Robocraft 2: From Mistakes to Abandoned Game

Robocraft 2 failed within its first month of release. A sequel to an amazing franchise wakes up from its slumber to be a huge mistake as it failed to deliver on its promise and became a tragedy to its legacy. What were the mistakes of Freejam and why Robocraft 2 is a disaster? Find out now.
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[@SpaceKryptonite]

RIP. Robocraft 2 has been removed from Steam.

[@MarkStillPlays]

you better do another video once RC 2.1 releases💯💯💯

[@die_kaktee2293]

I just realized that a few minuts ago i wanted to play it because i played a mobile game called astracraft but the game is gone

[@MarkStillPlays]

@@die_kaktee2293 brooo i remember betatesting that when it was not this colorful game

[@dizzypro4974]

they released a statement saying that since they're turning it into a remake of robocraft from around 2015, they're taking it down until the remake is in a playable state, you can obviously still play the game if you've got it on your account though

[@nanachisaisho8037]

its being remade to resemble old robocraft with the protonium towers an shiz. also i thought u said u weren't coming back.

[@dotdyboii5023]

old robocraft really really needs to be back. the old 10 tiers only, old gun sprites, the 10 old tiers, plasma guns being shot all at once, the old 10 tiers, BOSS MODE, the old 10 tiers, and practice mode gradually getting stronger and stronger instead of bots having instant aimbot with snipers. I think i forgot to mention boss mode and the old 10 tiers.

[@zakeorca3157]

Also megabot, 1 for team u can select mode if want It or no

[@ugurcansayan]

I guess u dont remember at all but there were 10 tiers and it was good, fyi

[@zakeorca3157]

@@ugurcansayan i dont think he know that there where 10 tiers too

[@talrasher141]

IT was such a good Game ❤

[@ondrejkviz9653]

I'd love to play OG Robocraft again with it's original maps, soundtrack, progression system and megabots

[@PepsiMTG]

Before megabots was my favorite time playing the game

[@anthonykf99]

Megabots was the beginning of the downfall. The very first stages were okay, but went down hill fast.

[@tobi2056]

Well, there is a project from fans, that are trying to get a 2014 (or 2015) version to run on their own servers.

[@ondrejkviz9653]

@@tobi2056 Freejam is now making 2014 comeback itself. That will be the greatest comeback of the century for sure. But I'll look into that community project as well thanks.

[@Schwagdag]

oh my god... you just gave me a childhood flashback! i remember watching your stuff back in the day... its been 6 years... damn i was 13-14 back then. I would love to see a reboot of the old Robocraft and relive that awesome time when life was simpler

[@-lijosu-]

Don't get your hopes up. It's happening because FJ screwed up the project they had before working on the "reboot", and trends say they'll screw the new one too.

[@PepsiMTG]

I played the original robocraft back in its alpha stage, and I can't stand not being able to play it again...

[@Damian-03x3]

I wish we just had 2016 RC. Actual wings, CPU-based matchmaking, cool weapons, old maps, old battle arena, actual currency and overall the peak of RC. As a RC veteran, I'm somewhat excited for the Rebuild but I'm worried about Freejam messing it up yet again with constantly changing their vision for the game.

[@Ace73Streaming]

"I wish they'd make Robocraft 2" The monkeys paw curls a finger "I wish Space Kryptonite would come back" The monkeys paw curls another finger We haven't met but I was doing a series of bot reviews in Robocraft 2 and your history of the meta series was one of my sources of inspiration. I showed up in robocraft 1 after most people had already left so I actually was able to learn about old bots from your series. Maybe one day Freejam will make a proper robocraft game with the polish and features it needs...

[@stytha]

maan, I'm on such a nostalgia trip right now. I used to watch your videos back in, what, like 2015-16... Currently watching all videos on robocraft of the channels which I remembered watching back then. I miss those days

[@tomasalves3462]

10 years... 10 focking years

[@Ketmo785]

I don't think FJ need to make the exact same game just modernized with updated visuals to succeed. Plenty of studios manage to succeed with major changes between titles and versions of these titles. However Freejam is starting to get quite the track record of releasing half baked titles and then jump ship as soon as they don't get instant good reviews and player numbers. In my opinion what Freejam needs to do to succeed regardless of what game they are making is to first of all understand that they got lucky with RC1. It was also half baked at release but it was something new. It did not really have competition. They need to reach a much higher level of polish pre EA release and also dare to stick to their stuff and improve the game they are making and not just jump top the next project over and over.

[@the2379]

Robocraft 2 was their best bet man, now it's gone 😔After so many failures it's impossible to expect anything from them

[@drixom9805]

so they went back to the drawing board. it's back in beta but totally back to basics. It feels like we're back in time with better graphics.

[@mariuskatutis2687]

this just proves that freejam is a bunch of lazy hacks, they just give up

[@Skarrier]

They're not even lazy, they're unlearnable, not being able to make fun and playable games after 10 years of existing. It's honestly buffling.

