Yeah crisis doesn't sound like the best drone for capping considering it's either armor/ speed you ought to pick from. Out of this list, sadly all those turrets are poorly upgraded on my account?? It's rlly gonna have to be crusader + Hammer/Gauss/Striker.

Any strong combination ideas involving crisis that you can give? Booster drone is finished and I'm tired of it, and my Trickster (which I'd prefer to use as main drone over booster) isn't upgraded enough to use in MM.

I don't want Crisis to get nerfed but if it does get nerfed I'll understand. I just hope they don't nerf it too much. IMO, if they decrease damage boost to like +40%, decrease speed boost to +50% and decrease armor boost to +60% I think that would be fair. in fact, I'd rather they didn't nerf crisis and instead introduced Crisis 2.0 for buyers (can have 2 active supply boosts simultaneously). But ultimately I'm not a developer and whatever they do, they do. I had plans to do this with AP Gauss and Crusader but now I'm leaning towards a more attacking style of play with Crisis, Viking and Hammer (since I'll have every Hammer augment once we get EMP pellets from the fund). That way I have a good chance of actually capping in modes like Rugby and CTF, and can still hopefully get lots of kills, which I love doing. Unfortunately this play style is not sustainable with Crisis considering I only have around 30k of each supply, so my Booster (Brutus 2.0) will remain my predominant drone ? Yeah icl there was good thought in his plan but a buyer could easily outwit him. AP immunity, Armadillo equipped and the Hyperspeed user would be fine.

I agree to an extent. They obviously care about buyers more because if buyers are happy and dominating battles, they have greater incentive to keep buying bundles and everything else .... more cash for developers. (Maximizing profits is the point of every business). They care about F2P players to an EXTENT. They just want to keep us happy enough to stay in the game. How do they do this? I'll tell you; 1) Giving us rare/OP items once in a while to make us THINK we can compete with buyers. example 1 - 4th prot slot (I personally thought it would revolutionize my gameplay, how wrong I was, it barely made a difference). example 2 - crisis and armadillo (we all think battles will be even now... Hazel has other ideas because his mission is to keep Buyers (the players who fund the game) happy. 2) giving us things to please us but they won't actually help us in battle. example 1 - skin containers (they know it won't make us better in battle so they can afford to give it solely to aesthetically please us). Example 2- shot effects like Blaster. 3) Lots of ultra weekends/ events to keep us engaged in the game. We see the Ultras we can earn from the missions so we grind to get them thinking we can get an OP augment and 99.99% of the time we get supplies and paints. But it's the HOPE of OP augments that'll make us keep grinding even next time. 4) giving us nerfed versions of OP augments in Battle passes/ containers. When we see it in the battle pass we THINK they are still OP, but they're nowhere near the strength of when they came out. But once again, the HOPE of having the OP version of the augment entices us and keep us in the game longer. example 1 - Blunderbuss in October challenge. example 2 - Electroturret in July challenge. example 3 - Fast shooting twins augment (don't know the name) in July challenge. Conclusion: These cycles will never go away cos they're Tanki's way of appeasing buyers to earn thousands and simultaneously keeping F2P players happy ENOUGH to keep playing. You just have to decide if you're happy with that: If yes and you and enjoy the game, keep playing and appreciate the times the devs treat F2P players well (eg this Tanki fund) OR consider becoming a buyer yourself....... If no and you hate the cycle and the dynamic of buyers dominating all modes, consider leaving the game cos I assure you it won't change in that aspect.

While there are a few smart techniques we can use to counter buyers, they won't be as good as they sound in theory. 1) Hornet OD lasts 30 secs and takes roughly 4 mins to load. Buyer's Hyperspeed shells reload in 3 seconds and can oneshot you from the furthest point of the map, ESPECIALLY if hornet is your hull. You may try and bypass this by using Nuclear energies per se, but that's a temporary solution. 2) He can equip AP immunity, 50% Magnum prot and 50% Armadillo. (that totally nullifies your magnum) 3) While your team can see his location with Hornet's OD, that doesn't mean they'll make it all the way to where he's camping.... alive. Conclusion: Hyperspeed shells if too OP to contend with and imo it's worse than Helios. F2P can only combat this when we max crisis (will take until next 50% sales), are in maximum armor mode and have 50% prot for Thunder. Then, we'll be able to counter Hyperspeed users better. Unfortunately, I see a massive nerf to Crisis before the next 50% off sales. Developers KNOW that we all intend to max our crisis on Tanker's day. My theory is, they won't allow us to max the OP version of the drone.

