MA: I am Playing Now!

Don't rush into the next teir. Don't rush on anything really. The golden rule is that the AI in the matchmaker upgrades everything to min-max immediately for your bracket in the matchmaker. You, however, have to grind for resources.

With my most recent experiences, I'd say try to keep T3 locked for as long as possible. Focus on building up some resources with the Grey/green stuff.

You'll need a full 5 squad to play in the FFA tournament game mode. Other than that, getting the full set of exotic(purple border) pilots is probably the best investment of resources before moving up to T3. The AI tends to be REALLY unfair with their pilot loadouts, so rushing gear without having pilot support will always have you on the back foot.

If your new account has "inventory" instead of "gear hub", all accounts should be changing to gear hub on the 30th.

Acoins are scarce from in game sources, but are required for ranking up(adding stars) on every item.

If you're going to spend real money, Legendary(gold border) items have a significant stat advantage to anything available at level. Buying them "on sale" at reduced rank is really just back loading their price into the acoin cost of ranking up, but they're still significantly stringet than anything of lower rank.

Panther,Redeemer and Orion are probably the only non-legendary mechs with late game meta potential. Guardian only survives with a pilot skill buffing it's ability.


Progression takes forever, even if you spend, the less of a rush you are to progress, the less likely an MM "jump" will get you jumped.

Thanks the sage words everyone, and you all need not worry about me spending. I still play War Robots (6 years in that game), and the pop-up offers upon login are the only thing here remotely as tempting as anything in that game. Thanks for the advice about keeping tier three locked as long as possible, as I have no idea how this game’s power-based matchmaker (a rarity in mobile mech games) works. I probably will eventually move up from curiosity, but rest assured I will take my time and have a much of leveled stuff when I do. It seems I unfortunately missed this game’s prime by quite a bit, but that will not stop me from making the most of things now.

If you all could provide further details on the upcoming changes mentioned (like the inventory change), I would appreciate that. I have yet to discover the nest news outlets for myself (so I guess if you could tell me those that would be nice too). Thanks again!

Welcome! We finally have another convert!

I've started playing less but i still have the goal to max my Eclipse as that's the newest mech I got. It was a toss up between that and my Bastion but I'll take quick and sneaky over tanky and CQC dominance any day.

Just a couple of things that others haven't mentioned yet.

1. When posting about your equipment, use the RX.Y format. As you have noticed, gear has a Rank and a Level. Levels use credits and Rank uses Acoins.

2. I'm not sure about now, but I remember Javelin Racks (JR) dominated the early game a lot back in Beta. But don't overlevel them too much as you will outgrow them, especially the JR4. JR6 and JR8 will last you a long time. I recently maxed my Stefania pilot and my JR12s now do about 70k each, which while still not quite enough to single salvo kill Bastions with their ridiculous 400k HP, can do quite a lot of damage especially when hitting from the side.

3. Remember that shots to the side and back to more damage so always try to position yourself to do that. Non LOS weapons like JR, DL and RM are great for that. Splash weapons like Missile Racks (MR) and RPGs can also achieve limited side and back hits.

4. Some of the more common weapons are actually better than some equivalent uncommon weapons. For example, RPG6 is better than MR6 - yes the MR6 has higher damage but the RP6 projectile is faster and can land more hits, especially at further range. Another example is the PC8 vs the Carbine (CB) 8. So, if you get PC8, don't bother saving for the CB8. Carbines are pretty much dead these days but I keep hoping they'll give them a buff cause I have a pair of CB12s gathering dust.

5. Guardian and Panther were kings in Beta and they still pretty much rule now. Yes, the are glass cannons now compared to all the new Legendary mechs and the massive HP buffs they all got but remember that Guardian's ability can still trump virtually every other ability in the game (I haven't been able to confirm Redeemer) and Panther's Stasis Wall is timer based so it's indestructible so it dominates linear battles. I'm not convinced that Killshot is end game worthy anymore but that's just me and my fat thumbs I guess. It's still a great JR12, Helix Rack (HR) 12 and Rocket Mortar (RM) 12 platform though.

