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Overall, bull dog is the least effective premium, since it is, effectively, a worse lightning recoiler, it needs a buff, since otherwise it is the first case of a premium being worse than it's e-m counterpart.

I don't think we need to make more weapons energy free. Weapon does feel like it hits a little short these days though. Perhaps some more resistance damage and a touch more energy damage. 

I think with the economy of today they really need to evaluate the line items of explosive and energy. I feel like years ago this made sense but these days it feels imbalanced..... especially with the boom of energy free items...

Voted yes and yes. The players should be able to decide their path. I certainly agree that it would reduce request to remove base.
 
If anything, simply from a physiological stand point once a user is educated and makes a conscious choice they are much more likely to stick with it as they progress in the game.

I never noticed but torment certainly is not on par with Nemo. I’d almost this the consumption needs to be dropped as well without a weight change?

If you've started an account recently on this game............................
You know that the tutorial essentially forces you to build a base and doesn't tell you why.
I'm sure enough people agree that the base shouldn't be forced on people.
And that it's not as efficient in the low to (possible) middle ranks.
So please vote if you think the tutorial should get fixed.
Because I'm sure @Alexander could probably benefit from not getting tons of "plz delete base" emails.........

Might be outdated.  But you can basically take the various energy-free (or close to energy free) top physical META and more or less make them dual Annihilation if you adjust the build slightly.  Here's that sort of build.  The only reason I'm including energy modules on this EFA is to run the drone....

 
You can basically just take the top physical meta and adapt it by substituting Annihilation for any 1-2 range weapon.  Obviously you won't get the same result as the meta config in question, but you can totally do it.
I'm basically about to do a single Annihilation "CleverJumper" build.  I'm already upgrading three damaged armor annihilators and my 1-2 range weapon will be Annihilation because I don't have a Mercy.   See the very bottom of this reply for my own config based on items I already have.  (I need more items to make the build more powerful.)
 
 

OH LOL
I guess someone must've told them I divined some Massive Stone Feet 😆

Honestly I think it's because there was the promise of fixing things so people couldn't be so toxic.  I think those who felt judged didn't want to go to a new forum where they would get held accountable for their actions.  But I could be wrong.

Honestly I think it's because there was the promise of fixing things so people couldn't be so toxic.  I think those who felt judged didn't want to go to a new forum where they would get held accountable for their actions.  But I could be wrong.

tell me y!
aint nothin but a mistake....

Doesn't seem dead to me.  But lots of people hang out on the discord also, so.........
ain't nothin' but a heartache..............

BLUF: Please buff Hysteria by reducing weight to 51 kg (-4) and increasing max energy damage to 30 (+6) like Savagery.

LONG STORY: Due to the way energy works, it suffers from a systemic disadvantage.  While one loses turns to cooling their mech, or can make a voluntary shut down, energy gets regenerated automatically at every turn without costing a turn.  As such, if for example the average META mech has about 295 in regen, the energy player must do this much energy damage or higher every turn.  This requires high-drain configurations like dual malice beam,  at least one valiant sniper, etc.  And energy drained foes can still stomp you, fire energy-free weapons, grapple, and charge.
I believe therefore that bringing energy weapons to at least equal footing with heat will help level the playing field and make energy more viable.  I'm not requesting for stats that are higher than heat because I don't want to accidentally over-buff any items.  Truth be told, energy should have roughly 25% higher stats, but this request is for more or less equal stats.
I do not want to nerf any items because that's both unpopular and harmful to the game.
I'm suggesting only equal stats in the areas I mentioned to hopefully prevent an over-buff.  But feel free to disagree with me.
Please reply to this thread.

TAKE A LOOK AT THIS
gg everyone

How about "Static Pulse " as a name for the energy version of Vandal Rage
 

I got this while farming 1v1 campaign final boss in hard mode.  I already have 3 x monkeys so what will happen is I'll upgrade this over time until it's max, then swap it for the energy monkey i'm using for my physical mech.

I think the campaigns are fine the way they are.  If anything, I'd like a totally new campaign mode called Survival, where you see how many mechs you can destroy (they get harder as you beat them).
As for the store, I never experienced the store, so I can't agree or disagree on that one.

I got this while farming 1v1 campaign final boss in hard mode.  I already have 3 x monkeys so what will happen is I'll upgrade this over time until it's max, then swap it for the energy monkey i'm using for my physical mech.

I got this while farming 1v1 campaign final boss in hard mode.  I already have 3 x monkeys so what will happen is I'll upgrade this over time until it's max, then swap it for the energy monkey i'm using for my physical mech.

I got this while farming 1v1 campaign final boss in hard mode.  I already have 3 x monkeys so what will happen is I'll upgrade this over time until it's max, then swap it for the energy monkey i'm using for my physical mech.

BLUF: Energy is systematically weak and is handicapped.  None of the current energy meta mechs can beat the top heat meta mech, which proves my point.
LONG STORY: I think most SM players have become aware of the general weakness, i.e. handicap, that energy mechs have to face.  But I figured I would spell it out on paper here just in case there are those who disagree.
Here’s the top heat META mech, as of the day I wrote this.

As you can see, regen is 341 and cooling is 379.   Seems easy, but when you put all the current meta energy mechs against the top heat mech, they are easily defeated.  Here are some screenshots: all aboard the failboat!




So energy gets beaten easily all the time, and only the UPC + Bright Roar mech even managed to energy break the top heat mech.  But it still lost.
Then I thought to myself, let's try the dual valiant from old meta:

This is more or less what the old META dual valiant was.  I forgot to deploy the drone, however, which I only just noticed.

Conclusion:
Regen being free every turn makes being an energy mech more difficult than heat. Energy weapons of the same kind as heat (Hysteria vs Savagery) are weaker on paper. You need two of the top energy weapon in the game to beat the top heat mech: if they forget to use their Swoop.  So basically energy cannot win against heat at all. The abundance of energy-free weapons and being able to move when energy broken makes it even more difficult. THEREFORE, energy is systematically handicapped in this game and needs a buff. Feel free to reply and give your own experiences, or post WU screenshots.

I got this while farming 1v1 campaign final boss in hard mode.  I already have 3 x monkeys so what will happen is I'll upgrade this over time until it's max, then swap it for the energy monkey i'm using for my physical mech.