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Post by hurricane on Feb 26, 2023 12:56:24 GMT -5
I played a lot of War Robots, but quit for a few reasons. I started MA last season, grinding a lot, and put a few bucks in for a EM railgun and a few upgrades. It's a pretty fun game, but are there clans / games where there's all humans? A new season has started, and I'm in the top 300 players, even though I don't have a full hanger, and my gear is not leveled. That's a little weird to me, coming from War Robots. I'm not sure how much I will play if there's not that discord community that I miss in War Robots. It seems like clans are pretty new to MA. Does anybody know if there's any organized and active clans that squad up? Even if there's a community discord channel where people can time drop would be something. If that happens, do people get matched together, or is it always going to be a bunch of AI bots?
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Post by S1E1 on Feb 26, 2023 15:18:59 GMT -5
The clan feature is relatively new, but players organized themselves into clans long before. There definitely are clans doing timed drops against each other and 5v5 custom games, including mine (No Mercy) although I am more a solo player at the moment myself. Also a bunch of folks/clans on Discord. I am a Discord noob tbh but I am asking around what channels folks recommend and I'll let you know.
Don't worry about the 300 thing. The activity ratings are kind of wacky in the beginning of a new season.
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Post by salvia on Feb 26, 2023 15:27:40 GMT -5
Clans are always made up of humans. Games are very rarely 100% humans on both sides, zo. But in time, Plarium will prolly implement a Clan VS Clan feature which will allow to only play with and against humans.
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Post by OU812? on Feb 26, 2023 15:32:11 GMT -5
Welcome to the community hurricane. Glad to hear you’re enjoying the game.
You’re right, Clans are pretty new to game. I know I wish my clan mates were more active. I’m not aware of who the really organized clans are, but I’m sure some other members here can point you in the right direction.
You’ll usually face AI competition with a scattering of human players. I rarely have matches where everyone is human. That usually increases the more friends you squad with. Pix sometimes experiments with match making though. I had a match today where it seemed every AI hanger had a least one Aegis in it. Never seen that before. The newest mode, FFA has AI bots with maxed everything. That’s very different than we’re used to.
Plarium’s only recently made a release that created a ‘meta’, so to speak. EMRs. Damn affective weapons. Otherwise, Plarium’s had a good track record with balanced releases. There is a paywall between ftp and newer content since the release, but Plarium’s pricing has seemed reasonable when compared to Pixo.
The Mech Arena database that’s stickied above can be a great resource. Very informative. Scape 211 and Mayer are good, communicative youtube members of the community.
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Post by S1E1 on Feb 26, 2023 16:16:27 GMT -5
OK my clan leader said that probably the best starting point is actually the Mech Arena Community group on Facebook. The top clans (6000+ sp) are definitely doing timed drop games against each other and there have been some unofficial tournaments organized. So you can get more full squad games than just the few that randomly occur. Don't know what the scene is for lower hangar strength players/clans, but check out the FB page and see. And welcome to the MA subforum! m.facebook.com/groups/3612646188819793/?ref=share |
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Post by hurricane on Feb 26, 2023 17:29:04 GMT -5
Thanks for the insight, guys. The economics of MA compared to War Robots is a big reason for the switch. I'll check out that facebook link, but any discord link would be very helpful. All the other channels seem to fill themselves in. If anybody is in a good clan that maybe has a secondary clan for beggining players, I'd love to join. With the match making seeming balanced, I don't see a need to spend a lot. Once, clans get more developed, that would probably change. In War Robots, I usually hung around the 200-300 top players in any season.
Also, thanks for the database and youtuber advice. I've been watching scape211 and going over the database a lot. I'll check out Mayer. I don't recognize that name. I think this would be a great game with clans, squads, time drops, etc..
