If you've been following our Infinity Update announcements, you'll know that we're bringing back Tiers to Robocraft. Be sure to check out our recent forum post on this exciting news if you haven't read it yet. To accommodate Tiers, we need to update other parts of Robocraft which are either directly or indirectly impacted by their reintroduction. One part of the game that is indirectly affected by Tiers is the Community Robot Factory (or Factory as referenced in-game), and so with the Infinity Update, we will be introducing some changes to the Factory. Please be aware that this is the first pass for the Factory and it will be improved further still. We'll be completely honest; we ran out of time! It just wasn't possible to get all the improvements in for the Infinity Update.
New Factory
The updated Factory will still be the place to upload and download Robots that have been created and shared by the community; it will just look somewhat different to what it does currently.
The new Factory will look just like the image above; you can see that Robit earnings are still displayed in the top left, and Search is still on the right-hand side of the screen. What has moved is the filter button. Please note that this is a temporary move, all filter options will return to the left side in a future update.
For the Infinity Update, we've streamlined the number of available filters; adding in tiers and limiting categories to movement and weapon type. As already mentioned, this is the first pass at the Factory; the art team is already working on improving the Factory. Here's a work-in-progress screenshot of what you can expect in a future update.
As you can see, a lot more filter options will be added later; so please bear with us during this transitionary period. Other visual changes you'll notice are that if you have selected "show locked bots" in the filter options, unavailable Robots will appear greyed-out in the results. Available Robots are highlighted blue; while the currently selected Robot will be highlighted in white.
Important information about Tier filters
Please note that any Robot uploaded before Infinity Update will not have Robot Ranking data embedded. This means that while the Tier will be correctly displayed and your Robots will appear in the CRF when NOT filtering by Tier; when filtering by Tier they will not appear.
We do recommend that you re-upload your Robots to the Factory once the Infinity Update releases if you want to get on the filtered Tier results. It's the perfect opportunity for your Robots to potentially fly to the top of the Factory market if they appear in the filter by Tier search results on release day.
Robit Rewards
If players upload Robots to the Factory, they'll earn Robits every time a downloaded Robot is played in battle. The maximum amount that can be earned is 15,000 Robits per Robot download. So, if your Robot is downloaded 100 times and each person that downloaded it completed 10 battles with it, you would earn 1,500,000 Robits!
But what will you spend the Robits on if there's no forge and all parts are infinite? Cosmetics! With the Infinity Update, we'll be launching a new Item Shop where you'll be able to spend your Robits on cool cosmetics. We'll be talking about the Item Shop in detail tomorrow, but rest assured, we've planned for lots of awesome items that you'll be able to spend your Robits on.
Why the Infinity Update?
As developers we want to be able to deliver more cool content and fabulous features to you faster, but as we’re currently split between three very different versions of Robocraft (RC Steam/Launcher, RC Infinity on Xbox One and the F2P Robocraft Infinity in China (co-developed with Tencent)) it’s incredibly difficult for a small indie to deliver on that. So with the Infinity Update, we will be bringing all the good stuff from the Chinese version to the Steam version. This parity between the versions will allow us to deliver more new features, improvements, bug fixes and content faster.
The Infinity Update is scheduled for release in November and is Robocraft's single biggest update. As such, players should expect some issues on launch day. By working with us and reporting issues and bugs through our support system, we can fix them as quickly as possible.
Thanks as always for your continued patience and support.