Brit bots

Britbots are the only things I bought with real money. Now that I understand Pixonic's modus operandi where they make certain new bots OP, milk them dry, then discard and start the process all over again with a new set of bots, I won't spend another dime on this game again. I shall just wait and watch with smug amusement when the Korean bots are made useless to make way for the Brazilian bots.

It's quite simple. Watch what I buy, and watch them get nerfed. Tridents? Nerfed. Brit Bots? Nerfed. (Gary and Gala anyway.) They haven't nerfed Lance yet because I dont have one. 3.1 took care of my RDB. Now I'm working on a Rog. They'll nerf him next. The only thing that I've upgraded and they haven't nerfed [yet] are the Molots and Punishers.

I look at it differently.

Its just not OP anymore compared to previously with all the new updates, but still playable.

To me every bot melts depending on the opponents set up.

They are still good to take out energy weapons based bots. May not last as long with the guns update but the shield still gives that extra protection. As for rockets enemy bots, surely dont expect to walk away unscathed after a one-to-one showdown. Know yourself, know your enemy ( something like that from Sun Zhu atrs of war lol)

Its "choosing" your opponents in a battle and also situational awareness, including knowing what kind of bots that are closing in on you.

on top only lance is useful now

In my medium hangar I have two Plasmahads and they perform well. Yes, a DB can take one out in one salvo, and Bullets force them to seek cover.

But they cap Beacons as fast as a Rhino, laugh at the current Treb and Laser madness and eat everything that has no shield.

As said above, they are normal bots and still very useful once they reach level 9.

This does not mean I agree with Pix behaviour.

My Garys (9 and 8) and my Galah (9) are sat gathering dust now ... BUT, I've a shiny new Lance to play with! Yes, only (7) at mo, and so easily fried, but great fun and a super red-bot magnet to draw fire and allow my team mates a chance to capture that next beacon (so long as they're real quick!)

I agree. Britbots are still some of the very toughest customers around. Of course missiles hurt, but it's not like they hurt only Britbots.

There is a lot of exaggeration in how some people describe the supposed "fall" of Britbots. For all the talk which has been done, Gareth is still by far the toughest light bot in the game, and Galahad is totally on par with the Rogatka which is the other gold medium. Not to mention Lancelot which is still a reference. Seems fairly well balanced to me.

I think the problem comes from the fact Britbots were wrecking everything at one point. Of course if people are used to that, it can look disappointing to see those robots having also some weakness. But honestly, if you still look at the big picture, they are still great robots, and some of the most dangerous around.

They are more vulnerable than before, yes. But various bots change in terms of their power level.

Take Fujins, for example. Nice firepower, but they were best with Orkans or Tarans, which meant that you were inside plasma range of your enemies, and if you put the shield down to dodge, you got shredded by rockets or kinetic weapons. Then came the accelerated fire buff for punishers and molots, and your shields were drained even faster if you used them. They were pretty underpowered, especially in comparison to physically shielded bots. The continuous rocket reload didn't help either, as it allowed people to keep your shield down/low, rather than you being able to guarantee to have a decent amount of your shield back before they fired again, of giving you time to run away. The continuous reload buff did hurt BritBots (and Rhinos), but it hurt Ancile-shielded bots as well, especially the Fujin because of the way it's Ancile works. Now, with the kinetic weapons having a buff against physical shields, the Fujin has gained a bit more competitiveness, as has the Carnage.

I know the cycle is frustrating for those who have spent money on this game to buy better bots, but it's also frustrating for those who, while not paying money, have had to put a lot more time/effort into getting those bots/weapons. I think the buffs/debuffs are too harsh in general.

One thing though: lots of people complained about the uselessness of kinetic weapons before all these updates happened. Molots and punishers were basically relegated to being used in numbers to try and take down anciles, and sometimes as suppressive fire (although pins/Tulumbas and Trebuchets were just as effective at making people hide well away from you). Nashorns and Kang Daes were generally seen as bad weapons to use: if you were sniping, you had a trebuchet if you were any good. There was generally a better weapon in every scenario. Who needs to take down the anciles slowly when you can shred it with a DB Griffin or ignore it with plasma? Who needs to continually peck at a physical shield when you can hurt the shield and the bot behind it at the same time using rockets? Who needed to snipe with a single solid shot that had nothing special about it, and not much damage per shot, when a single well aimed shot with a Treb Natasha/Fury could shear off chunks of health and send bots running for cover? They had to improve the usability of kinetic weapons, and the best way to do that was to improve its usefulness against the type of bot that was currently the one closest to being overpowered, which happened to be the BritBots. If stalkers were the most powerful/dominant bot at the time that it was decided to improve kinetic weapons, we would probably have seen an update that helped kinetic weapons kill stalkers.

I think rockets are the real problem especially tulumbas/pin set-ups.