so my hey guys so she wasn't here welcome back to another thursday stream where yes we'll be obviously covering the news but uh talking a bit as well about some things that sort of come out of last week a bit of like i said news as well that's separate from the newsletter we always go through so uh we'll be talking about the five-star poll and sort of giving my opinions on the bots that are in there and maybe talk about some bots that are missing should they be in there why would not in there uh talk a bit about the five-star poll uh we also gonna be talking about the new war effects that hit literally today uh or yesterday depending on where you are in the world uh but yeah uh super pumped about them been looking forward to these for ages we'll talk about the sort of uh play testing behind it how we came to these effects and the uh the process behind it so yeah we'll talk a bit about that uh but first of all obviously let's see who we've got in the chat so we've got stay puft who was first in the chat thanks for joining in one of our members as well uh grad time a lot of our members and uh make sure you go check out grand times channel guys as always uh we've got wind played plenty of members in the chat today we've got uh esclajos here we've got chris trodden we've got penny lancaster we've got matt paul how's it going we've got risky and of our members thanks for being a member uh william wilkinson we've got carnage mac aight we've got a virtual vf1j what what does the vf1j stand for just out of interest so now i've always puzzled me uh we've got joseph trillo we've got uh jason rollers we've got a roly poly brothers in the house uh thank you soldier for being a 12 month member thanks uh and don't forget guys go check out soldier's channel well we're trying to get soldier on the channel i think he's the last of the content creators to get on the channel i'm pretty sure so i'd be uh interested to get him on yeah uh thanks for being a member uh there we've got silverbot 94 one of our moderators cheers for joining us as well bud uh we've got generic we've got volcanicus i think that is everyone in the chat yes so let's jump straight into this week's newsletter so bowie grana weep ninibong and this week's event as per the thumbnail is crypto technology so a bit of a chilled out event after uh last week so it's a five times 500 000 troop xp five gold power calls 20 million alloy and energon 75k spark 125 k combine spark 75k combat spark 25k uh premium shots 7 500 3 star shards 2504 star shots and a partridge in a pear tree uh and yeah 20k event super xp pretty shield individual events uh battle zones as normal and you've got to think so just looking back on this day second a minute so again it's a little bit of an indicator why have we got 75 000 spark 75 000 combat back and 125 000 combine us back why we'll combine us back who knows maybe it's because something's coming through combiners obviously way we all know it's coming we're not daft are we we're not daft we know we're not stupid so yeah uh yeah the rewards are spaced out as per usual yeah 10 million i saw 10 million as like 10 million what energon yeah not gonna lie we've seen 10 million is that 10 million shards i'll take 10 million four star shots no it's 10 million energon sadly but yeah not bad rewards the only thing i'll be a bit critical of is why they got three star shards that's the last reward just kind of stopped there but 70k i'm not really fussed about the rest really 25 gigabytes back it's all right i'll just stop there yeah 17k but yeah cool uh game updates and information so this thursday our new season will be kicking off the new battle pass has dropped today uh so yeah it's a four week battle pass so the points have dropped uh there's a couple of things that i want to sort of uh you know that to look at which i'll talk about in a second after going through this um but yeah we've got to go obviously got the free-to-play uh section on the left there which is still pretty good free to play let's be honest and then you've got the uh pay-to-play uh right-hand side uh and it's pretty much got the normal uh reward but this time obviously we've got five star shards so last event was combat shards this one now is five star shots and uh 1 500 is nothing to be sniffed at really good uh amount of five star shots really good really good um probably the best value in the game other than the the uh start i wonder i mean the startup one looks crazy outside of that this is the best value in the in the game guys without a doubt um the only thing i'll be critical of this and i i get that it's a four-week event sort of shortened it but some of the uh tasks that they give you some of the things but that are still quite long so for example uh win 400 battles now on a six week saga easy on a five weeks ago it's not too bad on a four week saga it's maybe pushing it a bit i mean we have got a big event at the end of the month but i mean i'm not talking from top level players i'm talking sort of like you know sometimes you know mid to low level players even you know 400 battles it's quite a lot of battles but hey we'll have to wait and see i passed it on to higher or saying this is like a dude and doing 350 maybe just lower a bit you know help of help brother out but we'll see uh and then onto the new bots so we have got the new box ah g2 silver not a big fan of the colours i don't like these g2 but then look at ramjar ramjot ramjet look at ramjet he look looks awesome ramjet looks a beast silver looks like ronald mcdonald so yeah not a big fan of that but uh i haven't got them in testing yet not even tried them so i can't even comment on the abilities but let's be honest i think they're gonna be a jet of some kind so it will be pretty cool uh and then what effects have just come in to prime league and cyber so uh the mds effects uh just for prime league are uh 10 hp and dps that's standard in prime league regardless uh we've got uh the plasma cannon gives 25 additional hp for beam lasers and missile launchers the laser gun mds defenses explode dealing five times their dps upon death and then the mds minigun uh 15 attack speed and range for cannons mortars and laser turrets so that's prime league so you will if you get to prime league you will get either two or three of those mds's now don't try and run two it doesn't stack so you can't have say two laser guns and other sort of defenses explode dealing 10 times it doesn't work like guys if you have two laser guns you only get the advantage of one so try and use two different uh mds settings uh in your base setup uh and personally i would go for laser gun and mini gun i wouldn't go for plasma plasma was very old p in the uh last effects on the one before that this time around they said this and plasma sort of had its day then now we're gonna go to the other two and see how they go um but plasma cannon 25 additional hp for beating laser missile