M.A.S.S. Builder – What’s Next 0.10.0 – Steam News

Hello everyone, welcome back to another "What’s Next" post of the year, albeit only the second one as we’ve only made two major updates this year. Again, we’d like to add a disclaimer that this post won’t go into details of what we’ll be doing for the next coming update, update 0.10.0 …

The first major bit of news is that the multiplayer test apparently went so poorly that plans for PvP are being shelved for the time being. There’s just too much to fix with multiplayer in general right now. I don’t think anyone who’s been following the weekly updates on Steam is all that surprised.

Here’s some good news from VD though.

What we can say right now is:
1. The first and foremost priority is to further develop multiplayer mode, mainly on matchmaking features (we’re still in consideration whether to only matchmake people with a ping threshold of under a number).
2. A reconnection feature must and will be added into the game as it is a core feature for multiplayer that we didn’t have enough time to complete in alpha phase.
3. More information of players in the lobby, more QoL issues in the feature.

Story missions are also getting worked on alongside the multiplayer updates, which is great. I don’t know if they’ll add more after the planned 26 are all done, but they probably will. It’s not like the story feels like it’s wrapping up per se.

The gist of this one is that multiplayer PvP has to wait until the more critical bugs are fixed and everything else is going to get as much attention as it can get. Works for me.