I solely used Railgun for six months. I now do use it regularly. However, when I switched over from railgun to thunder, I actually found that the thunder no-charge was a disadvantage. I preferred the railgun charge where you can target your enemies. I know you can do that without the charge, but I found the charge helped me. On another note, railgun is not meant to face opponents head-on.. A true railgunner makes sure their target can't see them before they shoot. Then, the charge is of no consequence. A true railgunner can also take flags easily, except when there is a twins user around to shake you when you have that terrible loading.

This sounds fair. Reduce the charging time of the railgun by a few quarters of a second, it does not seem that horrible of an idea. But the question is, would it become overpowered by this? Of course it sounds fair =] Nobody agrees that railgun should have more power, but I guess most people think railgun takes too long to release its shot.

Anti cheat is never a solution to hackers, it just holds them back. To avoid hackers, one must calculate all the sensitive information in the server, that includes tanks coordinates, life, time to re-appear after dying, physical size of crystal boxes, etc.. The situation right now - crystals are calculated in the server, it's basic but still great and holds hackers from simply changing the amount of crystals. The bad thing, is that everything i mentioned above that should be calculated within the server itself is actually left to the client - our browser, which is why hackers can teleport, be immortal, pick up all crystal boxes etc.. Anti cheat will never do the job because everyone can bypass it.

Wow, I didn't know this thread could become that popular. I would like to mention that I do have skills with railgun, I almost always finish first at silence ctf, with railgun m3, viking m1 and storm. My biggest problem is that I don't purchase crystals, and therefore cannot have the strongest weapons like freeze m3 or rico m3, which are in my opinion the best you can get in this game. (and way overpriced at the m3 lvl) The thing is that railgun is a fine and balanced weapon, except it has this defect of letting the enemy know when you shoot, so if he shoots you at the right moment you just lose your aim. And I used the word "defect" because that's what it is, I'm fine with that nice effect of glowing before the release of the shot, but if it is more than 1.5-2 seconds it just ruins the gameplay. I suggest that the delay will be decreased by half a second, and everything will be fine and fair. Let me know what you think about it.

I think railgun takes too much time to release the shot after pressing space, I think this should be half the current time, because other users can see long time before railgun users aim.