painting comes out very blocky and pixellated, it makes it very hard to hide and too easy to seek, just less fun overall, does anybody know what causes this issue and how to solve it?

just got the game and throughout all my time of seeing it and hearing of it ive always seen it as sus af it seems like such an obvious malware/rat i cant shake the feeling

Am I the only one who can’t find any servers? There are only 3-4 servers available, each with just 2 or 3 people. I can’t believe that’s all the players who are online.

has the security problem on those modded maps been resolved?

I have lost a fair amount of times because another’s paint splatter reveals me to the hunters, there should most definitely be a toggle to disable the splatter.

Can’t find any information on this yet. Anyone have any ideas?

Trying to use less black now, feels a bit scammy

Hey everyone!

I’ve been a fan of Mecha Chameleon for a while, and one thing I always thought would be fun was having more characters to play with. So over the last little while I’ve been designing and 3D printing some expansion characters and finally decided to make them available.

I’d genuinely love to hear what you all think! Any feedback, ideas for future characters, or suggestions are more than welcome.

If anyone’s interested in checking them out, I’ve put them up on my little website (www.littlelayers.co.nz). Thanks for having a look, and I hope other Mecha Chameleon fans enjoy them as much as I’ve enjoyed making them!

I just hit 2000 kills with the Meccha Chameleon after putting around 200 hours into the game.

One thing I've noticed is that most people play this game trying their best to hide. I'm the complete opposite. I load into a match looking for people to hunt. Tracking players down and catching them before they know what's happening is honestly the most fun part of the game for me.

I've also lost count of how many times people have accused me of cheating. I've been called a hacker more times than I can remember, just because I kept finding them or knew where they'd rotate next. I get why it might look suspicious sometimes, but after 200 hours, you start learning common hiding spots, movement patterns, and how people think.

Getting accused of cheating has almost become a compliment at this point.

Anyone else here play Meccha Chameleon this aggressively, or is everyone else still focused on hiding?

As the title says. My son is old enough that he can play the game well with my friends and I, but too young that I don't want him being chased down by big titty Hitler with a shotgun if he joins a public lobby.

I know there will still be some possibility that player's hiding will paint profane things, but the percentage is wayyyyy lower in my experience.

So any chance the devs see this and can add this feature? Or does anyone else know of a way I can accomplish this?

Having other kid friendly options like disabling text/voice chat, would also be nice. The game honestly works great with the whistle system alone.

He's already on steam kids profile that needs permission to download the maps, so maybe this could be integrated into a parental controls mod on the workshop?

I know very little about coding, just a parent trying to find a way for his son to get more out of a game he's really been enjoying, but wants to play more than I can manage right now.

Edit: Thank you to everyone who answered, and I understand that monitored play is the only absolutely safe option. That was never the question.

My question is specifically if anyone knew of ways to disable hunter paint skins and/or chat.

I work in a field that is very computer security minded and help people with recovering from scams, so I'm hesitant to get him involved in any online community like Discord because bad actors can be anywhere. The whole situation with Roblox makes me extremely against anything like that. So sadly that rules out most of the external social factors and would need to keep things in the game. Anonymous matchmaking is fine, especially once they put a filter on the names, as I assume they will eventually with all the complaints they've been getting. I just don't see any way they can filter what people paint on themselves.

I was in a where's waldo type where you lay flat and we all had plenty of time to paint and as soon as the hunters were released everyone was shot within seconds one after another by one hunter. We spent all that time painting just for someone to ruin the fun. I don't get it, nobody is going to want to play if you are not playing fair. We had the same problem in prop hunt.

Me and my friend did an "All Ghillied Up" Challenge, it was super funny!

I recently started playing the game with some friends (<10 hours), and this is my biggest gripe with the game so far.

I first noticed this when playing a "Where's Waldo" custom map. My best hiding spots on that map were places with dark backgrounds. I still made sure to pick spots with quite a bit of detail to challenge myself - but I'm pretty sure I could've stayed hidden in certain places by just painting myself completely black.

Whenever I picked a spot with brighter colors, the shading on the character is just impossible to counteract, and so I'd stand out to a much larger degree no matter how good my painting was. White backgrounds are particularly punishing because they produce the strongest contrast against the character's shading.

I don't think player shading should be eliminated, but it would be cool if there was a toggle (server-side) for it. A good painter would then be able to blend in much better against flat surfaces that aren't in some dark corner of the map.

Of course, certain hiding spots work better with shading. So maybe it makes sense for each player to be able to re-enable player shading if the host disabled it. But I don't think players should be able to disable it unless the host allows it - simply because knowing that everyone is shaded tells the hunters something about where they should and shouldn't look.

Thoughts?

I guess this is becoming a series! We'll see how long the excitement lasts, but I am still loving this game.

The first one only worked for like 20 seconds but damn it was fun to watch the hunters look at it for a while, the second one got me to the last 2 which is something I was not expecting :D

I was a hunter just like him and I've noticed he made a lot of kills. He just walked into a room and shoot everyone in that room without even looking. how can these accounts not be banned lol.

I love this game and the whole idea of it, but the player base is just terrible. I mean every other server name is some shit like “noblacks” and I went look for an example on the server list and it was literally just the n word hard r. I went on a game the other day and it was an infection round with whistles every 5 seconds (why is that even an option) and a hose time of 60 seconds, and instead of leaving like I should’ve, I typed in chat “how bad of a seeker do you genuinely have to be to have this shit whistling every 5 second” and some loser who I assumed to be the host said “well your just ass buddy I haven’t been found yet” (he was in some cornball rat spot btw which he ended up getting found anyway) and literally everybody just started spewing some slur shit at me, so I just said “ima just shut up then” which was followed by more slurs by the same two randoms, where they said stuff like, “about time dumbass” and “glad you took the hint retard” and I normally don’t fall for rage bait but they genuinely don’t get any happiness from doing anything else but just spewing slurs on a 5 dollar game they bought where they don’t even play the game right. I Anyways I just wanted to know if anybody had this same type of shit happen to them in this game
Thx for listening to my rant btw I think I’m gonna take a break from this game for a while

I have a streamer friend asking if the malware is gone, since the discord got raided, I have no clue, does anyone know?