Paragon is the first mech you get. The shop allows you to buy Blueprints to upgrade your mechs faster but the Crates will give you random Blueprints as you grind.
2-3 year Mech Arena player here. The game is alright, but there are a good chunk of flaws. Since I'm bored, and I have some time on my hands, here we go. 1. Some of the gear in the game is only obtainable with real money. No, not all of said gear is good. I could list them all, but that'll take another 100 years to list. But for the good ones, some people will complain. The Gear Hub system is shunned by a few due to the costs of just obtaining the better weapons for mid to late game being pretty high, if you were to grind with no credit card involved. So this is a game that takes a good amount of time to progress, however, I reccomend watching a youtuber named Scape211, he's been doing a series where he does an acc fully F2P without grinding the tournament system in the game, which gives massive amounts of a-coins at the cost of your sanity. This is also an issue for later. 2. Crates. A lot of the new content is featured in what the game calls "Event Crate Rushes." These are basically just lootboxes that need you to pull every single item to get the grand prize, unless you're really lucky. Percentages range from just 1%, to 0.1%, and on the most extreme cases, 0.01%-0.08%. Go figure. And if any of these crates come along for in-game currency, do NOT try to pull. If they're not for in-game currency, you're gonna have to cash out your credit card. 3. Matchmaking. It's been crapping itself for a while, which also will be mentioned in the tournament part. Basically, your mechs and weapons have a certain amount of power to it (though it doesn't 100% translate to you having better gear, as some of the gear in epic rarity perform better than some legendary weapons. A couple of these legendary weapons are the Carbine, the Chaingun, and a couple of more. By no means they're unusable; they are, but it takes a tad bit more skill to use.) The current meta's the Storm Rack, with the introduction of Mods, which is basically COD's armor system in a nutshell. There's more to it, but again, I won't spoil. The Storm Rack is a missile weapon that is very efficient at destroying these mods, but you'll see that for yourself. Anyway, matchmaking usually pairs you up with people based on WR, Squad power, and other things. The more rare your gear, the more SP (Squad Power) you get. However, it does NOT translate 100% to a better loadout. 4. Tournament and game fairness. Alright, this is a bit controversial. So, there's this system that a good chunk of the playerbase shuns, the other chunk approves because "it hasn't been patched, or called illegal." It's called tanking/SP dropping. Remember that Squad Power system I mentioned? Well, you have 5 mech slots. What if you maxxed out one mech, so that it amasses a squad power of 1500 by itself? And then load into a match, where you'll be put up against a newbie with 1500 SP distributed among 5 mechs? You win by default, as you'll be one-shotting everything to oblivion. This issue is still being fixed I think, but it is a hard one. And this tanking phenomena most commonly occurs in the tournament side of the game, where you could (if not more) get up to 2000 A-coins assuming you keep getting 1st place in each bracket. However, it is very sweaty. So if you're insane, or have too much time, feel free to grind it. Oh and the top 500 system in this game is also unreliable, because a lot of the top 500s are tankers too. 5. Software issues. The game lags a good chunk of the time, and you could be behind a wall and get killed by a sniper shot. Simple. 6. Bots. It's a 5v5 game, and usually you'll be against 1 real player and 4 bots. Same goes for you, yourself and 4 bots. Now these bots are random, they can be very dumb, to the most broken thing in the match. It's an issue that happens a tad bit consistent after you win a lot of matches. So you could get a bot that dominates and gets 7 kill in one match, the next you'll get bots with only 1-2 kills. You're gonna be quite upset when that happens. Not saying a full 5 reals vs 5 reals is impossible, it's just kind of rare to occurr. However, if you're a casual player like me, and just meme the game while playing for fun, experimenting with builds and things that aren't legendary, patient in progressing, and not care about the expensive items, you will have fun. Creativity in builds and having fun is what I prefer to do in this game. Anyways, on that note, I'll be off. And another tip, buy Stalker. It's a mech I main, and people would say it's not too good because of it's fragility late-game, but it can boost it's dmg by 50% with its ability, 80% after implants (you'll learn implants and pilots later,)
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Paragon is the first mech you get. The shop allows you to buy Blueprints to upgrade your mechs faster but the Crates will give you random Blueprints as you grind.
