Going mouse controls, fullscreen /w maxed battle window fixes the offset crosshairs. Although since my monitor is massive, it gets a little disorienting to play. Aside from that, shaft in mouse controls looks pretty good actually, there's now a sort of gyroscoping effect alongside being able to pan the camera around faster to look for incoming enemies. Just have to watch the crosshair's position as it moves to the cursor.

What emrakul said... most Gismos start losing interest in the game after hitting the rank; I felt it immediately after ranking up. I can testify to the drugging problem, it's pretty much just for the sake of entertainment now, not for crystals.

Lolwut, zoomed ironsights. Get ready to PRO up....ahahahaha B)

They better return Shaft and Rail's pre-Graphics Update glows. Please. And this better not be temporary XT garbage.

I'm a Vulcan user myself and the only time I notice its impact force is when I'm facing light hulls at mid range max and when tanks get air time. Considering that Vulcan is pretty much an AA gun, I don't see why not... Also, protection paints like Raccoon noticeably take several more seconds to kill. Stick an enemy isida next to it and chances are it'll die from burn, or at least be severely damaged. The only real problem is when the thing is mounted on a heavy hull with/without drugs and an isida, then it's pretty much a wall of lead. Hammer, despite its impressive burst damage, is still vulnerable to long range weapons and encirclements. I don't see why people complain of its power when it was really meant to destroy stuff at close-mid range. IMO it's intended for hit-and-run tactics and to kill high value targets, similar to how Railgun works.

I'd rather not go into detail, but... First time around, I think I held on too hard and stuff got awry real fast. Second time, grip was too loose and it slowly drifted away. Just have to find the right balance... But of course, all of us have the one that will never leave us...

Is it bad that I look forward to sleeping and dreaming whatever, good and bad, than waking up to a boring uneventful day? :lol:

Skype on this OS asks for verification, which fails so hard so I can't even use it. Why TeamSpeak 3 or something isn't ever uttered in the forum during all my time here baffles me. <_<

I remember years ago when I rolled around with thunder/viking in the Golden Era of TO. Good times, good people, but they're long past. Enjoy the game while still in the lower ranks. Higher you get, stuff gets stale and you can't buy your way into those precious moments again.

...What is going on with the faulty servers?? ･д･

Bye bye to Subway, Shell, Target, CVS, Burger King gift cards. They were so easy to get and I could buy them anytime I wanted :(

When you look at statistics and player opinion, Vulcan may seem to be underpowered. I decided this one time to give it the benefit of the doubt; was totally worth it :lol: The killing power offsets its disadvantages. Think of it as trying to use a sledgehammer/drill, but being able to bulldoze lots of stuff as payoff. On mammoth red team silence, it destroys blue defense once you get up the blue team's ramp on the far right, especially with teammate isidas.

It's a funny feeling knowing that about 50% of the list are people I used to play with years ago... RIP ShadowVisions, Shaft buddy. ;-;

I'm not really a fan of waiting for a decent, team-balanced match, all while hopping 5+ servers... Current filters just don't cut it. At all.

First couple of tries...not that bad.

(Unwarranted Brag post) Pls.

Not to go a little too off topic here, but I think I remember you participating with Timetoplaythegame-2 on his anti-criticism/cyberbullying thread. Oh well. Just another day on TO forums, I guess.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems you're suggesting that TO do away with the upgrades and instead add a whole bunch of new guns and hulls. Such a thing would be a nightmare to finance, code, balance, and tweak to attune to the masses. It's like converting TO's "class" based equipment into an FPS' armory, with at least 100+ weapons and whatnot. Not to mention, there will still be imbalance due to, well, firepower difference (i.e. an UZI compared to a Vector) Hypothetically, if this were to be somehow implemented, Special/Limited Edition equipment and "elite" status gear could easily be exploited by the Advertising Division of the team and make the game even more P2W than it is now.

It's a pretty clever idea for TO to relocate I&S to a separate website IMO. If it were here in the forums, it would cause a lot of discord amongst the community (and thereby increasing "community toxicity", which is a really, really bad thing). By adding a feedback website you can post on anonymously, they would be able to sort out the stigma of posting an idea, whilst having a better method of sorting out the suggestions. Though an entire community might be wrong in the end, the learning process would be much more effective than if only a few individuals were wrong. For example, Vulcan. People suggested that it be nerfed, and now look at what they say now about the turret. At least, the idea is generally accepted by the community that they went a little overboard with complaining. If Vulcan stayed where it's at while only a minority demanded a nerf, the reception would be worse if it did get weakened. The point I'm trying to get across is that we let the community do it's own thing, good or bad. It will lead itself. A side note also: Evolution also works partly like this; an entire species adapting is more beneficial to their survival than if a few organisms mutated, hm?

It would only be natural for such topics to be closed at a faster rate due to the over-repetition of the subject. If it's been put in the Do Not Suggest List (especially by Staff), then it would most likely stay there. Subjectively speaking, it does get quite annoying after some time. The community's responses to those topics aren't really controllable--it just goes to show the current health/toxicity of the TO community present.

Quite a contradiction. If nobody ever gave criticism, then they really wouldn't have different opinions, no? I believe you're confusing "flaming" with "criticism". Two very similar and different things at the same time.

I can pretty much testify to that; A vulcan M3+ went through my mammoth rather fast at about ricochet's max range.

Nice. 1.2m to buy all the stuff I need, and then some. :lol:

Only thing I have to complain about is the time gap between the discounts. :angry: Why must you torment me...I wanted to buy Vulcan M3 and a med hull for two weeks now...then another month of waiting? Come on.

You mean M4 stats.