Ricochet and Firebird. No one else can touch me.

Seconded. You Isida-players are better than ever against Hulls like Wasp. Wasp didn't get a buff like many other Hulls did.

You are way more experienced/skilled than I am, but I agree. Before the update I hated Ricochet. Whenever I faced a match full of them, I went directly to Firebird (a Turret that I had named "the second most ******ed Turret in the game). I'm glad to see that both of these Turrets got nerfed. My primary Turret has been Freeze, which got nerfed too. I'm okay with this at least for a while, because Turrets like Smoky got buffed. An interesting balance update.

I wonder what is the average age in the TO community. :) If people are very young, they might not have the organizational skills and determination to create a successful clan.

You might be correct about getting pushed over. I've been fortunate enough to not play against players of high skill like that. Also, if you are using Wasp, other players most likely won't be able to catch you. About flipping yourself over, I was thinking about this yesterday. This encourages me to use a Turret that allows me to stabilize my falls (e.g. Smoky). Something to think about. I wrote about this a couple of posts ago. I bumped into a druggie in a DM yesterday. He won the match 50-0, even though he joined when the leader already had 33 kills. He was impossible to kill.

I'm "glad" to hear other players have experienced this too. I was worried that there was something wrong with my connection.

Yesterday I played a DM that was capped to 50 kills. I was leading by a large margin with 33 kills. At this point a druggie joined the match. He won the match with a score of 50-0 (I finished with 48-25). He was completely unstoppable.

I read a Beginner's Guide that said that Smoky is only efficient if every shot hits. Does that mean that the chance of a Critical increases with every consecutive hit? Not talking about probabilities, but the parameter values.

Ricochet. It is fine if one player users it, but pretty soon everyone will do the same. This sucks because I try to learn the ropes with Wasp and Ricochet isn't a viable Turret for that particular Hull. The only thing left to do is to take the second lamest Turret (Firebird), and hope that the Ricochet players will either switch or leave the game.