@Marcus If you don't reach your next checkpoint, will you lose the items you've earned in between checkpoints at the end of the event?

Not sure that's very accurate. Tesla may share characteristics with both twins and ricochet, but the play style is still unique. a short-range attack and the ability to hit round corners if you take a few seconds to set it up. Scorpion is literally just a striker and thunder bolted together, and buffing both to make thunder at least fairly redundant IMO

Why is easily wiping out snipers necessary, snipers and camping are valid play styles that just require players to find and then outmaneuver the tank. there are few maps that do not provide ways to get around snipers, either via cover or back doors/ramps. Furthermore, many scorpion users i have seen simply hide behind cover as well and let the homing function do the work. which is an inconvenience to everyone. Snipers at least have to contend with cover

At first I thought this was like some ultra-powerful upgrade for Striker, because that is all anyone seems to use it for. Thought it was some special event tank, a terminator turret miniaturised to test players, but no its just kinda bs. Don't know what the developers were thinking with this one. The "main cannon" is 30% more powerful than thunder with barely an addition to the reload time. Why does this even need a secondary fire mode, let alone one so powerful, no other tank has such a mode, they just have a special ability related to their ammunition type. I've read that people say that the secondary fire mode is hard to aim at moving targets, which is fine on modes where you never stay in one place, so only Rugby, CTF, Juggernaut, Siege, Assault, or control points may now entirely be decided by how many scorpions you have on your team Balance seems to have been forgotten here, and this fills no skills gap or solves no problems that i can see. If you wanted to eliminate campers (a legitimate play style that requires skill on its own and can readily be overcome), the secondary mode begs to be used in a camping style, with no direct line of sight needed to offer a counter to the opponent. I am curious to how the number of thunder and striker players is affected once this hits the garage, really not impressed by this. If you must have included this, why not make it a Striker upgrade, the cannon is just a thunder rip off so i'd lose that. Having it as a Striker upgrade would be better as it would just be a super powerful salvo, with a long reload and a single fire unguided rocket like you can fire from most striker modes right now. That would be more balanced, probably quite boring but it should be for this power. I really don't want matches to become scorpion shooting galleries, but i get the feeling that everyone will want a piece of this when it hits the garage. Tesla was a powerful, but limited addition, i just think they went too far with this one.

So I'm going to assume that camping is an issue for med and short range turrets (personally I relish the opportunity to try out shoot another shaft and have plenty of trouble still with other long range turrets). I think you overlook that a lot of maps have very few good sniping positions at all, while a smaller number are inclined towards long or short range fighting. most maps provide easy access to all sniping points for anyone who doesn't just charge straight down his sights. Given the strength of protection modules and double armour, there isnt really a good chance of killing first shot anyway, and given its poor arcade mode damage, the mediocre range increase is not really a compromise. A shaft tank was dead if caught in close combat, that was the case before this if you actually faced a competent opponent. All that's been accomplished is at best: shaft is now a really dull to use due to any small error in setting up results in another 10 second wait, or at worst: made every single user a sitting duck because they have not other meaningful defence. Railgun (which I see go buffed in this update), magnum and gauss are long ranged turrets which perorm pretty well at medium and short ranges, shaft does not have that luxury, nor has it all of the crazy augments that the others do. I've spent most of today trying to run from tanks that have survived the powered shot and have not been fussed by the pathetic arcade damage, honestly I cant find a spot i dont have run from other than the back of the maps, which if avoiding camping was an objective, sounds like a failure to me

Question about heat immunities Does using the immunity negate the ability incendiary band with the vulcan turret. I would like to know if this combination is possible, or if the tank needs to overheat to use the ability

Does anyone know what this new Armadillo module is in the new ultra containers. Im concerned this will be like an uber OP item given that a turrets are currently covered

Is there a way to view my tank stats rather than gear score in the garage? I would prefer to see my stats without having to go into upgrades, gear score is just not as interesting. This would also allow me to compare turrets and hulls without having to go back and forth as the general stats in each subsection don't tell me the specifics I want to see.

In capture the flag, can you please re-introduce the status notification on the flags, where the flag icons flash if they are in transit/ dropped and stop flashing when at base. It helps players of turrets that may not be involved in the thick of fighting be aware of if the flag has been captured until a point has been lost. E.g. Shaft/ Magnum as they need a lot more attention given how they work. Now that we have hulls like hopper in the game, that can take shortcuts over terrain in multiple ways, I would say that longer range turrets need this edge.

Hello, Just following up with the requested video for the glitch I'm having with the Shaft turret. It shows how when sniping, if a tank spawns over the top, it deactivates the sniping mode. First time uploading video so hopefully this works. https://imgur.com/gRrE29k

Hi I'm having difficulties uploading video to the forum. How do i do it?

It might take a while but ill get on it.

This is a bug I noticed with the Shaft turret. In the current HTML5 version of the game (issue didnt occur in flash) the sniping mode can be interrupted by someone spawning on top of, or in close proximity to the players tank. This doesnt fire the shot prematurely, it just deactivates it entirely. For the record when a recently spawned tank solidifies in front of a shot, that is understandable. However, this deactivation often happens in areas of critical cover, without warning and is really obnoxious due to the long charge times charging shots, often leading to massive missed opportunities given the power of a fully charged shot. Please consider fixing this.

So I just checked the drone wiki page. For the Engineer drone it says (Bonus time RK) Does anyone know what RK stands for?

Will scores from players with premium be ranked directly against those without? For example, if a player earns 801 crystals in a match and their premium status doubles that to 1602, will they be ranked higher then a player who earned 1600 crystals with no premium status?