@DestrotankAI9 Your kind of missing the point here. You join a battle to win. Now tell me what combo has THE best chance of achieving that win, with little to no help from any team mate, taking into account that most players enjoy CTF (missions completed) more than any other mode. Also the flying tank by passes mines and when its overdrive is activated stuns, (immobilises) burns, jumps a mile into the air and is off like a shot (crisis) before anyone who was protecting the flag can react. Crisis is only good with the flying tank and that's a fact, unless you are in a good team with a good isida player backing you up while you attack. This is rare in random teams and would need 3/4 players (friends/clan) working as a team. I no what is destroying the game and it's not crisis.

And would do nothing to stop the flying tank/crisis from capping your flag with ease. Crisis paired with any other hull is average because it can only use 1 supply at a time, which is quite useless with the amount of toxic OP crap now in TO. I've had crisis from the very beginning when I was a WO rank and back then it was very, very good. Now imo as a long time crisis user it is worse than useless, unless it is paired with the flying tank. It is the status effects which have ruined the game the most, next in line I would say it's the flying tank, then hornets overdrive (YET AGAIN) You are spot on about the devs of course, they no exactly what they are doing and they will continue to do it and the heavy P2W players will continue to dominate, just like they are now. TO has stopped being enjoyable for most players and yet they still go into battles and get wrecked, nobody but themselves to blame for continuing to play such a unbalanced game that caters ONLY to P2W and no one else. Try useless. Lower ranked battles cannot be compared at all to legend battles. At the very high ranks you are found out very quickly if you have not managed your garage with care, not unless you are a big buyer, then and only then can you rank as fast as you want knowing you have the cash funds to keep up with every subsequent rank you achieve. Low ranked battles are still relatively competitive/balanced for now, up to about brigadier, after that your probably going up at times against maxed out MK6 players and in some cases players with quite a few MK7s. The highly unbalanced nature of TO is at its minimum at at the lower ranks, beyond that and its as you were, it becomes quite unplayable UNLESS you are a big buyer.

.....................................................................................................................................................................flying tank still is. Just a slight correction.

Brutus is a F2P only drone and as you stated, Its USELESS. Defender costs a lot of money to upgrade and is supposed to negate damage to give you a advantage over your opponents, it has not done this for a very long time. All of you can state facts and figures until the end of time, but it does little to help those who can't buy their way out of this quagmire that TO has become. As I said in my previous post, certain overdrives and all these status effects, EMP, STUN, etc have made defender null and void as a useful counter in battle, especially at legend rank against maxed out 9999 players. One last point, having to max out any drone costs a fortune in crystals, even the USELESS brutus, which loses any meaning past the WO ranks. TO as a fun go to game no longer exists, the devs have made sure of that.

You have and well said but, (there is always a but) in my post I pointed out what is and has dominated battles for a long time.. Lets face it, as long as the devs keep buffing/nerfing stuff to make more money then balance and the select few (buyers) will just carry on as they are, being non existent and dominating battles most of the time. TO is far worse now than it has ever been and I cant see it improving any time soon.

Booster v defender is not the problem and never was, it's all the status effects in the game that are the problem, which now make defender useless as a meaningful addition to your combo. The current very OP things in the game are hornets overdrive and the flying tank that caps very easily when paired with the crisis drone. And yet it still makes little difference in battle against all of the above and quite a few others, so yes defender is a joke and has not done what it was designed to do for a quite a long time now due to all these OP changes the devs have made that by-pass defenders defences with apparent ease on a very regular basis. Hornets overdrive, maxed out armadillo module, flying tank, crisis drone, players with 20/30% only modules are what I see dominate battles for at least 90% of the time. The remaining 10% are battles full of noobs with a incredibly low G/S for their rank, making them quite useless in battle and therefore ineffective. As you can see defender v booster is not the issue, all of the above is, it's called not having any meaningful balance in the game.

You seemed to have left out the worst offender in all cap modes, especially CTF. I have never seen a camper using saboteur drone fly to the enemy base and then fly back to make the cap. I wonder why you forgot to mention that aspect in your post? Which is exactly what they want you to do.

The devs don't do cheap, not when it comes to swindling you out of cry/cash. As always they give the LAMEST explanations why they do what they do. I have maxed out crisis and a boat load of supplies, have done since WO3 and I have not used this account in earnest for months and will continue not to use it until there is stability within TO and they STOP changing things every other couple of months. These recent updates are as always terrible. Defender drone is now useless and even before this nerf it wasn't brilliant. Defender maxed with titan , 4 protection modules maxed with DA (1 of them being freeze with freeze immunity) and the dome activated gives very little protection against many combos and none against hornet/freeze with active overdrive. Titan is one part of the game that is useless at doing what it is supposed to do, give protection, especially in the TO that the devs are giving the players atm. TO is now pathetic and just not worth the effort I once put in and enjoyed doing so before this plethora of unpredictable, OP and for the most part unwanted changes the devs are constanly making. They are killing the game and for reasons only they no, continue to do so at a ever increasing rate. The devs are not dumb, they just never get it right.