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Post by Poopface on Sept 26, 2023 17:22:00 GMT -5
Watch: they’ll drop this and then in patch 9.5 announce MK4.
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Post by Poopface on Sept 25, 2023 15:09:19 GMT -5
The robot seems decent, but is not for everyone, kinda like the Blitz. I know Poopface tried one out, if he wants to share his experience. Put me in, coach! I'm ready to play today!
I used the custom pilot to trigger the shield as much as possible. I see what you're doing with that pilot and can see where that'd work. I didn't want to shell out all the green crack so I avoided that. I can also see where the Ultimate Orkan would be great. I used the BSGs on mine and that worked pretty well. I recommend having a lot of speed to get in/out of trouble quickly. Also I used Glider drone along with Phase Shift so I had the get-out-of-jail card in case I was getting screwed over by extra nasty baddies.
With how the game currently is, I don't know that I'd try it any higher than Expert league. Far too many Lynx/Nether/Okiedokie now (plus the incoming 6gun 「whiskey tango foxtrot」 robot).
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Post by Poopface on Sept 25, 2023 13:21:48 GMT -5
I'm really enjoying BoT for whatever that's worth. Spider mechs and the Little Shon are good times.
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Post by Poopface on Sept 24, 2023 12:03:16 GMT -5
Does it get any better than sneaking up on them stripping guns off a Tirpitz with a Shon or Mite? 🤩
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Post by Poopface on Sept 23, 2023 17:53:49 GMT -5
Anyway, hats off to your fortitude in sawing off the parasite. Thanks! It was not unlike Ripley fending off the medbay facehugger. Thankfully ѻﻭɼﻉ functioned nicely as Vasquez.* [Edit: I had a link to the scene, but the end of the clip had a very non-CoC-friendly recommendation about Burke’s future thanks to Hudson] * Honorable mention to munkeeee who was my Newt.
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Post by Poopface on Sept 23, 2023 17:47:51 GMT -5
Just fired up BoT after our power came back on. You know how many button pushes I had to cycle through to get into a battle?
Just one.
*boop!* That was it. Queued up.
How refreshing.
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Post by Poopface on Sept 23, 2023 7:06:11 GMT -5
You can delete your hanger but I can’t find a way to get rid of that custom title you gave me I got you, boo. That title is gone now.
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Post by Poopface on Sept 22, 2023 21:39:30 GMT -5
Iâm about to go mingle at a private school function where I know no one and canât get juiced beforehand. That whole âgo find your funâ will have to wait until tomorrow, Iâm afraid. ð¤¦ââï¸ Being a Christian school, Iâm threatening my wife to introduce myself thusly: Time for you to invent a creative back story for when someone asks you what you do for a living. I work for a really 「dookie」 company called Pixonic............. Actually, she told me I’m not allowed to talk. I threatened her that I was going to introduce myself to people saying that she won’t let me talk just to put her on the spot. I didn’t do that, of course. I just walked around with my fly down and a slightly blank and confused look on my face all evening instead.
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Post by Poopface on Sept 22, 2023 18:20:28 GMT -5
Now get on out there and find your fun. I’m about to go mingle at a private school function where I know no one and can’t get juiced beforehand. That whole “go find your fun” will have to wait until tomorrow, I’m afraid. 🤦♂️ Being a Christian school, I’m threatening my wife to introduce myself thusly:
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Post by Poopface on Sept 22, 2023 16:51:17 GMT -5
POOPFACE, I think it is good that you are looking to find that happiness now (kind of changing a new leaf) that's good, just don't get rid of the wife and the dog, ok.. lol Absolutely not. She’s my treasure (my wife, not the pooch). 24 years dating effective yesterday coincidentally. I knew an amazing thing the moment I met her.
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Post by Poopface on Sept 22, 2023 8:23:03 GMT -5
You know what we should do? Have a timeline for when all War Robots features were introduced and each forum member that is no longer actively playing should put their name next to the feature that finally drove them off. For me it was orbital strikes. We've lost a lot of great and truly innovative players over the years. I remember we had a guy (unfortunately, the name escapes me) that used to do a lot of intricate write-ups running through assorted tactics and builds and whatnot that was from one of the former ComBlock countries iirc. I think it was the dashes that did it for him.
