The official release was a silent one, this drone is only given to new accounts as a placeholder drone which requires no upgrades and operates as a weaker crisis, though consumes no additional supplies. Old players, at least for now will not be getting it since they already most likely have a drone that is upgraded.
 

GT skins are often known to enter the legendary container (skin container), so eventually they'll return, but won't be easy to get. A small chance in epic containers but not as likely reused there unless they want placeholder rewards and rarely in another future event but to reuse skins people may have obtained won't go down as well.

Nope, there is no compensation for any items that are owned in the battle pass or the elite pass.

I think what he means to say, is you can blatantly see the shot effect on enemies after, mainly arcades, though possible with sniping mode, and it will not deal any damage at all, because you died sooner than you wanted to.

Since shaft has what we call hitlag and no projectiles, effectively you need to be alive till the hitlag time has elapsed.

Example:


Iirc Hammer may have similar experience too, but I don't recall having many issues with hammer itself. Firebird, Freeze and Isida also have this hitlag technically present too.
 
Although I am calling it a hitlag, I am not certain if the enemy player sees my shot come through on their end. I would need someone who is recording their pov and my pov to compare that sort of interaction to confirm if it is the early death causing this 'no damage' with the visual shot effect.

@Jeers4U, please confirm if this is what you mean.

If this helps for comparing, do note that as mammoth I had to turn slightly, but you could say it's essentially on par with a hunter (9 m/s) on crisis, making it possible that the 50% speed buff is multiplicative. But I think it would be easier to test it vs by using combinations of trickster + OD vs crisis, I'll leave that up to the wiki people to investigate.

I will try confirm it, unsure though, give me a while. Wiki itself isn't exactly clear...
I have confirmed it, it does only give stock repair to allies.

As you see, 1000, not 1500.

Assuming you have max gauss, and a maxed drone, you will be able to 1 shot most hunters or medium hulls that are not maxed, or some that have taken some damage assuming they don't have a drone. And you will be able to 1 shot majority of light hulls. This is due to the latest supply nerf and drone buff.

As for the Hornet tanking your railgun shots, when you used overdrive, you may have not Ap'd the player, they may have had defender drone which does reduce critical damage, if they own armadillo, that would also tank shots.
Please provide us with a video if possible, but these are my final conclusions.

They change up the pool at times, which is kinda annoying to see, but that's what it is.
Unfortunately they didn't say 'Ultra skins' this time either, idk, they're not the best at fully disclosing changes in ultras. I mean, i remember when it took them ages to get regular hornet augments into the ultra container pool.

Let us assume that a max speed for Tank X is 10m/s, we will see that as 100% speed. Now like you said, SB gives 40%, so for Tanki X, the max speed is now 14m/s, total of 140% speed.
Crisis max speed gives a 70% boost on TOP of that.
So Tank X's top speed is 100%+40%+70%=210%, giving us 21m/s.
Now, 210% speed vs 140% speed, it has a 50% higher top speed than a tank with regular SB. And it is more than double speed when comparing without a speed boost.
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Now let's look at Titan max speed, 6.5, with crisis(max speed) it's 6.5x2.1=13.65, whilst vikings max speed is 9.5, with regular sb, it's 9.5x1.4=13.3. As you see, Titan has a 0.35 higher top speed than viking.
Did a quick test with a friend, I had an early start so stopped, but you can clearly see I was able to push out much further.
Conclusion, Crisis with maximum speed let's you achieve a 210% max speed.
Thanks @unbeatable209 for the quick assistance :)