KickStarter Mechajammer (formerly Copper Dreams) - cyberpunk RPG from Whalenought Studios

[Nifft Batuff]

Looks cool.

 

[udm]

Never trust a dev team that puts pronouns into its games.

 

[gaussgunner]

Never trust a dev team that puts pronouns into its games.

I don't think they did when they kickstarted the game. When did they come out of the closet, last year? this year?

 

[udm]

This year, when they released the demo during the Steam Next Fest.

 

[Fargus]

Of course they wouldnt do that at first. You add subversive degenerate shit into your game later on and as quietly as possible. And then just ban anyone who complain on steam and lock the threads for being too political lmao.

I'm glad this game sinked.

 

[gaussgunner]

They were problably hiding their AIDS level in the wake of Gamergate.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

I'm really pissed off at this game. It's a disaster in it's current technical state. It's also nothing like what was shown on Kickstarter all those years ago, see for yourself: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1649838104/copper-dreams/description. It's a bait and switch, plain and simple.

lmao

 

[Infinitron]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1649838104/copper-dreams/posts/3385831

keys & patching & digital/physical reward shipping


Remaining Keys

Since the original batch of keys went out and the past week I think there’s still ~150 or so backers that haven’t filled out surveys. When those are filled out, we get notifiers every once in a while and will be message you manually about them, so there could be a brief delay on that, though we’ve been checking throughout the day too.


Patching

We're scheduled for additional months of crunching to get the game where we intended it to be. Our next patch includes the finished XP mode option we intended to get in (from new-game) and some balancing overhauls, and that will continue into the new year. We’ll be doing around the clock fixing over the next month to get it up to speed. Modern Wolf’s mechajammer channels will have continued news on releases, patches and bigger updates into the future if you have any additional questions.


If you have any questions for us, please feel free to continue to email or use the kickstarter messaging as we get pinged about it and can get back to you as soon as we can.


GOG Patches

It has just come to our attention that the GOG patches have either been slow to update or not going live. I know for our Serpent launch we were able to rapid fire those, and this is terrible to hear, we're looking into what's going on as quickly as we can.


Digital/Physical rewards

We have what we hope if the final batch of miniatures heading or way soon, though there are some holiday delays. Once verified can send out those final physical reward shipment emails to verify everyone's addresses, especially outside the US where there could have been some issues. Since some of the digital rewards are pictures of the physical ones and require some scans, we’ll just be emailing and sending all that simultaneously.


Expect emails and shipments around end of January for that.


Hope you all have a very nice christmas & holiday. We will notify you again when those shipping emails go out in the new year.


Best,
Hannah & Joseph

 

[Tyranicon]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1649838104/copper-dreams/posts/3385831

We're scheduled for additional months of crunching to get the game where we intended it to be.

A true turn-based isometric cyberpunk cRPG called Copper Dreams?

Otherwise, why bother?

 

[Lyre Mors]

They're adding an XP mode? So bizarre. So they weren't able to balance the game properly with experience and level progression factored in on time, so they decided to do found-item progression instead at the last moment? Why did they release the game like this? They must have been in an extremely dire situation and it was an act of desperation.

There should be a documentary made about what happened with this game. I'm sure it'd be fascinating. Six years, man. SIX YEARS.

 

[mediocrepoet]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1649838104/copper-dreams/posts/3385831

keys & patching & digital/physical reward shipping


Remaining Keys

Since the original batch of keys went out and the past week I think there’s still ~150 or so backers that haven’t filled out surveys. When those are filled out, we get notifiers every once in a while and will be message you manually about them, so there could be a brief delay on that, though we’ve been checking throughout the day too.


Patching

We're scheduled for additional months of crunching to get the game where we intended it to be. Our next patch includes the finished XP mode option we intended to get in (from new-game) and some balancing overhauls, and that will continue into the new year. We’ll be doing around the clock fixing over the next month to get it up to speed. Modern Wolf’s mechajammer channels will have continued news on releases, patches and bigger updates into the future if you have any additional questions.


If you have any questions for us, please feel free to continue to email or use the kickstarter messaging as we get pinged about it and can get back to you as soon as we can.


GOG Patches

It has just come to our attention that the GOG patches have either been slow to update or not going live. I know for our Serpent launch we were able to rapid fire those, and this is terrible to hear, we're looking into what's going on as quickly as we can.


