First world problems, I know, but these are some REALLY exciting Ultras. If I get an Exotic, it could either be 1,000,000 crystals (which I don't really need) or an augment for Scorpion (which I don't even use that much, if at all). Bring back the Ultra skins. Those are the only things that were in Ultra Containers that I still really want.

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I found what's probably my oldest surviving screenshot of the game (I had a ton on the Forum from my old accounts but the image hosting site I used went defunct and deleted everything). This is from October 2014, and I took it because I somehow got stuck there (the old file name was "how did i get here.png")

Remote Rocket Explosives my beloved I normally use it with Dictator but these battles were with Crusader. The drone I used was Hyperion.

There's actually a visual cue to show that your arcade shot is ready. I didn't notice it for a while because of the HP bar. Reloading: Ready:

I haven’t seen anyone use these skins yet, and to be honest I wouldn’t blame them. Thunder GT has very minimal changes compared to the default skin, and Viking GT looks like a box you can drive. Thunder and Viking are more popular than Twins (Thunder has very powerful augments in Vacuum and Hyperspeed Shells and Viking has a cult following) but I’ve seen one or two Twins Blaster users and nobody with GT skins.

If I had to guess... The first winner overestimated the amount of demand that would exist for Crisis XT People didn't really try to get stars since the first winner was so obvious right out of the gates People are waiting for the end of the challenge to quickly buy stars and hopefully snipe the top spot

I actually like AP Thunder. Vacuum Shells can be more powerful but I prefer the more laid-back approach to AP. (also I sometimes obliterate myself with self-damage using Vacuum Shells, but let's just ignore that )

If it isn't broken, don't fix it. In my opinion there is no need to revamp the current HUD when it comes to layout. Could the icons themselves be changed? Sure, but the current layout is compact and arranged vertically (for the most part) so all you have to do is quickly glance at the timer or your supplies, instead of being forced to look all over the screen. The one thing I would change is to move the health/reload bars down a tiny bit. I only realized yesterday that Scorpion has a visual cue when the arcade shot has reloaded, and it's mostly obscured by those bars.

Good battle pass, I don’t have Thunder AP and I’ll finally have a Vulcan skin (somehow I’ve avoided getting one after all this time)

I actually like this update. I'm not an Efficiency farmer but it's nice to earn crystals more quickly than experience for once (especially this battle, which was almost free crystals with how little experience I earned) The battle:

Isida/Dictator probably isn’t the absilute worst but it’s down there. The height just makes aiming even harder, and while Broadband Radiators sounds like a good fix on paper, it makes your range shorter and on top of that you’re using some of it to aim down and not just forward.

One augment that I don't see getting too much attention (unjustifiably) is Swarm for Scorpion. Could it be because not many people don't have Scorpion, let alone have it upgraded? I don't know, but it's really annoying and powercreeps Wolfpack. The guy in first place on the enemy team and one of the players from [Akuma] (the other had Magnetron Twins/Viking) were camping in the base firing salvos at anyone they could see thanks to the ridiculously short acquisition time. Compound that with PAPIST_GI doing the exact same thing with another short lock-on (Adrenaline Gauss/Booster), it's a miracle we even won. The cherry on top: the other team had an obvious group (that was almost certainly coordinated on Discord or something) versus our team that seems to be just a bunch of randoms.

The next augment is probably going to be something for Thunder as the last three Battle Passes were for Ricochet, Smoky, and now Striker. The ones that seem most likely to me are Salamander Shells (incendiary) or Wyvern Shells (cryo). I actually don't really care all that much about skins. The ones that I don't have but want are all Ultras and I don't have my hopes up for those when it comes to Challenges. I'm still waiting to see whether that one Battle Pass with Gauss Ultra was a one-off fluke or is an indication that Ultra skins will appear in Challenges periodically.

It'll be sitting at Mk1 for a while, until Tankers' Day. I'll be maxing it out then.

Will there be critical hits? That one event mode from a little over a year ago where everyone had Assault Rounds equipped has only happened once to my knowledge, but it was pretty fun.

Can’t wait to see low-leveled Scorpions running around. I don’t think I’ll see very many regardless, because even at Legend ranks there are players with pretty large Epic pools because of the massive number of paints, shot effects, and augments. The game post-Tankers’ Day will be interesting. Expecting to see a decent amount of Scorpions because more people will have unlocked it and will upgrade it, but some people will upgrade the module.

Fix the bug with Striker and Gauss losing their lock-on progress way too quickly. I mostly use arcades because of RRE but I’d still like the option to use my salvo without being vulnerable for more than is necessary.

Am I the only one who hasn't had any problems with the game? Maybe it's because I play right after the server restart which is the time with the fewest players, but everything is almost completely normal for me save for slightly higher (but still manageable) ping.

Do a Battle Pass with Hunter Ultra as the skin and then we'll talk. There aren't many things that I'd grind stars and buy the bundle that comes with the Gold Tier and 12 steps for, but that's one of them.

The new evening theme is just *chef's kiss*. Definitely my favorite of the four.

Main account: Alt account Pretty good haul from Containers and Ultras. Skin Containers were a little lacking but overall decent.

Look at the profile, there's no Efficiency rating so the account's been blocked for a while.

I don't know what happened in the last 24 hours (the game was fine when I played last night) but the game's almost unplayable now with constant ping spikes.

WOW, this mode is absolutely awful. Wasps have maybe 150-200 HP, and there's no spawn protection so an enemy can just fire at you right when you spawn so you die as soon as you materialize. If you like being spawnkilled this is the mode for you.