Heavy Metal Machines News

The Colosseum is where the Metal City Gladiators battle for prestige and supremacy! An online tournament that takes place within the game every Sunday.

[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]

Join in! All matches are worth double the Fame, so you can buy that Model or Machine that is missing from your account.

Beginner’s Colosseum Rewards:
– 1st Place: 1.500 Fame per player
– 2nd Place: 1.250 Fame per player
– 3rd Place: 1.000 Fame per player

Veteran’s Colosseum Rewards:
– 1st Place: Prestige Badge + 1.500 Fame per player
– 2nd Place: 1.250 Fame per player
– 3rd Place: 1.000 Fame per player

Prestige Badge:
The Team players who achieve 1st place in the Veteran’s Colosseum will receive a prestige point in their Badge.

Every edition your Team wins in the Veteran’s Colosseum will be awarded 1 prestige point, and every 5 points earned, the Badge evolves into the next level. So keep playing and winning the Veteran division to collect points and make your Badge unique!

Your Badge and prestige points are permanent and individual. Therefore, you can change your Team with each edition of the Colosseum. Also, they don’t depend on the Ranked Mode level or Metal Pass Seasons.

Tournaments Schedule:
The Tournaments take place every Sunday, lasting 3 hours.

EU – 1 pm to 4 pm (GMT-0)
SA – 4 pm to 7 pm (GMT-0)

Each weekend we’ll have an event completely separate from the other. In other words: everything is resolved on the same day. You assemble a Team, play, discover your final placement, and the prize pool will go straight to your account within 48 hours!



How are we going to separate who plays Beginner and Veteran?

On Sundays, during the period of the tournament, just enter the game and press “Play” in the Colosseum queue; the system will then analyze all Team members to decide whether the Team will participate in the Veteran or Beginner division.

To participate in the Veteran division, at least one player of the Team must have 500 total victories or more (not counting custom matches) in their account OR must be Gold division (2.000 points or more) in Ranked Mode. Teams that don’t match one of these requirements will be placed in the Beginner division.

The system will analyze the status of each member at the moment the Team captain officially clicks to participate in the tournament. If a Team member surpasses one of these criteria during the competition, the placement won’t change – what counts is the moment of registration. For this reason, changes in the Team (substitution, inclusion or removal of members) will not be allowed during the tournament. Teams can leave the tournament, create a new Team, and then register again if they choose – but this will result in that Team losing any points they’ve gained up to that point.



Check out all the Colosseum Rules.

Remember: registration is completely free, just click on “Play” in the Colosseum queue in South America and Europe servers (you can play on both servers if you want)!

Now that you know everything, assemble your team on our Teammates Finder (also known as Teamder), and start training!

See you in the Arenas!

Hello, Metal Gladiators

Maintenance is scheduled for September 10th, from 12:00 to 16:00 (UTC+1), to apply an update that includes a new feature: the Colosseum. The update also brings a balance update for 4 Machines, improvements for gamepad usability and bugfixes.

Version: 10.00.115


The Metal League will now take place entirely outside the game. Please check the following link to learn more about it: https://www.heavymetalmachines.com/site/noticia/metal-league/

[hr][/hr]

The Colosseum is a new feature that creates weekly in-game Tournaments for Teams, with two divisions: Beginner and Veteran. Using a structure similar to the well known Metal League, we want to bring the competition between Teams to the next level.

Participating Teams will receive twice as much Fame per match, and rewards will be given every week to the top 3 Teams on Beginner’s and Veteran's Colosseum.

Please check this article out for more information.

[hr][/hr]

[h2]Dirt Devil[/h2]
Weapon 1

• Daze duration applied to the target has been increased from 0.25s to 0.50s.

Weapon 3

• Cooldown has been reduced from 5s to 4s.
  
• Duration of the harpoon attached to the target has been reduced from 4s to 3s.
  
• Harpoon damage has been reduced from 140 to 115.

[h2]Peacemaker[/h2]
General

• The friction of the tank’s threads has been increased, making push effects last for less time.

Weapon 1

• Explosion Hit Damage has been reduced from 50 to 25.
  
• Projectile Hit Damage has been increased from 100 to 125.
  
• Explosion Hit Push Force has been increased by 10%.
  
• Projectile Speed has been reduced by 10%.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the Projectile Hit Push effect to be applied in the wrong direction.

Weapon 2

• Explosion Damage has been reduced from 100 to 50.
  
• Critical Damage Area has been reduced by 30%.

Weapon 3

• Warm up has been removed.
  
• Cooldown reduced from 4s to 3s.

[h2]Stargazer[/h2]
Weapon 3

• Cooldown (while attached) has been reduced from 3s to 2s.
  
• The available area to switch to another team player has been increased by 20%. It makes teleport between players (while attached) easier.

Special Weapon

• Special Weapon Energy Loss Per Hit has been reduced from 10% to 8% of the damage taken.

[h2]Windrider[/h2]
Weapon 1

• Special Weapon Energy Gain has been increased by 10%.

