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0.0 hrs last two weeks / 6.2 hrs on record (0.9 hrs at review time)
Posted: May 19, 2016 @ 7:20am

Early Access Review
neinkraft with tanks.

Hello and welcome to Scraps, a project I´m following since a year or two and I actually bought today because I forget everything that comes in my mind in 2 minutes. And compared to its state two years ago, this has actually taken pretty big steps. Only the good parts didn´t change at all, e.g. the gameplay itself.

wot is dis?

This actually is one example of a yet unnamed genre, I call it Build and Fight, call it how you want. So the genre of Robocraft and Homebrew (since they added guns now with the latest update). Gameplay is simple: Build stuff, destroy stuff, collect stuff and repair and build stuff with your collected stuff. ez.

build stuff?

Yes. You get a nice range of parts and then you just build a vehicle out of it. How it´s used and built is up to you, whether you want a lightweight ram with dozens of engines doing 400 km/h or a giant a55 tank with dozens of cannons or something rather normal, depends on your imagination. Building itself is really easy, but also depends on physics.
Remember: Even though you can put enough weapons on your vehicle to eradicate complete europe within seconds, you can´t expect your vehicle to do 150 km/h, like in Robocraft. The limit of how much you can put on your vehicle doesn´t depend on your player rank, but on the servers scrap limit. So, compared to Robocraft, this is balanced very well. Also, you can tune the suspension on your vehicle to edit the handling and center of mass.

range of parts?

You start off with a chassis and a cockpit. You can choose between three chassis yet, a small lightweight one for cheap and light vehicles, a normal one and a big one with enough space for at least 3 million engines and cannons. Then you build on energy generators (because guns need energy to work) and batteries, cooling parts (because guns get hot while firing), armor to not die the second you get out of the garage, engines, guns and extensions to get more space you need for another 1 million engines.


can i play dis on my potato?

YES YOU CAN. JUST DO IT. (sry)
If you compare this to other games based on Unity, this game has excellent performance and looks fairly nice.

Any cons?

Except having almost no players, not really. This is Early Access, so you can´t expect this to be 100% bug free, but so far In the last year I played the demos of Scraps, I haven´t encountered one bug.

The End?
In my opinion, this is the greatest example of this Build and Fight genre. Robocraft is nice, but these idiotic rank limits and nonexistence of balance are really unnecessary. And to be honest, no one knows how long it will take until Homebrew gets into a well playable state. Buy this. Please. We need players here. For real.


k thx bai.
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2 Comments
coolantdrinker1 May 19, 2016 @ 2:28pm 
No problem, you´re welcome. :D
Nition  [developer] May 19, 2016 @ 2:07pm 
Just want to say thanks for this super nice review. :)