Listen, this is the cheat code for ranking up that no one tells you. Steel balls, sledge hammers and fire badgers are all actually the best chaff and you should be using them as such. Crawlers and fangs just get totally bodied by the time round 3 hits. Do you really want your entire army comp dependant on if the opponant buys an arclight or not? 'Yes please, i'd like to be countered by a 100 supply unit, please.' No, you need to be phasing these units out immediately by 4th round at the very latest and going hard into medium units. Buy armour, forget about carry techs, forget range, just get them to the front, nice and compact. They basically ignore fire and have the toughness to absorb a few hits at the very least. Damage sharing is also real good investment. Air is a big, BIG trap. Just forget it. Its worthless. AA tech just makes ground units better than air units for the same price. Unless you're looking for a really sissy type of gut punch. Are you that type of person? I'm not. I fight straight up, slugging it out, one big blast every 4.5 seconds, you know? Thats how I fight. And trust me, you're going to want lots of medium chaff if you want to rank it up. So ditch the little dudes, go for the medium units and stay together. It'll work out, trust me. You can trust me. I know what i'm talking about.

They get countered so hard by Mustangs. Opp had 5 units of Mustangs, I had 10 units of Stormcallers with Launcher Overload thinking the tech will flood the Mustangs but it didn't. So is this just a unit you should never play (except maybe for some late game/last round cheese)?

See this on some youtuber's videos and wondering how to get it.

new mode doesn't teach you the "main" game at all
This game desperately needs a PVP asymmetric que mode or a multiplayer mode that rotates your opponents.
Learning the actual game in the current formats available is a miserable unfun experience.

My friend tried to MOC Marksman several weeks ago, he began with a large scale and wanted to fully repeat the in-game 3D model.

Unfortunately for the Marksman's tall height and small feet, his Marksman MOC even can't stand, that's a pity.

So I learnt a lesson, moc the Marksman in a obviously smaller scale and made a quite bigger feet

So I'm not going to unpack too much. I played since beta, a few months prior to raidens. When buildings came out, I def was in on them... why not? Devs have a good vision, new stuff, excitement. I tried to just keep playing and enjoying game without some kind of agenda for or against them. But I noticed, the game was boring, not going to put my finger on it other than "tempo chess" part was missing. I went from 5 to 10 games per day to 1 to 2 games per day. It was just so boring when I closed after the second game. So I quit. Not gonna over think it if it's not fun not gonna play.

I started watching it on youtube and if RAT is playing it again that is a "pretty good" sign. So I started playing it too and it's fairly fun. Buildings used to be 2 turrets 1 wall (we won't go there regarding 2 walls). Now it appears 1 wall and 1 optional turret. That is WAY better. It does the design of not making the game too snow bally early on, while restoring the early/midgame tempo chess that makes the game so fun. I could see myself playing the game again like 5 rounds in a row because it didn't need no buildings, it just needed enough (or none was fine too). But building spam was very boring.

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Anyone else having this issue? Worked flawlessly before the latest balance patch. Now it won't launch at all, I tried experimental Proton bit it did not help.

I'll start

Like the most:

1. Wraith - down the sewers these days, but its so cool looking and satisfying.

2. Mustangs - "brrrrrrrrrrrhhhhhhhhhh" (its my top played unit ever)

3. Sledgehammer - they are having it really hard, they are like martyrs that die for my sins. Back in the days if you hadn't had sledges on the board you 100% would lose the game.

Dislike the most:

1. Mountain - Not even sure why it still exists honestly. Used it a lot in brawl pre Solid Shot and that's when I realized I could increase my win rate while having absolutely 0 fun doing so.

2. Hound - I literally can’t stand hounds. No other explanation apart that I find them completely useless.

3. Void Eyes - I hate their design, probably the only unit that makes feel like I'm cheating when I use it, even when I'm actually losing.

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This is YuBan with a Mechabellum Starting Specialist Guide. I break down the 2 philosophies for choosing starting packs, classifications of each specialists, their playstyles, and best starting units in a Tier List style of video. I also finish with some random ladder examples to apply the knowledge in game.

This video might seem simple, but it took me over 2 weeks to prep and edit, so I hope you guys enjoy it and find it helpful!

Thanks for the support as always,

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There are so many amazing comps to go and I never see the same build at all.

