iOS players, thoughts on the update?

Galahad and Garry just been nerfed big time. Ancilot still ok-ish. Prepare for long range shoot outs. Sucks! Don't like using griffs but I may have to wipe the dust off them and bring em back. Don't like the shift towards long range combat.

Hi Russel,

But its buffed by 15%. Overall a big buff

I really like it so far. I've only been playing since mid January but I think it is an improvement to balance the field and (I think) pre-empt what is coming in the near future with the dash bots.

Played for 3 hours tonight and got the usual mix of players 2 grades above me and a raft of tankers/faders but when the teams were balanced, the matches seemed to be quite good and (more than usual) went down to the last 1 or 2 minutes to decide the winner.

I have generally liked playing an RDB in my line up and this change is a bonus for me. Tulumbas also seem like a good fit on the Rog too. I haven't noticed much change in the Gekko and only a slight change (to me) in the Punisher. Fujin's I came up against generally didn't seem to be effected to any great extent by the rocket buff.

I did note that the discounted gold offers made to the Android users when the update dropped hasn't been made in iOS (yet?)although the equipment offers have just come down (expensive - $100 Australian for a Stalker (L1) and 2 aphids (L5) - it says normally it would be $140!!!).

One thing I didn't like is the summary of Ag now in the top left corner. To me it is harder to track if it is actually going up for each game as it only shows rounded millions now?? At one stage I didn't think it was doing anything but it might just have been me?

I was about to hangup my butch, my first camper bot, then heard about rocket buff... even with only playing two games i noticed less shielded bots... curios to see how the meta will play out, i also decided to ditch a thork lance for a rog

Future weapon set for War Robots (I know, I know, this was said before, but never saw actual photo)

Overall I like it. More rockets less brit bots, which will swing back in a couple of weeks. Right now everyone is trying out the rockets and seeing what type of impact it has.

I believe that it's not as big a deal as everyone is making it out to be (other than the RDB Griffin, which got a huge increase in capability).

Dejnov.

I noticed my gareth seems to swivel faster. I don't know if this is just my imagination or what but he seems more nimble post update. I don't see what the fuss is about. Gary's and galahads were usually always toast against well placed rockets. I was never able to survive a direct salvo from a rdb or do for that matter. The buffs didnt change that however I can feel my gary has actually gotten stronger since I use orkan/pinata. Ive been able to do quite well post update in diamond play.

I played tonight and downed a couple of Garys and Griffs with Piñatas & Tulus. I like the rocket buff because I think it will level the playing field. I haven't had the gold to buy Britbots even if I'd wanted to so I've always felt at a disadvantage to them.

The Tulu feels a bit like an Orkan now. By "dumbs down" do you mean you don't have to wait for a reload, or think more carefully before firing off a load?

In the past I could get a lot of bad pilots to prematurely fire their rockets or time a jump so that none of them hits. Now they can lift off the trigger wait for you to land and fire off the remainder. I loved the Tumbalas in the past because I was accurate with them and usually got an accurate lead. Now it rewards skill less.

100% agree. It is now harder to play peek-a-boo with my light bots.

However it is now easier to push "lock target" in battle and NOT to launch your entire clip by misclick =)

I don't mind it. Any thinking player can find a way around it. Speaking of which just like that I found a way to drill pleb RDBs.
550k from one bot where I usually max out at 250. 400k from another that I usually struggle to achieve 300K.

Fast learning curve > whining on forums

So break off your attack after 3.2 secs instead of waiting for 3.4. You'll do more damage than you did before.

-Amid

I like it. My Puncillots(Ancille/PunisherT) got better. Definitely looking for the added damage vs shields coming in the future. Rocket buffs aids unshielded platforms in the mean time its easier to hurt the unshielded bots. Win win.

I had six Orkans on a Rog and two Griffins. I actually dropped the Orkans off my Rog and put my Tums back on and am happy with the change. I think the Orkan change is a bit much, but manageable, I feel the unload speed needs to be slowed down a touch, maybe 4s unload. It favors more mobile bots and knocks the brit bots down a touch which was probably needed.

I was running Orkan/Aphid on my Griffins since the Moon map dropped, but since it feels like Moon is now as common as the other maps and the Gekkos got buffed I went back to them.


So, with the changes I got to revert back to my old hanger and every single weapon I use got buffed outside my two Ancilles. Makes me quite happy. I played this morning and my league score was slowly climbing despite being fairly under leveled for Masters.