Shaft? Perhaps you mean Striker? Because Shaft was changed in a previous update, not this one.

As opposed to expressing contaminated hatred?

I guess they just didn't see me as a serious enough threat and focused on titans instead. When special event is done it will still be useful in attack and close quarter defence. Like I said, instantly healing 4000 hp is a powerful bonus, especially combined with a drone.

Yeah, true. Gauss is a good alternative for this.

An overdrive doesn't need to kill in order to be OP. Hunter's range was insanely long, and combined with a teammates' firepower a single Hunter could disable the whole team. Would be nice to get battle score for disabling enemies too, but oh well. If you want to get some kills yourself, I recommend using Magnum with Booster drone. That way you can easily get 4-6 kills from the tanks you disabled if you pre-charge your shot and time the DD well.

So I used three hulls yesterday: Mammoth, Titan and Viking (as well as Juggernaut). Here's a short summary of my experience with them in the halloween map. Titan — I wouldn't say it's the new Mammoth of gold hunting. It's good, but very weak against a number of things, including Mammoth, Hunter, Hornet and even Viking's OD, as well as potentially getting flipped by Juggernaut's OD. Even if none of those things happen, you still have to push your way through other Titans in their domes. Mammoth — not as bad as people claim it is, and actually more fun that Titan. The best thing about it is getting right in the middle of the drop zone and activating OD when a bunch of "domed" Titans are next to you. They never see it coming, and it's just so satisfying to kill them all. The speed bonus and healing is pretty significant, and I was actually catching golds more frequently with Mammoth than Titan. Viking — a bit of a wild card, but extremely fun. In fact, I used Viking Thunder combo for the most part yesterday just because of how much fun it is to constantly be using Overdrive while going from one supply box to the next. If there are Hunters on the map, it's amazing when they disable everyone and I just claim all the kills with my OD. A couple times this even led to everyone dying next to the gold, and I just drove up to it and took it. Also cool to just be able to kill Juggernaut anytime like it's no big deal. Juggernaut — besides just being Juggernaut, it's an interesting challenge to try and catch golds with it, despite the rather tame OD function. Pushing away all the Titans and surviving the rocket is no big deal at all, but the biggest threat is actually from Vikings, who almost always start to target you with their ODs when you go anywhere near the centre. But if you ignore the golds and drive around the map farming kills, it's pretty good for K/D, stars and experience, if that's what you're looking for.

Lifeguard allows you to survive one fatal hit, but you'll be left with barely any HP. On the other hand, Mammoth made you completely invulnerable to any amount of damage from any number of hits, AND it could also be coupled with Lifeguard for extra life. That's besides the additional bonuses of kill-on-contact and ignoring impact force. It instantly repairs you to full health once you activate it. This means that you activate it after you already started attacking and when you're about to die, not before the attack.

That's still true. But I'm sure you noticed that the majority of the community was against the way Mammoth's OD worked, and therefore developers decided to cater to those requests. Despite gold boxes being advertised as a bonus, people still view them as a core mechanic, especially on days like this. I personally think that these special battles with extreme gold drop rates should have their own unique overdrive settings, which either only work in that mode, or they are enabled for that day only.

That's different though. The whole point of that drone is to be able to survive any fatal damage - Wasp bomb, Shaft with Booster, and even meteorites/rockets. Simply having extra health would ruin the drone, and while I admit that it's pretty OP for catching golds in this event, all drones are OP in specific situations so they're working as intended.

In this case no, I'm not being sarcastic. Tanki Online is on the decline, and no one is denying that. Recycling old content is a good way to generate some revenue while focusing work efforts on more important things like server maintenance and important updates. Yes, I'm sure that Moonwalker has a lot of sentimental value for the old players, but how many of those players are left anyway? That's why I'm saying that devs most likely determined that there are a lot more players willing to buy containers for a chance to get an old exclusive item they never had the chance to obtain, than the number of old veterans, who would be upset about losing the exclusivity of that item.

Well, it appears they determined that giving players opportunity to get exclusive cosmetics of the past brings more revenue than actual fully exclusive limited edition items.

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You're rather late with this suggestion. Many people already expressed their concerns regarding exclusive paints in containers back when containers were just introduced - almost 2 years ago. Developers clearly state that they no longer wish to keep any cosmetic items exclusive forever, and everything will (or might) be possible to obtain at a later date. This helps the economy and allows for fewer P2W elements to be added.

Gauss is a new gun, yes. Released by surprise with no prior announcement, but then again it's not really anything new - just a unique mix of Thunder, Railgun and Striker mechanics. The Halloween gold even is planned for 3 days. One already happened, but there's still two more ahead (Thursday and Saturday). TX is shutting down, I made an announcement here.

I think the opposite. Overdrive charge speeds should be either kept the same or increased, but their effect lowered. That way using an overdrive won't be the deciding factor in a particular situtation, but wasting it also won't be that big of a deal. The downside of this is that the feature as a whole becomes less exciting.

If they're unpopular, there must be a good reason for them. Why force people to use the unfavourable equipment for the sake of extra rewards when instead a much better option would be to adjust game balance in a way that makes the unpopular equipment more usable again?

What's the point? For players with full garages it will just be extra EXP and crystals, while players who don't own these items will be upset because they're missing the chance to earn extra rewards. Also, it's not good to create incentive for using particular equipment just because it gives better rewards, when the players don't enjoy using it.

I don't think we should accept any records from that map. It's far too easy because most people tend to ignore the Juggernaut. It would also be too easy to beat the "most juggernauts killed" record since there's so many ODs.

I was trying Viking Thunder today just as a test run, and actually managed to get a gold. It's not as bad as you think :rolleyes:

YES, THANK YOU!!! Holy carp that's such an accurate description of Viking's handling. I have no idea how people play with it. The OD is good and all, but oh my god the controls are so bad it's basically unplayable for me!

Honestly I think I'll just use this event to take out mammoths before they activate their ODs. Seems like fun, with so many NS boxes on the map.

They're still in the game and I'm not sure what patch notes have to do with it. The only thing that changed is addision of damage missions and lowering the frequency of "top 3 places" missions.

Wow, they made you into a real thing. Never expected you to look like this IRL. You got the bundle for free, right? :ph34r:

Heavy Shaft loads 2 seconds faster? RIP juggernauts :lol:

I got 1 million a few weeks ago. Not particularly exciting in my case since all I can afford with that is like... 6 drone MUs :lol: But I didn't spend it yet. Saving so that I can buy and upgrade Ares as soon as it's released. I'd much rather take 5000 TK instead though.