Hello everyone,

Mechabellum’s publisher Paradox ARC and developer Game River have something important to announce.


It’s now been a few months since Mechabellum’s release, and we’re happy to see thousands of people enjoying the game every day. Now, we want to announce some changes regarding the future of Mechabellum. After a fruitful partnership, and bringing the game to the 1.0 release, the developer Game River, and publisher Paradox ARC, decided to part ways

Going forward, Game River will retain all ownership of Mechabellum, and will continue developing the game. For Paradox ARC, Mechabellum was a truly unique game to publish, that came with an unmatched community of competitive players. With our goal of bringing the game to 1.0 launch fulfilled, we’re excited to see Game River’s next steps with Mechabellum, and wish the team all the best!

For Mechabellum players, we want to say “thank you” for working with us to create one of the world’s best wargames. Be driven in your defeats and gracious in your triumphs!

Paradox ARC signing off!

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Hello commanders,

I'm Wen Youge, the lead developer of Mechabellum—you may also know me as Bearlike.

As you know, we are parting ways with publishing partner Paradox ARC. We appreciate the support they provided in helping us get to 1.0, and now that we’re entering the next chapter of Mechabellum, we look forward to a very bright future filled with more of everything you love about the game.

We are going to expand the Mechabellum team so we’ll have more people working on the game, and that means tons of new content—a lot of which will surprise you. We also have broader promotional plans, which will give us even more opportunities to serve players and expand the community. And there is another exciting announcement coming for Mechabellum next year . . . I will let you all know the details as soon as I'm allowed to.

Meanwhile, I hope you will enjoy all the new content we prepared for you in Mechabellum Season 2, which starts on January 2.

See you on the battlefield,

-Youge and the Mechabellum team

Season 2 of Mechabellum is near. To enable more players to obtain more seasonal rewards before the end of Season 1, we have further adjusted the Combat Power system. We also added a new initial specialist and some new unit variants to the game, as well as some balance adjustments.

• Players outside the top 200 worldwide no longer lose combat power when defeated.
  
• Increased combat power gained when winning for players outside the top 200 worldwide.
  
• Players in the top 200 worldwide can lose up to 600 combat power in a battle.
  Developer's Note: With these changes, we hope to enable players with lower Combat Power to increase their Combat Power faster while still keeping the Combat Power leaderboard competitive.

• New specialist [Missile Specialist]: Get 2 [Missile Strike] for free on round 2.
  Developer's Note: Missile Specialist is the first in a series of new specialists, and we plan to add more specialists who provide Battlefield Powers and Equipment Items in the coming month.

• New variant [Extended Range Phantom Ray]: increases Phantom Ray's range by 20, but decreases HP by 40%.
  
• New variant [Mass-Produced Sandworm]: Decreases the recruitment cost of Sandworm by 100, but decreases Sandworm's ATK by 30% and HP by 30%.

• HP decreased from 292 to 277 (5% decrease).
  
• [Loose Formation]'s HP reduction increased from 30% to 40%.
  
• The cost of [Mechanical Rage] decreased from 200 to 150.
  
• The cost of [Impact Drill] decreased from 200 to 150.
  
• [Subterranean Blitz]'s damage reduction increased from 50% to 55%
  Developer's Note: By reducing the HP of Crawlers, we hope that Fangs and Mustangs will be better against Crawlers in the early game.

• HP decreased from 16099 to 15294 (5% decrease).
  
• [High-Explosive Ammo]'s ATK reduction increased from 30% to 40%.
  Developer's Note: In the mid and low MMR ranges, players often feel helpless when facing a large number of high-level Overlords. This adjustment hopes to give cheaper units a better chance against Overlords while also maintaining the basic role of Overlords intact.

• The EXP required to rank up increased by 25%.
  Developer's Note: While not very powerful in lower MMR ranges, some Sledgehammer strategies have above-average win rates in higher MMR ranges above 2000. We hope to nerf these strategies by slowing down Sledgehammer's promotion speed.

• The cost of [Degeneration Beam] decreased from 300 to 250.
  Developer's Note: We hope to increase Wraith's usage rate by making its supporting Tech cheaper.

• ATK increased from 10047 to 10650 (6% increase).
  
• [Siege Mode]'s range bonus increased from 80 to 100.
  
• Developer's note: We hope to increase Scorpion's usage rate by making it stronger against high HP units.

• The cost of [Stealth Clock] increased from 200 to 250.
  
• The cost of [Sticky Oil Bomb] decreased from 200 to 100.
  
• The cost of [Burst Mode] decreased from 250 to 200.
  Developer's Note: As a new unit, the Phantom Ray has a surprisingly balanced win rate. However, some Phantom Ray Techs do not see enough usage. These changes aim to balance the usage rate for all Phantom Ray Techs.

• [Nano Repair Kit] adjusted from level 2 to level 3.
  Developer's Note: While the Nano Repair Kit's win rate isn't particularly impressive, it can be very powerful in certain situations, so we decided to change it from a level 2 card to a level 3 card.

• The cost of high-level Sandworm cards has been increased.
  Developer's Note: Although the overall win rate of Sandworms is not outstanding, the impact of high-level Sandworm reinforcements on the battlefield is significantly greater than that of other giant units. This change hopes to weaken the impact of high-level Sandworm reinforcements.

• Optimized the sound effects of the Phantom Ray.
  
• Fixed and optimized several localized texts based on community feedback.