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Post by deputy666 on Nov 17, 2017 2:07:55 GMT -5
I've only been playing for 3 - 4 months so I'm still pretty new at War Robots as well. What has helped me a huge amount is watching youtube videos and reading these forums. Listen to what people are telling you, most have the games (and therefore new players) best interests at heart. Get some Griffins and Leos, level your weapons slightly higher than or level with your bots and drop fugin and rajin. Spend WSP on weapons before bots and save gold for hanger spots. Good luck I think I've seen you in the game. Seems like not many of us Facebook players around. I had Android but my fingers just couldn't operate accurately enough to play well. See you in the battle
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Post by 7iquid on Nov 17, 2017 3:36:44 GMT -5
The single most important factor for me in the game was changing a) my hangar and b) my playstyle.
I was stuck in silver / gold then gold / diamond for ages and ages. Eventually I started to make small changes such as extra slot, RDB Griffin, using the right weapons and also using bots that weren't my first choice (e.g. Griffs). It's not that everyone HAS to use certain bots it's simply practical if you want to be competitive. That's why there are very few Destriers in D1 iOS.
Of course if you are enjoying your games then don't bother trying to fix things!
A couple of suggestions: go for a Carnage with WSP. It will be utter rubbish till it's levelled up to at least 8 then go for a Zarnage (Carnage + 2 x Zeus) A highly versatile mid range support bot that can turn games around and is the Dash-nemesis.
Get rid of the spider bots and gradually build in at least a RDB (pins + tulumbas).
ALL bots take a lot of games to get used to and add to that the variety of weapons and the learning curve for a new bot can be spread over several games. Add to that different maps and IMO a new bot can take between 50 - 100 games to get the hang of- that's when you can start liking a bot or not.
Whatever you do though aim for fun in the game rather than searching for the top levels - there is a lot of fun to be had simply messing around with new builds and different strategies. Good luck.
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Post by wildboar on Nov 17, 2017 3:51:26 GMT -5
Lvl 1 Spirals? ... you may as well be lobbing tennis balls That kang is painfully slow too FWIW I don't rate either of the spider bots - just not mobile enough for my taste Those 2 Orkans would go on a nice Griff (with 2 pinatas) what else do you have in you inventory? All current weapons equipped on my bot are what's in my inventory, I sell off the rest. Someone else has said it in this thread but don't sell off weapons ...(unless you have 20 of the same type you don't use) The Ag you get back is just not worth it Orkans have one of the best damage outputs in the game - you have to get close (300m) but that is part of the skill using them You should be able to build something very effective with those on it Definitely get more slots nothing should be 'exposed' to Zenits and Noriucums ... that tells me you don't move enough ... keep moving and/or use cover and they just become an annoyance
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Post by maverick on Nov 17, 2017 4:00:08 GMT -5
I've only been playing for 3 - 4 months so I'm still pretty new at War Robots as well. What has helped me a huge amount is watching youtube videos and reading these forums. Listen to what people are telling you, most have the games (and therefore new players) best interests at heart. Get some Griffins and Leos, level your weapons slightly higher than or level with your bots and drop fugin and rajin. Spend WSP on weapons before bots and save gold for hanger spots. Good luck Why do people hate the Fujin and Raijin so much?? it's part of the game and costs WSP to get. While Leo has 3 Light slots and 1 Heavy slot it's still not strong enough as a CQC fighter. I tried Thunder+Pinata Leo but most of the time I'm slow and getting close requires a lot of exposure. I can't find the right Griffin build because I don't have all the plasma weapons for it yet. My hanger is made for CQC now. I only changed Kang Dae to Thunder and the 2 spirals to Pinatas but it's still not good enough. I don't "hate" them, I bought a Raijin and it just doesn't suit my play style. It's big and slow and as soon as you go into bastion mode everything within 2 km fires at you. End of Rajin. One day I'll level it up (after everything else) and try it again.
