First of all, rank differences were minimal back then, at least in most battles. You also weren’t forced to stay in a particular battle - there were a multitude to choose from with whatever settings you liked. Secondly, an M2 wasn’t game-breakingly OP compared to an M1; neither was that the case for an M3 compared to an M2. Supplies were a more significant factor imo. F2P definitely had it easier back then. Just the fact that you could earn crystals and experience in battles with supplies turned off was huge.

The alien in the background looks a bit like Spider-Man lol.

Correct. What the devs did is literally create a fake LC skin. That skin they made never existed in the game afaik.

No, Hazel knows what he’s doing. He’s putting in all his time and resources into pumping out new augments that disrupt the balance and the devs thrive off that disruption because it means increased cash flow. The issues with bugs and DDoS attacks - in other words, the issues that make Hazel look like an ignoramus who doesn’t know what he’s doing - are simply a result of the devs not bothering to reinvest in their own game. It’s not that they’re too stupid to deal with these problems, they just take the players for feeble-minded fools who don’t know what they want. So why even bother reinvesting into the game servers when it’s much easier and more profitable to just pump out new offers and OP augments every week…

The patch notes are literally planned weeks in advance. Hazel himself stated a few weeks ago what to expect in the update that was still days away. This isn’t balancing, it’s a farce. What sort of data were they looking at when they decided to buff Helios in a recent patch… ?

This really cracked me up ? But on a serious note, is it just me or does it seem like the devs have about 20 employees working on skins, cosmetics and artwork, and about two or three working on actual balancing…

Are Tanki Funds going to become the new Ultra Weekend? ?

Only if you were selected in the giveaway though, right?

You aren’t guaranteed to get the Tankoins back, only the rewards for each tier.

Sadly, it seems the only QoL updates that will happen will be the absolute bare minimum. And even that is a generous assumption. Only one map has been “remastered” so far and it’s not exactly a great experience to play on. At this rate it’ll take decades to do the same with all maps.

They’re just making you do more work with your damage calculations.

Really? Because the forum was down again and loading endlessly like it was previously.

The exact same thing that’s been going on for almost a month.

What a joke…just watch some Russian buy thousands of stars from the shop.

It’s like a worse Vulcan because of the shorter range and harder aiming.

The impact force is quite pathetic…

I’m almost exclusively playing PRO battles these days. Far better than the utter crap-fest that is matchmaking.

No, that’s not right. @YANUKFIN is saying that the devs place OP augments (e.g. Helios) in the exotic tier, interspersed with other augments (e.g. Plasma Turbo Accelerators) that are just filler.

What? Helios shouldn’t have been in the Dark Matter mini-game because then we would have had a load of buyers running around with it immediately after. Devs were smart to put the seemingly-OP-but-actually-mediocre Pulsar in that mini-game.

Actually iirc Pulsar cost about $290 + all the special missions to obtain. With Helios a buyer could spend a million bucks and still not be guaranteed to get it.

Except that it isn’t because no one even knew it existed until it showed up in the Arms Race mode in June.

I believe this is footage of the Wolfpack augment for Scorpion (at 1:30):

Okay, the Explosive Warheads and Wolfpack augments look like they could potentially be a bit OP. Especially Wolfpack which seems to essentially allow the user to launch missiles at closer targets.

Well then how did you come to believe in creationism? Surely someone must have told you, either at church or at home.