launchers missile launchers have kind of had their day in the last few effects not you know very prominent i don't really consider taking them out it's honestly off they're not that big a deal beam lasers uh easy ways round beam lasers but you know explosion defense is five times a dps that's a lot of damage to your bots uh and then attack speed and range for canon's motors and turrets uh that could be huge as well so uh i would definitely go with mitigate and laser gun so then on top of that that's prime league so you've got the 10 hp and dps and then you've got the what the two settings from the mds then the hard mode settings on top of that you've got an extra 20 hp dps so altogether it's 30 hp and dps when you take hard mode into consideration outpost combiner has 100 more hp these combiners are hard to take down don't take unlikely be wary if you are doing a sack where you're battling these combiners because they do take a while to get down guys and also the big one defenses heal for 30 of the damage dealt that is dangerous guys that is super dangerous and we'll talk about more about these effects in game we'll go through them and i'll explain why they're so hard and uh some things you can sort of do to maybe help you get through these walls and uh you know challenge for some decent points and you know and hopefully get past your bases so yeah uh community corner oh grandson just told me that those are these new cyboskins not the new bots oh well well i'll be using them then i could do with the new jet it's honestly yeah uh better than jet fire but uh yeah i'm not too fussed uh so yeah we've got a chilly tiana i'm a bit like there but you know what that's actually pretty decent that's such a pretty cool driving of space uh yeah i like it pretty cool i've gotta lie um they've got a couple of drawings as well and then we've got week one out of a four week saga so this week is obviously the uh but xp event nice and chilled um and then we've got the anniversary event next week it does say one mil but i believe it might be getting reduced i think uh why did the anniversary event last year it was super easy and the idea was that you'll complete the event and go and jump out and help someone and everyone was sort of jumping in helping everyone else get these uh new combats well new bots last year so it's a five-star bot looking up last year this year they're giving out a five-star combat from uh batches one to three it's totally random out of one to three you can't pick before anyone asks is just random out of one to three no the new batch is not in there just one to three um but yeah it was super cool it was cool to go and help people out and go and jump in and jump out relaxes and it's just good to know that you're helping people it's a bit hard sometimes we're doing a one million point event but um you know if they lower it like you know two three four hundred k and uh that could help um and yeah a few people in the chat is saying they believe it's been dropped to 300k um yeah that's a good that's a good amount that will be done by day one we can go and help other people out so uh yeah but don't forget guys if you're an alliance and you don't think you're gonna get it get on the discord get on the transformers earth wars discord you don't have to be at vip to get in there go and join the discord and go and put your alliance in there and people are going to be jumping and jumping out and you'll be surprised at how quick it fills out because you've got to think that you're going to have hundreds thousands of people trying to find a bit of xp go and help people out uh most alliances only have a few spots most fans will be full that are going to get it and those that don't will have spots so make sure you've got a few spots full so um yeah uh looking forward to anniversary event random five-star combat and alaba a new combat to pull as well so gonna be interesting point two five star crystals uh on that anniversary event and as always we'll be giving some sunstreaker wasn't crystals away we'll be doing polls so excited for that then we've got a uh individual total out of prestigious for prime course shards i'm saving my prank card shots up uh that was 25 prestiges for 20k and then at the end we've got new bots five star shards new crystals not too sure what's going to be uh they've not said it's going to be a chance event i don't think they've noticed there's going to be a leaderboard so i'm not too sure it maybe you score 1.5 million points and you get the 4 star but who knows hey i'm just spitballing but we don't know yet but it's new bots five-star shards as always that's cool and new crystals so looking forward to that uh and then the following bug fixes have happened so uh later artemis and amanda megatron can now uh hit billbots until oh sorry well i think it's target buildbots i think but anyway they hit billboards now which is pretty good and uh elimination mode there was an issue because of extended to monday sunday there was an issue where they failed on sunday but that has now been fixed cool okay let's go into the game i apologize coffee guard just getting over a cold uh if you join my monday stream uh you'll have seen that i was a bit rough uh but yeah don't forget guys i have so i've set up start doing a monday stream so the idea behind the monday stream is listen on a monday night i'm doing my titan xp i'm doing some zen farming i can do some wars whatever i'm doing not then basically i'm gonna stream and let you guys sort of watch for an hour or so whatever it is but you can come along ask any questions we can talk about anything we should talk about anything that's been earth was related to like i was even talking about my dad on monday stream so yeah listen you can come along and talk about anything pretty much uh but you've got any questions uh you want to ask me you can come and join on monday like i said it's just something to do while you're pouring around whatever or driving home for work whatever like i said but i thought i'd see you on one day just to you know keep you guys in the loop something entertaining and just while i'm playing along you can join me um but we're still doing thursday stream first thing said what you're quitting thursdays no no we're still doing thursday streams just uh i used to do sunday it was quite hard to do sundays because by sunday the events winding down you used all your selves not much to do pretty boring you can't do zen on sundays really if you're still doing the event so it was very slow paced so the idea is um monday that's the idea uh and grand that's what i've got a i know the question is i know what the question is before you even ask you do not need to ask okay cool so uh first off the bar i'm just going to get that it's just in my head and it's not so much a goddamn thing uh so first off the bat so let's talk about the effects and sort of play test and how we sort of started