I am very nearly there

My end hanger and stats in all its glory:

l》THE MACHINE《l

Sorry to see you go... We’ll keep a seat warm for you. Just in case.

I’ve tried this new mindset, I really have. And for the most part I’m in a better place with this game than I was a few years ago. That being said, there are still very few things in this world that can drive me to fits of rage like this game can. It’s right up there in the company of my ex-wife. You build your hangar the best you can with whatever you can grab to make it as fun for yourself as possible. You open the app and venture into a match with the intent of enjoying a few minutes of wasting some time with the hangar of your own creation. And then wham, you’re getting shredded before you can take a shot, and/or you’re on a team of complete and utter morons, and 9 out of 10 matches are unavoidable frustration no matter how you try to not let it be so. 

I’ve got a bot or two and maybe a few weapon sets I still want to try to whip together, and that’s the only thing that keeps me coming back every day, wading through that increasingly grimy quagmire of ads (Dr Pimple-popper game? REALLY?) and some of the worst gaming experiences I’ve ever experienced. So I’ve got a few more goals I’d like to accomplish before calling it a day. But it gets harder and harder to stick it out. One day I imagine I’ll wake up and ask myself what exactly am I doing this for, and when my mind finishes scrambling for a reasonable answer, that will probably be when I pull the plug for good. 

A update for those who it may concern. War robots wasn't a complete disaster for me but it wasn't great. Loved my mercury and strider and miss them now that I have left but the game itself is so shot I wonder if I ever liked the game for anything but how those bots played.

I have already moved on though, an older game that has had much more success because it cared about its players more than profits. Terraria has been a great chance to see just how F'ed up war robots is and how much better they could have been.

The only thing holding me in these forums is how fun it is talking strategy with you guys and how awesome the community is. You guys are amazing!

Word of advice from the recently departed, when you go take one last run with each of your bots. A battle or 2 and then switch them out for others until you have used all of them and then say your goodbyes. Makes leaving feel more like a goodbye than running away or storming off.

Also, I recommend you look into terraria or another game that cared for its playerbase. Honestly, playing games like that really help you realise how great it is that you left the game. It also shows that you can win far more cash like that than you will ever from making your game like war robots.

Not to mention your game going down as one of the best in history if you do well enough. Games like these end up making you feel like you are getting somewhere rather than slowing your descent out of the actual game like War Robots does.

There are definitely some very cool aspects of the game. You build your hangar with bots and weapons that suit you best (based of course on what’s made available to you), and when you get to use them as you had intended, the game is a lot of fun. Unfortunately there are many obstacles getting in the way of that, and much more stuff that sucks than cool stuff, all of which seem to be intentionally added to the game by its dear and caring developers, which makes it all the more frustrating. 

But I remember the first time I reached that point, for days I was missing my tiger Carnage w/ Thunders that I grinded my butt off for in one of those early events. I loved that bot, I loved speeding up to anything, especially under the shielding Ancilots, and punching the crap out of them. That was probably the one cool thing that kept me from deleting the game sooner. But, much like today, the frustrations overcame the coolness. 

You can only ignore the crap for so long. Some days I’m better at it than others. I’ve got a couple of very fun bots right now (namely Tyr and Nightingale, and about three weeks away from a Blitz), which are the cool things keeping me in the game now. But even with those, one or two games a day is about all I can handle before I feel the rage starting to boil up. This morning, for instance - game lost with one bot left to five reds, and no beacons. None. Checking the stats, everybody on both teams were pretty equally ranked, but a couple of the reds clearly outclassed everybody else with damage and kills (don’t know why, because they were another platform), and we got absolutely rekt. Between beacons and healing, I ended up 2nd on my team, which was the only positive from it. Way too many games go this way; for whatever reason, when all is said and done, you look at the results and realize you never had a chance. And the more that happens, the more you question why you’re even doing this. 

And of course, there’s this community where we can (and DO) come in and vent about it instead of smashing phones and tablets against the wall. But even that only remedies so much.