Striker's AP Missiles Augment Should be Renamed

[Tanker-Arthur 2,971]

The augment for Striker named "Armor Piercing Missiles" should be renamed to "Missile Launcher 'Hornet'". This is because it's name would fit better with the rest of Striker's Augments (except for Remote Rocket Explosives). Additionally, Hornet was the first time we ever saw the armor-piercing effect in Tanki, so it should be a fitting name (also cause we already have Missile Launcher 'Hunter', which shares it's name with the medium hull)

 

The only downside I see with renaming it is that newer players may not know exactly what it does.....

• Then again, newer players probably won't know much about the armor-piercing effect in general anyway.
• Also, Missile Launcher "Hunter", Missile Launcher "Cyclone", and Missile Launcher "Uranium" have become iconic nowadays even if they don't use down-to-Earth names so I don't see why we should not rename Armor Piercing Missiles to Missile Launcher "Hornet" or another "Missile Launcher" themed name.
  • We all associate "Hunter" as the one that shoots salvos fast but with only one missile.
  • We all associate "Cyclone" as the one that shoots eight missiles and is so satisfying to use.
  • We all associate "Uranium" as the one that shoots the heavy and slow missiles.
  • So in time, we'd associate the augment with "Hornet" in it's name as the one that inflicts the AP effect....right?

 

Also, in the past, we have had alterations/augments that were renamed.

You guys know Large Caliber Rounds for Railgun? It used to be called "High Caliber Ammo".

And Subcaliber Rounds for Thunder was, believe it or not, originally released with the name "Armor Piercing Ammo". 

[TheCongoSpider 8,957]

Why? All of the AP augments have "Armour-Piercing" in their name. That's the pattern it's following. 

 

 

7 minutes ago, Tanker-Arthur said:

Also, in the past, we have had alterations/augments that were renamed.

You guys know Large Caliber Rounds for Railgun? It used to be called "High Caliber Ammo".

And Subcaliber Rounds for Thunder was, believe it or not, originally released with the name "Armor Piercing Ammo". 

Don't forget Small Calibre Charging Machine was previously called Lightweight Ordinance Autoloader. 

[Tanker-Arthur 2,971]

1 hour ago, TheCongoSpider said:

Why? All of the AP augments have "Armour-Piercing" in their name. That's the pattern it's following.

1. 75% of the Striker Alterations follow the same naming pattern. In fact, the only alteration that doesn't follow the pattern (Remote Rocket Explosives) is the only one that doesn't affect Striker's salvo mode directly.

2. Giving half the turrets an Alteration/Augment with the same name is very uncreative. It also makes it look like the Augments were rushed out just to cash-grab on a brand new status effect.

3. Not all heat-based alterations/augments follow the same naming pattern. You'd expect them all to have "Incendiary" in the name, but Hammer's fire alteration is named "Dragon's Breath" (very awesome name by the way). And Firebird's Incendiary Mix isn't even a burning alteration XD. Basically.....it doesn't have to follow the same naming pattern for the status effect. It would however, be nice if it followed the naming pattern based on the turret (like Striker's "Missile Launcher X" alterations or Shaft's "X Capacitors")

4. To add on the third point...Smoky's stunning alteration isn't named "Stun Rounds". Its named "Paralyzing Rounds".

 

1 hour ago, TheCongoSpider said:

Don't forget Small Calibre Charging Machine was previously called Lightweight Ordinance Autoloader. 

Sigh....

I'm not gonna lie.... 

In my opinion, Lightweight Ordinance Autoloader sounds way, way, wayyy cooler.

Edited April 21, 2021 by Tanker-Arthur

[Maf 32,306]

11 hours ago, Tanker-Arthur said:

1. 75% of the Striker Alterations follow the same naming pattern. In fact, the only alteration that doesn't follow the pattern (Remote Rocket Explosives) is the only one that doesn't affect Striker's salvo mode directly.

It's already not 100%, so I wouldn't bother about it too much.

Also, I don't want Striker modules to turn into the same mess that Modules are. I still don't understand when people say "Shark module", "Tiger module", or whatever. Just say "Rail module, Thunder module", etc.
Same goes for Striker — AP missiles is a clear and straightforward name for what it does.

[FrozenRailgun 1,771]

3 hours ago, Maf said:

I still don't understand when people say "Shark module", "Tiger module", or whatever. Just say "Rail module, Thunder module", etc.

I say them by their official names (memorized all 15 of them BTW). I would never say "Rail module" or "Isida module" but Falcon or Ocelot.

I do imagine that protection against Tesla would be either "Tiger", "Cheetah", "Rhino" or something like those.

[alkyng 3,080]

This will make confusion, I think now they're really easy to remember and differ as every single of them has "AP" word..

15 hours ago, Tanker-Arthur said:

2. Giving half the turrets an Alteration/Augment with the same name is very uncreative. It also makes it look like the Augments were rushed out just to cash-grab on a brand new status effect.

Honestly it's.