off so how it all started was uh we've about a lot of complaints from um from higher players basically saying uh listen walls need to be harder the bit easier people are scoring this 12k and we're measuring wars on the few mistakes people have made and everyone's pretty much scores 300. uh and we've sort of discussed this and the idea was in the last uh set of war effects that was the aim but it failed miserably really failed miserably um and so they've probably dedicated i think he got a lot of complaints about the last of our effects uh the protesters thought it would be hard enough it wasn't by any means they were far too easy actually even went backwards from the previous effects so look most of the communities have got this this is far too easy so the apes are gone right listen two things one you want this harder fine but you keep going about this extreme difficulty so they're going to bring out some sort of tournament for the top teams if it works well they said they might extend it but we're sort of like a bit of a testing ground in a minute so i know some people have said it's not fair that only the top teams are doing this but we're kind of the guinea pigs in this really and then they'll see how it goes and maybe extend it past that but i believe that's going to be like super crazy effects uh i gave a few ideas to dale today not sure if they're doable but a couple of the ideas i said we talked about maybe a reduced battle timer of only three minutes rather three and a half minutes but my personal idea to make it super hard was have the current effects of in game now but take away prime cause i know even saying it i was like i can't believe i'm saying this dale i can't live much like saying this but if you want to make it super hard for me just take away prime course no my cronus no alpha try on no quinces oh a disgusting but listen if they want to make it super hard for me that would make it super hard that and a reduced battle timer ouch that'd be hard hey they could take away combats if you wanted to imagine imagine imagine going back to 2016-17 with no combats listen like i said you know what i mean like it's anything they could do really it's endless in this tournament and it'd be interesting to see where they go with that but in the meantime we did need harder war effects and at the start we were sort of pushing for extreme effects and the apes said no no listen we don't want these extreme effects in wars in the game too many people get really frustrated with it it does need to be harder it should be challenging but not crazy hard and they said right what i want to do is we want you to go and basically um fight the wars with a four-star combiner you should still be able to be competitive with a four-star combiner you shouldn't need omega to be successful now my my answer to that my reaction to that was simply yeah but we're still facing omega on defense when we do this test so that's not fair on that side and two people are going to use omega omega is a part of the game now whether it's overpowered or not which is you know is because of you guys and you guys need to balance that sadly you know that's the way things go but that's the way they want to test it so we did test it uh i think i scored um a 300 omega couple times i think i scored a 280 i think before that i was i've messed up on the first iteration uh but that was really really hard and then on the last one i think i used a four stack and buying i think i scored like 230. it was difficult in these current effects uh but then there's something weird i'm not sure it's a book or something but it actually showed i went easy on the last two effects i was like listen i dropped points but i didn't go easy i haven't gone easy for the last three years or something i did not go either but it showed either but i've seen that bug somewhere else before but but yeah i think it would have worked out if the points would have been dropped i think it would have worked out two five five i dropped on the commander in the fourth base once each so you know makes sense but uh yeah you know go for the effects but personally i'm pretty happy with it we had a uh we had a uh fight with uh powell today uh like 100 points in it both finished around 11k so we dropped a thousand points each and that's what it should be you know it shouldn't be difficult to the point where everyone's flaming out on base one but we should be dropping points if we're not careful if we don't consider something and you know what one of the good things was in the side chat sometimes you could sort of wake up in the morning and you missed 10 15 messages maybe and someone's talking about a film they've seen or something there's not much in there where's the day people were like oh should i put this box let's just swap this out uh maybe i've just two tanks maybe just do this maybe put extra gunner in maybe drop healer maybe use tracks what's doing this space and it was good sort of see those interactions talk about bass design and talk about which bots to use and you know we've not seen that for quite a while and that was good the people were dropping points and asking for a bit of advice and there's a bit of an interaction between the alliance so uh was good to see that like i said and uh yeah it was a pretty good okay so like i said we uh talked about the effects so the big thing that we're seeing uh at the minute is uh this sort of setup with the uh shield generator with the two mds side by side with g-metal self-repairs and um we'll do a bit of a jigging round and i'll show you why people are doing this so the idea behind doing this is you've got the mds so the mds are 6700 hp to be an idea then you've got uh the 30 hp increase from um the effects from the uh pram league and the um hard mode effects so a third of that is around 2 200 so we'll call it 9k we'll round it up to 9k just for simple maths so the mds is now at 9k so what bot could do 9k damage so you could say c spray so c spray will do a decent amount of damage so just to give you an idea what we're going to do is i'm going to take this away like this we're going to undo this core let's just give you an idea on what this setup does let's put a bit of a bit of game sound on i know we can hear the sound or not should be able to hopefully i think i fixed the issue okay but i'm proudly put on high mode away we go cool could hear the sound good okay so this is before people sort of cottoned on to having uh the uh repair calls on the mds this stuff people sort of started off so you can see there we've got no uh anti-stun build bops we've got c spray [ __ ] spray down there i've got a sword i'll talk that off there you go c spray nice and easy nicer chilled one shot okay now we've got the mds with a repair core next to the shield all of a sudden hey a one shot now it's a two shot so you know it's a bit harder you know next to the shield jen adds a bit of protection