Mechamon Update #6

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For new readers:
Mechamon is a collaborative fangame based off of Pokemon, where players command a small fleet of captured mecha throughout space.

Currently recruiting:

Musician
Tile Artist
UI Artist (Menus, battle)
General artist
Animator
Asset Collector (Audio/Sprites)
Data Entry (Pokemon Stat Entry, Item name entry, Trainer data, etc)

Data entry is really simple, and is definitely the quickest way you can help this project. Feel free to contact us at
[email protected] for information or if you'd like to help.

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Suggested mechamon implemented:
With assets

Jehuty - Zone of the Enders
Megas XLR
Metal Gear Rex
Metal Gear Ray
RX-78 now evolves to RX-78NT 'Alex' instead of Re-Gz; this one is up for debate
Dragonars 1, 2, and 3, along with their custom forms
Giant Robo
Neo Getter Robo 1,2 & 3. Unlike the other Getter line, these are all one Mechamon, and transform instead of evolve.
Zambot 3
Daitarn 3
Gaiking
Escaflowne
Aestievalis
Strike line
Voltron (SRW W)
Grendizer

Made it in but no available assets
AV98 Ingram
Godzilla->Mechagodzilla line
Liger Zero (I'm looking at you, Zoids-guy)
Legendary Defender Voltron (New Voltron)

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First region map, it's a very simple route, you start at White Duke and travel clockwise from there, backtracking as necessary. More similar to Kalos or Unova, if you've played the recent pokemon games

>>14803799
>>14803792
This looks pretty cool

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>>14803906

Thanks man. Give the playtester a try when you get a chance

So Grunt being Normal makes it completely shit, sounds good to me.

>>14805606
I wouldn't say that. There are so many Pokemon these days there are some good normal types.

>>14805606
Normal is actually relatively decent in the modern metagame, there's a few top tier grunts, and one of our 'elite four' members is a Grunt user

We're trying to make using your favorites viable

>>5950206
so are you balancing the game around nuzlocke, and youll just make quick changes to make a normal mode?

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>>14805883
Looking at the survey, we'll definitely be adding an 'easy', or non nuzlocke mode, where 'fainted' mechamon can be resurrected

Normal (nuzlocke) mode will have Revives as rare items, too. In both modes, however, pilots will die if their mech is destroyed.

The big difference between MM and a normal nuzlocke is you can catch as many mecha as possible, and it's totally ok to save and reload. The difficulty is closer to Fire Emblem than FTL/roguelikes

Nothing's stopping you from ironmanning though, play as you like

Any plans for the other Metal Gear series mechs to appear, like TX-55, ZEKE, Sahelanthropus, Outer Heaven, EXCELSUS and the Peace Walker AI weapons?

>>14803789
Has anybody suggested any Armored Core machines yet? If not, Nineball and White Glint would be pretty cool to see.

>>14807147
If anyone has made sprites for them, point us in the direction and we'll add them, otherwise they might not make it in, unless people really push for it

I just played the demo. Overall it's pretty good stuff, I guess, but I'll wait for a more finished release to LP it.

>>14807274

Yea we've had people suggest them. We'd like to add them if we could find assets

>>14807420
Thanks bro. We are trying to get it done

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>>14807425
I found a sprite if that helps.

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>>14807457
Could you show us where you found that?

>>14807420
Thanks, that's pretty awesome.

>>14808030
Found it photobucket, here's the link.

http://photobucket.com/gifs/armored%20core

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>>14808060
Not bad, we could work with this.

do you have the sazabi in yet? also are you lifting pokemon moves and just reskining them?

>>14809131
The Sazabi is in, check out the roster. It evolves into the Nightengale

All the attacks are re-named, and have custom animations, some have unique effects, but most of the balancing is lifted from Pokemon.

so are you guys gonna have zaku 2 varients? it could be like the evee of mechamon

>>14810624
The GM and the FPA cruiser are our "eevees"

Check out the Roster in the OP. The Zaku line is accessible early on, though.

I would like to see a Sinanju and Hizack.

so about the mecha that takes a legendary pokemons stats. are you only gonna be able to get one? are they all gonna be late game?

>>14811791
That's what it will be most likely. There will be some fun mechs early to mid game though

>>14811433
I think we have Hizak sprites. They might make it in

>>14811791
In Mechamon, if a mech 'faints', it's destroyed along with its pilot.

Unless you save/restart often, the game quickly becomes hard. You're given a lot of ways around this, TMs (Teaches attacks) are cheaper, have infinite uses, and are available much earlier than in vanilla Pokemon. Repels are also cheaper. There's even an early legendary, for people who are having trouble.

There are certain bonuses only accessible if you recruit a pilot and keep them alive, so there's a lot to think about while you outfit your ship (or ships)

To answer your question, there are many legendaries, about as many as you'd find in a regular pokemon game.

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>>14803799
>RX-78 now evolves to RX-78NT 'Alex' instead of Re-Gz; this one is up for debate
If this sticks can Alex evolve into the RX-78NT-X 'Netix'? Or do you not have the resources for that?
http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/RX-78NT-X_NT-X

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>>14813225
Just realized that isnt the correct look or gun for the netix (dunno why search engines think it is)
Here's a proper image

>>14813225
>>14813228

Something like that might be hard to get assets for. As much as we would love to include every variant, gundam has a fuckton. We could make this game using only gundam mechs and still not have enough space for them all. When it comes to gundam variants, we want to include the ones that the most people know. However, we are making use of alternate colors schemes, so we could use the netix color scheme for the Alex's shiny

>>14813228
Huh it's a neat detail that its hand-carried weapon is a machine gun instead of a beam rifle.

I mean it makes sense when it already has arm beamguns replacing the gatlings of the Alex and a pair of wired bits packing beam cannons that it wouldn't have energy to spare for yet another beam weapon.

>>14813723
>>14813225
Good idea! we'll use the ntx for the shiny palette. Thanks for the suggestion!

You can suggest shiny colors, too

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Remember folks we are recruiting. If you have any skills you think may help feel free to email us