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Post by Poopface on Jun 15, 2017 9:35:40 GMT -5
Boot camp ... good times. Boot camp.......good times.......does. not. compute.....
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Post by Deadeye on Jun 15, 2017 10:27:02 GMT -5
Just had a little fun on my second account... needed to complete the "liberate hostile beacons with a medium robot" daily. So, remembering this thread, I put a Tulu and Pins on my only quick medium, my Gala... First game was on DC. It was actually pretty darn decent. Now, granted, this is Silver 2... BUUUT... I may try it on the Gold 2 account again for ?poo-poo?s and giggles... I started in the Leo and had a pretty good run with it... taking out another Leo and hurting a few other bots, possibly getting more kills... not sure cant remember, b4 it got taken down. Then, chose the Gala as the 2nd bot. It was really shining on the sides of that map where the side and home beacons are for each team with that long open stretch of map... I was on our Home beacon side and was providing rocket fire at a good range to soften up / kill their side beacon defenders. They didn't have any good RDB/Midrangers out to counter me on that side, at that time, however, so I think it was just a lucky game. Either way, will keep playing it a bit and see. I may have been wrong to say it's no good since I was only thinking about it from the perspective of my main account. I know a lot of folks tell peeps to only upgrade what they want to take to 12, but, I say, it may make more sense to go with what you want at each stage, possibly using stuff that may not work further up, if it works well where you are at. Upgrading to level 6 or, at the most, 7, is good enough to score well in Silver, and therefore, good enough to decide if you want to take it further up. Anyway, just wanted to share those thoughts about it since this thread was fresh... And I will close with, keep an open mind and decide for yourself what is good and what isn't. Use advice and other people's experience as a guide... especially for expensive purchases, but you are the only person that matters as far as making the game pleasing to play. IMO, YMMV.
Thanks for the summary of the experience! That is useful. I've certainly experienced the situations where something worked in a lower teir/league that didn't in the higher ones. I play on my son's account sometimes and he's at 7 bots/8 weapons in Diamond league on iOS.
In my main account though, I am aiming for max efficacy. That said, I do have times where I am just playing for pure good ole' fun. I'll have to trot out the RDB Galahad for the next fun-run. It'll sit right next to my Gekko Patton.
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Post by 7iquid on Jun 15, 2017 10:53:28 GMT -5
There so many RDB Griffs around that the name could be changed to RDB Wars instead of war robots. With that in mind and Pixonic prices perhaps the Dashbots should be called Cashpots instead! As in pots of cash for Pixonic...
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Post by moody on Jun 15, 2017 15:35:17 GMT -5
The Russian Griffin is overpowered, enough said. That thing invalidates ALL the use of non Ancile Mediums and Lights. It's impossible to use the baiting technique to strategically force a midranger to shoot and miss. With every buff to a weapon, more skill is removed from the game. If they wanted to nerf british bots, a midrange nerf wasn't needed. The Russian Galahad, is an OKish bot and it's usable now. Please tell me what skill is required to blast your plasma from behind a shield to anything the hasnt got a shield?? Not sure what you are asking here?
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Post by bigdopep on Jun 15, 2017 16:50:22 GMT -5
Please tell me what skill is required to blast your plasma from behind a shield to anything the hasnt got a shield?? Not sure what you are asking here? Just wanted to point out that indirectly nerfing the bot that, to my opinion, requires the least skill (galahad, because of the shield) is good for the level of skill meedeed to play this game.
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Post by moody on Jun 15, 2017 16:56:28 GMT -5
Not sure what you are asking here? Just wanted to point out that indirectly nerfing the bot that, to my opinion, requires the least skill (galahad, because of the shield) is good for the level of skill meedeed to play this game. In that respect, nerf the shield, don't nerf the ability of any bot to corner shoot (which does require skill). Ancilot requires the least skill and is still meta in the game.
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Post by mijapi300 on Jun 15, 2017 16:56:36 GMT -5
The Russian Griffin is overpowered, enough said. That thing invalidates ALL the use of non Ancile Mediums and Lights. It's impossible to use the baiting technique to strategically force a midranger to shoot and miss. With every buff to a weapon, more skill is removed from the game. If they wanted to nerf british bots, a midrange nerf wasn't needed. The Russian Galahad, is an OKish bot and it's usable now. Please tell me what skill is required to blast your plasma from behind a shield to anything the hasnt got a shield?? Are you trying to imply Galahad and Gareth never required skill to pilot?
