Concept board · not gameplay
pre-alpha · internal build · friends and family
Speed is the weapon. Glide the terrain, Burn your Mach Drive, break the line. MACHBREAK is a competitive momentum shooter where every fight is decided by the velocity you brought to it.
287km/h · runner velocity · design target
MACHBREAK is a competitive momentum shooter. As a Machborne operator, Glide the Vector Lattice, Burn your Mach Drive, and Break the line. Capture in BreakFlag. Outpace Helix Concord, Frontier Ascendancy, Iron Covenant and Null Collective. One rule: keep moving or die still.
You run a frame — Strider, Ranger or Bulwark — across terrain that is the real weapon system. Glide to build speed, Burn to shape your arc, and Break to shatter the enemy line at the Breakline. The one mode that defines the game is BreakFlag: take the enemy Core, carry it home, deny theirs. No loadout bloat, no static gunfights. Read the flow, commit the Break, and turn velocity into the win. A stranger gets it in one pass: move faster than the other team or lose the Core and the fight.
Pre-alpha, and playable. An internal build runs on a dedicated server on two channels, Live and a public test realm, for friends and family through a Windows launcher. Six maps, three frames, thirteen weapons, six packs, eleven deployables, base defence, a hover scout, and bots that fill a server. The movement and combat phases are done; the core prototype has all its content and waits on its exit test: an 8-a-side session with humans that produces real tactics. The screenshots on this site are that build; the concept boards are labelled Concept.
Development build
Downhill momentum is preserved. Glide, Burn, Cut, Dive, Rise: a novice moves at 30–70 km/h, an elite runner past 250, and every speed is measured in-engine and regression-tested. Six maps, from a 260 m dueling arena to the icefield at over a kilometre flag to flag.
Glide, Burn, Break →
Development build
Two bases, two Cores. The Runner takes the enemy Core and carries it home along a Breakline while the other team intercepts, escorts and pressures the base. The only mode in the build, and the one that gets finished first.
The flagship mode →
Development build
No important capability comes from one player pressing one button. The pieces are in the build: sensors, jammers, cloak, beacons, a Spotter that paints an aim solution for the mortar, repair, and a power grid that turns a base off when its generator goes down. Making them one readable chain is the next design job.
The beacon-artillery chain →These are screenshots of the build that is running today. Physics and competitive latency came first; the look is catching up map by map and body by body, and nothing here is a render.
Every test-realm build goes out with dev notes, and every consequential change is an experiment with a hypothesis, telemetry and a keep-or-remove decision. The dev log is generated from those records, so it is as honest as the numbers in it. The most recent entries:
The test realm just moved to a build with the Bulwark's production bodies, four variants picked by the pack you wear. Its rotation is the icefield and Proving Ground: a big map and an arena. The next milestone is the first 8-a-side session with humans, the core prototype's exit test. After that, one element at a time, vehicles first.
Last updated 2026-10-25.
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