to it but then what happens when we add in an anti-stonker let's move this out of the way a minute oh i've got one equipped somewhere let's try and find it it's like a quiz try and find it okay somewhere got that one on it it's that one right behind where the combined rock pulse is i've just put obviously there we go and you had the one somewhere i did but hey cool so now i've got that stunker behind it let's see what happens now put in c spray into hard mode so now we've got the mds with a repair core we've got a shield jet on top and now we've got an anti-stun core as well just to make it a bit harder so what we'll do just to reiterate what the anti-stone core does so it protects nearby buildings from emp effect and blocks five percent of e electric damage which includes c spray so now if we use c sprays you saw there it was one shot mds on its own two shot wow it's got a repair core and under the mds now we do this shot two shot and you can see there look look all the mds is repairing itself three shots four shots basically the mds is just immune just immune to c-spray and what makes it even worse is because the defenses heal for what damage they do once they lock onto a target they're even harder to kill once they lock onto a target they are pretty much invulnerable with the self-report repair core that heals with the shield gen which produces damage taken with the uh anti-stone core that reduces damage taken with the healing from the damaged dell they are pretty much impossible so how do you take these out it's pretty simple to be honest guys but it does take ability points that is the problem so all we need to do is because we're stacking these things up we've got to take them out the equation so how can you get rid of the seal gen jet fire and a boost will take that out pretty much with the tech tree part lightning rod again jet fire will take that out so we could use jet fire twice to take that out c spray run through so let's put ship fire in there if you can find them now obviously normally silver would work but not in this case because of the anti-stun if you've got uh jet fire and you've got um silver bolt then yeah you could use jet fires take out the build bot cell bolts take out the shield gen but the problem is there as well is you've got to take that shield gen out before the mds locks onto something because once locks on something it's almost impossible anyway you know so you've got it still bought in these effects maybe not the best all that shield just right on the back it's unprotected in that case then maybe no explosion is it a glitch no it's not a glitch it's just the effect stacking the effects of self-repair the effects of protection from the shield generator the effects of protection from the billboard the repair from the target in uh uh bots and damaged out so let's put jetby down here take out the build bot first we'll drop c spray i see how we're doing now and even now you can see that even now we're struggling so the problem there is what i've done is is i looked at my base i thought this is how i would do it so i'll just put anti-air everywhere you can see it everywhere it's killing my own stream but yeah i put anti-air everywhere on my base that is what i've done for a simple reason to stop jets but we'll take them away for a time being just to help us it's gonna be an awful base by time we're finished let's try again guys silverbot 94's put i dropped points because the situation yep added the same on the test server like i said the first time that i saw this i thought yeah i think i would see spray i just hit it like three times like what is going on i want a boost as well but i don't mind and jet fire is still taking damage as well so it's not like we're just going to waste a bit of points but there you go so like i said there are ways to sort of take out these structures there are ways that you can think you know to get around these things that we've said time and time and time again that in terms of these billboards take them out it's no longer a problem but it's going to cost you ability points that's the point what's what makes it harder is that now you got to consider these billbots and take them out guys that's all you got to do you can still use tracks tracks is still as usable trust me in testing everyone's using tracks in this effect take the fft out for as cheap as possible as you can and just use tracks someone in a gold league something said yeah i just use smokescreen take them out that's not viable in prime league they're too much hp they've got like four and a half thousand hp it takes two shots bit expensive um but listen if that's why you want to take them out just take them out guys take the ffd out first you can use tracks take out the anti-stun uh you can use uh bubble bee or c-spray take out the anti-hack you can use blades still these things are still apparent you know there's ways around these so yeah um but yeah a lot of elixir in the chat i love my auntie air save but don't forget by using anti-air you do lose something you lose that attack on the ground but in these effects you don't so let's just do something let's just uh just do something so this laser turret does 358 damage now in these effects uh defenses um will explode doing damage to five times their dps so a laser turret will do about 1700 damage cannon will do about 1 000 damage when it explodes the mds will do around four and a half k so yeah a lot of damage the mds beam laser will do about 2k damage anti-air another 4k and you've got four of these so although you lose something on the ground you're gaining 4k of damage and if you put these in a bit of a kill box along with the mds and you put four of these you've got 4 8 12 16 20 24 k damage and so again guys i'd love to take these out as soon as you can so okay we're going to take the build bots out and we're going to take the shield gent out be careful the mds because they hit you they're just going to heal up again be careful for anti-air then you've got the mortars they've got extended range and fire twice as much which means they've got double dps pretty much so you've got so many things to think about that beam lasers of a sudden ah a problem did you get problem with the beam laser throw some minions at it throw look at it do away with it it's gone yeah it won't hit your bots for quite a while john's your little tip guys stay with the titan yeah if your titan loses throw minions at it throw rook at it the titan will hit that minion for a good 30 seconds because you gotta think the titan does one at one attack and weights then does one attack then wait by that time rox hollow is just sat there waiting you know the minions are doing damage taking the hits you know they work really efficiently don't worry about the titan too much don't worry about beam lasers too much the killers are cannons with high velocity because they go right through to your healers the