Let's Discuss Shaft!

[Wary12 2]

I use Shaft M0-Mammoth M1 and it is very good for TDM because you get a lot of kills for one death as a result of Mammoth M1's high health.

[Wary12 2]

I love knocking the big fat end off magnum barrels - I can visualise the smug look falling from the players face as he realises that even though the hull is safe behind the wall, the barrel is just as vulnerable when it sticks up in the air like a flag pole.

 

I like magnum easy meat.

I love doing this as well ;)

[r_sg971 163]

I love knocking the big fat end off magnum barrels - I can visualise the smug look falling from the players face as he realises that even though the hull is safe behind the wall, the barrel is just as vulnerable when it sticks up in the air like a flag pole.

 

I like magnum easy meat.

Only shaft can do that.

My rail doesn't hit it if only the turret is visible.

 

Yes! I agree that the addition of all this splash damage has transformed gameplay. It will only get worse since the two biggest offenders, striker and Magnum, are rather difficult to learn. But players will learn them. We ain't seen Full Splash Mode yet. And I am not sure this will result in more fun for all.

 

 

 

When I was fiddling around with it I quickly learned to fire then lower the barrel. Raise-fire-lower. 

You need splash damage when you go to take flag and see 4 isidas healing each other there.

[Amagi 1,728]

^I was starting to miss you  :wub:

[LittleWillie 3,199]

Oh Lordy Lordy Lordy I just converted a Titan/Smoky to Shaft. LOL Shaft feels just as OP on the serving-out side of the cannon as it felt on the blowing up side of the thing. My God I just got the thing and still missing many shots and have not yet adapted to the turret / hull "feel" in arcade combat ... Total noob with the thing less than 3 hours played ... but even so I'm leaving a trail of wreckage 

 

THis weapon is OP but Shafters should not feel defensive about this as many weapons are OP. They've really stomped on the fun of tank-tank battling with the wave of recent re-balancing/ re-conceptings. Nowadays too many battles are over in 1 or two shots.  This is not fun. The idea is you should have a chance to fight back. Getting blown up in one or two shots means there's no battles really, just a series of saw-you-first-so-you-die-not-me.

 

(I speak of the general trend. Of course you still find the fun battle. But you're more likely to find a blowout for one team or the  other.)

 

Anyway I've grip-ed that Shaft is OP. If you can't beat 'em....

[LittleWillie 3,199]

True statement, they are mostly losers, so you are the winner, which is quite good as long as you don't mind the bad K/D  :)

I see what you did there. ;)

[chrissaimon 25]

Shaft really good at DM or TDM, and can earn kills easily. But one thing is problem, middle range turrets can destruct the shaft.   

[ToiIetPaper_BS 528]

Shaft is tasty to lick....energetic to shake...

Edited May 29, 2017 by ToiIetPaper_BS

[wolverine848 13,097]

Oh Lordy Lordy Lordy I just converted a Titan/Smoky to Shaft. LOL Shaft feels just as OP on the serving-out side of the cannon as it felt on the blowing up side of the thing. My God I just got the thing and still missing many shots and have not yet adapted to the turret / hull "feel" in arcade combat ... Total noob with the thing less than 3 hours played ... but even so I'm leaving a trail of wreckage 

 

THis weapon is OP but Shafters should not feel defensive about this as many weapons are OP. They've really stomped on the fun of tank-tank battling with the wave of recent re-balancing/ re-conceptings. Nowadays too many battles are over in 1 or two shots.  This is not fun. The idea is you should have a chance to fight back. Getting blown up in one or two shots means there's no battles really, just a series of saw-you-first-so-you-die-not-me.

 

(I speak of the general trend. Of course you still find the fun battle. But you're more likely to find a blowout for one team or the  other.)

 

Anyway I've grip-ed that Shaft is OP. If you can't beat 'em....

cough buy-supply-kits-with-real-money-RK cough

[chrissaimon 25]

Guys, if you hate shaft or get annoyed by it, you might use it. I suggest you to use it because to gain kills easily. You can even have fun to killing others by using it. :lol:

[Amagi 1,728]

Shaft is noob and I hate it.

[Truthteller 4,204]

Shaft is noob and I hate it.

Hater.

[splitterpoint 10,986]

I'm waiting for the errors to clear up when they move to the HTML5 engine.

My Shaft M4 is sitting dust in the garage.

 

HTML5 migration means that the Standalone Fail Player won't work anymore.

The client will be the new platform for mouse controls.

 

Oaah mouse controls on an M4 Shaft; man that's powerful.

But first they need to ditch Fail Player.

[Amagi 1,728]

What's the problem with Standalone Flash? I've been using mouse controls there for more or less since it came out and almost never experienced any hiccups whatsoever.

[LittleWillie 3,199]

cough buy-supply-kits-with-real-money-RK cough

Does not apply to me. [shrug]

[splitterpoint 10,986]

What's the problem with Standalone Flash? I've been using mouse controls there for more or less since it came out and almost never experienced any hiccups whatsoever.

You don't get errors as soon as you move the turret or try to get in scope mode?

[Benefactor 6,888]

Hater.

A hater only makes it greater.

[optimusprime993 11]

That hater use shaft most the time, so he is a joker :D

Edited May 30, 2017 by optimusprime993

[Amagi 1,728]

You don't get errors as soon as you move the turret or try to get in scope mode?

Uh? No? Ever tried using a different version? Might be your PC itself because I've never experienced those kinds of errors.

[splitterpoint 10,986]

Uh? No? Ever tried using a different version? Might be your PC itself because I've never experienced those kinds of errors.

Huh?! I get errors everywhere at all platforms basically. From client, to browsers to the Standalone. I haven't made much progress since they removed the fatal errors. Instead I get tons and tons and tons of friend request errors. Especially on my beloved Shaft with mouse controls. That one is practically unusable now.

 

My ping is as low as it can be; about 9 and I'm perfectly able to play the game on the highest settings at the highest framerate. :S

[Amagi 1,728]

Do you have other PCs? I've never heard of this kind of problem before so it's most likely your PC causing problems for whatever reason. 

[splitterpoint 10,986]

I do use a laptop for school. I know it has to do with Flash Player itself because when I reduce screen size or decrease graphics, the errors happen less frequently. I'm dying to get an answer from the developers or staff but they ignore me as soon as I state that I get errors on all platforms. Even the tech support tells me to decrease screen size or graphics. I don't want to do that when my PC is perfectly able to run everything. Flash Player can't keep up with the graphics and Tanki had quite some graphical improvements over the course of time.

 

Standalone Flash Player has always been the platform I use for mouse controls for Shaft. On my laptop I get disconnected aswell as soon as start moving the turret.

Edited June 1, 2017 by splitterpoint

[Misery 1,415]

Is the M2 good?

[DieselPlatinum 5,121]

^ yeah, if you know how to use it right.

[Strikechard123 241]

shaft description says  It can prepare coffee, order pizza 

 

so i have a couple of questions:

 

How do you make it to prepare coffee and order pizza?

 

Do I have to live in usa for being able to use this function?

 

Can it order domino's pizza?

 

Shouldn't shaft be expensiver as it can do such things?