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Robocraft Infinity Vs Robocraft: Which Is Better?

Robocraft Infinity Vs Robocraft: Which Is Better?

With Robocraft Infinity coming to the Xbox One, I felt it was necessary to return to the Steam version of the game to figure out, which version is the best version, based on my chance to play Infinite back at E3.

So let's start with Robocraft Infinity, the console version of the title. While Infinite will not be FTP, and that will affect the progression system,but first I wanted to know how the game played between PC and console. The console controls were pretty intuitive, the sort of gamepad controls that you'd expect in an FPS, and the game worked smoothly at the show. While that wasn't a live match, and I didn't have time to go ahead and look for bugs, I didn't encounter any, and at a large-scale show on the final day, usually there's something that gets a bit glitchy by the end there. Its a lot of stress on the machine, but Freejam were running Infinite on the Xbox One X dev kit, which gives a lot of processing power to a game that doesn't have high hardware requirements. I was able to pick from a decent number of available robot builds, all of which were decently advanced. I chose the rig with a series of Tesla coils on the front and the ability to hover, and enjoyed ramming myself into AI opponents to gain a slew of rewards. My AI teammates were relatively unhelpful, but that's AI teammates for you.

Robocraft Infinity Vs Robocraft: Which Is Better?
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Robocraft on Steam, however, is a fully FTP service. The Steam download requires that you also download "Easy AntiCheat" software to it, which is never a good sign. The Steam version of the game also offers a Premium service, so you know exactly what that means. The keyboard and mouse setup does mean that cross-play won't be available between the PC and console versions of the game. I started from scratch with a generic robot, went straight into the battle arena, and was absolutely crushed. The lobby is supposed to balance robots, but the other team was not using all starter bots and we were easily slaughtered. I received some in game robits to help me pick up a better robot – my ability to build robots is absolutely nil – but it took me hours and hours of grinding through the PVE stages to get a better robot that could at least survive a PVP match for more than a few seconds.

So ultimately, the difference between the games is going to be determined by how cheap you are versus how impatient you are. Personally, I despise Freemium titles, so I'm absolutely going to prefer to Xbox One version of the game, despite already having 4K graphics for free with it on PC. I admit, I'm impatient as hell and willing to pay a bit upfront to progress a little bit quicker.


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Madeline RicchiutoAbout Madeline Ricchiuto

Madeline Ricchiuto is a gamer, comics enthusiast, bad horror movie connoisseur, writer and generally sarcastic human. She also really likes cats and is now Head Games Writer at Bleeding Cool.
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