What about the High-Calibre Rounds isn't useful in most situations?

I admire your ambiguity.

Did that to people the other day. I made sure to do it 2 seconds before it touched anyone :D.

Not true. There were many times where a Railgun with that alteration flipped medium hulls when they were going up a ramp. With Unaltered Railgun, it's somewhat hard to flip them but with that alteration, the difficulty decreases by a lot. Unaltered Railgun's impact force is already strong so a 20% increase is lethal. That amount of impact force means life or death in many encounters.

That's the power of the Sledgehammer. :rolleyes:

Yeah, in many there were 0 golds but for some, there were 3+,5+ etc. I was in a battle where 9 regular golds dropped and two players had dropped 4 golds each. Never had more fun denying players Gold Boxes right before they touch it with my Shaft. :D

This is an upgrade and not an alteration. With Striker's alteration, at M4, you only have 1.8 seconds to detonate the missile before you shoot another one. The problem I'm seeing with this one is that you could have it charged up and moving around the map. You go around the corner and you see a player. That player sees you. What happens? You shoot the guy instantly. The guy didn't have a time window to protect himself. Say he was using Smoky, or Thunder or any turret that immediately impacts you as you press spacebar. The Rail would still win. There is a window of vulnerability for Railgun. You're practically taking away Railgun's window of vulnerability which would piss a lot of players off. For this to work, it has to have some sort of downside. It simply cannot work for Railgun.

And that is the point of Freeze; that's Freeze's special mechanic. It would be great if the Freeze didn't kill you before the minimum temperature kicks in. For a turret that's supposed to freeze tanks, its damage is too darn high.

Never. If it were that then why do most of the Railgunners use Shell Destabilisation? The damage range is too wide. With that wide damage range, for M4, it has a new average damage which is equivalent to the damage you get for having a very lucky shot with Unaltered M4 Railgun. Also, most of the shots I receive from these players are the shots on the high end of the spectrum and it's annoying. I almost never get any shots that deal less than 600 damage to me. I'm tired of my M2 Hunter with double armour enabled being one-shotted by an M2 Railgun with that alteration. I can excuse a Railgunner with Large Calibre Rounds enabled one-shotting me but not a Shell Destabilisation user. Shell Destabilisation is broken. It has a bad downside but that downside is almost negated by it's upside.

I mentioned this in a long post I wrote last year. It would be great if the same thing is applied to Electromagnetic Accelerator "Scout" explained above. For any more ideas like this, you may find some suggestions here.

Yeah, I remember that specific rank bracket (Captain to Marshal). That rank bracket is burned into my memory because I would play in many battles where it was very noticeable to see the lowest rank was Captain and the highest was Marshal. Here's one when my alternate account was at WO5. sfdugut was 9 ranks above me. Some MM battles have close ranks brackets that range from 3-5 ranks. The more commons ones are the ones where the highest rank is 7-9 ranks above the lowest rank. In some instances, the rank bracket stretches above 9 ranks and goes to 10-11 ranks as seen here: I'm pretty sure I haven't seen any rank brackets above 11 ranks.

Sigh. Please don't stoop to their level. If they're frustrating you, just leave. Don't send a hate message before you leave, just leave. It's good to vent but it would ultimately make no sense as it wouldn't sway the team to do better in that particular battle or in the near future.

I could have had a lot of battles like that but some random rail with Round DeSTUPIDilisation one-shots me in the last 30 seconds. It's always those Railguns. I use a medium hull with Shaft so yeah, I don't have as many HP points as you do. I'm thinking of upgrading titan when I get to Captain. My Shaft is now 10/10. My first M2 (M1 10/10) turret could have been Firebird or Striker as they're still at 9/10 but I decided on Shaft because it's just too much fun to put down now. The fun is dissipating though because I faced a lot of medium hulls today that had more HP than the amount of damage I did.

Heh, I wasn't expecting anyone in the high ranks to use it with their M2 Thunder tbh. If it were M3 or maybe M3.5, it would have probably dominated but your score is fine. I wonder if any of your teammates called you out for using an M2 at your rank. With M2 Thunder, I'd expect players to get a lot of assists but when it's M4, they're the one dealing the killing blow almost every time. I won't play with Thunder though. I made a promise not to play with Thunder on both of my two accounts. The promise was really made for TheCongoSpider but I extended it to my alternate account as well.