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Post by Poopface on Sept 22, 2023 5:11:06 GMT -5
Well, I cannot blame you. While I would never go to the extreme of deleting everything in my account, I really have severed almost all of my connections to this game. I've taken a few (three?) lengthy breaks from the game. Each time I returned it was the same dumpster fire only with the smoke/flames exhibiting a different type of toxicity. As ѻﻭɼﻉ has mentioned a variety of times in his own way, if you keep coming back to something that's really messed up despite all common sense dictating the opposite, either you're foolish or you finally cut the cord so you can't go back. I've wondered about what would cause me to finally stop once and for all for a few months now. I'd have this still small voice in the back of my head chide me saying, "is it time to burn the boats?" when I'd get particularly pissed off at some aspect of the game (often damage-immune stabby Lynxes and/or Nethers). It happened with increasing frequency. When I saw the first leaked picture of the Dagon a few weeks ago, I knew that was my red line. Enough was enough. In the interim I had my losing streak followed by the ineffective (at lowering my league ranking) "Conscientious Objector" hanger. All the while I gradually came to the realization that with the Nether-Lynx-Rook-Crisis-Newton-Okiedokie-Dagon release schedule that Pixonic was finding ways to not only flip the bird to large segments of the player base that couldn't counter this mess, but that they were finding ways to get themselves larger and more festering middle fingers with which to show that disdain for the populace. I finally reached my breaking point. I was tired of being abused and allowing Pixonic to do that to me. The happiness I've had with aspects of the game, the pride I've felt in finding ways around and through the obstacles in my way to a creative approach to counter the mercurial meta no longer adequately counters the negative aspects. I bear responsibility in my involvement with this dysfunctional relationship -- I've been returning to be abused. I took responsibility and broke the cycle.
I've been reevaluating a lot of aspects of my life in that time. It's not just within the game. Is it a midlife crisis? I'm 45 so I won't rule out that there are likely aspects of that in play. I've been working to divest myself of things that bring me no joy and which really are like barnacles on my ship transporting me toward spiritual balance. I'm in the midst of trying to get a new job in another state after 23+ years in the same location simply because my NASA site is circling the drain with management being a colossal part of the problem. Not a conspiracy theory: the Center master plan is featured proudly on the main Sharepoint site. Likewise, the local culture is being eroded by more and more chain stores so the individuality and charm is further erased as another Taco Bell, Popeyes, or 5 Below is installed. I'm not happy, my family is not happy, so we gots-ta-go.
I'll quote the character "Bishop" from Waiting... once again.
I can see the merits of just burning it all though. Destroying everything yourself brings a kind of catharsis that just leaving does not, and it forever eliminates the temptation to maybe spend just a bit more unnecessary money or time on the game. I could go on that I am sad you did not at least keep your 6 Pack or Time Drop stuff (because I am), but it was your choice to make and I respect it. As I mentioned above, I've done the "beaten wife syndrome" thing multiple times in the past. I didn't want to "take a break" or "I'm done with this crap" once again then return to the mess that is War Robots again in the future. I didn't take this approach to feel better by way of destruction, to feel like I was hurting Pixonic in some manner. This was infinitely more clinical. Logic >> emotion here. I deliberately didn't leave myself any gateway to return, reconsider, or relapse. If I really had a lot of spare time, I'd buy up things with all the resources then resell them (because the ROI is miniscule) to eventually really end up with nothing. It took over an hour to delete everything from my account. I can't imagine the pain and tedium needed to spend 6 billion silver in a gradual decline. No more shame on you. No more idle thoughts. Gonna miss ya bud. I feel more will be following suit soon. This threads rant section has probably been more active last yr or so than ever before. It is what it is. Good for you though, best of luck, and donât be a stranger, even just to pop in and see some old faces. I don't know that I'm leaving the forum. Honestly, I've considered it as part of a full-spectrum approach to boat-burning. That said, the community isn't part of what distresses me about War Robots. And since we do have other things covered (such as like what Koalabear did by refocusing on MA) its not like it'd be unprecedented. We'll see. Who knows what the future brings?
