I like this format with just music and a ton of gameplay

Nice music

Hey dude, thanks for your videos, I've only been playing for 2 weeks but i won my group in the mini today thanks to your videos and your website mechamonarch. Thank you

Thank you mister rat

great guides thanks!

i love ur content :D

Hey dude, I have another video idea for you. How about a guide on semi-chaff or advanced chaff? Stuff like mass produced sledgies, mechanical division steel balls, shielded wasps etc. Just won a game with armored sledgies nulifying the enemy Vulcan, Typhoon AND mustangs. Felt smart about it. I'm sure there are other scenarios where we might want more "chaff" that is neither fangs nor crawlers.

So there I was at 850mmr slowly building a board up. She had been using missiles and spells throughout the game while I had been building up a board with chaff, enough clear for the little she laid down, and a generally balanced board ready to quickly clear her sledges. Naturally I had lost 4 straight turns , having been whittled down. A swingy lvl 3 wraith drop and it turns out mustangs I had down didn't do much. I responded with marksmen and learned that 3 lvl 1 marksmen don't do much to 2 wraiths as I'm down to 160 hp having cleared everything, but the wraiths. Learning a marksmen counter will never work, I turn 7 loan with ranged melters and wipe the floor with my better board over the next several turns. Great beginner tips!

arclight carry :welcome to the dark side...

Can't wait for garbage rng to be moved to a separate game mode

Wasp in MB is like in Wasp in reallife you just do Nothing, maybe it gets away on its own :D

Wouldn’t early armor have blocked the typhoon damage?

can you explain the insta-sell of the sledges? did you know they would go marksmen? or are they not worth keeping vs arial spec?

Leaving the engagement comment~ Sledge chaff = best chaff

He should have known it's you once the 2nd tank production line hit the field :D

Interesting

Hacker feels like the hardest counter to some existing strats. And once someone goes hacker into Rhino, now they have a hacker lead over you if try to go hacker yourself. I like this change, since unit drop hackers have compounded the issue.

I think if they made hacker apply a debuff to the unit could be a good shift. Perhaps gradually applying more and more debuff as the hack progresses, and stunning on completion. That way it would be pushed back into a purely support role, and would feel less cheap/frustraiting whilst still being a good counter in most of the same situations.

Really like this content much easier to learn from.

As a player in the Dallas area i would have LOVED to be able to go and take a shot at the tourney, sad... As for the hacker, a high level hacker late in the game is very feels bad... otherwise i agree that hackers weren't really a problem.

could you please explain why in game 2 first round you go Arcs, isn't it kinda the same role as mustangs and you want somethign against Balls and Arcs die to Balls, maybe I am missing something crucial here

Am U noob at dis gaem? 😮

That rat of yours always looks like he has been through some fucked up shit.

I have never seen Surry not complaining about the starting cards ever

Hey Rat, i am playing this game for one year now and i am enjoying the aggro playstyle, like u... Its not worth to learn standard in my opinion, dont do it, its boring to watch. i Am enjoying ur content as it is rn <3

Leaving the obligatory YT algorithm comment Always fun to see you go carry Arcs while you insist that it is a bad strategy xD

Each and every Rat's video starts: "OMG what are these garbage specialists!?"

Subbed for that elite guide

Hi Surrey, commenting here for the yt algorithm instead of in disord. When you get a gap will you please give your card and specialist tier lists a once over to update them?

we need a mobile beacon guide

Kaarilamput kunniaan! He kantavat korkeimmille huipuille!

You prefer armor over air tech on arc lights?

I remember when elite gave you an adding 50 supply rather than 100

Elite is like 90% of your play rate and 100% of your complaining about it being a bad specialist

Oh this is going to be a good one!

Arclight best girl

What was the reasoning on both sides for going war factory in the first game?

Does the barrier item stack with the barrier upgrade or would it be a waste?

I love hackers but I think removing them from free drops was a good move. No other unit in the game can be so disruptive to the board state as a hacker (not on every board obviously). I think free hackers are a great tool for experienced players but are probably really horrible experience for people who don't know how to deal with them.

The biggest hurdle for Mechabellum is that its gameplay loop is very concise and is very, very skill oriented so free to play doesn't have the same appeal that it might for other more generic titles. Mechabellum is in a weird niche in a similar camp as TFT or Auto chess in general which are free to play but are housed in a wholly different product, it's almost the most analogous to Desert Strike which is also housed in a different game. But those games are not really as competitive and allow weaker players to win with nut rolls or random mechanic hits which gives it an element of gambling, in fact the more "competitive" the TFT set -- IE the more skill driven, the less popular it has proven to be. I would have serious doubts about a F2P swap massively increasing the player base, mostly because the current gaming landscape would suggest raw 100% skill driven games are in decline in general, and there are just not enough hooks in Mechabellum to keep non-enthusiasts interested. The gameplay is so very highly concentrated that its very unlikely to grow that much bigger it lacks a lot of dimensions to keep an average player invested. No hero units or characters, no Factions or overall story architecture etc. Magic the Gathering did a big exploration on who their players were more than 20 years ago and constructed a lot of psychological profiles and tried to cater elements of their game to each those player types, Mechabellum has almost done the opposite its stripped down so many components of a traditional game as to be left with this singular "optimize oriented" competitive game. At some point the real issue for these enthusiast driven titles is far more about retention than it is about growth, and we might already be at that point.

Bought this game a month ago, seems like they patch this a lot, which is good when things are out of hand but hard to get a feel for everything

Just leaving the engagement comment for YT here~ Thank you for the detailed guide Rat, was very educational!

It feels strange to me that they are no longer doing F2P. This type of game where you need a threshold of players in the player base for it to feel good really benefits from the F2P model. I guess they just couldn't come up with a monetization model they felt they could pull off. Sad to see.

want sum chees lil ratatouy

Hey man, it's me again. Excelent content as usual. Nice to hear your thoughts on the hacker, I think this is a clear case of removing something because it's annoying rather than because it's too strong. Anyway, I'm still waiting on your guide on levelling/Elite spec. Here's my current levelling strat: - Always level to lvl 2 since double stats is good - Always level marksmen, arcs and stangs. Phoenix if possible - only level chaff if there's leftover money - don't level Scorpions since they can still one-shot everything I want them to even at lvl 1 - level sledges for early game power and later sell them. Same with storms if they get countered super hard - don't recruit lvl 1 marksmen unless it's very early into the game. I had marksmen get perma-stuck on 1 and that is usually a lost game Surely you could provide much better guidelines in a cool video. =D

I can't believe they took up my sandworm unit idea! his is hella cool! Can't wait to see how they develop it

maybe there should be no units in cards, only items and comanders etc.

Definitely concerned about the move away from free to play. You are right about the skins though, they aren't good enough to tempt real money purchases.

The problem wasn’t hackers, the problem was a free tier 4/5/6 hacker in late rounds. And if you didn’t already have the counter, or the match was close, you are now behind your opponent for at least two rounds. I think it’s just too much of a power swing to get in a card. I ended up just always taking the high level hacker if it showed up because I know my opponent will. And that’s just boring gameplay and takes the chess feel away.

I hate hackers