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Post by maverick on Nov 17, 2017 4:01:44 GMT -5
I've only been playing for 3 - 4 months so I'm still pretty new at War Robots as well. What has helped me a huge amount is watching youtube videos and reading these forums. Listen to what people are telling you, most have the games (and therefore new players) best interests at heart. Get some Griffins and Leos, level your weapons slightly higher than or level with your bots and drop fugin and rajin. Spend WSP on weapons before bots and save gold for hanger spots. Good luck I think I've seen you in the game. Seems like not many of us Facebook players around. I had Android but my fingers just couldn't operate accurately enough to play well. See you in the battle Yeah I tried it on my phone after playing on gameroom and the controls are awkward and the screen is just too small for me. I prefer my 27" curved monitor
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Post by jhonsnow on Nov 17, 2017 6:19:37 GMT -5
Although others have said I will repeat. Get the forth slot ASAP. And Yeh don't sell the extra inventories unless you have way more than required.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2017 6:46:50 GMT -5
Okay I'm now at 1273 league rating points and battles are becoming much more difficult now because I'm seeing gold league players both on my team and the enemy team on the top of the team lists.
I think I will just intentionally lose so I go back down to 1,100 league rating points and then play serious and stop at 1,270 league rating points.
I don't want to go lower then 1,000 rating points because fighting against bronze players is really no challenge or a fight. most bronze players in my team like to follow my bots around the whole god damn map because I do so much damage and it pisses me off, I get irritated and eject my bot. the most annoying bronze clowns are the ones that use my fujin as a shield and leave me to die.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2017 6:47:22 GMT -5
I'm at 600 gold atm so just 400 more gold to go then.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2017 6:48:13 GMT -5
Okay I'm now at 1273 league rating points and battles are becoming much more difficult now because I'm seeing gold league players both on my team and the enemy team on the top of the team lists. I think I will just intentionally lose so I go back down to 1,100 league rating points and then play serious and stop at 1,270 league rating points. I don't want to go lower then 1,000 rating points because fighting against bronze players is really no challenge or a fight. most bronze players in my team like to follow my bots around the whole god damn map because I do so much damage and it pisses me off, I get irritated and eject my bot. the most annoying bronze clowns are the ones that use my fujin as a shield and leave me to die. EDIT: was on a winning streak yesterday and today I will see if its a win streak or losing streak.
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Post by DirtyLikaRat® on Nov 17, 2017 7:04:07 GMT -5
Bahahahahahahah dude I've been stuck in Silver since the beginning of Summer.. I blast fools and get to the gold challenge and all of a sudden Mm or the Pixo Gods or bad luck sticks me five matches against like 12/12 top tier A Holes.. And it's back to silver 3. I stopped getting mad a couple months ago
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Post by DirtyLikaRat® on Nov 17, 2017 7:08:03 GMT -5
If you face a Lancelot ... run away ? They are as slow as a glacier ... the rush doesn't last for very long ...Go find a battle you can win OR get inside his ancile bubble (if you have rockets) and shoot him in the back ... if you have plasma just shoot him in the back Thunders take down an ancile pretty quickly yea what he said.. Listen to wildboar on the Lance advice. #Wildboar why does Noone think to rush inside the Ancile shields on Lance and Fujin... Good stuff bro
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Post by DirtyLikaRat® on Nov 17, 2017 8:01:24 GMT -5
I've only been playing for 3 - 4 months so I'm still pretty new at War Robots as well. What has helped me a huge amount is watching youtube videos and reading these forums. Listen to what people are telling you, most have the games (and therefore new players) best interests at heart. Get some Griffins and Leos, level your weapons slightly higher than or level with your bots and drop fugin and rajin. Spend WSP on weapons before bots and save gold for hanger spots. Good luck Right on the money.. Research.. Watch videos.... And most of all, hit your forum old schoolers for advice on your hangar and such. I used to get smoked terribly, until I joined this forum and started bugging these crusty old farts for advice. These basement dwelling, robot 「popcorn」 watchin, moomoo wearing Mama's boys helped to mold and sculpt DirtyLikaRat into the Shining Star of the Robot World that he is today... Thank you robot nerd old schoolers.. I love you more than I love Russian 「popcorn」 stars... And that's alot of love
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Post by SGT D00M! on Nov 17, 2017 8:08:29 GMT -5
OP: Please halp, stuck in silver! Forum Members: Focus on getting slots and use better silver bots to replace those spider bots for now. OP: Nope, don't wanna do any of that, I think I'll tank instead. ME: I'm out, we are done here.
