Megabyte Punch Windows, Mac game

Thanks for your kind words and your suggestions!
It's never too late to share your thoughts about the game.
- We don't think the old ability system is doing justice to the fighting anymore.
- We are still searching for the right balance in the levels between exploration/platforming and fighting. None of the current levels can be considered final yet. (At the moment I can see Dion redesigning some of the levels) :)
- I think there are already quite some parts with the same ability that look different. More variety is always welcome though!
- I see what you mean... That's a tricky one, it would be silly to have to your head part equipped to your leg for example. On the other hand we don't want a restricted feel to the customization.

I love that you guys reply so quickly. =]

Anyway, as a really obvious example of what I was talking about, the 'Bomba Head' is the only part that lets you place those timed explosives (at least it was last time I checked). The ice stage requires you to wear a certain head part though, to protect you from the gases.

Also, since the drill core was removed, I have to use up both of my leg slots for ability parts now, which sort of restricts the look of my Megac as well. It's mostly an aesthetic thing (since non-ability parts don't have a huge impact) but still.

However, I get what you mean by it being a 'tricky' issue. I mean, if you made a part for every possible location that gave you an extra jump, you could stack them all and get like seven or eight extra jumps.

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As a side suggestion, have you guys considered a system that allows players to upgrade or modify their parts to give them the specific abilities/boosts of their choosing? That would allow you to make your Megac look any way you like and still have the skills you wanted. Obviously, parts like wings and guns would be restricted to certain ability sets, but most of them could be pretty flexible. I've heard WoW does something like that, where max level players can switch their high level gear stats to some low level gear if they like the appearance more.

- There is also a hip to place mines with. And there are other head parts and a shoulder part to protect you from virus clouds. Nonetheless this is indeed some thing that is restricting the aesthetic choices you can make in the game.
- There is actually a new core with the drill ability, you can also use the drill arm.
- That is exactly one of the problems when you can attach every part to any slot.

In Wow there are actually two options, you can reforge your equipment so you can change the actual stats on the item. Or you can transmogrify your equipment. In this case you change the visual appearance of the item. We have considered something like -choosing what abilities you want on an item. However, we try to design the aesthetics of the parts according to the ability linked to them. On top of that, this is something too big to change in this phase of development :(.

You don't need to equip any poison resist to ENTER the ice level, just to get to it. So have whatever head part you want (shoulder part is far from accessible at this point) in your inventory, get to the door, switch and enter. WoW has equipment, races, skills, etc. They have levels and classes that indicate abilities. Megabyte Punch does not. Being able to visually analyse what abilities a megac has on sight saves time for both players (what parts do I have equipped again?), and so that you can't hide your megabyte punch behind a basic arm. Hips are hard to see, but they are a single part, and can, so to speak, be an 'ace in the hole'. Do you want to kill that joke? I am in favor of more parts though. I mean, there aren't any tank treads, or hover legs... Just sayin'...

We had something like this in an early version. It was okay for the adventure mode but horrible for the fightmode, is was a slow system. This is why we decided to go with the current way of using your abilities.

haha, what part?:)

.... it's the ghost soldier head. Ironic. I got it right after making such a little hassle about it :P

I don't know it's since I still don't have it yet, but it's the only head from the binary fortress I don't have. The other heads are cybershot headgun, madpot head, pomus head, imperial battle head, zomzom head, and velox head. So yeah, all but that one I can't even name.