6. You mentioned that you liked the faster pace of this game. As you get higher, that faster pace becomes single shot kill hell and the game is practically a 3rd person shooter with mech skins.

7. One redeeming thing about this game is that a lot of the old stuff is still viable. You know about Panther, Guardian and Killshot so lets talk about some of the others:

Lancer - this is one mech I regret not playing with more. It's not end game viable but it's a ton of fun cause it's still the only mech in the game that can really jump and reach high places. The Tengu is the only other mech that can jump, but it's really more of a hop skip and can't really be used to climb to high places. With Lancer, you want keep with non-linear weapons mostly, but I did have once match with a guy who spammed the jump with a single EMR 16 for the whole match. What a PITA!

Paragon - very under rated...I think I'm one of the few who has maxed the Paragon. I don't use mine much anymore but it lasted me a long long time. It's got good speed and either a double sprint or a single super sprint when using it's ability but the real draw of this mech is that it can carry max 32EN capacity. This means, in the single shot kill meta, it doesn't really matter if your opponent has way more HP. As long as you double up things like RG16 or EMR16 or DL16, you can fight on par with the new stuff. I occasionally slap EMR16 on mine with my maxed Maverick pilot and rack up some decent kills on sniper friendly TDM maps. With the upcoming nerf to Implant removal though, I likely won't do this anymore.

Zephyr - this was the bane of Beta and it got nerfed HARD in the Update. But, I still see some people who have maxed Zeps tearing it up in TDM.

Surge - arguably the best Legendary mech still, even after all this time. It has trouble with Bastions and Eclipses now but it's still a very mean mech that combines Killshot and Zephyr's abilities. It got a nice HP boost too in the Update so try to save up for this mech.

Brickhouse - I don't have BH, but I LOVE it when my team mate, both AI and human, run this mech. They changed it's category from Tank to Support and boy does it do the Support role well! I don't really advise getting the BH, but keep an eye out for the on the field and buddy up to a blue one if you can.

Cheetah - I don't use this mech but it's one of the older mechs that got a decent buff in the Update. It can now go up to 24EN capacity and it's mines do a ton of damage now. One of the nice things about being where I am now is that the MM has stopped putting these buggers in my matches so I no longer step on the annoying mines.

Ok, lets talk about mechs to avoid:

Arachnos - yes, like Paragon, it can carry up to 32EN when maxed...but its literally as slow as Brickhouse and it's ability is useless.

Aegis - one of the newer Tanks, but it's useless IMHO, and it's ability will just piss off your team mates.

Onyx - looks impressive as hell, especially with big guns like HR16, but I'm honestly glad I never got this mech. It's quad rockets do a ton of damage but they're unguided, have limited splash, and they easy to anticipate and avoid.

Gatecrasher - I wanted to like this mech....I really did....and I got mine very close to maxing. But, with the advent of Bastion and Eclipse, for me, I just gave up on the Gatecrasher. It's ability is unique and cool but very hard to use effectively. Human opponents will just gleefully laugh at you and the perk of attaching the pod onto either enemy or friendly mechs is very hard to pull off in the heat of battle. Still, it's got really good foot speed and max 32EN capacity so think it over.

Redox - I used to hate Redox until I realized it's got the same speed as Guardian (slow but not unbearably slow) so I play it like a Guardian now. With DL16, the Redox is an awesome CQC brawler but I put it in this list because of how much I had to adapt my playstyle just to make this mech viable. I needed another 32EN mech to replace my Paragon and I had a ton of blueprints for Redox so that's my only reason. My Redox only shines in cramped tight maps where it's slow speed is not that much of a handicap and I can make full use of it's Caustic Blast ability to slow down reds as they get to a corner and I can pummel them with DL splash without exposing myself. On bigger open maps though, it's a sitting duck.

Anyway, that's all the time I've got right now....I'll try to post more later...