1] I think it will just always be an item for some people but not for others. 2] I bet it is changed soon though. The trend seems to be to tweak a turret or two each patch. 3] I hope another trend is there. The easy / short fixes are being done first. The more complicated ones for later. Thje longer I wait for Smoky, Vulcan and Striker upgrades (because I reckon on upgrades for these) the bigger the buffing will be. 4] On that note: Striker (buff) and Magnum (nerf) last! :D

Slugger is like a shotgun choke. It keeps the pellet pattern tighter. Hammer shoots what is it 9 pellets. Each is it's own 3d object traveling on its own trajectory. If full damage in 1080 that means each pellet carries 120 pts of damage each. If it shoots you ate point blank all 9pellets hit, at 20m maybe 7 it, at 50m maybe 4 or 5 and at 60m maybe 2 hit you. But put on the choke er Slugger and now at 60m 5 pellets find you.. The tradeoff of curse if your aim is off you will miss completely with Slugger but would have caught the target with a few pellets without it.

Thanks to the peeps who explained about the individual pellets and the effects ate very long range. What this change does mostly is increase the damage slighlty at medium ranges. The damage reduction curve from maximum to minimum is shallower because it has to rach only 25% not down to 10% So beyond point-blank maximum damage rages Hammer gets a small damage bump. .

I have seen one and exactly one on every map I''ve played so far. In some cases it replaced an existing drop. In others it was at a new spot. I was ging to suggest it is a new Batteries drop but then I read this. And now that I thnk about it a Battery drop doeesn't really make sense. :) Possibly yes. Probably no.

The teams will be divided randomly. With hundreds probably thousands of players in the War the number who bought the ES thing will be functionally the same across all three factions. Now will one team and one team only tell all their members to buy the ES thing? Maybe but there's two practical shortcomings to this. Te first is most players who hear this "command" will just do what they were going to do anyway. Second, a clear majority of team players will never hear the "command" anyway. So they will do what they were going to do anyway. Same thing. The number of players who will buy the ES thing, before or during, will be roughly even. This is more a thing to gain more containers for one's own self than it is a way to buy a War win. And if one team does buy a War win ... meh. So what? They will end up paying probably $10 for each bonus container they get from winning. Meanwhile every other War participant gets what they earned which is a damn sight more than the 3 daily missions. At a cost of ZEEEROHHH. There's any number of reasons in the world to knot up panties. This ain't one of 'em.

Interface facelift is mu pick.

Again, so what? It is TO's property to sell at what price they think best. They are telling players what will happen. Players can decide if they want to grind for something that will go on sale later, or they can decide to not do so. What's the big fat hairy deal? I guess ppl with these paints think they drive around the game and everyone else playing creams their jeans with jealousy. But that is not what happens. What happens is fancy paint tank can fight well or not. It's just easier to remember that. My jeans remain cream-free. So let TO sell the Shiny Things to the chumps, eh? They pay we play.

They just changed HAmmer to 25% weak damage from 10%. Does this mean Hammer can now shoot across the map for 25% damage? A shotgun? Shooting grapeshot? Meanwhile Smoky as 10% weak damage? I hope there is some range limit to Hammer where damage falls to 0. This is probably the turret I've uses least so I hope I am just flat out wrong here.

Hammer shoots slow so it isn't as good at disrupting RK as, say Smoky. OTOH Smoky cannot just blow away 2/3s of a mammoth in one shot. Different turrets have different strengths and weaknesses. The stated reason is not a problem it is an intended feature.

Sounds like a command a Control Freak would utter. Say where'd you find the construction firm that build glass houses? A: Off Topic post this elsewhere. B: Don't post this elsewhere. It makes you look foolish to co,plain about buyers in a JN game. No buyer can buy the Jug. [eye roll] I doubt any "noob" wins this contest Easy Stars or not. If you want to show off with fancy skins than in most cases you pay for it. If you just want to play the game you don't have to pay. Not only do I accept this system I applaud it. I call it "Pay 2 Strut". You wanna strut? Sit at your PC 12 hours a day or cough up a few pieces of silver.

Coming from control freak #1. "Don't open Containers! It's gambling!!!!!!! I am against gambling so I want TO to remove containers. I don't like ASL so remove ASL from the game. I don't like Paints so remove Paints from Contianers. I don't like Drones so I'll tell other players they'll be eliminated soon." And you call others control freaks. Look Little Mind, the reason for the title is there is a section for these threads and they are all all named thusly. Not my creation genius. Forum protocol genius. Only forum mods can create the topic in that section genius. So well us all Wise One... why shouldn't there be a permanent threadt devoted to drones? Enlighten us all.

I brought up the modes only because the Railgun whiner was whining about his special modes. Well most of us don't get any special modes so excuuuuuuuuuuuuse mmmmmmeeeeeeee if I don't see those special modes are vital design criteria. They are not vital. They are entirely optionjal to the core game. If the new system and the old system are the same system then why two years of Rail gun whiners wnating the old system back. Players don't pine for a return to underpowered status. But let's say you are right. The new system and the old system are the same. That means I will never hear another Railgunner whine for the old system now nearly two years dead. Something tells me I will though.

Yes I do not understand why the refusal to correct what is an obvious need.

