Light Capacitor (which I use) mostly remove the need to be, or stay, in scoping mode. It allows one to drive around and stop for a quick scope and kill as needed, or if camping to play peek-a-boo. Helps a lot for situational awareness. I'm an adult player, what annoys me most is the immaturity, as in gloating (or whining) players. How often did you see some players going around and typing xaxaxa non-stop in chat box every time they kill someone? Or dropping smug comments like 'eazy' at the end of the match - Often by players not even in the top half of scorers. Poor sportmanship. And that's not even mean young players, there's immaturity at all ages.

And thus the howling hordes of buyers swarm down like a plague of locust to the new 'meta' offered by Alternativa on the bleeding meat platter. This is disgusting, they don't even try to pretend to make the game balanced and interesting, it's so obviously one cash grab after the other.

I'm a Shaft/Hunter player, always has been, high tide or low tide, but with the Shaft buff, the new Shaft/RFM/Hornet meta makes me sick at heart, everyone and their cousin-sister have Shaft protection now, this is disgusting. Lets note that the 'new meta' is always Hornet/[insert random turret] + Booster or Defender. Last match I played there was 5 Shafts in my team and 3-4 in the other. About a third on both side were Hornets. Edit: I fecking hate Hornet Online.

I was called a noob for using Shaft, maybe the player was pissed after I killed him repetitively...

Yes. I was tempted, but didn't.

Including Spider - Everything I get that Defender, Vulcan, Hornet are very powerful right now, but that's my point, I dislike using the flavor of the month combos hoops that the devs wants us to jump through. I refuse to let my gameplay be led by that. In fact, I usually go counter and enjoy ruining those players. I am become and expert to kill and make life miserable to those that do. ? Which if we think about, means that I in fact DO jumps through the hoops, just not on the same direction as many. Leads to some collisions. I am mainly a Shaft player, always been, always will, whatever map, mission or circumstance. You got to learn to adapt. I do use smoky far in-between, used to use a Freeze on another account, which I stopped using due to time constraints. Edit: I have upgraded Sprinter to 13/20. Combined with Hunter it's wonderful to complete CTF missions.

At my rank, I just finished upgrading every Protections to 50% at the last sale a couple weeks past. So what's left to me to spend money on... Start on a 3th Turret maybe, and Drones. One thing I am NOT doing is get Vulcan, Hornet and Defender.

I play exclusively Hunter, you don't see many anymore. Of course, Hornet numbers eclipse everything else. However, given the hull is rarer it seems I get disproportional attention after I OD a couple times - Maybe it doesn't help that I focus on killing Hornets.

What do you mean by 'consistent'? It's been nerfed by nearly 80%, I guess many Hunter players got disgusted and joined the Hornet crowd. Now, I'd like to read the online screaming if Hornet was nerfed by 80%...

Likely because I play Shaft and Defender doesn't matter much when I pop DD. But yeah, Defender can also be a problem. Now, I fail to see why why you get angry with someone who has nothing to do with game balance. You could have mentioned Defender and made a comparison VS Booster efficiency without climbing at walls. ?

Let me rephrase: Booster Drone combined with Hornet is OP. I am not familiar with Booster, but I see it used a LOT by Hornet players.

Exactly. I'm done with the grind. That being said, that's a good financial strategy from Alternativa. Get the players addicted to grinding is common in most games. Create Challenge after Challenge and many players will be so hooked that once they get tired of the grind (or realize they won't quite complete the Challenge) they will shell $$$ to get the Stars or Tanki Coins to get what they want. Of course there is fine balance to walk between grinding and reward. if grinding doesn't reward enough, players will just get bored and leave.

Vulcan is due for a slight nerf I think, and, mostly, reduce its obnoxious sound volume. If one is shooting close by its the only thing you hear! The problem is the Hornet OD that is presently OP. It last way too long and ignore spawn invulnerability. Devs recently nerfed Hunter OD by maybe 80%? I don't think Hornet OD needs an 80% nerf, but it needs one. Hunter didn't deserve such a heavy nerf, and is now especially disadvantaged with the new Hull alts negating its abilities, IMHO. Booster drone is OP and need to be toned down a bit.

That would help. When I play for fun and have a chance to score in the top half, or at least top 3 of a losing match I switch some alts and stay. But when one plays for challenges, we NEED to score top 3 most of the time, so maybe half the MM maps earns and instant 'Leave Battle' - Then there's the times when MM drop you in an already lost or halfway through battle, so that's another instant 'Leave Battle'. I worked hard to complete Challenges lately (free time due to quarantine) and it meant I left 3/4 of time due to the above reasons. That means that more than half of my playtime was actually waiting for battles to load. That being said, I'm done with grinding Challenges, MM make it too frustrating.

Understatement of the day. ? Most players will die of old age before saving that. Or the game will.