W.H.I.T.E.O.U.T

Couldn't have said it better myself. 

"mechs that look like mechs are even greater"- whiteout, 2/24/22 

W   H   A   T   .

Fair enough.

 
Note: I should have mentioned that the build in the image is supposed to be made of the legacy versions of the items above.
Also, the Quad Cores represent the all-round heat/energy stat dual mods of legacy.

'Twas was a joke that flew over this fellow's head and 'twas a brick that was found in his bed. (I honestly don't know why I wanted to make a rhyme but here we are.)
But in all seriousness, I'm an EFA user with no Nightmare for as far as the eye can see.
All I'm here to say is that you should not underestimate a book by its cover as a snail should not judge a leaf by its shape... Because a leaf is a leaf and snails shouldn't be judgmental.
This isn't a hostile message as it is a morale that is in the back of every children's book imaginable. Yes, it's a cliche.
 

That God Mode is not the real God Mode because its resistances are actually good instead of greatly shit.

I was talking about the legacy God Mode that got his torso stolen and used by the player base.
Just about the same God Mode that had negative resistance AND was still tossed around by energy mechs.
(Note: I don't have any legacy images but I do like the occasional conversation about the time period that I completely forgot about yet still try to talk about.) 

Yeah... The Reloaded Era has definitely been a pretty awful experience when compared to the original Legacy Era... But I guess we're lucky enough to still have a SuperMechs to return to at the end of the day.
Though, that doesn't excuse the fact that physical is monopolizing the game due to damage and not skill.

I guess I finally have a visual to associate my luck with fortune boxes to when I'm going through those periods of time where fortune boxes only seem to acknowledge the existence of their blue light and forget the other three. 
Thanks. 

BLUF: We ran the fortune box research out to 120 boxes from the previous 40 (see previous study) and found that chance of rare is 63.0%, common 5.3%, Legendary 3.7%, and Epic 28.0%.  The difference in calculated legendary rate increased 0.3%, meaning there was no significant (i.e. 5% being the cut-off) difference from the last study.  (Ignore the 60.5)

LONG STORY: 
First, thanks to everyone who helped me out: @dirtycarot @epicspeedster@Fordekash Zbey Kse, @ZeRo_ @Sleckmo @diego brando  @GGoT
     So I ran this study out to 120 (was aiming for 100) because people didn't believe me when I said there was no significant difference between 40 and 100+.  So here you go: here's proof there's no significant difference.  If you really base your arena shop upgrades on whether the legendary rate is 3.3% vs 3.7% then you might need to seek professional help 😄 😛 
     I tried to make the colors in the chart match the game's color coding, but I was not able to edit them individually (gotta love Excel).  If you want to pay me to buy a student copy of IBM SPSS, so that the colors match, please let me know.
     The findings remain the same: for most people, it will not be advantageous to upgrade your fortune box rate in the arena shop if you want more legendaries: not until you upgrade the other important things like damage, capacities, hit points, resistance, backfire reduction, etc.
     However, I will also say that while the fortune box might as well be called the "Blue Box" because of rares being the majority (63%), I will say that this is at least reasonably generous of the game to give you legendaries.  And in this data, one of our members got a Bright Roar.  Another got an Energy Monkey torso.  I got an MPV from a fortune box once (but not while this study was going on).
     There are some limitations to this study, though, as always:
It appears the game bases your rates off of the code but using a RNG call to your host machine.  Therefore, if you happen to somehow be on a computer that has a broken RNG, you could get potentially higher rates or lower rates than these. To help you understand the measure of significance: it's mostly agreed upon by Statisticians that 1% is the level of significance required for difference to be important, but only if you are doing things within the hard sciences.  For example, if we were manufacturing gun barrels and machine A's differences in finished product width was a 1% spread versus machine B was a 0.1% spread, this would be cause for concern because we might accidentally manufacture barrels that are out of specifications and thus cause accuracy problems on machine A, but machine B would be better for our needs.  For things that use probability and normal curves (human behavior experiments, things based in chance), the measure is 5%.  So if there had been a 5% difference between study A and study B, we would conclude that 40 is not enough data points.  However, what we see is 0.3%, which is less than both a strict hard-science 1% margin and a more soft-science psychology and probability 5%.  Therefore our data is very reliable. More data points will only make the rates more accurate, but should not (as we have demonstrated) change your conclusions. There appears to be no difference in who was providing the screenshots in terms of player rank.  There also seemed to be no difference in whether the fortune box was from the shop or from farming the campaigns.  Thus I believe it is safe to conclude that these stats apply to all fortune boxes.  But if you have a good reason to believe shop versus campaign is different, please let me know. Keep in mind some times when you complete parts of the campaign, the fortune box animation is given, even though normally the resulting rewards are fixed.  It is unclear yet if there are times when completing the campaign will result in a higher drop rate for special circumstances.  However, we were not calculating fortune boxes for special circumstances (because that would take way too long). The rates are PER ITEM IN THE BOX, not the entire box.  This is because the items in the box are not always identical.  You can sometimes get a box result (as we have shown in the pictures, which is available upon request) where you get one epic and one common.  It just happens.  Because fortune boxes seem to be "per item" chances, but seem to light up the light on the animation based on the highest rarity of item you receive (i.e. lights "legendary" when you get only one legendary, etc.), I thought this would be a more logical and simple way to run the numbers.  Your mileage may vary. By the way, as soon as I finished, my alt got this in a fortune box

