Let's Discuss Magnum!

[KamiGT 143]

By the way, who misses the days when most turrets weren't able to one shot your tank? We wouldn't need spawn protection if it wasn't for this... Now we have Magnum, Railgun, Hammer, Shaft, and Gauss. Plus, with Hornet OD, almost everything else falls under this category (not a direct oneshot, but death in about 2 seconds or less).

I wish we could go back to the days when it actually took a bit of time to get killed, when light hulls couldn't have about as much health as Titan, and when heavy hulls couldn't get oneshotted by anything except Shaft.

[mightymeat24 3]

I have a question about Magnum and HTML5. Sometimes I can't get the "view" correct. I rotate the tank and I just see the side view of my tank, instead of my own point of view where I'm aiming. In Flash, I could hit the  "Esc" key and this would solve the problem, but I don't know how to fix it in HTML5. Thanks.

[mightymeat24 3]

22 hours ago, At_Shin said:

have you disabled mouse controls.

Thanks, good man.

[eruththedragon 0]

The entire point of Magnum is that you get to choose the elevation. Now, however, it costs 150000 crystals to buy a modification to allow you to do that (more than 35 USD in real money). I mean, WTF? I don't have 15000 crystals and I'm not spending 36 USD on an otherwise free game to get back the core feature of my favorite turret. If you are going to keep this nonsensical change to Magnum, please lower the cost of the modification. I honestly find the game about 60% less fun now and might just quit soon. Curious, was anyone actually asking for this?

[GG_reg 1,521]

2 minutes ago, eruththedragon said:

The entire point of Magnum is that you get to choose the elevation. Now, however, it costs 150000 crystals to buy a modification to allow you to do that (more than 35 USD in real money). I mean, WTF? I don't have 15000 crystals and I'm not spending 36 USD on an otherwise free game to get back the core feature of my favorite turret. If you are going to keep this nonsensical change to Magnum, please lower the cost of the modification. I honestly find the game about 60% less fun now and might just quit soon. Curious, was anyone actually asking for this?

Topic merged.

[RoverDog 0]

14 hours ago, eruththedragon said:

The entire point of Magnum is that you get to choose the elevation. Now, however, it costs 150000 crystals to buy a modification to allow you to do that (more than 35 USD in real money). I mean, WTF? I don't have 15000 crystals and I'm not spending 36 USD on an otherwise free game to get back the core feature of my favorite turret. If you are going to keep this nonsensical change to Magnum, please lower the cost of the modification. I honestly find the game about 60% less fun now and might just quit soon. Curious, was anyone actually asking for this?

Just bought a new PC with 4K graphics... thought I would try out Tanki... Keys not working, cannot change the elevation, but the turret now turns!

Yes I agree, the entire point of Magnum is to choose the elevation. Had that down to a fine art.

No way I will pay U$36 to get it back!!!! Will be back in a few months time to see if it's fixed...

[Cleric 1,385]

21 hours ago, eruththedragon said:

The entire point of Magnum is that you get to choose the elevation. Now, however, it costs 150000 crystals to buy a modification to allow you to do that (more than 35 USD in real money). I mean, WTF? I don't have 15000 crystals and I'm not spending 36 USD on an otherwise free game to get back the core feature of my favorite turret. If you are going to keep this nonsensical change to Magnum, please lower the cost of the modification. I honestly find the game about 60% less fun now and might just quit soon. Curious, was anyone actually asking for this?

Well, at least you still have an alternative.

 

RIP Vulcan when the Gyroscopic Effect has been reduced by 50%.

RIP Thunder and Vulcan when they are no longer hit-scan.

 

As for whether anyone ask for the changes, technically yes, but not in this way. Some players, including me, believes Magnum should not perform great in close range. Previously, a Magnum with RFC augment can perform very well in close range. So the fixed 12 degree instead of 3 degree is a nice change, but for the part which the control of the  augment and stock Magnum is swapped, I don't think it has been discussed in this forum.

Edited September 19, 2020 by Aegis

[Fatherland 68]

They utterly butchered our beloved Magnum. It's now useless, but especially stock Magnum when used with Viking overdrive

[E_polypterus 2,374]

4 hours ago, Fatherland said:

They utterly butchered our beloved Magnum. It's now useless, but especially stock Magnum when used with Viking overdrive

Good riddance. At least now we’re rid of those stupid campers in the enemy base with the mortar alt who don’t move an inch but just keep on pressing the damn space bar.

[Cleric 1,385]

17 minutes ago, E_polypterus said:

Good riddance. At least now we’re rid of those stupid campers in the enemy base with the mortar alt who don’t move an inch but just keep on pressing the damn space bar.

They are not gone, especially in high ranks where no lifers have enough crystals to fully upgrade everything.

[Fatherland 68]

7 hours ago, E_polypterus said:

Good riddance.

Magnum was my favorite turret to play with, but I won’t be using it anymore

 Good thing I have Gauss EMP which annoys everyone much more than Magnum ever would. I’ll be playing with that. See y’all in battle.

