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    Posted · Edited by CleverName (see edit history)

    54 minutes ago, FennekinFyreFour said:

    @CleverName why aren't there more META energy builds?

    Couldn't there be some OEMP META builds?

    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

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    5 hours ago, SawzAll said:

    @CleverName I don't know if anyone has ever asked this question, so please forgive me if it's been asked before.  Is there any reason why an energy version of the physical rounded, such as the one below, would not work in the arena?

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    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.

     

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    Something like this; defer to player if they want L-M drone over E-M drone

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    32 minutes ago, epicspeedster said:

    does this not work due to no ele res?

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    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.

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    Posted · Edited by CleverName (see edit history)

    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
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    HEAT

    Best Heat
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    Boiler
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    Dual Magma
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    ENERGY

    Best Energy
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    Dual Brightroarimage.png.0bf170c4f44d79a710bc8278b5431064.png

    Dual Bunker
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    5 hours ago, SawzAll said:

    Maybe, but it seems no one has subscribed to that part, so not many people reply.  But still, I don't blame you, as you're a busy person.

    Can you share a cropped screen shot of your module config(s)?  If not, no worries.

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    You can also swap a plate for energy fortress. 

    Other variant:

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    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.

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    1 hour ago, Melanös said:

    If a seperate legacy version was released, would you play it much? i for one definitely would.

    I would play it sure, but Reloaded would definitely be my focus.

    1 hour ago, Swag said:

    The reason for your name (Clevername)?

    (i ask this to everyone)

    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. 

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    16 minutes ago, Magnemus said:

    Умное название был ли портал для новогодних шляп?Если нет, то когда?

    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)

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    17 minutes ago, Fordekash said:

    Clevername,
     

    First off, Awesome  name and thread!

    Thanks 🙂

    17 minutes ago, Fordekash said:

    how did you find super mechs?

    Was looking for a fun flash game years ago; I wanted it to be strategy/turn-based, so eventually found SM.

    17 minutes ago, Fordekash said:

    have you been able to get any friends to join the game? (I struggle with this)

    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).

    18 minutes ago, Fordekash said:

    How long ago did you start playing? 

    I played the game in legacy, quit, played briefly in 2017, quit, returned Dec. 2019.

    18 minutes ago, Fordekash said:

    if it’s not too personal. Do you have a college degree and if so what in? 

    Undergrad in business, finance.

    19 minutes ago, Fordekash said:

    finally do you have any questions for me 😀? Totally cool if not. 

     

    Nope, but if I do I'll let you know =P (this thread is more of me answering questions only anyways)

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    15 hours ago, SawzAll said:

    CleverName, you're awesome, but I don't think that's something you need to do on your own.  I was starting this topic to see if I could get some of those areas of the forum opened up and people submitting their inputs.  But at the same time, I'm not saying that to discourage you, but instead to thank you for your help.

    On a side note, I'm very interested in a heat hugger meta that someone told me you run from time to time 😉

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

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    Posted · Edited by CleverName (see edit history)

    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! 🙂

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    Posted · Edited by CleverName (see edit history)

    1 hour ago, SawzAll said:

    I would really appreciate, however, if @CleverName and others who are actually ranks 1-5 would weigh in on this.

    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.

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    19 minutes ago, Kiira said:

    Aren't you a little bit tired of the people that thinks you are a cheater?

    Yup. Hopefully the new forum brings an end to those toxic people =P 

    12 minutes ago, Zylok said:

    When a lot of balance changes have occurred, do you think it is still possible to have 1 META that is the best? 
    Or do you think that there will be multiple META builds strong enough to defeat eachother? 

    Yes, my opinion is that there can only be one meta (1 build), but of course other builds can beat it and there will likely be many more builds that do quite well. I do think today's environment encourages just a few builds to do exceedingly well, but perhaps future balances will allow a bigger variety into competitive ranks 🙂

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