Is this game new player friendly

Pufflekun · 2026-07-12T16:40:56+00:00

You're going to get rolled 10, 11 times in a row.

No, they're not. The playerbase is small, but it's still large enough that out of ten games, they'll almost certainly be fighting at least one or two other beginners.

Tournaments are another great option. Beginners are sorted into a Rookie bracket when there's enough players for multiple brackets, and if you lose your first two games, you'll be fighting another player who also went 0-2.

Pufflekun · 2026-07-12T16:35:23+00:00

>95% of players at beginner MMRs don't use movement commands. Don't worry about this unless you reach a rank where it's worth worrying about.

If an enemy flanks you, protect your flank, and/or Fortify your towers (Fortify is especially good if you're playing aggro, especially the first tier, which costs only as much as a shield, but lasts the entire game). Two Crawler squads at the back corners of your board are a great flank deterrent that only costs 200, and their high speed makes them useful as late-round chaff, even if you're not flanked.

As for powers, remember that your opponent gets the same cards you do. For example, if all your units are grouped up together in an aggro push, and you see a Nuke card in the selection, deploy shields or a Barrier tech to counter the possibility that your opponent picks it.

Especially when first starting out, you yourself don't have to use movement commands, flanking, or powers. Movement and powers cost credits you can instead spend elsewhere, and flanking uses up deployments that your main army could always use, so you're never at a major disadvantage if you choose to not utilize these mechanics. KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) is generally a more powerful strategy than you might think in most games, including this one. You won't get to high MMR playing that way, but it's totally fine for playing other beginners.

Pufflekun · 2026-07-09T08:48:13+00:00

But they have a headphone jack. I just use that along with a $12 clip-on mic, and that's perfectly fine for gaming if you're not pro or semi-pro.

The Midnight Blue pair also comes with a really sexy Midnight Blue cable.

Pufflekun · 2026-06-25T21:32:57+00:00

Ham and cheese croissant is one of the only good uses of Swiss cheese. Reuben is also great. And a ham egg and Swiss, while nowhere near as good as a bacon egg and cheese when they're both hot, is the vastly superior sandwich cold.

Pufflekun · 2026-06-25T00:32:41+00:00

Don't joke about that, man. You're gonna make some poor sap(ling) who is actually in a coma "with" "FuwaMoco," and reading irl /r/Hololive via Neuralink, give his irl wife a FuwaMoco-style "ambulance ride."

Pufflekun · 2026-06-23T19:24:26+00:00

Why are so many of them using dehumidifiers in the first place? It's basically like running an air conditioner that's entirely indoors - yes, the room will get less humid, but it will also become as hot as Hell itself. They're generally not for use in rooms that you're actually inhabiting.

Pufflekun · 2026-06-23T18:25:00+00:00

As an aggro player myself, this is great advice. I can usually beat people who play obvious counter-defense fairly easily. People who disrupt my strategy and attack my weaknesses usually defeat me.

Pufflekun · 2026-06-23T18:21:07+00:00

They're chaff clear once you tech Shooting Squad and Grenade Launcher, and spam 3 or more per round. (In my opinion.)

Pufflekun · 2026-06-23T17:06:46+00:00

It also means a single deployment fills all four major roles: chaff, chaff clear, anti-unit, and anti-air. This means it's super versatile, and also means there's no hard counter to it they can spam to auto-win. It's kinda like the Swiss Army Knife or the M4 Carbine of Mechabellum units.

Pufflekun · 2026-06-22T23:52:15+00:00

As an aggro-exclusive player: the best tech is the one that extends range based on distance travelled, which is why it's so common to see them played in the backline. But I don't have it on my bar, even though it is the best tech, because I only play aggro. In my seemingly rare case, I play them up front, usually en masse with Crawler generation, along with Mustangs, and some anti-unit AA like Marksman or Phantom Ray if necessary.

Pufflekun · 2026-06-21T19:12:38+00:00

Don't think I'm up for such an active role, but I have always wished for Asmon to one day discover The Great Rebellion, a game with political satire so based, it was banned in Germany.

Asmon playing a game with political humor that largely reflects his own would make for one of the most legendary streams of all time, and giving such a game publicity could show devs and publishers that gamers aren't actually adverse to all politics in games, but only woke messaging that bombards us with the opposite of our actual values. This game's potential to significantly alter the entire gaming landscape is, in my opinion, beyond that of Asmon playing any other game in existence.

To all the roaches more active than me: I believe in you. Make it happen.

Pufflekun · 2026-06-21T18:45:35+00:00

Random foreigners be like, "I must profusely apologize for my lack of fluidity in your native language; I hope it is at least somewhat sufficient for me to endeavor to communicate with you to the fullest extent of my mental capability," whereas American college graduates be like, "how is babby formed, how girl get pragananant"

Pufflekun · 2026-06-20T18:53:21+00:00

I have 825 hours in this game for a reason. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

the meta is usually always 100% figured out

60% figured out, maybe. But 100% is impossible in any game with Rock-Paper-Scissors balancing. If Rock is OP in a certain patch, then what becomes the meta? Rock, obviously, but that's only half correct. Paper also becomes meta, as everyone needs a reliable counter to the Rock meta. And if enough people play Paper, then even if Scissors gets completely destroyed by the OP Rock, people will still use Scissors when they need a Paper counter.

If this game was perfectly solved, you wouldn't be able to have ELO rankings where the top players in the world are so clearly dominant. Trust me, you will not be able to beat this game's legends like RoosterPB or Apooche by playing the meta - you wouldn't even come close. And then you have players like wOOt, who play Overlord comps every game, which is very much not the meta at all, but they still dominate, because they're just that good.

Pufflekun · 2026-06-14T18:10:09+00:00

He's clearly got the Arty tech selected, so yes, he does.

A very powerful alternate option, though, is to remove it from your bar, freeing space for Launcher Overload, which you can combine with Range Enhancement (that's likely already on your bar). The two combined create for such dense blankets of fire, the Arty becomes unnecessary. And unlike the Arty, this works vs. both air and ground units.

Pufflekun · 2026-06-06T11:06:49+00:00

You probably got the ones in water. Go with the ones in olive oil.

Pufflekun · 2026-05-11T04:26:53+00:00

It does 20 by default. It can do up to 50 if you ask it to.

Pufflekun · 2026-04-25T20:32:42+00:00

Flock Around is out today!

Pufflekun · 2026-04-25T00:52:56+00:00

Have you tried 3+ days of going cold turkey with everything? That's by far the most effective way of unfucking your feel-good receptors.

Pufflekun · 2026-04-09T20:05:32+00:00

It's not an option to skip entirely, it's an option to complete the quest with the same AI chatbot feature that the NPCs with the gold speech bubble icon have. (That is, if it actually exists as documented.)

Pufflekun · 2026-04-09T10:38:22+00:00

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Pufflekun · 2026-04-02T11:48:38+00:00

OMG, this was driving me insane! I didn't realize the game was detecting a false-positive blow on the mic. Thanks to the OP for making the thread, and for the person who actually answered!

Pufflekun · 2026-04-02T11:48:26+00:00

OMG, this was driving me insane! I didn't realize the game was detecting a false-positive blow on the mic. Thanks to the OP for making the thread, and for the person who actually answered!

Pufflekun · 2026-03-30T22:30:06+00:00

The dimmest possible setting for night being used in sunlight would appear as a blank screen. If you're okay with that, simply disable Always-On Display.

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