[@current3109]

Free jam, both lazy and clueless to their own player base

[@mariuskatutis2687]

@@current3109 they got everything right then blew it all WTF?

[@DrewTheRotund]

Robocraft: KZbinrs In Space best Robocraft sequel (also can't be downloaded anymore)

[@bobthebuilder6521]

I followed RC2 since the first NA Playtest. At first FJ was pretty active with diving in forums and engaging with community suggestions. During these times it really felt like FJ was making a game that was supposed to be more of a spiritual successor to RC1 rather than a direct mechanical/gameplay sequel . For a short while things looked good, even if flawed. I think some time after a ton of bugs just started piling up that seemingly never got fixed, or took ages. The camera would constantly clip and jitter around, and most notably the "Plasma Bypass" bug which mark supposedly confirmed was a feature. Essentially Plasma in RC2 spawned shrapnel on impact, but there was a mechanic that made this Shrapnel spawn several blocks further from the initial point "Bypassing" blocks of armor. Weapons also had a penetration mechanic, which meant the shrapnel kept traveling through blocks until all its "energy" was depleted. This meant Plasma Bypass essentially allowed for small bots to be 1 shot because of the extra blocks that was ignored ontop of the penetration mechanic, which was never fixed. On top of this the gamemode felt terrible to play. Needing to sit on a point all game was not very engaging. FJ tried to overhaul the gamemode by adding shields to your towers if you were defending, but this only encourage sitting on point the entire game even more. Things only got worse and there was no sign of previous issues getting fixed. It's almost as if they kept rushing out features. As mentioned in the video FJ not only pushed for plushies (though to be more fair to FJ, the community did suggest and express interest in the idea), they also pushed out a battle pass. At the time, while I thought it was a bad idea, I could atleast justify it as this would be FJ's main longterm project and the battlepass would be purely cosmetic. It was there if you wanted to continue supporting the development of the game. In hindsight it feels like it ties into the weirdly solidified Early Access release date. Freejam were oddly bound by the Early Access relase date, as if they had no control and HAD to push it out. The community hated the idea, and everyone know that going EA on steam was like pandoras box. It had to be a good first impression and the game just had 0 polish, time, or the proper features to be on steam. Around this time I'd say the community were very doubtful for the game's future, or at the very least in FJ's capability of making the game good. Pretty much after EA is when the game went downhill and died, and it died fast. There were plenty of changes rushed out seemingly in a knee jerk response to steam reviews, and overall FJ started listening to the discord less and less. They made a TTK change which was so poorly received that it pretty much chopped what little players we had left in half. Then they dropped Hovers, which bred the most degenerate bots/gameplays in the game's history. Shortly after they went on their break which we were expecting huge overhauls and fixes to the game's current system after they returned, but we came back with the news that the just axed the game as a whole. The saddest part is the lack of a party system on steam release, to me that is one of the biggest failings ive ever seen. In a way it feels they were forced to push out monetization and EA as soon as possible, and essentially just gave up after initial steam reviews. I dont necessarily mind the idea of FJ returning to RC1's, but you can tell the desperate attempt of nostalgia bait even just playing the basic builder demo they dropped. Fancy sounds whenever you place blocks is shallow and cheap. Hard to say if the new project will be good or not, but you can tell they didn't return to the "RC15" style of robocraft out of genuine interest. There were plenty more problems with the game, but to me it was atleast fun (for the most part anyway). It fulfilled the vehicle fantasy part of Robocraft really well, something RC1 couldn't quite do for me as a kid. I'm just sad to see RC2 canned so early without the proper care it deserved. It's easy to poke fun at it now, but if FJ overhauled some parts of RC2 and fixed some major bugs it could've been a real special experience.

[@NirvanVR]

Thankfully they restarted developing and opened it to playtesters. I hope they finally get the idea and give their community what they’ve been asking for all these years

[@bobthebuilder6521]

@@NirvanVR dont get your hopes up. don't be surprised when the core gameplay somehow doesn't change, or even gets worse. they aren't returning to RC14/15 with genuine interest, its their last hail mary to land any amount of players to play their games.

[@NirvanVR]

@@bobthebuilder6521 Well if they want their player base back then they should probably listen to their community. Robocraft has been gradually losing interest because of these money-focused updates. I’m just saying that if they really want to keep the people who actually make them money, they should give them what they’ve been asking for

[@bobthebuilder6521]

@@NirvanVR Sorry but RC14 was 10 years ago. Making a copy of the game only pulls in a small amount of people. Blindlessly listening to a community is a good way to lead your game into a second death. Vast majority of folks who played during that time simply picked the game up because it had the name craft in it, and it was F2P. After like a year or two there’s not much to sink your teeth into.