[pro-AGFR 32]

good job!!! ive paid a 80k crystal to get rgc and now everyone can use it!!! niiiice!!  i want my 80k crys back now ! time to leave this sinkin ship, bon voyage.

Edited September 23, 2020 by Sacrifice
Please avoid the excessive use of Upper Case letters & Inappropriate language.

[wolverine848 13,097]

5 minutes ago, At_Shin said:

@pro-AGFR  so, do you not realise you got it for free? Seriously, now you don't need to spend 80k+ on the augment. Just spend it on something else! Upgrades and whatnot....

Says he paid 80k for it - as in past tense - I guess while still an alteration.

Not as many crystals as it would cost now - but - not free either.

[pro-AGFR 32]

2 minutes ago, wolverine848 said:

Says he paid 80k for it - as in past tense - I guess while still an alteration.

Not as many crystals as it would cost now - but - not free either.

He cant read, ive paid for all alterations.

[pro-AGFR 32]

13 minutes ago, At_Shin said:

Excuse me but you had typed all in capital so I did not look closely. You should know not to type in capital. It is considered as shouting.

Hilarious excuses

[Fatherland 68]

I HIGHLY recommend anyone who used to use the Reinforced Gun Carriage augment before the recent update to purchase Adrenaline for the current Magnum. So far I've tested it with Hornet and Defender, had great results. Also tried it with Dictator and Booster, also had great results. The new 12 degree angle will need some getting used to for everyone, and I'm still learning the huge change in Magnum's angle, but I'm getting there. Maybe the new angle is not as bad as I first thought. Previous to the update, you'd hold space bar at 100% power until you're ready to shoot, but now, it's better not to do that, so you can shoot anyone in close range by tapping the space bar and shooting at 0% power or more, as needed.

[ghost-guns 1,486]

Is it worth upgrading to MK8? I get lots of kills with this turret but going from 10 to 20 upgrades will cost me 470,000...

Edited December 27, 2020 by ghost-guns

[TheCongoSpider 8,942]

11 hours ago, ghost-guns said:

Is it worth upgrading to MK8? I get lots of kills with this turret but going from 10 to 20 upgrades will cost me 470,000...

If you have nothing else to micro-upgrade, then sure. 

[TheCongoSpider 8,942]

To put the Harpoon nerf into perspective, here are two videos showcasing the splash damage before and after the nerf. 

 

Before:

 

After:

 

[SirAlswang 2]

Hello all. Looking back at magnum then and magnum now, Magnum has really degraded and has become incredibly pay-to-win.

Magnum can no longer do many of the things it used to do!
It can't

 - Shoot over walls

 - Shoot over bridges or arches in Desert Map

 - Employ many of the tactics it used to be able to use (ie. Straight up or straight forward)
A quarter of a million crystals is required to buy the "Reinforced Gun Carriage" augment. Otherwise, it is just a glorified railgun that has an exorbitant reload time and a lot of splash.

There's a few solutions for this.

There could be a toggle between up-and-down (old magnum) or horizontal rotation (new magnum).
Or the Reinforced gun carriage augment could be cheaper.

[alkyng 3,080]

I haven't understand you.

What you see is stronger.. Old Magnum Up-and-down. Or the new Magnum left-right.

[Mirza7 235]

I was thinking that If we can toggle[on/off] turret augment it would be great for a different turret though.

IMHO magnum is not good for game. it can strike  anywhere while remaining out of site, kill multiple enemy. viking OD makes it worst.

[alkyng 3,080]

Magnum is fun to use, I mean with up/down. Opened a new Varity of skills, precise and determining.

But couldn't refuse the truth and use "Reinforced Gun Carriage" Regardless of the stock "left-right". Left right didn't have the same amusement and fun like Up-down, but this is the fact.

Like I very love LCR Railgun, but couldn't deny the truth that Scout is OP. So I use Scout, though I want to use LCR, but Scout is way more stronger and gave me a huge advantages in every battle.

And that all is the wrong from developers.

[Spy 14,687]

21 minutes ago, SirAlswang said:

 

Topic merged.

[NobleWinchester 22]

I was playing with Magnum the other day with the Harpoon augment. To be honest, the Harpoon augment was the original magnum left/right with an angle of elevation of 3 degrees, until the change back in september increasing that elevation to 12 degrees. Soon thereafter, they came out with the Harpoon augment for the modest price of a quarter of a million crystals. Seems I was paying again to get my old magnum back.

But back to what I was saying, I was playing with Harpoon and noticed my splash damage was significantly decreased, and I just come to find out that there in fact was an update on Christmas decreasing its splash damage again.

 

At this point I'm just going to stop playing with magnum. Sure the up/down magnum is still an option, but its mainly for campers, which I don't like. And its just a boring experience overall. Harpoon was actually good, and I took the decrease in projectile gravity with an increase in splash damage very well. But now that splash is decreased again, I see no point in playing with Harpoon anymore. Projectile gravity is so low that you can't shoot effectively from afar anymore, And the nerf in splash discourages medium range gameplay as well. It was fun while it lasted, but rip magnum

Edited December 28, 2020 by NobleWinchester
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