MA - So many changes! New update discussion

I only need 2 mechs and I have both MD and Zephyr at R5. MD with 16EN and Zep with 18EN. They are playable and when/if I get the Arachnos, I'll definitely be taking it out for a spin.

I think over all, I don't see this as a bad thing for MA. MA the was it was was getting a bit stagnant. I think I'm starting to see how some folks were feeling in War Robots just before the dash era. They had maxed hangars and nothing else to do with their gear. Plarium can to create room for growth. As long as they stop here in terms of power, they should be fine. There is a ton of room for growth now, especially in the 12EN and 16EN weapons and they should be able to come up with lots of variety.

New players will know to focus on those two weapon EN categories but will still have to get and upgrade the lower end stuff just to get there. Fingers crossed that the game doesn't go downhill from here. And if it does, let it be a slow ride and let there be a new game on the horizon that I can jump to when the end comes!

I may run a test it on a low level weapon. I want to see if we still have them banked so to speak. I sure hope they didn’t remove the one we haven’t used yet.

Little spider bot is cute! Where did you get this?

There was a clip with the patch notes iirc.
They just released a video about Arachnos, link ig.
Our two new voice actors are having a fake merchandising conversation during the video.
Petition to have the guy rerecord his lines. He sounds fine when every word isn't being 「fluffernutter」ingn screamed to the point of being out of breath.

The latter route you mentioned is actually a pretty fun way to go.  I am not a competitive player in the sense that I need to have the best.  I just like to win.  Still, I don't have to.  I stopped playing the tournament on "their" terms a while ago and only play when it suits me and I have time.  I don't like who I am when I play the tournament competitively.  I just have fun and blow stuff up as often as I can.  CPC...5v5 deathmatch...doing feats.  These are the things I do for the most part.

That said, I understand how hard it is to take a step back if you're used to a certain level of competitiveness and you've invested in certain things.  I get what you're saying and you are justified in your feelings.  I still want to see what their "compensation" is to see how that side of this major change plays out.  I hope you don't quit altogether.  A bad taste in the mouth sucks, but that just means you need to eat some ice cream to make it go away!

(Probably not the best metaphor, but I want ice cream right now...so yeah...)

I noticed that too, but I couldn't see anywhere that said we only had until the end of the actual week to finish all 30 weekly tasks.  If we only have until Sunday, then I'm going to be peeved.  The first week would have been impossible due to poor release timing.  If, however, we have until the end of Monday, then it's possible.  Are you sure we only have the 2 more days left?  I don't see a timer anywhere.

it's in the top right now. totally unnecessary UX change. its old location worked perfectly fine

Well Plarium finally admitted they tweaked Juggy shield and Aries on Discord.

Top right of what? I’m not seeing it anywhere.



Of course they did. They never nerf anything unannounced. They just never said when they’d actually announce it.

Ah, thanks for the clarification. Crisis averted. 

      I have the SB 16 and CB 12 on Panther. Marvelously effective.  I ripped through a lot of reds in cpc just now while playing with Advil. Fun build.  I gave Ares both MR 8s and he is really good with the non timer shield.  He took Juggs place for now.  Guardian now has the other CB 12 and an MR 6 until I think of something better,  maybe TL 6.  

You know what's funny? I just realized that for my Thanos Guardian, instead of LA8, I can now do LA10. My LA8 has higher chance to overheat, but the slight increase of damage from the LA10 (cause I haven't ranked it up) is nice.

Edit...

So, I want to talk about possible builds as I work to rank up my mechs.

Panther is easy. My eventual plan is to run dual SB16, so right now it's running SB12/16 and it's pretty fun. I did try RG16/CB12 and this is a kick 「bum-bum」 build but can be hard to keep your head in a fast and furious brawl. For that reason, I still prefer dual CB12 for my second Panther which I will run until they take it away and compensate me.

Guardian is sporting LA10/RG16 and will eventually move up to dual RG16.

My KS is in a bit of a quandary. I've tried several different builds and keep coming back to dual PC8 for ease of use. RM12/JR16 isn't bad but I like dual JR6 on my Shadow. CB12/TL6 is not bad but keeps falling prey to Zephyrs and is very vulnerable to return fire.

My Shadow is still best with dual JR6 and I think eventually I'll try MR8 on it. But for now, if I take one JR6 off to give to the KS, then I don't really have a good alternative for it. Has anyone thought of putting RMs on the Shadow? I've never leveled my RM8 and haven't picked up the RM10 and if memory serves, it's very hard to land good hard hits with the RM8.

If I level up my MD, it'll likely sport MR8 in the future but for now, I don't know what interim weapons to try on it.

If I put my Zep back into action, I have no idea what would be good. Dual MR8 doesn't cut it for the Zep and hasn't for a long time. I'm thinking if/when I get it to 24EN, dual CB12 will be likely.

The AI doesn't stare directly at players passed other mechs and full on buildings as much, so you're likely getting more flank hits.

The only thing I've noticed is that you can hide behind low cover now to block most if not all of a salvo, and it's now harder to arc the missiles around corners. If anything, feels like a nerf. That's why I've been thinking of maybe leveling up my RM8 for eventual use on the Shadow.