Hey, Stoney, thank you for the interview, I like my newly found English accent a lot! This is a great video and I'm honored to be interviewed by you, thank you very much!
One thing I want to point out, which was hard to convey through the translated interview, is how PASSIONATE Bearlike is to this game (both as a player and developer). Listening to him was like listening to a professor where he'd break things down to make sure you follow. Very fortunate to have you and looking forward to great things to come! 🙌🙌
Stoney! This was awesome man! Thanks for putting this together. Big shoutout to Bearlike as well for always being open and honest and willing to put himself & his team out there for feedback. Great work!!
It's amazing to hear how the player base is making an impact on an already awesome game, for the better! Can't wait for the new units, and the feature updates, hope we get new maps too :)
Thank you for putting this together Stoney 😁 I was somewhat tired when i saw it but felt pretty energized after hearing some of these future plans for Mechabellum
Great interview, thanks for putting in the effort to translate all that stuff! And thanks Bearlike and dev team for the commitment to making this game better over time. One additional question I might have liked an answer to is: ballpark, how far from a 1.0 release are we currently?
Great interview dude! Love hearing more insider info about the going on behind the scenes in Mechabellum. Excited for the new units, hope the game balance stays solid though will so many changes things might get rocky for a bit.
The bonus upgrades are a very nice idea I think. I see only good improvements and the last unit the Worms were a big and pleasant surprise, nice creativity.
Good questions and interesting feedback. One issue/question I would like to raise is the option which allows a player to cancel the match during match making. Cancellation is typically used when a player does not want to play against higher MMR players in order to prevent losing MMR. This is rather frustrating and I don't understand why that option is available (unless the user who cancels would get some sort of penalty).
@@iSparty29 yes, you can cancel and that to me is the issue. This allows you to for instance only play lower or higher ranked players without being penalised.
May have to confirm with bearlike but I was under the impression that cancelling puts you to the bottom of the match-making queue for the next game, so you'll have to wait longer.
This game scratches the good parts in my brain when it comes to core gameplay, once it gets more developed I so hope it will become popular to the point of "other" auto battlers
Thanks for the interview! Could we get extra income for saving during eco rounds? Would be a cool trade off between full spend to win round or save to win late?
Thanks for this. I would pay "real money" for the following skins: tall ass banners on FANGS that tilt as they attack move die. Crabrave claws on the CRAWLERS, obv.
They should buff the energy shield that can be bought from the market in late game because even with the 40% upgrade it just disappear in a blink of an eye, or maybe they could add the option for some stronger but smaller energy shields but at double the cost, enough to gain at least a little bit of terrain at the start of the battle otherwise the shield really are just a waste of money since you do not need to win the first rounds to win the game.
Fantastic interview! your channel is looking great lately! What software have you been using for the overlayed chat boxes? Blender? I'm looking to improve video quality on my channel :)
Thanks man! I used adobe premiere for the graphics (just a few colored rectangles really). It also has a pretty robust captioning option so that's how I got the text in the chatboxes.
I wish they fixed the current issues first. Units need more build options and players need more stuff to fiddle and experiment with. All the random stuff needs to be offset with things that players CAN controll. Right now Units have one viable build and some units are downright useless. Equipment modules could be great, but they are to random. Hackers are either godmode or they are completely useless. This game needs more moving parts for more strategy, just new units doesn't expand that with how this game plays out.
My only reason not picking up this game is because the position of the units not giving a proper control and feedback. It feels like more like fate and hope driven and not something i like in a tactical setup. If it would be strickt lanes and limited amount of space in them with the same arrow of their direction would just about do it, but just the arrows and put wherever is too much spread and pray. Because of this whatever place also incentivise to ballance spread across the lane instead of a stirct composition in a strict pattern. ANd since everyone else is under these constrains by no constraint, you end up in a blobl vs blob rather then a shaped spear with a shaft.
After awhile you'll get a good sense of the aggro trigger radius on the units. Also, "mobile beacon" is an in-game mechanism used by many top players to force pathing. With the last few patches you can even have multiple mobile beacons.
The only thing I would like to know is what MMR they are looking at for balance changes? Because they seem to make balance adjustments for issues that at low level play. if they are looking at overall percentages data that will be most representative of low level play as most players globally are low level. That's world be dangerous for long term balance of the game.
I'll include this question for my next interview. However, I'm sure they're not just balancing for a specific segment of the player base (especially not the top, which accounts for less than 5% of the overall players)
@@stoneymechabellum thanks. yes its only 5%, but my thinking is those 5% are closer to the 'truth' of the game. in a competitive game It's everyone else's job to figure the game out! Especially regarding competitive integrity towards a possible eports future like he has hinted at. Balancing for the masses would be like removing the off-side rule in football because most people play football at home!
