Assault? ?

I don't play MM for Challenges. But if I want to earn income and complete missions I have to play MM. And that means I'm stuck with all the players and the behavior I mention above - a huge negative on the game IMO.

Well 160 represents about +13% on average damage of 1200. +13% is more than the max allowed by Brutus done. So if the damage buff & nerf offset each other, that leaves a net 20% impact buff. IMO that's a consistent upgrade.

What was it... 3 years ago? Or even 2 years ago?

Go to Shop - it's there at top. Premium + Battle Pass.

False eh? It's easier to snipe from where you sit in your base than it is to take time to speed across the map - especially large maps like highways - and die with no results. Same thing for Siege where you are a sitting duck for hornet-gauss that get mass kills with one shot. Why do you think hornet is so popular? It allows such easy kills that every battle might as well be TDM. It was way more efficient to barely move and kill with hornet+long-distance-turret than it is to fail at capping a flag and needing to respawn with nothing to show for it. There are more than a few campers "taking pride in their kd". Have you not seen any of the screen-shots showing 4-5 campers IN ONE SPOT? Where do you get off saying what a valid reason is? I hope you don't hurt yourself as you fall off that very, very high horse. When you say "sniping weapons" from my profile? Do you mean the mk1 Rail & mk1 shaft? Seriously? The time spent on those are statistically insignificant - a TOTAL of 3.6 hours way, way early in my "career".

Waiting for you to describe the "fun" part...

Because Challenges ruin MM battles. They change the behavior of team-mates. It's ALL about maximizing stars for many - and they ignore the battle mode. When you see 5 or 6 campers in CP - that's players just trying to get as many kills as possible - in CP. And... remember those threads you started on players leaving battles? Well - Challenges are a major contributor. Once players realize they may not get 3 (or even 2) stars - they bail. Even when they are on the team that is winning. Plus there's more sabotage. I had team-mates try to push me away from cap-points, or "accidentally" prevent me from capping a flag. The quality of battles would be a whole lot better if Challenges were to go away.

Everyone knows hornet is the Devs favorite. It's their baby and it can do no wrong.

In theory you would think so... 1-2720 = 1360 avg damage. Is it a Bell curve? Does it hit the avg damage more often then the outliers? But it does raise the avg damage by 160 - that is not insignificant. And it gets a +20% impact on top of that. Sounds like a true upgrade to me.

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Depends on your definition of "profitable". If you don't pay for batteries, using them costs you nothing. If you are having trouble completing a mission without a drone it could certainly be worth it to equip one part-way through the battle.

You won't get 5 seconds for fire with 20% penalty. Really don't see the point of this alteration - stock seems better.

Why not? You have the batteries. As you keep ranking up you will meet more and more enemies that use drones - many 24/7. If you don't make use of something that powerful you will find it increasingly difficult to compete and get missions done.

Trust me - you will.

Well this is why you are lucky then - not the DA & DD. And batteries are better than DA & DD because they are way harder to get. Don't you have thousands of DA & DD? I think my Marshall account has ~ 16k DD and 18k DA.

That's a waste of an overdrive. Why would you need to protect the sniper that is 1) hiding and 2) far away from most enemies.

Stock striker is weak - I have it at mk7.20. Does not do well at all. My other 3 turrets perform way, way better. The left-right tubes means that 20% of your shots are missed because you lost track of which tube was ready - especially when you are running around dodging enemies. If you are sitting still maybe not an issue. But you don't often have the luxury to sit still. Lock on in MM battles does not occur very often. Almost every enemy has SB and moves way too fast for lock-on. And then there's the copious amount of cover. Striker might get lock-on in certain situations like when there's a bunch of enemies trying to cap a point in Siege. But that makes it a very situational turret. The EMP Gauss can see you trying to get a lock-on (LASER). Guass does not have that so has a huge advatnage over you. The Gauss that sits there trying to target you while under the laser is a noob. Like I said - looks good on paper - but in an actual battle striker gets a lot of misses with it's shots. it is not efficient.

You don't already have enough DD, DA, etc? F41TH said "worthy". I would guess that implies augments, skins and things like Premium.

And why do you think they love those more? Because they are much, much easier to use. On paper striker might seem fine. In practice - not so much. The left-right tubes is one of the biggest impediments to using it - but not the only one. EMP Gauss makes striker look like a toy. I can battle other strikers, even when not using that module. Against EMP gauss it's a lost cause. That "augment" is ridiculous.

It does NOT. Already tried that - same crap as always.

Not as relevant now - since you can/need to buy all mk levels. But a few years back when they separated protections from paints it was relevant. I had the original Cherry paint from a Kit and it had m1-vulcan/m2-twins/m2-Thunder. When they separated the protections I was left with m1-vulcan and I was a Marshal. So I was stuck and could not upgrade the vulcan. But if you bought the same kit AFTER that, you got all 3 protections at m3! Talk a bout bad timing...

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In general yes. But not in THAT situation. 2 dictators boosting 1 team-mate - all located in one corner of the map? Waste of dictators OD.

It was true but with stipulations. You can't upgrade for free if you had unlocked the item 2 above the one you were upgrading. If you had m1 item you were upgrading and then unlocked the m3 version, you could not get the m2 for free when m1 was m1.10. In this case upgrading the m1 further was a waste of crystals.