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Post by martag on Sept 13, 2019 14:30:23 GMT -5
I'm wondering what it takes to open a super chest. I've read various posts that suggest the number of keys, though I've seen numbers from 7,500 to ~12,000, and have seen a couple tips, but it seems almost impossible and rising in leagues doesn't increase keys earned so this doesn't seem like it's just a factor of my being in a lower league (Diamond II). I've read the following things about SC progression already: war-robots-forum.freeforums.net/thread/24490/super-chest-progression-guide-2018 (the stickied post) link to post on Reddit forumWar Robots U postI also remember, but can't find, a post (I think on this forum) that suggested an easy F2P strategy was to grind a SC every month to have a hanger of meta-bots in five months. Perhaps this advice is what is has most led me astray. The only solid tips I've found for getting a SC are the following: - Use all ads to open bronze chests
- Open only bronze chests (to increase odds of getting more keys)
- Reset Advertiser ID (to avoid caps on ads watched)
I've been doing these things (playing an average of 10-15 games a day) and am not even halfway through the progression bar. Since the bar isn't linear there's no way I'd reach a SC by the end of the month except that I should be getting 4,050 keys from buying the operations pass. I have not collected the operations keys yet and if I don't think I'll reach a SC I'll wait until next month to collect the keys and hope I can get some additional keys in the next operations. The fact that I may not get a SC despite buying either half or a third of the required keys is somewhat astounding to me.
Are there other things that can be done to reach a SC other than buying keys? Has anyone successfully gotten a "free" SC? If it's impossible to get a "free" SC how many free keys do you think you could get in a month (everyone is different so no point in guessing what someone else might get)? Apologies if this question is already addressed in another post. I tried searching the forum but was unable to find anything. I may have been using the search function incorrectly.
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Post by Loganspawn on Sept 13, 2019 14:34:40 GMT -5
The answer is yes you can.... Doing the above mentioned while also maximizing play to earn keys and playing more.
I get a free one every month. I did get more when we had honor boost we could run.
You do have to play a ton to get it free so most are not going to make it.
Good luck and happy hunting.
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Post by titando on Sept 13, 2019 14:40:56 GMT -5
It has become more difficult to get the super chest. The operation pass will help. My bar is currently just slightly over 1/4. That is with opening 1 gold chest (keys from operation pass), a few silver chests, and watching all the bronze chest ads that are available. Last month, I just barely made it (with 2-3 days to spare). It looks like this month it will be the same. I'm not sure if I could do it without the operations pass though. I play 20-30 matches daily.
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Post by Munki on Sept 13, 2019 15:09:39 GMT -5
Don't think you need to reset your advertiser ID. At least on iOS, only the reduce time on an upgrade has a 5 view limit that needs a reset. I can theoretically watch Bronze ads all day (though I've had a lot of issues with getting the ads to work the past couple weeks). Also, I have heard the progress bar is now linear (I think in an Islander video).
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Post by martag on Sept 13, 2019 15:16:28 GMT -5
Don't think you need to reset your advertiser ID. At least on iOS, only the reduce time on an upgrade has a 5 view limit that needs a reset. I can theoretically watch Bronze ads all day (though I've had a lot of issues with getting the ads to work the past couple weeks). Also, I have heard the progress bar is now linear (I think in an Islander video). I only recently learned about the advertiser ID. At the time I was speeding upgrades so I know those were capped, but I was also checking my ads on black market. I didn't do anything methodical, but was noticing ads not being available in black market too even after playing a couple games. Haven't seen that since adopting the practice. Maybe I'm wrong and it's not necessary on iOS, but I'm doing it anyway. If progress bar is linear now that will make a SC each month much more attainable. If I find that vid I'll post a link here.
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Post by Ⓑⓞⓑ Ⓓⓨⓛⓐⓝ on Sept 13, 2019 15:23:13 GMT -5
martag The bar *is* linear now, they changed that a while back. Playing 10-15 games a day isn't enough probably, if you're dead set on getting a SC get a keys booster and play agressive BR games for a solid 30 minutes and don't even look at the score card. The instant you mech or the game is over fire another BR match. When i'm running solo or duo I jam as many games into those windows as possible. The SC number is something like 8,000? I used to have a hard number but key progression for ads is slightly more than opening a bronze chest.
