War Robots: Frontiers – A Bug-Filled, Pay-to-Win Cover-Up

[river escarp]

War Robots: Frontiers is the kind of game that pretends it’s evolving while quietly falling apart behind the scenes.

Let’s be honest — the game is a buggy mess. Hit registration is all over the place, textures pop in like it’s 2005, and sometimes your mech just refuses to move or shoot for no reason. You’d think these would be priorities to fix, but instead of patching the core issues, the developers just keep adding flashy new items and calling it progress.

But here’s the kicker: those new weapons and mechs? They're almost always locked behind a paywall or absurd grind. If you’re not shelling out real cash, good luck competing against the whales flying around with maxed-out gear and melting you in seconds. Balance is practically nonexistent.

Even worse, the dev team keeps promising fixes that never really come. They talk a lot about “listening to the community” — then drop another overpriced skin pack instead of fixing the broken servers or addressing major gameplay issues. It feels like a smokescreen. They distract players with shiny cosmetics while the game continues to rot underneath.

Verdict:

War Robots: Frontiers is the poster child for everything wrong with live service games. It’s buggy, unfair, and dishonest. Don’t waste your time or money.

[gleaming kite]

• "You'd think these would be priorities to fix, but instead of patching the core issues, the developers just keep adding flashy new items and calling it progress".

Yeah no. There are some bugs that are planned to be fixed soon. Cosmetics are planned out and scheduled. They are aware of some bugs and are looking for ways to fix them. Esspecially the Tyr healing bug. It takes time for bugs to be fixed. QA can only do so much.

• "Those new weapons and Mechs? They're almost always locked behind a paywall or absurd grind".

You're using Paywall incorrectly. If it were paywalled, that would be the only way to access it. But, these new weapons and mechs are not paywalled and are obtainable through the shop or from blueprints (in Cyclops' case).

• "The dev team keeps promising fixes that never really come. They talk about 'listening to the community' - then drop another overpriced skin pack instead of fixing broken servers or addressing major gameplay issues".

Skins are scheduled for release. They are made beforehand and scheduled to release at a set time for a set duration.

Major gameplay issues take a lot of time to fix or change. It's a major gameplay issue you're talking. So more time is needed for the team to very closely figure out solutions for major gameplay issues. It's not easy, and it's not short and sweet.

Also, you mention "Pay-to-Win" but don't mention any cases of how it is pay to win. Your game knowledge and map knowledge is key to winning matches. Buying robot bundles does not mean you will win every match.

[viral cave]

Okay, buying robots bundles doesnt mean that you win - yeah thats right, the ammount of grinding what people need to do to level up their weapons with material compared with "I'm buying the Material and can upgrade my weapons faster then with only grinding - thats true. It is kinda pay to win. Playing this games since 3 weeks and I could upgrade my robots 100% faster with spending money on it instead of only grinding.
Yes it is not to 100% pay to win, cause the "blueprints" you get on a daily and weekly basis, but the rest is, atleast in my eyes.

Beside that - yeah the Bugs are kinda annoying but if I understand it also right this game is now out for console for couple of months?
So for me its okay, its a new terrain and I guess fixings bugs at the phone, where the game was first, is different then for consoles.

I totally agree that the game and map knowledge is playing a hugh part to win or lose a game. Beside that your own skills as well.
I figured out for example that if I am playing im a higher league, cause of my friend, I cant push like I would do it when I am playing alone.
So I switch to sniping and can support my team, I dont make a lot of kills, but a lot of assists, so people start now to chase me when they see me in a session. Now I have 2 possibilities - getting faster to flew or building my defensive up to stay and hope to survive.
Atleast thats what I understood with game, map and own skill knowledge.

I like the game, the beginning was hard, I rage a lot, but after the Match its fine and the next round can start 🫡🙏🏿🤭

[tribal plover]

No matter how much money you drop on the game, the only thing you can do to boost the rate you get Intel is to buy / maintain premium time for extra daily mission. You need Intel to level up your stuff. It doesn't matter if you drop 100s of dollars on the game- Intel will still prevent you from levelling your stuff up faster than someone who just keeps premium maintained, and plays the game a lot.

[warm hill]

This is a free to play game guy. It’s not hard to believe that using money will give boosts to progress (premium) BUT if you play the game for free it is one of the easiest free to play grinds I’ve ever experienced. World of tanks is a significantly more extreme case of pay to win and free gameplay progression. Took me many years to get a tier 10 and on wrf it took me one month to have multiple special mechs and more. There also other extreme examples like warframe, cross out, minion masters and etc. All of which are currently more successful games then wrf and also far more extreme with the pay to win issues then wrf as well. We even get the battlepass stuff for free eventually which is very cool. I’m just saying people need to give this game some more slack cause it’s VERY lenient compared to other free to plays when it comes to paying

[viral cave]

I agree with that 🙏🏿
You can grind, you can spend money - its your choice and the game is for free, easy to understand and funny to play 🫡☺️

[lavish star]

Ragebait is crazy

I've been playing the game for a couple months now and have basically all parts and a fully custom hangar

Almost have 5x lvl 9 gozers

Just get good tbh

[flint violet]

Your missing the point these”pay to win robots” are currently purchasable rn and rotate through the store.

Your point about cosmetics is also quite irrational as they are simply for looks and provide no advantage

Its simply a way to make money just like how Fortnite sells skins

Even loki is currently purchasable through the rotating shop.

[void compass]

You can't buy intel, end of the pay to win conversation.

[sacred hound]

I just wonder..... How many hours.....