When I did that big sample, it was using an iteration of coinboxes that had supplies in the common and uncommon rarities. Suppliers were removed from coinboxes shortly after and I do not know how that affected the intra-rarity drop rates. Here is what the last sample looks like. If you are not seeing the numbers in the spoilers, then here is the post linked here.

I'm hoping to win the Tankoin raffle on at least one of my accounts. I'll be able to do another 500+ coinbox sample if they ever put it back in the shop.

20 additional units. The interaction changes can be found in Game Discussion. Relative to the other drones, it is still great because you get infinite BD uptime (also encompasses the ability to use BA + BD immediately from spawn) and you get minor/major interaction changes with different equipment that come in clutch many times. Most single-shot turrets now have very strong minor interaction changes with Booster. For example, the 900 trio of Tesla, Striker and Thunder will have 1,980 damage with Booster, very close to, but not over 2,000 (major interaction change). Extra damage by default will increase the % protection needed to properly protect yourself against a turret. A normal Tesla needs 45% to not be instantly screwed over by its burst damage properties. A Tesla with Booster needs 50% for that. But then Adrenaline exists and pushes it over 2k, and you're back to square one. Gauss and Shaft with 670 base damage will have 1,474, close to the damage barrier of 1,500. Gauss with 1,800 sniping damage will have 3,960 at the end. Of course, that neat augment Adrenaline easily takes it above 4,000 and 1,500, but people only see status augments in their garage. Hammer in particular is the turret that was most enhanced by that global balance change, both with Booster and with Crisis. Booster main strengths have been nerfed but relative to other drones, it is still powerful and widely used. Booster users have had it great throughout the years. Getting their damage boost for free before November 2019 and still being on top of everything after they made it consume 2 additional. Suddenly when other drones now have a fighting chance it's garbage yet still the other drones less powerful than it cost the same fortune to upgrade. They should e half they upgrade a drone that was meta for years instead of a normal drone that turned crap overnight and stayed that way.

I didn't know having extra damage was a bad thing. ? No it was not nerfed into the ground. Its major strength were shifted from certain turrets and augments to others. And even then, the turrets that you lost power with, you can still easily make it back with a neat augment called Adrenaline. Unfortunately that does not exist in people's garages. Seems to be invisible next to all the status augments they complain is no longer good with Booster.

By decreasing the critical damage of turrets back to x1 or below and/or reducing critical hit rates. There's less incentive to use it if the critical damage of a turret doesn't blow you away instantly. They're not going to do that, though. The game balance is built around it and slowly encapsulating every turret having more than x1 critical damage.

Continuing from this with more modern gameplay. Here are two playlists with videos of me using Light Capacitors and Armour-Piercing Sight with either Crusader, Paladin or Ares (mostly Crusader). Most will be with the Assault drone but a few will be with the Driver drone as that account has nothing better. Light Capacitors: Armour-Piercing Sight: And yes Stadium is a bad map outside of Rugby.

Stage 5 has set in.

I saw you in a battle earlier this week. If you are using hover hulls, use them with mouse controls. You'll generally have a hard time if you try to use them with a keyboard.

The game will have minimum variety, that's for sure. If everyone is using something that can kill you in 1 second, why would someone switch to something that kills you 5 seconds against them? Thunder is in a bad spot where the Stock turret is good enough by the garage augments are bad. One removes splash but increases your effectiveness in 1 v 1s making it decent. One makes you take longer to kills most things. The last one just kills your Thunder entirely. And now we have Vacuum Shell coming, which will be much more practical to have. We have Hyperspeed which blows all of them out of the water in many maps. We still have AP/EMP Thunder to come, and other unique augments to come which going by what Vacuum and Hyperspeed Shells are doing, may be more powerful than the garage augments. Hammer is a great example of having variety everywhere. You have reason to use Slugger over Dragon's Breath, or Adaptive Reload over High-Capacity Ammo Clip, or Blunderbuss over Duplet, or Jamming Shot over Stunning Pellets. Compare that to Railgun where you have little to no reason to use LCR over Scout, little reason to use Hyperspace Rounds over Scout, little reason to use Round Destabilsation over Scout, little to no reason to use status augments over Scout. Gee, I'm saying Scout a lot. I wonder why.

