Currently bots are almost entirely useless, we NEED a bot that can stand toe to toe with tanks. So my suggestion is a front line assault bot that differs from the tank. Rather than high armor a front-loaded weapon the assault bot will have high dps and medium armor and a slightly cheaper cost.
I will disagree, assault bots don't need to beat tanks in a fair fight, they only need to win during a unfair fight, such as a flank attack. Straight up, assault bots should lose, every time (Assuming equal strength).
Ehh I like my bots but it really should be a even match the main difference is how the battles won. For example how RCBM handles the dox.
Or we can buff the grenadier range... this way it would be a skirmisher bot, like the T-2 bots from supcom P.S. If we get the unit auto micro, they would be "very powerfull"
I prefere to have bots filling multiple roles and being very flexible, yet not being cost-efficient/effective against air or tanks head on. such as a small, fast dox that packs a punch (like it used to), and other things...also why do bots need to be limited to just ground (and slammers water) why cant some...fly? our T1 gunship =D and the fact that boom bots have no aoe...and got their damage nerfed....horribly
Me to, however bots seem sorta downgrade compared to tanks if they don't have anything to offer for proper front line use.
maybe make em wider like the slammers, because before when to dox where strong, you would get a random deathball of like 20-80 bots that would crush everything
That's the biggest damn lie I've herd ever...Building have SO much health killing a mex takes way too much time.
They are great raiders, they are used mainly by me to kill off unprotected metal my opponent leaves by his base. Every unit is useful if you can apply the correct tactic; not just "send everything straight into the center of my opponents base because my unit has a gun attached to some part of it's body " In toe-to-toe combat however, they are tank fodder. The bot you're looking for is the slammer. It is a great all-round unit and is fairly cheap; leaves a trail of death and destruction when combined with spinners and bluehawks. If you ever face off against a really good player, heck even me, you will see dox/grenadiers used for raiding and perhaps tank support. It's all about knowing how things work, and dox do work. I use about 6-10 dox groups for raiding, they are very effective and can take down helpless mex in about 5-10 seconds.
If they simply removed the 3x health multiplier from mexes and power gens then dox will be the best at there own job and will have a good use
Still, the thread isn't about dox, its about making a proper assault bot, currently the poll is in favor of.
To be honest, due to https://forums.uberent.com/threads/changed-my-mind-doxes-are-wonderful-not-useless.62525/ I have changed my mind about the position of Doxes. I only wish I had the video to show it, but I don't have PAstats. Try the strategy I just described though.