With my Fractured Heat Armor maxed, I now have all the pieces of the Monke Trinity.
Reject humanity, return to monke.

Whew.. it's a good thing that I don't get only 3 ads worth of tokens every full moon whenever I try to ad farm.
 
... Wait...

Whew.. it's a good thing that I don't get only 3 ads worth of tokens every full moon whenever I try to ad farm.
 
... Wait...

This now makes two mythical Guardians in my inventory.
All I need is Backstabbing Guardian then my quest for the Triforce of Oof will be complete. 

This now makes two mythical Guardians in my inventory.
All I need is Backstabbing Guardian then my quest for the Triforce of Oof will be complete. 

This now makes two mythical Guardians in my inventory.
All I need is Backstabbing Guardian then my quest for the Triforce of Oof will be complete. 

This now makes two mythical Guardians in my inventory.
All I need is Backstabbing Guardian then my quest for the Triforce of Oof will be complete. 

Backstabber is a good drone for a mech that either doesn't have any form of pull weaponry and is in desperate need of said pull function or if the mech is a hugger. 
Other than that, it's severely outdated and is easily capable of being outdamaged by Tonto, Selfish Protector, and their L-M/premium counterparts.
 
It's extraordinarily bad for a mech that has 3+ range weapons and no 1-2 range coverage whatsoever. 
But the reason why that isn't a concern in the slightest should be pretty obvious. Mechs like that are extremely rare since almost all players in general usually have a shotgun, flamethrower, or sword waiting for their target to jump into, so that 1-2 range dilemma is non-existent for those players.. That and those mechs usually don't get far, anyway.

Just opened 2 premium boxes on my alt. Got an epic Unrepaired Laser Cannon and this thing.


I was saving those 176 tokens for something but I guess getting a second OP was worth it. 

Schwaponger's first clear fortune box for Cyber Goat (1v1 Silent Waters) and a premium pack I got with tokens after beating Cyber Goat.

 
Schwaponger before those boxes vs Schwaponger now.

Really nice drone designs you've made. For some reason, I keep seeing the face of the Guardian drones whenever I'm looking at the front part of the designs.. That's likely just me, though.
I now somewhat feel like trying to remaster my laser beam drone's design and probably give it a new name as well. The old name's attached to a concept that's basically aged like off-the-shelf 2 months beyond expired milk from a derelict quick mart that's been without refrigeration and power for weeks.. So changing it to a different name is something that feels like a good idea to me. 
 

Avatar: The First Mechblunder. 
 
The dude has dual Hybrid Heat Cannons and a Shadow Wolf, all maxed (if not divine).. But not a maxed Magma Recoiler.
I have a slight feeling that the dude doesn't have an interest in rank 3 or an idea in its existence lol. 

Avatar: The First Mechblunder. 
 
The dude has dual Hybrid Heat Cannons and a Shadow Wolf, all maxed (if not divine).. But not a maxed Magma Recoiler.
I have a slight feeling that the dude doesn't have an interest in rank 3 or an idea in its existence lol. 

Avatar: The First Mechblunder. 
 
The dude has dual Hybrid Heat Cannons and a Shadow Wolf, all maxed (if not divine).. But not a maxed Magma Recoiler.
I have a slight feeling that the dude doesn't have an interest in rank 3 or an idea in its existence lol.