Not if your on a team getting wrecked (happens A LOT. No balance). Three minutes into the battle you can tell if it is worth-while. At that point people start bailing, looking for greener pastures because, as we all know, the reward (crystals) is based mostly on how the team does. When people bail, the team suffers more. Those that remained get very little reward. You think they will stick around next time?

Agree with what TBC says above. I find that with firebird I can often kill it with my Isida, but I die as well, even if it is a couple seconds later. Stalemate. Additionally, what turret and hull are you using when having trouble killing the Isida that has "40% protection"? Map also plays a role - especially if you are using long-range turret on small map, or map that has a lot of cover.

Thunder is half-descent at long range since it has 50% "weak damage". Smoky, apart from lucky Crit Hit only does 10% "weak damage". So Thunder effective medium-range to long range. Smoky mostly effective at medium range, as it can't really compete with the short-range turrets (Twins, Firebird, Freeze, Hammer and now Isida)

Since isida lost it's self-healing how is it any tougher to kill than any other turret with 40% Protection? Twins up close with unlimited shots, firebird (with afterburn and alt), and freeze circling you as it turns you to block of ice are all difficult short-range opponents.

Whew. ;)

Sure that helps healing. But good luck when attacked... Isida with that alteration won't be leaving the comfort of the base - ever. Would get boring fast.

But that's 2 vs 1. Is expected. In any combination of combatants. If two hammers approached, who you think they gonna target? Isida now has to choose - defend itself or heal. If it defends it runs out of "fuel" quickly. If it has been constantly healing it is likely at half-fuel or less. Somewhat helpless.

You don't think +50% xp and +100% crystals in battles is a "bonus"?

1) same for every tank trying to get into position. You don't enjoy killing a freeze-viking that just spawned and can't get cover in time? 2) same for any camper. And... you're complaining about your supplies wearing off? 3) Use DD. DD & DA basically counter each other. 4) Not necessarily true. Position yourself better so you can hit enemies in wider area of map. 5) Seen shafts in Polygon and Noise. You end up using Arcade-shot more, but that is quite powerful too. 6) better positioning (again) better team and more communication will reduce this 7) As are most long-range weapons. It's fair as an isida is pretty defenseless against shaft at long-range, right? 8) Without laser Shaft would be ridiculously OP - instant death with no way to find the shooter... 9) Magnum is new. Who knows what tweaks will happen after it has been studied. 10) see 9 ... and... very few have protections against it since - it just came out. Yeah, isida currently has no useful alterations while Firebird has a great one. It's pretty even 1 vs 1. Biggest diff is afterburn. If Firebird can get the jump and can get away it will kill more often. whereas Isida will still likely die even once it has killed the firebird.

Why? Kits give you early unlock (big advantage) and often are cheaper if you want the major components. Not quite the savings now with updates on kit (non-extra-discounts) and MUs cheaper. But before that Kits were the way to go.

Hope this is sarcasm :huh:

Saw three of them (magnums) the other night in that small map with all the little walls (forget the map name). Was ridiculous all of them firing at point-blank range and just wrecking everything.

Depends on what battles you play and your style. Without critical smoky is terrible at longer ranges. However, since the lower M-levels have a much lower chance now, sacrificing that small % chance for critical might be worth trade off for the extra impact. I have not bought any of the alterations.

One caveat. Yes you get free supplies by completing missions. However, what you get is not proportionate. At a rough guess we are getting 1 RK for every 5 or 6 of the other supplies. example... 400 xp in CP mode for 2 RK and 12 DA. And so on. If a non buyer then has to play in "normal battles" they end up fighting a lot of tankers who bought the large supply kits. Those large supply kits contain 1000 of each supply, including RK. So a Pro-Battler going up against a tanker who regularly buys the supply kits does not stand a chance - they will run out of RK way sooner. The cost of RK is 3x the cost of other supplies (150 vs 50). So why is the supply kit handing over a disproportionate amount of RK?

"Given every day following the day when Premium is activated, and as long as Premium is active"... every. day. Wow. So each month an extra 75,000 crystals, 90 Repair Kits and 300 each of rest of supplies. Same reward for each rank. What's the lowest rank you can use supplies?

Hammer won't be doing same damage at long range though. Different roles.

Oh - I wasn't blaming Cedric - was just looking for clarification. I had no "horse in this race" - did not have the RKs in garage to attempt it. Those that feel they've been jobbed though might have a legitimate complaint.

Please show where above is in the Terms and Conditions.

Switch away then...

Why? Against freeze Isida would never win - it would slow you down and keep moving away, staying out of reach. Firebird still has an area of effect right? Can get multiple tanks? And it can burn then flee, damaging you as it runs away. Isida can only attack one at a time.

Those missions are mostly for when you don't have lots of time but would like to keep the mission chain going. Kind of like collect 2 repair kits for 4 Double-Armor. You could change it - and end up with "Finish First 3 times". Waaaaaay better reward but much, much harder to do. Sometimes it's good to have some easy ones.

Question - if a tanker made kills in battle but left before the battle ended, were those kills "counted" toward completing the contest?

Smoky nerfed again. Before update my smoky critical did 771 dmg @ 20%. After update my smoky critical does 758 dmg @ 19.6% It's death by a thousand cuts for smoky. Every update shaves something off it's ability to perform.

Some interpretations and observations of update... Crystal missions - Basically forces a losing team to stay in lop-sided battle and continue to be "wrecked". At least with XP missions your xp counts toward mission as you play... Smoky critical - before update mine was 20% @ 771 dmg. After update it is 19.6% @ 758 dmg. So both Crit% & Crit dmg were nerfed. WHY?

Ah... I forgot about the bounce self-damage. My bad.