I mostly use mammoth OD as a surprise kill, or to punish the firebirds/freezes sticking up to your tank, or occasionally as a temporary shield to buy me enough time to kill the enemy. And well, if possible I rekt people inside a titan dome.

I don't like XP/BP (I dislike hornet in general), and the "issue" with pro battles is that it's really hard to find a good match or create one where people actually join... JGR is ruined by viking overdrive, and I don't have a grizzly/dolphin m2 to protect myself from those. Another factor at play is that these wars they do, are way too influent on luck instead of on your skills, like war of super powers was (Though I did have the help of 23 days of premium to get the stars for it). Like this current war doesn't interest me at all and I didn't even buy the paint, nor does the challenge, since I know I won't get to 1800 stars for titan XT (I would like it though). Having different guns that can have a purpose can spice my game up until I get to major for striker's redemption. I don't have trouble with losing or winning battles, and I get top scores quite easily, but whenever I switch to either rico or striker, after not much time I end up using railgun again because it's objectively way more powerful than those 2, and that's what irks me. Titan rail is sorta relaxing, but dictator rail is fast paced and almost tiring to use, though it scores amazingly. I actually may have made a mistake in pairing striker with dictator, it seems to be more enjoyable with hunter, but I'll have to see once I unlock uranium on this account as well. Railgun is currently 4/10, I could eventually get it to m3, probably before I even get to captain. Or I could get a new "toy" to get some variety in my battles. Or... I could go for grizzly m2 and orka m2 as they'll both help out in the long term.

I checked his profile, he's gained around 650k exp since ratings got released... And he's got a whooping 629 exp per hour (If you count his pre-ratings exp it's about 1100, but those hours aren't listed in the page, nor is the exp.). And his garage... I'm not sure how it's even possible that it's so bad. He uses about 5-6 drugs per hour, so I doubt he's spending crystals on supplies either. I am extremely confused by his profile. Surely you could get way more than what he's got with 1.3m total earned crystals... :huh:

I think the main culprit is that the most popular kit at low ranks is that thunder viking m1 kit, which buyers get and bring to m2, so it looks overpowered, and other people buy viking so they can be overpowered as well... Too bad it sucks for nearly every gun, and it's only acceptable on fire/freeze/isida because they turn quickly and the hull's height allows usage of stock isida or high pressure pump variants without losing 80% of your dps on missed ticks. Plus the overdrive raises the gun's range, allowing for some surprise factor, and chance at killing multiple clustered enemies together. My thunder m3 and the other m3 account only have viking because I had it when it was a good hull and not the slideking it is now, and the overdrive is a joke most of the time... Even if I bought viking m2 to compliment firebird m3 on one of my accounts, I'm consistently scoring better and have more fun using hunter striker with uranium. That combo rocks. OD is always ready when you gotta punish some cocky people.

I never get thanked as a dictator... But sometimes as an isida yes.

http://prntscr.com/ofqqyb Topscorer in the enemy team. Literally sat in the same spot all match, literally 0 attempts at the flag, just camp and shoot. Took about 2-3 seconds to shoot at me (laser visible, how long does it take to release space when target is in sight?) while I was being stationary, and I killed him up close with support nanobots of all things... But shaft is oh so difficult to use. Please. And on this topic, the wasp you can see behind the scoreboard did 4 kills... 3 of which with the bomb (2 on me, but I couldn't reverse in time). Wow so op he must be nerfed!!

Load times for battles have gotten extremely slow... This isn't good.

I see constant drugs at this rank already... The only difference is my equipment is actually above the average tankers while still being below buyers.

I've said it before, the fuse should take longer at a lower modification level, because m0 hulls cannot escape. You make it sound like it's so hard... There are way too many shafts ending #1 in their teams, and you can literally use m2 vs m4s and still blast them into oblivion. So I disagree.

