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.

M.A.S.S. Builder – WIP 0.11.0 New Energy Shooter PRISM – Steam News

Continuing a streak of showing exciting stuffs, this week is about the up and coming, new Energy Shooter we’ve designed as something fun. An energy shooter we call PRISM.

That’s kind of weird but it reminds me of that chain lightning mechanic you sometimes see in games. Basically an AoE with more steps.

Prism has a secondary firing acquired by holding down right click for around a second. It deals no damage at all, but attaches a prism onto every lockable points within an area. This means every enemy that can be locked by homing missiles are susceptible attachment points of this secondary fire. What does it do? Well… let’s have this next clip explain it as it’s worth more than a thousand words.

VD

It sounds a tad complex at first but it’s probably just like alternating between firing modes to set this effect off. Use secondary fire as a lockon mechanism, then the primary to blow everyone up at once. Pretty nice, actually. Looking forward to trying it out myself.

M.A.S.S. Builder – WIP 0.11.0 Energy Single Charged Shot – Steam News

With last week’s Bullet Shooter’s Single fire showing off, it is necessary we also show its twin, the Energy Shooter’s Single fire charged shot as well. We went a different angle for the Energy Shooter’s charged shot.

That shot’s pretty slow, but the blast radius looks good. At that size, it shouldn’t need to be too accurate to deal splash damage to a boss’s weak points. As for crowd control … oh yeah, that’s going to be fun.

I’m also glad we’ll be able to tweak the colors through elemental effects.

Overall, the shooter updates are looking great. Hopefully once my schedule becomes less crap I can get back to covering this and other games the way I want to. Anyway, that’s all for now.

M.A.S.S. Builder – WIP 0.11.0 Single Fire Charged Shot – Steam News

Last week we mentioned reworking some of our old weapons, right? Here’s the first of those reworks, single bullet shooters. They are now able to charge up for a few seconds to fire an empowered shot. Let’s talk about their concepts first. Railguns is a shooter we’ve been requested since the first pa…

VD addressed that one issue that bugs me in some games that have charged shot mechanics. A charged shot is supposed to do more damage that you can inflict in the same time frame with regular shots, but the different isn’t always enough to encourage you to do that. Sometimes it just ‘feels’ like the enemy will die faster if you just pepper them to death, even if the hard numbers say otherwise.

Come to think of it, the Megaman X games handled it reasonably well. I always felt like a charged shot was the better option in most situations. That wasn’t just because of the damage, though; you had to run around and jump all over things to avoid getting hit, and it’s easier to just charge up while doing that and then blow up the enemy once there’s an opening.

Anyway, this is nothing but good news and I’m looking forward to it.