Digital/Physical rewards

We have what we hope if the final batch of miniatures heading or way soon, though there are some holiday delays. Once verified can send out those final physical reward shipment emails to verify everyone's addresses, especially outside the US where there could have been some issues. Since some of the digital rewards are pictures of the physical ones and require some scans, we’ll just be emailing and sending all that simultaneously.


Expect emails and shipments around end of January for that.


Hope you all have a very nice christmas & holiday. We will notify you again when those shipping emails go out in the new year.


Best,
Hannah & Joseph

Man, I hope the physical package is cool...

 

[Zombra]

I'm having some issues "pixel hunting" for what to click on to interact with some things, e.g. attacking a rat in combat when he's moved on the otherside of me from the camera position (eventually found it) and having lockpicked a window I can't seem to find the pixel that will allow me to open it.

Reminds me of all those horrible web interfaces that make you click on a pixel of text instead of the field containing the text. So it's much harder to click on a 1 than a 9. I really really hate this kind of stuff.

 

[Mortmal]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1649838104/copper-dreams/posts/3385831

keys & patching & digital/physical reward shipping


Remaining Keys

Since the original batch of keys went out and the past week I think there’s still ~150 or so backers that haven’t filled out surveys. When those are filled out, we get notifiers every once in a while and will be message you manually about them, so there could be a brief delay on that, though we’ve been checking throughout the day too.


Patching

We're scheduled for additional months of crunching to get the game where we intended it to be. Our next patch includes the finished XP mode option we intended to get in (from new-game) and some balancing overhauls, and that will continue into the new year. We’ll be doing around the clock fixing over the next month to get it up to speed. Modern Wolf’s mechajammer channels will have continued news on releases, patches and bigger updates into the future if you have any additional questions.


If you have any questions for us, please feel free to continue to email or use the kickstarter messaging as we get pinged about it and can get back to you as soon as we can.


GOG Patches

It has just come to our attention that the GOG patches have either been slow to update or not going live. I know for our Serpent launch we were able to rapid fire those, and this is terrible to hear, we're looking into what's going on as quickly as we can.


Digital/Physical rewards

We have what we hope if the final batch of miniatures heading or way soon, though there are some holiday delays. Once verified can send out those final physical reward shipment emails to verify everyone's addresses, especially outside the US where there could have been some issues. Since some of the digital rewards are pictures of the physical ones and require some scans, we’ll just be emailing and sending all that simultaneously.


Expect emails and shipments around end of January for that.


Hope you all have a very nice christmas & holiday. We will notify you again when those shipping emails go out in the new year.


Best,
Hannah & Joseph

Man, I hope the physical package is cool...

If it's anything like the game better open it outside your home.

 

[mediocrepoet]

Man, I hope the physical package is cool...

If it's anything like the game better open it outside your home.

Oh I don't know. If it's full of anthrax, I won't have to play the game.

 

[Fargus]

If it's anything like the game better open it outside your home.

 

[vazha]

Serves them right for sticking with the pixelturd look.

 

[ArchAngel]

They're adding an XP mode? So bizarre. So they weren't able to balance the game properly with experience and level progression factored in on time, so they decided to do found-item progression instead at the last moment? Why did they release the game like this? They must have been in an extremely dire situation and it was an act of desperation.

There should be a documentary made about what happened with this game. I'm sure it'd be fascinating. Six years, man. SIX YEARS.

Probably same reason why Phoenix Point devs decided to release in beta state.. publishers paid them money to release before Christmas.
I guess they got enough money to work a few months only on the game and then release some Enhanced Edition or something. Maybe even some day make it good enough to release on GamePass and get some M$ money.

 

[Zombra]

Occasionally, just for fun, I try to log in on the whalenought website to get my key. The reset password link does nothing. No email, nothing in my spam folder. Sounds like the game isn't playable anyway but I would at least like to redeem my key. Evidently there's no other way to get it than off the site. And the site doesn't remember I exist.

This is truly the Kafkaesque cyberpunk dystopia we all feared. And perhaps that's the game we signed up for all along.

 

[Tyranicon]

Occasionally, just for fun, I try to log in on the whalenought website to get my key. The reset password link does nothing. No email, nothing in my spam folder. Sounds like the game isn't playable anyway but I would at least like to redeem my key. Evidently there's no other way to get it than off the site. And the site doesn't remember I exist.