killers are turrets and anti-air that's the g metal obviously mds once at close range please don't forget guys no one's really using plasma but someone uses plasma buzzing brilliant it means they've even lost uh the exploding buildings of a healing i'm fine with that fine with that that makes it tons easier so i doubt anyone's gonna be using plasma so they can't shoot even range you gotta think the mds has just a short range no it's not too bad yeah okay it's not a short range but you get what i'm saying you can take it out quite easily with someone yeah warpath will take out this build bot and the steel gen and do damage online as well if you want a combat warpath use some heathen build bots so you could have an anti-stone billboard you got a couple of healing build bots all of a sudden you can't use warpath what's that gonna do all of a sudden you could use blades but hey they might have the defenses spaced out then you might have two ffds it's stupid to take them out there's only two of them probably one on each side of the base take one out use tracks on that side eventually take the one out use tracks either side again this is what i've been saying for ages guys these create a choice and it creates openings you can't use them all it's impossible i've tried and i've like yeah i want two of them and two of them and one of them and four of them maybe and everything i try it leaves me open i don't like that you know that's how it should be there should be one defense that's good for everything and i like these war effects i like the exploding buildings because it makes you also think that maybe you want less tanks on because if you've got three tanks and two healers two healers cannot heal three tanks so they're only ever healing two tanks so one tank is gonna take some hits then they switch to that one and all of a sudden you've got one tank getting here then you switch to that one then you've got another tank not getting hit so i think people start going towards having two tanks rather than three again these are all sort of processes you gotta think about now because exploding buildings you don't want as many frontline bots you want more gunners that are gonna sit back that aren't gonna get hit by these exploding buildings we've used glitch with this kind of rage you're getting hit by much but with glitch that causes passing issues this is where it goes guys for every solution it's the kind of problem you've got to deal with i like that again i like the idea behind this i think these effects are really well thought out i think they're well balanced they are hard and don't be scared of going easy guys don't be scared of going easy mode quite a few guys in silent easy mode in the in the last war we had against powell you know there's nothing to be ashamed of these effects are hard and that's the point of it is that you should be able to go hard on some bases and some look and go no this one i don't think i could do this one hard i'm gonna go easy for this one the next one with the commander hey listen the commander's base might work for you and you might think you know what i've got to take this out this one down i think this one's doable you know you know don't be scared to go uneasy guys and don't be scared submitting that this space is a bit too hard for you guarantee the points if you flame out on base two you're gonna lose a lot of points if you play them out on base two you're talking 250 points you've dropped if you go easy on base two you probably just dropped what 20 points you know that ways okay right what we're gonna do now is i'm gonna show you some of my war attacks so let's just throw it to um into the game and i i'm gonna get a drink be right back it's like i never left i've been drinking a bit of smoothies recently trying to go in a bit of a detox not a diet but you're drinking a lot of fizzy pop recently and it's cut down and too much beer as well so as you can see from these effects this is my live server account so as you can see as i said uh anti-air i've only got one um self repair the other one gmat wasn't armor took that off i would rather have a gold self repair than a g metal armor that's how overpowered these uh self-repair cores are right now so yep all around the uh shield gen uh and i've actually got a healing core there but i'll probably put um two anti-stone cores i think maybe there maybe i'm still a bit undecided but uh yeah but we've got some war attacks for you guys uh this should be saved i think let's have a look so obviously i didn't say base five one it didn't go too well and one the replay was awful way off i know replays off sometimes but i've won it with one gunner and two healers and my combiner got hacked at the last minute and just saved me actually saved me around the box getting his hat because it got hot and then died so i didn't get hot by competron the replay showed me getting hacked so yeah so here we go so uh typical base so again we've used c spray so the idea behind this is we're trying to take this section out here so we can path a bit to the left uh you see there that there's no uh it's one this one's a stone core there which will cut his damage down to five percent but you can still get through these um it's still worth it you know it's quite expensive but again we can get through that's where i broke brought smokescreen trying to get through so you can see there we've puffed the box to go left the idea was we'll drop the minion there so pop and then they'll meet round here that was the idea but it doesn't work like that always blaster goes that way around and that drags smokey that way but bots are still all together this worried me a bit with small screen um and tantra popping out we've used titan they started doing some damage over there but it didn't really hurt the mds got self-repair on so i don't know why we're doing that so now the minions have attacked up here pop the combiner that's actually helped me out a bit as the hack come down we drop omega and again the idea is to take this right and side up with omega keep focusing on this right hand side take this out again focus on the md as you can see that's ticking ages there to kill because of that healing but it is going slow but surely then we use the five star ability combiner is almost down i think it was about a third of the health by the time i finished it i think yeah even lower than that there we go small screen kills there but we left this target there but it's only block that comes out so we're all right and then we finish it with a full squad by the end so pathing didn't work entirely right and again like i said the reason doesn't work because it's a small stream because of glitch you know glitch makes your bass your box path differently because they sit further back so they prioritize differently so it's harder to path but face down you see chips can't beat my titan there because using titan beams on the base and