Why do people play such wierd hangers? Explained

I literally just made a post about how all these meta bots are trash and people need to stop crying about how op "no skill" they are.

This is an absolute lie.

If it was no skill, ez, whatever else people tear over then even a simpleton like me would be doing better, especially with everything to level 9 minimum.

Fact is I have never performed worse than I have with Ares, Ao Jun, and Leech.

So yeah it DOES take skill to pilot these things. Just saying.

「dookie」 even a 「fluffernutter」ing stalker helps ME more than Ao Jun.

You can sugarcoat things anyway u want it’s pretty obvious which bots are the most powerful

Also I find it very frustrating that for once I got an "super phildo ez OP" robot, leech during its active meta, and it performs worse for me than bots most of you would laugh at.

So I redirect to the op of this thread, play what works for you, meta is a sham.

I am confused and annoyed.

this is where mind set of a player comes in. You must prefer bots like the ones you have, not the meta bots, when you used the meta bots you must not have picked up on their playstyle (very hit and hide so please don't learn this) which means you were putting yourself at ranges or in positions where the bot didn't work.

I do much better in those meta bots than most because I am adept at the ambush playstyle, which is much like the hit and hide style that ares and ao jun use which is why I get only triple kills and better in them, so if you are more specialized at playing a tank for example you wont do as well in a mobile bot.

I like this thread.

I use a strider/invader/falcon(non-trad)/ raven and rhino. And while I may not have the highest possible league points, the options and fun those bots create makes me enjoy the game. Meanwhile I'll play skirmish with 5/5 god bots and wonder how people actually enjoy this kindergarten playstyle. I learned to count to 20 therefore im a bigshot. 「fluffernutter」ing stupid.

I've had fun in a Nashorn Fury. I'm not gonna run it all the time but it's fun to single shot snipe sometimes.

There's really too many bots and build to list what i find fun.

And that's the only reason why i play the game.

My Hangar is pretty random, I use what I get by events and can handle - currently surprisingly meta (just by luck, ok, paid 8,49€ for the spectre): AO Jun/Viper, Fenrir/Taran/Avanger, Falcon/Avenger, Bulgasari/Storm, Spectre/Orkan, everything is level 7 with level 10-11 weapons.

But I prefer assassins: get into the enemy's shield, then use shotguns to get the opponent down. Works nicely with the Bulgasari, sometimes with the spectre (I'm no fan of Orkans, the reload is killing me and the jump is too hard too aim to land within a shield) - Ares are nice training targets...).

Sometimes I take my old carnage with 2 avengers for a Stroll and play it that way, still a lot of fun. Currently I'm working towards energy shotguns, but that takes ages and is terribly expensive.
I would prefer something like Phantom, Blitz, Strider, Pursuer or even Loki, but somehow I always get other bots - next will be a Nemesis from operations pass (I hope to get to level 90 for a second Pulsar, so I'll have a Nemesis with the ugly +5 skin (dersert)).

Before I get rid of the Orkans it want to get them to level 12, after that i'll check my storage for what to do with the Spectre, I think it will end up in storage and be replaced with the Nemesis, although I would like at least one jumping bot...

Sometime back in late 2016 or 2017 I got my first Carnage and completely fell in love with it. I loved its playstyle and its design. So then I decided to become the best Carnage pilot the game has ever seen. After getting my 2nd Carnage, I decided to keep going and build full hanger. 2 years later, I have 10 Carnages (lol).

Many people said that the Carnage is trash and won't make it past Diamond or Expert League. So I wanted to prove them wrong and kept playing it until I hit a ceiling. 2 years later, I'm stuck in Champion League and only tanking allows me to drop to safer pastures. While I have no problem hanging out in Champs, there's not much reason to do so. Champions League is littered with princess bots, and the rewards suck.


But to get back on topic, I play my all Carnage hanger cause it's my favourite bot and I consider myself one of the best Carnage players in the game
My goal is to FULLY max out my bots and see what their absolute ceiling is with maxed everything.

I guess I knew the answer to this the whole time, you hit the nail on the head. Playstyle.

I can't do the cover fighting. I just can't, drives me bonkers.

I have almost always play what I liked, until the Greeks came to the workshop, I decided to eat them (not ares) and I just don't like using them as much as my other boots, the it's the same reason why I got rid of my traditionalist, sure it was a probably a better sponge that my fenrir but I hated using it, I also didn't like the shield, shoot, hide of the nemesis, it can be worse than the ares because you are out for 4 seconds gone for 8 repeatedly. So goodbye and hello tyr, the healer that I was missing that is mobile like the mender but can constantly heal like the Weyland. And I finally have one last bottle left, the Hades, it's is a really good bottle but I still don't like it that much, who knows I might bring it out in the future, but pretty soon as second strider is taking it's place

My love of variety is what has kept me from leveling too much past level 8. I have a couple exceptions, but for the most part, my gear is average. What can you do when you enjoy 20 different methods of slaughtering the opposition?

Nice. The best way to have fun with this game is to set yourself a primary goal other than rising in ranks and/or winning every game. Otherwise you'll be stuck chasing the carrot and fruitlessly chasing the meta like a hamster on a wheel.

I have been playing this game for about 2 years now. I like to collect Robots. Because of this thread I did a recount of the bots in my Hanger ( I only have one Hanger deck ) and Garage. So far I have collected 41 Bots, all are different models. Quite a few of them were built in the WS. If I like a certain bot it gets leveled up to Mk1 L9 at a minimum. If not it might make it to L6. There are a few older bots that are at Mk1 L12 but I don’t play them very often.

Recently I took all of the weapons and modules off of all my bots, ( except the Butch, it has 4 Zenits for a load out and it is just a big Troll) then chose five bots that Have been collecting dust in the garage.
I loaded out these bots with my best weapons and started playing. After each match I choose a bot in the hanger, remove it’s weapons and replace it with another bot / weapon set-up from the garage. I find this to be very entertaining and challenging. I am often surprised by how well some of the bots do. I played my L4 Vityaz with 2 L9 Marquees and a L9 Dragoon. The first match it garnered a “Godlike” ... the next match it was wasted right after it dropped onto the map. 

Weird hangers? I suppose that all depends on what’s in a persons hanger when you make the effort to look at it.