update Patch Update #677 - Released 28th January 2022

[Bydo 20,120]

20 hours ago, BruhBruhThingThing said:

Might be best to save up for upgrades on brutus.

most of my accounts are now only upgrading drones , which last I checked were around level 9 or higher.

20 hours ago, Thankxtu said:

I use railgun with incendiary rounds the most nowadays. Puts me in the top 3 almost every battle. Also use twins with sp , isida with adrl , tesla with accl plasma , shaft with adrl and hammer with high capacity here n there. Also my main drone is brutus mainly because my other drones are not yet upgraded enough to be viable in battle.

ok will try it out today.

18 hours ago, wolverine848 said:

Have never understood why this happens.  Makes me think of conspiracy theories ...  

yea i also think its more friends joining battles and when there on the wrong teams , then they ask for others to leave so they might be able to join together.

5 hours ago, mjmj5558 said:

Then use Brutus and if it's maxed, it'll be much easier to win for you. +50% BD and BA means a lot. 

will try it out today on 24-carrot account. I finally got the other 2 completed and only need to be on winning teams for the next few days. carrot still has 2 missions left to day. been trying out Brutus today and still the battles have not changed for me . still on loosing teams

these two were just sitting there and gave up..

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Edited February 3, 2022 by Bydo

[mjmj5558 2,346]

1 hour ago, Bydo said:

been trying out Brutus today and still the battles have not changed for me . still on loosing teams

these two were just sitting there and gave up..

What's the upgrade level of brutus? 

Also, I recommend you to try out a mode like CTF or RGB, where you can carry quite easily even if your team is not so good. 

[Bydo 20,120]

47 minutes ago, mjmj5558 said:

What's the upgrade level of brutus? 

Also, I recommend you to try out a mode like CTF or RGB, where you can carry quite easily even if your team is not so good. 

its at 11 out of 20.

I finally finished the top 3 placement for the Chinese new year . it took me just over 2 hours to finally get a battle which my rank/ gear score   was higher then the other team. the CTF took me 5 days to complete, Rugby was a little bit easier . I find that Siege is way better mainly if you have to do missions

Edited February 3, 2022 by Bydo

[Dopamine 2,161]

38 minutes ago, Bydo said:

its at 11 out of 20.

I finally finished the top 3 placement for the Chinese new year . it took me just over 2 hours to finally get a battle which my rank/ gear score   was higher then the other team. the CTF took me 5 days to complete, Rugby was a little bit easier . I find that Siege is way better mainly if you have to do missions

Upgrade it to 20/20 in the nearest sale, it´s not worth waiting.

[wolverine848 13,097]

15 minutes ago, frederik123456 said:

Upgrade it to 20/20 in the nearest sale, it´s not worth waiting.

Brutus is so cheap you don't even need sales to upgrade.

And the way they are (not) dishing out batteries many of us will be using Brutus.

It's ridiculous how rare the batteries are in containers.  But hey - I keep getting plenty of paints 

Edited February 3, 2022 by wolverine848

[BruhBruhThingThing 413]

2 hours ago, Bydo said:

its at 11 out of 20.

I finally finished the top 3 placement for the Chinese new year . it took me just over 2 hours to finally get a battle which my rank/ gear score   was higher then the other team. the CTF took me 5 days to complete, Rugby was a little bit easier . I find that Siege is way better mainly if you have to do missions

I would solely focus on maxing out Brutus first.

[Bydo 20,120]

1 hour ago, frederik123456 said:

Upgrade it to 20/20 in the nearest sale, it´s not worth waiting.

thanks but I will wait on sales. I think this will all fly by after the Chinese event is over. most players are not into drones.

2 minutes ago, BruhBruhThingThing said:

I would solely focus on maxing out Brutus first.

thanks but I found that Trooper was better for me , I did try with Brutus in many a battles but it failed to win a battle. once I changed to Trooper then it was easy to win.

1 hour ago, wolverine848 said:

Brutus is so cheap you don't even need sales to upgrade.

And the way they are (not) dishing out batteries many of us will be using Brutus.

