Main Assembly
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| Developers | |
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| Bad Yolk Games | |
| Publishers | |
| Team17 | |
| Engines | |
| Unreal Engine 4[Note 1] | |
| Release dates | |
| Windows | January 26, 2021 |
| Taxonomy | |
| Monetization | One-time game purchase |
| Microtransactions | None |
| Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
| Pacing | Real-time |
| Perspectives | Free-roaming camera, Third-person |
| Controls | Direct control, Menu-based |
| Genres | Simulation, Vehicle combat, Vehicle simulator |
| Art styles | Stylized |
| Themes | Sci-fi |
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Main Assembly is a 1-4 player vehicle simulation utilizing pre-made and user-built vehicles developed by Bad Yolk Games and published by Team17.
Closed betas was held from 16 December 2019 to 24 January 2020[2][3] and 14 February 2020 to 28 February 2020.[4] An open beta was held from 26 March 2020 to 5 May 2020.[5][6] From 28 May 2020 to 8 June 2020, the first 55,000 entrants in a PCGamer giveaway had access to a special closed beta.[7][8]
The game was formally released into early access on 11 June 2020 and left it on 26 January 2021.[9][10]
The game released its first post-launch patch, version 1.1, into public beta on 11 August 2021, which added quality-of-life features and fixed several issues, such as pressing the A button on an XInput controller resulting in text chat being opened.[11] However, this update, as of 12 April 2022, has not left public beta.
General information
Availability
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Essential improvements
Skip intro videos
| Delete or rename files[12] |
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v1.1 beta patch
- The final official patch by the developers, the v1.1 beta patch adds a number of quality-of-life features as well as fixes some bugs (see Issues fixed for notable bugs).
| Switch to experimental branch[11] |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
| System | Location |
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| Windows | %LOCALAPPDATA%\RoboBuild\Config\WindowsNoEditor |
| Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1078920/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game data location
| System | Location |
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| Windows | %LOCALAPPDATA%\RoboBuild\Saved |
| Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1078920/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
| System | Native | Notes |
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| Steam Cloud |
Video
Game settings.
Graphics settings.
| Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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| Widescreen resolution | |||
| Multi-monitor | |||
| Ultra-widescreen | |||
| 4K Ultra HD | [13] | ||
| Field of view (FOV) | |||
| Windowed | |||
| Borderless fullscreen windowed | |||
| Anisotropic filtering (AF) | 2x (Medium), 4x (High), 8x (Ultra).[14] | ||
| Anti-aliasing (AA) | FXAA (Medium), TAA (High, Ultra).[14] | ||
| Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
| 60 FPS and 120+ FPS | Capped to 200 FPS. | ||
| High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the engine page to force native HDR output, or the glossary page for other alternatives. | ||
| Ray tracing (RT) | |||
- The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.
Input
Control bindings.
| Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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| Remapping | Certain actions, such as moving the player's drone up and down, cannot be remapped. | |
| Mouse acceleration | ||
| Mouse sensitivity | Driving and drone sensitivity can be set individually. | |
| Mouse input in menus | ||
| Mouse Y-axis inversion | Called Invert Mouse. | |
| Controller | ||
| Controller support | ||
| Full controller support | ||
| Controller remapping | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | |
| Controller sensitivity | ||
| Controller Y-axis inversion | Called Invert Drive Camera. |
| Controller types |
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| XInput-compatible controllers | ||
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| Xbox button prompts | ||
| Impulse Trigger vibration |
| PlayStation controllers | ||
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| PlayStation button prompts | ||
| Light bar support | ||
| Adaptive trigger support | ||
| DualSense haptic feedback support | ||
| Connection modes | ||
| Generic/other controllers | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. |
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| Additional information | ||
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| Controller hotplugging | ||
| Haptic feedback | ||
| Digital movement supported | ||
| Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
| Steam Input | ||
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| Steam Input API support | ||
| Hook input (legacy mode) | ||
| Official controller preset(s) | ||
| Steam Controller button prompts | ||
| Cursor detection |
Audio
Audio settings.
