This month’s VER10 Draft update has a very big gameplay change when it comes to scoring Victory Points. In this update a units full Performance cost is now worth Victory points. This means that low Frame units are now worth a lot more VP and it’s easier to seize victory without having to fully wipe out the enemy.
(But don’t let that stop you.)
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Some of the feedback we’ve gotten on the VER10 open playtest was that the roles no longer felt as distinct as they used to. In this post we’ll look at some of the changes that went into the September roster update to bring some of that distinction back.
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In our previous post we talked about some of the weapon changes in broad strokes. Let’s look at a few items in-depth now.
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For this month’s update we are releasing a large batch of profiles for VER10 which are available on the MechaStellar VER10 Drafts page. This page has the latest version of the draft VER10 Core combat rules and profiles for UC Gundam, Gundam Wing, Mazinger and Getter Robo.
Initially we had planned on only a few profiles but we’ve been working hard this month, both on a weapons rebalance and a layout update to get as many profiles as we could ready in time for the open playtest.
If you play any games using the VER10 draft rules, please use the google form to log your battle. It’s a short survey but it helps a lot when balancing the game. https://forms.gle/GCHTxV8XCkf3sm6WA
Here’s a really quick post showing the difference between a VER9 and VER10 profile. For this we have the AC Guy and the Zock, two of Zeon’s more unusual amphibious units. On top we have the VER10 profile and on bottom the VER9 profile. At the bottom of the post we have a PDF which should be full resolution, since the images can be a bit grainy when fit into the blog format.
The first thing I’m really happy to point out is that the profiles in general are larger and easier to read. VER9 cut down on the pages for the unit roster by being able to fit 6 profiles on one page, prior to this in VER8 and before mecha profiles were entirely horizontal and usually about 4 per page, but when we switched to VER9, the double sided layout allowed for a lot more room.
Still a frequent observance we’ve had from players is that occasionally some things can be too small. With VER10 we wanted to move back to 4 profiles per page while sticking to double sided. This way if you print out a page you can easily fold in half vertically or horizontally and have two profiles visible. Very handy, if you are only running a couple units on that page.
Moving down to 4 profiles, as well as removing a lot of the build-stats which are irrelevant to combat gave us more room to work with and increase several of the rows and columns in size making things a bit larger. Doing the layout editing it’s also a lot easier having more room for mech and weapon names without have to abbreviate as much.
Here’s a PDF with full resolution.
In our previous post we talked about a lot of the feedback we’ve got from playtesters in VER10 and the steps we’re taking to resolve some of the current issues. We also had a novel request to have Barrage affect the dice roll in the same way that Bullseye currently affects the die roll. Our proposed solution was to allow Bullseye to give +2d10 Shots when used, but in order to do that we’d have to rebalance the current weapons to ensure that the majority of weapons were less than 8d10 to take advantage of this request. We’ve finished up the weapon rebalance and wanted to share a few Dev insights when it came to this weapon rebalance.
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We’re working on VER10 for MechaStellar, based on some playtester feedback shown in our previous post we’re looking to update one of the Pilot bonuses that affect the core mechanic.
Continue reading “VER10 Pilot Bonus Update”We’re still working on VER10, while we were hoping to get an open playtest copy out by the end of July, we’ve compiled some great feedback from some of our playtesters that we wanted to review and integrate first. Below you’ll find a quick summary of that feedback.
In this example we’ll look at Momentum Shifts based on the previous example where the Gundam had just destroyed a Zaku II.
Continue reading “MechaStellar VER10 Preview – Momentum Shifts Example”In this preview we’ll be using a Zaku II and a GM. In MechaStellar VER10 the attacker can roll multiple hits that each deal damage, the Defender can roll multiple defenses (DEF) that each negate an incoming hit. Any leftover hits are called “unblocked hits”.
While dodging a hit isn’t necessarily “blocking” a hit, it tends to roll off the tongue a bit nicer than “unavoided hits”. If unblocked hits boggles the syntax center in your cerebral cortex go ahead and call them “undefended hits” instead =)
In VER10 all the bonuses a Mobile Suit would get from its Frame, Performance and Combat Role have been moved to be in line with a units weapons. So when you look down the line of a weapon you’ll see Bonus Hits (and bonus DEF in its Defensive profile) which comes directly from the Mobile Suit. So even with the same exact weapons, the more advanced suit will have an edge.
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