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Post by S1E1 on Feb 26, 2023 18:58:43 GMT -5
hurricane - what's your stats/SP? Can you take a screenshot of your hangar? I can ask if folks know of a good starter clan. There are a couple that have subclans for players with lower hangar strength. I don't deal with it much but there is the official Mech Arena channel. It does have a discussion thread players can post on as well as clan recruitment and looking for clan threads: discord.gg/mecharenaMayer stopped doing voiceovers on his vids and editing them down. Now they are mostly all 20 min of gameplay which he releases daily. Two better sources IMO: 1) GangsterJabs -small new channel but major breakdowns of the meta and good combos. He releases less frequently but that's b/c his videos are highly edited top 20 style lists. 2) Ruffles - also good analysis but more daily short videos for the latest news, etc.
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Post by hurricane on Feb 26, 2023 19:22:22 GMT -5
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Post by S1E1 on Feb 26, 2023 20:09:08 GMT -5
hurricane - I sent you a DM to connect in Discord. Someone outside my clan is offering to help, so I'll connect you to them. Also, not to be a pain, but could you post an overall shot of your hangar? (all 5 mechs together) I appreciate all the details but in terms of asking others, one photo would be simpler for folks than me posting all these together.
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Post by hurricane on Feb 26, 2023 21:07:26 GMT -5
For anybody reading this looking for the same info, in the Mech official discord there are two channels for clan recruitment. Just what I was looking for. Here’s my current hanger.  |
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Post by Koalabear on Mar 1, 2023 8:30:21 GMT -5
I think all of us here on this MA sub forum used to be War Robots players, so welcome!
Take your time in this game and plan your upgrades. Not sure what your spending limit is or if you're F2P but remember that almost ALL the mechs in this game are decent when leveled decently.
Some of my opinions:
- You've got the right idea putting RPG6 on the Ares. I remember in Beta, this was a very good combination for me and I decided that RPG6 was a better overall weapon than the more expensive MR6. Remember to not upgrade anything EN6 and below too much as you will outgrow them pretty fast.
- Personally, once I'd maxed Ares, I find that I use it less. I have mine equipped with AT12 and it's a beast against AI but against humans in this EMR meta, it dies really fast. I actually use my Paragon with DL16 more because of the splash advantage and the backpedaling speed of the Paragon. Don't knock those two starter mechs: Paragon and Lancer. When played right, they can be very fun and effective.
- Depending of your patience/money/etc, you're definitely going to want to get either Zephyr or Surge. Zephyr was the bane of the Beta era and multiple AI Zeps could make you want to throw your phone at the wall. Surge is definitely stronger but can get trumped by an AI Zep due to artificial reflexes.
- I don't see any beam weapons and that's a good thing. Beam weapons are good against AI but their DPS is too low as you advance further into the game. The Graviton Beam 16 is great though on Panther and for a long time, I ran mine this way until I went over to the dark side and ran dual EM16 on my Panther.
- Guardian is great as a sniper but with LAs, that means the Guardian is going to be very weak in CQC. Your tactic when cornered would be to use System Crash, but at close range, the LAs won't do that mech damage and the Guardian's slow speed will mean you likely won't get away from an aggressive red. In Beta, MR8 served me very well for a long time until I outgrew it and slapped dual RG16 on it. The main advantage of RG16 over LA and EM is that there's no damage drop off at close range and a slightly faster fire rate for those first 3 shots. The rail gun projectile also doesn't travel as fast as LA and EM so it's actually more of a mid range sniper gun with decent brawling qualities if used right.
- Killshot is perfect with JR6 and you can upgrade it to JR8 eventually. At this point, I don't know what I'm going to do with my KS in the long run. I ran RM12 for a long time but with the recent RM bug/nerf, I'm not getting as much mileage with this build as I used to. My KS is currently swapping in and out with Ares with AT12. I think my long term plan would be to run JR12 if I can ever get my JR12 cloned, or maybe even Nade12.
If you have a chance, grab the SG8 asap. You don't really have anything that can make use of that yet but the Ares is a good platform for it. Later on, if you get either Zep or Surge, the SG8 will be awesome.
Oh, one more thing, don't know if you already know this, but Guardian's ability trumps EVERY other ability in this game (except for Redeemer). This means you can use it to destroy Cheetah mines, Arachnos turret, and even unfreeze teem mates who are in stasis or EMP'd.
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