to Scorpion Land!
Stage 3 is here! Internally, it’s our favorite yet, and we hope everyone enjoys it as much as we do! While we’re still very interested in feedback, we feel that Stage 3 is in a pretty good place and is ready for public consumption. This patch also contains a lot of balance and ga
Original postStage 3 is here! Internally, it’s our favorite yet, and we hope everyone enjoys it as much as we do! While we’re still very interested in feedback, we feel that Stage 3 is in a pretty good place and is ready for public consumption. This patch also contains a lot of balance and gameplay tweaks, check out the notes below for more details!
- Stage 3: Scorpion Land! Explore mysterious and ancient robotic temples in this desert land, and collect the secret blueprints needed for your final mission! Features over 22 unique new enemies with unique abilities, new mechanics, and a [redacted] to [redacted], culminating in a battle on an [redacted]. –Dev Note: Scorpion Land! is available to anyone who has completed the Crystal Caverns. It is intended to be the most challenging stage yet, and we playtested internally with between 5000-7000 salvage of upgrades to find a balance we felt good about. Feedback is greatly appreciated, and we anticipate making lots of adjustments once we start getting some responses.
- Shotgun changed again! Knockback increased 33% from 3 → 4. Shotgun base damage reduced 50%. At ⅓ max range or less, shotgun pellets now pierce enemies and continue onward. –Dev Note: We’re still trying to nail down the shotgun. We reduced its base damage as it was too strong against big enemies like bosses, but we gave it a piercing ability and increased its knockback so that it would remain very strong at close range against regular enemies. It remains a strong damage and path clearing weapon, and is still a strong choice against large enemies and bosses.
- Reduced auto-shotgun ultimate volleys per shot from 4 → 3. Reduced damage 40%. Eliminated piercing. –Dev Note: Our ultimate weapons are probably the most in need of balance generally, and the auto-shotgun was overpowered to a ridiculous degree, especially with recent shotgun changes. It still might be completely overpowered after these nerfs, but we took it down quite a bit this patch and will reassess in the future.
- Energy Burst given an additional count of piercing at level 6. –Dev Note: Energy burst gets a little love. It’s our vanilla and simplest “new player” starting weapon, and we want it to remain a viable choice as players progress in the game. Its high damage coupled with its knockback and the added piercing should make it much better at punching through swarms of enemies later in a run.
- Cyber Pulse Ult: Shocking Pulse changed due to bug fix. It will now stun enemies longer for each enemy it passes through, as originally intended. –Dev Note: Not much to say other than we fixed a bug, so it should be more effective at crowd control now.
- Hypercharged Tesla Coils: Damage penalty for the ult reduced from 60% → 30% –Dev Note: The damage penalty when taking this ult was too steep and punishing, this buff will hopefully make it feel more rewarding and worthwhile as an ultimate option.
- Drilling Burst: Now does 25% less damage. –Dev Note: Drilling Burst was slightly overpowered, and with this change it will hopefully be brought more into line with other ultimates.
- Heavy Metal ability reworked: Now heals for all the damage done to you by the ability over the next 30s (no longer based on the number of kills). –Dev Note: Heavy Metal’s ability was a little too hard to use before, and this change makes it more reliable and consistent.
- Malware’s Virus effect now benefits from +damage upgrades and passives. –Dev Note: This change will buff Malware’s ability proportionally if damage upgrades are taken, and will let him scale and still be a viable pick in later stages.
- Lucky 1101’s Reroll ability given a 20 second cooldown. –Dev Note: Reroll was very very strong, allowing a reroll of every single level-up. This slight nerf will affect the early game (when level-ups come fast and furious) more than the late game, but will still leave Reroll as a very strong ability. It will hopefully make the choice of when to use Reroll more interesting as well.
- Increased the Health and Regeneration upgrade from 35 → 40 health per level purchased. Health and Regeneration passive ability during runs increased from 35 (common) → 40 (common) per level, and adjusted the higher rarities upward as well. –Dev Note: We felt that both of these were a little stingy for the cost, so we increased them.
