My thoughts on the WX-78 skill tree Beta

[Dr.Webber]

I also posted this to suggestions and feedback, but as I was going to comment more on it I realize I should probably should’ve put it in the beta branch so here it is

There are a few skills that are replaceable listing the from most to least replaceable they are Hot swap, fine motor skills, and watts up 

maybe you can repurpose one of their slots for an upgrade to Jimmy like the new types of drones have you could offer us another one of them to add a skill dedicated to clockwork and another one dedicated to Terramites(if the affinities weren’t already going to be dedicated Terramites and broken clockworks or each being dedicated to jimmy)

speaking of alinements I think they should be WX using the respective powers to make there chassis adapt in battle plus a Jimmy abilities and maybe something to do with Terramites and clockworks but you probably have to an additional skill to each affinity if you did that (also when I say something to do with Terramites I mean specifically gain the ability to craft Gyroscopic Transduction Core)

also, considering that it only increases by one per skill, I feel like system backup 1-3 could be combined into one skill maybe even make it so with inhabited machine II your ability to possess your own dead body still applies even if you’ve reached the max amount of backup bodies

I’m also wondering if you produce a certain amount of backup bodies on one shard will that amount of backup bodies be deducted from the amount you can place on a different shard I’m also worried that once you uncover the rest of the map the Roto mapper will be useless so maybe you guys can give it a secondary use of some kind to make it’s useful afterwards maybe make it an upgrade to Jimmy that when used to scan the in area rather than a mob it shoots out a map instead of bio data although I’d prefer it to be its own separate thing still so I don’t know

also as a side note does WX transfer there consciousness to the backup body’s or do the have a copy (or backup if you would) of it and if so does that mean red gems can not just revive but create new life Or maybe they spits there consciousness across All them and that’s the reason they can only have a certain amount in universe 

[Dr.Webber]

The four  gamma circuits are underwhelming

I found the ability to turn raw into Nutrient blocks interesting But as pointed out by the person that made the video that I received this information so soon from  WX already has a never spoiling Food in gears I don’t know. Maybe I’m overestimating the commonness of gears I can also see it being useful for giving them to fellow players but that’s a bit underwhelming and it seems out of character for WX to go through the trouble of helping organics, even though nutrient bricks are the stereotypical “industrial, barely even considered food” food so I think it would be best if an additional was added on to the nutrient brick

spin cycle is the most useful out of the four I only have a few changes to make allow us to move around while spinning as well as expanding items, you can use it with two swords as well (excluding the fencing sword) and possibly blunt objects from both the tools and weapons sections(I’m also including tentacle spikes as a blunt object, even though I know it’s technically not, but it’s basically a bat with nails in it, and considering that the spikes are off to the side I think it would work well, unlike the spear which you clearly had good reason for not including in what WX can spin around)and if you insist on only having it work with axe variance allow us to use it to mine rocks with the pick/axe

The blocking and sonic noise can honestly be replaced, but since I’m guessing you guys put too much effort into it to replace it with a new concept I have an idea on how to improve the blocking one rather than just have them be a sitting duck and just sit there allowing yourself to get hit the small amount of damage when you probably could’ve just ran away if you weren’t gonna fight, I think it would be more than character being the machine, always striving too improve themselves if the block worked like the merm from the crown quest where it has a chance to happens automatically as they fight them, anticipating the next attack and blocking in time

for the sonic thing the best I can come up with at the moment is increasing the power to not just put creatures in panic mode, but to drive them off making them run away from you and maybe have the ability to move around while doing it. I don’t know anyone in the comments. Have a better idea. Let me know.

Edited April 4 by Dr.Webber

[Dr.Webber]

I watched another video and turns out different bodies don’t have different stats, which doesn’t really make sense because they’re supposed to be separate bodies. I would kind of get if sanity transferred over since you’re transferring consciousness, but it’s a new body so hunger and health should be unaffected by the previous party and considering that you can regain sanity alongside hunger and health by repairing yourself with gears, I don’t think even that should transfer between bodies

[Dr.Webber]

You could also alter how off by one works (and maybe give her a better name no offense) where WX crafts the additional slot for each of the circuit bars with you getting it by consuming it like gears with the additional ability to give it to robotic allies like the different types of drones, befriended clockworks(broken and non-broken),terramites so you can give them circuits or maybe if we revisit my replacing Hot swap, fine motor skills, and watts up idea you could add a off by one II or you could add skills to give us new types of chassis’s

[hhhhddh]

6 minutes ago, Dr.Webber said:

off by one

Off-by-one is a pun I like it a lot

[Dr.Webber]

33 minutes ago, hhhhddh said:

Off-by-one is a pun I like it a lot

 I don’t get it could you explain the pun

[hhhhddh]

1 minute ago, Dr.Webber said:

 I don’t get it could you explain the pun

It's a bug related to when you traversing an array,  use <= in loop to traversing index(it should be <) and make the array bounds overflow. Yeah I think it's hard to get if someone haven't learn programming.

