So my son really wanted me to play this game with him and here is my takeaway:

This game is pay to win, and pulls every dirty trick to drain your wallet. It hooks you with easy bot battles at first, then tosses you in to matches with players that have brokenly OP real money mechs that vaporize you no matter what you do.

The game has about 10 different currencies, and it hides them from you so you don't know that soon the base currency of silver and gold wont be very useful. The amount of platinum and other currencies you can earn per hour is about 5% of what a legit game would let you earn, meaning if you get tired of being a punching bag, you will have to fork out real money. This game is probably illegal in Europe and should be illegal everywhere. It has loot boxes, black market loot boxes, daily loot boxes, etc. etc.

As for the mechanics of this game, they are a joke. Have multiple weapons on your mech that have different range requirements? Too bad, you are going to fire them all at once and deplete your ammo. Want to walk around that building? Nope, you are going to snag on some invisible chunk sticking out.

Mech Assault 2: Lone Wolf on the original Xbox was a far superior game. And it's 20 years old.

Sad thing is, this could have been a great, fun game, but the microtransactions and pay to win completely ruin it. I am sure that it is making boat loads of money for the devs, but kind of game should be banned from Steam and made illegal in the civilized world, because it preys on kids.

At some point, Steam is going to have to purge these predatory games from the market, or they are going to get regulated by the government (just like the EU already has).

First things first, I have way more hours in game than it shows because I played it a lot on mobile. like a LOT.

This game used to be great, really I loved it. The mechs where realistic looking and the game had general balance. It felt futuristic to just a small enough extent to not feel more like starwars rather than current year. It was good. P2W still existed but to a much smaller scale. If your team played together and ganged up on them than you could still beat them.

It has all changed. There are more mechs than anyone but the top players know of, same for the weapons. If you win enough and get put up a rank then you start to get hit by things you don't even know the name of, nearly killing you before you can even get a shot off. Attempting to get the same stuff takes either LITERAL YEARS to achieve, or a large sum of money. There is a deal I was offered recently in-game, of receiving a trebuchet and a few hundred gold. The trebuchet weapon, a heavy class that in the days that I played nearly everyday used to be one of if not the best weapons in the game. This gun is now bad, it's damage is minuscule compared to most others and the cost to upgrade it is ridiculously high in silver. This brilliant deal of an outdated weapon and a measly amount of gold that won't even get you one light weapon comes at the price of $59.90 AUD. For that price, I could buy an indescribable number of better games. It can buy you Forsaken from Destiny 2 and still leave $20 left. The pricing for this game is absolutely ridiculous. PIXONIC (devs) have taken a game they made great and turned it into literally the most unbalanced, pay to win """strategy""" I have ever seen.

I miss the old days of this game. I wish it could return to it, but we can't. PIXONIC is a money-hungry company only intent on selling you nothing at high prices, likely to be completely overshadowed by the next update dropping a new, OP mech and weapons. I have so much more I could say about this game. The extreme levels of gambling it holds, the extreme P2W it has, but I just don't care anymore.

2/10
Used to be golden.

UPDATED REVIEW:

I spent over 100 hours so you don't have to. I reached level 27 which is at the level when you unlock drones, its pretty far, but i had enough. I coulnd't push myself any further.

TL;DR: This game has worse practices than EA, them being a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ blessing in comparison.

Get ready for a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ long read. Im going to explain everything in depth and its flaws the best i can.

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This “game”, has tuned all of its features to purposely to push the player into frustration and incite them into spending money. That is literally their scheme.

To exploit this even further, their current profit strategy is to release absurdibly broken new mechs, which blast through the meta of the game, and push the players into buying the new content to compete with other players.

This isnt your regular case of pay2win, this is p2w to MAXIMUM HYPEROVERDRIVE.

No game has ever, and i say, ever, made me so frustrated with its progression. I played my huge share of grindy games, and they dont come nowhere as close as this game. Progression was slow but palpable. On this game, it breaks your shins and leaves you for yourself.

War robots has no form of progression because it restricts you in every single way it can.

Upgrade a mech or one individual piece of equipment. It costs silver and some wait time which increases exponentially with each level.