- Increased the Max Shield upgrade per level from 15 → 40. Increased the Max Shield passive ability from 20 (common) → 40 (common) and adjusted the higher rarities upward as well. –Dev Note: This is a fairly large buff, but we want to try it out and give players more options, and this helps the shield upgrade compete against HP and Regen. Since shields regenerate automatically after not taking damage for a few seconds, buffing these choices makes them a much more attractive option for players looking to periodically “take a hit” and grab xp orbs. Additionally, being able to increase shields to a greater degree makes certain character abilities and builds more attractive and possible.
- Advanced Weaponry upgrade base cost reduced from 2000 → 1500 salvage. –Dev Note: This upgrade is great, but too expensive. We’ve reduced the cost, and any salvage put toward advanced weaponry before patching should be refunded to players upon loading their game.
- Reduced the hit points of the crystal caverns bosses by 1/6th. Reduced the max speed and damage of the green boss’s projectile slightly. –Dev Note: The crystal bosses were slightly too hard to kill for the average player with a typical amount of upgrades, even a player having a really good run. These changes will make the bosses more reasonable to take down. Additionally, the green boss in particular was overpowered compared to the others when tackled last or second-to-last, and these changes will hopefully bring its difficulty more in line with the others.
- Added two new enemies to the crystal caverns. –Dev Note: We had some enemy ideas that never made it into the crystal caverns as intended, so we finally added them. Enemy waves have been slightly adjusted to welcome them to their new underground home.
- Buffed giant tunnel worms in crystal caverns. –Dev Note: Giant tunnel worms are a weird (and fun!) hybrid of enemy and terrain hazard. Wth the increased piercing and AoE capability of weapons and ultimates, they were starting to become slightly too easy for players to destroy. They remain very killable after this patch, but will require players to be a little more determined and deliberate to take them out.
- Added a visual status bar display above the experience bar that shows temporary player statuses and cooldowns, whether from beneficial item pickups or harmful enemy abilities. –Dev Note: We’ve wanted a visual indicator for status effects for awhile, this is the first step in that direction. We have additional functionality planned for the future, but feedback on the current iteration is always appreciated.
- The upgrade menu now shows both the current value of purchased upgrades and the value the next level will give.
- Added a new Steam achievement for beating stage 3.
- Added a new hidden Steam achievement.
- Adjusted/replaced some art
- Updated some menu layouts to be more consistent
- Various tiny bug fixes and improvements
We hope that you, our players, enjoy the new stage and all the changes in this patch. As we continue working on Robot Resistors, we plan to refine Stage 3 and other aspects of the game based on player feedback, so we really want to know what you think! Please reach out on our Discord or on the Steam Forums, we’d love to hear from you. Expect the next couple patches to appear fairly soon, with new characters and weapons as well as some potential QoL improvements we’ve been mulling for awhile. Thanks again for playing!
–The Crablacksmith Team (James, Frank, Luke, and Adrian)
- Stage 3: Scorpion Land! Explore mysterious and ancient robotic temples in this desert land, and collect the secret blueprints needed for your final mission! Features over 22 unique new enemies with unique abilities, new mechanics, and a [redacted] to [redacted], culminating in a battle on an [redacted]. –Dev Note: Scorpion Land! is available to anyone who has completed the Crystal Caverns. It is intended to be the most challenging stage yet, and we playtested internally with between 5000-7000 salvage of upgrades to find a balance we felt good about. Feedback is greatly appreciated, and we anticipate making lots of adjustments once we start getting some responses.
