CleverName

New computer came in today: 🔥Alienware Aurora R11 🔥
Specs
- 1TB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD (Boot) + 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s (Storage)
- 10th Gen Intel Core i9 10900KF (10-Core, 20MB Cache, 3.7GHz to 5.3GHz w/Thermal Velocity Boost)
- 64GB Dual Channel HyperX(TM) FURY DDR4 XMP at 3400MHz
- NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) RTX 2070 SUPER(TM) 8GB GDDR6 (OC Ready) [bad I know but I might upgrade it later; tbd]
- Lunar Light chassis with High-Performance CPU Liquid Cooling and 1000W Power Supply
 

30min or so

Thanks for the congrats all 🙂
And yes for those who didn't get it (although most seemed to) - name change was a small joke although more of a passing salute, as good sports tip the hat to the next winner, etc. I changed name back - all is well now =P

https://community.supermechs.com/knowledgebase/disable-base-request/

That information did come from the Discord, Alexander was the one who said the hardware is outdated, and well, he's currently the only one doing pretty much everything to SM, calling him a CEO is an understatement.
 
Two things are good to note:
1. The anti-cheat is still under development, those things take time, whenever Alex decides tries to give us an idea of the complexity, the conversation takes hours. The problems he's facing right now aren't even problems that would normally exist in the worst scenarios.
2. While it does feel unfair to have only him as the current administrator, it doesn't matter as a business, he can just hire more people anyway, the problem is we are on a really brittle base, very hard to work on, especially without impacting stuff that already exists, the reason he didn't hire more developers yet is because himself don't understand how the SM code works yet, the documentation is very poor, so before hiring people he's planning to actually have a product for them to work on, and not hire people to figure out how things work to be able to work on it.
This is still not all there is to that, but since this isn't on the topic's matter I'll  leave it at that.

How does showing replays change boosting? Boosters will still either insta quit or just played intentionally lost matches. Fundamental issue is that arena lacks many players at any given time, which allows boosting to occur.
Additionally, replays won't help much - then you're going to start accusing insta quitters who have an easy loss of boosting. As the #1 player who gets insta quit against, you'll see how many "boosters" I have for example. To play more devil's advocate, if someone wanted to look "legit" for this - they would just play a counter that loses against the main account, thereby justifying an insta quit. These days most boosters boost a little here and there, so I don't think it'll be as easy to detect as you might think. 
And to play devil's advocate more - everyone in top ranks knows who manipulates arena hardest and their style of it. This isn't an individual players issue; more of a clan issue imo. You talk of solo medals but completely forget about clan medals - who you can argue get hit more often and consistently by boosted clan results. 
Thankfully with the most recent ban wave, I think boosting will calm down, but time will tell...And to give some perspective, boosting affects maybe 0.0001% of SM players.
TLDR: Boosting isn't a big issue. But the fix (if we wanted to pursue) would be to increase # of players in arena, not replays.

https://community.supermechs.com/knowledgebase/disable-base-request/

Starting off, I gotta give kudos to Alex, Marija, Raul, Elcent, and all the other GG team members.
After that, I'd like to appreciate all the clan leaders who took me in from beginning to end. (Splatmaster - Hammers Slammers, L4K3 - Bound To Black, BossParody & Death_Gun - WLGang)
I'd like to appreciate all the WLG discord members who've spent time helping me, playing with me, or just chatting. (Too many to list, i'll just say members of WLG)
I'd like to recognize @Dwightx for paving the way to modern SMYT, as well as making SMYT videos. Plus, allowing me to help in this journey. (Plus payment :p)
I'd also like to recognize @WarrMachine for being a big inspiration on YouTube and in SM.
I'd also like to say a thanks to @WindForge ,  @Ad1tya, and @firewater789 for being good friends over time. 🙂
As well as @StormWeaver, @CleverName, and @WinzKay for inspiring me to make awesome YT vids. (I'm speaking of your massive box openings)
 

In my opinion I have many people that I love, even outside of Super Mechs (I don't know if they love me), but in some if I can feel safe, I will mention it but it is not ordered, but I will have reasons.
Pain or The King, (I don't have a fixed name).
When I first entered Candela he was one of the first friends I had on Discord, I really had a good time and we talked about how to improve every day in SM, and make jokes in other severs, Currently I continue talking with him.
@OKI DOKI
I met him when I made an Idea in the Old forum, (How hard it comes true), where I published a fan art weapon, some liked the design, among them OKI DOKI, I decided to publish more designs, (there were not many to say ), and other versions, but he was always there, he made me feel famous in some way.
@KRATOS
Currently I do not see him because he sold his account, but when he was active he was a good guy, in the chats they knew him as Spamer "1vs1" but outside of that he was a great person, it was fun when he gave some people what they deserved.
@CleverName
He didn't mark as much as they did, but I had a good time talking to him, (it wasn't much to say), but I don't regret having added him as a friend.
@The Girl Persian
She met her a few months ago, and it was relaxing to talk to her, it was nice when we had a topic to talk about, but unfortunately it is not possible because she is working hard at her job, I really missed her a lot when She left SM for a long time.
@Marija
She does his job well, it was fun when he had topics to talk about.
Ƭǿɱǿƙǿ (I don't remember his name in the old forum)
I used to follow a lot, half a fan.
@Atusiff
I keep quiet when talking to him.
 
