Pro Tips & Tactics - what's your best?

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While not advocating this for everyone, at a certain level of play, it can help you get past the skill level ceiling that we sometimes run into.  Sometimes it's hard to adjust your thinking but being in performance and weapon deficient bots and still hanging in there can force a paradigm shift as far as your approach to the fights.  Even if you just do the Gameroom FB thing and only use the simple bots you get at the beginning even as you level up and unlock new bots and weapons. (Champs and Recruits are commonly in the same matches so you can get the same effect without changing your main hangar, at least while it is still new), it will wake you up.  3/5 Tulumbus Cossack will force your hand at being patient and getting the clutch burst shots in. I kill more than my damage will account for, because I am sorta acting like it is Hydra-like... scanning HP of Reds till I see one that is low enough to help kill or bring down with my lonesome tulu. I'll try and support others, but 1v1 happens too, and getting good enough to avoid fire and return it with accuracy is tough in that little cricket of a bot.  Just an example... but the concept as a whole is worth exploring if you feel like you are not getting better.

Good post, Sgt.

When I was learning to play Drums, I had a time period when I stripped away the extraneous bits and just had a single pedal Bass Drum, Snare Drum, and Hi Hat.  I focused on just those parts, both in practice and in play, for a while.  then I added the Ride cymbal.  Then the Crash.  Then the Floor Tom... etc.  It greatly enhanced my ability to play the parts of songs that mattered by simplifying it down like that. 

Same thing here.   


IMO, YMMV

Exactly.

Not get hit?

My tips:
1. Know your weapon ranges. So many people have said this before.
2. Know what role you play in your team. A Zenit/Noricum/Molot Mk. 2 Golem should not be charging straight into battle.
3. Use cover when overwhelmed. This works well especially with high-damage, slow-reload weapons like Trebuchet and Tulumbas. Take cover so you can attack with maximum power.
4. If you have Abilities, use it to your advantage.
5. If your weapon is low on ammo and doesn't have a "smart-reload" system, vent it into a wall if no enemy is present. This way, your weapons can be at full readiness when you encounter your next target.

These are tips that are merely what I have observed from my meager 20th-level experience. I hope that I can learn more tactics to improve my gameplay.

I read through maybe half of these pages, haven't seen this and maybe it goes without saying for seasoned pilots, but make sure you have a clear shot before taking a shot. This includes clearing your teammates. It's a waste of a salvo, a missed opportunity and messes with your teammate's field of vision. If I had a key every time I got blasted with a hail of orkan/tulu/punisher/etc. fire from a teammate behind me to hit a target in front of me, I'd run the black market. If there were an exception to this it would be providing cover/intimidation fire from molots/punishers to a light bot picking up one of those super open beacons, like center in Shezen or canyon.

Here is a tip for those who dont pay attention to anciles. You can use your teams anciles for protection if you stay in the "bubble" of that player. How do you know if his ancile is charged and is gonna protect you? look at the ancile. when its charged, you will see the reddish orange part in the middle, when its depleted, the unit will close up and you wont see any red at all. Being cognoscente of your own teams health is key in winning games and knowing when your teamates are in trouble and need help.


notice the fury, his ancile is not charged... see the difference?

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One tip for more even games is to select the right squad size: mechspectrum.com/2017/10/03/war-robots-match-making-what-in-the-holy-mother-of-kang-dae-is-going-on/

One very important thing that is rarely discussed: Know your role in the offense, and do what's best for the team instead what's best for your statistics. (Hey, as a defense lineman you don't want to man cover a wide receiver, right? Unfortunately doing your job, which is pressuring the QB, means you won't get a lot of interceptions.) 

I'll focus on sniper gameplay here. (Which I find boring, personally. But I see a LOT of bad decisions from snipers.) The theory of sniping (and midrange) is sound: Players will be more concerned with the enemy 250m away than with a sniper 700m away, so an agile sniper will often get good shots, acquiring "free damage" while the combatants are behind cover and don't hurt each other (much). And the damage dealt will make up for the fact that you have one less knife fighter in the field. Assuming decent gameplay, a team with 2 snipers and 4 knife fighters has a huge advantage on an open map like Yama or Canyon vs. a team with 6 knife fighters. 

