First things first—thank you so much for making the release of War Robots: Frontiers successful! We value your feedback above all else, and to that end, we have a developer update for you straight from the War Robots: Frontiers team.
We want to let you know what we’ve been doing to improve your experience, what’s coming next, and our plans for future content updates. This covers everything from the Store to Leagues, customization, matchmaking, and more.
While there are many things we’d love to bring to the game, this requires a significant amount of development time and we cannot promise the exact date on which these changes or new features will be implemented. However, we will continue to communicate with you every step of the way!
Balancing
We understand that balancing is very important to our players, and we’ve heard your concerns. We are aiming to host a playtest in April to test specific balance adjustments such as weapon and gear rebalancing before we move them into the live version of the game. This way, we can gather player feedback before releasing new content!
Store
Recent Changes (March Updates & Hotfixes)
In March, we made the following changes to the Store based on your feedback:
- Owned Items: Items in the Store now display how many copies of the corresponding item you have in your Warehouse. This is designed to help you make better decisions about where to spend your in-game currencies.
- Store Banner: Added a banner to Featured Deals to help new players identify where they can find and obtain War Robot Modules for free.
- New Bundle: We heard your feedback about the lack of customization bundles in the Store. We have added a bundle containing a Sticker, Paint, and Decal and we will add more bundles soon.
- Hero Pilot Talents: Added “Pick one Talent per rank” to the Show Talents interface for Hero Pilots. This makes it clearer that only one Talent can be equipped per rank (not three).
Upcoming Changes (April 2)
On April 2, the team is planning to apply these changes in a hotfix:
- Factory War Robots for Credits: Adding Griffin (War Robot) to the Store for Credits (on a rotating basis). Factory War Robot Builds will be available for Credits periodically. This is to address feedback that not enough items were available to buy with Credits, making the Store feel oversaturated with WarpReal items.
- Hero Pilots for Credits: Adding Kate Sinclair (Hero Pilot) to the Store for Credits (on a rotating basis). Hero Pilots will be available for Credits periodically. This is to address feedback that Hero Pilots were not accessible outside of WarpReal purchases.
- Expanded Customization Range: We are adding a Customization section to the Store to expand the range of cosmetic items available, with items rotating in and out regularly. This is designed to give you more options and freedom when it comes to styling your War Robot. We would love to hear your feedback regarding different customizations that you would like to see. We will be sharing a survey with you in the coming weeks, but for now, you can share your suggestions on our Discord.
Future Changes
- Daily Deals: Adding a list of content and their probabilities to Daily Deals to provide more information about the items on offer.
- Daily Deals Refresh: We are working on changing the Daily Deal refresh to allow you to refresh once per day for Credits. We’ve heard players’ feedback surrounding the lack of options when it comes to accruing items for progression during daily gameplay. We also are looking into changing the price and design of the refresh with WarpReals to better align the speed of obtaining new Modules for all players.
- Store Accessibility: We are looking to make the experience for new players more comfortable when using the Store. More details will be shared in upcoming hotfixes.
- Pilots Rotation: Currently, a new Common Pilot is added daily in the Pilots section of the Store, and obtainable via Credits. In order to maximize the possibility of hiring Hero Pilots, Hero Pilots will be added to this rotation pool (also for Credits).
Leagues & Matchmaking
Recent Changes
We are constantly optimizing matchmaking based on League ranks. We want to help you match more consistently with players that match your skill level—and we have made recent changes to this effect.
We have also improved matchmaking by substituting players with bots if they have left the match in the pre-match interface.
Future Changes
In Season 1, players are currently unable to obtain all League Rewards, as some items are removed from the reward list in higher Leagues.
We have heard feedback from players that they would like the opportunity to earn the rewards they have missed. We have good news: those items will be granted manually at the end of Season 1 (if the milestone was met).
In future Seasons, we will be working on the following changes:
- Rank-based Rewards: We are looking at changing the rewards to have them relate to the rank. For example, Emerald-coloured rewards (such as Emerald-coloured Paint) might be awarded in Emerald League Rank. These rewards would be progressive, so players in Gold League Rank would receive the rewards for Bronze, Silver, and Gold sequentially as they rank up (rewards will be distributed at specific milestones throughout the Season).
- Season-exclusive Rewards: League rewards will be exclusive to Leagues per Season (including Season 1).
- Substituting Quitters for Bots: We are looking into improving matchmaking further by substituting players with bots if they leave during a Battle. This is complicated to implement—we need to assess how many War Robots a quitting player had left (if any) to not upset the match balance, while not leaving teams at a complete disadvantage.
- Impact Points (Supporting Roles): We’re looking to add an Impact Point system for supporting combat roles to make playing them feel more rewarding. This will take considerable time to develop, but we will continue to gather feedback on this topic.
Battle Pass
Recent Changes (March Updates & Hotfixes)
In March, we made the following changes to the Battle Pass based on your feedback:
- Reworked Description: We reworked the description in the Battle Pass UI to further clarify the difference between Battle Pass and Battle Pass Gold progression.
