Ok so first of all, your drones were great! But due to updates we were running on the latest version which resulted in messed up blueprints and what not. The entire event turned into a 13 hour streaming marathon ending in a draw between two drone fleets which had proven their capeability of doing battle several times. The draw was that
GalactusX had 2 very tanky fast shield regenerating missile drones (the pacmans we called them due to their shape) which were trying to shoot
Crashmaster heavy ams supported fleet, pretty much their shields tanked all the damage thrown at them and they could not kill anything as well due to the ams...
Some of us recall a half hour season 1 fight that just lasted for ever due two weaker drone teams batteling it out... This time, which is a little scientific discovery, we experience the exact same in the semifinals. We had awesome matches and then this game which did not go anywhere...
so this is the last status of the bracket
Up to this point we remember lots of stuff which could have changed the outcome entirely if the blueprint system would not have messed up let's say
Napther shield injector drone just see how far it has come without the injector working...
Or if
Lone_Puppy (660 mass) or
GalactusX (1973 mass) would have maxed out their allowed mass...
All the ifs and what could and what could not... we won't get an answer for this this season. We would have hoped to deliver you some special matches, for example just quadrouple
Lone_Puppy drones vs. the winner and stuff like that just to show of some cool fights but this season launching the drones by hand was killing it for us, took so much time, that, what i am most sorry about, actually also got on my nerves and i am really sorry that my voice might show that every now and then probably a load at the end.
What was supposed to be a fun tournament became a chore : ( I am sorry
BUT we have been watching, all the problems we faced did not went unnoticed, schine staff dropped by and asked for the log files to have a look at them and they should have them all soon if not already. Our client data, the server logs, they hopefully are able to relate some connection losses directly to what was happening in the game, for the server bored itself and still kicked us all at the same moment several times.
I went to bed tired a bit frustrated for i had imaginined it to be a bit more fluid but looking back at it, we just realize well it is alpha and only through testing stuff gets better. I am sorry for the tournament, it could have come out smoother but i hope everyone watching still had fun. Due to the extended length of the resulting stream i am just going to pick some fights edit and put them on youtube. I hope you understand that a full coverage is barely possible...
So as it looks like there is just one more thing to do, i have to give the winning spot to someone and as wisky was still waiting for the other fights outcome i would just rule him the winner. I know it is not entirely fair and all but i hope you understand that after 13 hours - it is hard for us to find dates to do such stuff anyway so - it had to end somewhen.
Regarding season 3, very likely, i mean it is my baby, it is fun right, so somewhen, slightly different rules (we need to enforce launch buttons are easyily identified and put at a prominent easy to find spot, we need to enforce to use the mass limits to make it fair...) i will have to talk to the others how and when and ... then announce the next season. Most likely next year. We had a great year, two seasons... Let's give the game some time to progress and evolve and then see in a few month what you awesome people are coming up with again. It was an honor seeing your creations and some of them were truely outstanding in delivery like
GalactusX launch show or
LordGraftin s carrier also
StormWing0 brawler drones spiced it up along with
gregolegomonkey s pirate fleet. All of you made this a great event! if you are new to the game or just doing finetuning like
Sgtwisky or
Loadout you all made this a great season by submitting these battle machines.
Thanks again for understanding the ruling
Drakkart