This is truly the Kafkaesque cyberpunk dystopia we all feared. And perhaps that's the game we signed up for all along.

Did you kickstart this? Have you tried messaging them directly on Kickstarter (probably won't do anything, but you never know)?

They only have ~1k backers, which is far away from being too many to be manageable. Hell, I have 900 backers from my last kickstarter, and I send out keys manually.

Then again, I'm a big dumb dumb.

 

[PEACH]

Occasionally, just for fun, I try to log in on the whalenought website to get my key. The reset password link does nothing. No email, nothing in my spam folder. Sounds like the game isn't playable anyway but I would at least like to redeem my key. Evidently there's no other way to get it than off the site. And the site doesn't remember I exist.

This is truly the Kafkaesque cyberpunk dystopia we all feared. And perhaps that's the game we signed up for all along.

The only way I was able to get my key was by messaging whoever runs their discord and hashing the situation out with them in real time.

 

[mediocrepoet]

Occasionally, just for fun, I try to log in on the whalenought website to get my key. The reset password link does nothing. No email, nothing in my spam folder. Sounds like the game isn't playable anyway but I would at least like to redeem my key. Evidently there's no other way to get it than off the site. And the site doesn't remember I exist.

This is truly the Kafkaesque cyberpunk dystopia we all feared. And perhaps that's the game we signed up for all along.

Sounds like you got Mechajammed.

 

[Infinitron]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/485400/view/3112548284786834178

Mechajammer | V1.04 Patch Notes
We rolled a nat 20 on this patch!

The v1.04 Mechajammer patch is now available and we're happy to tell you that there's a brand-spanking new Event Log.

The Event Log provides more clarity to your actions and the RNG behind the scenes, letting you know exactly what's on the dice, and the outcome of your roll. The Event Log in its current form is a version1, with version 2 planned to include additional output and colour-coding for clarity between player and companion rolls. Keep your eyes peeled for that soon!

In v1.04 you can expect to see a broad range of fixes and improvements! We've underlined a few that we know you've been waiting for. We know you're keen to see the respawning enemies issue fixed, and we're working on it; it's currently our top priority.

Gameplay

• Vehicles saving correctly and not despawning from scene
  
• Code wheel equipping bug fixed
  
• Various save game issues fixed
  
• Cars not starting after interacting with them fixed
  
• NPC cars driving through ground bug fixed
  
• Can click to pathfind outside line of sight
  
• Gang boss dialogue after resolving infiltration fixed to clarify status
  
• Feuding gangs bug fixed
  
• Sprites and portraits corrected for several gangs
  
• Gang vault door not opening bug fixed
  
• Fixed incorrect soundtrack switch when spotted in gang base

UI

• Notepad no longer selects all text on opening
  
• Gang meter bugs fixed
  
• Fixed flashing green to red box behind weapon
  
• Fixed vault power box incorrectly saying unlocked with key while still locked
  
• Fixed terminal visual for gangs
  
• Fixed medic boss dialogue not working
  
• Pins for note locations on terminal corrected
  
• Fixed bug with items able to move from merchant bag to ground

Spoiler

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HUGE thanks
to the all the following players who left feedback and submitted bug reports that lead to fixes in v1.04. These issues were reported many times by many people, so sorry if we've missed you. As always, we really appreciate your time and diligence here.

Munday
Naiba
MrMistersen
Andre
Kanonite
DonDon
D I N G
The_Arbitor
Jinn
QueenMemory
Mac
Toupzy
PatternBlue
Aure
Floppy_Glass
N3tgh0st
Rithrin
Portentosa
GODHARVEST
TheSHEEEP
Nameless
Spoonylegs
Polloajillo
Craftian


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For bug-reporting and other Mechajammer-flavoured discussion, please head to the official Discord server.

Thank you for your lovely comments on the last patch, we really appreciate your support!

— Whalenought Studios & Modern Wolf

 

[Zombra]

The only way I was able to get my key was by messaging whoever runs their discord and hashing the situation out with them in real time.

Thanks bro. I had my key and was installing 30 seconds after messaging her.

 

[ArchAngel]

The only way I was able to get my key was by messaging whoever runs their discord and hashing the situation out with them in real time.

Thanks bro. I had my key and was installing 30 seconds after massaging her.

Fixed it for you. We know what you had to do for it.

 

[The Wall]

Shyness is major debuff, both online and in real life. Also it's not cute nor intelligent. Terrible perk