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Post by bigdopep on Jun 15, 2017 17:30:55 GMT -5
Please tell me what skill is required to blast your plasma from behind a shield to anything the hasnt got a shield?? Are you trying to imply Galahad and Gareth never required skill to pilot? Im not saying it about gary, it was always very vulnerable. But most of the galahads I saw on the field were just recklesly lumbering forward because they felt invulnerable. So in fact now it requires more skill to pilot a galahad and we get to see plenty of the beautyfull art of aiming Rockets. The game got more skill-based if you ask me.
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Post by Team Alpha Strike on Jun 15, 2017 17:50:11 GMT -5
The Russian Griffin is overpowered, enough said. That thing invalidates ALL the use of non Ancile Mediums and Lights. It's impossible to use the baiting technique to strategically force a midranger to shoot and miss. With every buff to a weapon, more skill is removed from the game. If they wanted to nerf british bots, a midrange nerf wasn't needed. The Russian Galahad, is an OKish bot and it's usable now. Please tell me what skill is required to blast your plasma from behind a shield to anything the hasnt got a shield?? The amount skill to maneuver a Galahad (or even a Ancil/Plasma Lancelot) while firing and being fired upon is directly proportionate to your survival when facing small radius splash, missile, or LOS weapon. The problem with most pilots of shield bots is that they have the opinion that it's doesn't require skill and they simply don't move their Galahads evasively enough. I've fought full health Plasmahads in my hand dead Plasmahad and won --- why, because I never stop moving and never move in one direction for more than a second when in a firefight. Plasma weapons require pin point aiming and the more direction changes you make, the more plasma hits you avoid on your shield. Most Galahad pilots - even senior ones - don't even change direction when fighting other Plasmahads, Ancile/Taran Lances, PDB Griffs, or Thunder Carnages. Is like they their shield has 1 million HP points or they feel a 1-for-1 exchange of bots is okay. Whatever, the case, a lot of skill is required to make a Galahad worth keeping in a hangar now and most pilots have retired theirs because they never got the best out of them to begin with (cause they always drove their Gals like it was a skillless mech).
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Post by Deadeye on Jun 16, 2017 12:12:36 GMT -5
Please tell me what skill is required to blast your plasma from behind a shield to anything the hasnt got a shield?? The amount skill to maneuver a Galahad (or even a Ancil/Plasma Lancelot) while firing and being fired upon is directly proportionate to your survival when facing small radius splash, missile, or LOS weapon. The problem with most pilots of shield bots is that they have the opinion that it's doesn't require skill and they simply don't move their Galahads evasively enough. I've fought full health Plasmahads in my hand dead Plasmahad and won --- why, because I never stop moving and never move in one direction for more than a second when in a firefight. Plasma weapons require pin point aiming and the more direction changes you make, the more plasma hits you avoid on your shield. Most Galahad pilots - even senior ones - don't even change direction when fighting other Plasmahads, Ancile/Taran Lances, PDB Griffs, or Thunder Carnages. Is like they their shield has 1 million HP points or they feel a 1-for-1 exchange of bots is okay. Whatever, the case, a lot of skill is required to make a Galahad worth keeping in a hangar now and most pilots have retired theirs because they never got the best out of them to begin with (cause they always drove their Gals like it was a skillless mech). That makes since. It would certainly take much more skill to pilot the Plasmahad these days. I used to consider myself an above average Plasmahad pilot, but it still got blown to bits after the 2.9 rocket buff. I've moth-balled mine for now because there is just no forgiveness with 120K HP. One RDB can rock your world something fierce and to top it off, the damage from the rockets affects the shield too, so when you encounter that other plasma bot after you've taken a salvo from the RDB, your shield isn't even at full strength. It's a tough pill to swallow for sure.
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Post by careyfan on Jun 17, 2017 18:35:00 GMT -5
RDB galahad is far inferior to a standard RDB. Less health, less firepower, fewer attack angles, fewer ways to escape. It's not completely useless/helpless, but it's simply inferior to RDB griff in just about every way.
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Post by [3m] on Jun 18, 2017 4:37:18 GMT -5
The Russian Griffin is overpowered, enough said. That thing invalidates ALL the use of non Ancile Mediums and Lights. It's impossible to use the baiting technique to strategically force a midranger to shoot and miss. With every buff to a weapon, more skill is removed from the game. If they wanted to nerf british bots, a midrange nerf wasn't needed. The Russian Galahad, is an OKish bot and it's usable now. Please tell me what skill is required to blast your plasma from behind a shield to anything the hasnt got a shield?? In my experience. It's finding a bot you can attack at 350m that lacks 1 to 3 bots waiting to Tulumbaste me with splash. It's nice when those magnums/tarans flash red. Just not as often now.
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