Bot Wars
THE Little TANK UPDATE
New Building Mechanic: Support Structures. Building nodes have always had occasional linked nodes, but we’ve added new functionality to linked nodes. Some of the nodes may be used to purchase vehicles. To purchase a vehicle, just construct a base on the closest node to a Support structure, then visit the support structure and press B. this opens the buying menu. Once a new vehicle is crafted, use E to hop into one of the seats.
New Support Structures:
Vehicle Depot: builds Carts, 4 Wheelers, Skidos, Tanks, and Bot-Semple
Airstrip: Supports 3 different aircraft
New Land Vehicles:
Tank
Bot-Semple Tank (Dross faction Only)
MiniCart
New Aircraft, each plane is the same small tactical vehicle, but it comes with three loadouts:
Rockets
Laser Guided Missiles
Laser Guided Bomb
New Turret type: Anti Tank. The AT Turret is constructible by upgrading the Frag Turret.
New Levels:
Close Quarters: a small and dark city based map.
Red Skies: Disaster has struck the FrompTech Kill Bot factory and training facility! Clear out the invaders, or finish the hostile take over. This is also the first level to support 5 factions, so give that a try.
We also added small adjustments to the old levels to accommodate Vehicle construction, and Teleporters just for fun.
Teleporters: Careful, teleportation can be a little unpredictable.
We adjusted the Bridge Level to support 5 factions at a time and teleporter travel.
AI Assistant. The AI assistant is available to manage your base infrastructure when you don’t want to. Just open In-Game Escape Menu by pressing the Escape Key. and select “Enable Assistant Manager”. Now a manager bot will handle your base building purchases using your faction’s Fromp-Coin.
Difficulty Control. You can choose a factions difficulty in the Skirmish Menu:
Easy: reduced Income.
Normal: same as it ever was!
Hard: added a trickle of income and reduced a reaction speed limiter.
Cheat: like the hard mode, but they have all the money available and completely removed the limiter.
There have been many other bug fixes and quality of life adjustments, and we streamlined the Tutorial allowing the player to skip certain parts to have more freedom to explore the FrompTech Quality Assurance Gauntlet.
Merry Frompmas Y'all
4Wheel Ride
Due to a computing error by the Vehicle Manufacturers Guild (Lawsuit Pending), 1,048,576 extra vehicles have been ordered for ALL locations. Per company policy, the vehicles will be delivered no matter who’s there to sign for it. No need to worry about the cost, HQ will be billed directly. So; defend the drop zones, claim your shipment, and take over the streets! Your killbots may not be 100% vehicle certified, but the vehicles are available on the basis that they are put to use immediately upon delivery, so use it or lose it.
High above the City is the Tower Tops, where the Neobots reign supreme. At least, they will until a newer, taller development project is finished...
Meanwhile, on the other side of the solar system, ground has been broken at the new Mars building site....
We’ve spent a lot of extra time working on this update, and we thank you for your patience!
New content:
Introducing Vehicles!
-Use E to climb into a seat
-Use WASD to control the steering and acceleration/breaks
-While in the gunner seat, you can issue drive commands: W to move forward, S to stop, and Q to toggle driver AI. Remember: press F1 to toggle the control tips!
-The vehicles are delivered by drop ship. When a vehicle is destroyed, a new one will be delivered. They also come equipped with a self-flip feature, to help right them when they’re stuck. (Take that, towing companies!)
Two new levels: The Mars Space Elevator built by Sofa, which features new music by Muchkin, and Tower Tops!
A new ability for the Medic/Engineer bot! They can now place barricade plans; once placed, a barricade may be constructed using the Welder Gun.
A new gun for Biomass Burger units! It has a slower reload, but it's more accurate and fires in three-round bursts.
Sticky grenades for the Dross Grenadier!
Fixes and changes:
-Improved the sights for the basic units from first-person POV.
-UI can now be toggled off entirely with F2.
-When hot swapping units, you can use the 1 and 2 keys to switch between unit types, and the 3 and 4 keys to switch between units within that type.
-Some additional minor UI and bug fixes, as well as lots of other minor changes!
If you encounter any issues, be sure to let us know on Discord or the Steam Discussions page!
We hope you enjoy the ride, and don't forget to buckle up!
XMAS Corp
Its that time of year again! Where the biomass enters its hibernation and everyone partakes in Frompnog and shows their merry joy for Capitalistmas and this year the only gift all the corporations want is some downed cargo from the Extrasolar Munitions and Supply corporation (XMAS Corp) that was shot down over the north pole.
Halloween
Nothing says "I am not a Robot" like Halloween and ruthlessly destroying your corporate rivals. So, grab a bag of overpriced candy, and stuff your face with the sweet taste of Market Domination.
