Pro Tips & Tactics - what's your best?

If I may provide a piece of advice, a way to avoid the awkward shuffling when your bot is turning 180 degrees is to drag your control stick along the edge of the control pad, this will make it so that there is no awkward shuffling and you will be able to turn away from DBs faster.

uhhhhhhh, what? The game is mobile so i don't see how you have a control stick???

Actually, they should make other versions. 

For Cthulhu's sake please please PLEASE don't be T.H.A.T G.U.Y!
The
Hydra-using
A-hole
That uses

Gareth
Uselessly
You know the one

Seriously, Gareth is a capper/assassin. Hydra is best used on Fujin or not at all.

War Robots short guide for new players

metatronx

I did one short guide which explains beacons and lock on target function. When Lock on target is enabled you can manually select and be locked to spefic target. LOT -button is under big red firebutton when function is enabled from menu. When locked auto aim does not jump between targets until target is destroyed, target is out of green brakets in your hud or you select new target. When locked to target, double redline box is surrounding it.

When farming beacons for gold or daily missions use the other teams beacon cappers to help you. If you take a beacon and someone moves to take it...let them turn it white before chasing them off and taking it again. If you are defending a beacon and want to kill the red that is turning it don't drop him until it flips white. In lower leagues, you can sometimes manipulate another pilot into helping you cap the same beacon 2 or 3 times in a short space of time. As soon as you cap a beacon don't worry about defending it, keep circling around the map flipping beacons back to blue. Make sure to keep an eye on the clock and beacon bar though, you need to switch to proper defend and hold mode if things don't look under control. If you loose no gold for you.
My little cossack beacon ninja "Grasshopper" doing his thing:

Ugh. You just described perfectly what people _shouldn't_ do, and explained in very few sentences why it is sometimes counterproductive to have a 5 gold reward for beacon.
If you want to win, get and defend those beacons. Once they are turned you don't know if you're able to turn them back, there may be another red waiting for you to jump. And in the end, every second of beacon control may count. Many battles were won or lost because a team just wasted a tiny bit of the domination bar.

Thanks a lot BlackGrouse! I didn't know that. I tried it as you said and can see it's very useful, can't thank you enough! 

Three on Yamantau:

1) As soon as you spawn, you are almost immediately under fire of Trebuchet snipers. Fortunately, Trebuchet glow so they are easy to see in the distance. Depending on where they are, drop down from the wall as soon as you can to use the center beacon covers to hide you from them: a Trebuchet Fury can take away 1/3 of the health of a griffin way before it gets anything near to the center beacon. If you spawn on the side where the "tunnel" is on your right, drop down immediately right of the ramp, and DON'T use the ramp, it is too exposed.

2) Midrange splash is very effective against reds hiding behind the protections while occupying center beacon. Most people tend to stay as close to the protection as they can to make it difficult to target them. But the protections are very thin and if you fire pin/tulumbas/trident rounds against them you will damage the robot hiding behind them almost as much as you would with a direct hit, if it is staying close to them. This way you can significantly soften the defender for your knife fighters that are climbing up the ramp, with the bonus that they cannot fire back. If you are in a knifer with splash, the same trick works, but to a lesser extent because the splash radius of Orkans and Piñatas is smaller.

3) Of course, to contrast 2): when you defend the Yamantau center beacon NEVER stay too close to the protections in case the enemy has splash (they will). This of course exposes you more to enemy energy / bullet midrangers, so you will have to keep track of where they are and move a bit to keep your cover. If they are hitting you from two sides, then it is likely better to stick against the protection.

Been a while since this sub forum was active, so I thought I would try to get the ball rolling with some random, off the top of my head, tips:

1.) I don't think I saw it said, but here is one that is pretty often a hard lesson for those that are climbing the leagues and go from "near" competition to "far better than you" competition. When starting in a Jump bot on any map/position that has LoS to the Red spawn, don't immediately jump to get a "jump" on the home beacon cap. High level Trebs and Nashorns will do a LOT of damage to a Griff if caught in the air and the weapons are used in multiples. And if there are 2 sniper bots with multiple sniping weapons on the Red side... it is likely you won't make it to the landing.

2.) When going against Ancilelots while using physical weapons, if you don't have an Ancile busting weapon (Thunder, for instance) you will have to get inside the bubble. I'm sure that has been said before in here... but one more aspect to that needs to be said... if you survive to get in their grill like that, it's not enough just to go down swinging inside the bubble doing as much damage as you can... Instead, circle around them and make them turn to face away from your team and give them a non shielded surface to unload their plasma into. If your team is aware, and close enough, it can take out an Ancilelot quickly.

