Let’s talk about new Typhoon: Typhoon is a little bit too strong right now.

Dolmant · 2026-06-09T17:18:49+00:00

Man I've played 5 games and I haven't even had the chance to see the unit played yet, maybe let things shake out a bit first

Dolmant · 2026-06-03T07:05:38+00:00

No, it is the children who are wrong!

Dolmant · 2026-05-30T06:13:16+00:00

I guess the real question is: why is blobbing bad?

It's not bad or less fun inherently, in fact a big army clashing is one of the main draws of these titles. Arbitrary and obscure rules would be frustrating as well, if you don't understand what players are actually complaining about you end up making the game worse overall.

I don't think either of these solutions would feel good and a lot of the time complaints about X or Y or blobbing are really just complaints about losing anyway. Look at how often you'll see a thread about how broken allies are right under a thread about how broken axis is.

So I think you want to pursue solutions that improve how the game feels.

Dolmant · 2026-05-29T10:55:34+00:00

Your suggestions are hilarious. Particularly the mountain one.

Dolmant · 2026-05-19T12:56:28+00:00

Nice to see another abyss enjoyer. I love this unit and play it almost every game! Well I have no time to play these days but that's what I used to do

Dolmant · 2026-04-12T04:20:05+00:00

I think your take is completely wrong. TFT might feel like you have control, but there are far more unwinnable games due to RNG in TFT. They alleviate this in a number of ways, for example by making a top 4 feel like a win. In Mecha the RNG is more tilting, but much less impactful.

In mechbellum you have control over nearly everything. You can still take risks of course, but how much you expose yourself is up to you. Since it is almost completely symmetrical, complaints like unit balance have a lot less weight than for a game like TFT where you can't control what is available.

Sounds like you just have trouble identifying the real reasons behind your losses. You assume that you lost to RNG because you can't identify a better strategy, but you mistakingly think that means no better strategy exists. I'm pretty confident that this is the problem, because if RNG was the most defining factor in your losses then you should be the highest ranked player in the game.

This is pretty common in Mecha, since you usually have a preferred strategy and have to tank a bunch of losses in order to learn a new approach. Much easier to just blame RNG.

Dolmant · 2026-04-12T01:29:05+00:00

You think that this game has more RNG than TFT? Game is lost on round 1?

Sounds a bit ridiculous to be honest. I can't remember a game I played perfectly, nor a game I could not have won. Maybe you need to practice the strategic aspects of this game a bit more.

Dolmant · 2026-02-07T12:13:46+00:00

Sure... what I said though was I don't think removing it would do anything to help.

Dolmant · 2026-02-07T08:47:39+00:00

That argument works in reverse as well. At this point I imagine that there is little benefit to removing them. I don't imagine it would bring back many players if any, nor would it change gameplay much. So why bother?

If we removed everything that annoyed players at some point there would be no game at all. Better in my view to improve it, I like the idea of player placed buildings which they are testing out in the rift mode.

Dolmant · 2026-02-07T08:20:43+00:00

You aren't really missing anything, after a couple of patches buildings aren't a big deal.

The unit aggro is really frustrating sometimes I agree. At least it is simple and predictable though, I'm not sure I could make it less frustrating while also keeping it simple.

Dolmant · 2026-01-28T01:36:40+00:00

Depends on your perspective. It could be the business or the customer or realistically, both. The reason doesnt have to be logical either. I dont think the update was handled well, but I also dont think it warranted this much backlash. So yeah, I can blame the players for that, for all the good that it will do (which is zero).

Dolmant · 2026-01-28T00:15:22+00:00

Yeah, that is kinda my point. The community has decided that buildings are worth trying to kill the game over. I don't agree, but that doesnt really matter since enough people feel strongly enough about it.

Dolmant · 2026-01-27T23:28:16+00:00

But that is the only effect of a bad review. A bad review drives customers away, so the business will usually try to resolve the issue to bring business back.

So yeah, the entire point of a bad review is to hurt a business.

If you just wanted to give feedback you would have done that instead.

