Did the Aphids got a Silent Buff?

They don't want people to feel pissed when they publicly nerf/buff a weapon, so the resort to doing it secretly? pretty pathetic.

It needs to be nerfed because the game itself is shot if money can purchase too much competetive advantage. Just as Dash robots and Shocktrain need to be nerfed.

Agreed.  There is also a secondary effect of selling unbalanced weapons/bots—it kills the market for selling balanced weapons/bots.  Even now people feel disappointed with the fundamentally balanced Hoverbot.  Not because the Bot isn't fun to play, but because Pixonic has trained them to expect a competitive advantage for their money.

Thats not new, quite the opposite, its tradition.

Yes, they got a silent buff, but I think Aphids deserve it.

Well i wouldn't say the buff was silent. Ios got this buff in the last update, so it was natural that pixonic will be buffing it for the android in next update.

The nerf is that they quit letting it shoot through walls which is not a nerf, so much as a bugfix, though who can tell in a world with shocktrain?  But no good short range weapons?  Taran, Orkan, Ember, Thunder?  Thunder got a small nerf to damage but 2x buff to armor so it shreds armor now.  That's mostly why I use mid-to-long weapons.  Everything in close is just instant death unless you can dash or jump and avoid it. 

Hear the Thunder got a buff too. My guess is the aphid and thunder got buffs to help promote the new Vortex and Storm which they will most likely be paired up with.

Too bad this aphid buff works against non dashbots that's trying to kill dashbots. It will have no effect on Dashbots and encourages its use even more.

250 is a wierd number for the Ember. They should've made it 300m to match the Orkans.

Good to hear about Thunders. I didn't like the last nerf as a consequence of the buff it receive to shield breaking. Breaking the Galahad shield was never a concern for 2 reasons: 1.) Galahad's use was not what it used to, and 2.) Galahad was a legitimate counter to Carnage. Lancelot shield was already easy to break, same with Raijin.

There are certain things which pixonic cannot mention in there update notes. 
Trajectory of the aphid can't be generalised, it entirely depends on the enemy position. 
Same goes for the hydra. If someday they remove that last minute 90° bending feature, they will not going to mention it. 

Silent nerfs have always been a part of War Robots since I been playing November 2015) and they always will be, I guess.

Despite an 'effective range' being given to the Ember, similar to how the Thunder has an effective range, I think it is appropriate and I still want one.

i think nerfs of all the D.I.E.S equipment need (sometimes) drastic rebalancing... But the rebalancing doesnt affect my desire for the equipnent. I want some D.I.E.S stuff, not all. I wanted a Haechi; got a Kumiho. No longer want a Haechi but still not impressed with the Kumiho... Got a Scourge yesterday thru component collecting. Never really wanted one that much but after trying it on that Kumiho, seems cool enough.


Overall, I want a balanced game. 

I noticed my Aphids at level 9 have damaged listed at 14k.14,000?!?!?!?

This is why I'm loving the Aphid trajectory buff. Level 9 Aphids on a Gepard pack quite a punch now!