At first glance this seems kind of normal for a mobile based free game, but thats where it lies, because it reaches a point where upgrades take literally days, leaving you with unequal levels with your equipment because you have to upgrade them one by one.

And this is just a bit of the problem.

Because what should be more available equipment, is locked behind gold, which is the premium currency, with 5€ giving you 500 gold as a example.

Most of this equipment which are practically upgraded versions of some of the starting weapons of the game, and they are locked behind this gold currency. Going from 500-1500-4000 prices, 40€ for items that are easily replaced.

The game may give you roughly 80 gold daily, but thats nothing compared to the costs of the gold priced items on the store.

Platinum is exclusive for titans, and the ammount they offer you daily (25 per day) is pitiful compared to the prices of the equipment of the titans. Its far cheaper to upgrade your own titan than getting a single weapon.

There is also energy cells, which is a resource for activating unique skills, these abilities changing into gold based if you happen to run out of cells. If you are lucky you will get an ammount past the need of using gold, but still, absurd to put price to something that could simply be given for free.

And i only talked about the currencies of the game.

Here's where the biggest lies of the game come.

Many of the game's weapons are locked behind another mechanic that is the factory, and this decieves you with a false path to progress.

Every single equipment on the game requires 10.000 pieces, you assign a factory slot to produce for the equipment you want, and wait 24 hours for at least 80 pieces. Once the timer ends, you have to pay again for the factory to make more. No, you cannot set it automatically.

And this is where the lie comes. Its not 10.000 for unlocking permanently the equipment. Its for just 1 piece of equipment, and then you have to start all over again.

Oh, but you can rush all the process again with gold for just 50€ (or 75€!) SUPRISE!!!

Also, the game has lootboxes. I dont have to explain you that one, right?

The balance on the game is, as expected, completely scuffed. One mech alone by its broken abilities can wipe out a whole team alone. Its that easy.

The game's matchmaking makes no check between levels of equipment between players, you can get easily matched aganist someone who has twice the levels of equipment compared to you, wipe out your entire team and get all the rewards.

-Rewards:

The game literally forces you to compete with your teammates over who gets kills and deals the most damage.

The ammount of silver you gain per match is based on how much damage you have dealt, and even then, the rates are pitiful. So if your equipment is crap, you get crap rewards.

You also get gold and keys based on your team's best, if you get below 3th, you dont get anything. Just keys for the lootboxes with ♥♥♥♥♥♥ rewards. And even at top of your team, rewards are pathetic. 5 gold at best.


I didn't unlock motherships because they are locked at level 30 and getting levels on this game is tediously grindy and slow. But apparently they give you one special ability depending on which mothership and they are all overpowered. Easily ripping your whole health apart with an AoE that acts too fast to get out or react to.

This game has practically zero skill involved in its gameplay. My best mech is one that flies above, gets massive damage resistance while flying, fires lasers to all enemies on sight and damages on %. Its a limited version that has 10% more health compared to the original mech.

-END OF REVIEW.


Please, i beg of you, do not give the developers any of your time and money.

If you want a good stompy mech shooter game, try out MechWarrior Living legends. Its entirely free and it requires skill to win.

It's a good game at the beginning. Fun. But then the pay-to-win slowly starts creeping in and you start to understand that you're not going anywhere without paying up. Same old story.

Well, I used to play this game years ago, on a phone. Back then, one or two years after the release it was really great, without that much P2W, really a masterpiece. I mean, there were weapons and robots that you were able to buy with real currency, but they were balanced, kinda OP, but still balanced. But then, suddenly, it all has fallen apart. The developers started adding more and more purchasable content, and it was NOT balanced anymore. And still not is. I mean, I am a true fan of this game, I had both Fuijin and Raijin (best robots back then) back in the days, and I have grinded to buy them around 100hrs I think. But suddenly, they weren't the best anymore. Pixonic started adding more and more OP purchasable contents. The game that I really loved became another P2W sh*t. Downloading it now, on PC, and looking at it all... I has all gotten worse, as I can see. And thus, no matter how hard I try to vindicate it, my most favourite mobile game, I cannot recommend you to play it. Sadly, but it is how it is.
Sorry for this review being so emotional. This is more of a tribute, but I hope you understand.
Have a great day

