Card Ability / Deck management - Status of the abilities feature

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Hey guys.We thought we´d share with you guys a couple of screenshots and some thoughts on where the card ability feature and its deck management are evolving to, as well as WIP work on Kaiju selections, and some new weapons.As you have probably guessed by now, we are heavily inspired by card battlers such as Clash Royale and more, and we´ve taken quite a lot of queues from those games. We are having loads of fun playing the game after the card ability update, but it is clear that we need to a) introduce more and interesting abilities, b) be able to construct a killer deck that is most likely different from your opponents, and c) plug all of this into the progression system.Here you can see an early version of this UI. It is structurally similar to card games on mobile, but it does work fairly well in VR. This test uses the 8 abilities that are already out on steam, but the final version will not have duplicate abilities, obviously. We would love to get some feedback and thoughts on this stuff from you guys.We are extending the kaiju system to allow selection of the kaiju, including choosing skins, as well as having each kaiju bring a cool and powerful secondary weapon. Choosing a Kaiju thus becomes a tactical choice, and that of taste and playstyle. Want to use a beam laser of doom (the flower gun) - choose that kaiju. Want to use massive gatling guns, choose the kaiju that has that. You get the point.We´ve prepared a quick GIF to show where we are at with the UI: (This is recorded from within the editor, so some static data strings are not updated properly from the backend - hence the weird names and so on)We will be doing a UX pass on this in coming days, but we aim to release an early version of this as soon as we can. Perhaps tomorrow.These weapons are much more powerful than the main pistols, but require ammo or charges. These are dished out using the pick-up system (the one where you get awarded health and damage mods). As mentioned above, each Kaiju comes with his or her fav secondary weapon.Anwyays, just wanted to share with you guys some progress on those things. We will fire off a post with a list of all the new abilities, secondary weapons and Kaiju´s in coming days.Please provide feedback! :)