[@NirvanVR]

@@bobthebuilder6521 You’re right, they do need to make profit. However, that shouldn’t come in a P2W form. I also don’t believe they should blindlessly do what their community wants, but giving them at least a good portion of it would greatly help keep their player base around

[@fedorawearingscrublord1735]

Space is back, nature is healing

[@ecysh364]

Welcome back! It's a Great video, but there was a few errors. I do agree with many points don't get me wrong but i feel like i need to point them out. Not Listening to dedicated players - They did. Kind of, they listened to dedicated RC2 players, by asking them on RC2 discord server's forum.. I don't think it was the best place to ask either. No custom gamemodes / Too much promised on roadmap - Custom gamemodes wasn't far fetched, the maps themselves are made in world editor, which is why they look so bad, and we already had access to it in their older title, Techblox, and they did release the stuff on their roadmap, most of the times. But I will not forgive them for not releasing tank tracks after 14 months of wait. Speaking of tank tracks - They were on hold for a long time because devs were focusing on fixing bugs. That's all I could've pointed out, I also want to tell my experience with rc2, but i will leave it in my comments.

[@ecysh364]

When they announced RC2rb I got just as mad as RC1 players when they saw RC2, I was RC2 player since it's first actual release, on October 10 2022, I was a very active player and active in their discord community, sure it was flawed but i had fun, even got lucky to get in closed multiplayer tests before they became public, and got into a clan, it was great, but i was slowly losing interest Last time i remember having fun in this game was when i participated in a small community event, which was racing, we would all join at the end of multiplayer playtests (mp was at set times) and race with modified starter bots. It was really fun. But then, they announced the release date, the game was NOT ready for the release even in early access. But FJ decided to go anyway, as you can see it was catastrophic, and we, rc2 players were telling fj to continue working on it, but then, 3 months after the catastrophe, rc2rb happened. Many RC2 players lost faith in fj after that, if i learned anything, it was that FJ has little patience, that they are too stubborn, and that Techblox could've worked out better than rc2, even combat isn't that fun compared to racing. And I'm pretty sure if it wasn't made by FJ it would've been less harshly received.

[@ecysh364]

Also fun fact, rc2 multiplayer was more active before early access release.

[@the2379]

@@ecysh364 100%, though I quite enjoyed rc2's combat, though it needed work. It sucks man, rc2 was my fav game for a bit, I really had my hopes up. Added to the list of Freejams failed games

[@odradek5710]

Some additional context: The game first come out as sort of demo build in early autum of 2022 as simply the build mode without any multiplayer, available on their website for download. The game at that stage was basically a stripped down version of their earlier project, techblox, with a new (old) robocraft makeover and some RC elements like the guns. As a standalone project it was *very* interesting as the potential for what you could make, both for fun and in the context of taking your bot into battle against others in the future. Custom turrets (the only way to have a turret at the time) and joints and logic in general allowed you to make things that were never possible in the original RC. Since it was mainly a demo everyone accepted the flaws it had for the most part and tried to give feedback in the discord server they had set up for it. The game felt like something that could become a interesting sequel, something that takes the formula from the old and expands on it. Time went on, new parts were added (quite slowly) and then came the first closed multiplayer tests. Seeing as you would mostly see the same familiar faces you saw in the discord when playing, it was quite enjoyable. But even at this ealy stage some of the flaws of the system started to show up. The first mode was a battle arena type gamemode, different from the one we have (had) now, but already you could tell that the gamemodes they had in mind were not really suited to the type of gameplay that would rise from the new build system. At that point begame the goose chace to try to modify the maps and gameplay to catch up with what that precious potential could bring. They would ask for feedback, gather it, and try to improve the gamemode in a way that made sense to them, but it always felt they were always a bit off, it didn't really click with what the game encouraged at times. When the tests were made more public we had a gamemode that worked, for the most part, but felt limiting in what type of builds could shine, which was seen as frustrating to some. These types would gradually change with every modification that happened to the gamemode and every new part that was added (worst example of which being antigravs imo), but the core problems remained. They were just being handles mostly with bandaid fixes, apart from the few times the maps were reworked. With the test being public some kind of 'onboarding' feature was needed, despite the requests for one being there from day one, so they added a quick tutorial (like the one you see in the video) that basically just explained what things did as you unlocked them and nothing more. It could have been the start of a more robust progression, but it was just a bandaid fix that stuck until the end, made to try to please the new people coming in from the steam playtests and such that were complaining about it. After more than a year of new players coming in but not really sticking around for the most part, the news came that the game was gonna be release on early access on steam, and everyone pretty much agreed that it was WAY to early for this. The UI and features we had were lacking even for the people that were playtesting the game at the time but could be excused as the game being still in very early development, but a steam croud would have surely ripped the game to shreds with how obtuse and unintuitive it was to access, build, battle, etc... Not to mention the death-by-a-thousand-cuts from the gameplay balance a new player and a player who has played a lot would experience, but that could be considered a issue all the way back from the start of public tests. Nevertheless, despite what the community said the game released anyway without delay. From what could be gathered there may have been some external forces pushing FJ to release so early, in the discussion it always sounded like the date was a deadline of sorts. In any case, wouldn't you know it, the game immediately started getting review bombed. New people were joining, sure, but the reaction was quite bad. A good chunk of the reviews were just "this is not the 201x version of robocraft i liked, boo" which wouldn't have really given the game a shot anyway, but a lot were, fairly, dumping on the game for being quite bad in general. All these new tools and toys but you didn't really know how/why to use them and there wasn't really much to do with them anyway thanks to the limiting gamemode/experience. Granted, robocraft 1 also released on steam quite early and without much to begin with, and for the time that might have been acceptable, but the standards for a new game release today a quite different. The game was never really given a fighiting chance and was just thrown out while still being half baked. If there's one thing that was clear from very early on is that Freejam didn't really have the resources or time to handle a project of this magnitude. They reacted too slow to most problems that arose and took quite a while to deal with how dynamic the game was. In the end they tried to control the fire a bit and keep working on what they were developing, as the few player spikes that came from the release became flatter and flatter. After the holiday break we got a little tease for tanktracks and other stuff that would be coming, but eventually the decition to restart the game was made internally and made public a bit after. And here we are now :) Hi Space, i appreciate hearing an outside prospective on this, glad to see you're still around. Hope all goes well on your end.

