They've removed options to shrink battle size and change controls... This is a huge minus. Flash client gets 60 fps, this gets 40, even with only 3 players in a map, and a choppy 40 at that. Seems like kits are gone from the garage too.

Isn't tiger the one going about conspiracies that you get nerfed by 20% if you don't buy? :lol: And stupid will stay stupid no matter the playtime they have... B)

That overdrive becomes especially deadly when used with incendiary mix or high pressure pump (I believe the max damage range increase counts for the increased range of the overdrive too... But I'm not too sure), but the mix between hunter and compact tanks is already a wonder because it removes one of the only 2 counters against the afterburn, these being a high % fox module and repair kit.

I've oneshot so many people with rail, it's obviously overpowered, no doubt against that, I don't even enter a match if I don't have falcon module equipped. Do you know how many people just spawn and press the double damage button? That leaves them vulnerable very often. And turrets that can oneshot similar tankers while having DD on get the upper hand easily, especially when their range is unlimited and they may not be seen at all. I don't find gauss particularly threatening myself but as an user of it it racks kills at an alarming rate... All I really wanted to say earlier, is a comparison between gauss and striker as I have both and gauss does miles better than I ever have with striker, and they're both m2. As I play on the client I cannot see a trail left by gauss shots, but I've seen it when playing on html5 in the test server, so I assume it's a flash thing. Locating them is usually easy anyway. I once managed to keep busy an hornet gauss for an entire match with smoky as he was laying waste to the entire team, ended up winning simply because I kept impacting him and preventing a lock on on my allies.

Case 1: Gauss shots aimed shot at unprotected enemy and it dies. No counterplay available. Case 2: Thunder shots at unprotected enemy, halves their hp. Enemy quickly reacts by pressing 2 and 1 in rapid succession. 2 shot turns to 5 shot instead. This won't always be the case, as there are plenty of people that get 2 shot by thunder (I use that too), but there IS some counterplay to it. It's also one of the most common modules floating around (I've seen up to 5 modules at over 40% in a single battle and a total of 7 modules in the enemy team)... There's yet to be a good sale for gauss module, so very few are around.

I have both and I can say gauss is easily the winner at m2 ranks, the kill is nearly instantaneous on anything that isn't wearing double armor, and you can soften heavies enough in a few regular shots, or use them as splash epicentre to oneshot some unfortunate light hull nearby, you can use the aimed shot really often and still catch enemies by surprise (Heck it easily hits in the 3000+ range at under 3 upgrades on m2, enough to oneshot an m4 medium if they have da off). Whereas with striker I'm often restricted to regular shots because with an aiming time nearly 60% longer and an obvious laser, almost everyone manages to hide in time. The two alterations that can help striker in this case are hunter and uranium, both increasing its regular shot dps.

Actually, while playing on test server in the html5 version, I see gauss charged shots leave a trail akin to railgun. But I never saw it on the client. Maybe it's a flash thing.

From what I've experienced only the client saves your user information, and remember me only allows automatic login of the selected account.

I've often been zapped 2-3 times in a row without dying between them... And many, many times I would just counter with either titan or dictator OD right back at them, and kill them anyway. But hornet or viking od? Those are basically guaranteed death because the only people with the bravery of using the flimsy hornets are railguns, so they get guaranteed oneshots and viking just grants ridiculous damage to the most ranged guns.

2 rockets at once is the same as 2x damage though... This is better than uranium imo. Who needs salvo when you can 2 shot a medium hull?

He should've camped up on a control point to secure at least one :P

For wasp, it depends. At low ranks it's OP because hulls are too slow at m0-m1. At m2 they already can escape it sometimes and m3-m4 almost always can escape it.

Are you sure this is the case? The cooling rate for all tanks should be identical.

Definitely. focusing on microing one versatile combo will do better, as once it's fully m3 you can focus on modules instead and greatly improve your survivability.

I'm quite sure APL is the short form of AlternativaPLatform... :mellow:

Firebird+compact tanks works great with hunter, you can also use viking if you like the slippery hull more, the overdrive is like a free recharge and it's easy to make kills with it (But so it is with hunter and compact tanks, as they're helpless against the burn effect). I'm not too sure about how freeze works with hunter, as their effects are similar, and zapping an enemy would become mainly a way to take their supplies or flag away instead of priming them for a guaranteed death (It's mostly guaranteed to lose to freeze anyway if you let it get close enough...). Now you also have gauss and railgun dictator, both of which are absolutely devastating, I use both of them. I suggest you walk away from wasp unless you become skilled at wasp freeze, since the OD has more synergy with freeze, but I believe it's worthless to use with firebird now. I only ever score bad with it, even with compact tanks whereas it does okay/good with both viking and hunter. With firebird hunter I've topped a scoreboard vs field marshals as a 3 red star rank, doing 3 out of 5 the caps for my team too so I think yours is a good idea if you like firebird.

I did too, that's why one of my accounts has m3 isida viking. Coupled with electra only other isidas with irbis and m4 could've stopped me.

Yup, when I couldn't direct hit even with tilting I would just hit the houses to splash damage on them, or the angle of the ramp to dissuade enemies from coming up.

When I happen to be on massacre with my firebird account I usually switch to compact tanks and hunter, or the m2 striker I have there.

I can shoot from there with striker and thunder too, as you saw once when I used thunder+dictator and just pooped on the enemies because they didn't even bother to get to me from behind (I wasn't even looking and tbh I expected to get shut down at some point but nope).

If he wants to get a battle pass to go along with the war missions he will have absolutely no problems muing a combo to m2 and buying one if not 2 m2 kits because I did the same thing during war of super powers, it was my only purchase and it's been good for the low price it had.

That high pressure pump is better if you cannot stick to the enemies? :P

I can't use vulcan to its best capabilities because of a ghosting keyboard, which also gives me issues with twins.

I think I recall hearing in one of the vlogs about it that it would turn with turret controls and strafe with the usual tank movement keys.

I'm quite sure it goes like this: There's a viking thunder m1 kit, which is what most buyers get directly from the shop, and this makes the combo look overpowered, bringing more people to use viking, and on and on... Though you get used to the impacts if you use it for a lot of time. (I kinda have, but it's still awful)