Passive refers to the way the drone uses its mechanics. A non-passive drone requires an activation method to achieve its main effect. A passive drone has its effects built in to the drone. Look at Hyperion and Assault, one is a weaker version of the other: Assault has passive and non-passive properties, the passive being: Upgradeable Boosted Armour and Damage potency Cooldown reduction of Boosted Damage by 5 seconds when a supply is activated Non-passive: Upgradeable reduction of current Boosted Armour, Damage and Speed cooldowns In order to achieve the non-passive effect, which is the main effect of the drone, it requires you to destroy an enemy tank, and then it is out on a 3-second cooldown. If you destroy a tank during its cooldown, you will not activate the main effect. Hyperion's effects are all passive, those being: Upgradeable Boosted Armour and Damage potency Removal of smart cooldowns between manual supply activarions Upgradeable reduction of manually activated supplies' after-duration cooldowns Hyperion's effects are built in to the drone while Assault requires you to do an action before obtaining the effect. Crisis' effect of reducing the smart cooldowns between supplies, after durations, and locking it into one supply being used at a time is its passive effects. Brutus is the only drone that does not use batteries.

You're probably watching an outdated video, then. RFM has a -50% penalty to its maximum and minimum damage range, which cuts it down to that of a short range turret.

Short range turrets consist of Ricochet, Twins and Hammer. Not necessarily, but again, it is a gimmick placed on a long range turret. You have a reason to use RFM, its burst damage. You also have a reason to use Twins, Ricochet or Hammer with their respective augments.

Rapid-Fire Mode is short range. Above all, RFM is a burst damage augment. Short range turrets on their own are complete with their own mechanics. RFM is a gimmick attached to a turret. It serves its purpose when put against the augments of Shaft.

Healing rate was never changed. Booster was nerfed which reduced the extra healing bonus Booster gave you. Seeing that you primarily use Booster, I'm assuming that's where you got that conclusion from. Although it has more counters now via other hulls' Overdrives, it is still frustrating to fight against, justified by its design of having a long duration with a long score penalty. If you don't have AP Immunity or burst damage easily available and applicable in the location of the Paladin, then it is understandable that is is still being complained about. It doesn't help that that along with Ares is the hull being spammed by sweatsquads with meta drones.

With a combination of the Token of Apology and special missions, I've opened 664 Ultra Containers. Here's how this sample looks: Outcome: Drop rates: This has to be the luckiest I've ever gotten with these. The rarities that matter all had a higher drop rate that stated. And I think for the first time, my Legendary drop rate has finally gone above 2% in a sample.

I have, and explained here. If Sorted is the only thing you're interested in as a f2p for this challenge and you primarily use PC, then it may not be worth your hard-earned Tankoins. Sorted Ammunition is an augment for variety/comfort, not domination. EMP Smoky, if you have it, will still be more practical.

Ever since the forum update, it does not allow you to send a post with an embedded YouTube link. It gives post_error_links.

https://youtu.be/aA4C6U3uD04 Out of all the DM battles I've did, the only turrets I haven't seen come first at endgame were Firebird, Vulcan, Magnum and Gauss. If I had to pull numbers out of my rear I'd say a Hammer or Tesla came first 80% of the time.

Anything relatively useful paired with a meta drone and/or protection module against my turret. That includes: Vampire Isida + medium hull Tesla Paladin Helios Berserk Duplet Competent Healing Emitters Booster/Crisis Hammers Magnetron Twins EMP/Stun/AP/Cryo Smoky Hyperspeed Shells Thunder Scout Railgun AP Magnum EMP/AP Gauss Crisis Scorpion

It will be there when you obtain Scorpion Mk1. Do not worry.

