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Major New Feature: Electroplate Armor! Game changing rechargeable shields which offers new ways to protect against long range weaponry! And it looks sweet to boot!

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Finally, Electroplates are here, and here are the details.

FEATURES:
- 10 x Levels of Electroplate Armor
- Each level has a Left and Right version
- Complex shapes for the more experienced Robocrafter to figure out how to build with
- Electroplates have 2 'Healths'
- Electroplates health recovers if you can avoid taking damage for 15 seconds
- An alarm will sound when your shield is down
- A single Electroplate will take the full force of a Plasma shell of the same level
- Electroplate shields prevent Plasma and Rail damage from passing through to the Chassis
- Electroplates have very high CPU (equal to 2x SMG of same level) and high Robot Ranking
- Premium membership gives 'Early Access' to these new cubes TODAY!- All other users get access to the Electroplates on Saturday 26th July

In the meantime, EVERYBODY can use this promo code to get FREE Tier1 Electroplates
ELECTRO-5368

OTHER CHANGES:
- Each Tier now has a 'Max CPU', if you build a Robot too large for that Tier, it will push up to the next Tier regardless of what Robot Rank the cubes are on your Robot
- Chinese flag added in Cosmetics cubes
- Pause \ Quit menu added to Practice and Spectator Modes

BUG FIXES:
- Hover Blades no longer flip you upside down when you enter Practice Mode
- Helium Tanks now render properly, they were sometimes invisible
- You can now scroll to see all friends in the list when you have a lot of friends
- Enemies are now colored red again
- Vapour Trails no longer glitch across the screen when you spawn in a multiplayer match
- Tier Gauge now resizes properly when you switch resolution

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