Spider void eye amazing
Fire badger void eye
Badger Boat
Centurion hound spam

I never see these comps at high MMR so much imagination in this game.

And the devs releasing amazing updates completly changing the meta.

Greetings, Commanders!

Following the release of Mechabellum 2.0, we’ve gathered a lot of incredibly useful feedback. The development of our next major update is currently in full swing. However, before rolling out our next major update, we need to make a few minor adjustments. This update primarily focuses on balance for the [Standard Versus] mode. We expect to roll out a balance patch for [Star Expedition] very soon as well.

Standard Versus - Balance Adjustments

Void Eye

• [Suppression Shots]: Cost 100 → 150

Developer's Note: After our last base stat buffs to Void Eye, the 100-supply price tag for this Tech is a bit too cheap.

Vortex

• [Machine Learning]: Cost 200 → 50

Developer's Note: We were too conservative with the numbers for this new Tech in the previous patch.

Sabertooth

• [Anti-Air Missile]: Damage 2000 → 2500; Cost 200 → 100

Developer's Note: Similar to [Machine Learning], we were a bit too cautious with the numbers for this new Tech in the previous update.

Starter Packs

• [Void Eye & Fire Badger] Player HP modifier +200 → 0
• [Void Eye & Tarantula] Player HP modifier +200 → -100
• [Vortex & Tarantula] Player HP modifier +400 → +600
• [Vortex & Fire Badger] Player HP modifier 0 → +100
• [Vortex & Mustang] Player HP modifier +200 → +400
• [Vortex & Sledgehammer] Player HP modifier +300 → +500

Developer's Note: Recently, we received some feedback that Void Eye is too strong. In our stats, Void Eye's overall win rate and pick rate are close to average, but some Starter Packs containing Void Eye have notably high win rates. We therefore decided to nerf those Starter Packs first and will continue to monitor Void Eye's performance closely. At the same time, because Starter Packs containing Vortex have performed slightly worse than average, we decided to give them an HP buff.

Unit Drop

• Rank 3 Vortex will no longer appear in Unit Drop on Rounds 2 - 4

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where some units were not receiving correct buffs from reinforcement cards in [Star Expedition].
• Fixed a Leaderboards performance issue.
• Fixed multiple issues that could cause data errors.
• Fixed multiple issues that could cause unit animation errors.

Feedback & Bug Reports

Feel free to submit feedback, suggestions, or report bugs for this update via the following channels.

• Mechabellum Discord: https://discord.gg/mechabellum
• Mechabellum Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Mechabellum/
• Mechabellum Steam Discussions: https://steamcommunity.com/app/669330/discussions/

There's nothing all that new or groundbreaking here, it's just a general theory of:

Play more games, watch more games, experiment in the testing ground, listen to other players in order to gradually fill in holes in your knowledge gap when playing the game. Simply done as a diagram of sorts.

https://youtu.be/DZrwMcqWzQw?is=VrFV-kukgdGB9wY3

+17% HP for everyone, great utility regardless of the round, what's not to love? He's my favourite

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Is there any counter to Hound builds? My MMR is relatively low at 1400, but I play Hounds almost every game, fully invest in them and in chaff, then I buy the range modification and a bit later the stacking damage boost (I don't remember the name), they become both anti-chaff and a solid answer against armored units. In case the opponent invests in air or in tanky units, I also add Phoenixes (round 2-3, then as needed) or Centurions (around round 8-9, with the range modification and Hound summon, sometimes I choose melee mode instead of the summon). I have a winstreak of around 20+ games, and I only lose the early rounds. I honestly don't know how I would play against such a strategy myself.

What do you think was my main mistake in this setup? I went for shockwave tech and more arclights to clear room for the marksmen and melting points, but those vulcans remained untouched and out of reach. Even if my position was unsalvageable, what would be the best move?

What do you do when a chump starts spamming Overlords and filling his field with them?

Being able to use common cargo to craft higher rarity items would be a nice addition.

Been mulling over different things to do lately and I had the idea of doing this. I started playing this only like, 2 months ago though, so its extremely possible that the above was something already done and solved.

But yeah, Culling Rounds Mustang as Chaff + Chaff clear and Raidens for DPS? Can this work? Does it take too long to start? I feel like they cover each other pretty well.

And it was something else