@@BuzzaB77 well said. with the game in early access and growing, I think their top priority is to get more new players in as quickly as possible. i hope their attention will eventually shift back to the competitive scene because that's what's keeping players. SC2 went through a similar phase.
@@stoneymechabellum yes that's a fair point. I really hope it does well I think they've got something great here. anyways thanks for the interview and thanks for the content/lessons
@@stoneymechabellum The seemingly dedication of the devs to their craft. They know their game at the top level, and look for the best player experience. As for the feature, the playing the round replay feature had me hyped up!
Most looking forward to is the new chaff unit. Hope it will not be too niche; and a part of the start cards. I don't need the tournament replays, but would like to be able to play my own replays from a certain round on.
He's a robot, haven't you heard? =D As mentioned in the video and in the description, the interview was done in Mandarin, translated then presented using AI voiceover.
Hey, Stoney, thank you for the interview, I like my newly found English accent a lot! This is a great video and I'm honored to be interviewed by you, thank you very much!
One thing I want to point out, which was hard to convey through the translated interview, is how PASSIONATE Bearlike is to this game (both as a player and developer). Listening to him was like listening to a professor where he'd break things down to make sure you follow. Very fortunate to have you and looking forward to great things to come! 🙌🙌
Stoney! This was awesome man! Thanks for putting this together. Big shoutout to Bearlike as well for always being open and honest and willing to put himself & his team out there for feedback. Great work!!
Thank you both for your parts ❤
Nothing to add, looking forward for whats to come
Thank you for hosting the interview, and thank you mechabellum for creating a great game
Great set of questions stoney. Some really exciting things are coming to mechabellum!
Great interveiw, lots of things to keep me glued to this awesome game.
Awsome interview. I expect to see an assault marksman loadout as a rare unit in the future seeing how much Bearlike likes it.
Just getting into this game and it's very fun. Great to see interaction with the Devs.
It's amazing to hear how the player base is making an impact on an already awesome game, for the better! Can't wait for the new units, and the feature updates, hope we get new maps too :)
Thank you for putting this together Stoney 😁 I was somewhat tired when i saw it but felt pretty energized after hearing some of these future plans for Mechabellum
Super great interview!! Its always a pleasure to hear things directly from the ones working on the game! This game will just get better
Awesome news! Can't wait for new tutorial (so I can recommend game to my friends more often)
Great interview! Glad I found this and glad the devs are so invested! Just picked this up on Steam sale. Its great!
Great interview, thanks for putting in the effort to translate all that stuff! And thanks Bearlike and dev team for the commitment to making this game better over time. One additional question I might have liked an answer to is: ballpark, how far from a 1.0 release are we currently?
Great interview dude! Love hearing more insider info about the going on behind the scenes in Mechabellum. Excited for the new units, hope the game balance stays solid though will so many changes things might get rocky for a bit.
Awesome interview. Great content!
Thanks for the interview and TL !
Great interview great questions, great news, I'm very hyped!
Love what you're doing with the channel Stoney, very informative and entertaining!
Thanks for the support!
The bonus upgrades are a very nice idea I think. I see only good improvements and the last unit the Worms were a big and pleasant surprise, nice creativity.
Many thanks, great video, great interview, great set of questions and answers!
Mechabellum is an awesome game, you addicted me.
Never have I been prouder of getting someone addicted to something 🤣 Game on brother, see you on the field.
haha the voice really reminded me of god, and at the end; thanks for your patience while we improve the game (of life).
This was fantastic. I wish there was more on the bugs though.
Questions I would have:
Any plans for modder accessibility?
Endless option for survival?
Good questions and interesting feedback. One issue/question I would like to raise is the option which allows a player to cancel the match during match making. Cancellation is typically used when a player does not want to play against higher MMR players in order to prevent losing MMR. This is rather frustrating and I don't understand why that option is available (unless the user who cancels would get some sort of penalty).
You can cancel? You just have to do it before the countdown reaches 4 seconds I believe?
@@iSparty29 yes, you can cancel and that to me is the issue. This allows you to for instance only play lower or higher ranked players without being penalised.
May have to confirm with bearlike but I was under the impression that cancelling puts you to the bottom of the match-making queue for the next game, so you'll have to wait longer.
@@RanderathNic sorry, I misread. I only use it to dodge blatant smurfs.
This game scratches the good parts in my brain when it comes to core gameplay, once it gets more developed I so hope it will become popular to the point of "other" auto battlers
I love how you can play this with one finger, some say the perfect game does not make you use any type of controller.
