Something New In Robocraft: Fighter Jet

Hey everyone, Garens doing an article again. So, today I want you to think about what I'm going to say, because I wanna break the Robocraft Meta. Even if you cannot call it a Meta, you may break it. And I have big plans for this, so you might wanna read this carefully, as it could be the next type of flyer you see.

This article will have already used pictures, because I cannot do in-game screenshots. Please bear with them, as I tell you my genius idea.

This is the Hurricane Mk. II. You may remember it from the 'building guide' I wrote yesterday. As you can probably see it DOES NOT have plasma launchers, but has SMG's instead. This is the idea. You want to give the plane as much SMG's as possible. Why, you might ask? Well, this is the article that'll tell you.

So, SMG's. They have very high damage and more importantly, accuracy. This is the first factor that gives the plane power. Plus, people never think about looking at the map. This gives you the power of surprise.

Secondly, the fact that you are doing SMG action may surprise some flyers. They are used to other flyers having plasmas as well and that cannot hit them form a distance. Or near them. Or anywhere on the map. Some lucky shot maybe, but you CANNOT RELIABLY HIT FLYERS FROM THE SKY WITH PLASMAS.

No such article can go without theorycrafting, so let's get into it. The two factors that I told you and the fact that you can move rapidly across the map with a flyer gives these planes the power they need. They can do the following things:

1. Shoot down enemy flyers effectively both from range and from inches apart.
2. Attack enemy ground units in a hit-and-run style
3. Move across the map without ever thinking about the blockades and other objects on the map.

Also, my favourite thing about all these is the ground unit attacks. You dive your nose, giving you excellent speed, and then start going down guns blazing. You just aim in the general direction of the enemy and as they usually have no or very little defence from above, you can do some serious damage to them, or even one-shot them. The diving ends with a nice nose-up that this plane (for example) can do EPICLY. I advise you to do the same. Do some dive-bombing, as it is the most fun you can have in a flyer (IMO).

Some drawbacks: You don't have the one-shot possibility of a plasma-flyer, you are a lot squishyer then them and you also cannot hit ground targets as hard as them.

Some last words. I highly advise you copy the plane above or find your own SMG flyer design, as it is very fun and very viable in the current 'Meta'. They can get loads of kills with hunting down plasma bombers or floating Rail-platforms.

If you enjoyed, please let me know by putting a little comment under this post and following the blog by e-mail. I'm going to do one post (at least one) every day 'till my school starts, then I'll get back to 3 a week depending on how much free time I have. This is my last day before school starts, so I'll give one more post to this blog today, and it will not be about Robocraft. Anyways, cya later everyone.