Thank you so much for the help.
2-3 year Mech Arena player here. The game is alright, but there are a good chunk of flaws. Since I'm bored, and I have some time on my hands, here we go.
1. Some of the gear in the game is only obtainable with real money. No, not all of said gear is good. I could list them all, but that'll take another 100 years to list. But for the good ones, some people will complain. The Gear Hub system is shunned by a few due to the costs of just obtaining the better weapons for mid to late game being pretty high, if you were to grind with no credit card involved. So this is a game that takes a good amount of time to progress, however, I reccomend watching a youtuber named Scape211, he's been doing a series where he does an acc fully F2P without grinding the tournament system in the game, which gives massive amounts of a-coins at the cost of your sanity. This is also an issue for later.
2. Crates. A lot of the new content is featured in what the game calls "Event Crate Rushes." These are basically just lootboxes that need you to pull every single item to get the grand prize, unless you're really lucky. Percentages range from just 1%, to 0.1%, and on the most extreme cases, 0.01%-0.08%. Go figure. And if any of these crates come along for in-game currency, do NOT try to pull. If they're not for in-game currency, you're gonna have to cash out your credit card.
3. Matchmaking. It's been crapping itself for a while, which also will be mentioned in the tournament part. Basically, your mechs and weapons have a certain amount of power to it (though it doesn't 100% translate to you having better gear, as some of the gear in epic rarity perform better than some legendary weapons. A couple of these legendary weapons are the Carbine, the Chaingun, and a couple of more. By no means they're unusable; they are, but it takes a tad bit more skill to use.) The current meta's the Storm Rack, with the introduction of Mods, which is basically COD's armor system in a nutshell. There's more to it, but again, I won't spoil. The Storm Rack is a missile weapon that is very efficient at destroying these mods, but you'll see that for yourself. Anyway, matchmaking usually pairs you up with people based on WR, Squad power, and other things. The more rare your gear, the more SP (Squad Power) you get. However, it does NOT translate 100% to a better loadout.
4. Tournament and game fairness. Alright, this is a bit controversial. So, there's this system that a good chunk of the playerbase shuns, the other chunk approves because "it hasn't been patched, or called illegal." It's called tanking/SP dropping. Remember that Squad Power system I mentioned? Well, you have 5 mech slots. What if you maxxed out one mech, so that it amasses a squad power of 1500 by itself? And then load into a match, where you'll be put up against a newbie with 1500 SP distributed among 5 mechs? You win by default, as you'll be one-shotting everything to oblivion. This issue is still being fixed I think, but it is a hard one. And this tanking phenomena most commonly occurs in the tournament side of the game, where you could (if not more) get up to 2000 A-coins assuming you keep getting 1st place in each bracket. However, it is very sweaty. So if you're insane, or have too much time, feel free to grind it. Oh and the top 500 system in this game is also unreliable, because a lot of the top 500s are tankers too.
5. Software issues. The game lags a good chunk of the time, and you could be behind a wall and get killed by a sniper shot. Simple.
6. Bots. It's a 5v5 game, and usually you'll be against 1 real player and 4 bots. Same goes for you, yourself and 4 bots. Now these bots are random, they can be very dumb, to the most broken thing in the match. It's an issue that happens a tad bit consistent after you win a lot of matches. So you could get a bot that dominates and gets 7 kill in one match, the next you'll get bots with only 1-2 kills. You're gonna be quite upset when that happens. Not saying a full 5 reals vs 5 reals is impossible, it's just kind of rare to occurr.
However, if you're a casual player like me, and just meme the game while playing for fun, experimenting with builds and things that aren't legendary, patient in progressing, and not care about the expensive items, you will have fun. Creativity in builds and having fun is what I prefer to do in this game.
Anyways, on that note, I'll be off. And another tip, buy Stalker. It's a mech I main, and people would say it's not too good because of it's fragility late-game, but it can boost it's dmg by 50% with its ability, 80% after implants (you'll learn implants and pilots later,)
That's great thank you so much for being so kind il have a look at all that. Thanks again for the advice.