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Post by Poopface on Sept 21, 2023 20:20:14 GMT -5
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Post by Poopface on Sept 21, 2023 20:16:51 GMT -5
I've said it in a variety of places since the Dagon was first hinted at: That was the straw that would break this camel's back. If it came, I was done. It's announced so I've made my exit.
Amazingly, I feel......not much. There's regret. A lot of it, actually. As I deleted item after item -- Pix has made it a real chore to delete years' worth of accumulation -- I had fond memories of using many of the pieces of equipment, ginning up assorted oddball builds, struggling vs the meta, developing variations of my FU Hanger, and my successes and failures. Like all who quit after playing for a period of time, I wish things with War Robots had gone in myriad directions other than what we're experiencing right now.
That said, I'm largely done with being angry. I'm actually thankful that I had my week-long 30%-34% loss streak. I'm thankful that the "Conscientious Objector" hanger didn't succeed in lowering me deep into Masters or even Expert. My descent from extreme frustration to numbness was a bit of a decline that prepared me for this decision. As such my resolve to "burn the boats" was simply a box-checking exercise.
I'm done. Sure, the account has 6 billion silver on it, but there's nothing to go back to. No guns, no Titans, no motherships, no pilots, no modules, no drones, no workshop pieces, no robots other than the minimum I could select to verify I had no more gear left.
And now I have no reason to fire up the game and spend mine any longer. Sorry 6pack and timedrop folks, I decided it was in my best interests to completely sever ties to the game. It's for the best. I'm sorry, too, to the few people that charitably followed my fledgling youtube channel. Obviously, you won't be missing much.
Its fitting that my last feeling about the game was anger. It's 「fluffernutter」ing painful to sell off every single pilot one by one in a near-unending string of torture. That's emblematic of how the "game" operates, though. Very little is painless, seamless, well-constructed, or user-friendly except the means to spend your money.
Oh well. Onward and upward.
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Post by Poopface on Sept 21, 2023 15:36:43 GMT -5
Lotta videos out on YouTube about the new Dagon robot. 🤦♂️
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Post by Poopface on Sept 21, 2023 11:13:17 GMT -5
once i saw a tanker using a behemoth with chimeras lol That's not a tanker. That's just Cdr. Crimmins doing Crimmins things.
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Post by Poopface on Sept 20, 2023 20:43:15 GMT -5
I honestly just typed it out and that was it, I knew nothing of BoT until this vid and what youve spoke of here, hahaha. Looks interesting for sure. I honestly think if I do put War Robots down I will take a break. I never have been a big gamer, War Robots was literally the only real game I have played in many many yrs. Guess thats one of the reasons I am barely holding on and clinging to it since its familiar. Frustrating as all hell, but familiar. If Poopface were to also post video of Mite and Nelly crawling all over stuff, even vertical walls and upside down, and how fast Mite can be, you were surely get a woody and give BoT a shot, because War Robots spiders are far outclassed by BoT spiders…. so fun. Just sayin Coincidentally I recorded this earlier.
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Post by Poopface on Sept 20, 2023 19:06:25 GMT -5
Thereâs some sort of update today. Iâd love to know what was in it. more what they would call FIXES, but they are really 「fluffernutter」ing the game up more and more. ***edit, with this new charging and pushing the bot backwards, i am positive my spiders will become all but useless, and thats fine. I will leave the game and find other things to spend my time on. No worries from me. Check out BoT! There are two spider bots!
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Post by Poopface on Sept 20, 2023 17:06:09 GMT -5
The knockback is broken. Needs to be tweaked immediately. There’s some sort of update today. I’d love to know what was in it. Shhhhh......theyuh hunting wabbits......
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Post by Poopface on Sept 20, 2023 16:53:18 GMT -5
Learning!
Wasn’t perfect, but it’s a start. I found a few things to do differently in the future, but the basics are there.
