In Main Assembly take on the role of a drone with the ability to design and build robots for your everyday needs! Create unique ways to overcome various challenges in single-player or jump into the Sandbox where you can craft and play alone or with other players. Challenge yourself and your friends to create the most exciting looking robot using a freeform crafting tool and modular parts, and then control them through powerful visual programming. You can also customize your robots by changing the colour palette and drone cosmetic accessories for that personal touch.
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Par for the course with most of these physics sandboxes, the game is as limited as you expect despite the promise of unlimited creativity. Additionally, while the game starts with a bunch of tutorials I still often found creating machines to be very inaccessible to the user. You can easily spend close to ten hours on the tutorials, redoing the tutorials and then trying to master the clunky control schemes before actually getting to do anything.
The battlebots mode had such promise but making anything other than the most dead simple bots seems like it'd require you to have an engineering degree. And that's fine if you do. I'm sure it's great. But good god is it a pain in the ass. You don't need to be a certified pilot to get a plane up in the air and do some landings in Microsoft Flight Sim. You don't need a CDL to drive some trucks in Truck Sim. You don't need to be a swordmaster to play Mordhau or Chivalry. But Main Assembly makes it feel too damn hard to do anything with no knowledge of engineering and physics.
I can make little carts that zip around in circles. Mastering the logic gates or weapon controls to make anything else just felt like it'd take as much time (if not more!) than buying the parts and figuring out how to do it myself in real life. Just a frustrating and poor experience. Clunky, clunky, clunky, clunky interface for designing machines as well.
The battlebots mode had such promise but making anything other than the most dead simple bots seems like it'd require you to have an engineering degree. And that's fine if you do. I'm sure it's great. But good god is it a pain in the ass. You don't need to be a certified pilot to get a plane up in the air and do some landings in Microsoft Flight Sim. You don't need a CDL to drive some trucks in Truck Sim. You don't need to be a swordmaster to play Mordhau or Chivalry. But Main Assembly makes it feel too damn hard to do anything with no knowledge of engineering and physics.
I can make little carts that zip around in circles. Mastering the logic gates or weapon controls to make anything else just felt like it'd take as much time (if not more!) than buying the parts and figuring out how to do it myself in real life. Just a frustrating and poor experience. Clunky, clunky, clunky, clunky interface for designing machines as well.