Hello everyone, we're here to announce the date of the upcoming patch 0.3.0 release as well as the patch notes on what you'll be getting to play with. The patch will drop on March 7th. The amount of things we're adding here proved to be much larger than we thought thus it'll be a week later than what we first planned, and we ask for your understanding. Now, what has changed? You can read about them below.
Additions
- Quantum Break: Players will be able to activate the Quantum Break modes, a short burst of extreme power-ups by continually attacking with close combat and hold down a Quantum Break button. There are four forms to choose from, each specializing in a playstyle or a situation.
- Guarding: Players will now be able to hold up their guard if equipped with a shield, reducing a large portion of incoming damage as another defense mechanism (aside from boosting to dodge attacks). Guards are quick to deploy and will slow players down a bit while it is active. Guarding will reduce all incoming damage, with directional guarding receive much more reduction from the direction you're facing.
- Dual Weapons Stance: The first phase of dual weapons is completed to a level we can have players play around with it. Players will now be able to turn all close combat grips into dual weapons of the same looks and functionalities.
- Added a large number of tech and architecture nodes in regards to new features such as Quantum Break customization, guarding customization, and dual attacks that would improve close combat further in conjunction with the power-based nodes.
- Added the lore archives where players can read a summarization of the stories they've played through, the histories of the world and the M.A.S.S. technology, information about Quarks, and many more.
- Added new extended combo paths for close combat, unlocked by nodes in the Engine and OS development tree. We've also added an input to transition between combos so players have more controls over combo attacks so check your control settings before playing in this patch!
- Added 1 new story mission and 1 new hunting grounds into the game. The hunting grounds will be a bit different than what you've faced before.
- Added first batch player decals into the game, thank you for your support through our Kickstarter campaign!
- Added some UI and Help menu localization into the game for Japanese and Thai language through the courtesy of our publisher. More languages to follow later.
- Added new close combat weapon grips.
- Added shields into the game for guarding.
- Added a sorting feature into tuning mode.
- Added new types of enemies into the game.
- Added a weapon trail customization option, players can now select the colors for the visual effects of a weapon as well as their property damages.
Improvements
- Improved and new icons for clarifications on the development nodes icons.
- Improved the VFX of various buffs for more clarity when they are applied.
- Improved development nodes positioning for better clarity of the whole development tree.
- Improved many of the game's soundtracks into original soundtracks. More will come and eventually, M.A.S.S. Builder will have its own OST library to listen to.
- Improved sound effects of some weapons and other ambients.
- The photography mode has been improved with new functions including showing shields, having a reversed grip, and much more.
- Improved close combat attack flows and movesets, now the various grip/assaulter will have differing moveset in combination with each other. These are the stances we currently have based on how your weapons are customized:
- OneHandSword
- OneHandKnife
- OneHandHammer
- OneHandAxe
- OneHandTwinSword
- OneHandTwinHammer
- OneHandKatar
- OneHandKnuckle
- BothHandSpear
- BothHandMace
- BothHandScythe
- BothHandHalberd
- BothHandTwinSpear
- BothHandTwinMace
- DualHandSword
- DualHandKnife
- DualHandHammer
- DualHandAxe
- DualHandTwinSword
- DualHandTwinHammer
- DualHandKatar
- DualHandKnuckle
- DualHandSpear
- DualHandMace
- DualHandScythe
- DualHandHalberd
- DualHandTwinSpear
- DualHandTwinMace
Adjustments
- Adjusted some development nodes levels for future nodes.
- Adjusted property damages - now displaying property weaknesses, more clarity on the visual effects, better status effects, and introduced new nodes in the Architecture tree that would help with the property damage playstyle
- Adjusted all enemies' property damage resistance.
- Increased "Spread" firing type damage by 50%, people have been asking us to improve its accuracy but we think improving its damage output and keeping the whole large spread is a better choice for the firing type called "Spread."
- Adjusted the Architecture tree by the following:
- Pressurized Gears: from 200%/300% damage to 300%/400% damage
- Hyperspeed Thrusters to a new node that decreases Fuel Burn Rate by a percentage
- Created new architect nodes for property damage playstyle and moved old nodes to the property damage tech line
- Some tech nodes' designs are adjusted to change a playstyle drastically. Some will not be able to be used at the current tech tier lock but you can see them.
Bug Fixes
- Critical bug crash on startup and on fullscreen have been fixed.
- A lot of minor bug fixes
- Locking/Unlocking while in-air bug is fixed
- Fixed FPS loss bugs through better optimization, some graphical features might still cause a recurrence and we suggest not enabling them if the problem persists.
- Fixed various typos and some nodes displaying wrong numbers
- Hunting Grounds freeze on entering (game still runs but doesn't enter loading screen) bug fixed.
Known but unfixed bugs
- Some decals and/or patterns are behaving weirdly, we've known how they are but fixing it will take time and it's a minor bug thus we decided to leave it for now.