Bought this a few days ago and have been playing around with it, very glad I listened to your advice. As soon as you get used to the reduced range, it’s a good upgrade from stock.

I thought protection was fairly effective against rail gun (35% usually makes them somewhat redundant in my experience) since modules work well against low DPS guns. Maybe that’s because my hull is nearly M4 tho... also depends if they’re using hornet or not as well I guess

Like wolverine said, stock isida is probably better than any alterations I was in a pretty similar situation to you actually. I did end up buying the ant kit (M3 ISIDA M3 WASP) when I reached the rank even though I had M2 isida at 7/10. You're still very far from the rank so see how many crystals you can save as you get closer. It might be a better idea to buy an M3 kit that doesn't have isida and wait 2 ranks to get isida by fully upgrading it - it takes a while though... I have isida M3 18/20 and I havent even reached the rank to buy other M3s

Just out of interest, which modules give the best survivability at high ranks? I'm guessing magnum is one. Mine are a bit outdated by I use: thunder, railgun and firebird

I am still using smoky without an alt, am I missing out on alot? It looks to me that the alts just change smoky's playstyle rather than make it stronger (which is the point of alterations I guess). Any alts that people think are worth buying/fun to play with? I'm worried that firebird protection will reduce to effectiveness of the burning alt.

Not really...with fire and freeze, you wont start earning score until you find an enemy, with isida you can choose to either heal or attack. Also, being an isida player, i beat most firebirds and freeze in a head on fight so DPS still puts it on level with other short range turrets. Freeze and fire really don't surpass as much as you think, I have often competed against them in DMs and never felt that they have that much of an advantage. In the right hands, it can be a killing machine. Removing self heal has definitely not made it useless

think i just broke that a few days ago, opened 5 containers, got a common, green, blue than 2 purples, so maybe not always at least 2 commons? still, i think the rest is pretty likely

remember days of 3k gold boxes? also this time where we could vote on a gun to be discounted (railgun won obviously...)

only legendary: holdiay lights is it really that bad? i think they are some worse (urgghhh...spectre) from epics: ripple is the worst paint i have got

uhhhhh....i see your point about striker not being weak but im fairly sure i've seen hammer duplet's achieve the same, if not more (one thread has a hammer with a KD of 33) and with my isida also on my m3 account. It depends on skill and mostly, protection that people have from your gun. Also, why did you stop playing thunder? just interested

why do they make you self-destruct if you are on top of a tank? ive always thought it was to deal with fly hacking but i guess its a glitch

yeah, a shame that hunter's OD is only for short range guns really. I suppose you could use it to counter short range weapons. An annoying freeze/ firebird on drugs trying to ruin your sniping days, OD, now they are helpless before your DD fully charged shot. BAM. no more fire/freeze. Still, thats not a very common situation i guess...

same, like that picture too :) "attack nanobots" sounds cool, maybe removes heal time rather than adding to it? oh wait, i heard they changed how nanobots works anyway, is it more healing per second or more heal time?

don't know if this will help much but top 3 places on DM also counts towards that mission (someone correct me if I'm wrong but i remember doing that and it working) personlly dont like DM, but then it relies on your own skills, not teammates who cant press shift

hmmmm....i had a thought on one of the VLOGs (when they first showed the list of new alterations), there was a fourth isida alt that they removed. I think the symbol for it looked a little like the one for the nanobot alt. Could be a hint on what the next alt will be like

just finished that mission today...think i would sell my garage to avoid it again (but unfortunately weekly mission cant be changed)

i guess i dont play DM enough ;) that duplet is just monstrous tho

wolverine is right here, MM has not decreased waiting time which is supposed to be the main benefit and taking away the option of playing on a map. Old system was definitely better

speed may be nerfed alot but striker is still topping most DMs easily

this seems to be true, opened 5 today instead of 2 and then 3 and i got a common, 1 green, 1 blue and 2 purple. could just be lucky tho

true, but does isida really need an alt? i think they should bring back the vampire, it was only op because it made you invincible while you attacked people (especially on DD) so they could just make you gain back your health after you kill the enemy. This gives you a good chance of killing them and isida still has self-heal, it just has to kill you this time.

urghhh...i end up wasting too many crystals on changing these missions so i can actually manage to do maybe 2 of them in one day. I don't mind doing 3 missions a day, but only if they are reasonable like before this update Also, is there really a kill 500 enemies mission? this game really feels like a chore nowadays

seems a bit like isida's new alt...really doubt that it makes rico stronger. MFS is the only decent one true about striker, i feel like the prices of those alts should be swapped around

Seeing alot of smoky protection nowadays annoying because it affects it way more than other guns like firebird i don't really understand it, are smoky alts really that op? they all seem eh to me, espcially after they nerfed the autocannon. I have smoky protection myself but never feel like i need it

I think it is... on my m3 account I have it at 35%. It’s not exactly a miracle (protection modules are less effective against high DPS, I guess...) but when you compare it to not having it, it makes you grateful. Plus it protects you from smoky and vulcan’s alt so it’s like you have protection from 3 guns.