After months of working on the M.A.S.S. we're finally ready to announce the update release timing, which honestly isn't far at all. In fact, we'll be releasing the update on this coming Saturday November 30th (GMT +7). As we've mentioned in an old news post, we wanted to release this update just to provide a way for players to share their builds as soon as we finished it thus the update will only feature the sharing system, aptly named as the M.A.S.S. and nothing else. There will be no new missions, no new contents, or any balance updates at all. As such, this patch notes will be a recap on how the system works!
Patch Notes: Added the M.A.S.S. (Mecha Asset Sharing System)
The Mecha Asset Sharing System is a system where players can easily share their M.A.S.S. units with each other through an export and import function. To paraphrase an old news post, players will be able to export and import "presets." Presets can be individual parts like head, neck, arm, etc. all the things you can customize with in-game and anything that's attached to those individual parts. However, we will also allow players to export "sets" such as all the parts pertaining to the arms (arms + shoulders) or the legs (upper + lower + feet).
When exporting, a thumbnail will also be created alongside the group or piece and players can customize their thumbnails during the process to an extent such as the zoom amount of the piece, the angles, and even to show the frames attached to the piece or not. These are all to help players show the parts that have been exported and it'll also help players get a preview of the parts when importing.
When importing, you will be required to put the asset file + its thumbnail into the appropriate folder in your Documents folder. It will show up in-game in the Import menu as shown above. You can select the parts you wanted to import into your current build from the thumbnail list with each of them showing the Preset name as well as the creator's name.
That will be everything for the update. We'll also share our builds when the update is released through our Discord channel linked below. Hope to see you all have fun with each other's build, shared through this system!
Discord: http://discord.gg/quS7E46
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