you should find that that if you're using uh your abilities only with titan your titan should win if using it on the base you'll probably lose so just keep that in mind guys and then next replay then we're on to base two and here we go a typical layout we see quite a bit so again we've used jet fire to take out the anti-stun billboard because uh that mds could be a problem but we're gonna take all this section out here again there's some anti-air there so we're a bit wary of that so we're gonna try and hit that as best we can get rid of it before it hits our bots so the mgs has started hitting targets so we don't use abilities really on that as much um just try to take out naturally if we can that comes down then we drop omega on this side do you want to pass the bots upwards if we can so i'll take that nds oh ways target the mds i always tighten mds it's the one thing that i really should have to take out with abilities so it's the number one focus for me you use tracks a lot and you want to take out the ffd cause then on the billboards that's up to you firstly um you know i'll focus on the uh mps so the bots drop there the idea is to pass these upwards now so you can see we've played a section out here but as always thoughts start to pass differently i thought they could find a vlog over here about the combiner there but he's not he's walk this way around again so we've got um rat trap on laser optimus so we'll use later optimus in this sense to take out the uh stun tower late afternoon walks off down there obviously but this point here the cannons ain't gonna do much because they're not nice to put close to them out so this is my worry it's not really a worry too much but if the titan starts winning along with this it could cause a problem to want to take this out so we should see spray do some damage up there again huge amount of damage from c spray because there's no anti-stone coal anything like that and there we go easy base down squad all intact super scott asks why is it called crypto technology i'm not too sure i could not tell you does that make any skywarp more important than uh but the problem is because of four-star skywarp uh night raven he doesn't do damage the same as five-star so he still won't take out some you know yeah we'll do four two thousand damage to her thank you so yeah i suppose you could but he's gonna take out the shield gen you know the shield again jenna's got a crazy health so you know six thousand health can not reverend do six thousand health damage maybe maybe don't know okay next replay let's go let's go let's go there what's up base two he was on it space three now that basically i'm intrigued now see that was basically this is basically i don't know it's basically so again using jet fire to take out the uh billboard using the take out the anti hack build bot uh this has got a lot of cannons a lot of turrets and beam loads in this area here so we're gonna use just to weaken the mds uh do some damage a bit of a kill box area there so hit it a couple of times there take out the mds now it's that damage done to it looks hollow should distract that long enough and if it explodes it'll do enough damage to take all that out there we go tower goes down because the damage is well he's takeout and reason to get this out with jet fire this particular uh structure it's not because it it's in trouble or i'm worried about it it's because i want my box to take this out and get around this wall as fast as possible i don't want them going up here and be getting stuck on walls things like that uh i wanted to get out so shoot up the wall and then walk around try and keep them together that's the idea this section here i'm out of mexico the problem was getting hit on my uh by the mortar i was doing tons of damage so usually the ottomans to get around that if you've got a sort of situation guys sometimes we just get stuck on something just clear out whatever's causing the damage guys no matter what it is get rid of it but we passed them all around there now so it's a good path in kept the inside walls intact that's perfect drop some minions to pop the uh combined outpost on the outpost and then once again as always once the hack gets dropped so always wait till it goes about three quarters way through guys and then pop your combiner i have seen a bug sometimes where it will go one place and then we'll hit your combiner so i always wait until actually the hit hack is just about to drop or just drops before i um do that uh i use my titan under titan on this one because i didn't really need to take it out we passed it really well so i could focus on that and then focus on at the end just help in taking out the um opposite combiner but listen three defenses four defenses left shield gen almost down let's be honest and these bots are at low health so it's a easy win once path right it's an easy win there you go shield gent down full team intact and then on to base five i'm too old for this okay we see it's designed quite a bit the problem bit is this beam light up here in this um this outpost so i made a point of making sure i took this out uh with c spray uh there's no uh anti-stun so c spray will do loads of damage here but uh the bots get attracted to this beam laser pop the elbows and they start traveling upwards and cargo masses split so you want to get rid of that beam laser as a priority pop this outpost when you want to so again we've passed through the base we've got i think when he goes through the wall we've gone through the walls regardless because we're battling close to them through top shot elite today take it out that's fine then we throw some minions off that way to pop that out poles because we want to try and distract this here so we throw the minions up there pop the l pulse to strap that and then looking up actually pop the combiner as well i didn't think that would happen but hey we're looking so the hat was up there but we're still gonna pop omega the reason is that once this combiner starts to walk down our bot's gonna start to walk upwards leaving his seventy behind and these mortars are a killer especially with you know either incendiary or target protocol on you don't want them hitting your bottom behind target protocol will hit your healers regardless and gunners but in cinder it will hit them obviously just because behind them simple their name is bots because everyone's walking upwards so i wanted to take that out make a point of taking that out before my bots are getting hit from behind i want all the damage coming in front of them i don't want my heels get hit from behind that's when problems start to you know arise really so they've passed round there so we've dropped uh we've used chromia on this attack um and using a tower because they don't anti-stone calls again we've switched some bots out we've uh took blades out completely put chromia in i was gonna tuck tape put b in but i was worried