Good game got ruined

I used to play this game all the time on my phone 5 or 6 years ago as a kid, and I started it up again 2 years ago and played for a while. When I tried out the game then, I was shocked by all the changes that had been made. Every time you entered the game, you were bombarded by multiple officers, Claiming to be 80-97% off for real money. new robots were released every month or so, which costed HUNDREDS of dollars to obtain, and had game breaking abilities that would allow you to win if you had them, and if you didnt, you would either have to be willing to pay to compete with others or you would get slaughtered. a couple months after these robots were released, they would be nerfed into the ground to make way for the new game breaking robots, and the process would repeat. Although this was extremely frustrating, the game was still fun (not as fun as it was in 2014, when it wasnt pay to win though) However, I ultimately quit after I fell into the trap of actually spending money on this game and not really getting anything out of it. Now, here I am on my computer, as i just remembered this game and I wanted to see what its like now, and its worse then I could have imagined. Forget robots, (although they are still in the cycle of adding OP robots and then nerfing them) Now they have added new types of machines. For example, Motherships, which are completly pay to play and require absolutely no skill. How do they work? Well, you spend a few hundred dollars to upgrade them, and then you click a button to use them in game, and they bypass all of your opponents shields and more or less one shot them. They also never miss. What factor of enjoyment this adds to the game, I do not know, and it seems everyone in the community was against pixonic adding this. unfortunately people are either content creators and have to buy everything in the game, or are just so hopelessly addicted that they dont care anymore and buy everything for the sake of it. Getting to my point, even a couple years ago, I COULD recommend this as a fun game, as long as you dont spend money on it. Now it is completely unplayable and unenjoyable unless you are willing to spend TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS a year to keep up with the meta and all the sh*t they are adding. Went from a 10/10 game to a 0/10, and the saddest thing is how easily pixonic could fix this if they got their priorities straight and started listening to the community. Sad to see this happen to a childhood game that used to bring me joy.

As a player of this game with about 700 hours, this may come as a surprise to some people when I say to never download this game. I play(ed) this game so much because of the nostalgia it once had and the great concept design. However the developers have turned this into a money farm operation and ruined a game while ignoring calls from players to fix it over the last years. The one key problem is balance. Every month they release a new robot with a set of weapons that decimates everything else in the playing field. To even worsen it, it is not available to the free to play player for at least a year. Even once its available it takes months to build it! By then it doesn't stand a chance against the current meta of the game! This is coming from you with personal experience, as I. in avail put sums of money into this game and am destroyed by those who have put in even more. This is a game of competing with your wallet size while giving it all away to the developers.

I have been playing this game for years (First on Mobile, then on PC), and it's with no small amount of sadness that I watched it devolve from a well balanced game to absolute Pay-To-Win. After all these years and having spent a huge amount of money, I can confirm that the pay wall is real. Being matched up with people with no skill, but deep, deep pockets, I simply cannot compete. My clan has dwindled as more and more of us became disillusioned and simply quit to move on to other games. It's still fun in the beginning, give it a go, just don't expect to remain competitive without emptying your wallet.

Games great. devs are greedy pigs. everythings p2w you CANNOT compete in the highest league free to play as its full of whales that feed the devs money. do not reccommend for ANYONE. dont feed the devs money there a disgrace to this great game. they release new content thats completely overpowered as in other robots and weapons dont stand ANY chance and get completely obliterated by the people who buy it and in next update nerf those robots and weapons to the ground only to release more OP completely game breaking equipment. For your own sake do not get this game. and if your one of the whales spending money on it allowing the devs to keep this up. shame. absolute shame.

Edit: Almost forgot the cheating issue that nobody seems to give a flying ♥♥♥♥ about LOL

Edit 2: A game i would 100% recommend is armor attack although it hasnt released on steam yet but i guarantee alot of WR players will flock to it, including me lol

Most pay to win game ever created. Matchmaking on mobile is horrible, even worse on steam, be prepared to be matched with people 4 leagues above you. from what I can tell in the 'deals' section some items are shown at 90% discount at $99.99 dollars. So your telling me that item normally cost $999.99? This practice is actually illegal in alot of countries.