Clubbing in Bronze- a statistical look (and new blog!)

Thanks! All that stuff's sort of above my head. Here's a tiny URL if that makes it any better.

tinyurl.com/juyy884

Pulse Hadron Perfect, thanks! Just fixed them

Good read, just one problem. Gold tier isn't a snipe and camp fest, if anything, it's a lot more nerve-wracking than bronze tier. While one wrong step in bronze will cost you a bit of health, one wrong step in gold tier will send you hurtling through the sky.

U have style, sir.

I will definately read through this - I just need 3 morning coffees first

On a sidenote, because you mentioned safaris - I thought for myself that must be hobby for rich ?firetruck?s who kill beautiful things for fun and because they have a small pecker.
I since had to correct that thought.
Infact, Safari tourism is the main reason why nature reservates around the globe still exists, and some of the most gorgeous animals are still around.

Especuially in African countries I experienced a deep respect for the animals showed by the guides.
A responsible guide will guide a rich ?firetruck? to a Jaguar -if he paid for one- but picking the oldest animal, that had already replicated...

Uhm... totally OT, sry

If you want to do something about your Shark thing, pm me. I had the same, one can get over it... those are fantastic creatures as well.

I'm glad to hear it. Obviously, I have no firsthand experience there, so I have to go on what I've heard. I've played a couple times on Yamantau, and it's a mox of both our perspectives. Yes, a wrong step would send me hurtling through the sky- and it was usually from folks so far on the horizon I couldn't even see them.

My personal anecdotal experience is that before the holiday season there was a much higher percentage of clubbers. I think the article is fantastic but you should consider your sample size and see about collecting for 1000 games...

Great article Dredd77 !

As a newb I still feel like a clubber. Maintaining an 80% win rate is pretty nuts. I probably made a mistake getting 3 Gepards, where you spent the money on top weapons like the Zeus and Orkan. Having faced Cossacks with Tarans on them, I can't wait to have some of those.

I think they key issue here is the match maker. It simply doesn't take higher level or more powerful weapons into account well enough. 3 level 6 Mags on a robot should be weighted much higher than 1 or 2. They are doing some averaging here and it makes it way to easy to exploit. They should simply take the highest number bot and/or weapon and use that for MM, with some modification for number of weapons and light/medium/heavy weapon slots. Light weapons are a 1x multiplier, mediums 1.25 and heavy 1.5x for example. Then they add the slot score together - but the calculation is run based on the highest weapon level in any slot. Another potential solution is simply limiting the system so that bots and weapons must be within 2 levels of each other always.

They are going to have to fix this for the quick-change bots as some guys have already figured out you can run 2x level 12 weapons and 2x level 1 weapons and get placed much lower in the MM than you otherwise should with level 12 weapons.

I think the most interesting thing is that people expect everything to change with the MM update.
I can't be the only one to realize it will take someone about a day to figure out a new dominant build. It will take others minutes to realize that guy is doing well with his build. Then 2 players will be running it and one or two more each game will understand that is the new best bot to "club" with. Within a week there will be hundreds of people running it. In a month thousands of pilots will have hangars full of that setup. And it will keep snowballing.

Groan... sorry be a bit OT, but that little adventure is a great example why I stay the hell away from Facebook. Made the mistake of looking at some of the comments on the War Robots FB page. SMDH. I'm so glad the Devs took note of our fan-community, so much vitriol on FB...

So to be on-topic, thanks Dredd77 for being brave enough to publish. It's contributors to the scene like yourself that give us such positive reputations.

I completely agree with your shark attack analogy, it's exactly what it's like. I only come across a few Gepphids, but when I do it's a real drag.

Am i hearing what I think I'm hearing?

as in join the club?

Naturally you can't plan for every contingency but the point is if you're in a clan then someone will be equipped to take a support bot out or you simply get good at ducking, timing their shots, or flanking them.

Enjoyable read, thanks for compiling the info. Did you have time of day statistics? It seems like some are more clubber prone than others.

I have different hangers like everyone else, one of which is a maggep clubbing setup. I resisted for a while. Then started using schutze and thunders, but after running into so many geps I started adding one gep, then another until I had a clubber's hangar.

I have a hangar with all lvl 1 cossack/lvl 3 punishers to mess around with and I ran into a tri pinata gep which I was able to take out with the cossack since it can dodge the missiles.

If they were to limit me from playing with my level 1 cossacks, just because I'm a level 30 player that wouldn't be a good thing.

People will always find ways to get an advantage, it's up to pixonic to decide whether it's detrimental to the game or not and balance it somehow.

Now when I'm seeing all gep clans coming at me in red, I'm wondering if I need to join that.... Now that would be boring and detrimental to the game .

-g