Not What It Once Was | RoboCraft

4 years later, this game isn't what it once was.

[MacaroniGril]

This was absolutely one of my favorite games to play back in 2014-2016 but once they added all the ridiculous updates it just became unplayable for me. I miss tier blocks and crafting guess they didn't like a successful game.

[Louzifien]

loot boxes killed it for me.

and, as i liked building flying stuff, the constant change of physics was so nerv wrecking.

[umaninstrumentalityprject]

The old robocraft was the most fun thing that was so close to perfection now its gone 😭

[OhCanadaGamer]

It's pretty amazing how much they dropped the ball with this game. It used to be so much better.

[GangsterDolphins]

I miss this game so much, if they kept it normal I would've probably spent so much money and time on it. Huge loss for the company for ruining the game

[Blav]

Guys, looks like robocraft 2 is in development, hopefully it's good

[LordTacotheGreat]

Man, this was peak back in 2015-2017 back with the different game modes and mega bots. IIRC the company who owns robocraft took jank advice from financial advisers and added in lootboxes and focused more on people who play the game for a week, rather than retaining long time players like they should've. Freejam claims they've learned their lesson, and has done some playtests for the robocraft 2 alpha. I played a few playtests, and it reminds me of the early days of 2013-2014 when the game still took feedback from the players. The new mechanics in 2 are pretty neat too, logic gates, joints, hinges, etc. Saw some dude make a tank with a hidden extendo arm which has a bomb on the end of it, which can be detonated. Cleaved a dude straight in half with that attack.

[CheddarGoblin]

I just recently got this back do people still play it finding it hard to find servers

[pegleg]

Not gonna lie, I thought the footage was sped up lol. Havent played in like 5 years so I guess ive forgotten how fast things were

[OodldoodlNoodlesocks]

Removal of 10 v 10 control node mode killed the game for me.

[Agramsch]

I remember what killed the game for me was, when they removed the Boss Battles modes, where I could play as the giant mega Bot and have like ten or something more players on my team.
It was such an epic experience, the whole match was just an unending series of explosions and being healed up again and firing all the time. They should have kept that, why remove it!?

One day then, I logged on into the game into the garage to see 2/3 of my mega Bot I built for weeks to see marked as red unfitting cubes.

Why remove content ?!

[vgames]

There is an inofficial 2015 restoration project. It is playable and just like the good old days of the game. But setting it up requires a bit of effort, have not tried it yet.

[finlayong]

i miss the old game mode where you destroy the reactor thingy

[Nico-ulbo]

<This game was unbelievable great!>
I had so much fun with this game back then in 2017. It was just great! The times when you could oneshot people with rail guns, the old tech tree, cubes with different hp and the game mode with those crystal shrooms who had to be destroyed in order to capture the point, just great. But then they made wrong decisions. For example implementing loot boxes that completely destroyed the concept of the game. This game is based on creativity and if you have an Idea for a bot you had to look what you need and grind till you had enough credits to buy the modules. But with this shitty lootboxes it was luck based if you get the module you want or not, there was still the opportunity to sell the items you got out of the loot boxes and buy the module you want, but that took ages, because for example, if a rocket launcher costs 10k to buy, you could only sell it for 1k. It was the same like you want to paint a painting of a beautiful ocean but the colours you get are only green and yellow just stupid. Meanwhile they got back to the old system and deleted the lootboxes but now all players are gone. In 2017 they had 15.000 active players for multiple years, this game was huge! Menawhile there are only 300 left thats like 2% and it hurts me a bit because I have a lot of good memories of this game. Hopefully they do it better in Robocraft 2!

[discombobulate]

I like it where a round takes hours to end.

[VanguardJester]

I used to have a rocketsled called "the guppy", it had a single plasmagun, it was 2 blocks tall, 3 blocks long, and 3 blocks wide if you count the rockets. It was designed so perfectly that i could flip myself over far afaster than the "emergency flip" button. And then the devs added a bunch of pay2win auto-aim weapons.

[jrizzl]

This game lost me I used to grind it so often I loved the no respawn mode and the megabots, I wish they’d bring that back

[trigon.]

Oh i miss the time when i used to play it.
It was somewhere like 2015/16, i built like 10 different robots from some guy who did a lot of builds, he sadly deleted his videos i think.
All I say: Tier 10 Bomberino

[whanethewhip]

Yup, last time I played was 2016... I quit because they had a major update that ruined the game. I hear they are making a Robocraft 2 now, I won't bother with it.

[TomorrowXXL]

I remember the fun build of just a flying pill of shields that was super OP :)