about the outpost and combiner uh so i thought i'm gonna try chromium because she does stay ranged so uh yeah come here works pretty good let's see what you see there chromia on attack he saw it here first base four down you know no bots left they're lost now listen don't make out like that because if you play didn't lose a bar it wasn't hard guys in the recent and grand tower backed me up in the recent sort of uh effects we had i was challenging myself how many points i can finish a battle with and half a time i was finishing with 40 points to the point where one of my side members was like please stop posting them it's annoy you yeah because i finished 40 points finishing 40 points and sometimes going that's the hard pace i finished 26 points left over 26 points left over not even used you know but these effects now i'm using every point every single point i'm using because they're difficult and they should be it's called hard mode for a reason guys so like i said be wary of this shield gen and mds uh if it is take out the shield gem first guys take out any build bots that are uh protecting it warpath is a great bot for that um i said jet fire or someone that can one shot take a build box he's a good option the more the better be wary of anti-air in terms of your um jets if you are using them be wary of them for doing stupid amounts of damage as well same as the mds so good effects guys uh but as always guys listen i mean every monday movie thursday if you stuck on something you can hit me up if you're a member i have a thing where you know you can hit me up whenever i say listen if you're a member you can hit me up and say listen i'm struggling on this base these are my bots can you give me a solution can you give me a course of action i know i'll try and advise you you know it's a bit difficult if you're at lower leagues because i'm not too sure what can one shot you a better idea than me but i get the idea the base i can show you the path in instructions to take out if you what if you can uh and give you some advice how to attack it that's what i do for my members so if you remember uh hit me up if you're a platinum member they can you could literally book in with me at any point uh that i'm available and i will let you sit there for an hour with you and go through your box i'll go through your combats go through your war attacks whatever you want so if you're a platinum member guys you have that at your disposal uh a few members have used in the past not everyone but listen it's there to be used guys you're paying for that service so you might as well use it so if you want any advice in your box are you struggling walls anything like that and you're a platinum member hit your guys booking if you're a normal member just hit me up with dm i will also always answer in dms especially if you're a member like i said and i'll give you some advice so we should hit you up uh grinds has asked to do a live war attack we can do and then we'll look at the uh the five-star poll penny lancaster's put they need to up the points the max points from forte there's so many buildings i disagree i think it's all right okay so the first thing i'm looking at guys is the billboard so i've got a healing billboard down here but it's only bro bronze healing billboard we've got a uh anti uh trax core there uh and two anti uh we've got two healing b boats there so we'll try and go without a combiner um but c spray he's gonna love this blades he's gonna love this so this section here all this is hackable so i'm gonna hack this a lot i think i'm going to take out the martyrs with jetfire and then i'm going to use c spray this is all lined up you've seen a line there so i'm going to use c spray diagonal to take this out the mds is right in the corner over there so i'm not too bothered about that rook to pop the outpost so blades sea spray c spray rock there jet fire jet fire so four six ten ability points there seven is it seven for c spring that's quite nice cheat it's five and i think um ten fifteen five four rook twenty uh i think i need two c sprays so seven twenty seven ability points five for blades thirty 32 two c sprays the other way but at least one maybe uh that's nine i think you get where i'm going with this they might pass a bit weird at the start but we'll see so let's put blades in i don't think i bought setup c spray yeah he's set up jet fire set up yep there's artemis that's the setup that trap amalgam blaster quintus and tracks yep rock my cronus and stripes yep we'll keep them alive which we can uh ratchet up yep wrong and uh healing core wheel jack alpha try on and wrong yeah all set up ready to go let's do this i'm gonna take these optimus out i think bumblebee there's only four gunners a lot have it no it's not rock-a-roller it's a a non-fiendish smoothie i'll let you work it out some people actually recognize the uk um company so maybe not okay i'm gonna do is i'll drop brooke first because i want to see in this outpost all right it's okay so i'm gonna hack that bit there do a lot of damage jet fire there could use a heel grenade just to help rock out in there i'll get it closer before you see spray just hovering over waiting titan we'll use another titan for now don't need it and rook's gone walkies so we need to put it there but it's not a popular one i don't think that's not good maybe it is maybe it isn't you can use both on that side there i think good just trapped again look distracting the beam laser with the minions that's what we're doing this parting is the worst i've ever done let's i don't need to there we go based out scrape through that one okay cool okay next uh we'll talk about the five-star votes so this is the five-star vote that is currently underway on discord so you don't need to be a vip member to vote uh it just could be any old joke so yeah grab a vote guys go and vote for you up here but so the bot in the lead at the minute number 16 is sixth good and trigger happy um second place is hound and drag strip and third place is after breaker and flame war and in fourth place is dynabots just about and i think after that then it is strafe and thrust a lot of the cons voting for strength and thrust but no not too fussed so here's my sort of thinking on things so i get people are impressed by six gun i understand that uh and he is decent personally i prefer hound and the reason why i want hound is that it's the way that i think the game's gonna go so because hq 18 is coming soon that means everything is going to be opting to the hp so not just defenses but also resource buildings as well resource buildings will be upped now last time we went up like this uh the apes said they were very um they were very bit over the top i can't think of a word for it but they were very generous they're very generous in the time they gave to complete the battle i think it was an extra minute they gave they were also very generously ability points