From where I'm sitting, the buff has mostly gone on the healing aspect and 1 sec of damage isn't really enough to inspire me to leave the camp.

I *was* going to use crystals to buy the Orka Striker module, but for a measly 25%? Nah, I'll hang on to the crystals till there's a 50% sale. And I *was* going to keep upgrading my Isida turret, but with the nerf Isida just got, I guess I'll just hang on to those crystals too. At this rate, about the only thing worth buying is the Blue Sphere. So I can sit there and go like this at it:

I think most of us are still waiting for the day when Tanki gains a business manager with knowledge of running anything. So far all they manage to do at Perm is alienate their customer base with every update. Pretty hard to "enjoy the game" when every update nerfs the enjoyment.

So you make Highways even smaller - bringing us closer to Shaft players - so you give them a faster reload time too? Are you nuts?

I do with the Plasma Accelerator alt on some maps. I can see the logic behind this spread alt, but you can already hit multiple targets with splash damage on all of the alts except the Stable Plasma. Not sure I see any point in one that lessens the odds of hitting much.

I remember that. I think early last year I got into a DM that was on Dusseldorf (?) set to 999 and it had dozens of players on it. It was brilliant. Did a few hours in it until my supplies ran out.

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Yes, I ran CCleaner. Thanks for your post, I hadn't realised it would do that.

Matchmaking. Still sucks.

Have had two occasions where the Controls settings have altered themselves. Since December I changed the Use Gold Boxes from 5 to 9, because the default 6 button led me to inadvertently drop GBs in battle instead of a mine. Yesterday somehow it reverted back to the default 6 even though I hadn't been in the Settings menu since December. Then today the Settings panel managed to automatically delete the PgUp button for View Up.

Good luck with that. He's quick, never stands still while he's reloading. Though I note he's now using Viking M4, but with Wasp he wiped the floor with me. I probably only managed to land two shots on him in the whole battle, not enough to kill him.

Not quite the same thing. The Legends in that battle have especially poor garages for Legends. And their K/D is lower than mine. I'd be ecstatic if every Legend I was faced with were like that.

You might just get there yet. Only 272 stars to go. It is do-able, considering there's 4 1/2 days left.

Well my plan as of now is not to spend any further time or ££ on TO, logging in just to spend crystals on MUs in sales. Then when crystals run out, do a few days to accrue enough for the next sales event, and then get the hell out. The rest of the time leave the account dormant until such time as I'm on an equal footing with everyone else, equipment-wise. Doing missions and all the rest of it is just noise. Out.

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I have all of the alts for twins - Standard, Plasma Accelerator, Stable Plasma and Heavy Plasmagun. I use different ones for different maps and, more specifically, who I'm up against and battle mode also plays a part. I'll re-evaluate your suggestion if/when I have the same level of equipment as Seyhn and still finding multi-level Legends a problem. I suspect I won't, and there'll be a direct correlation. TO can change MM all it likes, but the core problem remains. If even players are in denial about it, what hope have the devs?

If Seyhn had equipped with Twins i would still have been outmatched. I don't have twins module as - like them all - they're overpriced and what I do have I'm having to spend crucial crystals MUing; I've now got Hammer module up to 40% so at least I'm immune to the duplet scourge. But vulcan and ricochet are a vulnerability to those modules are first on the list for available crystals. Striker is an absolute pain the in ar$e but I have no module against those and it's guess what, nearly 1/4million crystals to buy and twice as much again to MU so I really don't need to encounter multi-level Legends with everything off the shelf bar the salesgirl. Yes MM is definitely broken. And the issue will remain even when it's been removed and multi-level Legends continue to whip lower ranks from here to next week. The problem existed before MM came into being. It will continue to exist long after MM has gone if its cause continues to be misdiagnosed. This was M2 me February last year, being hammered by an M4, prior to MM. MM as a fix is not working. And it won't be until someone accepts that skill and luck have little to do with the fact that historically TO has consistently put players with outmatched equipment up against players with far greater equipment they should not be up against.

Read my post again. It was Seyhn who had full m4 everything - turret, hull, alts, module (including twins module, he had them all). Up against me with m4 viking, m4 twins (can't remember which alt I was using that day) 40% rail mod (which was useless to the point of pathetic). He killed me I think it was eight or nine times in one battle. It wasn't 1v1 but it may as well have been. It was a Brest CP. Clearly I should just give up the idea of MUing turrets and modules as the equipment thang is all foofoo. Shall just load up M0 Hunter (albeit with luck-laden XT skin) and the rest of it and rely on the tealeaves...

Oh silly me, for thinking that me being repeatedly slaughtered by a Legend48 with full M4 Wasp, full M4 Rail (plus alteration) and full M4 twins module at 50%, and no doubt a fully M4'd drone (he had every single purchasable item) was not at all due to his excessive equipment level vs mine, but down to mere luck. His. All of it. Nothing whatsoever to do with the fact my equipment sucked by comparison, that due to the fact I haven't been in Tanki as long as a Legend48 has - and thus haven't earned the crystallage he has - I can't afford to even buy the overpriced module against him, let alone the 450,000 crystals for each module to put me on a par with him. And that's not even taking into account the just-shy of 94 days it would take to get there even if I HAD the crystals. Nope, nothing; just all bad ju-ju on my part. The entire mismatch between my equipment and his can be explained away as mere swamp gas. ^_^ If GS can't be used as a yardstick to separate the ridiculously-overpowered from the mediocre then maybe there should be a roulette wheel on the forum we can spin, in order to determine who our opponents should be. Alternatively, I have a cup of used tea-leaves if anyone wants to read them and use those results instead. GS may not provide a better match between opponents, but mere luck doesn't explain the current abortion either. But it's funny how all the "luck" disappears the very moment Legends+ come over the horizon. It's time Legend1s to Legend109s (e.g.) were in battles restricted to Legend level only, because even against players just one rank below Legend can mean a chasm of equipment difference.

Frankly...... no.

I agree with the above, but also think more should be made of the GS rate. At higher ranks there is a vast mismatch between Legends and lesser ranks. Legend48's who have full M4 hulls, full M4 turrets and full M4 modules really should be in a league of their own. If they have been in the game long enough to have accrued M4 of everything, then it is unfair for them to battle against anyone below their rank. Example: This week I was up against @seyhn, a Legend48 with every single module M4'd. I was outclassed in every way - turret, hull and module. It was slaughter.

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There's a few on Twins that give splash damage - Plasma Accelerator , Heavy Plasma and Standard. Stable Plasma's nice but I rely on the splash damage alts to get multiple kills. Heavy Plasma isn't the type of alt I'd use - the shots just waffle along really slow, and while they might (eventually) reach your target, he's killed you before they arrive on him. I tend to use Heavy Plasma for kamikaze attacks - dash towards target while firing. By the time he realises you're there, there's a nice big cloud of shots arriving on him. For everything else I either use the Accelerator (long range) alt, or Standard.

That happened to me today. I spawned into a TDM on Brest to the left of one of the bases. There was a GB just in front of the bridge and a crowd of reds coming over the bridge towards it (and me). I moved forward while still spawning and finished spawning on the GB before the first red got there. Took the GB and killed the nearest red.

Eh? Yes you might lose the lower player kill. But you will then be up against the higher tier player. Better to take out the higher tier player while he's not firing back at you, which he will be once he's killed the lower player. The biggest threat is the higher player, which is why he would be the first I'd kill. I would target the higher player (with Twins alt that gives splash damage) and get them both. :P