My face will be the same as it is now mate. It's not as if I'd be shocked. In fact, I'm EXPECTING nerfs and I'll be shocked if there aren't any. (not that I want them though). I'm just reveling in the fun while it lasts. I've seen that Hyperspeed shells firsthand in battle by a Crisis user. It's a joke. Players should fear it more than Helios. At least with Helios the buyers show their faces. With Hyperspace Thunder they can camp at the furthest poiint of the map and rack up 75 kills a game. I'm not naive or stupid enough to believe i can contend with such buyer-exclusive OP augments. I'm just excited to try Crisis for myself before its nerfed. That's all.

Bro is still at the 'depression' stage???

This is so accurate????

This aged well?? visionary.

I have a question about one of the Tankoin prizes: EMP Hammer. The EMP duration got nerfed to 2 secs, and reload is about 4 secs. So you can't fire at enemy when EMP Status effect is on (which you could do before). So my question is, is this more of a support augment like EMP Gauss? It used to be very aggressive and direct but now (on paper at least ) it seems uselss. Anyone who has the augment, is it still OP or nah?

Tankers day is the day I inflict pain on many buyers. I already have 1.6 mil Crystals. Just waiting for Tankers day to max my crisis.

We need more Gauss Augments man. How can Gauss ONLY have 2 augments - which are both dead anyway.

True. Unless they release more OP augment, motivation to reach level 15 in next Tanki fund will be small cos we already have the two ultra rewards: Crisis and Armadillo.

Lads and Lasses, we've absolutely done it. Congrats all - we did it together. August 10th, we feast. we've discussed this for the last 10 pages of the forum. Thanks but no thanks. don't be a buzzkill

Seriously tho, someone is tryna slow down the fund. It's been on 5k for an hour now. @yellowghetto just bought numerous bundles and I just bought the 5k Bundle. Why hasn't it moved?

Hi guys, just caught up. 5K left for Crisis. Thank you all - we did it together❤ I salute you, my friend.??

what does that mean?

Tbh I agree. I personally wish all the game's OP augments since Electroturret remained OP. (like Blunderbuss, AP Tesla, EMP Tesla, EMP Hammer etc). There'd be plenty of OP augments to choose from and due to funds like this, and battle passes, they wouldn't be just exclusive to buyers. Sounds absurd but i'd love to see how Prime blunderbuss fares against Helios or Electroturret or even AP Tesla. Shame all the gear is nerfed now but I understand why they do it Developers need to eat too.

what do you mean by 'worried', may I ask? NO NO NO NO NO NO NO and more NO. PLEASEEE don't give Hazel an excuse to erase progress. I'm here to tell you now the rumours aren't true. I would leave Tanki if they erased Fund progress.

The F2P player base thanks you for your service bro??

This is genuinely the most excited the player base has been (that I've seen). It's a beautiful sight. Let's all just keep negativity at bay and enjoy the Tanki Fund, we're lucky we're to be part of the best Tanki fund ever

I realized about 1month ago that trickster is now better all round than Booster. I started upgrading it and now it's 15/20. I'll use Trickster/booster as my main drones while upgrading crisis.

This is wisdom i can listen to. Thank you. I personally won't touch Armadillo until my Isida, Freeze, Firebird, Twins, Tesla, Dictator, Ares, Paladin and Crisis are maxed. That's at least a year from now. Sorry for your supply loss bro. That sounds sad icl. I wish no one suffers the same fate. Be smart people

I doubt it. They'll probably be burning that the fund reached level 15 anyway. No way they'll want to give us more awards

Me too. Never spent a penny and i have over 25k of each supply. When we get crisis, it'll be in my garage and be slowly upgraded on sales. I won't go supply broke, cos i'm not a moron.