[@adalwolf8328]

Freejam has proven time and time again they are simply incompetent at game development. There is no other way of putting it. They just got insanely lucky with original RC.

[@-lijosu-]

I think you could had elaborated some more on just how much these issues are fundamental to the company itself, not the game. There were some honestly really awesome mechanics in Robocraft 2, but they were so dreadfully explained, or not explained at all, like you said in the video. I whole heartedly believe that going "back to 2014" is not the solution, and that if FJ couldn't put in the time to make RC2 accessible, they probably won't for this "rebuild" either.

[@-lijosu-]

NVM. SpaceKryptonite has now released a short hyping up this doomed game because it'll resemble RC in 2015. Respect lost, just like that.

[@Skarrier]

​@@-lijosu-Nah, if someone's exited over Freejam project, that means they weren't invested in anything from them ever before, and it's their first time on this hype hook. Let him learn.

[@-lijosu-]

@@Skarrier You never know. I was somehow stupid enough to be letdown twice xD

[@current3109]

The building in Robocraft 2 was atrocious. Sure, there was much more freedom to build creatively than in Robocraft 1, but unnecessarily over complicated. The UI was horrible and gameplay felt nothing close to the original Robocraft.

[@current3109]

Like how are people supposed to play a game when most can’t even build lol

[@UndeadKIRA]

danm. Out of the blue I remembered playing Robocraft 1 many years ago, I searched on youtube and I was VERY excited to find out Robocraft 2 had come out, but... its dead already? So sad.

[@the2379]

Controversial opinion from someone who learned all the necessary mechanics: robocraft 2 had the potential to be far better than robocraft 1, Freejam is just too incompetent. We've had it with so many games now. They refuse to listen to their playerbase. what was it 3-4k people in the discord giving suggestions and they didn't listen to one of them. Freejam always knows best, that's why they ruined their golden child rc1 and all their other games tanked. Robocraft 2 was my favourite game for a few months, shame it's gone.

[@LemonCakeOfficial]

Robocraft is definitely my favorite game of all time, 947 hours of play in Steam, premium for life. I still playing it... But its time to accept that it will never come back. Life goes on.

[@halo-7797]

Damn I remember playing robocraft in like 2018 on my old laptop with friends, long before any of us kids had a proper pc. There wasn’t much going on, pretty sure only one gamemode but a lot of fun. Kinda forgot about it, shame it has grown into a pos like this. And now that I kind of look at it, there aren’t many games now like we had back then. Herobrine era minecraft, call of robloxia times in roblox, first years od cs go, gta v when it released or even san andreas and trying to play together on lan using teamspeak 3 long before discord was a thing. These were such great games then and now we don’t seem to get any releases anymore that represent such a carefree vibe.

[@thered4048]

Holy crap he is back. I dont think Rc2 is bad, I can tell freejam put their hearts into making it look good. The rectify animation is pretty cool. The devs do good work, its just the game is pretty complicated and hard to pick up. Rc1 you could build and understand in 5 minutes how to build a functional bot. I dont think rc2 released, it was never given a chance to live. Thats the thing with RC, if its not an immediate success they give up. Its not a bad strategy to see what sticks though. Most games require years to get a good playerbase going. Everything they make lives in RC1s shadow, its hard to top that.

[@tommax1626]

God dammit, they fooled so many people, even if they get it right next time, there wont be any players left!

