We would have a lot more skins if the developers didn’t spend so much time trying to milk each individual skin as much as possible.

So you like entering a battle and seeing that the enemy team is already ahead in points?

But… it isn’t. You just can’t capture points, take flags, balls, etc. It’s a TDM until the delay period is over.

Not sure what the point of this wall of text is. I have been using this forum for a good while as well as playing the game on and off for nearly a decade. I don’t need anyone to tell me what to write and how to write it. Furthermore I don’t appreciate your aggressive tone and provocative expression. It’s uncalled for. Have a nice day.

That’s the thing. I’m not sure if it’s even worth investing any crystals into Armadillo. Like even if you somehow manage to fully upgrade it, will you ever realistically need it over a fourth turret module?

Just because I suggest an idea, that doesn’t mean I believe it should be put in the game RIGHT NOW (or even at all). That’s the whole point of discussion, figuring out what’s liked by players and what’s not liked. The developers already stated they aren’t going to implement any punishments for leaving a battle, so as long as the game remains in a similar state we should expect players to come and go during battles. There’s nothing we can do about that. A delay is better than no delay. It’s not perfect but it seems to work. It IS doing something.

By contrast I got Armadillo recently and it seems so daunting to max it out. Not sure if it’s even worth a slot.

I did read it. What’s the point? People are regularly leaving during the battle anyway… and some are joining too because of how the system works. It feels like a waste. My idea of an invisible wall to keep players in their bases is merely a theoretical solution, since we were discussing that. Do I think it’s necessary? Not really. In any case I believe the current delay is sufficient given the circumstances.

I think the reason that might not work in TO is that players are coming and going during the battle whereas in TX if you left the battle you got a deserter status. So it made sense to reset everyone’s positions because it was expected that all players would stay until the end of the battle. In TO there’s no point resetting a certain player’s position if they’ve just joined a few seconds ago, for example. In other words battles in TO are more casual and the rules are less rigid compared to TX, simply because TO is a more casual game. TX failed partly because it tried to be too “tryhard” or “competitive” while having such a small playerbase.

Perhaps, but it’s not as bad as it was before. It’s basically not possible to fix this without some sort of limit to where you can drive on the battlefield during the pre-battle period.

I’m pretty sure there are a lot of women who work as graphics artists in the dev team - the Vlogs have shown that. I personally don’t find it offensive. But what I absolutely did find offensive and distasteful is the artwork for the Iron Days event, which featured those Soviet style banners and posters.

You didn’t mention Crusader. Because it’s still really damn effective. I still see a good number of Ares users, however because heavy hulls are generally less popular I wouldn’t expect a massive number of them. And Hopper is pretty bad after the latest changes; before that there were still a lot of Hoppers around. Overall the hover hulls are just better, especially with mouse controls. In my opinion the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.

https://amp.ft.com/content/08119b95-ee26-4f64-be43-49c57c75b030 https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/visa-suspends-operations-russia-over-ukraine-invasion-2022-03-05/

What you describe sounds like you’re being put into unbalanced and/or incomplete battles - we’ve all experienced this before and continue to experience it. I simply don’t see the connection between that and the latest update.

It would have been even better to have everyone limited to their own base until the pre-battle period ends. Maybe using an invisible wall or something. None of what you said makes logical sense. Toughts, feelings and anecdotes are irrelevant when it comes to objectively analysing the effectiveness and consequences of an update.

My luck can’t seem to run out ?

The Batman is in cinemas today, including your favourite character, the Riddler! You hadn’t even mentioned this at all lol

Same.

I thought today is a significant day for you…

Cool.

Imagine wasting precious development time tinkering with graphics and interfaces rather than actually implementing something in the name of balance. Heck, even a new HD skin would be more worth it.

It’s not great but it’s far better than what came before (apart from the new logo, that sucks).

It’s literally the same as it was before, with the important difference that now you are unable to capture flags/balls/points etc. until a certain time period has passed. Nothing else has changed.

Where are the batteries? It’s virtually impossible to have a steady supply of batteries now. As a result we have players at the highest ranks being forced to upgrade and equip Brutus, which is next to useless at Legend.

Who cares if you’re getting destroyed? It’s a team game, you win by completing the objective more times than the enemy team. KD is meaningless. In any case until everyone loads into the battle it’s basically a TDM. What’s your problem with that?