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You're not. The parameters for its garage augments were put in place beforehand, in the Patch of April 22nd. In that Patch, Stock Thunder's normal damage reached a new low, below 750 damage. This hurt all of its augments, but the bright side being Thunder's performance with the Booster and Crisis drones were better than those without, it gained a higher maximum and initial critical chance. Before that patch, its impact force at Mk7+ was increased to 600. That period of low damage per shot of Stock lasted an unfortunate month, then came its comeuppance. You've seen that Thunder gained buffs in areas that did not matter on their own in the big picture. The main changeable parameters that mattered were the damage and the firing rate to go alongside that damage. In comes the Patch of 27th May to start Tanki's birthday celebrations. Its firing rate was changed to something overall better than before, its normal damage per shot being increased all the way near the 1,000 damage barrier, at 990. Its critical damage being increased to 1,020 which allows it to synergise with the 990 normal damage to kill light hulls on equal footing with critical + normal hit. Thunder, overnight, became overpowered. It got buffs in areas that it did not urgently need, and then had a huge damage buff to complement the other buffed characteristics. You then had a turret that was overtuned. High normal damage edging on the most lethal damage barrier in the game, a high-critical-chance and synergistic critical damage, high impact force, mechanically easy to use. As I mentioned in the start, its augments' parameters were set in place a month before this change. SCCM with a -25% decrease on damage and reload time. Subcalibre Rounds with a doubled projectile speed instead of x1.5. Sledgehammer with a +50% increase to the normal damage and an increased distance of maximum damage. What happened in this Patch: Adrenaline - Very easily crossed 2,000 normal damage per shot at 93% HP, allowing it to one-shot light hulls with a faster firing rate than it had before (2.2 vs the current 2.0). The splash damage % being 50% also allowed you to potentially decrease the number of splash hits needed to kill targets by at least 1. Subcalibre Rounds - Just Stock with increased firing rate and effectiveness in 1 v 1s. Booster allowed you to one-shot unprotected light hulls with the normal damage. Small Calibre Charging Machine - Sat just under 750 normal damage per shot, at 742.5, with a firing rate of one shot every 1.5 seconds. An augment made for spamming shots and it was the one time this augment has ever dealt decent damage in its lifetime. Booster allowed you to cross 1,500 damage per shot, which allowed you to 2-shot unprotected medium hulls. Since it fell short of 750 base damage, Booster could not get it all the way to synergising critical and normal hits to reach 4,000 damage combined but came very close and unmaxed light/heavy hulls would feel the pain. Crisis allowed it to reach 1,930 normal damage per shot, almost one-shotting unprotected light hulls. Sledgehammer Rounds - The big buff to Stock happened primarily in the normal damage, which is what benefits Sledgehammer. Its maximum normal damage per shot was increased from 1,065 to 1,485, again, nearing a damage barrier this time being 1,500 base damage. Its maximum damage range was extended to 16m at Mk7+ which allows it to have a more generous range of 750+ damage (crucial for a turret like Thunder). I have the ranges at which it dealt certain damages in the Booster, Crisis and Camper interaction change topics. In any case, you had a fairly long range to deal destructive damage. Booster allowed you to cross 3,000 damage per shot and then some (since it was so close to the barrier) and extended the range of destructiveness. Crisis having a higher boost naturally increased this destructive range further. In the end, you had a very powerful all-round turret. Easy to use, has splash damage, high damage per shot with a fitting firing rate, and augments that all came with different playstyles and parameter changes to utilise Thunder's newfound damage in their own scenarios. Thunder was a force to be reckoned with, until... Two weeks later in the patch of 10th June, we receive a global balance update that affected half of the turrets, Thunder included, and a nerf to the Booster drone. As seen here, both Stock and individual augments are being nerfed, which will be a double whammy instead of a single toning down of Stock parameters which is what really brought the mess in the first place. This is how it affected Thunder: Stock/Adrenaline - Its high normal damage was reduced and converted to higher critical damage that can be synergistic. It is no longer near a damage barrier so cannot easily obtain 2,000 damage per shot. It now needs to be at 32% HP to get it. Booster being reduced to 20 additional units of damage enhancement coupled with the normal damage being lowered to 900 no longer allowed it to cross 2,000. It would need Adrenaline at 93% HP to do this. Subcalibre Rounds - Nothing much since this augment mostly follows whatever damage Stock does and slightly enhances it in 1 v 1s. Booster no longer pushed it above 2,000 normal damage. Small Calibre Charging Machine - After 2 weeks of being a decent option amongst its siblings, it is back to being relatively bad. For context, the point of this augment was always to alter Thunder's damage output to take longer to kill medium hulls but shorten the time to killed light and heavy hulls. They way it achieved this was having above 667 base damage. This allows you to 3-shot light hulls on equal footing, which lets you 3-shot unprotected heavy hulls with DD. The nerf to Stock's normal damage pushed it away from the 750 damage barrier down to 675 damage. However, the damage penalty of the augment itself was also increased from -25% to -30%. It was barely hanging on to its purpose, which then gets trashed by the augment nerf and pushes it to 630, below 667. It now needs 4 shots to kill a light hull on equal footing. Along with its major damage reduction, its firing rate was also reduced and it cannot synergise with the critical hits to compensate for the lower normal damage. It is now statisitcally weaker than it should be. But not as weak as... Sledgehammer Rounds - Immediate note. The Patch Note stated that its minimum damage range was reduced by 50%, but in reality, it was reduced by 80%, the same as its maximum damage range. Not only did it get a damage decrease from Stock's nerf, it also went down with the individual augment nerf and pushed its final maximum damage below 1,334, which is the double of the 667 damage barrier necessary to 3-shot unprotected heavy hulls. It now has less damage per shot, and it drops of VEEEEEERY quick. And by quick, I mean from 0-16m (melee range) you deal 100% damage, and from 16-24m, your damage drops from 100% to 25%. You heard that right. You start to deal weak damage after 24m. If a Firebird or Freeze cannot hit you, you're not going to deal good damage to whomever you're shooting at that distance.Along with that, you have no critical hits and a halved projectile speed. Sledgehammer currently is a huge statistical downgrade to your Thunder. After the dust has settled, we are left with a solid but not OP Stock turret whose augments consist of: Stock with damage increase when injured Stock without splash but higher projectile speed, impact force and slightly faster firing rate Decreased damage output Tremendously decreased damage output Don't worry though. Thunder is getting new augments in Ultra Containers. We've had two status augments, more to come, and an augment that allows you to deal 200% of Stock's damage after 60m with a higher projectile speed than Subcalibre Rounds and directly powercreeps Sledgehammer if the target is further than 23m away from it. Nothing is wrong here. ?

