New titan: Eiffel

It sounds to me like pix is going in the direction of giving more and more firepower to bots to change the meta into something truly horrific

Oh 「dookie」. He really wasn't kidding. HMG titan weapons? 「fluffernutter」s sake...

Ugh. Titan bendies and a new Titan with 5 weapon slots.

The Bendy Bullet meta drove me away from the game for more than a year. I was only able to tolerate the game when those weapons were nerfed into the ground. Looks like I'll be going back into hibernation once the new Bendy weapons drop.

Also, for anyone who spent money getting a Newton, I feel bad for you. Pixonic is massively accelerating the introduce-OP-thing-then-nerf-it cycle. Hang on to your wallets. The company has the shamelessness of a Kardashian and the ethics of a circus carny.

In typical Pixonic fashion, it gains 250k max health every time you enable the flying ability with a cooldown of 5 seconds after the flight ends. just spam the ability at every opportunity to gain 250k and add repair amps/durability extender etc and we will no doubt see a 10mill+ health titan.

The only saving grace is the extra 2 alpha weapons "only" come out during the flight ability. They will have to nerf the Tonans/Vulgar weapons though as they will melt through this titan fairly quickly as it has no other magic shields when in the air and I think those weapons will be chosen over the bendy bullet ones.

Exactly what I was thinking. Of all weapons that could be gutted I hope these get the worst of it. HMGs are cancer.

The Fenrir isn't an ideal choice.  But I'm mostly surprised at how anemic this "ultimate" version is compared to the current Fenrir.  

I thought Pix did a nice job with the ultimate fujin—extra firepower and turbocharge the shield mode.  I was hoping other ultimates would follow that example.  But the "ultimate" Fenrir just has 10% extra durability.  That's basically a slightly more special skin.  That's pretty meh.

I would have liked to see something like this:

1. Trading the two Medium slots for Heavy ones;
2. Trading the Heavy slot for a Medium one; and
3. Give the shielded mode resistance (albeit not as strong as assault mode).

What irks me is that out of all the weapons they could have chosen to make into titan weapons, they had to go with HMGs, knowing they are one of the most hated weapons.

「whiskey tango foxtrot」 Pix?

Seriously, how does this even survive a crisis, let alone more dangerous things

I’ll be pretty satisfied when they nerf hammer those trash bots and trash players

Interesting. I never really was bothered by the bendies. I also (obviously) stopped for a long time as well. I would say ares or spectres was by far the worst. This other stuff hasn’t concerned me. Although anglers were also pretty dumb too

I dont think any of you even realize how bad this is
Hmgs rattled the game like nothing ive ever seen before or even after
They were accessible and deadly
Everyone had at least one because of how easily they dropped and they made the game a nightmare for every league
Ive never naturally seen an ocho
If these are anything like the originals it might be the worst thing to ever be made
We're 「fluffernutter」ed

Yeah, I think the Spectre/Shocktrain meta was the worst one I experienced.  It seemed like every match, including Beacon Rush matches (not just TDM), dissolved into static slogs.  No one could move from cover because they'd get instantly vaporized by Shocktrains.  No one could group up because then everyone would take the secondary damage and then get vaporized.  It was the War Robots version of WW1 trench warfare—insanely brutal and fundamentally boring.

The Ares meta was less balanced too—if one team had a critical mass of Ares bots that could coordinate into an Ares train (which only took 3, and became trivially easy with 4+), the other team was pretty screwed.  Metas generally suck when you can predict the outcome with near certainty simply by looking at the first bots your teammates drop.  The Ares was the worst offender by that standard.

I wasn't around during the Seraph meta, so I can't speak to it.  I can imagine it shared characteristics of both the Ares and Shocktrain ones.

I don't disagree with either of you that there have been worse metas than the Bendie Bullet one.  I was probably just sick enough of the game that it didn't take much to drive me away.  The old drone system made Champion League miserable.  I hated how drones made favorable/unfavorable-matchup awareness obsolete.  Add then Bendies made use-of-cover skill obsolete.  I just couldn't take it anymore.