This season we added:
- Death
- Death Knight
- BomberDude
- Caramel Hard Candy
But also Watch out for our classics:
- Angel
- Demon
- Witch
- Wizard
- Little Samurai
- Frankenstein’s Monster
- Tyrannosaurus Rex
- Fairy Princess
- Mummy
- Pirates
- Comandante
- Knight
- Ant
- Jack-o-lanterns
- Skulls
- Candy Corn
NO BOT'S LAND
After the Corn Syrup flood during the Soda Wars, many companies were subcontracted by FrompTech to clean up the mess and salvage ingredients for reuse. They decided to instead harvest it for themselves, digging trenches and building fortifications to defend their extraction sites once their betrayal became known. With the assassination of Arch-Supervisor-Unit FR-4NZ, competition quickly descended into the horror, senseless destruction, and unproductivity of trench warfare. The battle was fierce and many bots were scrapped on both sides, and all that remains of them today are rusted relics littered across a scorched battlefield... And a commemorative chain of overpriced giftshops.
Fight for supremacy on this new World War I inspired trench warfare map, including new turrets, new bots, and huge new level.
MINIGUNNER!
Welcome back! Make sure to bring a sandwich as you say hello to Fromptech's newest weapon of mass destruction! The new minigun bot! Fromptech had the wonderful realization that their guns needed more gun, so the Fromp flavor testers came up with a new secret ingredient, super-lead(tm), its just like lead but copywritten. Then they took that super lead and stuck it into a weapon that heated it to the point of becoming plasma, then made it fire them at 2,000 rounds per minute.
-His E ability gives a bonus to all the units in his areas rate of fire and chance to critical hit.
-His mini gun has a stunning effect, that reduces speed/ROF/ and accuracy of the units he has "Pinned Down"
-You can hold RMB to wind up the mini-gun barrel to pre-warm it up.
-His stun baton completely immobilizes units, and stops buildings he hits from producing units for a bit.
-Later he gets a stun grenade launcher, it stuns all units in its blast radius.
We also added a new rare backpack to the Dross team's basic unit. It adds a little more RNG to the Dross team. If you roll the Fromp dog option, you get a double damage bonus. The new pack comes with some new barks; try 'em out, and see what he says.
To: The Prospectors of Europa
It's been a while since we've seen you, but we hope this digital postcard finds you well. We settled on the ice moon called Europa about two months ago. Here, we began a terraforming project in preparation for our next update. This new terrain is the right place to test and refine our vehicles and we suspect they'll be ready for the market some time this year. Life on Europa can be rough though, if you consider this Mechanical existence a life. There's a lot for a robot to think about, gazing up at these stars. It ain't all philosophizin' and stargazin' though. The miners here are in a constant state of revolt, but the magnet operated brine pumps are still functioning well enough; you just need to prime the pump. In the mean time expect a shipment of Rock Ice soon...
-The Frompy Dev Team
Originally Europa was occupied solely by automated mining bots from a long since absorbed company lost to time. Their intent was to retrieve water after Earth's supply was deemed biohazards. Unfortunately for humanity Fromptech soon purchased Europa itself and filed a lawsuit against the already struggling mining business leading it to bankruptcy and a later acquisition by Fromptech. Shortly there after Fromptech never so much as touching the ice moon, forgot about it. It was nearly a century before Fromptech relized they needed to add a new ingredient to Fromp as it had been liquid free for decades. That ingredient was water. So Fromptech restarted the mining operations all the while constantly fighting off the now feral bots belonging to the long dead business. Drawn by the value of this newly rediscovered resource, the other companies joined the fray.
Battle for control of the magnetic brine pumps, ice mines, and transfer stations while you fend off miner bots, major bots, and rival companies.
-Updated the menu UI
-Added new Level
-Added new feral bot
-New song by Muchkin
Minor adjustments:
-Reduced reload time for grenades
-Reduced reload time for basic rocket launcher
-doubled the damage of the grenaider's shotgun
-sniper control gets stronger the further you are zoomed out
-sniper controls are no longer effected by movement
Merry Frompmas!
We reskinned the Fromp Level with a Christmas theme. You can access it, like any new level, in the regular level selection area. It’s got a Santa hat on the BigBots, and a some other costumes and decorations strewn about. I can't give away all the Christmas secrets, can I? So load up the new level, mix some motor oil into your eggnog*, and get ready to deck the halls with the remnants of your rival factions.
We had fun with this, and hope you do too!
*Throw that eggnog away 'cause you ruined it. Frompy Games is not responsible for any imbibement of motor oil. Motor oil is intended for it's labeled uses only. Stop use and see a technician immediately if your vehicle or Killbot experiences any of the following symptoms: front end leaking, back end leaking, spinning, sliding, grinding gears, Intelligent thought, or sudden bursts of existential dread; This may be the result of a serious condition called "sentience."
Hotfix
- Not being able to issue attack orders.
- Assisted aiming not working.
- Now only sniper-bot uses ability on second jump.