Circumstances are different for each turret. In Thunder's case, it should be first compared to its other status augments as they share common traits compare to Stock - critical damage being reduced by 25% and critical splash radius being increased to 12m. Similar to Smoky, the status augments' currently shared trait is having a low-potency status applied to Stock's critical hits. Low-potency being used for all except freezing because freezing is the only status in the game they have not toned down on any of the existing augments (for whatever reason). You cannot directly compare the status augments of, say, Twins. Two use an unexisting template of minimum damage range +50% with one of them having halved critical damage. Two use the non-damage buff Heavy Plasmagun template with one of them having halved critical damage. One uses the Stable Plasma Template and the other uses a completely random template of +50% minimum damage range, +50% projectile speed but a +20% increase in reload time. But in the end, the result should be something at least comparable to Stock or the garage augments. Because that's what most of them ultimately are, augments of Stock. An augment should have a purpose for that turret. Salamander Shells fits the purpose of utilising Thunder's core feature to apply a debilitating status effect in the radius. At the heart, it is a status augment, completely separate to augments intended to be burst damage (examples being Helios, Hyperspeed Shells, Duplet, Berserk), or augments intended to be QOL improvements (Sorted Ammunition, Minus-Field, Round Stabilisation). If you're asking for my opinion on Incendiary augments in general, then I will say they indeed went down on them too hard when they were toning them down earlier this year. Salamander Shells was born on a turret and in an age of low-potency incendiary applications. Who's getting the augment matters I guess. Someone who has all of the options and collecting may see it as trash (relative to the million better options they have for general gameplay) but someone who does not have much if any options at all will be glad to get it. Everything is still new so it's best to wait some time until the rest of the Thunder augments come as they are subject to change before being implemented in the game.

Jumper's recent video which was recorded after Patch #694 showed to be afflicted for 10 seconds. What's most likely happening is you're hitting enemies that have Cold Resistance or enemies are removing the status early with repair kits.