[Dr.Webber]

Do you think the reason why WX78 refers to the different drones that are the same model by the same it’s because they share a consciousness

Do you think the canonical reason WX can make three more backup  bodies when in the caves is they lost connection with the other three so they deemed it advantageous to make three more down in the cave was

I was also thinking since the Roto mapper and electric drone strike drone has the synergy with the range booster circuit what if the transporting drone and Jimmy had synergy with the in inventory elasta  spacer circuit like imagine, Jimmy just transfer his bio data to that specific inventory slot rather than dropping it on the ground or a transporting drone had one of those inventory slots

2 hours ago, hhhhddh said:

It's a bug related to when you traversing an array,  use <= in loop to traversing index(it should be <) and make the array bounds overflow. Yeah I think it's hard to get if someone haven't learn programming.

You’re right but that sounds interesting. I take back what I said about finding a better name 

Edited April 6 by Dr.Webber

[Dr.Webber]

2 hours ago, hhhhddh said:

It's a bug related to when you traversing an array,  use <= in loop to traversing index(it should be <) and make the array bounds overflow. Yeah I think it's hard to get if someone haven't learn programming.

Although that makes me wonder How much is their inner workings similar to technology nowadays(or possibly a sci-fi exaggeration of technology of today), and how much is steam punk

[Kvetevk]

Are you talking with yourself?

[Dr.Webber]

On 4/6/2026 at 7:46 AM, Kvetevk said:

Are you talking with yourself?

Maybe but if you have any idea what the answers are. Let me know.

Edited April 10 by Dr.Webber

[Dr.Webber]

I watched another video and it showed that you could actually use the nutrient bricks to fuel the ice fling manic and I know that was probably because the ice cream automatic can also be powered by rock what if they could also give it to Jules, too power her since either her or her mouth runs out of power possibly use it to power other technology

You could also add a skill where if WX repairs wobot it doesn’t break over time or independent of whether or not WX fixed it refuel it with nutrient bricks or repair it with gears if not fully broken

[Dr.Webber]

Great job on the spin cycle circuit few notes though maybe make it last a bit longer before they get dizzy if used in a fight the occurrence amount of time isn’t conducive also they’re a robot so I don’t know why they would get dizzy maybe makes it cause something else like the torso gets unlogged for a second

I still think the nutrient brick he’s a little something more  to it

the sonic and blocking circuits still aren’t useful. You can replace them with the parasite and rhythm circuits that were in the game files I was really excited for the parasite one

Now I’m going to the main part of why I’m writing this comment lunar affinity is interesting in concept, but having it limited to three of them is kind of limiting, and they can still starve so right now they’re more trouble and they worth in the shadow of the is quite underwhelming. All it does is collect an extra collectible for you and increase the amount of damage you do if you have a shadow atrium I mean if you’re going to do something related to put a heart in to a they’re chassis you could’ve at least made the ability you get from it he twisted reflection of the empathy module

I really think you should consider my ideas for the alignment

You could also do something similar to this guy‘s idea: 

 

[Dr.Webber]

Great changes to the lunar affinity one suggestion though allow them to use repair kits

You should also change the shadow affinity
 

Now that you have combined four skills into two maybe you could give Jimmy a skill

Also, maybe once possessed by a gestalt they no longer count us back up bodies, allowing you to make more possessed chassises and have backup bodies across the map

And since Scott and Jules already have synergy with the range booster circuit maybe we could make the upgrades different from just boosting the range you can use them particularly Scott sense he’s basically useless once you uncovered all the map thus needing an additional use for a longevity

[Dr.Webber]

I feel like WX should have a unique interaction with terramites like be able to craft a Gyroscopic Transduction Core so they don’t have to break any of them to befriend them or maybe having the ability to repair them in some other way and possibly even one for clockworks like a buff or something