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Post by wildboar on Nov 17, 2017 8:37:54 GMT -5
If you face a Lancelot ... run away ? They are as slow as a glacier ... the rush doesn't last for very long ...Go find a battle you can win OR get inside his ancile bubble (if you have rockets) and shoot him in the back ... if you have plasma just shoot him in the back Thunders take down an ancile pretty quickly yea what he said.. Listen to wildboar on the Lance advice. #Wildboar why does Noone think to rush inside the Ancile shields on Lance and Fujin... Good stuff bro I don't know... but a number of stalker/gary pilots have shown me how effective it is with their superior speed
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2017 8:50:23 GMT -5
OP: Please halp, stuck in silver! Forum Members: Focus on getting slots and use better silver bots to replace those spider bots for now. OP: Nope, don't wanna do any of that, I think I'll tank instead. ME: I'm out, we are done here. That is a unreasonable thing to say man, after pushing my way to 1,298 league rating points. I saw my team mate have mk2 weapons/level 11 bots/weapons and obviously this is a sign of unbalanced matchmaking and I know that going up further more then I can manage will just end up as me being steamrolled cannon fodder. If matchmaking was fair and balanced I wouldn't need to post in the first place.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2017 10:08:12 GMT -5
This is what I'm fighting against in Silver 3 league in response to the SGT DOOM's ignorant response imgur.com/uWCzaeS Gold league player imgur.com/a/HzBta This guy is a tanker in silver 3 league
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Post by deputy666 on Nov 17, 2017 10:59:16 GMT -5
I think I've seen you in the game. Seems like not many of us Facebook players around. I had Android but my fingers just couldn't operate accurately enough to play well. See you in the battle Yeah I tried it on my phone after playing on gameroom and the controls are awkward and the screen is just too small for me. I prefer my 27" curved monitor I hear ya pal. With both arthritis and diabetic neuropathy in my hands, tiny controls become impossible. I got a 27 inch screen too. Just not curved. The game looks awesome in hi def.
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Post by hyderier on Nov 17, 2017 11:33:20 GMT -5
OP: Please halp, stuck in silver! Forum Members: Focus on getting slots and use better silver bots to replace those spider bots for now. OP: Nope, don't wanna do any of that, I think I'll tank instead. ME: I'm out, we are done here. That is a unreasonable thing to say man, after pushing my way to 1,298 league rating points. I saw my team mate have mk2 weapons/level 11 bots/weapons and obviously this is a sign of unbalanced matchmaking and I know that going up further more then I can manage will just end up as me being steamrolled cannon fodder. If matchmaking was fair and balanced I wouldn't need to post in the first place. Everybody is in the same situation. Every time you lose intentionally, you screw over 5 blue teammates. It sucks. Please don't do that. If you feel you must control your league score, there are 2 ways, which will not really hurt others unreasonably, or slow down your own progress. 1. Stay at 3 or 4 slots until you are ready to advance. 2. Use light bots (at your current league, medium bots later). Use "final" weapons and upgrade them, it's no problem because you are using less of them. Cosssck, Schutze, Stalker and Golem are superb bots for this purpose (choosräe bot by weapons you want), upgrading them to max speed at Level 9 isn't a bad investment. So, play properly, upgrade your stuff, just bring less guns so you will not do too much damage.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2017 12:14:12 GMT -5
That is a unreasonable thing to say man, after pushing my way to 1,298 league rating points. I saw my team mate have mk2 weapons/level 11 bots/weapons and obviously this is a sign of unbalanced matchmaking and I know that going up further more then I can manage will just end up as me being steamrolled cannon fodder. If matchmaking was fair and balanced I wouldn't need to post in the first place. Everybody is in the same situation. Every time you lose intentionally, you screw over 5 blue teammates. It sucks. Please don't do that. If you feel you must control your league score, there are 2 ways, which will not really hurt others unreasonably, or slow down your own progress. 1. Stay at 3 or 4 slots until you are ready to advance. 2. Use light bots (at your current league, medium bots later). Use "final" weapons and upgrade them, it's no problem because you are using less of them. Cosssck, Schutze, Stalker and Golem are superb bots for this purpose (choosräe bot by weapons you want), upgrading them to max speed at Level 9 isn't a bad investment. So, play properly, upgrade your stuff, just bring less guns so you will not do too much damage. I always do as much damage as I can and I use all bots to fight, but against tankers and gold league players they absolutely destroy my team such as in the 2 photo links above.