[@JAMMzMHW]

Remember guys. There was a time when Robocraft was THE BIGGEST game on all of Steam. Let than sink in, the game used to be massive, because it was amazing. In my opinion the game peaked with the release of megabots. Ever since they removed megas that’s when the downfall started. Anyone still remember the big name/popular KZbinrs ? Rosefall Table Lath Gamefoxlee Atom Littlebitharsh hu Etc etc Honestly I’m kind of glad that their game flopped. Robocraft 2 that is. The only Robocraft that is acceptable is the OG

[@syinari8266]

Man I used to play this game with my brother when I was like 7 or 8 . Think he made my user gamerboy or smthn to make fun of me . Lookin back it was kinda sweet , brings back simpler times . I remember having a lot of fun in the game with stupid vehicles my brother would build me and my 1 legged Mechs , strapped with a bunch of smaller lasers . Brings back memories of me being a little kid and not knowing anything . Bittersweet and sad memories .

[@kizvy]

Man… watching a video from you after I’m almost outta high school is surreal… I haven’t watched robocraft since I was in elementary school

[@nokia3112]

Thats messed up. When i was in primary school (2012-2014) robocraft was amazing. It was by far my fav game to play. They were improving the game and i think that for a decent amount of time they were going in the right direction. Of course sometimes they messed something up. For example there was a time when they created new mechanic of paying to repair your vehicle after game. It wouldnt be so bad if cost of repair wasnt bigger than money made in that game. That was a disaster, it was the first time i stopped playing this game, because it was simply unplayable. Later there was a time where you could upload your creations for other people to buy in shop, and there were megabots (tier tx). Imo that was the best time to play this game. Later it was just the further, the worse. One of the worst changes was to make vehicle drive in direction your looking at, it was horibble because you could not shoot to the side while driving without turning there.

[@ExistentialWolfe]

Actually the turning thing was just a setting. Unfortunatly it defaulted to the new setting but you could change it back. The party and friend mechanics never got improved though. My biggest complaint is that how you built your bot used to matter a lot in determining how tanky it was. now you can just stick a gun on a square frame and call it a day.

[@Dcraft_TNT]

Robocraft 2 is missing two things that made robocraft robo craft. 1 the utter ease and simplicity of robot building In an understandable grid format. 2. (And stay with me on this) The healing aspect of the game. Healing from a tiny part of your vehicle to a massive mech or tank ready for action was one of and probably is the coolest things in robocraft. It's like a self healing transformer Even seeing your out of control aircraft regain stability was satisfying. Hell a massive decision was whether or not to engage and help objective or disengage and wait 10 seconds to get your parts and weapons back. And that has been replaced by the decision to stay in an inoperable vehicle or kill yourself and drive all the way back to the objective. And even making the choice to sacrifice one of your abilities in order to heal your team was a massive decision as well and seeing your teammate come back from nothing was also super rewarding

[@alvideos2145]

For crying out loud all they had to do was tweak the physics a little, and add some darn tracks, lol.

[@dog_chasing_cars7576]

2014/2015 was a blast, first year of my degree, used to play with 2-4 friends every day instead of doing my essays. Miss it dearly. Freejam Fucked this game up SO bad.

[@AdolfoWWolf]

Maan oh man, i watched those videos back then, and i clicked this video not even looking at your channel name, what a cool surprise, but sad that this second game is not going well, i would hope they can do it right this next rebuild, but, who knows how popular it would be, even if they get it right, well, it should definitely be better than 70 players, for sure. Great to see you're still going Space, loved seeing a video from you again.

[@PilifXD]

To be honest, the iterative approach to development of FJ is not the worst, they experiment to try what sticks. I mean this exact thing worked for Palworld devs.

[@NirvanVR]

Proudly a play tester of Robocraft 2… Hoping that Freejam listens to the community this time and really gives them what they both want and deserve! So far it looks pretty alright, my only complaints are that they’ve already began to add in game premium, which, if anything, should be for way later on. Though, I do thank the developers for giving it their best and attempting to please the community.

[@q370p]

I was a massive fan of robocraft 1 when I was younger. I still play vehicle builders but just not pvp based ones.

[@redparis9225]

I used to play the game when it came out and it was SO MUCH FUN. But when I left for a while I returned to find the game plagued with micro transactions, loot boxes, and... pre built vehicles? Yah ngl the pre built vehicles really was the nail in the coffin for me. Kinda defeated the purpose of being a good builder. Why bother building something cool when you can grab your credit card and just buy something someone else built.

[@captainbeatdown6254]

i remember playing OG robo Craft when it came out and was upset when their first update redid the entire skill tree with no warning or explanation i didnt play it after that but played it for a little like a few weeks

[@Frommy97]

The Master is back

[@PepsiMTG]

I just want them to bring back 2014 robocraft... what is so hard about doing that?? Goddamn I miss it.

[@Kezenmacher]

IMO they should've stuck and followed through with one thing.. they just can't make up their mind.. Smartest move would be to continue support for RC1 - bring out Robopass 3 or something, to show ppl they still care, and get some money in again..

[@Zak-Z-Ninja]

Despite the bad but maybe promising at the end Robocraft news, its good to hear your voice again SpaceCripTheKnight.

