Thunder m1 or Railgun m1 ?

[RisteLalkov 9]

What is better Thunder m1 or Railgun m1 ?

[Raphael2 3,263]

Thunder at WO4

[r_Firingsniper0 1,215]

Railgun is better at M1, Thunder is better at m2, Railgun is better at M3

[KiwiZaphod 53]

What hull do you prefer (or have at a high level)? I'd go Thunder for a medium hull, Railgun if you prefer light.

 

With Thunder, you'll find people tend to race to get close so that the splash damage hits you as well - light hull means you suicide a lot.

With Railgun, you need "pop-up" tactics because of the recharge time - medium hull means you are a target for longer.

[Lhamster 4,081]

Moved to Gameplay.

[HighwindsGDN 30]

 I had alot more fun with thunder at your rank than I did with rail but I use heavier hulls.  If you use light hull go with rail

[KiwiZaphod 53]

This is what might tell you if you think to buy Railgun or Twins M1 (Rather OP). As M1 they both are good, but when it comes to M3s...

 

To be honest there are many points why Twins and Smoky are both OP compared to guns like Thunder and Railgun.

 

1. Smoky's crytical hit has more power than 1 railgun's shot, which comes out very often (I don't get it: why can't smoky have less critical and more power of its own? Like 30 - 38 normal shot and 7%, 150 crytical as M3?!)

 

2. Thunder shoots really slow but has almost the same power as it had before rebalance, meaning it's been nerfed. True, that Thunder M3 was shooting too fast before and was OP, but now it's just a Tier 1 garbage and rather its M3 is M2.

 

3. Twins has unlimited fuel, therefor it's meant to have low power, but because then it'd take ages to destroy a tank it needs power as this. But then its not fair against others, now is it? So I suppose that is Twins was more like: M1: 9 - 12, M2: 12 - 15, M3: 14 - 17 wouldn't that make Fair play as if it would be good for shooting those who run out of fuel (Freeze, Firebird, Ricochet (Type 2 of Twins), Isida) and still would have good power?

 

4. Thunder is mid-range and its power is almost fair, but speed of the shot isn't, so if old speed was 26.7 (OP) and new one is 24.7 (Too slow) then why not make it 25.7: Fair play?

 

To be honest, the ranking for every gun in the game yes, would mean that those Marshal ranked guns and everything must be more powerful: but they're all M3! You can't upgrade the lower ranking guns anywhere more! This is not fair, because Thunder pro would lose against Twins beginner! Our Twins is like M4 and so is Smoky, whilst Ricochet, which is higher rank is not OP, so I'm confused. Btw, Ricochet runs out of fuel real quick whilst Twins doesn't at all and smoky can shoot real fast + critical hit at some point.

 

 

Thunder is a gun that needs more speed (25.7 as M3)

 

Railgun is a gun that needs more power (112 - 190 as M3)

Um - did you actually answers the OPs question in there? :-)

There's a lot more to balance than damage delivered per shot (or per minute) - like how many shots you can get on target before the enemy blows you up, and range limitations.

M3 Twins take out an M1 Railgun at long range on a map with plenty of cover - I'd say 0% chance.

M3 Smokey take out M3 Thunder at medium range - the maths I did suggested a 30% chance at best of a Smokey victory (on M3 Viking hulls)

[P.E.R.F.E.C.T.l.O.N 325]

for ur rank, rail m1, as u will alot of wasps and hornets m1, u can 1 shot kill them.

[mchen 162]

thunder m1 is just OP, it can take out hornets in 2 shots! and mammoths and titans in 4 shots

 

rail m1 is good but can't one hit kill an m1 hornet