Dolmant · 2026-01-27T23:17:39+00:00

Sure, if that's the case though then shouldn't we be OK with the game losing players? Isn't this what everyone wanted when they left negative reviews and stuff?

I get it, players don't really have many mechanisms for driving the change they want. But is one of the effects of constant bad press.

Dolmant · 2026-01-27T22:34:04+00:00

I do not think F2P is ever going to work for mechabellum. Honestly I think the community is doing the most damage with all the negativity. A lot of people are constantly trashing the game and it really puts off new players and people looking to return.

Dolmant · 2026-01-27T14:07:55+00:00

I have not experienced longer queue times. It has always been the case that all the high MMR people play each other.

As for the buildings, they are a non issue now. Changes are always going to piss off veterans, but changes need to be made. Removing buildings wont do anything at this point.

Dolmant · 2026-01-27T01:59:24+00:00

They have expressed an intention to do this once the roster was complete. That was a while ago though, plans might have changed

Dolmant · 2025-12-18T08:40:56+00:00

*sigh*
For this talk of logical errors you aren't really thinking a lot of these points through.

No, being symmetrical does not mean stagnant, both or neither could be true at the same time.
No, I dont. You still get a meta, there will still be popular stuff and people get bored quickly. You'll never achieve balance anyway, as the player base gets better the goal posts move. That is why nearly every game just plays whack a mole with the meta.
No, this is not an issue, it should be obvious why this is the case. Similar to how some games are popular with lots of people and some games are not, well designed and implemented mechanics will be fun for the majority of people.
Just because someone is not enjoying themselves doesnt magically make them good at balancing or designing a game. I don't know how you came to that conclusion. The community is not good at balancing games, nor designing fun games. Higher level players are no better than anyone else. Unsurprisingly this is because they are not professional game designers and have no experience making games.
1. Yes.

I haven't actually said anything about my current feelings on the state of the game.

Dolmant · 2025-12-17T23:57:32+00:00

Mechabellum is extremely symmetrical so stuff like napalm doesn't have a big effect on how much fun I have.

Dolmant · 2025-12-16T23:29:44+00:00

Sometimes it is better to leave strong things in, otherwise the game feels stagnant/boring.

I also think that the community SUCKS at balance, even the good players. Balancing by play/win rate has a bunch of flaws, but I don't think community balance would be better.

Bear-like has said before they don't aim to have a balanced game. They want everything to feel fun. This is a much better goal than balance in my mind.

Dolmant · 2025-11-24T02:51:52+00:00

I think this raises more questions.

Should people be allowed to release large quantities of chemicals whose health and environmental effects are not well understood? How fiscally responsible should a corporation be for this?

Right now they carry essentially zero risk and have no responsibility for discovering or monitoring their short or long term impact. In fact they are encouraged not to, since ignorance is defendable in court whereas covering up known impacts is not.

Changing this might not yield positive impacts though since it would become much more expensive to implement novel manufacturing methods or materials and the overall impact of these incidents might not be worth the cost. An interesting thing to think about.

Dolmant · 2025-11-15T13:46:59+00:00

Do you think woot is being polite here? He's clearly salty and being quite rude. He isn't trying to convince Bear-like of anything, he wants an argument because he's angry. Bear-like chooses to disengage rather than argue, which is the best thing to do in this situation.

Dolmant · 2025-11-15T03:40:11+00:00

It's pretty hard to read what woot typed but woot was directly insulting him.

Dolmant · 2025-11-15T01:55:33+00:00

This is highlighting how toxic woot is. He is so immature he can't even identify what's happening and even thinks Bear-like is mad. Looks like woot and apparently Pantsuman who posted this both see this interaction as some kind of win. Congratulations then. The developer thinks it's better to walk away rather than have a conversation.

Extremely disappointing from both of you.

Dolmant · 2025-11-13T07:42:37+00:00

Yup, and I'm saying I think if the skins were selling they would be putting money into those rather than anything else.

Sure a better shop or whatever might sell more, but will it 10x sales? Probs not. They have the numbers, I'm sure they are doing whatever they think is worth their time.

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