they gave it extra like you know because eight ability points extra max and started with an extra six i think they were very generous and they said that's not gonna happen this time so we're gonna have less ability points um sounds of it not less but less of an increase um and once the resource building hp go up it could be quite dangerous so i've done a bit of testing we'll go into test serve in a minute and have a look at it um but listen six gun trigger happy i'm quite happy with it they get a five star would be too bad for them uh hound drag strip yeah after breaking flame war i don't understand why people are voting for them i understand why but again we'll talk about that in terms of strafe and thrust personally i'm not a big fan i think they get trapped behind walls too much um uh i'm just not a fan of thrust i've got the four-star thrust and i don't use him in any team i've got for me when i look through this list i think about the team the bots that i use as four stars so i do use dynabot dynabot is a very good bar so you understand using him i would love a five star down up dynabot um hound and drag strip i use hound brilliant bot um six gun i use brilliant outside of that i don't use anyone else even after breaker i don't use again we'll talk about that soon why not but there's no one in there that jumps out of me there's no one in there apart from those three that jump out and say i would be a good five star there's bots outside of that that i think would be a great five star and the big one is star saber i still don't understand why we're not seeing a five star star saber i still don't understand it i don't think it does that much damage they're really that's stupid i thought they could be that bad or powered but you know the apes have said no so it is what it is sadly but i would love to see a five-star star saver um and then obviously we've got mirage and breakdown which i would i would love to see mirage breakdown i really would um not for the reason that he is good but i think they could improve him if he became a five star so you know mirage could you know could work well um but in as it currently is no i do love his g1 you know that would be really cool um but sadly it's not powerful enough but i would love to see mirage as a five star just again we'll talk about bots and says the lore as well to the mirage and the hound and bots like that you know the original g1 box even trail breaker could do with a fix so there are bots where you know again look at them and go well no any block can be fixed anybody could be improved um and some maybe someone like trailbreak could be an amazing five star uh but we saw people start looking it on on paper as what bought do we know is good already and guarantee it's good we'll just get an increase and we'll be really good and i agree cisco drinker happy uh hound and drag strip dinobot uh and yeah sixth gun yes it's good hound drugstore and um dynabot is that the three i said yeah yeah i think then yeah cisco trigger happen uh hound and drag strip and dino button down about two they will without a doubt be my picks so let's go on to test server and uh we'll take a look at um why we'll have a look at you know why people sort of choose why people choose these bars uh have a look at why i've not chosen them bots that paul is put are the apes not in the batch likely to be under consideration by the apes um either one of two things either they are under consideration or they think they're too powerful to be a five star so they're taking them out of the voting so you never know could be one of the either you just don't know okay so we've got a maxed 4 star hound with a volatile mixture top shot is obviously relevant to ability damage we have got we'll put a vm back on him again we have got a maxed uh volatile mixture on a max four star six gum at 65 11 and we'll also give uh after breaker i run out and after breaker is 57.5 so go primal going hard battle i don't want to go on easy mode because i know people will say yeah but that's in cyber mode so it's not that good well let's let's test it at the hardest level of the game 30 extra hp on all buildings selfie self heal like i said these are hard effects so let's give it a go so let's take home for example so put hound right at the back here we'll do one ability so again with hound what you want to do is you don't want to hit the same target twice ideally you want to let it burn there we go now you see the mds is healing so listen regardless that's going to happen you see there howard did a decent amount of damage now the only thing that about how which sort of sells him sure is the fact that it's a bit random that that is that much is true but you can't deny uh you know how much uh you know damage it does so you can see that cleared out a good section at the front so let's try out six gum you all are one there we go so six gum right in the back so first off you'll notice cisco doesn't have the same range so we've hound here we're hitting up here so he hasn't got the same range so we'll suddenly have to get a bit closer let his passive hit we are taking a nice bit of the uh structures out live for that turret up there again that mds ain't doing much there we go and then we'll try and take this out up here so you can see there slightly in damage in some ways better in some ways worse probably a bit more damage than hound does but a lot less range he isn't finding those hard to reach places so if you're facing a time trap cisco's are right he won't reach the back of that time trap maybe and he's going to get you know for himself shot where it's hound will but it's going just do a bit more damage so like i said i wouldn't be fussed either way between six goat and hound i think they're both good choices both good bots personally i like the range pound i think it adds things like maybe doing back door attacks and helping with that taking out key structures from a range especially the shield gen things like that but you know again six guns winning the pole will have to wait and see so next onto after breaker now this is the good reason why i'm not booking boyfriend breaker let's put after breaker in a bit of testing okay so i've got mds either side so i'm gonna go up the middle a bit here have to break up put it in position and then we'll go there on the billboard yeah that's awful let's try again i'm going to actually take trench foot off after breaker to shorten his range so we can get him into range of that billboard easier i want to take away his range of anything what we can do is no we'll leave him living pure we'll leave him as he is auto box i'm at police spot that he's voted for cosmos why and he's poor i'm telling you there's a core on a combat that makes him pretty useful yeah there's also a defense chord that makes him pretty useless sorry buddy i had to get that in there okay after
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