Nah - I agree with Tide. Mammoth is OP - I have it on my alt account. That OD is waaaay better than Hunter - which I have on same account. The 1 second delay and being blocked by even small objects makes Hunter OD weak. probably a 25% failure rate when trying to use. Viking may not be 1 min for recharge but it is a LOT faster than 4 minutes because the kills boost it - and that's what Viking OD is designed for - making kills.

So Hunter's OD should also work through objects? Like, why do those little walls in Sandal prevent me from zapping targets? Was a poor design - should be a pulse that radiates out from the Hunter like a ripple on water. Anything in range should be affected. And we should see that ripple effect so we can actually tell what the range is.

A shop kit? with real $$? Of course a buyer can get M4s the moment m3s are unlocked. That was not the discussion.

No one (except buyers ) have the funds to MU to next modification completely on 50/75 sales. They don't happen very often. The moment you MU on a sale less than that you are losing crystals. What Kit did you buy at Major-General that gave you a Thunder M3 to start MU-ing already?

Terrible advice for resource management. If you use speed-ups - even on 75% sale - you are wasting crystals. Buying MUs - even without sale - is cheaper than buying MUs on sale with speedups on sale.

M4s by Marshal? Not without speed-ups. Which is contrary to your advice. And you've missed the point entirely. :rolleyes: I'm not surprised.

I agree - the changes made are to generate profit. And this can work - for a time. Older players who stayed a long time are leaving. being replaced by younger "mobile" players. This is just My Opinion - but - I don't think the new players will stay around as long. Which means they need to recruit more and more all the time to make up for the loss of the mainstays. And the other half of that coin - "not improving the quality" - will eventually be the downfall. With quality NOT improving, I see more and more players jumping ship - even the new recruits. It will then be self-perpetuating as less players = longer waiting time = more players leaving. If buyers have fewer F2Ps to beat on, and have to wait longer for battles, they will stop buying. It's a negative feedback loop. Think ODs on a winning team - only opposite.

I play less because I'm not happy with the way the game has changed so much. The game has moved along - not me. And even when you reach Legend, you are still at a disadvantage for quite some time. Most of the players you now play against have been in this tier for a while. They have maxed out protections, multiple combos of hulls/turrets at m4, alterations and drones - upgraded. Takes a lot of crystals and time. A FTP tanker at L1 only has some of that. A buyer at L1 can easily have ALL of that. F2P players can compete. But, until they've built up a better garage over a much longer time, it can be very, very difficult. many of the updates recently are designed to benefit buyers. Drones and battles passes are two examples.

Brutus is there for low-ranked players to get an advantage over others with less crystals. At low ranks players (excepting buyers) have not built up a large war-chest. They have to make decisions. Buy a new turret OR upgrade a hull OR buy a drone. In many cases this drone will not be the better choice - especially if you can't MU it quickly. Players with lots of crystals (aka buyers) don't have to make those decisions. They can buy a new turret AND upgrade a hull AND buy the drone AND also upgrade the drone.

Why can't you save containers over 2 or 3 or even 4 weeks? that's up to 12 containers. No one forces you to open them immediately. (won't really make a difference in what you get, but... still...)

The game is much less enjoyable than it was 1 or 2 or 3 years ago. I play less and a great many others as well. And it's not because I grew tired of the game I started with. it's because of the changes introduced over past few years. They all add up to "death by a thousand cuts". The mobile players TO is courting will not stick around half as long as many of the "veteran" players have. The current model will not be sustainable as the "new generation" will lose interest pretty quickly.

Once upon a time it felt that way... was either just coincidence, or... they have changed the % recently. I always save up and open multiple containers... min of 5 but usually closer to 10. Only thing other than supplies (and a few 3500 crys) I'm getting is paints. And not animated paints - just lousy container paints.

Getting a 10% boost to armor and attack is not bad at low ranks. Same boost that Thunder & Vulcan get in going from m1 to m2... Adds another 50% to the armor Mammoth gets in going from m0 to m1.

I agree. Does not matter if I open 1... 5.... 10. All I get nowadays is supplies and useless paints.

I bet the full MU cost will be 5x or even 10x that. heck... 20x that...

And then they introduce a drone available at low ranks :D :lol: :lol:

All I got over past 2-3 weeks from 2 accounts are... Supplies... supplies... supplies... supplies... with a smattering of 3500crys and a few crappy paints. They have definitely lowered the rewards. This was last week Wolverine is doing MM as I had a leftover weekly mission completed. Rewards just not worth the hassle of MM.

Depends on where you are when u activate. Sure if desperate, may not be great location. Plant it near enemy base and spawn-kill them. Also - you are better off with ranged turret of course. Freeze and Fire with Titan? Not so much...

Not for buyers ;) Gives them another 10% advantage in the early stages.

I don't get why Viking OD gives turrets with reload a boost in damage. The super-fast reload should be enough. And that also means reload weapons are way better than DPS weapons - since DPS only gets the damage boost. Don't forget Titan OD gives a damage reduction of 85% on top of the healing. It takes multiple tanks to bring down one tank inside the dome.

Might as well give buyers a head-start right? How many MUs do you think low-rankers can afford? And how many batteries do you think low-rankers will have accumulated? Face it - the only players who will really be able to use this drone at low rank are buyers. Spot-'em a 5%-10% advantage right off the bat <_<

Might be cheap to buy... but wait until you try to upgrade past 3 or 4 levels. Bet you need to sell a body-part or family member. True dat... And they should have included Death-track or Skylark instead of Stadium

Where Twins needs a nerf is on the Impact. it's too much for that constant firing. I don't think the splash is a buff for twins - the area of effect is very small - and it is self-damaging. Twins users have to choose between removing the self-damage or getting extended range. Ricco can kill light and medium hulls fairly quickly because of it's rapid-fire. Might have a bit more difficult time with heavy hulls that have both DA and Module vs Ricco. I was disappointed with the Ricco range nerf as well. Would like to see that reversed (won't hold my breath) or - maybe - they tweak damage upward a bit at m3 and above so it has possibility of killing heavy protected hulls.

On medium and smaller maps the Mammoth OD is OP. Almost impossible to stop it from capping. But I agree wasp needs to be subject to damage from it's own bomb.

Giving up? Hardly. I have 47% protections and 18/20 items. That's not the problem. I really, really hate the OverDrives. Can't stand them. They take away so much of the skill of the game. I buy Pro-Battle Pass and play no supply battles. Way better than dying every 15 seconds the way it goes in MM now.