3.) Don't let easy targets tempt you if you are in cover but close to the Red lines. If there are 3 reds within their shooting range of you and 1 of them comes out into the open where you can get them easily if you come out from your cover, you will be a target for the rest of them. There is a benefit beyond not dying right away, which is the reason to do this: Even though this is counter-intuitive because of the way Damage is counted in the game above all else, it is sometimes better to just be a threat than to actually fight. If 2 reds are stuck waiting on you to come out on a flank while the rest of your team is pushing and capping beacons... you are contributing to the win. They HAVE to pay attention to you, or attack you.  Not giving them the opportunity to, yet staying close enough to threaten a beacon, will never allow them to focus on just moving forward. If they DO ignore you and head on into the fray, you can either go ahead and take out the one that is closest to you or slip around and get that beacon then get back into cover. Gareth is good for this, Galahad and Thunder Carny, too.  This approach may not be good for your Ag stash, but it is good for the win. I would guess this is mostly applicable in squad play, but it is still a good thing to learn and use. Unfortunately, the rewards don't teach people to play as a team, and it is not common to see people just going for the win.  For many, that end of game score-sheet is all they know to go by on whether or not they did well.  Either way, a low scoring win is better than a #1 spot on the losing team, IMO.

4.) This was posted before, above, but I want to reiterate that the principle holds true, especially now in the League system where it is much more likely for you to be evenly matched or even undergunned with regard to your opponents. "Synergistic" was the word used in an earlier post, to describe bots that work well in pairs (or even in groups... a pack of 3 opens up even more possibilities, but is harder to make happen on a random match.)  Anyway, "synergistic" is an awesome word choice. Carny Thunder and Galahad is my oft-used example. Galahad takes point with shield engaged to block Plasma/Zeus, Carny stays behind but close, allowing the sharing of the Ancile's benefits. A Rhino could work for the point man... like was said in that other post.  So could an ECU on a bot like the Natty with the shield facing the enemy... and of course, the Lance. It's not always about the shields though. A pair of Griffs running together could have different loadouts that allow for a more comprehensive defense/offense. Example: An RDB and a DB. RDB starts by hitting them at 500m, then can jump back as they close to 400m, and start walking forward again, then the DB can get a shot off, and jump back. The RDB should be arriving about to the same place the DB lands, and with a full or close to full set of weapons... then repeat the cycle. Either way, whatever you find that works for you, try to utilize the team aspect as much as possible. In a random solo match, a pair of players that happen to be in sync will almost always win against singles and loose groups that aren't coordinating.  Try to see what your teammates have, then figure out which one is most suited to capitalize on your strengths while minimizing both of your weaknesses. 

5.) This is related to number 4, but if you are in a multi-mech engagement, try to focus on one target at a time as a group, a.k.a., Concentrated Fire. For example... 3 blues vs 3 reds: Each Red starts to shoot at each Blue... All 3 Blues fire at one Red. It is almost assured that the targeted red will die, and all 3 of the Blues will still be in fighting shape. Go to the next one, and all of a sudden, 1 Blue may be hurt or close to death, but it's now a 3v1 and Blues are almost assured the victory in that skirmish. This tactic is just a basic one in many RL war-fighting situations... it is not always the best plan, but in War Robots, it usually works unless you are going against very competitive clans that know how to go in with mutually supportive fire.

Carnage thunder can shoot over shields if your climbing on top of the nme bot, it's usually a suicide move but can take them out.

Griffin DB against anciles, if you don't want to jump into the bubble!, drain with orkans then finish with pinatas.

Griffin jump is highly useful to evade nme fire, don't be afraid to back off with it to win a fight.

Just a few short, general tips

- Conserve your jumps for your Cossack, Rog, or Griff in later leagues when a lot of players throw Aphids at each other. Those jumps can save your hide from enemy Aphid swarms.

- Consider missile/splash damage weapons for encounters with bots with physical shields, like the Camelot bots, Rhino, and Raijin. Because those shields can't block explosives.

- Plasmas and other energy weapons ignore Anciles and built-in energy shields.

- Weapon ranges matter. It's the radar thingy with the number next to it in your weapon stats at the bottom in the shop/inventory screen.

EDIT: One more tactic I've learned - stealth. But not like Stalkers' special ability.
By stealth I mean refraining from opening fire on the enemy while you're beacon-running, so long as they don't notice you. But if the enemy spots you before you reach their beacon and start attacking, THEN return fire.

Don't let frustration consume you. Keep playing even when your thumbs are in pain.

Use alternate fire
For ex-For thunder carnage
For triple Taran fujin
For plasma griffin

Use a flanking bot
For ex-griffin with aphid and orkan

Use rhino with plasma
Because it's best used with plasma

Always protect teammates if they are under heavy fire

Stay in cover

That's all for today.