Wall-Crawler Mech Idea

[lone eagle]

I think a robot with the ability to walk along walls would be an exciting addition to War Robots: Frontiers!

Imagine a mech equipped with specialized gripping legs or magnetic technology, allowing it to seamlessly transition from the ground to vertical surfaces.

This could open up new tactical possibilities—ambushing enemies from unexpected angles or navigating terrain in unique ways.

It would add a fresh layer of verticality and strategy to battles, making gameplay even more dynamic.

What do you think?

[muted frigate]

I do like the idea, but no going upside down and the steeper the angle the slower it moves, a wall run mechanic for all robots would be kinda cool and be similar

[lone eagle]

You already can walk/run at your own speeds depending on how long you holding the direction you walking for will turn into running, because acceleration.

[muted frigate]

i know, i meant wall run

[mossy wren]

you could simply just have spider robots not able to fly but can walk on walls(can still use boost)

[lone eagle]

yea or walk speed increase

that or like a hydraulic jump ability

[tidal frigate]

I saw this picture in a channel discussing the same idea

Can’t post here dam 😦 why

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[mossy wren]

yep it makes sense and will add more unique mechanics +they already have spider robots so idk why it's not in game already

[tidal frigate]

They said the spider they’re adding won’t have wall crawl mechanics for balancing reasons

Whatever that means

I think with very mobile robots like Phantom and Harpy crawling on walls shouldn’t be an issue at all

[mossy wren]

also snipers are a thing and like we said if you made it so they cant fly that would balance it out?

they should just add it then they can easily remove it

like take risk and be different

[tidal frigate]

Easily remove is not a thing

People would get these spider legs for exactly that reason

Taking it way would be scamming if they didn’t give you back your money/currency

[mossy wren]

yeah they could just give people back there money they did it before whe nthere was a glitch and people lost thier robot parts

[lone eagle]

Who says they can't make up a new unique legged robot that can climb walls?

Wouldn't be unbalanced as it it's simply just a new gameplay for a robot type, not purely of making it more unfair compared to other robots, instead more of for that extra movement navigating as a different way to move about which was the concept idea.

Besides I don't think legs would do damage now would they.

And besides, there can be a spider robot that doesn't climb walls and maybe another that can but is more rare.

2 legged robots don't make as much sense climbing walls though so yea.

[lone eagle]

The main idea was, allow a spider like robot or some sort of robot to climb walls, having it not use jet fuel to fly would make sense

Mainly climbing up walls onto higher surface areas instead of needing to use fuel to fly up onto a tall hill or higher level surfaces.

Walking on ceilings of things, maybe not.

Walking up steep walls could be an idea, since the feet of the legs could hypothetically drill into walls of things to basically climb.

[cedar osprey]

The team has been interested in the idea of mechs walking/crawling on walls. However, there would be a massive downside since they can't be crawling forever. It would also kill level design.

[lone eagle]

It really wouldn't kill map design if u mean level by maps, if it's level leveling related, maybe still make it more of rarity or expensive?

If another mech mobile game could do it, so could a pc game.

[lone eagle]

Fuel based amount of crawling time up steep walls could be an idea related to what u ment by forever.

Could be implemented in a multitude of ways though

[mossy wren]

how would it kill level design? theres no cover on walls/celing so you are taking risk to get a better shot

[tidal frigate]

Hanging head down on the pipes Sounds amazing tho, I’m pretty sure not giving it a fly / jump ability would balance it out a ton, when you make the robots more rare. Stuff like the basic harpy already come with max range weapons to combat this.

[little wolf]

Personally, my idea was to give light, perhaps some medium-sized spider-like mechs the opportunity to crawl. It shouldn't be like, say, the same Raijin or Fujin from WR mobile crawling on the walls

@tidal frigate Hi, do you remember I told you about B.o.T yesterday? did you manage to go in there and check some mechanics?

[tidal frigate]

I did check some YT videos ! It looks quite interesting and I might look into it further today