From here it will be very long, since they marked history, Personal of me.
Now I will say the most important ones, It may sound sad, but I like to remember those who are, in memory, or far out there...
 
BestPlayerintheWorld, (or Besty).
When I was new to SM I used to see battles of the best players, at first there were many but it did not seem a definitive one, until You was there, BestPlayerintheWorld was now the #1 player at that time and what impressed me was his three physical mechs, I was He made me dream of seeing a top 1 Interceptor, (there was a top one but I forgot his name, Heat), and since I did not know about the balance of the game, I only made physical and improved it with everything I had, literally, it was my idol, and when I started to learning about clans my goal was to enter Hard to Kill with my idol there, but one day it would happen where everything went down the drain, One, passed away, and Two, I had no idea that it was a woman, (If I had added it as a friend would have been an impact to me), she never knew me in person, but I would have pleasure at least if she knew that wherever she went, I would be there supporting her, my respects.
 
@S H A B B A
The first time I saw him was when he and I were rank 8, I still remember him and he always wanted me to join his clan, he did not accept it because he was not very useful at that time, (he did not touch the titan and he barely made 10 wins a week).
But he was very stubborn and he kept persisting, but one day I would not see him again, at first I did not give it importance, but one day on my 18th birthday they would give me the first cell phone, and SM was one of the first things I downloaded, and I started to invest a balance in it, and I began to see that inactivity was very harmful to the clans, but one day my cell phone stopped working and it was very sad for me, my mother gave me one with more power and between her and I we invested the balance for both of us, starting to be very active, from there I remembered Candela again and SHABBA seemed tired of asking me, but now stronger, I win many times and from there I asked him if he could put Candela on me again, He was very excited and from there I started to meet the friends they would currently have, everything was fine until one day I lost my account due to a very stupid act (I was scammed), Everything I had is gone, I had a fight with my Leader, it was the worst thing that happened to me in life and I was practically very alone, I almost left SM, but two months after what happened, he returned, and told me that I would join the clan again when I was ready, I am currently improving For that reason, if it were not like that, I would have left SM forever, a pity that he has retired, but I will begin to repair all the wrong I did and I will start again from scratch, but with more experience.
I am grateful to him more than anything, he was the one who gave me the opportunity, his clan, to meet more friends, they all respected me (Latam), when I disappeared, he was like the door of a Future that I do not know where he will go...
 
Well I already told everything I had to tell, thank you if you read everything, it will be up to you to give your opinion, I don't have to tell more from here.
Bye.

i appreciate how, even though he is often busy, he takes the time to respond to messages regarding the game, and the forum.

Well it depends how you define "taking over" - heat has been by far the strongest element in the game for a few months now. Arguably, heat hugger has also been strongest build, too. I was about 50/50 on them, but after way more testing, I've concluded with strong confidence heat hugger is the best build overall, regardless of season, too. What this means for future of SM builds - nothing much - I think I was merely just reflecting what we've all seen and tested at very high ranks for a while now =P 

A bit overdue, but finally changed best build to best heat

A bit overdue, but finally changed best build to best heat

Thanks for the congrats all 🙂
And yes for those who didn't get it (although most seemed to) - name change was a small joke although more of a passing salute, as good sports tip the hat to the next winner, etc. I changed name back - all is well now =P

I think best way to do this with as little bias as possible is to watch SM pack opening compilations. However, note that all those drop rates will be higher than present due to new items being introduced

I think best way to do this with as little bias as possible is to watch SM pack opening compilations. However, note that all those drop rates will be higher than present due to new items being introduced

I'd post this in build help - definitely not meta. But to answer your question,  no - weak to almost everything except maybe energy, but really awkward space at 4+

I'd post this in build help - definitely not meta. But to answer your question,  no - weak to almost everything except maybe energy, but really awkward space at 4+

You build better when on beat 😅

I know I haven't been uploading much recently - probably won't upload very much in future but here you go 🙂
 
 

I only play whatever build is best in the game (i.e. meta). There are multiple energy drain builds, but again energy drain is kind of bad - buff or not, it won't be good.

Whenever I have time to edit a couple of vids; maybe a week or so