M.A.S.S. Builder – WIP: 0.11.0 New Armor Set Preview ZENITH Z – Steam News

Back to another WIP update for the week! We’re featuring the final variant of the new armor set Zenith, the Z variant. For this one, we wanted to emphasize the sharp, pointy, and oversized parts in some areas.

While VD does state that they want to emphasize certain aspects of the Z variant of the Zenith armor, that almost doesn’t explain the off feeling I get with this one.

Admittedly I’m not very good at explaining what bothers me about designs that have scaling issues, but hopefully it’s enough to just say the proportions just feel odd with the Z set compared to the X and Y. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, though. One issue I have with M.A.S.S. Builder is that the proportions of all builds are tied to a customizable (but still limited) inner frame. That limits what kinds of builds and replicas you can make. Thankfully there’s some customizability to begin with or builders could only compensate by scaling their builds up, which isn’t practical in a lot of cases.

For the Zenith Z set, that means people looking for more ‘leggy’ proportions can use pieces from this set to help get that look instead of relying solely on stretching out the legs and keeping the torso sections short.

On a side note, I like the feet. They’re very reminiscent of Armored Core style light builds, and while that’s an insanely impractical way to handle feet in real life, it looks amazing in video games and other media.

M.A.S.S. Builder – WIP 0.11.0 Tentative Balance Changes – Steam News

With weeks of new things being shown, we’d like to dial back to some balance changes we’re planning to make to improve the game in 0.11.0.

With weeks of new things being shown, we’d like to dial back to some balance changes we’re planning to make to improve the game in 0.11.0 First, let us remind you that we’ll be unlocking tier 7 units and sub-units in the development tree and their unlocking materials will be dropped from later waves in challenges and latest missions. We expect them to provide tons of power to the player and we’ll keep watch to modify them if any of them are game breaking.

Now, for a more specific balance change, we aim to increase the power of tanky tech sub-units in the coming update. We’d improve them in 0.10.0 and while they are well received, their power is too low to be competing for a sub-unit slot. In 0.11.0, we’re increasing their power by a significant amount.

Units that improve shield regeneration cooldown are mostly buffed by around 50%. Think nodes that currently lower time before shields start regenerating by 25%, all of them will be changed to a 40% reduction, allowing players to easily slot in one of two for constant shields regeneration. This should make them more dependable and more competitive for a slot in any build that rely on the regenerating shields.

On the same note, we’ll also be improving sub-units that straight up improve shields regeneration and regenerate shields through other means. Things like Perpetual Generator will proc more frequently. Arms S. Battery will recover more shields. Things like that.

And lastly for this goal, we’re also improving durability tech sub-units that are overshadowed by their peers, such as Metals Replacement and recovery nodes such as both the Nanorobotics variant.

What do you think about these tentative changes? We’d like to discuss about it so if you have any opinions on what we’ve listed, we’re more than glad to hear from you through our discord, linked below. See you next time!

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So, “Raise shields!” basically. That’s probably a good idea. Tank builds have always been in a weird spot in this game, since the best defense is a good offense. You don’t really want to take a lot of damage in the first place, so it’s better to just blast everything ASAP and play more evasively against bosses.

VD’s proposed changes should make tanking more relevant on higher difficulties, but for lower ones, it’s not hard to evade most incoming damage by just running around–not even boosting, just running around. It’s that easy. Fighting bosses is where changes like these are really going to shine since they trap you in relatively small areas and throw out enormous, fast hitting AoE attacks. Playing evasive is easy enough with shooter builds, but for melee, you’ll definitely want to be able to take more than a couple of bad hits.

So that’s my 2 cents on that for now.

Next up, the Zenith Armor Set. Yeah, this one’s going to be a 2 in 1.

M.A.S.S. Builder – WIP: 0.11.0 New Armor Set Preview ZENITH X – Steam News

Sorry we took a break, here’s some more WIP Progress post of the upcoming 0.11.0 featuring a new armor set! The set, named Zenith X, is designed with a concept of futuristic, cyber-like designs.

Look at this armor set.

Look at it.

This one’s coming along wonderfully. I’m particularly interested in the head and shoulder parts.

The Zenith X set feels like something between SRW’s more slender robots and Zone of the Ender’s orbital frames. I don’t know what impression I’ll get when I see this colored, but either way the Zenith X is going to be a great new addition.

M.A.S.S. Builder – WIP 0.11.0 New Bullet Shooter PILE BUNKER – Steam News

Welcome back to another WIP post, this week introducing a new Bullet Shooter that is on another spectrum of shooters. Please welcome the Pile Bunker! PIle Bunker is a MELEE Bullet Shooter, having one chargeable bullet, you. This is a weapon that took a long time to get it to work, being vastly different from other shooters, requiring us weeks to design, craft, and finding solutions for w

Words … I can’t even.

Just embrace the visuals for a minute.

A lot of people–myself included–are wondering if VD picked this idea up from a certain recently released mech shooter. Even if that’s not the case, this in your face weapon is a welcome addition. I’m absolutely going to be using this one when 0.11.0 is finished.

M.A.S.S. Builder – WIP: 0.11.0 New Energy Shooter Model Preview – Steam News

Welcome back to another weekly WIP update. It’s a short one this week, featuring some weapon parts of the upcoming new shooter PRISM. We designed these things to look like they’re particle accelerators or energy charging machineries but we’ll also throw in the simple parts for you all to freely customize it as well. We’ll be back next week to show more!

What more can be said, really? The more customization options we get, the better.

M.A.S.S. Builder – WIP 0.11.0 Updated Quarks Model – Steam News

Welcome back to another WIP update. This week features one of the short perpetuals update we’ve been working on since ages ago, regarding Quark’s models and aesthetics. These Quarks were one of the special uncommon Quarks that does not conform to the normal behaviors and uses special moves to effect combat. We haven’t used much of them as they were causing frustrations for players and we’ve shifted them away, even to an extent of removing them from the game in most missions.

I barely remember these little pests nowadays. Well, VD says they’re going to try to bring them back in a less annoying form, and to that I say “Good luck,” because it’s extremely easy to annoy the average gamer these days, especially when mechanic overlap puts them in situations they weren’t mentally prepped for.

For example:

Luckily the only thing in M.A.S.S. Builder that’s straight up overpowered is the player. Everything else is a crash test dummy by comparison.

As for the new look, I’m kind of neutral on this one.

We’ll see how VD’s going to go about making them less frustrating to deal with in a furball eventually.