Petition for a better War Robots...

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This #WRpetition has been made on behalf of the WR player base and with the help of its YT-Creators. It does not aim at boycotting War Robots, but rather clearly stating problems that need to be urgently addressed.

War Robots, despite all its potential, has been slowly falling apart for years now because of decisions made by its game developers. Pixonic has put short-term sales before the health, longevity and balancing of the game. But this time, our content creators and players are coming together to do something about it. As the ones providing the game with the necessary relevance in player numbers, sales and online-discovery with video content, Pixonic has a responsibility to address issues we raise and guarantee the best possible gaming experience for all of us in return – something they seem to have forgotten. This petition aims to remind them about it and provide a step by step roadmap on how to get back the War Robots we love and the players we lost over the years.

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Unfair features / Paywalls

A game like War Robots lives from a sandbox of free customization and experimentation with technologies and items players earned and unlocked. Currently, this base principle moved behind unfairly designed features and exorbitant prices attached to them to drive revenue that is not at all justified.

Battleship turrets earned by a player cannot be destroyed when removed

Pilot skills cannot reset to Tier 1 when changing to a different skill

Pilots can't require to be fully re-trained when sent to a different robot.

There is no reason why leveling Pilots should require an upgrade token

Break the “Release overpowered / nerf later” cycle!

War Robots requires a change in one very important policy. Things sold for money cannot ever be touched or changed. (e.g. Kestrel Drone) This requires careful consideration of balancing with the release of new content, by doing so increasing variety on the battlefield and allowing players to regain trust into investing in War Robots content. It would break the “release & nerf” cycle and make War Robots a far more enjoyable and widely played game while at the same time creating a lasting incentive for players to buy something they can enjoy for all time.

Only one of the same robots per hangar? This is a point worth of serious consideration, because even if something was more powerful. By eliminating it you could rid the enemy of this power (by coordinated team-play or simply catching it off-guard). But if the player can just keep spawning this same ‘broken’ item. There’s little point to that. It would leave more room for certain items to stand out as a bit more powerful without necessarily upsetting the whole gameplay. That’s why this is also done in War Robots tournaments. This could be one of the single-most important points to discuss.

Ultimate Equipment

ULTIMATE items need to factor in previous player investments in their respective non-ultimate variants and not require to be obtained and leveled from scratch, effectively bypassing all prior spendings in this very unrewarding way. Instead, reward players for their long-standing loyalty to WR by allowing their investment to carry over. Just imagine how valued an “OG-Player” feels when he can start out with an Ultimate item because he was there from the start or also how it can help with the decision to try War Robots again after some time.

At Mk2 /12 players should be able to decide whether they want to upgrade to Mk3 or receive the Mk1 Level 1 Ultimate variant of the item instead.

The option to switch to Ultimate needs to also remain present at Mk3 for an even smaller fee.

Upgrades of any kind should never cost more than 1 upgrade token.

Over-presence of negative effects

Effect carousel in WR. Players passively firing all sorts of effects: Lockdown, Suppression, EMP through built-in weapon effects, active modules, drones and battleships. Playing without Anti-Control is almost impossible and it doesn’t even work against all effects. The game has evolved too much from just “robots shooting robots” even though that’s its core basis.

Negative effects of all sorts should be tuned down instead of coming up with more effects (Track ability of new Pathfinder robot, Bedwyr Taunt, etc)

Shorter durations, lesser effects strength (10-20% suppression, 30% slow instead of lockdown, EMP, Blinding for 2-3 seconds tops

Anti-Control can't cope with the amount of negative effects anymore. Back in the days it may have been able to but no longer. It needs to be buffed tremendously to be able to combat the amount of negative effects that happen nowadays. It needs to cover all of the negative effects and have a much shorter cooldown.

Titans

Unlike Battleships, Titans are robots that actually fit into the game. But their presence however becomes a problem when there’s no significant “Normal robots only-phase” in the beginning. It’s possible to get the titan deployed within 40 seconds of game start.

Maybe there needs to be a safe-period of about 4-5 minutes or 50% beacon cap bar progress or 15 team-robots destroyed in team-deathmatch, etc before Titans can be spawned. Some kind of threshold that ensures a good non-titan battle phase before they’re allowed in.

Impact of Drones, Pilots and Battleships

Drones, Pilots and Battleships provide far too much power and flood the game with too many effects e.g: Lockdown, Suppression, EMP, etc. Without them, a player cannot even compete using a top-end Meta robot. It’s gotten way out of balance. Better example:

Pilot skills +2% firepower, +2% HP, +2% speed. Instead of “Full Ability recharge at 50%” (Deft Survivor example) or +18% Durability and so on.

