B.o.T - Battle of Titans

I got the 30 day Premiums for B.o.T, and I've been milking them a bit.


War Robots has been a punch-in-and-complete-daily-tasks thing atm. I have no reason to rise in cups atm.

I find the lower league battles both easier and more interesting. I can generally hold back a lot and have a lot of fun and still do well.

I did well in High Champions League with non-meta and cheap weapons like leadhose (almost nobody used anything but top meta there, and people constantly Phase Shifted when shot) but it was kinda torturous in comparison, and my hectic and often predictable matches left little time to stuff around and have fun.

Have you stuck with maxing out sensitivity while minimizing inertia and exponent? Do you favor it? I’m conservative when it comes to touching those kinds of settings.

My initial experiences were also off-putting, and for likely similar reasons: there was no orientation to the controls, bot abilities, no clarity about the complex customizing and upgrading - I mostly wandered around trying to find the other players, fumbled a lot, died fast a lot....

What changed it for me was this thread, which told me MORE about the game than I’d been able to find before (thank you, Parfait!), and the videos on YT by Salty Hyena. That guy has a series that provides introductions to bots, weapons, armor, stealth, EMP, upgrades.... he also has vids on different builds for different bots, with specific examples, explanations, and gameplay: those are very worth watching several times, and I’ve been making use of his advice and recommendations. All that led to me developing a real appreciation of what the various bots and weapons could do, and that has had a major impact on my new hangar, and my evolving game play. I now have 2 Mites, 2 Shon, and a Nelly in addition to the stock allotment of Ravager and MAO, and I’ll be starting Tier 2 upgrades once I get more EC. BoT is really starting to open to me now.

I really have learned a lot about the game in the last 36 hours...War Robots now seems like a Lego version of the game. If I can help make anything clearer, I’ll be happy to give it a go. One old guy to another...??

I had some awesome battles this morning.....including my heavy Tirp dominating reds, lol.....but, none of you guys are ever on when I am....that must stop today! ?

Yes, for me, though as a very inexperienced player I do well with the simple linear setup.

I adjusted the sensitivity down somewhat to make scrolling smoother and pinpoint aiming easier.



Exponent might be a handy trick for experienced players.


It seems we need a screenshot of the original settings in order to manually reset them.

My Tirpitz has been kicking *** too!

That’s where I have my sensitivity.

Gaining control of the camera/game view has been my single biggest complaint/annoyance/frustration so far.

Like everybody(?) I’ve struggled, but not in vain (I hope)....

Generally, for each control, ‘right’ mean *more* effect, ‘left’ means *less* effect. So, if it’s doing too much of something, move the slider left, and if it isn’t doing enough, move it right.

The game lets you ‘drag‘ the screen contents/camera view back/forth & up/down, not unlike the way we move the view in War Robots, tho War Robots only uses the right side of the screen for that: BoT, the entire view is ‘live’. Personally, I find it very disorienting, but I get used to it.

Top control is Camera Horizontal, has 3 sliders: sensitivity, exponent, and inertia; next set is Camera Vertical, 3 sliders, same labels. The controls do the same things in each case.

The best way I can describe the actions are in terms of mouse acceleration & other effects: a mouse accelerator makes your pointer go farther than the distance you move the mouse, so that you can chase all over the screen with short movements: that’s what the “exponent” control does; it determines how MUCH reaction you get for a given gesture; in mouse & pointer terms,, how fast/far the pointer travels when you flick your mouse: set it to the right, at max, and swiping left or right with your fingers will make the center-of-view move much faster - may go too fast: adjust this control leftward until you get a good panning speed for the view - so you can take a quick look behind you and snap back to your target. There’s no pointer to watch, but the screen view centers on the cross hairs, and everything else moves around THAT.

The inertia control governs whether the view stops moving at the end of your swipe left or right: how big a “push” you’re giving the view and how long it takes to ‘coast’ to a stop. On the left end, ‘inertia’ wil stop the view scrolling as soon as your fingers stop swiping the view; all the way right, and the view will spin like a top. In the middle, the view will continue to rotate, coasting to a stop. Set it anywhere in there that makes the screen “behave” the way you want. Remember, it does what it does relative to the crosshairs in the center of the screen, and *they* never move.