| Audio feature | State | Notes |
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| Separate volume controls | Music, SFX, voice. | |
| Surround sound | ||
| Subtitles | ||
| Closed captions | ||
| Mute on focus lost | ||
| Royalty free audio |
Localizations
| Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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| English | ||||
| Simplified Chinese | ||||
| Traditional Chinese | ||||
| French | ||||
| German | ||||
| Italian | ||||
| Japanese | ||||
| Brazilian Portuguese | ||||
| Russian | ||||
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Network
Multiplayer types
| Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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| LAN play | ||||
| Online play | 4 | Co-op, Versus |
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Connection types
| Type | Native | Notes |
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| Self-hosting |
Issues unresolved
- The developer maintains a list of known issues here.
Issues fixed
- Fixed in the v1.1 beta patch.[15]
'A' button on XInput controller always opens text chat
- Fixed in the v1.1 beta patch.[16]
Other information
API
| Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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| Direct3D | 11, 12 | |
| Shader Model support | 5 |
| Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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| Windows |
Middleware
System requirements
| Windows | ||
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| Minimum | Recommended | |
| Operating system (OS) | 7 | |
| Processor (CPU) | Intel Core i5-3570 | Intel Core i5-4460 |
| System memory (RAM) | 4 GB | 8 GB |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) | 3 GB | |
| Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 | Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 |
- A 64-bit operating system is required.
Notes
- ↑ Unreal Engine 4 engine build: 4.24.2[1]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/1078920/in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1078920) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
References
- ↑ Verified by User:Expack3 on 2022-04-12
- ↑ Steam Community Announcement - Closed Beta is Live - last accessed on 2022-04-12
- ↑ Steam Community Announcement - Devblog #2 - New Programming Features! - last accessed on 2022-04-12
- "Before we get stuck in though, the closed beta is over and we've been busy going through all of your feedback, taking notes and discussing what we've learned from it. We just want to say a big THANK YOU to everyone who participated!"
- ↑ Steam Community Announcement - Main Assembly Beta & Early Access Release Date Trailer! - last accessed on 2022-04-12
- "A Main Assembly beta is on the way! It will be live from 2pm GMT on February 14th and will finish at 2pm GMT on February 28th!"
- ↑ Steam Community Announcement - Main Assembly Open Beta - last accessed on 2022-04-12
- ↑ Steam Community Announcement - End of Open Beta - Thank you to all Inventors! - last accessed on 2022-04-12
- ↑ Steam Community Announcement - PC Gamer Beta and Gaming PC Giveaway - Live Now! - last accessed on 2022-04-12
- ↑ PCGamer - Snag a free Main Assembly beta key and get a chance to win a Reign SENTRY MKII gaming PC - last accessed on 2022-04-12
- "We've secured 55,000 Steam keys for the beta of Main Assembly, Bad Yolk Games and Team17's robot building sim. Rather than attempt to fashion them into a fearsome robot made entirely of ASCII, we've decided to pass them along to you."
- ↑ Steam Community Announcement - Main Assembly Early Access Launch - last accessed on 2022-04-12
- ↑ Steam Community Announcement - Main Assembly 1.0 is now available! - last accessed on 2022-04-12
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Steam Community Announcement - Main Assembly 1.1 Patch - now live for Beta testing! - last accessed on 2022-04-12
- ↑ Verified by User:Expack3 on 2022-04-12
- ↑ YouTube - Main Assembly - Gameplay (PC/UHD) - last accessed on 2022-04-12
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Verified by User:Expack3 on 2022-04-12
- Tested using Universal Unreal Engine 4 Unlocker v3.0.19.
- ↑ Steam Community Announcement - Main Assembly 1.1 Patch - now live for Beta testing! - last accessed on 2022-04-12
- "Connection Issues will no longer throw you into the Main Menu if you're in Single Player or the Host of a game"
- ↑ Steam Community Announcement - Main Assembly 1.1 Patch - now live for Beta testing! - last accessed on 2022-04-12
- "Xbox A-button no longer opens the chat"
- ↑ Verified by User:Expack3 on 2022-04-12
- While the official FAQ states the game uses Bullet Physics, no DLL exists in the game files which correspond to Bullet Physics; instead, only PhysX DLLs could be found.