Same for Drones and Battleships. Only minor bonuses and effects for min-maxing

Of course, drastically changing the performance of content may need to include refund options or some kind of creative compensation.

Trade-off skills are great and should stay! Sacrifice HP for Firepower, or Firepower for Speed, Ability for Traditionalist HP-Boost or Daredevil DMG boost. Those skills are fun and allow further customization of players and their unique playstyles. But maybe also here trade-offs should be equal. Not 3% Firepower for +12% HP. Thats not equal.

War Robots Economy

New content costs so much, most players can't afford it and it is still gated behind loot boxes and gambling. Subjecting children and players to gambling habits should be forbidden in all video games and just because it isn’t for some weird reason doesn’t mean War Robots should adapt it and make it a business practice. That's shameful!

Want to sell something? Let people buy it directly and be fair and upfront about it.

Make it an attractive price that the majority of players could consider. Instead of 100-200$ for example(depending on luck) for a new robot, make it 20-40$ and see how many more people will show interest in buying something.

If (like mentioned above) trust of players sets back in that items won’t be nerfed anymore you can even ask for a bit more for premium content. Players will think about getting it if they know for sure that it won’t be touched or changed. That they can enjoy it for as long as they want.

War Robots economy is made so unrewarding on purpose to incentivise purchases as the only real way to progress. It ties in with the above points. Playing the game should feel rewarding. Don’t make it a chore and such a grind.

Silver payouts for battles should allow your next upgrade even to higher levels after 5-10 matches instead of 50-100

Prices of 50 Million Silver are too high. Using the current rate of player earnings per battle as an example, the upgrade price should never exceed 10M for the most expensive upgrades and 5M for more common upgrades.

Same goes for Gold, Platinum, Components, Memorium, etc

In case something does get changed. Players have a right for compensation, even if TOS and digital goods business allows to somehow weasel out of it. But the truth stands by itself: If something a player has spent money for is changed, he must be compensated. It’s only normal and fair and nothing else should even be considered a business practice.

The Workshop should contain every item in the game instead of purposely not including new content to put it behind paywalls. Maybe players can unlock the basic skin-version of a robot / weapon whereas special edition skins or versions would be sold separately. A player will show that his robot was produced in the workshop. And to stand out more, add a few % of performance to them, the special editions and skins come in and are attractive to be bought.

Hackers

Hackers are way out of control, taking over a large part of the WR experience. There have to be measures taken to ensure competitive gaming without them and a zero tolerance policy against hackers.

Matchmaking & Tanking

Matchmaking & Tanking players need a drastic rework

Deliberately putting players up against more powerful, more spending players to drive sales creates a terrible gaming experience / environment. This needs reworking.

Random player teams should never encounter teams with more than 3 players in a squad.

Squad-Teams with 4 or more should meet teams with 4 or more Squad members, too. This is actually a very important point because it ruins a large amount of potentially fun battles.

Matchmaking should find a way to match hangar power in some way to prevent Tanking. We are aware that there can never be the perfect way to do it but it can sure get a lot better than now.

Performance Fixes and improvements

The overall presence of Lags has increased drastically and reduces the quality of the game. There should be a noticeable effort and improvement made in that area quickly. It makes an otherwise decent game look unrefined or low quality.

Test Server runs badly or not at all. And our balancing opinions have little to no impact. Why not develop content for us with us? Take our concerns seriously and truly use our ideas and suggestions. We have a lot of them and we are very resourceful as a community!

Bugs and glitches need to be addressed VERY quickly. (e.g. Seraph firing through walls, hitbox problems with certain skins, special edition robots not working the same way like Ophion Shields on landing with Quicksand Skin, 4-legged robots getting stuck or slowing down at ramps, accidently too fast cooldowns on an ability like Ochkochi). Bugs and glitches should obviously never be intentional to make better sales! They can happen but need to be dealt with as quickly as possible.

Quality of Life changes, e.g.: “Type in” Filters for filtering pilots, robots, modules, weapons, titans, etc.

10-20 Ad popups when starting WR and more after the first match. You’re better than that, War Robots. You don’t need to slap 10-20 ads on peoples screens and make them click through all of them. Instead, maybe make one very well designed page that lists the most important deals very well and provides more offers for those interested to unfold the window to see more / all of them.

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