Finally managed to run BoT on an Android emulator

Well, so was War Robots, until it got sold to mail.ru. So let's hope BoT doesn't get sold
But yes, I like what I see so far. (With a few kinks that can be ironed out.)

Speaking of flying robots, they don't see to be purchasable at the moment?

The Cormorant is only winnable right now through various contests. Unfortunately you just missed the last random drawing for one of about 13 that were given away on the BoT forum, but there might still be something going on at their FB page. But I'm sure they'll be available soon in the store. Might be for RM at first, like the Mite is now; but like Bronze said, it's very well balanced. So far, anything you pay for is buying you different and fun, not a ridiculous competitive advantage. 

I would play it more if it would let me. Every time I start matchmaking it takes literally 2 to 2:30 minutes to start a match. Some matches are full of AI bots that aren't too bright. The game is gorgeous, but when I want to play, I want to play NOW. Not after making a cup of tea. If I had patience I wouldn't be playing games on my phone. Lololol

Well there are plenty of people here who call me negative, but I call things as I see them and at this point we have no reason to worry about BoT.

I have lambasted the wait and see approach before, but only when we have clues the game was going south. We have none of those clues at this moment that BoT will go south. The game itself and the future plans all look healthy.

I will be the first to change my tune if BoT does go south, but they've had chances to screw this up. They could be pumping out expensive and overpowered content like other titles instead on fixing bugs, making the game cross platform, ect.. but they aren't. If you were going to build a mech game on the phone right, it'd be what Red Button is doing. The limited appeal doesn't bother me (in fact I consider it a strength) and I don't want to engage in cultural stereotyping. If the developers didn't mind the direction War Robots was going they probably wouldn't have left. They seem to have the right approach: Build something great and you'll make money as a result, rather than worrying about how to make money instead of developing a good game and looking at game development as purely a business.

All ingame signs at this stage point to the game going in the right direction. Of course, that could change. But for now, let's celebrate that BoT is taking the proper approach.

I tried it. Controls still not configured well (trouble with firing), but at the moment it seems to work very well.

Thanks for the tip.

I think there is real hope, that BoT devs want to go the route of the competitive battle/fighting games without P2W microtransactions. Many of them are grossing quite a bit of money, so it is certainly a viable business model.

Yes, I have that problem too. I have to turn on auto aiming (or however it's called) in the controls. I'm not sure if that's a limitation of the emulator or BoT, but I figure it should be fine once it runs on MEmu.

Otherwise the controls are fine.

Checked out a lot of them in the past, deleted all of them. I will play only games that are (a) not p2w (and grindy), (b) not a FPS and (c) have a healthy strategy component in limited-time battles. Not much choice there at the moment. BoT fits the bill perfectly though.

frunobulax Thanks! I've been waiting for an emulator to run B.o.T. out of the box.

How are the graphics for you?
I can get War Robots to run at somewhere less than 4k (custom resolution) and the graphics are almost Steam like.

B.o.T. however, runs at very very low res and I can't figure out why.

No kidding. I almost fell off the chair when I read suggestion that Russians are somehow greedier than anybody else. A small side note- since Russians are not separate race we are dealing here with national stereotyping rather than racism. 

Anyway, I'm glad you got BoT working on other emulators. I run it on Nox but controls and game feel rather clunky. How's the performance on your emulator?

Can you explain why an ICO is a bad thing zer00eyz ?

Why are ICO's in general risky? In broad terms a lack of regulation. Simply put buying into the system doesn't afford you any protections that many other normal vehicles for investments do.  Can you point to an already successful studio that went the ICO route? Why not Kickstarter? Why choose the vehicle that offers ZERO protection to the investor?

As for the BOT ICO, I'll quote someone who DID invest in it: "I've put some investment into their ICO and haven't heard from their support team since :-D ... So I won't recommend tying yourself financially with guys"

I can chalk some of this up to "Russian customer service". Before someone says I'm being "racist" - theres a lot of cultural expectations from customer service and this is normal for Russia. You too can google (and this is now starting to change albeit slowly).  

But when they had their ICO there were TWO major items that did not make sense. They implied that the coins were going to be a currency in game - well thats great but your cutting out the App Store and the IOS store - cutting out apple and google is a good way to get your self banned and antithetical to their business models.

Second there were more managers and marketing folks on the team than devs by a good margin. Phoenix lamenting recently that they are developing "slowly"  should come as a shock to no one - they simply don't have the resources (team wise) to go any faster. The ICO noted that 40% of what it received was going to go toward marketing BEFORE the android version was out. If your launching something NEW then your going to get a lot of non targeted fresh eyeballs - ones that will see your product find it isn't on their platform and forget about it (massive waste). Hell launching on a single platform (IOS) is backwards - your shorting the dev for IOS and making the total time spent LONGER. The only reason TO do any this is if your desperate to monetize early.

Were talking about a business - and I understand that your love of mech games has you all stary eyed that this one is going to be different - but your being naive if you bother to look at the evidence. 

www.statista.com/statistics/451824/payment-methods-used-for-online-shopping-germany/

ecommercenews.eu/41-german-shoppers-prefer-pay-account/

Pay accounts are "E-checks" in the USA (fun fact you may send an e-check as part of bill pay but don't know it, and that all goes through ACH just like a regular check) - 

Opening a ecom site in Germany with JUST CC transactions is effectively shooting ones self in the foot. Full stop, no argument, no debate - that is how the German consumer behaves. That isn't a racial stereo type that is DATA from the MARKET - and it is based on local custom. 

As for "racial" comments I have to ask if your being ignorant or stupid. No sane business person moves into a local market with out understanding and adapting to local culture - if they dont they are doomed to fail, and it happens, over and over and over. 



Look at the distinction between US and UK customer service: www.maritzcx.com/blog/retail/customer-experience-in-the-uk-and-us-are-we-speaking-the-same-language/

Now go do some research that compares the US to Russia - they are literally worlds apart. This has nothing to do with race and everything to do with experience, local custom and history. Did you not ever ask "why so many Russian dash cams" and go find the answer? That isn't "Racist" that is culture and custom in a region that just happens to have a national label - and if I were going to spend any amount of time in Russia where I had my car I would be remiss not to get a dash cam as well - I would understand that it is "just how things are done".