For the possible prizes. This is not the first time we've had this event. If you do not have many Rubies to spare, yes it would be better to spend it on something more profitable or on something you know exactly what you're getting.

UPDATED: 24/01/25 With 25 units of additional damage enhancement: Tesla: Will start one-shotting unprotected light hulls Electroturret will kill an unprotected medium with the ball lightning Electroturret will kill an unprotected heavy hull with ball + halved chain lightning Hammer: Will start one-shotting unprotected light hulls with the normal damage Ricochet: Ricochet will take at least one fewer shot to kill medium hulls on average Helios' will kill a medium hull with DA with single + full burst Thunder: Will start one-shotting unprotected light hulls with the normal damage Small Calibre Charging Machine will start 3-shotting unprotected heavy hulls with the normal damage Anvil Shells will kill an unprotected heavy hull with weak normal hit + critical hit The range at which Hyperspeed Shells starts one-shotting unprotected light hulls is decreased to 81m (from 91m) Hyperspeed Shells will start one-shotting unprotected medium hulls after 118m The range at which Vacuum Shell one-shots an unprotected light hull is decreased to 4.27m (from 4.92m) The range at which Vacuum Shell one-shots an unprotected medium hull is decreased to 6.9m (from 7.9m) Smoky: Will start 2-shotting unprotected medium hulls with the normal damage Will start one-shotting unprotected light hulls with the critical damage High-Precision Aiming System will start one-shotting unprotected light hulls with the normal damage Supercumulative Rounds will start 2-shotting unprotected heavy hulls with normal + crit Striker: Will start one-shotting unprotected light hulls with the normal damage Will kill heavy hulls that have DA with a salvo Uranium will start one-shotting unprotected medium hulls Tandem's salvo will instantly kill an unprotected heavy hull with the normal damage The range at which Vacuum Warheads one-shots unprotected light hulls is decreased to 3.95m (from 4.35m) Vacuum Warheads will start one-shotting unprotected medium hulls at 5.57m Railgun: Will start one-shotting unprotected medium hulls with the normal damage Scout will start one-shotting unprotected medium hulls with the critical damage LCR will start one-shotting unprotected heavy hulls with the normal damage Round Destabilisation will kill a medium hull with DA with normal + critical hit Gauss: Will start 2-shotting unprotected medium hulls with the arcade shot Will start one-shotting unprotected light hulls with the arcade critical hit Large Calibre will start one-shotting unprotected light hulls with the normal damage AP Gauss will be able to kill a light hull with DA with critical + normal hit Super Solenoids will kill a heavy hull with DA with 2 arcades + salvo The range at which Hyperspeed Shells one-shots unprotected light hulls is decreased to 79m (from 86m) Hyperspeed Shells will start one-shotting unprotected light hulls at 85m Magnum: Will start one-shotting unprotected medium hulls with the normal damage The range at which Vacuum Core starts one-shotting unprotected light hulls is decreased to 5.15m (from 6.4m) The range at which Vacuum Core starts one-shotting unprotected medium hulls is decreased to 10.2m (from 12.1m) Shaft: Will start 2-shotting unprotected medium hulls with the normal arcade damage Will start one-shotting unprotected light hulls with the critical damage Short-Band Emitters will start one-shotting unprotected light hulls with the normal damage Short-Band Emitters will start one-shotting unprotected medium hulls with the minimum sniping damage Healing Emitters will start 3-shotting unprotected heavy hulls Healing Emitters will kill a medium hull with DA with a fully charged sniping shot AP Shaft will kill medium hulls with DA with a lowly charged sniping shot + arcade shot Quasar will start one-shotting unprotected medium hulls with the critical damage Scorpion: Will start one-shotting unprotected medium hulls hulls with the critical damage Missile Launcher Spear will kill a medium hull with DA with salvo + arcade Missile Launcher Wolfpack will kill a heavy hull with DA with salvo + arcade Phoenix will start one-shotting unprotected light hulls with the normal damage Adrenaline: Railgun will start one-shotting unprotected heavy hulls with the critical damage at 82% HP Magnum will start one-shotting unprotected heavy hulls with the critical damage at 82%

The normal bots aren't the exact same on both teams. Bots using specific turret/hull combinations in a particular map can inconvenience you more than in others. The equipment the enemies have also can synergise very well with the bots on their team and the terrain on the map and make it harder for you, a specific teammate or even your entire player team. I didn't bother to check low-mid ranks since I don't have an account or Healing Emitters down there but endgame bots deal very slightly above what the turret does with fully upgraded Boosted Damage. For example a Gauss bot deals 1,428 normal and 1,812 critical damage every 1.3 seconds. That is pretty sizeable when you don't have Gauss protection. With the sheer number of them you're bound to get hit by some of the bots.

That is correct. If you do not complete the contract, you will not be eligible to receive points for that specific day.

We've come full circle again. I wonder how long it'll take for it to get nerfed this time.

This feels quite random. What criteria did it meet to get a straight DPS buff and not any other random augment in the game? It should have been at that reload from the very start. I guess its fate is now sealed as a Subcalibre Rounds Thunder alternative for the foreseeable future.

I got a client freeze a half a second after seeing a Crusader Icicle bounce upwards into the sky so I'm not sure if that's fully fixed.

It's already been revealed.

Is this bugged on mobile? I've shot 37 Icicles and only 8 of them actually dealt damage to an enemy. Sometimes a direct hit only gives me 1,000 damage instead of 4,000. The ones that do end up doing damage have an even longer delay between explosion and damage than before. I even had an icicle that bounced twice in mid-air right in front of me, even without any walls nearby, and went flew the sky.

