New to the game, any advice?

I'll try

First: say goodbye to the molots and punishers.
Weapons you should focus on are Plasma (Magnums, Tarans) and Rockets (which basically come as a 500m or a 300m Version).

Suggested setups (bot level you should aim at 4 with level 6 weapons first):

Gepard - works best with Magnums or Pinatas (good for rocket training. Patience and aiming)

Patton: use 4 pinatas or 4 crvs (more range, bigger splash, less damage).
Or use Magnums.

Cossack: will be useless later on, but now usefull for you to get beacons (and the 5 gold for most beacons more often). If you give him a Taran he can even kill other cossacks^^*+

Vityaz/ Golem: use them as knife fighters (sub 300m). ECC Thunders + plasma or rockets

I strongly reccommend getting a Boa (with Thunder and Orkan/ Taran).

On spending your WSP: get plasma weapons (Magnums, Tarans)

On spending your gold: you have Orkans yet? If not, start saving.

@clan: you get an additional 3 gold for the first three won matches per day with clanmates. Besides that solo-farming is considered more effective (you dont compete with your clanmates for damage and caps).

Orcans are Medium hardpoint Au weapons and are like Pinatas in that they fire the same type of missile, but they reload whether or not they are empty, shoot twice as many, and don't require you to "blow your load" too early... meaning you can just let up on the fire button and they quit firing so you don't deplete your "magazine".

Heavies aren't worth it yet. No. At least get your mediums to 4 with weapons at level 7 before jumping into a heavy.

Boa works best with a Thunder so I would use it in place of your current Thunder bot or the Gep. Especially if you can get an Orc to put on it.

Don't sell all your GAUS and Molots. Save at least 4 of each in case the fabled firearm buff comes through. Plus, sometimes you may just want to use them for fun... But 4 of each should be plenty.

EDIT after reading the OP: If you can get into a clan that will actually talk and know what they are doing, the advice and squad play will help a lot.

The other advice on bot setups are good... But a couple of quick notes to expand on that...

Close range advice: Golems and Vits are similar and can be used for the same purposes.  Vits have a bit more HP but have 1 heavy and 2 light Hardpoints, while Golems have less HP but 1 Medium and 1 light Hardpoint (more damage per second). 

Until you get either the Orcan or the Taran, for close range the Punisher T is the best bet as a medium.  However, I would just run the Vit with Thunder and Pinatas personally, that setup will work in a lot of matches and will allow you to save for the medium weapons you need rather than upgrade something you don't need right now (punisher ts), then you can get the Golem and make either a Thunder Orc Pinata or a Thunder Taran Mag golem that will be viable for a good while.   Before you get the Golem though, the Boa is a tankers bot.  Consider it first. Lots of HP and great maneuverability.  With an Orcan on the side and a properly leveled Thunder... it's not a bot you'd want to meet in a dark alley.

For mid-long range, you can throw a Kwk (since you cant get the Trident and shouldn't get the Zeus yet) on the Golum or the Vit.  Then the appropriate 500m rocket weapons... for the Vit it would be 2x CRVs, for the Gol 1x CRV and 1x Tulumbus.  It's a bit tricky to use the gun separately from the rockets, though, so many stick with the patton with CRVs, like was suggested, since it's just a one button-press killer.

That patton could run 4 pinatas and be a beast, but a Boa and a Thunder can be too... a bit easier to play well, too. However, your Medium weapon should be decent to get the most out of it, so like I said above, if you do want the Boa, either try it with the Tulumbus or Punisher-Ts until you get one of the weapons we suggested. Tulums are 500m and don't excell at close range, but they work in a pinch. So yeah it could replace the Patton as you have it now.

Since you have two bots that are good beacon runners, you may consider replacing the Cossack with the Boa since you could use the Punisher T that is on that Cossack for the Boa, and running all rockets on the Patton.  If you don't have enough rockets yet, then work towards it.  That Gep can get beacons just fine. 

Sry dude, I didnt realized your level. So yes, u're really doing well by now.
Stop investing time/silver with upgrading Molots/punishers (instead focus on silver rocket weapons, and as soon as u unlock workshop, work towards the plasma weapons).

Just get a Boa, and try for yourself which bot you wanna switch out

With the Gep you already have an extremely good beacon grabber... you may want to consider switching out the Cossack.

And yes, the Orkan is quite a grind, but worth it (next will be 5th slot, so those 1,2k are coming easy;)

Made some adjustments, look better? Going to replace the punishers on Vityaz with more suras soon. I will say he and the Gep have been my fav so far.



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@klatschkater Sure I'd like that invite see what it's like in clan life. Changed to the Tulumabas on Boa. Need to bank more silver as i used a lot in the last couple hours, but if I like the boa I may swap out the Patton. I def like the in your face kill you aggressive tactic more then the hide and snipe. At least so far.

Sorry for the high jack. Reposting to the questions not need a thread section. 

Sometimes I use "shooting in-game" to signal members where to go etc. But generally if a member goes for a beacon, don't go for the same beacon, go cap other beacons.

The tips have helped greatly, my damage and usefulness have gone up a lot, and I am often placing top and getting 10 EU. Thanks a ton for all the advice. I will look into magnums once I hit 20. Is there ever a point where you can upgrade more then one item at a time?