Is this one of the best Drones for an Angler bot...

Microchips are toooo p2w and it takes time to get microchips from the tasks

I agree I should be better at spending money on this game. 

100% I always thought that accusation was silly. I mean, you already had your OG "main" account and the BR account at the bare minimum. I'd be shocked if there wasn't at least one other account floating around that you dabbled in. What would be the motivation to create an account to gauge success vs meta, see how high you could climb, under the auspices of doing it free if you were actually buying? Just so you could possibly so say, "See? Aren't I amazing?" That's silly. Anyone that's watched any of your videos should be able to quickly tell that that's not what you're about. Those accusations tell far more about the people pointing the fingers.



Yup. This is where it's really interesting (and fun) to try to make something that's non-meta, underleveled, or absurd work reasonably well. It makes you work harder which ends up making you a better player.

And all that is why I found it quite enjoyable when you used to crow, "Whipped by a Lancelot!" or some such thing. You were making the off-meta creaky stuff work reasonably well. Sure, it wouldn't hold up to be a top-scorer game in and game out, but it's fun for a laugh and a change of pace.



Yep. It costs a lot of money to get the newest thing -- particularly if you're going to run multiples -- in today's marketplace with hidden odds. That's the commitment they make when they pursue being The Best.

Yeah, you definitely have my empathy for how much you and other YouTubers are treated by some members of the fanbase. One of these days I am going to make a rant talking about how I am sick of people parading the belief that Pixonic-affiliated YouTubers are somehow untrustworthy or otherwise below us normal players. It always comes off as naive and jealous, and is especially disappointing given how it seems a large chunk of the fanbase are adults. It is almost like they do not actually watch your videos and just say what they want to hear…

As for your comments regarding spending versus skill, I get what you are saying but do somewhat respectfully disagree. Going along with your hokey metaphor, I personally see spending thousands to get a full hangar of meta robots as giving yourself Captain America serum as opposed to a good hokey stick. Professional hockey players will wreck you despite being weaker because they are just that good, but on the other hand, you can wreck anything short of a professional player by simply overpowering them with your strength. I see tons of players with obviously well-funded hangars not make the best plays yet win anyway, as their robots let them simply kill everything in sight and win via meching-out the enemy team. Even when these players loose, they still place high on their team and thus still gain league points. If this were pre-drone War Robots I would agree that a budget/free player could outplay a heavy spender if given the chance, but these days the power gap is just too great to cross in my opinion. You either have to spend yourself or grind for hours every day and be extremely cautious of how you spend your resources. Pixonic wins either way, since tons of engagement is almost as good as spending. That is just my opinion though, and I should mention I am in the middle leagues as opposed to the high leagues (I am in Expert III), so I am sure our game experiences are a bit different. I do however fully agree that you can always better yourself as a player even if you cannot beat the heavy spenders. Spenders are not every player of every battle, and even something as simple as averaging third on your team as opposed to fourth or fifth makes a huge difference over time. Lots of players need to realize that your spot on the team honestly matters more than if you won or lost, but communicating the details of things was never Pixonic’s strong suit…

It is always cool when you stop by and weigh on in things, since you know so much and how it just kinda feels cool to get the War Robots equivalent of a celebrity appearance. I admittedly do not watch a ton of your videos, but when I do I never regret it. Take care and keep being an inspiration for us all!

I think I get what you are saying, and again do agree with most of it. I agree that prodigies are made, not born, and that when equipment levels are even just somewhat equal, skill reigns supreme. The issue though is of course the matchmaker and how equipment levels are almost never somewhat equal. In the middle leagues where I play, it is common for players with level ten mark one workshop robots to be put against players with mark two or three Nethers, Anglers, and Marses. On the extreme end, there have been plenty of stories about mark three hangars in Silver League (tankers) as well as <1000 win and even a few <500 win accounts that are in Champion League, all with near-maxed meta hangars that presumably put them in the fast lane through the leagues. Heck, there is a story about a Champion League player who accused his enemies of hacking because he literally did not know that rockets bypassed physical shields!

If Pixonic fixed matchmaking and stopped polluting the middle leagues with cheap mark two offers (these offers mean the free players are really left out to dry), War Robots could be exactly like hockey, competitive but fair, but as it stands, I do not think it really is.

I joined War Robots in February 2017, so I unfortunately missed the old matchmaker days just barely. I doubt the power-based matchmaker was the flawless masterpiece some people on this forum make it out to be, but it certainly does have its advantages. I agree the ideal matchmaker is a hybrid of the current system one and the power-based one, and that Pixonic should do what a lot of games have done already and make league progression be one-way, which makes tanking almost impossible. Seal Clubbing was an issue, but not does it seem quaint compared to what we have now. The overt hackers have seemingly largely subsided (in the matches I play anyway), but the real issue are the subtle hackers: players who give themselves small boosts that are difficult to detect. With the crazy things possible with damage and resistance boost stacking, it is hard to tell what is legitimate and what is hacking, so we really just have to hope the hackers are not getting too greedy!

I agree that the game’s progression is in dire need of a revamp. New players obviously get access to meta stuff way too quickly and the game does not explain itself well enough. I was lucky to think to look up YouTube videos early on in my War Robots journey, so I got a huge boost from all of the guide videos coming out in mid-2017 (a lot of which have aged quite well), but I am sure a lot of players are not that resourceful. Obviously Pixonic unlocks events for new players so quickly to encourage spending early on, but it of course leads to the problems we outlined earlier.

I think the reason people still play and spend on this game as much as they do is due to a lack of alternatives. PC and consoles have tons of great mech fighter games on them, hence War Robots flopping on those platforms, but when it comes to mobile, there is just nothing quite like War Robots. Mech Arena is too cartoonish and simple, Battle of Titans is too complicated, and Robot Warfare and World of Robots are just watered down versions of War Robots. I think the only way Pixonic is forced to level with the players is if another mobile mech fighter game comes out that seriously threatens to poach players. Mech Arena was seemingly the game in 2021 and 2022, which I think contributed to things like Pixonic having more communication with players and doing more giveaways and gift chains, but once that settled down at the beginning of this year, Pixonic put us in the slump we are in now. Now we just kind of have to wait and see what happens.