Yeah, Hunter seems to get the short end of the stick on retention. Getting stunned puts it to almost zero. That's hardly fair. And if it dies before it gets off OD it loses a LOT of charge there as well.

There's only 2 real counters to an EMP Gauss. AP or another EMP Gauss. If they have one of those hull immunities then there's only 1 counter. Gawd I can't wait until Hopper gets it's OD-charge nerf. So many of them in Rugby and they ALWAYS seem to have OD charged. It's just sad the game has come to this.

So a P2W augment. Not good for the game long-term. It should never have been introduced in the first place. It's basically for buyers or the very, very few lucky players. When was the last contest that offered Gauss EMP as a prize? A tear ago? And as a contest, how many winners can there be? It IS much stronger than stock - it's not even close. So what if you give up 25% damage. It takes away the targets supplies including DA which is 50%. And it can fire faster than stock - can get off another shot before supplies cool down. Even if the Gauss does not kill target in one shot it can do so on the second, or one of it's team-mates can more easily kill the now "naked" target.

Gauss does not do as much damage as Striker or Shaft. Hence no laser. They should decrease the lock-on time for striker though to make salvo more useable.

Now you want to include ODs? How does Isida+viking compare to... Rail or smoky+viking OD? Could the Isida even get in range? drone cancels drone and DA cancels DD. So you are just working with Booster? So sure, for ... 3 seconds booster gives it a huge damage boost. But it does the same thing for any turret, not just isida. You probably get one-shot by hammer or Rail when enemy is using booster. How is that different from isida using booster? or Firebird?

Was not saying firebird+IM is the best. I was just giving a comparison for Isida - there are a number of short-range turrets that do similar damage. The recent boost to Isida is still within the parameters of other similar turrets.

Well, to be fair, add in drone for defender (+5% defense) and then add DA (and possibly Defender) Is it still doing 7245 damage?

and multiple targets...

One target. What does firebird+IM do?

Isida used to be my most-used turret. Then they ruined it. I hardly ever use it now as trying to score by healing leaves you at bottom of score-list. Now it does a lot of damage. So does Firebird+IM and it can damage multiple targets. For Isida range did you leave out a "0"? 2m is... quite short.

Boooooo

I'd say much easier to drop a wasp bomb with mk1 than it is for ares mk1 to get into decent position to hit a target with that slow-moving OD. How about Titan? How long you think an mk1 will last in MM battles versus those using mk7 equipment? Mammoth mk1 would take half of the battle-time to get into any position on maps like Alexandrovich.

Which is why low-ranks should be confined to smaller maps with fewer players = easier to get a battle going. Rank 22 (Colonel) playing Legend is brutal. I've seen even worse than that. I'd never start a new account now - it's ridiculous.

Well since the bomb damage is NOT tied to MK-level...

Thanks - I must have revised while you "fixed" mine. LOL

I know - my suggestion was removal. So they go ahead and increase the number of players. I refuse to play on that dumb map. And put 20 on Future - the same as Chernobyl? For Isida they should have boosted it's healing score. Who's gonna want to spend that energy healing when you can do a LOT more damage. It's basically a firebird+incendiarymix but can only attack 1 player.

Nerf was needed badly. Could have been more...

More Clan vs randoms battles, and I was in a CTF battle that was 5 vs 6 the entire battle. No 6th tank joined our team - ever.

What is this?

Agreed. Impact only seems to affect light hulls. Medium and heavy hulls just shrug it off. So you are trading some damage for a faster shell. Get more hits at long range but - damage will drop a lot because of loss of critical which suffers no range penalty to damage.

One hull - hopper - scores more than 50% of the caps in Rugby and CTF. You'll have to do better than that.

MM is absolute trash. If I'm not on the team with a player that has GS 3000 to 4000 below average GS in that battle, I'm on the team with random players facing a Clan. LOL.

I think you can hide one after the fact.

I don't have it, so it's already like it does not exist. ?

I'll take the 75%. Done! ?