B.o.T - Battle of Titans

I feel you on the multiple hangars, foxypotato: I have a full hangar of light bots: three Shon, three Mites; I also have Ravager, Nelly, MAO, and Cormorant...which adds up to 2.33 hangars.

I only have 2 Tier 2 bots, again, a Mite and a Shon, so I could pair them up with any two mediums, but the mediums are all T1....

I’ve begun my upgrade process and have discovered a flaw: my 2 T2s now have all T2 upgrades...but for the same price, I could have brought 2 of the mediums to T2 - which would have been the better move.

Now, my T2s are maxed until I can take them to T3...and my T1 mediums are stuck until I can raise them to T2. Being able to add T2 upgrades to Ravana and Corm would have been more of a step up, and would have opened the door to further improvement short of T3.

I want to take a minute to complain about Nelly, she’s as slow as a Kid - or slower...and unless she gets all accelerators, there doesn’t seem to be much chance for that to change. Currently running jump amplifiers, so jumping is what she does best, but still she’s sluggish and I wish she weren’t.

I’m sure practice and familiarity will correct my view over time: Nelly is clearly a fine bot in the right hands, so I get get to make MY hands the right hands

Fun squadding again with @reroll, and wow, we hit an actual shutout - blue counted no coup in the entire match. That I never saw before. Low scores are pressuring me to grind some while my EC booster is still in play, so if I decline any invitations, I’m probably doing station-keeping.

UPDATE TO ADD: yes, foxy, you can arrange the hangar as you like, and rotate bots in/out. HTH

Yeah, I know....

It jumps a lot, cd is fast, like 10 sec....makes up for leg speed

I loved this build.

I also tried using Heavy Anti-HEAT armors to tank against the other Sting campers too.

It helped a lot in one Steel Convoy as the reds kept sending their Sting / HEAT weapons at my Nelly tank instead of the other blues, which let us take the victory.

Don't worry about it. You can just start doing it from now.

You can still buy the T2 (and T3) upgrades off the Black Market despite not having a bot to put them on yet.

I get offered a lot of T2 bots on the Black Market, but I'm not sure if it's due to my VIP.

A lot of my last comment to @reroll is actually a response to this.

It’s a bit unnerving picking up bits above a bot’s tier, ‘cause you can’t SEE them until you have the proper frame level, but it works.

Not AFAIK.

Would be nice if it was sorted in logical order though (like T1-T3 ...in alphabetical order?), as having the extra stuff would let us play around and experiment with T1 and T2 builds in the future.

I'm not sure if I've had a match where I've NOT been bombed to death by at least one Sting Nelly firing from behind cover. It seems they can kill my Cormorant so fast before I can do much.

There are a few hotspots where they often camp together in huge clusters.

Better’n me, bro: I mostly stay well below 1100

Yes...word is, getting more trophies requires use of big boy-or girl?-pants soon after.....not sure when I’ll be ready to get mine out of the dryer........

If you cancel your flight when you're high enough, you can start firing your heavy weapons from midair while falling.

I confess, I was really only aware of where you were, not of the pressure you were under...but I only had the flea circus, so I focused on keeping fresh reds from getting to you. Was not prepared to step into the middle of that with my paperweight patrol.

I *have* been on the receiving end of some serious Nelly-Stinging, tho - hard fast and furious for sure. It caused me to stock up on Stings myself (currently running the stock Torms that came with Nelly T2, ‘cause Torm Nelly was once a thing).


Yeah...now I know why Stings are a popular Corm load. Still getting used to them, but I have time.

I will remember that when the Corm lands, it’s going to shoot.

So, if heavies only come into play on the ground, do you have an opinion on the options for ground action? I don’t really have a read yet on either Hammer or Sarisa.

Just played the 1st match in months. HOLLY CRAP IS IT A DIFFERENT GAME NOW. I did the usual and dropped the Sting Mite on the snow map and went for C becaon already to find it contested along with two other human player Mites dueling it out on the mountain side. I aided the blue one to kill off the red one after capturing the beacon only for C to turn red and 2 Tirpitz to spawn in. I ran circles around them in my 2nd drop Mangler Hammer Ravenger and helped to cut one down before going down. Big mistake thinking a big clumsy heavy Tirpitz is a brawler. It is not. I dropped the Sarisa MAO and killed off the last Tirpitz with splash while it desperately tried to retreat though the mountain pass. I finished the game in the MAO with a Mangler Little One in reserve. Awesome match. It was like there were way more human players now. What changed? Is the game finally taking off?

Yes!

I was mostly playing with other humans when I just started my new account, and some matches were packed with so many players - which didn't happen the last time I played.

My favourite change was that upgrades aren't destroyed anymore, though the EC Cormorant is nice too.

(I have heard talk that they may advertise the game soon too.)