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Post by martag on Sept 13, 2019 16:20:14 GMT -5
martag The bar *is* linear now, they changed that a while back. That's great. If I'm almost halfway through without any extra keys I may be able to get a SC again without buying keys. Slightly OT. Though I've just started playing I am beginning to understand the frustration with Pix changing things up all the time. Seems like most of the info I came across in the first month of playing was plain wrong because it was anywhere from 2 months to a year old. Playing 10-15 games a day isn't enough probably, if you're dead set on getting a SC get a keys booster and play agressive BR games for a solid 30 minutes and don't even look at the score card. The instant you mech or the game is over fire another BR match. When i'm running solo or duo I jam as many games into those windows as possible. The SC number is something like 8,000? I used to have a hard number but key progression for ads is slightly more than opening a bronze chest. Good advice. I don't get many key boosters yet, but have been focused on BR because it fits my hangar best (slow bots starting from home every time is a huge drag). I don't know my true average # of games. Some days I can't get more than five in and some days I get closer to 30. Regardless, I'll see how far I can get without extras and then at the end of the month add in the 2 key boosters I have as well as the keys from operations to close the gap if needed.
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Post by milty72 on Sept 13, 2019 18:02:12 GMT -5
If you play enough it's easy to get the SC as Bob and Loganspawn have said. I find to pace myself I allow 4 days too complete two hexes. That's one small and one wide. There's also I thought that ads speed it up by being around 15keys of value. I dumped 500 keys on at the start of a new month on a clean bar and it appeared to move it further than it nd should have. I think all bronze chests are registered as 15keys. That's a clean 500 key drop on bronze chests. Check this thread for the gold chest drop to see how far 1000keys is registered as. war-robots-forum.freeforums.net/thread/35285/500-keys-gives-ya
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2019 21:41:47 GMT -5
I'm a free player, and it's totally possible. I don't remember the exact number anymore, maybe 7500? They changed it so every leaguer can get it now. Used to be reallll easy for champers.
So the latest 411 is just open all bronze chests, spend all ads on them. I save up 1000 keys, and then open Gold chests because i just can't be fluffed with pressing a button 100x. But you get a bit more keys.
I usually make the Super with only a day or 2 to spare. I have to collect > 100 keys a day. So i open a Gold chest (aka i gotz 1000 keys) at the 10th, 20th, and 30th of the month. Last few days, you can play a bit more if you find yourself falling behind, or use key boosters.
So the bar is linear.
Lastly, there's so many ways to keep track of your progress. I used to count the number of games played per day to make sure i view enough ads. But that was super tedious. With the current totals, i think 18-22 games per day, every single day is needed.
I mainly do it now for the extra silver. Like, I'll sell whatever bot i get. I have more bots than i can use, so i don't need bots. I leave my WS empty for the most part to save silver. It's worth about 4-5M in silver. It's just little tricks to maximize my silver earnings. Also, always open the SD and let that stupid thing roll around every 20h, so big pain in the keister. It's worth a cool 3M if you do it right. Ok, this isn't about silver, but man you can tell i'm so poor rn.
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Post by Lyte on Sept 13, 2019 22:12:17 GMT -5
Ditto to all of the above. I got a SC for two months in a row by going threw bronze chests. It was a grind! The second time around I discovered you can actually bypass ... cut short... many of the ads by hitting BACK or by exiting the game and going back in... it was still a grind!
Someone suggested the GOLD chests were better... resources and such... and even some bots... that person was right! I got two GOLD chests and hit 1k gold and 5K power cells.
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Post by Browncoats4ever on Sept 13, 2019 22:19:00 GMT -5
Getting the SC in Diamond is a lot more work compared to higher leagues. At Expert, you get Key Boosters which really help to reach that goal. Also, the higher league you're in, the more Honor Points you can get per battle which makes it easier to reach that Expert Battle Crate. Last month I opened a SC without using Key Boosters, but I was playing a lot more to get through the Operations. This month, I used 1300 keys from the Operations and maybe 5 or 6 Key Boosters playing 1-2 hours a day, using all ads minus 10(to speed upgrades) so I'm just over halfway to the SC. I need just 150 more keys to open another Gold Chest. That'll be the third this month. So a Sc is definitely in the future.
I opened one SC before I got into Expert league, but I was busting my kiester. Most of the replies here are from Champion and Master, and me (Expert/Master). So unless you want to commit to a lot of battles (grinding) concentrate on building your current hangar and have fun. If you're serious about getting the SC, you need to play 20-30 matches a day to ensure a SC by the end of the month. Good luck!
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Post by zombiewolf907 on Sept 14, 2019 1:28:17 GMT -5
I used to be able to grind out two SC per month. For some reason my progress has slowed down. I have not been spinning the bronze chests as the gold chests have some fairly good prizes. Actually won a Phantom with a gold spin. Just over half way at this point so I will earn one this month. May go back to bronze chests next month just to see if I can get 2 chests again. Another thing slowing me down is that I use ads to complete clan tasks. Used to change the impossible (for me) tasks but that is no longer an option.