[@klaus28]

Oh my god you're back!!! Welcome!! We've been missing you

[@current3109]

Robocraft 2 has unnecessarily complicated building. Building in Robocraft 2 was simply not fun and felt like a chore. The additional building features are cool in concept, but they way they’ve been implemented were just flat out bad. Not to mention the horrible physics.

[@alvideos2145]

Honestly they just released on steam WAY too soon, they KNEW the game wasn;'t ready.

[@StyxAnnihilator]

Freejam started messing up RC1 8 years ago, many invested/fan players and content creators started leaving the game then. When devs think they know better than the community? Many would have paid for the game, or continue support it by buying certain "packages" of special builds, before their changes (not easily found as suggestions). I have 700 hours in RC1, 7 years since played it. Fun as long as it lasted, used around 20$ on it.

[@afterthefact6708]

Supposedly they are remaking RC2...again. FJs biggest issue is they do not in fact have real coders. RC 1 was written with a 3d party scriptor and RC 2 was written with UE5 blueprints. For small scale projects these are fine, for something much larger and complex it leads to a situation where the whole game is held together by a ball of duck tape and twine and makes development and bug fixing almost impossible.

[@rea1cyru5]

In Robocraft 1 in 2017, on my first day without watching any tutorials, I threw together a few hoverpads, built a cool shape for my chassis, slapped on 3 plasma launchers and a healing beam and went into battle. That first bot I built in 5 minutes became my main bot, and as I ran into stronger opponents I kept iterating on the design to create a truly dangerous fast hover assassin flanker, sneaking up on unaware enemies and burning them down while strafing circles around them. All this creation and development felt completely simple and natural, and I felt like my bot was my own. I eventually dropped the game when they changed the combat mechanics. When I booted up Robocraft 2, I felt completely lost. The building wasn't simple or fun, and the game basically railroaded me into just making a... car with a gun on the roof. If I wanted a car with a single gun on the roof, I'd go play fucking Crossout. I felt like my options are extremely limited, and I wasn't having fun, so I just dropped it again.

[@sinisterisrandom8537]

In your words, the Community speaks louder with action than words. The only thing for Robocraft "II" I thought was cool was leaving the vehicle. However, that's about it. It should though be used as an option for different ideas, but also could be used to capture other people's vehicles. The factory is one thing but the idea of taking someone else's design, and bringing it back to your base would be cool as heck.

[@pwnomega4562]

ima be honest with you the logic gates and all the other stuff with building kinda killed building for me it confused me and made me feel like they were making bot building a bit more complex than it needed to be.

[@Comqromized-Greg]

This is nearly as sad as the Deletion of Rosefall's KZbin channel

[@surr3ald3sign]

Ong if they were to just revert back to the loot crate days they could reclaim atleast some of their fans, i just want robocraft back 😭 i dont care if it wasnt perfect and if even be willing to spend money again, i just want my favorite game back, i spent thousands of hours building new bots

[@Manadra]

It's April and the average player count has gone down to 25 players.

[@TarsonTalon]

You know, every building/combat game I've played just seems to be cursed to die from developer incompetence. They are so worried about what a few normie whiners say that they end up kicking out their primary player base, which is a bunch of autists that need a fix. Either that, or the developer themselves is the normie who keeps changing the game so they alone can win... A Minecraft-like airships game literally disappeared from the internet, because the developer banned an opposing faction's leader so that they couldn't restock their base supplies and their faction would disappear. After the backlash from that, they literally copyright took down EVERYTHING, so it's like the game never existed.

[@Slow_gaming91]

Saying that a car cant go on the hill when riding in the race car made for classic road

[@filettv8102]

i stopped playing because there was nothing to do. sure i can build and fight but after playing like 80 games and building 6 cars, the game gets boring. after all i played every thing the game had to offer.

[@Dreadrat]

Yet another one of those days where i can't help but say "10 fucking years" only to have a maybe we might change the game back finally to what its peak was and possibly keep it there. I don't know much about game development but sure as shit it couldn't be that horrible just to look back or listen to your fans and say "I think we made a horrible mistake." and just revert the changes back to 2014 instead of doing a "Blizzard move" and make a whole other game. "10 fucking years" what a joke.

[@BanjoJo]

Imagine they did what CSGO and Overwatch did and replaced the original game Feel bad for the innocent devs who are just listening to their bosses

[@jopl2558]

ngl the whole rapid autohealing when not being hit after what feels like 2 sec and the multiple weapontypes ruined the game. would love to see larger maps too with wich you can use some actual tactics

[@bblessed]

Man that was a nice (and painful) trip down memory lane :D Absolutely loved their original game.

[@Skarrier]

After their future "Rebuild" game failure somewhere close to the 2025, maybe they're finally go officially bankrupt, leave the gaming industry and stop completely wasting enormous amounts of money.

[@gamertagcityelite]

It promises to be a good game but they messed it up too much, they should have implemented more things in Robocraft 1 instead of releasing 2.