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V0.7.1.7 - new upgrades, behind the scenes changes
Changes in 0.7.1.7 We hope everyone had a great holiday season! Progress continues on the 3rd stage (our favorite yet!), and we hope to release it within a month! In the meantime, here is a patch with some new purchasable upgrades and changes/improvements/balance adjustments. Add
Original postChanges in 0.7.1.7
We hope everyone had a great holiday season! Progress continues on the 3rd stage (our favorite yet!), and we hope to release it within a month! In the meantime, here is a patch with some new purchasable upgrades and changes/improvements/balance adjustments.- Added a new upgrade for purchase: Cooldown reduction. Gives a 5% cooldown reduction to character special abilities per level purchased. Cap at 5, with a maximum of 25% cooldown reduction. –Dev Note: This is a fun upgrade we’d wanted to add for a while. Fairly simple, but hopefully opens up some build possibilities for players who want to better utilize their character’s special ability.
- Added a new upgrade for purchase: Poison resist. Gives 15% resistance to poison per level purchased. Cap at level 6, with a maximum of 90% poison resistance. –Dev note: We like and want different damage types and effects like poison, but currently the only defensive option players have against poison is to avoid being hit. This upgrade will enable players to mitigate poison damage if they are struggling against it (which may come in handy in the future…).
- Adjusted purchasable upgrade Experience Boost. Cap from 5 → 10. Amount of bonus experience reduced from 10% → 7.5% a level. –Dev Note: Experience Boost was often a first choice for an upgrade, and given its utility and cost, was outclassing other upgrade options. With this change, we hope to increase the possible bonus when maxed out, while bringing the individual level boosts down to a more competitive level with other upgrades.
- Increased maximum cap of many purchasable upgrades in the upgrade menu:
- Damage cap from 5 → 10 (at max level, 50% weapon damage increase total)
- Armor cap from 5 → 8 (at max level, 40% damage reduction total)
- Effect size cap from 5 → 7 (at max level, 35% increased effect sizes of weapons)
- HP and Repair cap from 5 → 10 (at max level, health increased by 350 and Health Repair increased to 10/second)
- Shields from 5 → 10 (at max level, shields increased by 150)
- Shield Recharge from 5 → 10 (at max level, shield recharge rate increased by 100)
- –Dev Note: As we look to stage 3 and beyond, we want players to be able to continue to have meaningful ways to increase their power. Increasing the caps for upgrades allows players to continue making progress, and opens up design space for later levels to have even more unique and challenging enemies and scenarios.
- Enemies with multiple drops will now drop them quickly in sequence instead of dropping them all instantly, and the drops follow the death animations more closely. –Dev note: Hopefully this makes bigger and tougher enemies feel more impactful and fun visually as loot pinatas.
- Reworked the way the game processes knockback/stun/freeze. Ideally, these code changes function identically in terms of gameplay, but we’d appreciate bug reports if that’s not the case. –Dev note: These under-the-hood changes will hopefully allow us to more easily add unique enemy behaviors, especially with regard to movement.
- Increased the active uptime of Chad’s invisibility special ability from 3 → 5 seconds, slightly lowered its speed, and increased the cooldown from 20 → 25 seconds. –Dev Note: Invisibility is an interesting utility for escaping and picking up xp orbs, but since it doesn’t prevent damage, we lowered the speed slightly but increased the uptime to avoid accidentally running into enemies. The cooldown was slightly increased to compensate for our new cooldown reduction passive, and to bring it more in line with its power.
- Lowered Chad’s passive experience boost from 25 → 20%. –Dev Note: 25% was a little too strong and is great for every build, so we’ve reduced his bonus experience gain by 5%.
- Increased the length of Crankshaft’s damage boost special ability from 5→ 8 seconds. –Dev note: This ability can be very impactful, but we feel its short timing window is currently too tricky to reliably take advantage of. With this increase in uptime, we feel Crankshaft’s special will both be slightly more powerful and be easier to use effectively.
- Boosted base damage of the shotgun by 50%, but increased damage falloff at range. Slightly increased pellet spread and increased base pellets fired from 32 → 36. Level 2 damage upgrade decreased from 80% → 50% Decreased base range by 50%. –Dev Note: The shotgun is weaker than we’d like, and so we boosted its base damage. To remain true to its close range style, we decreased its range, added more spread, added more pellets to its base attack, and increased the falloff damage to make it less effective at medium/long ranges. Overall, this should be a substantial buff against close enemies, and roughly similar to before at longer ranges.
