The weapons attachment system is finally here in version 1.0.0. As promised last week, we will be giving a whole set of explanations on what it covers, how it works, and the changes that we'll be making with the Bullet Launchers attachment system that we'll integrate into the weapons attachment system. Without further ado, here is the weapons attachment system.

You can now attach your Close Combat weapons, Shields, Bullet Shooters, Energy Shooters, and Bullet Launchers onto certain parts of the M.A.S.S. unit. The only weapon that won't be able to attach to your units are Energy Launchers, as they behave differently from the rest.

In regard to Close Combat weapons, Shields, Bullet Shooters, and Energy Shooters, you will be able to choose a style of attachment. "Hide" means that it won't be attached anywhere just like what the game always had been. Dual means the weapon will be attached on both sides of the attachment point, regardless of the weapons config. A single blade can be shown as attached in dual of your unit itself. Left and Right side only means it will show up only on one side of your unit per your choice. Take note, this does not change your weapons. Making a shooter "Dual" does not make your shooters actually dual-wielded, it's just decorations and separated.

You will first choose a slot on where to attach. We've expanded the slot choices from the Bullet Launchers into more places. Before now, you were only able to attach onto Shoulders, Body, Backpack, Hip, and Lower Legs. With 1.0.0, we've added Upper Arms, Lower Arms, Back Waist, Upper Legs, and Feet into the choices for attachment.

And as always, you will be able to offset each piece's placement. Even if it's attached onto certain parts, with the offset system, you can make it float a bit away from your unit or move it around to make it seems you're attaching it to a different part. You can also align it with other attached pieces to make your attachments appear in a more orderly fashion.

We are also making an adjustment to the limits of the system here as well. The scale and rotation offset limits have been increased by a large margin. Rotation offset now ranges from -180 to 180 and Scaling offset now ranges from 20 to 180. You should now be able to recreate really big or small weapons attachment. However, they will still appear in their normal sizes when being used.

And to make things more dynamic, the attachments will check if your weapon is in use or not. If you are using the weapons that are attached to parts of your units, the attachments will be hidden, as if you're taking out the weapons from your attached area to be used. However, there is an exception in that you can use "unequipped" weapons to decorate your M.A.S.S. as they will never be in used thus, they'll never be hidden in mission.

That will be all for the weapons attachment system! We hope you like what you're seeing here. We also hope you will start planning your builds as the update will be approaching soon in September!

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Hello everyone! We're back this week with a showcase full of the up-and-coming weapons attachment system. It's a system that's similar to the launcher's attachment we've had before, but they work on your weapons instead. While we only have images to share today, we will provide more information expanding on how it works, and also to show some changes coming to the Launcher's attachment system as well! Stay tuned!

Discord: http://discord.gg/quS7E46

As promised! Here is a WIP update for the upcoming 1.0.0 update featuring one of the new missions that will be available in the update! This mission will feature an area filled with the highest concentration of Void particles, where Quarks will swarm out from every where without fail.

Fortunately, you won't be working alone in this mission. The W.D.F. and your allies have fully prepared for this assault as best as they can, and they will be circling around your perimeters, even joining you in the fight in the area.

We hope this will be a memorable mission for you. That is all we can show you of the missions for now, but here's another sneak peek of another upcoming feature. We can't wait to tell you more about it later!

Discord: http://discord.gg/quS7E46

tl;dr Update will be coming in September

Hello everyone. First off, let us apologize for not having frequent updates like before and making the project feels like it's dead. We've been busy working on the various systems to make the next update as best as it can be. With that said, we're finally ready to announce the upcoming update for M.A.S.S. Builder, which will be full release version 1.0.0.

Wait, aren't we going with version 0.13.0? In contrary to the last announcements, we're going to go ahead with version 1.0.0. instead. At first, we wanted to quickly finish the final missions of the game in 0.13.0 and then make a final polish of the game, adding more systems and contents before releasing it out of early access However, we later realized around March that fine-tuning the bosses and missions for the update will require extremely meticulous amount of work to make it our best work, and that releasing them early just to readjust them later feels wrong. With that, we told the systems and features team to immediately start working on their polish immediately.

Now that all has been done, we're currently looking back to do a final polish with old bosses' attacks' hitboxes, quality of life features, and dialogues. The features team have also been working their best to use the time we have to incorporate all the things they wanted in the game, much to the request of players. We will be revealing them in the upcoming weeks as we've already got a planned time frame of the update release, September. For now, let us only say that the much-requested feature that we've been working on since ancient times are being added in this update.

Thank you very much for still following and having fun with our game, see you next time. For any more discussions, we will have our developer sit in our discord as always (as they've just been released from the works on this update) but also provide some answers in the cross-post in steam discussion forums.

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http://discord.gg/quS7E46