I wrote the first part thinking, "Maybe that tank had the Trooper Drone". Then I posted it. After that I looked at the images closer. I saw the Trooper Drone some my guess was no longer a guess but an observations. So I edited my posting to include the yellow text. It was to confirm my guess in part 1.

No you will get 10.

No "cheater" can take away my containers I earn in this War. It is just an event to break up the routine. Everyone who participates comes out way ahead. You really come off as a phum duck here. Since you hate TO so much just quit. So what if someone buys a cosmetic skin? How does that matter to you? Funny, wen I post a comment on a public message board I know ahead of time it might garner response. If you don'w want feedback keep your opinion to yourself. How about that?

Yes. Pro battles are ripe for exploit. What I wonder is how many years will pass with the Pro section not part of TO events 100% of the time before players will catch on to the fact Pro battles are excluded from TO events 100% of the time? We're up to 1.5 years now and still counting. When will it end? This was a hige nit of info just wedged in there. This changes to much. I thought War 2 would take along time but in this system each team should be taking 5+ provinces a turn. If just 1 player votes to take a neutral or undefended province it is captured! Then they they get the Wasp skin. This is not about new skins this is about old equipment from before 2018.

Yeah me too ... or a year+ passes lol. But at lower MU levels the drone can sustain supplies a good while so long as the kills are coming in. It might be one of the more benfical ones. Bottom line I don't see them as overly effective. That is assuming batteries are dirt cheap. With super expensive ones they have microscopic returns on cost.

Half? I wish it were half. I see l like 90% Cyrillic. There is something to this but I think the effect is overstated. There's really no excuse why people who have looged hundreds of hours in a game have not learned certain core team principles. Action is too fast for typed communication anyway. What is needed are players who just know how to fall in with other players. You see that in about 20% of the players and the rest ... as Wolv posted you gotta wonder how they ever got to upper ranks. I have never played a established game with a playe4r base so unskilled at their chosen game. SMH.

I'm not missing the point I just do not se any ethical issue here. If TO did not make it clear there was an "Easy Star" program that'd be an ethical failure. Anyone interested in that prize should be interested enough to read all the rules to the event. We do not know if easy stars will be required to win this or not. We have not see easy stars yet. But I agree you are right that it must help a lot. Anyway TO has to monitize the game somehow. To me a preferable way to make money is selling chrome to people motivated by perceived status symbols. I don't see an issue here. The entire War event is after all just a fun container give-away. Evreyone wins at this War.

Over the long haul this sort of thing might well shave some time. Interesting. For me thiough the long haul is several turns of War. 5 stars / day over the event adds up. It is not much more than doing three missions. So the War need not be a big burnout thing like War #1.

Drones vanish when they do their job. e.g. When I run over a supply box with my Engineer equipped the drone will swoop down towards my tank and vanish. When the Battery recharge cycle comes around the Drone will swoop back up to follow behind. You could have easilly seen this sort of thing here. I saw an enemy spawn with supplies active. It was a freeze that had been running amok. I knew it had a drone. So when I saw the drugs go up and experienced him killing me instead of my planned reverse outcome, I reckoned that drone he had was Trooper. Here's the thing. I do not remember if I saw the drone when he spawned. I remembered seeing a drone with him earlier but I was not looking for it when the enemy went solid. In theory Trooper would trigger as soon s the tank goes solid. Then it'd swoop out of sight for a recharge cycle. BUT ... Drones you own are not visible until a second or two after you go solid. You spawn, you go solid, then a moment later you hear 'beep beep' and your drone pops up. But Trooper works instantly as you go solid. Then it goes out of sight too. This might just happen so fast enemy tanks never see the drone itself. . So all these sightings and bug reports might just be spawns with Troop Drone owners. It is probably a good idea to look for drones next time you see this bug . Watch that tank 10 -15 seconds later to see if Trooper is back ==== AHA! I took a closer look at the images you posted. It is grainy... but that drone you see is ... is ... is ... Trooper. Is no Bug. Is Drone. Drone look like bug but is drone. Is not bug.

IMO TO's root mistake was treating this as a long range gun. That is not where it is effective. It is effective at shorter ranges when targets can be seen or at least the area they are near can be seen, where accuracy is higher, and where shell flight time is short. It sh9ould have been designed as a short-range attack support platform. But no Russian could be brought to do that. Arty is the backbone of Russian ground forces and I am sure the Russian military nerds are all over that. So "Magnum" had to be named "Magnum", have a bigggglonnnng barrel (Calling Dr Freud) and be designed to shoot realllll bigggg loads (etunrn call for Dr Freud) all over the map. (Don't shine a black light on it.) If they had designed it to be used as it IS used they'd give it shorter range, faster firing time, and damn smaller explosions and splahd radius. Then iit might be the indirect fire weapon to root out dung in defenders. As is it is the Tolkein Elf of TO. The embodiment of OP-ness. Rarer I'd say yes but not the follow0up and rarer. ;) Of course it has to get rrer. Freeze was just made the new OP Queen. The OP addicts always flock to the new narcotic.

Or just re-set your time zone on your computer clock.

OK this thread creates the topic. The thread needs to exist. but I cannot create a thread in that section. Just create one OK?