How's spawn killing the most useless at the moment? I generally dislike it, but come on, it significantly helps when you have to deal with less enemies simultaneously.

No problem! I suppose only two are meant to be better than SD for CTF battles, the 'Large caliber rounds' alteration for its high damage output, and 'Hyperspace rounds' if you're really good at aligning the enemy team players.

True. I'm not asking for it to be nerfed however, and I don't believe it needs a buff either. True again, if I had an M3 Shaft though I wouldn't mind the extra restrictions on movement caused by the alteration, since it's damage output could kill nearly anything in the game, but I would still avoid using it cause it's not my playing style. Overall I guess my rant has been met with convincing arguments, I fully agree with you guys! And if any of you are shaft users I didn't mean any insults so hope you understand.

I was feeling pretty disappointed about overdrives being delayed again, until he made the Viking remark: "It's being a whiny b.. uhhhh baby, a whiny baby." lol

Currently have 7/15 progress on it, but I've lost track of the number of weeks it's taken me to get this.

It would save a teammate's life, and every once in a while that could turn out to be beneficial to the team. The reward is feeling morally good about it.

Ouch, all the XTs for their original price, that looks very unappealing to anyone who was considering to get them.

Shell destabilization is very interesting to use, it has a lower damage per minute than the other alterations but it's instant damage can reach huge values. Very helpful for capture flag/assault battles, not so much for DM. CHD can be helpful if there are many easy targets out there to make use of the instant reload, but other than that I don't know how it could help a lot.

^^^ It's definitely good, lol

The Shaft staying in one spot isn't to be taken literally since that is rarely the case, like I said before they do move but very minimally. I do have 20% on shaft, but even with that it has an alteration which gives it +25-30% damage and that is insane. I could upgrade it further, but just the idea of replacing a more important module like Fire/Freeze/Hammer/etc.. with that in a battle doesn't encourage me to MU it.

Aha I see, have fun using them!

Wasn't your question about what new alterations to buy? And you said you had all the old ones. If you have all these alterations then what exactly do you want. :lol:

Definitely, shaft can be killed with skills from anyone. But every battle involving them means I have to be one-shot at least 3 times before managing to kill them.

That's perfectly true, drugging has spread from the higher ranks to all the ranks in the game, and from certain situations to every situation. Whichever battle I enter, whatever account I play on, it's always there, drugfests. The keypad buttons have changed from being occasionally used, to being pressed so rapidly you'd think this is one of those "how fast can you press the button!" games lol

Fair enough, lol

That's one of the many reasons I hate Shaft.

On second thought, I was lucky enough to catch the test server while it was open and manged to try the Plasma torch alteration. Stats wise, it makes Rico better than Twins in DPS, impact force, and firing rate. The only problem is having to reload. Avoid using this alteration in large maps, use it just for the smaller ones (forest,highland,desert,...). It can actually be quite effective. I'm going to remove my previous post because now that I actually tried it, I know it isn't bad at all in certain maps.

3 tanks aligning is a very common sight in ASL blue team, polygon CP, capture the flag battles in small/medium maps, and players gathering up to share an overdrive. The main problem is the huge amount of modules against rail which would hinder the multi-kill potential of this beast.

Believe it or not the legit most clever thing I saw in a battle was a Freeze putting out a fire from his teammate. Like how do 80% of freeze players not know this, putting out a fire is 1000 times more helpful to a team than a Firebird unfreezing a tank.

I hope they aren't gonna delay them another week.

They may not get a good score, but they will definitely have the best K/D in the match by far and will have caused huge trouble for players using light and medium hulls. They usually do move actually, but very minimal movement and nothing like using other turrets. The only thing that makes Magnum less frustrating than Shaft for me is the fact that it can miss shots or land them near you with only half damage, but Shaft rarely misses.

My dream in this game is to have no more lag, and get back some of the mechanics that existed when I first started playing it.

Shaft is quickly becoming one of the turrets I hate the most. * On one end of the spectrum, some players have to struggle to get kills.... dealing with very common modules, annoying lag, risking the enemy team ganging up which means having to figure out when and where to attack. * On the other other end of the spectrum, people like your typical Mr.Shaft user will just sit in one spot the whole game, kill a thousand players with their "balanced" damage, not worry about any of the above things I've written, and then complain that their turret is severely underpowered and needs a buff. It's arcade damage is even high enough to kill you in short range when you approach them. Higher DPS than a Smoky. Yes I know this is what snipers do, but Magnum is also a sniper with insane damage although it has an aiming system which is 10x harder. Railgun is a sniper with easier aiming but much less damage. Shaft is enjoying the best of both worlds, it doesn't need a buff.

Deadliest paints are those with the best camouflages.

What makes this one interesting is the higher rate of criticals.