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Post by cmdrperalta on Nov 17, 2017 12:19:12 GMT -5
Oh right sorry I forgot to list my hanger: Fujin lvl 8: lv5 orkan/lv5 orkan/lv5 taran Raijin lvl 7: lv5 thunder/lv5 thunder Natasha lv6: lv5 Zeus/Lv5 Kang dae/lv1 spiral/lv1 spiral Fujin gets reckt with by plasma griffins and 4x aphid pattons, Raijin is exposed to rockets even in bastion mode and Natasha is mid range fighter but still exposed to zenits and noricums. Dump the raijin and the fujin. Get 1 or 2 griffs. Put orkans on one with some pinatas and/or pun/PunT. Dump the spirals if you aren't going to beef them and go with noricum on your natty. Maybe put the Zeus or a Thunder on a Leo with some pins/puns and replace with a zenit on the natty. Get a 4th hangar slot and use wsp for hydras for your fujin.
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Post by SGT D00M! on Nov 17, 2017 12:25:51 GMT -5
Oh right sorry I forgot to list my hanger: Fujin lvl 8: lv5 orkan/lv5 orkan/lv5 taran Raijin lvl 7: lv5 thunder/lv5 thunder Natasha lv6: lv5 Zeus/Lv5 Kang dae/lv1 spiral/lv1 spiral Fujin gets reckt with by plasma griffins and 4x aphid pattons, Raijin is exposed to rockets even in bastion mode and Natasha is mid range fighter but still exposed to zenits and noricums. Dump the raijin and the fujin. Get 2 griffs. Put orkans on one with some pinatas and pun/PunT on the other.  Put the thunders and some puns on your natty or dump the natty and run thunder puns on a Leo. That should get you to gold. Use your Au to get a 4th slot and bring your fujin back up but with hydras. That's what I'd do with that hangar. Everyone has already told him to clean up that 「dookie」 show of a hangar and invest in more slots, but the OP is convinced that none of us could possibly have already gone through this ourselves and know what we are talking about.
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Post by deputy666 on Nov 17, 2017 16:56:31 GMT -5
I am kinda in the same spot as the OP. But more by choice than chance. I kinda like level 6 and high Bronze/low Silver play. Then again...I don't pay much attention to it. It is what it is...as they say. Ain't nobody gonna PAY ME to "get good".
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Post by elcheapo on Nov 17, 2017 17:06:54 GMT -5
Reminds me of my old hanger . I too used Tash , Raijin and Fujin but I had four slots and that took me to gold . My fourth bot was Leo .
First there is nothing wrong with Raijin . He is as slow as griffin has no armour , what's your point people? I am diamond and I make use of two Raijins.
Thunder Raijin is fine but less crawling if you have mid range weapons . I say stick Zeus on Raijin , buy another Zues or add a trident . Mixing thunder and Zues is Great too Fujin is not a brawler . He needs tulumbus or Molot to shine . Yes orkans are nice but save it for your fourth bot . Rhino or Grif can make good use of Orkan . natty is your sniper / mid range bot . Spiral ? Seriously ? Whatever toss it .As I said give her Zeus to the Raijin . Treb Kang or Nash guns whatever suites your personality . Noricums help sniping or punisher to keep her safe if a bot charges you. Tridents for midrange , you can use pins or molots .
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2017 23:36:58 GMT -5
Reminds me of my old hanger . I too used Tash , Raijin and Fujin but I had four slots and that took me to gold . My fourth bot was Leo . First there is nothing wrong with Raijin . He is as slow as griffin has no armour , what's your point people? I am diamond and I make use of two Raijins. Thunder Raijin is fine but less crawling if you have mid range weapons . I say stick Zeus on Raijin , buy another Zues or add a trident . Mixing thunder and Zues is Great too Fujin is not a brawler . He needs tulumbus or Molot to shine . Yes orkans are nice but save it for your fourth bot . Rhino or Grif can make good use of Orkan . natty is your sniper / mid range bot . Spiral ? Seriously ? Whatever toss it .As I said give her Zeus to the Raijin . Treb Kang or Nash guns whatever suites your personality . Noricums help sniping or punisher to keep her safe if a bot charges you. Tridents for midrange , you can use pins or molots . Okay I listen to you and change my bot setups then. Raijin/Thunder/Zeus Fujin 3x Tulumbus Nastasha 2x Kang Dae/ 2x Noricum For the 4th slot: Griffin 2x orkan/ 2x pinata or 2x tulumbus/ 2x pins? or carnage
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Post by elcheapo on Nov 18, 2017 0:21:06 GMT -5
Don't waste your orkans . Ork piñata Griffin . Aphid is good too .
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