Nooby noob question. Does thunder damage friendly tanks with splash damage?

Looks like my tank on Stadium and sometimes Monte Carlo. Hope you have not sunk a ton of money into that thing (like M2), because they are going to nerf the "stuff" out of Vulcan. Halving the long range dam and increasing heat damage by 50%. 6/sec to 9/sec. Titan is going to be a very manuverable tank and quick.

Hold off till the sale, and also the new update.

These new changes may turn Titan into a very fast turning tank, and better acceleration than it already has. Anyone doing circling attacks is going to be in for nasty surprise. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zpPsJqEZ6NaPXbXC3r1u9SmdnzMzCCvqARgld7kmVZE/edit#gid=0

RU6 Full, but then the test server list says all are offline. :( From the looks of the spreadsheet, There will be more of a rain of rail shots on Monte Carlo :( . Vulcan damage at long range is being halved 50%>25%, 50% more heating damage. Thunder is being turned into a Smoky with just about no splash damage 25%>10%. SMoky's long range shots are being halved 20%>10%

Depends if you plan on sticking with a combo. If you do, you might as well buy(on sale) the M1 to use it , plus you have to buy the M1 version before you buy the M2 anyway,(unless you can skip it with a Kit)- which is prolly the best plan for some combos/all kit combos. For you , I am guessing these are your 3 favs. I would suggest Smoky , Wasp. Titan is a little tricky to use with Smoky. I love the hull , consider it the best M1 there is (it is the toughest), And stays tough through M2. The thing with smoky now is shorter range weapons and rico and thunder are going to get a boost, It will be harder to fight close by. So maybe Smoky/Titan will be better than dancing with smoky/wasp at long range. Smoky/wasp will still be a good flag running machine(maybe). Don't buy anything till this update hits, and then wait for the May sale to be sure

Don't fire it too close or you will blow yerself off the map :D

Thing looks like it would flip over if you fired it sideways, or looked at it too hard. -A Hvy Tank Fan B)

Thunder is now looking like something to buy , along with Isida and Fire. I feel bad for anyone who sunk a-lot of crystals into Vulcan. All hulls particularly lighter hulls are taking a nerf since most weapons will be inflicting more damage. Drugs are "cheap", for the buyers. :lol:

should be more to the above post , but I am checking on some spread figures. I thought it was 15 and dropped to 12 for horizontal.

He means the number of pellets that hit a tank will decrease at range because they spread out, not the the number of pellets per shot.

MU's to "Time before Overheating"(reload time) will affect that. At long range what you do not see with a Vulcan firing forever, is that player using using health Kits right before they explode(the wrench is hard to see), which brings their cooling back to normal and their health back to full. Also you may or may not see any isidas or freezes helping out. The Isida beam can be seen for quite a distance if the Vulcan flash does not obscure it. Believe me , if you see a Vulcan "firing forever" he is prolly burning through health kits as well, which is the most expensive drug in game. All these people who think Vulcan is OP, here is simple advice (Don't be in front of (line of fire /Line of sight) of a Vulcan when they are firing). You go head to head with a firing Vulcan at range you deserve to lose. Never fight any weapon on their "best" terms.

Buy XL starter Kit(9.5) if you still see it. Has Dragon -for rico+, storm - for firebird+, and dirty for rail and shaft. No Better deal in game for paints. I am still using these 3 paints, haven't bought any. Addenda- Corrosion is an excellent choice as far as to actually buy a paint in game.

I notice that too. I don't see many doing bounce shots even when there is an obvious bounce shot. Also , they act like "assault guns" , and never turn their turret.

The "lag" issue is real important with Rail. If you have lag a-lot stay away from rail.

Loam would be good, if they are still using a-lot of Firebirds on Poly at your rank. Atom maybe. Spark and roger are cheaper options.

Well you use it. I just don't think going from M1 Hunter 165 armor to M2 Hunter 190 armor for 100K crystals or at optimum 50K crystals is a good economic idea. Better to run M! Hunter till you can get M2 Viking rather than buy M2 Hunter. Again kits make offset this some , I just don't see an M2 Hunt/M2Ham- "The Pitbull Kit" being that much better than a M1 Hunt/Ham combo to justify 191 K crystals.

I'd be thinking M3 Isida if you can make a rank. And/or a tougher hull. M3 Vik maybe. Seems like that was a kit a few months ago. Titan M2 with a M3 Isida would be a wicked machine on Polygon CP..

I agree. M2 Hammer is not greater enough than M1 Hammer to buy, Wait and jump to M3, perhaps in a kit. Note: In the same line line of thought. While M2 Hammer is of course better than M2 Hammer, The pitbull-kit is a bad deal, primarily because the HUnter M2 is not much better than M1 Hunter, and M2 Viking would be a much better buy.

Don't stay exposed in line of fire while reloading or keep moving. Practice using Rico doing ONLY bounce shots, you will be amazed what rico can do.(look for bounce shots everywhere and even try 1 or 2 if you just think they might work or when you are not in combat . I would say "on average" Rico M1 is the best turret there is, when using a heavy hull particularly.

Simple, Drive a heavier tank or at least one that has 170 HP(armor) or better , and/or don't go driving up to any Hammers running DD(x2). And if you see a DD hammer approaching you get out of line of sight and line of fire. If all that "fails" pop a double armor and go after the fool. ;) I like hammer, though I usually use rico or Vulcan to kick butt, hammer is my 3rd butt-kicking turret of choice.

They should drop one or a few land mines under gold boxes, that would discourage those goldbox hunters who just play for gold boxes. I am all for getting rid of the gold boxes and going back to the small crystals drops.

How about a paint supply? Drops randomly like a gold box. Has a paint can on the side. When you run it over, it blows up and covers your tank in a random paint for 2 minutes or maybe the rest of the round. Any one type of paint including all the special ones. I would like to see a few of them anyway. And it sells paint and the game by advertising all the purty colors.

Corrosion is a great long range paint , especially when using thunder. One thing I don't understand is Thunder's users focus on Thunder protection because of the splash damage. Splash damage only happens at full strength in one tank length- 5m and half strength at 2 lengths (10m). AFAIK ,While emerald is a good anti-thunder tank, Thunder is best used at med to long range to knock campers when they are hiding in their holes, so a "cheap" :lol: 100K paint like winter or sandstone might be a better all round idea. Firing thunder at short range seems like a bad/suicidal idea, not just because of the splash damage , but because thunder fires so slow , if you are caught at short range (-5-10m) with a short range range opponent,you really ought to be backing out of that battle instead of trying to fight it out, in which case you don't need a thunder paint to begin with. I mean really, if you fight with Thunder at short range buy "Loam" for cheap, or perhaps a 150K anti-thunder paint if you got the crystal to burn. I bring all this up because Thunder "intrigues" me as a good (any-thing but short) range turret. I don't use it , as it was it the last M1 to unlock, and I didn't buy it, but I am looking at maybe buying it at M2, if I can wait around till Captain and have the 100K to buy it, or perhaps buying a Kit with it to get a good M2 Hull also.

Dirty is the best paint in the game for a long time, particularly because it has the best shaft protection in game , until you can buy winter for 100K at Lt. Col. -and that is a long time. Dirty also makes you "invisible" behind/in a few bushes , sometime even one bush. So it makes a good paint to camouflage yourself when using shaft, if the you play on maps with natural cover.