Ground only attack for mustangs would be interesting. You cut of its aerial abillity for dmg boost.
5 NEW UNITS?! OMG NICE!!
This was awesome, ty. I wish they'd add autospeed up
Shoulda asked if they will add a new titan unit. Seems weird to have an upkeep mechanic just for war factory.
Thanks for doing this Stoney. And thanks to Bearlike. Lots of exciting news here for sure.
can I ask what AI you used for the voice overdub?
elevenlabs.io/app/speech-synthesis
Thanks for the interview! Could we get extra income for saving during eco rounds? Would be a cool trade off between full spend to win round or save to win late?
Thanks for this. I would pay "real money" for the following skins: tall ass banners on FANGS that tilt as they attack move die. Crabrave claws on the CRAWLERS, obv.
The game is great I think it is the 2023 hidden gem for me.
They should buff the energy shield that can be bought from the market in late game because even with the 40% upgrade it just disappear in a blink of an eye, or maybe they could add the option for some stronger but smaller energy shields but at double the cost, enough to gain at least a little bit of terrain at the start of the battle otherwise the shield really are just a waste of money since you do not need to win the first rounds to win the game.
Fantastic interview! your channel is looking great lately! What software have you been using for the overlayed chat boxes? Blender? I'm looking to improve video quality on my channel :)
Thanks man! I used adobe premiere for the graphics (just a few colored rectangles really). It also has a pretty robust captioning option so that's how I got the text in the chatboxes.
five more? Poggers
I wish they fixed the current issues first. Units need more build options and players need more stuff to fiddle and experiment with. All the random stuff needs to be offset with things that players CAN controll. Right now Units have one viable build and some units are downright useless. Equipment modules could be great, but they are to random. Hackers are either godmode or they are completely useless. This game needs more moving parts for more strategy, just new units doesn't expand that with how this game plays out.
Personally I use all the units depending on the situation. Which unit are you referring to as "useless"?
My only reason not picking up this game is because the position of the units not giving a proper control and feedback. It feels like more like fate and hope driven and not something i like in a tactical setup. If it would be strickt lanes and limited amount of space in them with the same arrow of their direction would just about do it, but just the arrows and put wherever is too much spread and pray. Because of this whatever place also incentivise to ballance spread across the lane instead of a stirct composition in a strict pattern. ANd since everyone else is under these constrains by no constraint, you end up in a blobl vs blob rather then a shaped spear with a shaft.
After awhile you'll get a good sense of the aggro trigger radius on the units. Also, "mobile beacon" is an in-game mechanism used by many top players to force pathing. With the last few patches you can even have multiple mobile beacons.
The only thing I would like to know is what MMR they are looking at for balance changes?
Because they seem to make balance adjustments for issues that at low level play.
if they are looking at overall percentages data that will be most representative of low level play as most players globally are low level.
That's world be dangerous for long term balance of the game.
I'll include this question for my next interview. However, I'm sure they're not just balancing for a specific segment of the player base (especially not the top, which accounts for less than 5% of the overall players)
@@stoneymechabellum thanks. yes its only 5%, but my thinking is those 5% are closer to the 'truth' of the game. in a competitive game It's everyone else's job to figure the game out!
Especially regarding competitive integrity towards a possible eports future like he has hinted at.
Balancing for the masses would be like removing the off-side rule in football because most people play football at home!
@@BuzzaB77 well said. with the game in early access and growing, I think their top priority is to get more new players in as quickly as possible. i hope their attention will eventually shift back to the competitive scene because that's what's keeping players. SC2 went through a similar phase.
@@stoneymechabellum yes that's a fair point. I really hope it does well I think they've got something great here. anyways thanks for the interview and thanks for the content/lessons
Do you know Mandarin Stoney?
Yep, it's my mother tongue
What are you most looking forward to?💥💥
New units are always the most exciting, gives so much variety and new strategies.
@@stoneymechabellum The seemingly dedication of the devs to their craft. They know their game at the top level, and look for the best player experience.
As for the feature, the playing the round replay feature had me hyped up!
Most looking forward to is the new chaff unit. Hope it will not be too niche; and a part of the start cards.
I don't need the tournament replays, but would like to be able to play my own replays from a certain round on.
@@HolgFromHell pro tip, press a number key when watching a replay now and it'll jump to that round
Cool! Me is: making the first round not so tedious, it's very boring to watch I skip it in 100 percent of all UA-cam vids.
Why he sound like AI?
He's a robot, haven't you heard? =D
As mentioned in the video and in the description, the interview was done in Mandarin, translated then presented using AI voiceover.
AUTO.SPEED.UP ffs.