What augment are you using? There are vertical Magnums and horizontal Magnums. Horizontal Magnums are locked at a specific angle but can rotate horizontally. Vertical Magnums cannot rotate horizontally but can freely change the angle. Horizontal augments: Adrenaline Harpoon Destroyer Vacuum Core All status effect augments Vertical augments: Reinforced Gun Carriage Automated Gunpowder Loading Mechanism Mortar Bombard

Usually the players with very low ping won't have or notice the bug. There is also the bug that resets your lock-on progress randomly. From what I saw, those two bugs are intertwined when using the Hacked Aiming Processor augment. The same time that my progress would be reset to 0 is the same time the lock-on would be cancelled entirely if my aim is off of the target. As such, the Hacked Aiming Processor augment does not work for me and I assume Nemesis would also be a giant headache for me to use.

Yes this is a bug that has existed for about 2 and a half years. It has not been fixed yet. The intensity of the bug varies from player to player. Some won't have the bug at all. Some will have it so severe that it is a headache to use the turret.

I'm surprised they haven't given it any offensive properties yet, like Jammer or 100 chaos damage per second to any enemy within the dome.

Blaster has splash damage parameters. It deals 3,000 damage between 0-3m. The blast radius starts at the epicentre of the hull (usually where the turret mount is) so to get full damage you'd usually have to be touching the enemy tank on the server during the exact moment of explosion. It very quickly goes down to 50% damage between 3-4m, and extends towards 15m. A Blaster user will most often be doing 50% damage of the total damage.

But Blaster is not an exception. It's not reduceable by modules.

Chaos damage as an official term didn't exist before mid 2022. Blaster drone between 2018 and mid-2022 dealt the damage of whatever turret you were using. This damage was enhanceable (Boosted Damage) and armour and turret modules would decrease the damage at this time. Crusader between 2020-mid 2022 had enhanceable damage but no module could reduce its damage, only armour (Defender/Crisis reduced it further than Brutus) Wasp, Ares and Mammoth would be examples of chaos damage before the term was coined. Their damage was not enhanceable nor reduceable by armour or modules. The only thing that used to decrease Wasp's damage was Titan's dome but that was removed in 2021 if I'm remembering correctly. Chaos damage as it is now refers to damage that cannot be increased or reduced by external factors. It deals the same damage every time. Grenades deal chaos damage and Opex said in a Vlog that grenades won't have modules against them.

Blaster dealt turret damage between 2018-mid 2022. It was changed to chaos damage in 2022.

Tbf he does have a point with the hover hulls. Most of the people I see using Resonator are with hover hulls and Viking. I've taken all the hover hull nerfs in stride over the years but it would be disingenuous of me to ignore that if I had to rearpull a number, ~70% of sweaty group members I've been fighting since Paladin's release have been using hover hulls.

It's likely that there were patches that came these past weeks but from what I was told a long time ago they don't make public patch notes for changes they don't consider major, you'll see it at times with skipped numbers. We'll see next week if there were numbers skipped or not. I'm of the opinion all changes should be documented regardless of how minor they are.

The devs are usually on vacation at this time. The first patch of a year comes around mid-late January.

Yes it is worth using. Alongside changing your damage and firing rate numbers (it's still the same 800 DPS as Stock), you get instant wind-up and wind-down of your Vulcan allowing for infinite fire. You can also use Reinforced Aiming Transmission if you want but with the current iteration of Vulcan balance, it's a mechanically unneeded augment. The Stock rotation speed is already fast enough and you likely wouldn't want to reduced your upward auto-aim from 45° to 9°.

That sounds like gatekeeping entire events away from the majority of the playerbase to satisfy the few at the top of the ladder. Island hopping events aren't the only place to spend crystals. You have other events, you have new equipment in the form of grenades and whatever else new they decide to bring out while the majority of the playerbase does not have that luxury to just spend on whatever they want, whenever they want. They are still progressing, still building their garage at different stages because they joined/played the game at different time periods with different restrictions.

Fairly priced for whom? The casual f2ps being slaughtered by overtuned turret, drones and hull augment combinations in groups or the long time f2ps and buyers who've already climbed up the ladder over the years? Did it really take just 8 months to forget that these events were free to start? A discounted silver contract available for 24 hours every day is a good middle ground between before and the current Contracts system. Perhaps they can decrease the overall rewards from Checkpoint 2-3 the increase the reward gap between that and Checkpoint 4 for the people who decide to push further with currency. That is much better than a random player paying 500k crystals for something they got for free not long ago.

I for one do not like seeing sudden damage inflation as blatant as Plasma Resonator. Especially after Stock Ricochet itself received range nerfs and then projectile nerfs, the former of which Resonator ignores. It doesn't sit right that a normal Ricochet is hitting 87 damage where a Resonator is hitting 1,050 with the same firing rate, projectile speed and energy parameters. And I REALLY hope the auto-aim issues aren't a justification for that damage inflation. It being straight from 8,000 Tankoins Advent Calendar I expected it to be overtuned. I just hope it isn't overtuned for too long. That and I hope the other Ricochets get their due buffs to not feel like you're being shafted for not picking up Resonator. At least the situation isn't like current Tesla where using anything besides Electroturret is a nightmare.

Record a video of the issue then. I am not understanding the problem you are having with the Blaster augment. Orange.Juice posted this in your joystick topic. Does it work for you?