novena
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Post by novena on Jan 31, 2017 4:35:15 GMT -5
The new rating is based on Elo rating which does not take into account the type of bot in the hanger.
So now if a player wants to score up the invisible MM , all they need to do is get more and more heavy bots and upgrade them . This puts a new question mark on the future of light gold bots (like gepard, gareth) , why should one buy them when they know this will stall their progress of getting higher rating ie. they will get more defeats after light bot saturation point of new MM ratings is reached ?
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Post by pilotp2ltb on Jan 31, 2017 6:51:40 GMT -5
Useless now, only really relevant for leveling up. It is a shame. One of my favorite things about the game was the variety. When you get bored you could change equipment and face a completely different play style. I don't mind making geps useless but at least put something at that tier. Rogs, boas, anything. The shift to a player rating system has left 2/3 of the game inaccessible.
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Post by K A Z on Jan 31, 2017 7:07:15 GMT -5
Useless now, only really relevant for leveling up. It is a shame. One of my favorite things about the game was the variety. When you get bored you could change equipment and face a completely different play style. I don't mind making geps useless but at least put something at that tier. Rogs, boas, anything. The shift to a player rating system has left 2/3 of the game inaccessible. Same thoughts here. Why not give a hefty MM penalty to some bots that are typical for clubbing? On top of that the MM should pay more attention to but level; in other words, in case there was a big gap between bot and weapon level, the weapon would indicate the overall hangar score (2/12 gep should face minimum 9/x bots). I've read the pixonic statement on how old MM was complicated and overfilled with rules and exeptions...I understand that, I really do. But seems the new MM is even worse, either going haywire (enough was said on that imo) or trying to make everyone equally gray in case it would actually work. Either way - no fun in that. |
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Post by BooBooKitty on Jan 31, 2017 7:13:35 GMT -5
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johnnygrizz
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Post by johnnygrizz on Jan 31, 2017 8:40:43 GMT -5
I agree the MM has caused some issues for me, but I still run 1 medium and sometimes a light bot.. A Jesse, shocked? Hoping the new MM will improve here shortly, but it hasn't stopped me from running light or medium bots.
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kingzam
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Post by kingzam on Jan 31, 2017 17:14:47 GMT -5
I agree, i really think it is wrong that pix basically made all of these bots obsolete, all that money buying and leveling up, just throw it away.. New MM sucks AS$
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kingzam
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Post by kingzam on Jan 31, 2017 17:25:15 GMT -5
Oh and by the way, I like geps, used to use them all the time, yesterday hit one with my fury/zeus 1 shot, 1 kill.. Saw tridents and death button too - 1 shot, 1 kill, way to go Pix, you found a way to get rid of less expensive light and medium bot builds, forcing people to build heavies.. Thievery 101
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Musica
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Post by Musica on Feb 5, 2017 13:05:33 GMT -5
Same here.
I usually use 2 Heavy Knife Fighter(Lancelot orkan and Lancelot plasma), 1 Medium knife fighter (orkan Rogatka), 1 Beacon Runner (Plasma Galahad), and 1 support (Trident Zeus Fury). And I love to play at low/mid gold tier. Where I can fight every size bot. It's really fun.
Now?
All of my bots is change. All heavy. I keep my 2x Lancelot lv6(really slow speed and low armor compared to the enemy bot that already lv 12), replace Galahad and my rogatka with lv9 Grifin (luckily I upgrade some robots on background), and finally keep my level 6 fury but replace trident with trebuchet (If I force my fury to use trident / Zeus, it will die in few second.)
really hate the new matchmaking. They force us to max our bot and weapons. They want us to purchase gold to speed up upgrade and force us to purchase premium to get more silver to upgrade too.
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Post by fbixxx on Feb 5, 2017 14:45:02 GMT -5
Im using 2 pinata geps, 1 plasma rhino, 1 thunder carnage and 1 trident natasha. 1 gep is to capture beacons in the beginning, the other is to use near the end of the match to capture abandoned beacon to guarantee the victory. I think with proper pilot gep and stalker still do alright even with the new MM, not in map like yamatau though...
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PT2020
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Post by PT2020 on Feb 5, 2017 14:47:57 GMT -5
I believe what pixonic is doing, with the new mm, is forcing gold purchase. One of the reasons I don't have a problem with this is, we have a game we can play without advertisement pop ups, or memberships to stop the pop ups, and you can play 24/7 if your heart desires. It may take a year or two for level ups and bot purchases done without spending money, but just think of how much you get to hone in your craft.
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Post by whatttupG on Feb 6, 2017 1:10:28 GMT -5
... It may take a year or two for level ups and bot purchases done without spending money... ... The new MM, appears to boil down to this. Well said. |
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patriot
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Post by patriot on Feb 7, 2017 13:53:15 GMT -5
I believe what pixonic is doing, with the new mm, is forcing gold purchase. One of the reasons I don't have a problem with this is, we have a game we can play without advertisement pop ups, or memberships to stop the pop ups, and you can play 24/7 if your heart desires. It may take a year or two for level ups and bot purchases done without spending money, but just think of how much you get to hone in your craft. But the heavy bots are soooo slow! I don't mind paying for a game either but when it takes you all 10 minutes to cross the battlefield it's boring! I'm betting that once everyone has their 12/12 Lancelot & Fury hangers Pixonic will nerf them and force everyone to buy Gepards & Galahads again. To answer OP, most lights & mediums are pointless now. |
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PT2020
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Post by PT2020 on Feb 7, 2017 23:44:59 GMT -5
The survey on Facebook included a feature where you could drop in on a beacon, that alone would change this game to WOW.
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Post by ShutUpAndSmokeMyWeed on Feb 8, 2017 0:10:55 GMT -5
Don't sell your light bots just yet! Pixo is working on a way to make them useful in the game again.
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Post by noobcake on Feb 8, 2017 1:28:13 GMT -5
Don't sell your light bots just yet! Pixo is working on a way to make them useful in the game again. I really hope so! |
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