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The problem with the nano guns is they have awful range. The damage they do is pretty good though, SMGs don't have 100% accuracy.

Excellent.

Though... I do have to put out my opinion... Don't you guys think it's a little excessively optimistic to rile up the crowd for stretch goals at this point? XD

Heh... I'm kinda sad... I didn't get to send in my ships this time...

It was kinda on short notice, only two days to prepare.

*violently strangles the AI*

Thing. Thing. You have nothing but drones, missiles, and a freakishly huge assortment of engines pointing away from the enemy. WHY DO YOU RAM THEM!??

The saddest thing is that one match, it will actually hang back and snipe. The next match, it valiantly charges forth to get ripped into a thousand pieces. It makes me want to whack it with a rolled up newspaper ;_;

Shields.

For some reason when a bot faces a shielded ship it either thinks the target is weaker than it really is, or it puts way too much weight into the prospect of knocking the shields down.

I'm betting it's the second theory, since it makes sense to figure that sniping will not get you very far when it comes to actively destroying the enemy vessel when the shields are just going to absorb everything... the problem is shields aren't THAT powerful against a proper sniping ship. Drone and missile ships can even do the trick if the enemy ship doesn't have enough point defense or maneuverability.

Yeah unfortunately we didn't come up with a good way to handle that. In the full game you can unlock the parts you want to use, and then select a certain number of them for the active palette. Since this is basically just the ship editor portion of the game with everything else removed we made the active palette randomized for each save file. It isn't perfect, but hopefully it isn't too annoying either.

It sadly is very annoying. It is incredibly hard to get point defense, which means having the ability to make a well rounded and effective craft is on a dice roll, let alone being able to get said point defense with the weapons you want besides super common ones like plasma of all varieties.

Looks like Everyone can start playing around with a ship builder that just got released...

http://www.anisopteragames.com/development-log/

Presumably you can pit anything you make up against ships from the recent tournament.


I'll probably get around to downloading it myself after I'm done watching a stream recording.

Hi everyone, this is Colin, one of the people involved with Reassembly.

Thanks for all the interest, let me know if you have any questions about the game or Kickstarter.

Can you give us a sense of just how mod-able you plan the game to be? A thought that came to mind was whether the basic shapes could be replaced with sprites.

 If sprites are possible, I think you will attract those with an artistic mindset like an industrial electromagnet. You already certainly are going to, but that would take a bite out of the crowd who would look at basic pale shapes and reject the game quickly.
 In the process, modders adding sprites would turn this game into something incredibly gorgeous to look at in simple pictures.