My opponents there weren't low GS by any means. In fact my team was at a slight gs disadvantage. Of course, if you go solo against 4 players 9999gs battle group you're going to lose most fights, but that's not the point. In such battle a better drone wouldn't be of much help either. I understand what you're trying to say, I just wanted write this for the inexperienced players that might be reading this, so they don't get the impression they need to be reliant on better drones once they reach higher ranks.

Played a random battle to get a pic for you :). Brutus and no premium augments used here. You can absoutely use brutus at legend and win a majority of your battles if you know how to choose your equipment correctly. I am f2p (spend 3€ on the game in total, to be precise xD), and play brutus only. so there you go, brutus at high ranks is happening :D.

I got crisis some time ago, not using it though, as it isn´t eco-friendly ?.

Get brutus maxxed out first. The other drones mentioned consume batteries and extra supplies, which is a huge setback for a f2p player . You can easily run out of them and then you´ll need to buy them. With brutus you may get slightly less crystals per battle, but if you subtract the need for rebuying supplies, it´s more favourable to use brutus. Later you can buy the more expensive drones and use them for events with increased battle fund etc.

Right, you shouldn't. You don't need to leave for good, just don't let yourself get hooked in by stupid eye candy and empty promises again. Play only when YOU want, not when the game wants you to play.

Thanks for clarification, didn't know I signed up for hoverboardi online ?. I'd really hate for that to be the case. I have enough crystals to buy paladin mk8 in the next sale, but I just hate the concept in general. This game should be about tanks, even if futuristic, with hoverhulls as a niche option at most, not an all over the board dominating meta, without a hope for a rebalance in any foreseeable future.

Have you even read what he said? It was a balanced battle with 4vs4 top tier players, with one lucky score in the middle. There´d still be a lot to fight for in such a battle had they not fled and I´d rather loose a good fight than win a boring one.

WDYM? I´m still getting 3000gs players at legend level ?. Well played though.

How does the smoky´s crit chance work after the latest patch? I thought the steps were still -50, -10, 30, 50% but now it happens sometimes that I crit on the first shot (yes first shot, not first hit) after spawning. Is that intended?

Hovering hulls have an uncontested advantage against track hull in their unpredictable sideways movement ability. Combined with relatively small hitboxes it makes them extremely hard to hit effectively. The biggest issue is that there is no advantage for tracked hulls to compensate for this. I propose a couple of options to deal with this problem : a) nerf the HP of hover hulls compared to their tracked counterparts b) add a partial aim assist, especially for turrets that need precise aiming (e.g. smoky) which often miss due to smallest imprecisions or even slightest ping delays c) increase the momentum/lower the acceleration of hover hulls to make the sideways movement less swift and to add moments of vulnerability when changing directions

Buggi online pt.2

I'd almost say your rewards were ultra ? .

I have an inkling it´s gonna be 2k - as we got 2k free for the new years mission. I wouldn´t have issue with that under two conditions - 1. prizes are worth it 2. prizes are guaranteed.

Better never than ever ? .

Hmm maybe a new tanki fund type of event? Definitely have the tks ready, but it will depend on the rewards whether I buy it or not, as I already have the 4th slot, and definitely won't waste 1-2k tks on a few UCs. Armadillo, skin containers or some cool augments would be tempting :D.

Basically what they are going for is in the future new players won´t be able to buy new equipment in garage. They´ll have to get it from containers. (personally, I still don´t agree with that decision, just saying how it is). I can imagine when a new turret is released, it will go to the legendery tier containar and then will slowly be reduced in scarcity by putting it into normal containers, but it may never get to the garage as a purchasable item at all.

I am mostly F2P player but don´t have an issue with occasional purchases - but only when positively motivated. I´ve played TO for many years on and off and have enough fully upgraded equipment to be competetive ( i.e. place top 3 ) in most MM battles. Better rewards motivate me to play more and with that I get more interested in the game and more inclined to buy a good offer once in a while. Worse rewards, be it for missions containers etc. do not cause me to buy more stuff ingame, quite an opposite. I play less and may take breaks for days, weeks or even months. That of course means less revenue for TO from my side. Maybe a food for thought for the guys in power, if any them ever manages to see this :) .

As of today, Tesla seems to get practically no benefit from viking´s OD, why is it so? Is it on purpose? I´m not complaing about tesla itself, of course xD, but it´s a pity I basically cannot use it with viking because its like a tank without OD then.

Right, but the ´´issue´´ is you are going to buy only as much, or rather as little as you need. So one of the ways to make more money is to make the resource harder to get, more expensive or make you spend more of it ( via supply guzzling drones for example). This of course has it´s own limits and problems, and I hope the devs are aware of it. I would much rather see TO go in the way of better advertising to gain new playerbase and also bringing effort not to lose the old players. I think TO is an awesome concept in and of itself and I believe it can do well monetarily without resorting to extortionate practices...

Not a bad idea, I don´t think I would really use it though, because selling the useless augs would cause them to appear in the containers again.

That would be super nice. Would have saved it for armadillo mk7 when I finally get it :D.

Unfortunately the 40k reward was changed recently to, well... 1 container.

I´ll actually have to disagree with you aswell. (I know there´s almost zer0 chance we´ll achieve any extra compensation but we should all realize how misleading this token of apology is). For a simplicity´s sake, let´s say I have an all mk8 acc (as many of us do), there is a total of 2 mk1 items to be collected from conts, and the token was 2conts (2 instead of 23 to make it simpler to understand the issue). 1 item is in the common category and one rare. There´s is no problem with the common category item, as all common rewards are basically useless and happen often, so a free container is enough of a compensation. But with the rare item, the thing is you need to open a lot of conts to get one (let´s say 10) so it cannot be compensated by another free cont (which will have an useless reward most likely. The difference is that normally you open lets say 10conts - you get 1 rare reward (cool!) With this error you open 10conts and you waste your 1 lucky roll on the mk1 item. so infact you just wasted 10conts. This issue wouldn´t be a thing if the mk1´s weren´t tied to a certain rarity - i.e. you can get them all from commons uncommons rares etc. (then 1cont for 1 mk1 compensation is ok) - but they are indeed tied to rarities, which is the core of the problem. If there´s a mathematician who could explain it more ´´scientifically´´ I´d be really thankful, because this apology token in fact isn´t just a problem of feelings (oh i couldnt get a rare item) rather a logically flawed and insufficient compensation for a mistake.

*Only with premium ammo ?. 11. you need to buy slots in your garage if you want to buy more turrets/hull, with ascending prices just like module slots.

6. you need to repair your tank after battle. 7. premium ammo that can be bought for tankoins 8. bank piercing rounds augment - critical hit steals crystals from your opponent. It will be available in limited amount via tankoins auction. couldn´t get more f2p than that xD.