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Post by cav8r on Sept 14, 2019 9:18:42 GMT -5
I'm wondering what it takes to open a super chest. I've read various posts that suggest the number of keys, though I've seen numbers from 7,500 to ~12,000, and have seen a couple tips, but it seems almost impossible and rising in leagues doesn't increase keys earned so this doesn't seem like it's just a factor of my being in a lower league (Diamond II). I've read the following things about SC progression already: war-robots-forum.freeforums.net/thread/24490/super-chest-progression-guide-2018 (the stickied post) link to post on Reddit forumWar Robots U postI also remember, but can't find, a post (I think on this forum) that suggested an easy F2P strategy was to grind a SC every month to have a hanger of meta-bots in five months. Perhaps this advice is what is has most led me astray. The only solid tips I've found for getting a SC are the following: - Use all ads to open bronze chests
- Open only bronze chests (to increase odds of getting more keys)
- Reset Advertiser ID (to avoid caps on ads watched)
I've been doing these things (playing an average of 10-15 games a day) and am not even halfway through the progression bar. Since the bar isn't linear there's no way I'd reach a SC by the end of the month except that I should be getting 4,050 keys from buying the operations pass. I have not collected the operations keys yet and if I don't think I'll reach a SC I'll wait until next month to collect the keys and hope I can get some additional keys in the next operations. The fact that I may not get a SC despite buying either half or a third of the required keys is somewhat astounding to me.
Are there other things that can be done to reach a SC other than buying keys? Has anyone successfully gotten a "free" SC? If it's impossible to get a "free" SC how many free keys do you think you could get in a month (everyone is different so no point in guessing what someone else might get)? Apologies if this question is already addressed in another post. I tried searching the forum but was unable to find anything. I may have been using the search function incorrectly. Pretty much what you And some other posts have already said, use key boosters and you will get there. Ops pass might get you halfway to a second one...
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Post by alvanx on Sept 14, 2019 10:49:57 GMT -5
Totally possible. I got about five in a row. This month I'm taking a break, focusing on speeding up bot upgrades and saving for gold chests instead.
Here's what I found in Champ: * I play 10-15 games of BR a day, sometimes quite a few more, esp. on weekends. * I tend to come in 1st about 40% of the time and 1st-3rd 90% of the time, with an okay win rate, which helps getting keys. * Leave matches early when you bot out, unless it's going to be over within 30 s. * Only bronze chests, which makes it more likely to get even more keys. Forget the other chests. Really. * All ads spennt on Bronze spins, no exceptions. This is the first rule of Fight Club. * Each season is 30 days. Track your progress simply by visualizing SC progress as progress through a 30-day-calendar. E.g. you should be 1/3 there with 20 days left in the season, and 50% there at 15. No other calculations needed to see if you're on track. * I only use key boosters when I am off track.
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Post by Lyte on Sept 14, 2019 11:51:16 GMT -5
Why's BR the better game to play? Thanks. martag The bar *is* linear now, they changed that a while back. Playing 10-15 games a day isn't enough probably, if you're dead set on getting a SC get a keys booster and play agressive BR games for a solid 30 minutes and don't even look at the score card. The instant you mech or the game is over fire another BR match. When i'm running solo or duo I jam as many games into those windows as possible. The SC number is something like 8,000? I used to have a hard number but key progression for ads is slightly more than opening a bronze chest.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2019 18:03:30 GMT -5
Why's BR the better game to play? Thanks. martag The bar *is* linear now, they changed that a while back. Playing 10-15 games a day isn't enough probably, if you're dead set on getting a SC get a keys booster and play agressive BR games for a solid 30 minutes and don't even look at the score card. The instant you mech or the game is over fire another BR match. When i'm running solo or duo I jam as many games into those windows as possible. The SC number is something like 8,000? I used to have a hard number but key progression for ads is slightly more than opening a bronze chest. BR games are over in 3 min sometimes. You can fit 10 of them in 30 minutes, run boosters, etc. Keyword is aggressive. You gotta get to the next game fast, and don't care about win or loss. If your super time limited, this might be one way to go. I don't use this strategy and just play more leisurely. I don't use boosters. It aint too hard to fit 18-22 games if i wanna get the Super. Only caveat is that mid champs and high champs will get top 1-3 more often, so it's a bit easier to get keys. Also wins generate 1 more key. Otherwise, i've heard many lower leaguers get 1 or even 2 Super chests a month, so i don't think league matters that much.
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Post by Lyte on Sept 15, 2019 10:48:34 GMT -5
Just pulled a Phantom from a GOLD chest! Woo hoo!!
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Post by Munki on Sept 16, 2019 8:13:04 GMT -5
Just pulled a Phantom from a GOLD chest! Woo hoo!! Congrats! This bot is the current sole reason I am opening Gold chests on my pursuit to the Super Chest.
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Post by BB on Sept 16, 2019 8:49:36 GMT -5
Alternate perspective here — After grinding out two SC’s in the past couple months and being disappointed with the payoffs, I decided to blow off the SC grind this season and horde some key boosters.... BAM—— won a Phantom in a gold chest.