- Changed upgrade name “Advanced Targeting” → “Advanced Weaponry”. –Dev Note: This upgrade increases the potential cap for weapon levels in-game, and the name adjustment hopefully makes this more clear/aligned with its function.
- Added new character art for Automageddon. –Dev Note: Our artist wasn’t happy with Automageddon’s look, so we changed it!
- Added a pixelated screen transition effect when starting or ending a game.
- Added/reworked some sounds.
- Added some new GUI elements to menus
- Added new dynamic screen cracks when health is low.
- Lots of little tiny improvements/tweaks that few if any will notice.
- Added some easter eggs for eagle-eyed players.
In addition to the 3rd stage, expect to see some new weapons/characters/upgrades in the next few months as we continue to work on the game, and thanks to all our players for their feedback and support! We’re a very small 4-person team of friends working on Robot Resistors outside of parenting/day jobs, so we appreciate any and all comments to help us refine and improve the game. Please feel free as always to ask questions, offer suggestions, and report bugs in our discord chat, we hope to hear from you all. Thanks again! –The Crablacksmith Team (James, Frank, Luke, and Adrian)
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Small bugfix
Fixing a bug where the Caves waves weren't behaving quite the way we intended after beating a boss
Original postFixing a bug where the Caves waves weren't behaving quite the way we intended after beating a boss
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Version 0.7.1.6 - Infinite Graveyard
We’re still hard at work on Stage 3, but here’s a little something to bring some life back into the Graveyard! Ever wish you had just a bit longer to finish that perfect build? Well now with Infinite Mode you do! Fixes for some other small bugs that hopefully no one ever noticed
Original postWe’re still hard at work on Stage 3, but here’s a little something to bring some life back into the Graveyard!
- Ever wish you had just a bit longer to finish that perfect build? Well now with Infinite Mode you do!
- Fixes for some other small bugs that hopefully no one ever noticed to begin with.
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V0.7.1.4 - New Graveyard music!
Enjoy the new music as we continue to work on stage 3! New Graveyard music! Dev note: No one liked the graveyard music (including the composer). They kept saying “gimme somethin’ spooky!”, so we obliged with new music. Added “Refund All Upgrades” button to the upgrade menu Tesla
Original postEnjoy the new music as we continue to work on stage 3!
- New Graveyard music! Dev note: No one liked the graveyard music (including the composer). They kept saying “gimme somethin’ spooky!”, so we obliged with new music.
- Added “Refund All Upgrades” button to the upgrade menu
- Tesla Coils adjusted. Base maximum charge reduced, bonus from level 4 updated to work correctly and be more impactful.
- Redesigned some menu elements to be more consistent
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Performance improvements, balance, and bugfixes
Mini-patch mainly addressing a performance hit that some users were experiencing in the Caverns after a recent update. We're also doing some tuning on the blue boss encounter in the Caverns, it should be a bit less oppressive to when tackled early.
Original postMini-patch mainly addressing a performance hit that some users were experiencing in the Caverns after a recent update. We're also doing some tuning on the blue boss encounter in the Caverns, it should be a bit less oppressive to when tackled early.
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New Ult, new Upgrade! V0.7.1.1
Added an ultimate upgrade for the Gauss Rifle: Cryo Rifle. Each shot creates an AoE burst of cold on impact, freezing nearby enemies for a few seconds. Added a new ability to Fatal Error: Shockwave. When activated, nearby enemies are knocked back. Reduced his bonus HP from 150 →
Original post- Added an ultimate upgrade for the Gauss Rifle: Cryo Rifle. Each shot creates an AoE burst of cold on impact, freezing nearby enemies for a few seconds.