I don't think that's something they should or even can prevent. I've encountered some players with more than 7000 GS who were at a lower rank than him. We need them for the game to keep running so you're just gonna have to live with it and adapt.

I'll be sure to friend you when I get time again. I needed to upgrade my Shaft as much as possible to stay competitive in this day and age of Tanki. One thing that I've realised is how 'lazy' some players may be. My Shaft currently does 2294 damage for a fully charged scope shot. That is the same number of health M2 Hunter 0/10 has. I can essentially one-shot M2 Hunters if they have no upgrades. Dictator is another story though. The upgrade before my current MU level, I was able to one-shot an M2 Dictator with 0/10 upgrades. I am still able to one-shot them and now I can do that if they have 1/10 upgrades at most. What I realised is that when my damage was at 2250, I was still able to one-shot the majority of Dictators I encountered that were at full health. Which makes me wonder, are these players lazy? I had a feeling this would have been a factor so I kept testing it out. 100% of the Dictators I was able to one-shot at 2250 were Dictators that did not turn their turret; on an irrelevant note, the heavy majority of them were using Thunder with it. Now, I don't know about you guys, but when I buy a new modification of equipment, I would always have some crystals remaining whether it be 10k+ or 1k, 2k or a bit more, I would still have some crystals remaining. I use these crystals to start upgrading the new turret/hull/protection module. I find it baffling that these players don't do that with their hulls. It's only 100 crystals. It was kind of sad to see these players in battles because they've been playing with Dictator for hours yet they haven't touched any of its upgrades once. These are the ones that buy the Simoon Kit or the Boar Kit. Are they lazy? Do they think that they are powerful enough to dominate so they don't have to upgrade anything? Did they suddenly forget that MUs were a thing? I'll never know but it would continue to baffle me until it doesn't. I still love using Shaft. I just love it when I kill a buyer with a Hornet M2 right after he uses his Overdrive. One thing I've noticed is that a lot of players have started insulting me and cursing me because I'm killing them with Shaft. In a good game, I would get the second or third highest, if not the most kills in the battle. had so many premium users with Kits curse me in Russian just because I one-shot them. It really shows the expectations of Shafts of other players. I feel as if I'm just too good for them. I make them feel small when they try to dominate. I love it when that happens. Especially when they're using a medium hull I can one-shot. I've only been using Striker for DM battles any other team battle, I've been using Shaft. I already accumulated 11 hours on it.

I have to admit, I've done this a couple of times a few years ago. I would only do it if they were considerably close to the edge of the map. I've had a few players fo that to me as well. Not gonna lie, it felt really rewarding to do it to enemy Shafts but felt like I was being pissed on in the face when it happened to me.

He said Daily, not weekly. Although, I feel like the weekly one should be removed. 15 is simply too much.

I honestly don't know. I was about to send a screenshot of that mission because I had gotten one this morning. I remember having it at 2/3 but I forgot I had completed it earlier. From the looks of it, it's still in the game unless they're changing it tomorrow.

I'm pretty sure everyone has seen it. I like it but I don't think it really fits in with the game. It seems kind of...off. There's no smooth transition from the lobby to the loading screen to the in-battle screen.

Been wanting to say this years ago but I forgot that Tanki had a forum and saying it in the chat would ultimately be futile. I helped my team capture flags like that before in long Massacre battles yet they didn't seem to learn anything from it. I don't know about the vast majority of the playerbase but I found it pretty obvious how to work around inverted flags to your favour. Sadly, others couldn't see through it which costs my and many other teams close battles.

Didn't expect so many players to not be participating in it. Seeing that they're short of time, it makes sense that they wouldn't participate. I hope to get maybe 200 stars on each account. Most likely, I wouldn't have as much time as I do right now to really get into the challenges. Using this account for Gentleman and my alternate account for Lady.

I've actually been doing this for about two weeks. It only occurred to me then, the benefits of doing it. I figured that I had started too late because I wanted to obtain 35 of them to get 100k crystals on the spot to use for any upcoming sales. So far, I've only collected 13.

Do you know how long it takes to obtain 5,000 crystals on a new account? It's inefficient just to even try to do that just for the sake of sabotage which your massive effort may amount to nothing at all.

Currently, there is no "Doube Star Pass". Having a premium account allows you to earn double stars.