Kit Review: Voltage

[Epic_Space_Mango18 592]

Kit Review: Voltage

 

So, it's been a long time since Thanksgiving where I bought it for 131,160 hard earned crystals and I've finally decided to do a review on the three kits I've collected thus far. Here is my first one: Voltage.

 

 

This kit comes with:

 

Railgun M2

Dictator M2

Grizzly T-D M2

Electra

50 of each supply (I think)

 

What is it good for?

 

Voltage is a weird kit. Slow reloading gun on a slow and gigantic hull with a module that I assume was supposed to help it in close quarter skirmishes, but proved useless. This kit is mainly good for camping out and picking off players from range, but being coated in bright red lightning bolts, it stands out like a sore thumb.

 

When I first got it, it was fun to use against WO1 players but as I got further along, more M2s were popping up and I was finding myself dying quite a lot more than with my M1 Smoky M1 Viking.

 

I'm more of an in-your-face-light-you-up type of player, but Voltage was far from being capable of doing that, so I found myself at the edges of maps behind buildings and such, waiting for prey to come along and pick them off that way. It's not good at attack, nor is it good at defense. It's a midfielder at its best and even then you're selling yourself short. You're slow and moving, shooting...to be honest, I haven't really found a good use for Voltage.

 

​It's honestly a waste of 131,160 crystals. I haven't had very good gameplay with it and I ended up near the bottom of the leaderboard often.

 

​How to use it:

 

Imagine that you're the Viking Shaft with a good camo paint and drugs, sniping away a the players with ease and one-shotting them. Now, replace your paint with the bright and cheery Electra, take away the scope and ability to one shot most tanks even with double damage. Also make yourself a bigger target. That's the best you'll get from it. a helpless midfielder. I bet any of you who also have this kit have found it useful, but I'm regretting ever buying it. I'm just glad I didn't have to use my mom's credit card.

 

​But enough about the kit itself. Let's talk about what goes into it.

 

​Railgun:

 

If you're a good aim, have skill at tactical maneuvering to erase the negatives of a long reload, Railgun is a good choice for you! Although M2 is the weakest modification. Yes, the reload is faster after the rebalance; but the damage is so much weaker! Sometimes I have to TWO shot an M0 Hornet! The damage value only goes up slightly from M1 to M2 so you're basically paying nearly 100,000 of your crystals for a slightly faster reload....and a cool purple beam.

 

​Railgun is rather good with Hornet. You can use it as an attack weapon if you're good enough. Peek-a-boo is it's strongest advantage if you're far enough from your enemy. Yes they see your beam but in most cases they can't tell if you came from the left or the right unless you shot them at an angle. You can hide near your flag on CTF and make it seem nobody is there and once they near, throw on double damage and send their tank to the scrapyard!

 

Dictator:

 

​There is much to say about this one...it's the biggest, slowest, weakest M2 medium hull. It's only real advantage is the pushing power but you only find yourself pushing tanks if you're pushing a teammate of the map​ fighting for gold.

 

Grizzly T-D M2:

 

​Protection against Smoky, Isida and Twins. This module is useless in this kit and Twins M1 still lays waste to me if they get close enough. Railgun is the worst against Isida since Isida can just heal back the damage you did before you fire again...I know this since I used Isida before the rebalance and if you had double armor, you could be under fire from Vulcan but your health would STILL GO UP! If the Smoky user has the M1 you're good, but M2, you're done for! So, devs might as well change the module to something else for this kit.

 

Summary:

 

​Save your crystals and don't buy this!

 

​If you guys enjoyed hated this, it's cool and if you want I could do a review on Glaze and Northerner!

Edited February 16, 2017 by Savage

[Blackdrakon30 2,943]

- Minor gramamr edits (Changed "cystals and so" to "crystals, so", "it's" changed to "its" for possessive form, etc)

- A few really minor word changes/additions to clarify author's meaning

- Changed font from white to standard (White font is crazy hard to read, please don't use it for the main text!)

- Changed font size to 14 (Just makes it slightly easier to read)

 

Approved.

 

Nice job with the article! A little opinionated for my tastes, but I definitely appreciate the good coverage and viewpoint of how the kit worked out for an actual player, rather than the hypothetical capabilities of the kit.

 

My one question would be did you have the article name as "Kit Review: Electra" intentionally? We changed the title to "Kit Review: Voltage" instead, but it can be changed back if you have a strong preference.

Edited February 15, 2017 by Blackdrakon30

[Crip 4,735]

- Rephrased a few sentences which didn't make sense.

- Changed all the "Electra Kits" to "Voltage Kits", including the title.

- Corrected a few typos.

- Changed Font to Trebuchet MS

 

 

Good work and well laid out. I agree with Drakon about it being opinionated, but nevertheless your writing is almost there.

 

Looking forward to the next one.

[Zenyth 6,494]

agree about the opinionated approach but good

could've mentioned about DR format

I have this combo on LZ and it's enjoyable how my High Caliber Ammo alt turns this into a killing machine

[Misery 1,415]

Didn't u say in another topic that you bought voltage for real money?

[AleX_PatanciK 0]

Please do not use Profane Language/Insults. Thanks!

Edited February 19, 2017 by Savage

[jordankiller 16]

I love my dictator/ rail m2! The worst tank you can buy is the one that does not fit your playing style. This one does not fit your playing style, but is wonderful if you know how, and like, using it. Its height is very advantageous if you practice with it.

[FighterOfTheDead 9]

Nice job! I love the kit reviews...  :wub:

[pieface101 285]

- Changed font from white to standard (White font is crazy hard to read, please don't use it for the main text!)

Somehow the AWC info article is entirely white...  :ph34r:

Edited March 10, 2017 by pieface101

[Blackdrakon30 2,943]

Somehow the AWC info article is entirely white...  :ph34r:

Shush, those were made personally by Goldrock and I'm definitely not messing with them.  :P  :ph34r: