Pixonic Insiders!

I'M NEW

PLEASE WHERE I CAN FIND MORE WAR ROOTS 2017

Pixo is back, and the new MM will go live in about a week. Get ready!

The time has come. This is the day many of us have been waiting for our entire War Robots lives. Pixonic has finally noticed our valiant efforts to make the game more transparent and accessible to all and reached out to us this week to offer their support. It's almost surreal, isn't it? For that, I'd like to thank them first and foremost for sharing our values and goals.

So what's going to happen? We've discussed several ways in which they could help us out, but we can all agree that the most important is the fact that we're now so-called "War Robots insiders". That means we'll finally have a reliable source of information for the wiki and forum, and be able to (at least partially) answer some of the most aggravating questions of all time (MM 「whiskey tango foxtrot」). We're super super excited about what this new partnership will bring, as we've hardly even scratched the surface in terms of what's possible with Pixonic's support.

Here's a quick teaser about what Pixo's been up to recently: The high anticipated "league"-based matchmaker is almost finished and will be out in full force by January (Feb at the latest). It will apparently solve most sealclubbing and unbalanced team issues, as it's similar to the MMR system used in League of Legends (but will still factor in hangar rating, so it's not pure ELO).

That's all for now! Watch this announcement for more info, as we will be updating it regularly  

Update 1/9/2017: Pixo is back! Get ready for the new MM, which goes live about a week from now.

Update 12/30/2016: Another update came in today! Pixonic is going on Russian holidays for a week or two, but we got a glimpse of what they're planning for War Robots in the vaguely-near future. So, as it turns out:

1. They have been hearing our complaints about lag and damage not registering, and to address this are working on a complete overhaul of the netcode that should reduce lag and traffic consumption substantially.
   
2. Also coming up is a rework of the graphics rendering process that uncouples it from the game mechanics. Apparently the game currently relies on the visuals to determine how all of the mechanics play out, and this is the cause of a number of bugs/glitches such as vanishing rockets after death and inconsistent weapon behavior. After this update these issues should be massively improved.
   
   

I should stress that this is still very much in-development stuff, so not even Pixonic is sure when it'll be ready. But at least it's something to look forward to going into the new year (not to mention all of the other juicy features like custom battles!) and looking back on how far War Robots has come in the past year, I think Pixonic deserves a round of applause. There may have been bumps along the way, but when all is said and done there's little doubt that they're some of the most committed developers out there.

Happy New Year forumers!

Update 12/26/2016: Just here to confirm that the wild west bots will be available after the event and will receive a buff to make them less of a disappointment.

Update 12/14/2016: Check out the War Robots fan pack, which contains high-res images of every robot and weapon in the game, as well as editable photoshop documents of various robots and overhead shots of maps. We will be featured on the War Robots Facebook page sometime next week, so expect a spike in activity soon! I've also taken over the r/walkingwarrobots subreddit, so check it out if you're a redditor like me! (well, not quite, but I visited the front page once so I think that counts)
Happy forum-ing and stay tuned for more!

Update 12/9/2016: I figured people could use a break from MM speculation, so here's another exciting tidbit: also coming in the first quarter of 2017 is custom squad vs. squad matches! No more messing around with VPN and counting down to press battle. There will also be an in-game announcements section to promote community resources (that's us!).

They ... are working on a complete overhaul of the netcode. Also coming up is a rework of the graphics rendering process that uncouples it from the game mechanics.

I should stress that this is still very much in-development stuff, so not even Pixonic is sure when it'll be ready. But at least it's something to look forward to going into the new year.

Psst... planned release dates for 2.5 and the new MM are Jan. 17 for Android and 24 for iOS! That is, if all goes according to plan...

Unfortunately there are at least a hundred files in there. I could make a mirror though; which file hosting site are you able to access?

Pixo is back, and the new MM will go live in about a week. Get ready!

MM might still have hanger stuff, wait for info

If true, this means you can't switch hangars to run, say, a bunch of light mechs after playing with the heavies without taking a beating in the ratings. So it becomes primarily about fielding the best gear you possibly can... if they wanted to push players to max their hangars, then this is the system to do it. But don't expect players to be happy about this kind of cocksucking mother?firetruck?ing bull?poo-poo? because it not only takes away from the diversity of experience that the game is capable of providing, it renders many investments players made in Au, Ag and WSP effectively worthless. I'm not just talking about minor tweaks. I'm talking about any bot or weapon you levelled that isn't effective in the 12/12 arena. You might as well play 1/1 bots endlessly while upgrading 5 big boys in the background - there's no incentive to moving up until you are ready to hit the top of the food chain.

I don't believe Pix would truly be this stupid, so I'm assuming we'll see something of a hybrid system that attempts to account for gear and skill somewhat separately.

You're neglecting that everyone will be held to the system. Even if you're not rated the #1 player, no matter what hangar you use, the MM will have a way to sort you into a place where you have a 50/50 chance of success. Bot level is almost certain to scale in a similar manner as it does now. Elo is a 4 digit rating (unless horrifically terrible at the game), while base hangar score maxes at 1015 for 12/12 heavies. Even something simple as adding these two intgers creates a great deal of microtiers in comparison to the percentage based modifier that win percentage currently has on hangar rating.

The purpose of an elo system is to stick players on an even playing field(50% chance at victory). Chances that anything performing so well, consistently, on equal footing, at levels lower than the current outliers of HS/LG, to the poont of seeing 12/12 Heavy wsp bot hangars, are remarkably slim. No matter what your bot levels, no matter what weapons you use, or their levels, your elo rating will adjust until your games are as mathematically balanced as possible.

It also makes the % modifiers on WSP/Brit bots obsolete, as their levels, and the players performance, will stick the hangar in a room where friends/foes perform similarly. Instead of what it is now, where the 20% penalty straight up locks them out of being played until HS+