Commander, customize and build your Mechanical Assault Skeleton Suit (M.A.S.S.) and lead the fight against an alien invasion bent on exterminating the human race. The fate of humanity is in your hands.
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Welcome back to a new WIP update for M.A.S.S. Builder, this week featuring our still-in-design M.A.S.S. feature! As the phrasing suggested, we are still designing the feature but have explored a lot of options on how it will work which we shall share with you today.
First and foremost when thinking of this new feature, we looked back to how we can implement it into the game without breaking the game itself. To that, out of all the multiple choices that we have, upgrading an existing feature to implement a new one is what we've decided as the best and easiest.
So, which feature is the easiest to work with? To us, it's importing M.A.S.S. units from one slot onto another. Upgrading the feature to be able to export the unit in some method, then importing it into a slot just like you do with other-slots-importing should be the best method out there. It will also help with the problem of misclicking imports and deleting days or months of works.
How will the new importing, exporting, and sharing works? For now, we're thinking of creating either a really long code to copy or a file that players can export from the game. This code or file can be shared to anyone else so they can be imported into other save files. We are still unsure on whether one is the better choice and there are merits and demerits for both. But one thing we will keep in mind is the ease of use which is why we wanted to have it as a code as well as some thoughts in the back about having previews somehow before importing.
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We're also designing a method to allow players to import and export certain group of parts or just parts themselves and not the whole M.A.S.S. unit. This means players can export only the body group, the arms group, or individual weapons along with all the attached accessories and paintjob to share only those certain parts. We think this would help a lot when someone really liked certain parts or weapons, like a mecha-girl face, a Kaiju body, or certain weapons and want to further customize their own body and whatnot.
Well, all of it is still in design phase and we'd like to hear from you all, either through the steam forums or through our discord.
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