I see what you mean. Yeah that is something that could happen in battles. However, compared to the current overdrives for me, I still feel the old blue one was better. This is speaking from personal opinion and my experiences in battles. I most certainly prefer the old blue overdrives over Hopper's OD (jump hack). Pair crisis hopper with Crisis and it's pretty much over. But yeah, I had way more fun with the blue overdrives. Hmm maybe even when there were no such thing as an overdrive I had more fun with that.

I miss the old Blue Overdrive that everyone had. I felt that was equal to all since everyone had the same thing. It healed yourself and your teammates and gave everyone supplies. It wasn't too OP. Games were insanely fun when it existed. What a time to be alive. ?

I dislike hopper in CTF, Rgby, Assault modes. Especially if hopper is equipped with Crisis drone. Then there are times where the hopper would take the ball/flag and use their OD to get to a spot that makes him/her impossible to kill. Then they just camp there the entire game with magnum and damage us while we are on the ground unable to damage them. I think the devs allowing "safe zones" for hopper outside the map is insanely stupid.

Yo chill on the Mod Candidate. He has every right to express his opinion. ?

I knew you had some type of augment helping you. There's no way you were able to beat Crisis/Hopper with regular equipment. Now, you do realize that the majority of people are able not to afford immunity? Or even the battle pass and premium to get immunity? You say get a good augment or drone like that's a simple thing to do unless you have $$$ to spend on shop. Before you say do special missions to get ultra containers and try our luck, majority of special missions are suited to buyers with premium. I don't mean this in a offensive way at all but I feel like your judgement is clouded by your happy go lucky positive-about everything personality. Look at this objectively here. Is Hopper/Crisis not a flying hack given the parameters you are a non buyer that can't afford Mk8s? Or even a casual buyer to broaden the audience.

Bless your heart man. Bless your heart. I apologize for what I said about the sucking up to the higher ups thing. Quite immature. On note of how you view hopper/crisis, I just have to disagree with you as non buyer. Not sure if you are a buyer or not and are able to defend yourself from it. Put yourself in the perspective of the non buyer. It's hard enough as it is. Adding hopper/Crisis on top of that is just brutal. If you like that battles ended quickly, more power to you. But for those tankers who can't spawn in fast enough, F in the chat for them :\

That's true. Some other modes are fun even if the guy has hopper/crisis. I feel that hopper/crisis is only a complete abomination in CTF/Rgby modes. I prefer playing CP mode as that has everyone moving around and playing a lot. Not really a single objective to get. However, my favorite mode is CTF and it's sad that I am forced to not wanna play CTF because of hopper/crisis. On the note of overdrives. I prefer getting stunned and flag dropped by hunter instead of hopper setting me on fire, making me drop flag, and jumping over me. Hunter has effects on different hulls. Hopper does the same 3 things on every hull. Before you say get immunity, keep in mind that I am speaking from the perspective a non buyer that's unable to spend money on this game.

? I love how you call em clowns haha. That is very good method I use but it's not always effective as half my team does not spawn in for a few minutes. Although, I am a nonbuyer so I don't have stun immunity augment and I don't get lucky in containers. :\

I don't understand that appeal of that type of gameplay either. Intense battles to the last second even if my team loses are some of the most fun I have in TO. But those are rare. Interesting to see a player of your caliber not having fun pub stomping non-buyer noobs. I'm used to the super buyers calling me noob kid as they show off their "hard-earned" money bought equipment I only have 1 xt that I grinded for when Super missions were a thing back then. I feel that's worth more than anything buyers purchase. I feel like TO should have a MM for buyers and non buyers however, there are so many implications of that suggestion. At the end of the day, hopper/crisis is buyer's hack and ruins the game for everyone. And I didn't mean anything I said in offensive way. I have nothing bad against you and I respect you. For me, I guess I'll just have to stick to creating Pro Battles with certain parameters and only do MM for missions. ?

Thank you! I bet they were a clan. I had the same thing happen to me lol. It was just awful haha.

True that is a great strategy. Glad it worked for you cause it surely hasn't for me. How often will you have a team that spawns in fully? Almost all my games half the team have not spawned in yet and I can't 3v8 a full team.

True true true. I stated what I said knowing what would happen. If it makes all parties feel better, I apologize to Thunderhunter. I'm sure he is a great guy and I hope he gets the full position he is applying for. I just feel those positives he explained do not outweigh the negatives by a lot. There are more negatives than positives. If you were a non buyer who couldn't afford the expensive stuff and you see a hopper/crisis on other team, are you gonna say "oh man, this is such a positive thing for the game, I can't wait to play against the guy that will stun me and fly across the map to end the game in 2 minutes." I'm not trying to be an impertinent smarty pants here, that is a serious question. Glad you could agree with me on the hopper/crisis thing.

@wolverine848 I know you. Not for your work on the Forum but for the absolute hell and turmoil you bring in battles. And that's not a compliment. I hate queuing up against you or even with you on the team. I don't hate you as person, I'm sure you're a good guy considering your reputation. I just hate you cause your one of the main Crisis/Hopper guys I have in mind. You make games just the absolute worst. I agree with you if you say Crisis is balanced on any other hull other than Hopper. You agree with some of my points on the overdrive being unbalanced as heck. Glad we could find some common ground there. I can understand why you abuse that mechanic. With hopper/crisis, you're an all powerful buyer god amongst the norm, who's gonna stop unless another hopper/crisis buyer god. Just one thing. Do you find it fun to end battles in 2-3 minutes even before half of each team is spawning? By the time people spawn, you would have captured the 5 flag and battles over.

So you mean to tell me it's 4 overdrive effects is fair? Having a hopper/Crisis super buyer take your flag/ball and hop across the map so fast you can't shoot it and they end the game in 2-3 mins is fun and fair? You must like really short games then. One thing, getting augments is god hard for non buyers and casual buyers. You think non buyers have premium and battle pass money to get that? And yes I still hate Crisis. You say hunter and Stun and yes that is true but how many times do you think you can do that before the Hopper/Crisis kills you and ends the game. You get killed as the lone hunter saving the team and boom hopper/crisis makes his move. What then? Rely on your teammates? What are the chances that they are actual "good" players that have the capacity stop the hopper/crisis. Pretty slim if you ask me. I can't tell if you're only saying all these "positive" things because you're a Forum Moderator Candidate and you're trying to suck up to your higher ups so they can see you're a good match for the job. If you truly feel that hopper/crisis at its current state belongs in the game then bless your heart.

I understand what you're saying. It seems like you're looking at this from a buyer's perspective. Not everyone is able to afford most of those things. Look at how you said you have mu 20/20 saboteur and any other drone. You have to be a major buyer cause there is no way in heck non buyers are having that. Same with EMP Gauss Salvo. You have to be extremely lucky to get that. Just cause I'm legend rank does not mean anything. I do not have any mk8s cause I can't afford that crap. It's hard enough to earn crystals in battle as a non buyer. Btw, the name Heliophile looks like a buyer's name but I got it as a gift from a friend. I'm not a buyer and believe me I suffer tremendously. Why do you think the Tanki player base has decreased over the years?