CleverName

Yes, but that's not it lol. I don't know who would name an alt the same name as their main.

If you know of any other energy builds let me know. I haven't seen any meta builds with OEMP yet. Edit: In anticipation of the balance update, I will try to update thread. Give me a week or so though. There's a TON of build options... Early predictions though: heat > phy > energy

It would work; I forgot to add the heat and energy variations of the semi energy free counterparts. I would replace bulldog with lightning cutter though. Something like this; defer to player if they want L-M drone over E-M drone

If you didn't collect (and the server recognized as being collected) the quest reward by day reset (~3:30am eastern), then you might be out of luck

Starting 2021 off to a hot start 21 Medals for 2021! Also new AP record for 2v2 season =P P.S. For those who weren't aware, I finally moved over the Current Meta Builds thread to the new forum

See my Current Meta Thread Yeah that's fine

That build is fine, but yes, weaker to energy versus 4.1k hp version. Reason why I think mercy version is better is that it's energy free with no backfire and higher damage. I found that for this build specifically running without energy resistance still has nice win rate, but energy fights were tough sometimes. For most of the physical builds, it's up to pilot if they want to run energy resistance or not.

In this thread, I’ll post what I believe to be the best builds in the game (meta builds). Everyone is welcome to post and debate meta builds. META = Most Effective Tactics Available (i.e. what's the best build in game to help you climb the ladder in arena and have the highest win rate). I've excluded "popular" builds that aren't really "meta." I'm defining meta as the best builds in their respective element and must at a minimum be able to achieve Rank 1 full stars (and preferably have the highest win rate possible). The "best" builds are of my own opinion from arena testing. Note this isn’t a build help thread. If you need build help, please go there. If you want to view older meta/top-tier builds, please go here. I will maintain this thread for as long as I have the motivation Last updated: 5/13/2021 Best Build in Game: “Best Heat” PHYSICAL Best Physical HEAT Best Heat Boiler Dual Magma ENERGY Best Energy Dual Brightroar Dual Bunker

You can also swap a plate for energy fortress. Other variant:

I think we're all in agreement on: 1) Alt accounts COULD be useful if they weren't designed for arena manipulation 2) Alt accounts are bad because of arena manipulation My comments: - #1 would be nice to have; plenty of people get bored with a "main" account and want to have some fun at lower levels. - #2 is a problem that's really hard to solve (mainly because of VPNs - no way to track who owns what in a scalable way). Additionally, this is a really, really minor problem in the grand scheme of things (and this really only effects the top ~30 players, so less than 0.0001% of the game) My view on potential "solutions": A) ban alts for everyone (somehow - still no real answer as to how this could be done) - hurt vast majority of players who play alts in innocent way; Gato loses revenue to please a few players B) allow alts for everyone (arena manipulation is issue very top players will have to deal with - as they always have since inception); Gato makes most money this way C) try to manually ban alts for bad actors (super time intensive). This would be ideal - perhaps give a warning to abusers first (as it's grey area of whether arena manipulation is against any rule); ban if they continue to do it. However for C - I will say it's hard to tell what exactly counts as arena manipulation. If an account is shared with multiple people and stays in a different clan the whole time, how do you know they're "feeding" wins vs. just losing (intentional or otherwise). Also hard to get get sufficient burden of evidence as there's almost none on the player side perspective. Personally, I think B is the best approach. It's the easiest, cleanest, and best solution for majority of player base. It also brings in more revenue for Gato. C sounds like a headache and A will just hurt most players and Gato. Just my 2 cents.

Happy New Year, everyone! I think it's fair to say 2020 was a unique year for many, with many hard moments. Personally, I enjoyed seeing the community here rally together and the sheer positivity coming from many. I hope the new year continues to bring us together and enjoy life together Here's to a great 2021!!

I would play it sure, but Reloaded would definitely be my focus. When I was a young kid, like 8 years old or something, I saw someone with the username "CleverName" - I thought it was pretty creative an indeed a clever name. So after that, I started going with it.

If I understand you correctly - I can't remember if there was any visual perk for New Year, but I don't think so. The Christmas hat perk came out in Christmas, although this Christmas was only a snowball visual perk. (Others - feel free to chime in here if there's any visual perks for New Year's Day)

this hacker, obviously. (jokes aside, I have no idea...)

Thanks Was looking for a fun flash game years ago; I wanted it to be strategy/turn-based, so eventually found SM. Sort of, but they quit overtime. So currently no - honestly, it's fine, I've made enough online friends so I don't feel bothered by it (plus it's nice doing something none of your irl friends do). I played the game in legacy, quit, played briefly in 2017, quit, returned Dec. 2019. Undergrad in business, finance. Nope, but if I do I'll let you know =P (this thread is more of me answering questions only anyways)

Oh I already had it on old forum, just a matter of moving it to new forum

I'll make a current meta topic once I learn how to format it correctly lol

Super well known bug. 3v3 tends to be most buggy (for invites as well as campaign). 1v1 and 2v2 also don't work very, very often. For me, it's just random game of chance. Sometimes it works, sometimes I'm just stuck declined versus everyone and everyone to me lol =P Low priority, but looking forward to when (if) this bug gets fixed!

Merry Christmas & happy holidays to everyone

imo, L-M items should always be better than E-M items, in every way possible or at least in the important ways. I think a good indicator of what needs balance is usage in tops ranks. All of these 4 weapons are barely used, so if anything, I'd recommend a buff.

Plenty of energy in Rank 5+. However, none in top 5 (if that's what you meant). When people say energy is weak, it's really only at very competitive levels. At any non-competitive level, energy is fine (imo). The main reasons energy isn't competitive are: 1) Lack of raw damage (vs. peers) 2) New modules have made energy cap + regen easy to get 3) High hp builds can get away with using no drone to still win fights as most energy builds are 3k hp or less Physical by itself isn't that strong, but with the rise in new high hp high resist builds, it just comes down to sustainable damage per turn. We all know physical spits out highest damage per weight, so naturally you will see physical become dominant. In the past, weight limits didn't allow physicals to get up to 4k and still be rounded, but new L-Ms dropped weight and allowed for it. Additionally the new L-M backfire resist drainer was a big buff to physicals because now they can output really high damage over time; without those resist drains, physicals aren't that strong. Heat used to be meta as you could overheat people reducing their playable turns, but now that doesn't matter as the hp gap is too high even if physicals waste turns. Energy used to be alright as it was harder to get energy cap/regen, but now new mods that's a cake walk. "Rounded" builds beat energy nearly 85%+ of time.

Fighting @Alexander!!

Flex beating Alex (close one!!)