Look at the old augments you mentioned and the current AP augments,  they haven't even tired themselves a little to make a difference between Gauss and Magnum AP.    And again I will say my word, Tanki no problem you can milk us and make us wrecked by the buyers.. But wreck us with a respected way, that doesn't show it explicitly with a less quality augments that even with no unique design.

But with the current AP/EMP Augments honestly you just show my assumption 

Edited April 21, 2021 by asem.harbi

[alkyng 3,080]

4 hours ago, Maf said:

Also, I don't want Striker modules to turn into the same mess that Modules are. I still don't understand when people say "Shark module", "Tiger module", or whatever. Just say "Rail module, Thunder module", etc.
Same goes for Striker — AP missiles is a clear and straightforward name for what it does.

I agree, players are wasting my time by saying Shark or any module name. They make me go to check what the name indicate for..

But honestly, for the augments.. Now the strong augments are known by their names like "Vulcan Incendiary-band" "Firebird Incendiary-mix" "Railgun LCR / Scout" "Ricochet Plasma-torch" "Hammer Dragon breath" "Isida Nanobots".  While the other augments are just unknown because of their less-effectiveness like Thunder augments.. can you name any Thunder augment?

The AP augments, for sure wont be all their names saved. But the strongest and the most effective of them we will memorize it

[SporkZilla 1,775]

1 hour ago, FrozenRailgun said:

I do imagine that protection against Tesla would be either "Tiger", "Cheetah", "Rhino" or something like those.

They should call it "Whale" or "Seal" or "Walrus" because of the insulating properties of blubber

[SporkZilla 1,775]

5 hours ago, Maf said:

I still don't understand when people say "Shark module", "Tiger module", or whatever. Just say "Rail module, Thunder module", etc.

I'll say "Owl module" etc. because that is what they called, like "Hunter" etc.

But I'll usually say "Gauss protection" etc. because that is what the module does, so I equip an "Owl module" to (partially) protect me from Gauss

Saying "Owl protection" would be weird though; I don't need protection from owls

[FrozenRailgun 1,771]

19 minutes ago, SporkZilla said:

They should call it "Whale" or "Seal" or "Walrus" because of the insulating properties of blubber

Modules names are usually correlates to certain animal group and by turret's maximum range.

Long range: Animal that flies. 

• Eagle (Shaft),
• Falcon (Railgun),
• Griffin (Magnum),
• Owl (Gauss). See the trend?

Medium range: Mostly marine animals, with the exception of one of them.

• Dolphin (Smoky),
• Orka (Striker),
• Shark (Vulcan).
• Grizzly (Thunder) is a medium range turret but the module is named after a land mammal. 

Short ranges: All predatory and fierce land mammals.

• Lion (Richchet)
• Panther (Twin)
• Wolf (Hammer)

Melee ranges: This one is rather hard to classify. They are predatory, but not fierce.

• Badger (Freeze)
• Fox (Firebird)
• Ocelot (Isida)

Mines: Insect (arachnids)

• Spider

 

Edited April 21, 2021 by FrozenRailgun

[Maf 32,306]

1 hour ago, SporkZilla said:

They should call it "Whale" or "Seal" or "Walrus" because of the insulating properties of blubber

Blubber is a funny word

[ThirdOnion 4,898]

5 hours ago, FrozenRailgun said:

Modules names are usually correlates to certain animal group and by turret's maximum range.

That's like five different animal groups that don't really have any immediately evident connection to the range groups they represent, and there are inconsistencies within three of the five groups. It's a confusing and difficult to remember naming scheme.

[FrozenRailgun 1,771]

23 minutes ago, ThirdOnion said:

That's like five different animal groups that don't really have any immediately evident connection to the range groups they represent, and there are inconsistencies within three of the five groups. It's a confusing and difficult to remember naming scheme.

Which inconsistencies BTW?

[ThirdOnion 4,898]

43 minutes ago, FrozenRailgun said:

Which inconsistencies BTW?

Grizzly being in the marine animal category.

Griffin not being a real animal (does most people know what a Griffin is?).

Railgun being represented by Falcon, when we all know that a more appropriate animal to represent certain Railgun players would be a peacock.

Spoiler

Spoiler

this is not 100% serious

 

 

[FrozenRailgun 1,771]

18 minutes ago, ThirdOnion said:

Griffin not being a real animal (does most people know what a Griffin is?).

Griffin - Wikipedia

19 minutes ago, ThirdOnion said:

Grizzly being in the marine animal category.

I mentioned that already.

20 minutes ago, ThirdOnion said:

Railgun being represented by Falcon, when we all know that a more appropriate animal to represent certain Railgun players would be a peacock.

Good one man, good one.

[alkyng 3,080]

8 hours ago, Maf said:

Blubber is a funny word

Honestly you made me hungry, though I don't know what blubber indicate precisely in the fish body

2 hours ago, ThirdOnion said:

(does most people know what a Griffin is?).

Yes I know, I played a game where there are legendary creatures and Griffin was a one of them

[wolverine848 13,097]

10 hours ago, FrozenRailgun said:

Melee ranges: This one is rather hard to classify. They are predatory, but not fierce.

