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additionally - we definitely do want to make new archetypes! and we are working on some new exciting ones, its just that we need to pick and choose where that effort goes. Last year we saw the Xenohunter "CQC" set, the Cryostasis "hammer" set, and some dual wielding with Sarmad. There will definitely be more new and exciting sets coming in 2023!!

its pretty rare that we change animations for melee weapons. are you talking about any in particular like equip or the attacks, or just all of them?

the way we think about melee weapons is through what we call archetypes. different weapons follow different preset structures. so while its true this does have the same animation as say Oni or Magepunk claw, the same is true for other Premium skinlines like Reaver, RGX2, or Prelude to Chaos

the hope in these cases is that despite the animations being the same, the addition of things like VFX/SFX can do a good amount of lifting in terms of making the weapon feel unique. Something id say that does this well is Chronovoid, where its quite literally the same animations as Araxys, but it "feels" different.

what about them do you hate?

It is true! :D Conor did an amazing job on both Pig and Pink gun!

Happy accidents like this are also how we ended up with glitchpop. A different artist back in 2019 misread the word "magepunk" for "megapunk."

Marketing had nothing to do with this post. They didn’t read it beforehand or even know I was doing it. I 100% agree that there should be more shared about how skins (and games as a whole) get made so that the community and players can understand a bit more about what goes on behind the scenes

Very cool! What paints did you use and for the gold did you free hand it or mask it out with tape or something?

love that this thread is popping off and im watching eagerly waiting for all of the easter eggs to be found :)

Most (if not all) of our content undergoes flash testing to make sure that effects in the game won’t have any triggers. Granted it’s a generic test and may not account for all cases and responses, so definitely check with your doctor. It’s something we do care about though and try to make sure all of the things we make won’t cause any reaction.

It’s an issue with low settings for sure. We have control to adjust for low specifically and we can look into it!

The tap control! This was clean!

The model file for it is about 95cm.

This is intentional. As you shoot, the parts separate and go back together when you reload. During development it was way more extreme and we felt that it being too noticeable might be a gameplay advantage to be able to tell your ammo count just by the look of the gun so we toned it down significantly

it should be in the next one! i just missed the cutoff for 4.01 with the change

this person gets it

something got unassigned - i submitted a fix for this today

I joked once with Preeti that we could easily make the shorty more viable by giving it a 3rd barrel/shot - but then we’d need to redo the skins we already made

Not really. In most cases we start working on a 1.1 or 2.0 set before the 1.0 even releases. It just depends on what we think may have potential to be pushed further or just needs more. Glitchpop for example we knew was a good thematic but didn’t have good guns. We have to balance out making new stuff vs just revisiting old ideas

We made a green green screen skin already. Can we do better?

This was the moment the sacred timeline branched

So you’re saying we shouldn’t just keep the ultra stretched cards in wide format?