Sensitivity determines how the screen will respond to your fingers - how firm or light a pressure it takes to move the view. With sensitivity set to the right, the view will ‘respond’ to a lighter touch; set to the left, and the view will require a firmer touch.

The only difference between the two sets of controls is one governs up/down movements, the other governs left/right movement.

What I did was attend to it as soon as my first drop landed, before the action started. I worked on vertical first, as that’s what was screwing me up the most: what you want is for it to be easy to keep track of the ground line, that tells you where the horizon is; you want to be able to move the view up so you can scan for Corms, and down so your crosshairs can be put on your target with minimal screen-dragging. You want to be able to move smoothly and quickly left & right so you can track your targets as they run, and keep your crosshairs on your target - again, without setting your view spinning and you disorienting yourself while you're supposed to be taking out Opponents.

Im not great at explaining things, but I hope that helps folks get their bearings with the screen. Game’s a lot more fun when you’re not desperately trying to find someone to shoot at before your bot croaks. If it doesn’t help, maybe we can fix that, sing out.

Thank y’all for all the help you’ve given me.

UPDATED TO ADD: I rewrote the section on the screen settings...3AM thinking needs proofreading. With any luck, it will be easier to understand...and thank you for your patience!

Yep Koko Bop, and thanks.

When I first started playing again I was unable to easily look around with the default settings. I'd get stuck looking at the sky or ground a lot.

That simple setup is working well for me on my iPhone XS Max. It scrolls exactly as I expect it to, as well as being sensitive enough to completely turn myself around in any direction. It may be different for each device.


Someone talking about using projectors to shock someone on the other side of the mountain has got me really interested in Fulgur range extenders.

Congrats on the T3 Sarisas grab! Have not gone to rockets yet: my hangar is extra-heavy in Manglers and Tormentors...not entirely sure how that happened, except Nelly loads 4 Torms as a stock load out....and I didn’t know that & ‘bought’ some (EC). Other than those I have a pair of Stings, and 4 Hammers split between Ravager and MAO. In addition to those big guys, and Nelly, who is a big bot, too, I have 2 Shon and 3 Mites...and man, I love those things: the last five games I had, I started w/ T2 Shon, finished w/ T2 Light Mite, had great games, nice scores, just those two bots. Damn, what fun! I’m going to start capturing these

Tirpitz is a monster, and weird-looking, too: I managed to cut one up w/ Sting Shon, helped with another, but I was trying to make the screen behave, and that’s not a good look for combat.

So yeah, I just won a Nodens... I'll be back to BoT start of June

Traitor!

Yes, it's good at bombing mountains from <1000m but it seems to only have a chance of hitting them when they expose themselves.


My Stealth Mangler Mite has just killed it's first Sting Nelly. I think a lot of things went more than just right though as I both survived it's attacks and the Nelly died near instantly when I began shooting. Maybe it was already near dead?


It seems to be regarded as the best bot in the game, going by what I'm hearing on the Discord... and some Heavy Armors (can mix them with Lights) and 5x EM Circuits (best go all anti-EM) might bring it closer to invincible.

Hmm. Something like 5x anti-HEAT Heavy Armors could make it SUPER resistant to Stings, Sarisas, Vulcans, Javelins and Beacons.

I can get up to 75% with only 4x T1 Anti-HEAT Heavy Armors on my Tirpitz. You could get over 82% with 5x T1s. I think they're only 15k EC each on the Black Market.

I’m sure each device (class) will have its own peculiarities. I play on a 2016 iPad; phone screens are too small for me to enjoy playing games (or much else) on a phone these days (eye surgeries, glaucoma). Love the big, beautiful game on the big, beautiful screen....

Still trying to remind myself to use the Fulton...and yes, it IS powerful: last round of play, I took out several bots just with the EMP. It was dangerous for me to use until I got the screen worked out, every time I triggered it, I’d be back in overhead mode - and by the time I’d sorted it the bot would recover and kill me, instead of me bringing guns to bear and finishing it off... range extenders rock.

Been playing against a bunch o’ Cormorants: I can see the appeal of the bot, it’s fast in the air, powerful, and no Ao Ming...I think one’s sitting in the Market right now, but I already have too many bots for one hangar. I don’t suppose multiple hangars is a thing?

I rewrote the stuff about the screen controls, replaced ‘extent’ with ‘exponent’, I think it’s clearer now.

As to squadding, I’m more or less available any time between noon and midnight Eastern US