- Added a new ability to Fatal Error: Shockwave. When activated, nearby enemies are knocked back. Reduced his bonus HP from 150 → 100. Reduced his bonus Shields from 150 → 100. Dev note: We initially didn’t give Fatal Error an activated ability since we wanted the game to be super simple in the beginning for new players. Ironically, being the only character without an ability made him MORE confusing to new players who wondered why he didn’t do anything when they hit the ability button. So that mistake has been rectified, and his bonus passive health and shield boost has been nerfed slightly to compensate
- Added a random character button in character select. Fairly basic at this point: pick a random character and receive a +10% experience boost for the duration of the run.
- Added text hint to start of Crystal Caverns to assist new players.
- Changed the procedural generation in Crystal Caverns to be a little more forgiving when navigating. Dev note: This under-the-hood change should lead to less backtracking and dead ends!
- Changed/Replaced Extra Salvage Upgrade. OLD Extra Salvage: Gain 10% extra salvage from pickups per level purchased. → NEW Auto-Salvage: Gain 5 passive salvage a minute per level purchased. Players are now given the first level of this upgrade for free when they start the game. Dev note: We wanted to ease the onboarding process for new players, and giving a tiny amount of salvage as a reward for surviving is a nice way to give new players a greater opportunity for early upgrades as they figure out how to play the game. We anticipate the impact will be minimal, but not negligible, in terms of balance and progression, particularly with regard to more expensive upgrades. Additionally, salvage spent on the previous skill Extra Salvage should be automatically refunded upon downloading the latest patch and starting the game.
- Bugfix: No more controller crash if swapping between mouse and keyboard in certain rare situations. Thanks to Wangston for finding this bug!
- Fixed/improved a bunch of shadows on objects not displaying properly
Developer postIntroducing Ex-Terminator
NEW CHARACTER AND NEW WEAPON New Character: Ex-Terminator Introducing the newest member of the Robot Resistors family: Ex-Terminator Starts with Gauss Rifle (also new), +5% base movement speed, and a new unique ability: Decoy Decoy creates a holographic decoy at the player’s feet
Original postNEW CHARACTER AND NEW WEAPON
New Character: Ex-Terminator
- Introducing the newest member of the Robot Resistors family: Ex-Terminator
- Starts with Gauss Rifle (also new), +5% base movement speed, and a new unique ability: Decoy
- Decoy creates a holographic decoy at the player’s feet, and for its duration, attracts enemies to itself instead of the player. After a few seconds, the decoy explodes, damaging nearby enemies
- Unlockable in-game, check the Character Select Menu for more details
New Weapon: Gauss Rifle
- Meet the Gauss Rifle, a long-range single-target high-damage weapon with medium attack speed that has a chance to shoot multiple times in quick succession
- Each volley has a chance to fire additional bonus shots, a chance which is lowered as each bonus shot is fired before the next volley begins. Leveling up this weapon as well as the Weapon Enhancer passive and Probability passive will increase the chances of multiple rounds being fired.
- Unlockable for use by all characters in-game, check the Weapons tab in the Armory menu for more details
- Currently this weapon does not have an ultimate upgrade (Coming soon!)
Tinier Things
- Added small rock doodads back to the Robot Graveyard. They no longer block movement and are smaller.
- Fixed a bug in stage select that showed placeholder art if selecting the back button (thanks to Gensam for pointing this out!)
- Poison no longer kills players on its own (but still penetrates shields, watch out for green spore clouds and robo-snakes!)
- Additional typos fixed!
- Bug fix: drops and key items will no longer disappear if the player moves very far away (thanks to AvoidTheVoid for pointing this out!)
- Bug fix: fixed rare crash that could occur when leveling up twice in the same frame with max level weapons (thanks to Mindworm Jim for pointing this out!)
- Bug fix: pushing spacebar when on the Score Screen as Lucky 1101 will no longer crash the game
Additional Notes From the Robot Resistors Team
We have been so pleased with the early response to our game, and are so grateful people are enjoying it! We are currently working hard on the 3rd of 5 planned stages before the 1.0 launch, as well smaller things like new passive abilities, upgrades, and improvements to balance and progression. Please feel free to ask questions, give feedback, and report bugs on the forums or on our Discord channel: https://discord.gg/hjuE7FGGGb. Thanks so much for playing!