I could do that, but it's boring to use railgun all day. Striker only badly compares if I use missile launcher "hunter" with titan and rico is completely outmatched by the insane damages railgun destabilization does. I want something new, or I'll never rank up. Well, the thing with trying m0 versions is that both time before overheating and lock-on times are radically different, giving a very different feel about what the capabilities are. I have gauss m2 on one of my accounts, and it's powerful, but at the same time I hear praise for vulcan and I wonder how it'll do, since it seems I have the optimal hulls for it. Right now I just finish missions and then I'm too bored to continue so I move on to my other accounts.

It happens every 2 battles on client, and more than half of the times you just hear the beep from the notification and the entire game freezes instead.

The same happens if you instantly die with other overdrives, viking too, even though the % drains extremely quickly.

My @UAV1997 's been at 4 stars for literally years (Perhaps a forum login is in order, to update that rank) :lol: "only" 18k away though :ph34r:

Which would you say is better for me, gauss or vulcan m2? I'm equipped with either titan (M2) or dictator (M3).

That usually happens when blue is too powerful... And that happens often since many turrets literally oneshot tanks.

Yes, I do own titan, m2 in fact, but I'm not too fond of incendiary band, consider I literally do not have a fox module. I'd be using it stock or with the other alterations...

Definitely looked fishy, but it wasn't as obvious as the previous one. (though, no laser still) I suppose it's new, they'll have to update their anti cheat system. Playing in those ranks also plays a huge factor because even if they get banned they can just make a new one and recover very quickly. You don't see these often past wo1 if at all.

I'm not sure if I should pick gauss, vulcan or stick with what I have. It feels like it's going to take ages to get to the rank where I can get striker m2, to microupgrade it. Railgun is alright for the fun factor, but using only rail and striker gets boring. Rico kinda really needs MFS in nearly every map, it's not as enjoyable as it could be if it shot faster... The only m2s I could get are freeze, gauss, and vulcan to spice my game up a bit. I know gauss m2 does amazing, it can get good scores even at 4 star rank, so micro upgraded could be a beast, but I never tried vulcan past m1 either. I don't feel necessary to get a new hull, as I have one of each type, with dictator being even m3. Alternatively I could keep saving up for modules such as grizzly or the orka to protect against self damage... I dunno. Having lost a few of my usual groupers I'm mostly left alone in matchmaking, which doesn't help my fun factor in here. So maybe spicing it up with a new weapon would help. I would buy during a sale only.

I always look for at least 1 guy to share dictator with, unless I'm in a pinch and need it for myself (Or when I'm on a rampage with dictator rail and the MM put me in a match where I dominate). As for hunter... I don't really use it, but when I did it's been useful to retrieve flags or similar.

I find viking ok with short range turrets (Been going ok with both isida and firebird, and due to its OD increasing their range massively, you can actually get a fair share of damage/kills done) but I don't see the appeal in combos like thunder viking when you could use dictator or hunter instead. The chance to stun attackers defensively or gain largely heightened active supply times feel much better than a once only "kill 1 or 2 people unless you're a lucky railgun".

Oh yes let's assume people are able to see 360 degrees wide so they can always know there's an hunter nearby. Or that we have infinite dps to kill a da+sb hunter in time. It has happened way too many times that I would press shift to place a dome and some random hunter throwing a zap at something else stuns me and completely wastes my OD.

... That's an hack. I can assure you that's not how it works legitly.

http://prntscr.com/oevgn8 stock rail m2, 2/10 wasp m2, no alterations. The guy in 1st place was an m3 m3 twins viking instead. Even stock rail is wicked. (Also this was done on html5 :D)

He cannot buy a kit with that rank, unfortunately, unless he shells out the real cash. In the current state of the game an highly upgraded gun will do much better than an highly upgraded hull (Unless you're using short range stuff like firebird, that is). So I would focus on getting an m3 weapon and the optimal alteration for it, if there's one.

Hornet rail or dictator rail seem to be the safest means of completing missions to rack some containers. Even m0 dictator can prove useful (I successfully used m1 at 4 stars, though I did have thunder m3 with it), double damage is always a great asset. Especially if you have nothing to activate it on your own. Alternatively... Shaft hornet, I guess, since it would basically oneshot vikings regardless when overdrive is active. I wanted to say to defend/heal with mammoth isida, but that's not gonna work without supplies... Though there are few modules around.