Future Changes
We are clarifying how War Robots (and War Robot Modules) are distributed via active Battle Passes once they have ended, and how to obtain them in the future.
For example: Cyclops is currently available in the Under the Wire Battle Pass (Season 1: Blockade) and will be moved into Daily Deals and the Store in the second part of Season 1 when a new Battle pass is active. This will be the case for new War Robots, and they will always follow the following cycle:
- A new War Robot enters the Battle Pass.
- When the Battle Pass ends, the War Robot moves to Daily Deals and the Store.
- Later on, you will also be able to earn this War Robot through other types of progression.
Customization items are not exclusive to the Battle Pass and will be added to offers in the future.
We will continue to optimize the Battle Pass to make earning rewards more satisfying and fun based on your feedback!
Quality of Life
Recent Changes (March Updates & Hotfixes)
In March, the following changes were made to different areas to improve quality of life (QoL) based on your feedback:
- Match Earnings: We increased the amount of Credits, Experience, and Pilot Experience awarded per match. On average, the amount gained has increased by +50%.
- Premium Rewards: We resolved issues with Premium Accounts where you didn’t receive the correct rewards or additional Jobs.
- Jobs: Jobs UI has been optimized to help you identify how to earn Credits and Intel, making the rewards visible.
- Crafting: We added Crafting Levels to Blueprints in the Workshop to make crafting easier to understand for new players.
- Job Timers: We added a timer showcasing when Daily and Weekly Jobs reset in the Job Board interface to better clarify when Jobs expire and when new Jobs become available.
- Tutorial: We added Intel to the Tutorial Jobs in the Job Board, which grants 5 Intel per completion to better introduce the concept of Intel to new players.
- Convert to Custom: The action of converting a War Robot to custom no longer removes the War Robot from the hangar. We implemented this to prevent players from accidentally entering battle with fewer War Robots than they anticipated.
Upcoming Changes (April 2)
On April 2, the team is planning to apply these changes in a hotfix:
- Login Event (April 8–April 22): We’ll run a two-week Login Event where you can compete in one Battle across seven total days (out of 14) to receive a full Mixed War Robot Build.
- Jobs: We are going to be adding an easier Daily Job for players to complete. More details about this will be added in future hotfix patch notes.
Future Changes
From Season 2 and beyond we will be working on the following changes:
- Profile Level rewards: We will be making Profile level rewards interactive in the Profile Level screen. Players will be able to select a reward and view its details.
- Tutorial Improvements: We are going to rework the Tutorial to ease players into the War Robot building feature. While this change is on our radar, it requires thorough testing and development, so we kindly ask for your patience.
- Fullscreen Mode: We are adding a “Fullscreen” option in Graphic settings in addition to the current “Windowed Fullscreen” and “Windowed” options.
- Workshop: We've heard your feedback that building and customizing War Robots felt a bit cumbersome, with too many clicks involved. Some areas also lacked the detail you needed. We’re looking at ways to improve this. These changes will include:
- Our original intent for the Factory War Robot system was to provide a structured, ready-to-use War Robot for new players while still allowing you the freedom to make strategic adjustments to your Builds. However, we’ve heard that the extra “Convert to Custom” step made the process feel too complex. To streamline the experience, we’re making a change: Factory War Robots will be able to be “customized” directly, without the need for a “Convert”. Instead of going through an extra step, you will be able to modify your Factory War Robot right away. Removing the conversion step will make it quicker and easier to make adjustments, reduce friction and ensure that all players can enjoy customizing their War Robots without confusion.
- Weapons and Gear will have small videos showing them in action to help you visually understand how to use them.
- Components Navigation Tab will add into List of Modules screen. When you are customizing a component, you can use this navigation to switch between components, for example, when you are customizing a Chassis, you can switch directly to Torso, without having to go back to the previous interface. Improved customizing efficiency.
- The Pilot interface will be improved to clearly show Talents. This is designed to improve your understanding of what a specific Pilot can do.
- Filtering and sorting will include more options to help players find more specific items.
- Adding a Disassemble button for Factory War Robots. Right now, there is no way to strip a Factory Build of its components without deleting it. This new change will keep the template but no Modules will be attached.
- Adding a feature that clearly shows where and how to obtain specific Modules for War Robot Builds, allowing you to navigate to the location easily.
- Adding a new Go Back To Editing button, which will appear when a War Robot is about to be removed from the Hangar. This will be a third option along with Save Changes or Revert Changes.
- Adding an Add To Hangar button when you finish building a War Robot in the Workshop.
- We will be shortening Crew codes so you can more easily invite your friends.
Developer Note: Proposed and upcoming changes are subject to possible delays or cancellations.
We’d love to hear your feedback on past, present, and future changes in War Robots: Frontiers. Let your voice be heard on Discord in #feedback-and-ideas!
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