So Rail modules really are as weak as I suggested and, unless there's a LOT of them on enemy team, not worth equipping.

This is confusing...

My second account uses Vulcan as main turret. I meant what got the 15% nerf? Stock? That nerf had nothing to do with IB. It came after the giant bump in damage when they switched to bullets because Vulcan was then OP. So stock and IB both suffer the same 15% damage nerf. And I used stock vulcan a lot before I ever got HI, and it was fine. So IB has slower bullets and will take self-damage, but does a lot more damage than stock once overheating kicks in. You can still use DA + Heat Resistance so you don't self destruct while burning enemies. You just don't have god-mode-on anymore. That exactly what I used before I got HI, and it was fine. IB working with HI equipped was just dumb, and had to be changed.

All these unannounced changes ... LOL. So 50% module worth 30% now. Not totally useless but 20% is still a big cut considering how many crystals were spent to get there.

once you start seeing autocannon there's almost no reason to equip that module. 75% of the damage comes from critical shots which... ignore the module. majority of Railgun shots are normal. But what's the actual damage splits?

Nerfed damage of what by 15%?

You realize IB came out a while before HI hull augment - and players were doing fine with that and fire module - which served the same purpose as the current Heat Resistance.

Yes. In the end it evens out. If you keep attempting to kill the JUG, during the course of the battle you will get some kill-steals and lose some kills because of that. Just keep shooting and you get rewarded (unless most of your team sits back - then good luck!)

IB did not come with slower turret rotation. Vulcan has always been poor in close-quarters unless you used the RAT augment. IB+HI was silly - it should never have worked based on the required mechanics. You can still use Heat Resistance + DA in order to burn multiple targets and still survive. Only if many of your targets equip HI will you be at a disadvantage. And with 1) the change to IB and 2) many other status effects out there - the odds of many of your targets equipping HI have dropped a LOT.

1) Sniping in moderation is fine. But if I join a team and there are 4 shafts out of 8 I will leave that team. 2) You already get battle points for damaging enemies - it's called assists. 3) Getting kills/assists evens out in the long run. You complain about losing the kill (and points) one time, and the next it might be you doing the "kill-stealing". Your idea to award "damage" points in addition to what is already awarded will skew the battle-score system. In a CP battle more players will sit back and just shoot enemies instead of trying to cap. That ruins the battle-mode.

Would be opposite of what you say - especially for players who have just unlocked mk6 - like Thunder at Brigadier. If they play only 1 hr per day (or less) then their MUs will be done faster compared to their ranking. Instead of waiting until Marshal to get mk7 they can work their way upward. They will need every bit of power since they are forced to fight against Legends by this time due to MM.

So... encourage camping? No thanks.

Then you might as well change the name of the drone as you are creating a new one. And how do you "activate a certain effect" if there's no switching mode? That's the entire premis of Crisis.

Well since I haven't played on either of my two accounts for over 2 weeks now...

Why Rail? Rail has one of the highest critical occurrences, which ignores the module. And when there's no critical, it does a lot less damage. Basically don't equip a module when the turret has a damage boost. It is a waste since the turret ignores the module when it's doig max damage.

Not a chance I create a new account now. It has so many disadvantages it's not worth my time.

Depends on the map. If twins can stay in range a good portion of the battle it will definitely have advantage with much better rotation and much better impact.

It cuts in half the "critical" damage even when that "critical" damage is not boosted? That just seems messed up.

You need to do better research. Booster is not +100%. It's +200% and Defender is +150%. Even with a fully upgraded module the Defender loses. No amount of protection? Titan dome will certainly help. And the viking can be killed during that 7 seconds by another tank - it's not 1vs1 dueling you know. If Viking dies after 2 seconds it loses OD retention. Viking only gets 4 ODs per battle with help. With help other ODs happen a lot more than that. As for your supplies... you must hit 2-3-4 the moment you spawn. Try to at exhibit at least some management. Maybe you need to learn to play even a little bit of the battle without that crutch. I stand by my comment that using up supplies does not make an OP item "balanced".

It's already too late. They jumped the shark.

This argument is not really relevant anymore. There's like 14 protections, so the odds of a target using Thunder protection is much lower than it used to be. I haven't equipped that in 2 years. Additionally, modules became a lot less potent with the introduction of critical hits and also status effects.

If players use strong augments for other turrets and Thunder does not have that, wouldn't that make it weak?

Well once you can't use HI, IB definitely will be less effective than it was before.

Is that your nick-name for it? Or do you keep repeating the same typo? ?

And once you get to the end stages of MUs for mk7 items, you need a long time for the MU to finish. If the sales have little time between, you either miss out on the next MU-discount, or use a speed-up to finish it off and start a new one on the sale.