[@staroxi]

Nostalgia in this video, been a long time since I heard your magnificent voice, a very welcomed experience.

[@Ossimsauce]

im glad i accidentally found robocraft 2 and played it for the good chunk of time that i did.

[@MICROKNIGHT3000]

A nostalgic background image

[@brokenasnails245]

We trusted you Freejam...

[@SDRaygon]

Real question is, wtf happend to ROSEFALL?

[@oneshotmorris191]

I love robocraft 1 But RoboCraft 2 did everything bad except the custom weapons.

[@manava13skplayer50]

This game could have been my most played game ever. The only good thing I remember them adding was out of combat healing. I think CRF (community robot factory) was a worse update than loot boxes one. game went from build to buy. Following youtube tutorials was better at least i learnt how to build while at it. I still have my finest abomination as my profile pic to this day. I know you said they are doing some soul searching but they are not trust worthy.

[@kittikorn6674]

my friends introduced me to it and it was so addicting I surpassed them and got to tier x first iirc I also spent new year countdown playing it good times

[@TarsonTalon]

I didn't even know it came out...

[@zakyfauzysetya6051]

Hii.. there is one game similar to OLD RC called BOT BRAWL.. but i dont know its still active or not.. u must try that guys

[@harryb6783]

It was great while it lasted for me. Made loads of cool bots and got to fight

[@wolfbushcraft3369]

robocraft was cool before they removed blocks with different def stat

[@zakyfauzysetya6051]

hey space, u should look game named "botbrawl" its robocraft alpha like with complicated build its definition of our dream, please see

[@Herperlerpicus]

Glad to see another video up here, hopefully this time they can pull it off c:

[@DUSHNILAtv86]

My review on robocraft stayed same for many years,i left after cubes update. Now i play mech arena for fun,and yes devs similar level greedy there

[@alkaizer5594]

Forget about this company, do like me, delete your account, play other games, I just had a headache with this game, before I hoped everything would go well, today I think the opposite, even why I deleted my account but it doesn't leave the scoreboard. leaders, which bothers me a lot.

[@OodldoodlNoodlesocks]

I wish they'd continue with Robocraft. It was a lot of fun until they got rid of the large player game modes and turned it into a 5v5 snoozefest.

[@douglastakle8242]

Well robocraft rebuild has potential. All they have to do is copy their old model which they sortof said theyd do. It is insane how they cant figure out that their original game was good and just needed continuous content and updates and their player count would have grown, rather than basically removing features like they did.

[@handlewithhandle]

No man’s sky early access laughs at this

[@tropicalvikingcreations]

It was nice to hear from you again.

[@daniellawlor6210]

i hate this gaming era like company's makes me angry for ding idiotic things

[@RipjawsFedora]

good to see you space

[@nitroux6969]

good ol days... come home, watch rosefall vid, build and win XD palading v9 le best XD

[@leviathanthetallone8299]

great to have you back man

[@breakfastbaron5788]

THE RETURN

[@Rekshva]

How is the barrier to entry such a big deal? I don't understand it, every game I played that had that problem...I mastered, and that was always 70% of the fun. Do ppl don't like to learn and excel trough discoveries and the journey to learn stuff.... I really never get it. Maybe I am just arrogant, but you didn't showcase bots made without talent, the best of the best, the masterworks of rc1, those were the bots we all wanted to make... not some intuitively designed, easy to make, simple and obvious dank bots. NO! The exact bots that ppl who like the game being convoluted and complex to navigate are the ones you idolize, yet you blame when the game makes room for them. I find that hard to process. What if we just all took a chill pill and accepted the fact that the game is still being built and accept it for what it is. What if we just took our time to learn and do our part instead of asking the devs to dumb down the game. Can't we just be bigger mans then we were 10 years ago and acknowledge that the community made resources are maybe not that bad, that it can be interesting too to be part of the process in such a way. Why does every game have to be mainstream, easy to use and simple to understand, some of us just wanted to play a whole new game. Some just want to beat up the flaws of Freejam and RC1 some more for their mistakes. Thanks, you ruined it. Now we will never see what Freejam had intended to make from the freedom that they had earned from starting a whole new game. We will just get a RC1 with weird crap around it. Just the way you like it.

[@SpaceKryptonite]

Not understanding how to play a game's sequel is an issue. Imagine Minecraft 2 releases as early access and now you can no longer place block by block, but place objects in chunks with 3 clicks. Removing Creative mode and the ability to make your own server because it would be worked on later. The fanbase would go crazy as well. Robocraft wasn't built on that level of complexity and while some games can pull it off, they usually keep the core mechanics the same while adding the next level of complexity alongside it. It was also a mistake to go early access for a sequel as it makes all of us easily judge a more complete Robocraft vs an incomplete Robocraft 2 game. It certainly isn't fair, but that's also how everyone views a sequel which is to be better than the original. If they wanted, they could have continue TechBlox because that's where they had finalized the new build system, but they canceled that game.

