This game is annoying

Not really... I give it a go from time to time, Mings drop, annihilate my bots, I quit... Games last around 5 minutes for me... Can't remember when was the last time I saw score screen... 

I still enjoy playing but it is becoming close to the balance point. I think for myself I have been playing so long I have good but not totally meta gear. That allows me to be competitive. I will have to see where I stand after the rebalance and drone drop in the next week.

Nope ....

Lag and stutter have me off. Not played a battle in awhile. Last time, pretty much everyone red was so lagged, you could see them shooting far behind me while I was tearing them up. Interesting to see what it feels like on the other side, but not cool.

Yes. After I took my break. I had to realign my thinking. This game has its fair share of nonsense. But, I think all games that I have ever played had some BS to deal with. Needed to realise this and have fun in how I could play it. I consider myself a decent player with well leveled gear, but no matter how or what I play. Just seemed to stay at around 50% win rate. The only thing that changes is where I am on the totem pole. That did frustrate me at times. Felt like “how can I win and lose the same amount of games whether I play my low level griffins and leos vs bullys and other off meta, well leveled stuff”. Doesn’t make sense. But as the saying goes, it is what it is. I love playing this game with the challenges it poses. There are counters to most and/or all of the stuff out there. Finding it however, may take time, practice, money, and possibly all of the above.

Fun is rarer. The most fun is when I am dropped into a Masters or Masters/Expert game and can just enjoy the ebb and flow of the match until I hear the first titan drop.

That jerks me back to the reality of current War Robots.

I'm concerned about the drones, too. I expect Pix to really amplify the power of those abminations. I think that the main people playing them to any meaningful effect are those willing to shell out for them and/or who have the rest of their hangers pretty well dialed in that they can go focus on leveling their drone in a low/moderate-payment approach. I fall into neither category.

I'm still trying to figure out what I'm doing with my mechs and guns.




Yup. Operations used to be truly joyous things that people really got excited for. More people got to take advantage of them and the play was far more skillful. I have to wonder if that was a mail.ru change.

Annoying is a funny way to put it. Frustrating or boring is how I think of it but annoying works just as well.

For awhile I was barely playing War Robots but started getting into a old smurf account and having fun at times and in my main account I would play dumber and dumber builds to get away from the Champion inanity. Finally got it solidly in the middle of Expert 1: can play my best, 50% wins, and stay in Expert 1. Built a Cerberus and really really digging it. It’s so goofy and having a good time with a goofy build of 2 Vortex and a Calamity. Missiles, taser, lockdown, suppression, DoT, Aegis, what, this thing is great. The other robots I’ve been running lately are Ancile Ecu Strider, Pinata Loki, a Spectre with 2 Hydra and 2 Shocktrains, and Sting Wasp Phantom. My main account has butt-loads of robots and weapons and I change my hangar every few days. Recently had fun running a Sting Shocktrain Raven and Ancile Ecu Hellburner.

So that’s where I’m finding fun but what about the annoying bits: Titans, Ravana, and missing players? Well I just skip past that. When battle starts I’m ready to go, looking to pull off some cool moves with my goofy builds. This is the time that’s fun, squaring off with a red, dancing around. But if this isn’t happening, if/when the battle becomes a stale nothing then there’s nothing for me and I move on. Whether we are winning handedly of losing handedly or the beginning of the battle or last seconds of battle, I’m ready to leave when there’s nothing to do. Because I’m not looking to win. I think that’s a big part in finding fun in War Robots, decouple winning from having fun. The fun comes from stimulating the brain in a skirmish. No more stimulation, no fun, no bother. This is not to say I don’t look for opportunities to win. I play in the direction of that goal but not counting on or caring really if it happens because the vast majority of battles are so lumpy it’s dumb either way whoever wins. But having a goal helps stimulate.

Another trick is to play with sound off. Many of the weapon sound effects I find annoying so I’ll have some crisp Björk or K&D Playing to keep me balanced while I strategize.

tl;dr I’m still finding fun by not valuing a win and only playing while it’s stimulating with oddball challenging builds in Expert league which is mostly away from the Champion spaz.

I thought you quit and moved on to MA?

Just take the loss for what you put into it, it's OK.  That shouldn't bind you or anyone to keep playing.

It's not going to get better man, just un-install.