While I agree that Magnum is a risk-free turret you're trading off a lot of opportunity to get kills as say, for example, a drugging Smoky or Twins. And it's just not easy to use, I have no idea where that came from. You can't turn your turret. You have to calculate angle and power, where other turrets you just point-and-click. Sure you can stay in your base and take potshots but you have to be either EXTREMELY lucky or just stay there for much of the match just to figure out the perfect angle and perfect amount of power to bombard the enemy base with. I'd have to say that TANKI has been making rather pointless updates needless to say. Ricochet splash damage is almost nothing and Twins splash is more of a balancing factor than it is as a gameplay-improving feature. Hammer shot bouncing- that's just a joke, it's only good for killing yourself in battle. Next thing we know TANKI's gonna be adding splash damage for smoky...

I'd say after a little time using it that it is extremely effective only on maps where there are a good amount of walls. The best part of magnum is that you can essentially drop "bombs" on enemies of different elevations with great success which no other turret can do. Magnum also needs lower reload time (maybe decrease to around 3-4 seconds which is around half of the current reload time) or higher splash damage because it's intended usage as a long-range supressor is undermined a lot. You have to get the perfect angle to even deal damage at enemies which are dots on your screen, let alone score a direct hit. Higher splash damage will certainly make the Magnum more "artillery"-like in terms of gameplay style, especially since the current version deals maybe 200 damage maximum at the edge of the blast radius on the M1 variant which should really be at least 500-600. Lower reload time would make less sense but it's certainly an alternitave to increasing blast radius. Damage I feel should be more consistent. M1 version direct hits barely peak 1000 and only rarely do I see over 1300. It should have at least enough minimum damage to one-hit kill a light hull of equivelant modification level... maximum damage is rarely ever reached (if ever, I have never gotten over 1,500 damage dealt before) so there's no reason to change that. But the damage range needs to be decreased. Overall however it's probably one of the most effective turrets to use on a laptop computer (where you don't have a standalone mouse) and extremely deadly on closer-ranged maps where you can easily judge shots (and score direct hits on groups of clustered enemies) but not deal self-damage. Extremely long-ranges best be left to shaft-railgun snipers, though the shoot-behind-wall function means you are free to take potshots at shaft snipers from behind cover.

so ive been playing tanki for a short while. maybe around 2 month (i bought st. valentine kit which started up my p2w career). so i dont know much about anything besides twins spam+range alteration= all nups die and 10.5 k/d in all match MINMUM. but they increased rank brackets. now as i said i dont know much. what i do know is that im facing folks 5 rank higher than me and more and they have m2s. i have m1 and i dont have high enough rank for m2. i would have got all m2 when i could but at moment the only m2 i got was from osaka kit which, btw, is bad. so why are devs making m1 and m2 face off like they did with m0 and m1. honest i kno im being hypocrite cause i stomped recruit nups when i had m1 and they had m0 but face it. thats been like that for a while. so why isnt tanki making changes so that m1 can face off against m1, m2 against m2, m3 against m3 and m4 p2w micro-upgrades against m4. why it have to be m1 against m2 and m2 against m4. i dont get it maybe somebody can explain to me. i watch their v-log and i cant find any awnser. otherwise i wouldnt post a thread and get a whole bunch of haters attack me.

so f king done. even a p2w nup like my miserable ass cant compete with folks with m2s and 20 rank higher. once i get to w05 i got two options: rico m2 kit or railgun m2 kit. when i level up i can access hammer m2 and thunder m2; level up 2 more times and i get twins m2, and one more time i get smoky m2. i already have smoky 5/10 so i wanted to get one low-level m2 and one high-level m2. was gonna buy thunder m2 kit (simoom) but now they nerfed it so its barely better than m1. so rico m2 and twins m2? btw you could check my profile its insanely p2w. but i suck a lot so my high ass kd from blasting low ranks is long gone.

Guys whatever you do just don't buy the Magnum. I literally don't know how to use it with mouse; it works with "z" and "x" keys with keyboard but it's just such a bad gun. I have M1 and it can't even reliably one-hit kill M0 light hulls. Direct hit should be 1,000+ damage but I was dealing around 900 it's just complete BS. Striker against heavy hulls is pretty decent though. I prefer it to Thunder against heavy hulls, but the rockets travel a lot slower when you're using it than when you're facing off against it. But Magnum is unforgivably bad.

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At high ranks? What you talking about? The game is massively P2W from the start. Just look at my god damn P2W profile. I supercharged my account with 80 bucks and now I have a 4.49 K/D this game is BROKEN. I have to feel bad for the wasp-firebird M0 combos that die with 3 twins+double damage hits and how I can get 60 K/Ds in M0 battles. Sad thing is- I'm nearing the M2 buyer stage (kits galore) and even my almighty M1s are being kicked to hell by even more charged buyers. This game is just broken.

I'm just going to share my thoughts on the Twins M1 Alteration (the increased ranged one, I believe it's called the Plasma Core Accelerators). Orginally I said I would get the Thunder and be done with things, but now as you can see from my profile that's way out the window (Railgun, Smoky, Hammer, Twins are the M1s I have now). Personally the alteration is REALLY helpful for larger maps. Obviously you're not going to be sacrificing 20% reload speed on smaller maps for no reason, but if the map is just slightly larger than average then this 35,000 Crystal Alteration (it's 30% off now due to the sale, get it ASAP!). I mean I didn't even think the 100% extra range would be much; after all the default twins has really small range. But it's shockingly effective to keep even railgun and shaft snipers at bay; it's not going to reach across the map or anything, but it's certainly good at a range where thunder and smoky starts to lose damage. Considering you have unlimited ammunition, constant RPM, good DPS, it's a no-brainer for medium ranged maps. Honestly I don't know any other alteration that would be better, besides maybe the Railgun alteration that increases damage. It's M1 so it's cheapest, and it transforms the turret from a dinghy short-range noob sprayer to a long-range domination machine. I mean I maybe exaggerating but it's a very helpful alteration.

