For you, bydolord

Well, to be fair, I was originally off by a day. It's kinda strange for us in North America - Halloween map will be gone before Halloween day even gets here.

Erm - Dictator drives like a tank. Viking drives like an Indycar Dictator is kinda slow, but hey what else am I going to do with those thousands of Nitros I've been accumulating from missions for the last year.

Freeze's DPS is just insane. I can't quote numbers right now but from battle experience, once a Freeze closes range, about the only survivor is a drugging hammer.

Amazing for druggers :/

No but thanks for the suggestion. I've seen some light hull smokys and thunders do that. I did a few bad jumps and accidentally flipped due to a glancing blow. I think I'll take your advice and have some fun with this when I am back on later tonight. :D

I believe the map will still be here tomorrow. But to the spirit of your question, I would change it out if you don't think you'll finish it out before the 11/1 server restart CORRECTION- No the map will not be here tomorrow. It's a 48 hour map and will go away with the next server restart. In about 5 hours.

Thanks - I've been playing CTF, but I'm sure you're right about CP. My fave moment so far in this map:

I got a second Halloween super mission today as well. Trick seems to be finding a 30 or 60 minute battle with a good team. That knocked out 2/3 of my 3000xp mission. Now I just need to scrape up the rest. Not sure I will claim before the restart though. I really do not want this mission again on Monday. I also snagged a pretty sweet picture I'll post here and in POTD .

I wouldn't say we completely disagree. I'm not interesting in seeing this map again either. Sorry to hear your Shaft play wasn't better. In general I had the most fun on this map with Hornet and Smoky.

^Pretty sure devs did that on purpose. And what about this 50% off sale? Where did that come from?

Halloween map is a nice holiday add but it's for long range players. Rail, Vulcan, and Shaft do well, but even Thunder loses so much damage over the long distance between bases that it's not really playable. You'll want a fast hull like Viking Wasp and Hornet to get you across the distance quickly. Lots of supply drops so be ready for druggers to come at you fully loaded and ready to shred. Gold boxes fall often but the dogpile is so big good luck being the one to cap. I got the Halloween super mission - 10k crystals for 3k XP. Folks, it is really hard to get XP quickly on this big map. I finished the mission in about two and a half hours. For it's size the map is not very diverse and thus not very interesting. It looks like a slight extension of last year's map. While I will continue to advocate for the Assault Mode map from last Christmas, I don't see myself missing this one too much when it's gone.

I also think that all of the polls associated with these various "Let's Discuss X Hull/Turret" threads need to be zeroed out and reset. Post rebalance the current results are highly misleading.

Yeah, Freeze is the new hotness. I put a mostly stock M3 Freeze on my M4 Viking and just shredded through a Poly CP battle.

So Viking may not be completely ruined. I took second place with it in Poly CP using Wait for it You know what I used Wait for it Freeze :D

I mounted my Rico on my new M3 Dictator and was pretty happy with the handling. But Rico has a real problem with vertical auto aim - this must have taken a nerf as well since I can't lock on to most tanks below my horizontal plane. This was never a problem prior to the balance. But enemy smoky can't knock off my aim like it did with Viking :)

I'm looking forward to the special map. Last year's map was fine for a special event map, but not one I think would last long as a regular map. *inserts yet another shameless plug for the return of Assault mode and map*

I was thinking Rico, but you are right. Thunder or Smoky, and maybe a DD Twins - the trick is to keep firing while Isidas exhaust their charge. Don't expect it to be easy.

I'm highly dubious that you or any Freeze player will be able to sneak up on an Isida pack undetected. Even if you do, that the pack will start to group heal making your attack moot. Their configuration almost guarantees that at least one of them will have a shot at you.

Sage advice. I've seen many Poly CP games made by support tanks nowhere near the point. I've done this myself a few times with DD Hammer Wasp just buzzing around the outer circle taking a bite out of enemy tanks as they spawn and move toward center. I didn't get many kills but I didn't care because those weakened enemy tanks were fodder for my teammates at the center point. .

Love this!

Since the balance change, yes. Vulcan is OP but it can only focus on one tank at a time, and once it has locked on to you, you're dead regardless of protections, so not worth the crystals

Close - Freeze Fire Smoky

Rico and Vulcan are both very fun turrets. If you want to have fun and aren't too worried about where you land on the leaderboard, go for it. But if, as your post suggests, you are in it for power and results, stay with the OP turrets. Get Firebird for battles where your enemy has Freeze protection.