It has just occurred to me that the Shell Destabilization alteration actually increases the Railgun's average damage... And by a considerable amount too...

I'm well aware of that. But that's half my complaint. I earned the overdrive, just like everyone else, so I should be the one rolling in its power, just like everyone else. But I don't, because I'm the only hull who has to split their power with the whole team*. *I know I'm not technically "splitting" the power, but they probably reduced the overdrive's boost on the Hornet itself in favor of making it affect teammates, so it's essentially splitting power.

I rarely chat because it seems most of the people in the battle don't speak English

A Hornet ignoring your protections will deal 100% of its turret's damage to you. Judging from the V-log, Viking's overdrive seems to boost firerate (and by extension DPS) by about 10 times. Slap on a 50% protection and that gets reduced to 5 times. That's 500%. It's even more if you consider that Viking's overdrive also grants infinite ammo and invincibility from self-damage. Also consider that regardless of the protections of the tank that Hornet is shooting, it will always deal a max of 100% its turret's damage. But depending on the protections of that target that Viking is shooting, it could be dealing anywhere from 500% to 1,000% of its turret's damage. That's 5 TO 10 TIMES HORNET. Now tell me how protection ignore can even COMPARE to this. Neither do the overdrives of any other hull.

The Thunder and Hammer in the V-log were shooting faster than Twins, so I'm pretty sure it's a lot more than +100% reload rate. Also the V-log said the overdrive will give infinite ammo and no self-damage.

That's literally encouraging people to make their team lose

X-ray vision is actually pretty useless. So what if I can see you hiding in your base? I can't shoot you, unless I'm a Magnum. I can still only see in the direction my turret faces, so it's not much good against backstab either. X-ray vision doesn't make me stronger. I won't get massive damage like viking will, a second set of supplies like dictator will, or invincibility/near-invincibility like titan and mammoth will. I'll just be exactly as good/bad in a fight as I'd be without x-ray vision. What use is it to me to have my teammates get boosted as well? They're not going to be any more willing to help me. Most likely they'll just use it for themselves. I earned the overdrive, not my teammates. It would make more sense if all the other overdrives boosted teammates as well. I don't understand why I should have to share the benefits of my overdrive with my wasps, my vikings, my mammoths, etc. when their overdrive is not going to help me back. Might sound a bit selfish but I mean, Tanki puts a lot on competition inside teams too. Protection ignore: "Wow that's so good" No it's not. If you think about it, this just gives you a damage bonus equivalent to 100% divided by (100% - protection percentage) to only enemies protected against you. That means at most 2x damage against 50% protections. Now think about viking and dictator.

I agree with this fully and completely. However I think it should not be top 4, but top 2 or 3.

Also was 15101216451 an isida or something?

I don't think it cools you down anymore, so you'll just keep burning after you repair. There's been times when I've killed a Firebird after it burned me to max, slapped on an RK, healed to full, and then got lowered to half-health again by the remaining burn damage FeelsBadMan

I actually think the biggest cause of Firebird being so OP is this one thing: Double Damage boosts Firebird's heating rate. Double Armor does not counter that. So Firebird is the only case where you cannot fully counter a Double Damage with a Double Armor. The other cause is that it heats up too fast in general.

Personally, I think you guys are leaving out something. Back before, when you could choose battles, everyone was trying to join the winning team, which made battles pretty unbalanced. Also there was the issue that the first person who joined could get a head start and cap flags and collect supplies before there was anyone to oppose them, which made their team start with an advantage. I know because I saw it and also did it myself too

Hornet's overdrive seems quite underpowered tbh. The vision part actually gives near-zero benefit and the protection ignore is considerably outweighed by the other overdrives once you think about it.

Well the thing is, even the slightest reduction in your speed will allow the Freeze to gain on you, which gets you into the positive-feedback-loop i mentioned earlier.

Yeah no. One second later I might as well be a statue.