I’m really excited about this one. It is a bit weird to see just two launchers pulling off that many shots at once, but there have to be concessions between aesthetics and gameplay. Since launchers can have accessories mounted just like every other weapon and part on the M.A.S.S. unit, having six, eight, or even more identical launchers with eight accessories each, all hogging up space at the same time–on top of everything else–would probably stress the system. Multiply that for multiplayer once that comes around. It looks great either way, so I’m happy they included that kind of all aspect attack.

What I’m hoping for is that at some point we can find good ways to pretend the unit has eight or more ‘funnel’s with it. One way I can think of right now is using an accessory part or two to cover up the base launcher and then using the rest of the accessory slots to act as two to three more identical units hovering around it. Unfortunately, I don’t think the current offsets would be too accommodating, and it would be very obvious and clunky during attack animations during actual gameplay. I haven’t tested this yet, it’s just one idea for having the look as well as the attack animation. As much as I want to try that out sooner rather than later, it’s not meant to be. I can only juggle two to three games at a time and still work at a reasonable pace, so M.A.S.S. Builder’s taken a temporary backseat to Space Engineers. Once 0.8.0 lands, I’ll swap things around and see what I can pull off. As usual, I’ll put anything interesting that comes up here on the blog.

To the funnel builds o7