no skill [rant]

absolute no skill and strategy, just staying in front of the enemy and holding down the fire button, relying on the bot's stats.

"uh oh, uh oh, we need the Shield! Where is he?!?"




Doesn't use cover, tactics, or use team play. Just stands in front of enemy bots and hits the shield button to win. What a legend

All his bots are set up so you literally just stand in front of enemy bots and hold down the fire button. The bot's stats does the rest.

I know you are trolling, but I’ll take the bait.

Whatever you feel about the current meta/sub-meta, it isn’t cool taking it out on Adrian. He is a friendly and (mostly) cool guy who has done more for the game than any one here. And he’s a strong player as well, so labeling his vids “no skill” is disingenuous.

I'm not trolling. I want a fair game. I don't want to be in a league where my bots are getting wiped out by monetized bots and weapons.


I'm sure Adrian is a nice guy, but his videos illustrate how cheesey the monetized bots and weapons are vs regular bots and weapons.

Again, I've realized Pixonic is a Russian company, they made the game to extract money. They don't care about gameplay or the quality of their product. It is too bad because it is a very good game I wouldn't mind spending money on, but no more money than a console or PC game.

I've already accepted it. I'm going to tank and no spawn my last bot until I get to recruit league and smash them with my maxed out bots. Pretty soon noobs will rage quit or shell out money until the whole game is nothing but jump, fire, jump, fire, jump, fire, rinse repeat. Or hit shield button, stand in front of enemy and fire. It's like developers created a balanced game with gameplay in mind, each bot with different strengths, then the Russians took control of it and started squeezing the fun and money out of it. 

Just want my games like this again. Evenly matched and not a one sided victory. 

Nothing against Russians. I thought the game was developed by Americans because of the in-game developer's news, then bought by Mail.ru


I had the feeling the game was once a good game because it was fun as hell until I started seeing monetized bots and weapons.  

To the original vid, the skill involved in running Tulumba Spectre is knowing the lay of the land, where the sight lines and angles are, how the rockets will hit, knowing how much to compensate your aim for the slow moving rockets plus your speed plus the targets speed, being in the right position for the opportunity to hit the target, jumping so you don’t land in a dumb place, and more.

Tulumba Spectre is a fun bot to play and it takes skill to play it effectively, but that doesn’t mean it can be played without skill. Like on Carrier I’ll see one parked behind a particular forward cover and they jump, shoot, wait 22 seconds, jump shoot wait. The whole game they stay there in their gimmick and usually don’t do much damage. That’s unskilled. One should be anticipating, moving, hunting, learning, trying, risking.

For your real issue though I think you’ve answered it, go back to Silver league. Don’t tank to Recruit with overpowered gear, just lessen your gear a bit so you slide back to Silver and play. Don’t level things beyond what will take you out of Silver. You need to have a self-imposed cap to not move up. I do this on a couple smurf accounts and know the temptation to keep leveling, oh then I’ll be in charge, but then I’ll move too high. Just leave it because I know where I want to play and will pay the price of 50% losses for it. And in your case, being a new player, to stay in Silver long term you may have to lessen your gear several times as your skill grows.