Robotrek: New Bot Types
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Gives each of Robotrek's robots a class: a sword-focused Infiltrator, a gun-focused Hunter and a bomb-heavy Juggernaut, each with its own strengths and drawbacks.
What it adds
In the original game the three robots you can own are blank slates. This hack turns them into three classes, chosen when you buy each robot, so a party naturally covers different roles.
- Infiltrator hits harder with swords, moves one extra tile in battle and starts with weak Guard; its guns and bombs are less effective.
- Hunter is built around guns and lasers, at the cost of a little extra recovery time on gun attacks.
- Juggernaut gets stronger bombs and a tougher starting build but moves one tile less.
The bonuses also apply to RUN programs that use the matching weapons. Each class has fixed minimum stats, the shop shows a preview of a class before you buy it, and the class name is shown on the roster, status, equipment and Program screens. The original graphics and the whole campaign are left as they were.
Playing it
The patch is for the US release of Robotrek: apply it to your own copy of the game following the instructions in RetchE's repository. The author notes the hack was made with AI assistance.