Weapon 3

• Added Instant Boost upon weapon activation.
  
• Trail Lifetime (per orb) has been increased from 2s to 4s.

[hr][/hr]

• Fixed a bug in which the purchase button at the shop was not “cross button” (PS4) or “A button” (Xbox).
  
• The “Statistics” button has been assigned to the “Up” directional button.
  
• The “Weapon Information” button has been assigned to the “triangle button” (PS4) or “A button” (Xbox).
  
• Added an option to customize the “Statistics” and “Weapon Information” buttons when using a gamepad.

Notice: Customized controls will reset to default options after the update. Please make sure to set up your custom controls before joining a match.

[hr][/hr]

• Several localization issues have been fixed in the game.
  
• Fixed a bug where scoring a goal interrupted the narrator's speech.
  
• Added a “close button” in the Training window that appears when trying to join the queue for the first time with an account.

[hr][/hr]

[h2]Performance[/h2]
Fixed an issue that caused the game to consume more RAM in certain cases, causing performance issues.
[h2]Bad Words Filter[/h2]
The bad words list has been updated, removing some words that were too restrictive and adding new words to the filter.

[hr][/hr]
To share your feedback, please post in our Discord or the General Discussion forum.

Heavy Metal Machines Team

Show us your love for HMM and your artistic talent! 🎨
Participate in the Heavy Metal Machines FanArt Contest! Send your masterpiece to [email protected] and the top 3 will be rewarded with in-game items! It can be a drawing, a digital artwork, a video, sculpture, anything! You have until September 6th to send it. and the result will come out on September 10th on our social media! #HMMFanArt

Participate as much as you like, and as much as your creativity allows!
By participating, you give us the right to publish your art on our social networks.

Rewards (the winner will choose from items available in the Store):
1st Place: Heavy Metal Model
2nd Place: Metal Legend Model
3rd Place: Rockstar Model

Metal Pass Season 10 is here!


7 AMAZING Heavy Metal Models!
12 visual EFFECTS
10 EMOTES
10 SPRAYS
And much more!

[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]

Play now!

Hello, Metal Gladiators

Maintenance is scheduled for August 12th, from 12:00 to 16:00 (UTC+1), to apply an update that brings the 10th Season of the Metal Pass, the Mute Player System, the return of the improved Quick Chat, and more.

Version: 10.00.100


Check out all the rewards on our website.

• 7 Heavy Metal Models for the following Machines:
  
  • Dirt Devil
    
  • Clunker
    
  • Photon
    
  • Rampage
    
  • Stingray
    
  • Peacemaker
    
  • Icebringer
• 10 Emotes
  
• 10 Sprays
  
• 4 Score Effects
  
• 2 Start Line Effects
  
• 5 Rebuilding Effects
  
• 1 Kill Effect
  
• 2 Portraits
  
• 1 Machine: Clunker

A new feature has been added to the game, allowing players to mute other players, in two ways: Voice chat and Social interactions.

• Mute Voice Chat: When this option is activated, only the voice from the blocked player will be muted.
  
• Mute Social interactions: When this option is activated, Chat messages, Quick Chat, Emotes and Sprays from the blocked player will no longer appear in the game.
  
• All these options can be used at any time during a match, or in the game’s menus.

The Quick Chat has returned to the game, with improved messages, allowing players to communicate in an easy and speedy way.

Press the ALT key (or D-pad’s right button in your gamepad) to activate the chat wheel, move the mouse (or Right Stick in your gamepad) over the desired message, and release ALT to send the message to your Team. As a reminder, only your Team can see the Quick Chat messages - use it in your advantage to win matches!


All Arenas’ lighting has been improved, giving them a clearer environment (visually).


The list of banned words is now active while chatting in the custom match lobby, and during a match. Banned words will be replaced by asterisks.


Several improvements were made to the Narrator, applying better ambience effects to the voices, reducing some long lines, and removing unnecessary lines that may be confusing to some players.


The native game Voice Chat platform has been changed to Vivox. This platform greatly improves the quality of voice in the game, without changing any of the current commands.


The copy and paste process for players using Gamepad was improved. Now it’s possible to copy the code from the Chat and paste in the Custom Match menu by pressing the assigned button.


When the game starts, the first screen that appears is the welcome screen. Press any button to continue to the main menu.


The Champions’ Totems in the Arenas were updated, and this time there are three banners from the following champion Teams:

• RMS
• ROLL
• NEON

Several performance improvements were added to the game, especially for computers with lower specifications.

• Fixed a bug in the Ranking section of the Metal League menu in which the “See Finals Details” was not appearing.
  
• Fixed a bug with Vulture’s soundtrack at the match’s ending screen.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the selection box to disappear in the Emote section on the Inventory, when equipping/unequipping an item.
  
• Fixed a bug with the time format in the Metal League menu. Now, all times are displayed in 24h format.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the match time to appear negative in the Spectator menu.
  
• Several localization fixes for all languages available.

To share your feedback, please post in our Discord or the General Discussion forum.

Heavy Metal Machines Team