Why do light robots run circles around me... and I cannot!

Could you please let me and the folks out there know where "app sensitivity slder can be found, on an android phone and ipad?

OK, just checked this out (and admittedly never noticed it before) Even at max sensitivity, I can still only turn 180 degrees at max, and lowest sensitivity seems to be about 10 degrees turn. Good call but it doesn't solve the question sadly. Thanks for the tip though.

Could be playing on a computer (lap or desk) and/or using a gamepad or playing with mobile device on a flat surface using index fingers instead of holding device in hands using thumbs.

You might want to get a light bot and get some practice on big bulky guys, like here (aim for 1:27 in the video):

I presume it is wallet warrior, who breezed through low leagues and ended up where his skills at (it was Gold1, iOS); because usual player most probably got Leo\Natasha in the start, and would get to know basics of heavy mech piloting.
So he would learn a lesson and become a better player in the end. I suppose.

Hey, everybody was doing some crazy stupid stuff someday, right? ;)

Well, I was using Molot+Mk2+Spiral+Tulumbas Griffin =) So that I can get anything on long range

b̲l̲@c̲k̲ ̲s̲t̲@r̲, I concluded long ago that some of these moves will just never be in my repertoire. I play on a phone, and have big thumbs, and arthritic wrists... I just try not to get into those encounters. I cannot do the Carnage Thunder death circle, or the light bot move where you stick to the heavy's back. So I keep my distance from those little murder monkeys, and back up to walls when necessary, and generally outgun whatever I can before it gets too close. I also run 3 Griffs, so when someone gets into my personal space, i can jump out of there and melt them in rocket fire. I am not looking forward to the Korean bots, for the very reason that I suspect they will introduce more of these high dexterity piloting moves. Good luck, and cheers.

Go hunting for all the small bots you can find and practice on them.
Then when we get someone on here with the same problem, it might have been you causing it

Practice/fail, practice/fail, practice/ohmygodthisworks..........

for practice (even on a small phone) i'd recommend this:

1. Use your L9 Gareth with Magnum & Taran
2. Approach a Leo, preferably with Thunder & 3 Magnums and get so close that you bump right into him.
3. Now do what Russel explained so good, while staying real close to the Leo.

My experience is, the Leo can't turn fast enough to hit you and a lot of pilots just give up trying after a while. I had Leos, that started to ignore me and shoot at someone else, so after a few seconds i could just stand behind him, shooting him in the back until he exploded... lol
Other Leo pilots might keep trying to hit you, or get close to a wall to stop you from circling or might pull out another trick/tactic.

However, this works for me with shield open or closed, so while the closed shield makes you a bit slower, it protects you from a baaad Thunder hit, in case circling goes wrong for a second (while repositioning thumb, or lag)

If the Leo has Rockets (splashdamage!) he might be able to do some damage to you, so this ain't as easy as against a Thunder/Magnum Leo, but it ain't hard either.

Just keep trying and don't give up, if it works it is really fun

ps: If you really want an easy target, try to find a Noricum/Zenit Natasha and circle him. You might feel bad, as you notice he is completely helpless though... hehe

Kturbo,

It will always be a bigger issue when he's in a little bot, and your in a Med or heavy. If you are in a light bot and being circled, back away, pull back. Then you can move away and force him to follow, or the two of you move in a circling pattern, and you try to his shoot his side, or get behind him, and hit him there. If you are in a med/big bot keep moving away so its real hard for him to circle, and easier to target him and use your weapons.

I beg to differ. I call it circle ray-ping and I have been doing it on my old Galaxy tab 10.1 for the last year. It was a move that I stumbled onto as a noob by complete accident/ necessity long before I knew about the forum. The thunder ostrich was my little assassin when it was only him and my angry grasshopper in my hangar. Moral of the story, it just takes practice not fancy third party hardware......unless you're @heavypanda, in which case you need bionic man type surgery to fix your old bum-bum first

I've played on a phone and on an iPad, and the circle of death for me is easier on a phone. Go into a custom game, pick a map that has some small debris, like Dreadnought, and practice the circle of death on that.