[@Rekshva]

@@SpaceKryptonite Mistakes did occur, those are out of our control. For what it's worth, I respect your opinion, but I'm still passionate about mine. What shocks me the most is the complete 180 that it took, from a game I was hoping to play when it got finished to a complete unambitious disappointment for everyone involved. Safe to say, I won't be playing anything Freejam makes anymore. Standards must be upheld, we can agree on that. This was a spineless ppl pleasing sellout. An unprofessional, unplanned knee-jerk reaction to gamble everything they and the discord community had built just to please ppl that didn't care about the game that much. And that, to me, is unforgivable. If I worked at Freejam I'd quit. That's their problem. My problem is when ppl attempts to paint it like It's because the game was not RC1 with fresh paint and that Freejam didn't listen to their community, because, in my opinion they did listen, just not the ones that gave a crap enough to see RC2 to the end with them. They agreed to change it to what steam wanted, and everyone gave up on it. Even the ppl who asked for these changes. Was it worth it? Now to see you beat on this dead horse that you didn't even commit a single hour to until drama was marketable, with the complete understanding of someone who did just that, I might add, I find distasteful... Maybe you are right... maybe they should have just made it for that non-existent new player base of new arrivals who play streamline games, but, that sounds impossible to me. I just feel like whatever they would have made just wasn't what ppl wanted, and it would have turned out exactly the same. I was there when it looked like it would become great, I played it with full lobbies and with minimal wait times, the things ppl created amazed me for it to turn to a pile of ridiculous cubes in our hands and Freejam just put on a clown costume to keep themselves out of bankruptcy with the complete elegance of a 3 years old. That's my problem. It's insulting. We had everything we wanted until the game got launched on steam. Steam didn't even give it a chance, just had hatred for RC1 and decided that was the place to unload it. I feel like I got robbed out of this dream game that I wanted. If I took it this hard, can you imagine how Freejam took it, each comment a weight that would chip their spirit, enthusiasm and passion until they just said, fine RC15 guys!!! They were not perfect, but now their dream game is dead and no one is happy. I understand that you are past it, I am not. Thanks for the reply, tho, that was cool of you, I used to watch your videos constantly way back. Cheers to the past.

[@ben230000]

Spam skip back at 0:00 thank me later

[@CR4T3Z]

Yo its space! -KonicWarrior

[@jagadsatria3747]

I miss you brooo

[@CulturedHeaven]

What the use of a 2 😅

[@mutche9454]

its a closed beta so what

[@kleszczoros4885]

He's back

[@woutervossebeld4664]

HES BACK!

[@enderbilll1659]

return of the king 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@KIoakk]

SK IS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hopefully Freejam have seen the light and make a true RC1 remake

[@KIoakk]

@@darkdodoshka Hey dodo, fancy seeing you here. It's hard to call to be honest. RC1 was successful in 2014 / 15 which is what theyre making, and hopefully they have a lot more wisdom now as to how they can make it genuinely better. I hope it goes well for them.

[@KIoakk]

​@@darkdodoshka Crossout is nothing like robocraft1 tbh. Ramshakle isn't on steam, Machinecraft has 0 players right now. Whilst Freejam has had some bad management in the last few years, and I've never endorsed Freejam and said they WOULD do well, when they're attempting to recreate and give us the old experience back, some would say finally listening to the community, why not at least wish them well?

[@-lijosu-]

If they do, it'll fail. Robocraft 1 veterans who liked the game back in 2014-15 don't like it being easy. They don't want the CRF, they think damage routing is the best thing since sliced bread, and so on. And well, if they don't listen to the Robocraft 1 vets, then they'll keep review bombing the game anyway, so it won't take off.

[@douglastakle8242]

@@-lijosu- Is the review bombing or is that just a cope? Theres a reason that robocraft 1's playercount dropped from around 20k in 2014-2015 to basically nothing. The devs made decisions that dedicated players thought were insanely bad. Instead of taking their great base game design, adding content overtime and building up their playercount, freejam just removed core game aspects that people liked and replaced it with pay to win and lootboxes.

[@-lijosu-]

@@douglastakle8242 You're talking about backlash towards RC1 in 2016. RC2 was a game first publicly available in late 2022 (6+ years later) which did not feature lootboxes, had no pay to win elements (and I mean, absolutely none. It didn't even get the chance to end up with any paid cosmetics that were bugged into being busted), and didn't even have the same building system to start as a benchmark to compare previous versions of RC1 to. If people were reviewing the game based on their response to 2016 (many were), then yes. That is in fact review bombing and that should not be controversial.

[@megusmith6258]

what a come back lmaoooooo

[@GHGXD360]

Damn

[@ecysh364]

btw your discord invite link is no longer active

[@SpaceKryptonite]

Should now be updated to discord.gg/j7w8YNZqTT. Thanks