Okay... so I'm just updating my situation here. Currently I have bought the following items with real-world currency (USD), in the following order: (Not, irregular costs due to international tax) St. Valentine's Kit- 100,000 Crystals, 60 of Each Supply, 5 Gold Boxes, 5 Days of Premium Account, Premium Paint "All you need is...", TOTAL COST: $15.99 Supplies 1,500 Kit- 1,500 of Each Supply, TOTAL COST: $15.99 Starter Bundle- 20,000 Crystals, 20 of Each Supply, 3 Days of Premium Account, TOTAL COST: $3.99 Starter Bundle- 40,000 Crystals, 40 of Each Supply, 5 Days of Premium Account, TOTAL COST: $8.32 Iron Days Kit- 100,000 Crystals, 60 of Each Supply, 5 Gold Boxes, 5 Days of Premium Account, Premium Paint "Sunset", TOTAL COST: $16.32 So as you can see above I've spent around $60.00 into the game, about the cost to buy 2x AAA games. But since I don't have a TV, or a Gaming system, buying AAA games means I'll be buying random discs that'll sit around and collect dust. TANKI is a pretty decent game I guess, but 60 bucks is a little steep I'm not going to lie, and the number will only increase as I progress through the game. But I had another account before and knew what I was going into, and as of now I have immense fun dominating battles with M1s and Supplies against M0s and Noobs. So now I will discuss ALL the in-game purchases I've made since I started playing the game on this account. All currency amounts are APPROXIMATED and represented like so for calculating pleasure. Commando Kit- Thunder M0, Railgun M0, Vulcan M0, Viking M0, 1,000 CRY Savage Kit- Smoky M1, Wasp M1, Ocelot D-D M1, Magma, 16,000 CRY Tsunami Kit- Hammer M1, Titan M1, Badger T-F M1, Swash, 29,000 CRY Corsair Kit- Twins M1, Viking M1, Lion T-A M1, Roger, 46,000 CRY As of right now, I have bought NOTHING besides kits for my career, because of their lasting discounts. You can see that as a Noob, I've used the most Repair kits, with the other supplies following closely. As of now, I have the following funds in my account: 189,000 CRY 10 Gold Boxes 1,600 of Each Supply 3x Premium Paints (Premium Account Paint, Sunset, All you need is...) Premium Account to March 6, 2017 So my previous post is kinda void now, I'm not going to buy the Matrix kit anymore since I got those 2 kits above at a good discount very recently. Twins M1 and Hammer M1 aren't as good as the Thunder M1, but they are still immensely powerful and I can MU my Smoky M1 if need-be, though I don't think I will. I have enough to last me through the M2 ranks, if I can make Crystals fast I can get my hands on the Simoom Kit and Northerner Kit at the rank they unlock. I don't plan on purchasing with USD anymore until I reach the M3 ranks (still some time from now), because I'm set in terms of Equipment, Drugs, and Paints (which I never cared for anyways). If you guys can see where I went wrong with my buying habits please reply in length, because I like this game but the $1,000+ people spend on this game is a little much IMHO.

Okay guys so I think I have a plan for my Low-Mid rank TANKI career. Priority: Matrix kit. I will stick to this kit until after WO5. Thunder M1 is almost overpowered (more damage than M0 Railgun), but it's slow and requires skill since big splash damage= bigger chance of killing yourself LOL. Viking M1 is supposed to be average, everyone has it so it's nothing special. And the Twins-Rico protection I have no use of, but it doesn't seem to matter. POTENTIAL ALTERNATIVE KITS: Predator- If I somehow get brain damage and pay 30,000 extra just for an ugly hull and ugly paint, but better module Siberian- If another MU sale rolls around I could upgrade my Freeze M2 to M3 with the crystals I have, it's expensive but M3 will simply PWN anything and everything at that rank Osaka- Isida M2 at WO3, nothing much to say here, especially since Isida is getting damage buff MID RANK KITS: Simoom- This is a definite purchase for me. Thunder M2 mainly, but the module it has has some pretty good protections. Northerner- Viking is best M2 and Smoky is best M2 so this is also a kit to buy, but it's certainly not cheap. Atlas- I believe that's what it is called, the Smoky/Titan M2 combo. Only if I decide to go heavy instead of medium. Firewall- Firebird M2 and Hunter M2. Decent but it's expensive, will get only if I'm bored to hell and need some quick relief from my old long-range line. Ram- Twins M2 is supposed to be half decent I guess.

I want to get Piranha kit for the Griffon T-A module (Thunder/Railgun/Shaft protection, the latter will be more valuable since damage buff in next update) to go with Matrix kit (which has crappy twins-rico protection) once I rank up high enough to get it. But it's only 45% discount and costs 45,000 which isn't cheap (I have 157,000 crystals, from the St. Valentines bundle and 2 starter bundles, total: 28 USD). Should I get it or nah? P.S. I have the savage kit which was dirt cheap (15,000 crystals) during sale and MU'd Smoky 10 times, it's decent but I plan on replacing it as soon as I get Matrix. I want to make sure I make all the right purchases, as as far as now I've only bought two kits, Commando and Savage. I WILL get the matrix kit no matter what.