3.4 looks grim

What a joke, and to answer the question, No!

Well $70 (AUD) for a hover bot, $20 (AUD) for a storm seems cheap to me and is way better then $135 for a shocktrain and $300 for a dash bot.

expensive price but not an absurd one like shocktrain and the dash bots.

But now shocktrains will be thundering down from the sky

Better to look forward to the xmas event.

If this had been the FIRST stuff they released for Components, yeah, sure, I could see getting a couple Storms. Just for fun, and because at that point Pixonic hadn't turned War Robots into a blatantly cash-grabbing game.

Sure, it's a business. But it's a business selling FUN. Winning is fun. Now, I know that I'm NOT in a minority in that I also enjoy some hard-fought losses where I and/or my team simply hadn't got the skills to bring a win home. That, too, is fun. And yet Pixonic thinks its products are the in-game equipment they're working so hard to make OP enough to encourage whales to buy.

The new gear...that's not real! It's all digital; it's not what they're really selling. They're selling Enjoyment. Which, if they focused on making a game a majority of players could enjoy instead of a small percentage of players with disposable income, they'd see far more players willing to shell out a bit of money for added enjoyment.

Oh, and $50 for a mech that's like a Griffin, except it keeps you exposed in the air for longer and has 15% decreased firepower?  While the Griffin itself is already like shooting Trap, and so now we've got one that sits still and makes a nicer target?  Yeah.  Makes perfect sense.

Had they put these out a few months before the dash etc, then people might have bought them. As it is, they're not really worth getting. The dashes are superior. The previous weapons are superior. Badly thought out overall.

Welp, people asked for them to be more reasonable with their pricing.  They delivered.

As a F2P player, I don't like it, but it's certainly a more fair approach to how they're doing things for those who'll shell out money.  Hopefully they're actually reasonably well-balanced.

Im not paying for the Dashes because their pricing is absolutely insane. And I'm not paying for these either because they seem underwhelming, creatively-speaking.

Or it could be like Yama where you can dash from home to center beacon in one dash.

I'll answer my own question. 

From the Wiki:



So, if you could have a Lance for $40 at whatever point in time that was recorded on the page.

So with that in mind, if a Hover is $48 and a Lance was $40 whenever that was, yes, there's a price creep but I wouldn't say it is completely outlandish.  Less reasonable than getting a Lance (for everything it has proven to be), but I doubt the value is imbalanced.

Last time I checked, prices for DIES was still the same. So no, they didn't deliver.

Are the new weapons/robots as OP as DIES? If not, why should we spend a lot of dough for inferior stuff instead of just using the free inferior setups that are readily available to us?

The Hover might be bought because a Shocktrain Hover looks good. But this will help only the whales and not us normal earthlings.

Well, yes. But of course you got free gold, so many players went like "now that I have 3k gold I'll buy the remaining 2k and get a Lance". So the effective price was way under $40 for most of us.

Edit: I mean, the whole system was broken because many players stockpiled so much gold. It was necessary to introduce a new currency. But it shouldn't have been 10 new currencies, and $40 for a bot is just not the correct baseline for a robot, especially considering that a player will need to spend at least $10 a month on VIP if he wants to level bots up to 12. So many players spent maybe $20 a month on average, and picked up the gold bots on the way.

I gotta say, I'm not a huge fan of the components system and it's devaluing of gold and WSP. However, $12 for a premium medium weapon is pretty close to the straight up cost of Orkans (not on sale, just gold conversion rate). Also, ~$50 for a premium med-heavy bot isn't too bad, because that's about 6k gold right? So if you're short on gold and are planning on getting these items anyway, they are actually pretty cheap compared with the older premium items (like Orkans and Lances).

I'm on iOS, so I can't say how OP these items are yet, but I'll definitely be getting 2+ Storm shotguns. I'm tempted to get the Hover bot because of the price, but many wise forum members have pointed out that it will be a target and a sitting duck for many electricity weapons.

(Yes, I know that many are not supporting Pixonic because of their unreasonable treatment of players both through OP content and whale pricing. However, if offered new entertaining content at what I consider a reasonable price, I will pay for it.)

The Hover bot never had stealth even in testing. 

I agree, the dash bots and shocktrain are very OP. When I'm in Expert 2, I see them every match and it's not much fun. However, despite them making the game less fun I'm still entertained enough to pay for the new, cheaper content.

I like the idea of "vote with your wallet" but in practice I'm not sure that's effective in this scenario. Of course, Whales still pay for $1000, so if I'm offered $13 for content I'll vote Yes to that price.

Hoveris same cost as the Korean bots so don't know why people are saying it's cheaper. If your getting a exclusive deal don't waffle buy or dont buy.i have not received a discount deal so only going off of what I'm seeing after the update.