Spin the wheel and takes your chances
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Post by Lyte on Sept 16, 2019 14:32:35 GMT -5
Just pulled a Phantom from a GOLD chest! Woo hoo!! Congrats! This bot is the current sole reason I am opening Gold chests on my pursuit to the Super Chest.
Super! Fingers crossed for ya!
To anyone...
Only recently have I started opening these chests. I was totally oblivious to them before now. Has PIX always been generous with the Gold chests? It does seem pretty generous for them to be giving up one of their newest bots through GOLD when they could put them exclusively in SUPER chests for us to grind out. Is this unusual? Common place? Que??
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2019 14:55:49 GMT -5
Congrats! This bot is the current sole reason I am opening Gold chests on my pursuit to the Super Chest.
Super! Fingers crossed for ya!
To anyone...
Only recently have I started opening these chests. I was totally oblivious to them before now. Has PIX always been generous with the Gold chests? It does seem pretty generous for them to be giving up one of their newest bots through GOLD when they could put them exclusively in SUPER chests for us to grind out. Is this unusual? Common place? Que??
It's new. It's unusual. I won a phanton in Gold chest last month. Think they changed up the percentages recently.
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Post by BB on Sept 16, 2019 14:57:23 GMT -5
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Post by Lyte on Sept 16, 2019 15:27:49 GMT -5
Aww... sensitive tummy? Lightweight!!
Honestly, that thought did cross my mind, like it's pretty unbelievable that I got one too! I was thinking … Geez, someone else just won one! Which is why I'm finding it so curious that PIX is so readily coughing up their latest 'n' greatest!
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Post by Lyte on Sept 16, 2019 15:36:20 GMT -5
Ah ha! I recall a few forum members being bummed at getting the same ol' bots over and over again through a SUPER chest … so getting new and shiny from a GOLD one seemed odd.
Super! Fingers crossed for ya!
To anyone...
Only recently have I started opening these chests. I was totally oblivious to them before now. Has PIX always been generous with the Gold chests? It does seem pretty generous for them to be giving up one of their newest bots through GOLD when they could put them exclusively in SUPER chests for us to grind out. Is this unusual? Common place? Que??
It's new. It's unusual. I won a phanton in Gold chest last month. Think they changed up the percentages recently.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2019 15:38:43 GMT -5
That's all it takes.... lightweight!!
Honestly, that thought did cross my mind, like it's pretty unbelievable that I got one too! I was thinking … Geez, someone else just won one! Which is why I'm finding it so curious that PIX is so readily coughing up their latest 'n' greatest!
They probably want to seed the new bots. Alott of whales won't buy unless the see the new meta is set in stone. I already see 2 phantoms in one hanger. But i feel it's a skill bot, so won't be meta. Very strong bot in the right hands.
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Post by Lyte on Sept 16, 2019 15:52:48 GMT -5
Okay... hold up... I just looked at your link and Phantom. Why does my screen shot look like yours?! WTH???
EDIT: Maybe it's the other way around... Why does your screen shot look like mine?!
EDIT: This is kinda freakin' me out... here.... I'll show you mine... lol
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Post by Lyte on Sept 16, 2019 16:27:14 GMT -5
OMG... I figured it out. lol Where's the blushing emo when you need one!
I take a lotta screen shots off here … on my cell phone... so I can look at whatever it is later... on my PC... bigger screen! Looks like a took a screen shot of YOUR win ... what a Phantom looks like... and when I went to share my win I posted YOUR win image. *blush emo* A thousand apologies!
Here's mine...
Seriously … that was freaking me out …
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Post by Munki on Sept 17, 2019 8:09:31 GMT -5
...and I guess we should not have been discussing this as Pix just put a message out that they are REMOVING the Phantom and Behemoth from the Gold chest starting tomorrow. Claim them Gold chests while we can! I will be rushing games to get to 1000 keys today.
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Post by Lyte on Sept 17, 2019 8:36:25 GMT -5
I just read that... so weird! Seems like it wasn't supposed to be in GOLD? ...and I guess we should not have been discussing this as Pix just put a message out that they are REMOVING the Phantom and Behemoth from the Gold chest starting tomorrow. Claim them Gold chests while we can! I will be rushing games to get to 1000 keys today.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2019 12:27:27 GMT -5
I just hit one year playing War Robots, and am now on my 3rd consecutive superchest.
I never have nor ever would buy keys....just playing, ads only for free bronze opens, and I save keys until gold chest, that use them for bronze chests after that.
I usually open superchest after 18-20 days, after that I use ads for speeding upgrades until the next season.
So far I pulled a second Spectre(sold it) and last month a Hades, not too bad of a bot.
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