Coming buffs and nerfs in 2.9.2

I watched the Live stream.

It seems Pixonic is trying to give each Mecha a survivability rating: of 5.5 seconds ..

I'm going to come right out and say it. adriannnnnn is the LAST person this information should have come from. 

Lets be frank, his viewer numbers are smaller than this forums (or close to the same size)... and the last time I checked not only was he going to be unable to field questions or concerns there is still no central place for pix to receive these items. 

You know what this is, it is pix pandering to youtubers... They have some new challenge every other week where they hand out gold and "influence"... they ask you to put up test server videos... 

They are trying REALLY hard to grow a youtube base, but the way they are going about it only plays to the existing customers, and a much younger demographic than the people they collect most of their cash from. 

I don't want to watch a video about a game, I want to play the dam game.... Shoving game related information into one of these is NOT helpful it is annoying. 

While you sound like a grumpy, old man, I still agree with you. A blog post would have been much better. I don't want to watch a video always. It's annoying.

Many people do not have the equipment  for a video, what will they do with the challenges? eh?


Oh my god, an almost 2 hour video. -_-

An hour and 57 minute video to hunt down patch notes?

Nerfs:
-Pin and Tulumbas shooting speed reduced.

Buffs:
-Tempest 20% damage increase.
-Gekko 25% damage increase.
-Trebuchet 5% damage increase.
-Spiral 15% damage increase.
-Aphid 5% damage increase.
-Hydra 15% damage increase.
-Orkan 15% damage increase.
-Pinata 5% damage increase.
-Magnum 5% damage increase.
-Taran 15% damage increase.
-Punisher MKI 15% damage increase.
-Punisher MKII 25% damage increase.
-Molot MKI 15% damage increase.
-Molot MKII 20% damage increase.

Punishers, Molots, Kang Daes and Nashorns deal 250% damage to physical shields.

I'm a bit disappointed with these changes.  We don't need more damage in this game, it just serves to burst people down faster, and with the movement abilities the Dash Robots will bring, it is feeling increasingly like Overwatch and less likely a Mech game.

> While you sound like a grumpy, old man,

Your on my lawn... again

> A blog post would have been much better. I don't want to watch a video always. It's annoying.
 
Right, when you want information (and that is what this is) to get out, you broadcast it on every channel.  There are tons of tools out there that are cheep and effective to do just this ... 

> Many people do not have the equipment for a video, what will they do with the challenges? eh?

I never thought of that aspect of it, strong point. 

> Oh my god, an almost 2 hour video. -_-

How is this effective, at least I linked you right to the part that was relevant. 

Video to long to listen to. Thanks broneknee for the summary and I will go by that.

Tulus and pins causing too much damage? No 「dookie」 Sherlock (aimed at pix)! How could they have messed it up so bad. And what about the splash radius. On a positive side of things at least they are trying to fix it.

I don't think there is a need to increase weapon strength on all those. Ridiculous. Or perhaps the path is opened for fast mobile bots. Ahhhh, hang on there are more mobile bots on the horizon.......

Ancile may be very valuable in the future and the poor Gary and gala continue on their descent into the workshop.

>How is this effective, at least I linked you right to the part that was relevant.

Talking about those who didn't access through your link. If I had to hazard a guess, most people would see that through subbing to him, so that's a lot.


>I never thought of that aspect of it, strong point.

Not only that, some videos need/would benefit from dialogue. But many, like me don't like to talk in videos/prefer not to upload my voice. In between Uni and other stuff, I can't afford to spend time editing the video to put in text cards. I am guessing many of the players are very busy students.

subscribers < views < viewers.... that last number is the only one that matters... assuming they get the info --- it would be fairly easy to skip tbh. 

There are better ways to do outreach. 

Big thanks to bronzeknee for the summary.

I'm always a bit suspicious, when the info does not come straight from Pix, but I guess Adrian is close enough to the company that this buff/nerf tweak can be trusted to happen. Odd choice to communicate important future changes via an outside party, though.

Looks like by buffing so many weapons, all bots will become proportionally more fragile. That emphasises ability to move, or to keep your distance, to stay out of harm's way. So it looks like especially the traditional brawlers can expect a shorter survivability in battle. There will be counters for them in every range now whether they are shielded or not. And mid-range indirect fire buff wih Hydras and Spirals means even more bad news for them. There will likely be more Molot setups, too.

With the above in mind, and many long range weapons buffed, my guess is there will be more of long range setups fielded in the future as well. I suspect Leos and Nattys will do even more of the LR work in the future due to the Gekko buff, and disco beams will become a permanent fixture in matches.

Medium weaponry seems to be buffed more than the other types. That probably emphasises the role of the Korean bots even further. They are likely the ones to be used as trailblazers, because they a) can dash to avoid all sorts of support weapons and b) have now even more firepower.

I have to say I like the Tulumba/Pin nerf. RDB has always been very kind to me - even before the buff it was the sharpest tool in my box - but I think it has currently too big a role in the game. Good to tone it down a bit.

I feel the coming buffs are at least partially crafted with the new beacon spawning game mode in mind. It is very hard to predict the new dynamics, but I suspect the way many bots are used will change, as will the preferred weapons for them. There might be new stars as well as new dogs. And together with the new Korean bots and these buffs, we will have turbulent times ahead. It's going to be interesting.

RDB "shooting speed" is a bit ambiguous, does it mean (1) firing rate or (2) rocket speed?

(1) = burst dmg nerf. since reloading rate not affected, after the first burst it would be the same,
(2) = need more leading shots, like orkan/pinata, hope it's not as slow as orkans. slowing it a little bit could be actually interesting, will demand more skills.  and the receiving side can dodge them without jumping. 

This is why this info should NOT be sent to someone to read in a video... Publish something and then let us COMMENT ON IT... you know ANSWER the questions we have to clarify anything that might not be clear.

I personally don't like those buffs, the knife-fighters are the losers here and that is not a good thing IMO.

I especially don't like the strong buff on the spirals and hydras. They have long range, they have a crazy homing, they can already deal serious damages at high level, no need to make them so powerful. They will shred anybody at distance and from cover, frankly, I find it a bit too much. Or at least nerf the homing because right now it's just ridiculously good at turning around building to hit their target.

The worst is that it will not solve the lack of diversity of the game. There is still no sense to run a Gepard. The Rhino or the Raijin are still very meh for the prices they cost. I just don't see what a general buff in weapons will bring to the game expect shortening the life-span of robots, which is already not very high. This is why I clearly prefered some very specific adjustments in order to bring back some dead setups in the game (what I was talking here), and this will unfortunately not go in this direction.

Maybe a 6th slot is in the works. For influence points or event currency and at a very high price. But totally agree that knife fighting has been dealt another blow. Shame bc I enjoyed that but now the shift has to be towards long and mid setups.