Massive Tier Bots, New HUB Types, Quests and More! (Beta 0.7.0)

The big 0.7.0 is here! I’ve poured a lot of time, effort and honestly some tears into this update. As per usual, it’s really tough to maintain motivation, as I’m still just a one man show (since I certainly don’t make enough to pay anyone to help). Enough of that though! This update FINALLY has the first glimpses of the End Game content. I’m really proud of the Massive Tier bots that come with this update, and I can’t wait to add some more in the future. Other than that, the last two HUB types are also in this patch, and I think they might actually be a little bit OP, but I’ll leave you guys to decide that.

As with every update, I hope that those of you who have stuck around enjoy it! Major Features:

• Added two new HUB types, the Mining and Trade HUBs. The Mining HUB slowly produces ores and deposits them into any nearby storages passively. The Trade HUB boosts all trades by 25% and increases the new Market cap for the associated Beacon. - Trade Markets have been added. They are basically trade limits for each Beacon, where if you trade too much at one Beacon, you get diminished profits as the trades are exhausted. - Added Massive Tier research, including the new High Tier Research bot. This will be the last tier of bots added to the game, and obviously they’re also the largest and most complex. - Added the Hydraulic Bot; a massive, high damage bot in the new Massive tier. It’s the highest damage per single attack currently in the game.

• Added a new mid-tier bot, the Bonepike; this bot is a good in-between for combat between the mid and high tiers due to its increased cost, but also increased damage. It can only be researched at corrupted beacons.

• Added a new type of bot, the Core Keeper; this bot can hold up to 3 Cores as storage, for when you need to keep excess Cores around.

• Added in a whole new Chronos quest line, centering around Jamie Conoly, the Chronos’ captain.

• Added Aurora Wagner, the trader of the Chronos. For now you can sell the new Data Tablets to her for a good profit. Later on, she will sell unique blueprints and maybe other items.

Minor Features:

• Added a new Biome Checker which controls a lot of the enemy spawning and difficulty for each region. The effects from this change will mostly be felt and not seen physically in game.

• Added a new quest type; Bulk Trading. You basically collect all of the items needed and sell them using the Trade Pods, for some boosted income when fulfilled.

• Added dialogue for much of the Chronos crew so you can get to know them after the initial quests are complete.

• Adjusted Trade Pod difficulty to scale less harshly with the sale amount.

• Added a health grace period for Trade Pods so that, if you stay above 80% health, you will receive the max trade amount.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a huge bug that was causing low level Trade Pods to be impossible to complete.

• Fixing issue with Neil Ramos quest line breaking in some cases. - Fixing quest rewards for all quest types. - Added in several dialogue skips in case things are done out of order. - Fixed a bug where Miner bots were always the first to be targeted by enemies.

• Fixed an issue where the mouse input sensitivity was doing nothing.

• Fixed several lighting issues around the map.

• Fixed several save/load issues with the Mobile Base and bots that rely on set-up states.

• Fixed a lot of quest bugs, primarily with the Chronos quest line.