• Badger (Freeze)

You don't think a Badger is fierce?     I double-dare you to stick a hand in a badger hole.

[alkyng 3,080]

@FrozenRailgun Honestly it was a nice list, but after wolverine and third onion audited in it.. everything ruined

BTW, I think it's more likely true.. As I assume the developers have followed a pattern, which is more likely yours

[FrozenRailgun 1,771]

8 hours ago, wolverine848 said:

You don't think a Badger is fierce?     I double-dare you to stick a hand in a badger hole.

*Inserts nervous Pepe face*

[Tanker-Arthur 2,971]

On 4/21/2021 at 5:12 PM, Maf said:

Also, I don't want Striker modules to turn into the same mess that Modules are. I still don't understand when people say "Shark module", "Tiger module", or whatever. Just say "Rail module, Thunder module", etc.
Same goes for Striker — AP missiles is a clear and straightforward name for what it does.

If that were the case, than why didn't they name Firebird as "Flamethrower turret"? Or Striker gets named as "Rocket Launcher turret"?

And Thunder's name doesn't even fit what it does - the turret has nothing to do with lightning, electricity, and Gauss itself sounds more like a thunderclap than Thunder does.

 

On 4/21/2021 at 9:19 PM, asem.harbi said:

This will make confusion, I think now they're really easy to remember and differ as every single of them has "AP" word..

Yeah, the new augment names are more straightforward....

But the old alterations just sound way cooler and the devs put more thought into naming them.

 

On 4/21/2021 at 5:12 PM, Maf said:

Also, I don't want Striker modules to turn into the same mess that Modules are. I still don't understand when people say "Shark module", "Tiger module", or whatever. Just say "Rail module, Thunder module", etc.

 

On 4/21/2021 at 10:04 PM, asem.harbi said:

I agree, players are wasting my time by saying Shark or any module name. They make me go to check what the name indicate for..

 

On 4/22/2021 at 4:23 AM, ThirdOnion said:

That's like five different animal groups that don't really have any immediately evident connection to the range groups they represent, and there are inconsistencies within three of the five groups. It's a confusing and difficult to remember naming scheme.

Actually, if it were up to me, I would've named the Modules after the turret's respective XT skins. As in, whatever animal is represented by the XT skin, then it would also be the name for the module.
So if that were the case, the modules would be named as follows:

• Firebird - Dragon
• Freeze - Mammoth
• Isida - Raven
• Tesla - ********
• Hammer - Rhino
• Twins - Dinosaur
• Ricochet - Crocodile 
• Smoky - Anaconda
• Striker - Goliath (or Eel) (or Serpent)
• Vulcan - Snake
• Thunder - Wolf
• Railgun - Eagle
• Magnum - Ram
• Gauss - Falcon (or Hawk)
• Shaft - Lion

 

On 4/21/2021 at 10:42 PM, FrozenRailgun said:

• Fox (Firebird)

Mozilla Firefox 

Edited April 24, 2021 by At_Shin
Posts Merged.

[wolverine848 13,097]

1 hour ago, Tanker-Arthur said:

If that were the case, than why didn't they name Firebird as "Flamethrower turret"? Or Striker gets named as "Rocket Launcher turret"?

And Thunder's name doesn't even fit what it does - the turret has nothing to do with lightning, electricity, and Gauss itself sounds more like a thunderclap than Thunder does.

 

It's kinda obvious that firebird = some kind of flame/fire weapon.

And there's a real-world anti-tank missile launcher called Striker - FV102 Striker

[Tanker-Arthur 2,971]

Just now, wolverine848 said:

It's kinda obvious that firebird = some kind of flame/fire weapon.

And there's a real-world anti-tank missile launcher called Striker - FV102 Striker

I know XD - there's even a machine gun named Vulcan.


But what about Thunder and Isida?

And Magnum is well-known for being a revolver handgun - not an anti-tank artillery cannon.

[wolverine848 13,097]

Just now, Tanker-Arthur said:

I know XD - there's even a machine gun named Vulcan.


But what about Thunder and Isida?

And Magnum is well-known for being a revolver handgun - not an anti-tank artillery cannon.

Magnum hand-gun has a huge barrel.  They've translated it into TO that way I guess.

[Tanker-Arthur 2,971]

 

This also needs a name change.

Possible names:

• Missile Launcher "Volt"
• Missile Launcher "Electro" (or "Electra")
• Missile Launcher "Shocker"
• Missile Launcher "Paralysis"
• Missile Launcher "Stunner"

[alkyng 3,080]

On 4/21/2021 at 2:42 PM, Maf said:

I still don't understand when people say "Shark module", "Tiger module", or whatever. Just say "Rail module, Thunder module", etc.

It's not worse than the people who call the kits with their names OMG how stupid are they There are 14 turret and 7 hull so 14x7=98, how they want me to memorize 98 kit name

Edited May 1, 2021 by asem.harbi