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Post by Poopface on Sept 20, 2023 16:17:12 GMT -5
Foggy's a little foggy on this one. The fees do not apply to re-installs. This is only for active/new installs. Pixonic will not get charged if a user reinstalls the game. That would make no sense at all. From Unity's license FAQ. Does a reinstall of an app on the same device count towards the Unity Runtime Fee? No, we are not going to charge a fee for reinstalls. It’ll never happen, but this would be incentive for a smart, ethical company to try to retain existing customers and change tactics to try to woo back lost ones by eschewing predatory practices. Instead, I wouldn’t be surprised if costs were transferred to customers in the form of price hikes.
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Post by Poopface on Sept 20, 2023 14:06:36 GMT -5
I’m still holding to my red line. Currently only playing BoT, but if they officially announce the 6gun mech, I’m done.
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Post by Poopface on Sept 20, 2023 7:18:55 GMT -5
It showed the prizes for a short while, now they've disappeared. Maybe a bug? If they can get away with it, the bug will stay. Shhhhh it’s a “feature.”
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Post by Poopface on Sept 20, 2023 5:33:41 GMT -5
Ridiculous. Check out the vid at the12:50 mark. Both Anglers are in their ability and still get yeeted. Anglers have had a handful of nerfs already, most notably the damage they deal during the ability for "balancing" reasons, then they come out with this monstrosity that does crazy amounts of damage during ability + this + that etc. etc. and 800k health! Oh don't forget that the magic Reaper weapons are no longer magical enough to affect the newest La Cucaracha bot during its ability.
This game has become a farce.
Tomorrow completes a week since I’ve played a match. It’s nice not getting annoyed as much or as often. That really saying something considering I work for the US govt given I’m mired in incompetence, malaise, and nonfeasance on a daily basis.
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Post by Poopface on Sept 19, 2023 9:11:08 GMT -5
Had a cool situation a moment ago in a match where I was able to sneak up on a Tirpitz with a Shon. I stunned him then took out one+ of his underwing guns with my first attack, retreated to reload, then gook out his second underwing gun. Unfortunately, I got interrupted and had to set down the phone. Died.
On the downside, there was what looks like a blue tanker. Only dropped 1 mech and it died. Very low score.
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Post by Poopface on Sept 18, 2023 18:11:11 GMT -5
You’ll get no disagreements for me about acronyms. I live with them at work. I’m perfectly happy using them, but when you don’t know what they mean, you’re lost. I wish that info you linked was more obviously available. I even went trying to find it on the Discord just now and could not. I found a lot of other stuff, but not that.
Regardless, that’s quite helpful. I appreciate it!
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Post by Poopface on Sept 18, 2023 16:06:33 GMT -5
Jargon assist: MMRR and RRRR? Wut?
I’ve scanned the Discord, but there’s a lot of abbreviations that make no sense to me. Like what’s above. It’s not intuitive to me.
As far as focused targeting. Still getting the hang of it, but it’s really tough on a phone.
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Post by Poopface on Sept 18, 2023 14:47:01 GMT -5
ѻﻭɼﻉ what’s the philosophy behind choosing armor types?
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Post by Poopface on Sept 18, 2023 13:19:26 GMT -5
Swapped out my MAO for a Nelly. I got tired of getting hit from on top of/behind things by those things. Likewise, I hate the flying mechs. I currently have Manglers mounted. I tried Stings initially.
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Post by Poopface on Sept 17, 2023 5:21:18 GMT -5
I currently have a Shon, a Mite, a Ravager, and a Mao. Not a fan of the Mao. Saving up to replace it.
I just had a cool moment in a Mite where I hung out underneath a rocket nacelle from one of the crashed ships on the snow map, ambushed one of the large spider mechs, stunned with my special, lit him up with my mini guns, then fled to cover. Did it twice and killed him with my remaining gun (he blew one off in the 2nd attack). After that I jumped on top of a Tirpitz and stunned with my special but died shortly afterward after my remaining gun was blown up as a 2Nd Redshowed up.
Fun times. I think this would be way better (and F2P) for Timed Drops.
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