Historical info: This used to be different. Sniper weapons did only few damage, so that principle did not work because the disadvantage of having less knife fighters weighed heavier than the damage dealt from snipers. But over time, damage output from some sniper weapons (especially Gekkos) has almost doubled due to a series of buffs, and snipers are very viable on open maps. 

Now the bad decisions come in if you have 2 snipers and 4 knife fighters on team A vs. 2 snipers and 4 knife fighters on team B. Now, we can have three scenarios:

1. Snipers on both sides fire at knife fighters, until the battle is decided. This means, essentially the snipers neutralize each other.
2. Snipers on both sides fire at the other snipers. Again, the snipers neutralize each other and the knife fighters are not bothered.
3. Snipers on team A take out the enemy snipers, while the snipers on team B fire at the knife fighters. Assuming that most players will carry only one sniper build, this will quickly lead to team B having 6 knife fighters and team A having 2 snipers and 4 knife fighters, giving A the advantage. 

Therefore, the basic rule as sniper is: Your priority targets are the enemy snipers! Because if you fire at knife fighters and the enemy snipers fire at you, you'll be at disadvantage eventually. While if you fire at the enemy snipers, you gain the chance to take them out and to give your team a permanent advantage. 

So, this is your gameplan:

• Try to kill all enemy snipers. Once they are all dead, you can still decimate the red ranks, or choose to ditch and switch to a knife fighter to pressure a beacon if necessary.
• If you can't kill them, make them dive for cover and choose bad firing positions. Don't hesitate to utilize the psychological effect of constant hits.
  I run a Zeus Gekko Natty, and I often experienced that 3 red snipers on Yama were hiding from my puny 2 Gekkos doing very moderate damage, while my 5 knife fighter teammates made short work of the remaining 3 red knife fighters. Also, many snipers will hide from Molots even though they deal hardly any damage from 790m.
• Use cover while doing so. Especially with Gekkos (say Gekko Natty), if you're behind a convenient cover like that thing on the Yama home area (water tower?), cornershoot your left Gekko, move to the right, cornershoot right Gekko, move to the left, repeat. You will drive them crazy, sending round after round of Treb fire at your cover. Similar cover exists on Canyon (looks a bit like a trashcan) and Springfield.
• You will earn less damage this way, but contribute more to victory.
• As few snipers employ this tactic, you have good chance to succeed. Many snipers will realize what you're doing only after you have taken half their health. Then they'll run for cover. 
• Don't use Trebuchets for that. It makes it easy to identify you as sniper, they will know even from 1050m if you're behind cover, and every red player will know when it's safe to move because your uncharged Treb is not glowing. 

The same principle is basically true for midrange. Regardless whether you run Hydras or Zeus/Tridents, it is more efficient to take out the enemy midrangers (if you can get close enough) instead of hitting the knife fighters. 

If you run Zenits and Noricums (and I hope you don't, because they are inefficient), also target red snipers first. 

I am going to share a simple yet affective golem set up.
Thunder in the heavy slot, Pin in the light slot, and Tulumbas in the medium slot. Itworks so well in quickly depleting health of non-sheilded robots as long as you upgrade the weapons and the robot.

Play with a blitz hangar from time to time (fast lights and mediums). This forces you to increase your sphere of awareness on the battlefield and team skills. It also gives you the ability to sense your role, where to go and quickly get to the area where youre meager hp and damage can make the most difference. I play an aphid mk2 jesse as first spawn. It lets me quickly cap a beacon then move on to harass and delay the faster reds or cut them from their bigger backups buying time for my team to get in position. Not firing all weapons at once also gives you time to prioritize targets. One dead red differs greatly from two at half hp. They usually are reluctant to engage fresh blues and will act accordingly.
Also dont forget to always try to do two things at once. Recognize what bots you spawned with and where they are. Engaging a bot in combat also potentially draws it out. Away from where they can support teammates to where you are covered and your enemy is in multiple crosshairs. Do this along the line. Its a lot of fun and pretty rewarding once you get the hang of it.
When backup comes, pair up and act as his second loadout. This lets your buddy take some damage for you. Watch his flank. And keep some in reserve for when he runs ammo dry. This helps him and you live longer in enemy territory.

Know when to fall back. Learnt it from my time in WoT. But the concept appllies here as well. Sometimes chasing a cripppled enemy mech or capping a beacon aint worth the grief when you end up in a poor position or surrouned by reds