It's ridiculous how rare the batteries are in containers.  But hey - I keep getting plenty of paints 

yupe it is easy to upgrade . for me I find more drugs and crystals coming my way. which I would rather have paints .

[Entropy 147]

1 hour ago, Bydo said:

thanks but I will wait on sales. I think this will all fly by after the Chinese event is over. most players are not into drones.

thanks but I found that Trooper was better for me , I did try with Brutus in many a battles but it failed to win a battle. once I changed to Trooper then it was easy to win.

yupe it is easy to upgrade . for me I find more drugs and crystals coming my way. which I would rather have paints .

lmao, someone have not upgraded brutus until now? it should be done in first priority to restore x2 damage/armore 

[alkyng 3,080]

16 hours ago, TheCongoSpider said:

Scout: x2.5 ----> x4.2

Round Destabilisation: x0.88 normal damage, x1 critical damage ----> x5 normal damage, x1.98 critical damage

Are you a secret tanki developer?  How you always know such a things

[wolverine848 13,097]

1 hour ago, Bydo said:

thanks but I found that Trooper was better for me , I did try with Brutus in many a battles but it failed to win a battle. once I changed to Trooper then it was easy to win.

Trooper might be more effective - but - it uses up batteries.

Not sure about you but my stockpile keeps getting smaller and there's no relief from containers - I don't think are are ANY batteries in containers.

Best you upgrade Brutus as well - unless you have 1000+ batteries.  They deplete quickly when you use drone regularly.

[TheCongoSpider 8,942]

32 minutes ago, asem.harbi said:

Are you a secret tanki developer?  How you always know such a things

...because I go out into battle and use them. The Devs don't like to give numbers and for some reason also like to omit changes that influence performance in a battle. 

 

The damage and reload coefficients for Viking's Overdrive were mostly the same for everything in their respective category. Because it was the same, some augments would benefit more from the Overdrive than others. Some augments that were underperforming with the Overdrive were buffed last year in their own ways.

For example, Autocannon's damage coefficient went from the usual x2.5 to x5.5. The shots with normal damage still mostly tickled enemies, but the critical hits slammed you like a truck. Blunderbuss, which previously had the usual x2.5 damage was reduced to x0.5 before it came to the Battle Pass. Meaning if you activate the Overdrive without Boosted Damage, your damsge per shot during the Overdrive would be halved instead of increased. 

 

As for Round Destabilisation, it was going through its balance changes last year because Stock Railgun was changing in big ways damage-wise. After the last change RDS received, its damage coefficient dropped from x2.5 to x1 (accurate numbers are in the post you quoted) and status Railguns had their reload coefficients buffed for them to shoot more shots which was illogical. Since then I've been using Viking's Overdrive with each Railgun augment to see if there are any unannouced changes (because we know how much the Devs love those) with each update, or at least whenever I notice something different. 

 

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Since then I've been using Viking's Overdrive with each Railgun augment to see if there are any unannouced changes (because we know how much the Devs love those) with each update, or at least whenever I notice something different. 

 

It's tedious however, because I have to do this with every Railgun augment with the Overdrive that charges the slowest in the game which was slowed down even further, with an equipment-change cooldown of 8 minutes. And the one drone that's supposed to help me charge my Overdrive quickly was nerfed into the ground. 

[N3tralRE 73]

17 hours ago, TheCongoSpider said:

Another patch, another silent change to the damage coefficients of Railguns with Viking's Overdrive.

What do we have this week? 

 

Scout: x2.5 ----> x4.2

Round Destabilisation: x0.88 normal damage, x1 critical damage ----> x5 normal damage, x1.98 critical damage

 

Haven't noticed any changes for the others so far. 

Speaking of Viking OD damage coefficients, I've always wondered what they were for each turret. For Adrenaline Railgun, I assumed it was like x3, but the Wiki doesn't disclose the Viking OD numbers

[TheCongoSpider 8,942]

Just now, N3tralRE said:

Speaking of Viking OD damage coefficients, I've always wondered what they were for each turret. For Adrenaline Railgun, I assumed it was like x3, but the Wiki doesn't disclose the Viking OD numbers

Firebird, Freeze, Tesla, Isida, Vulcan -  x5 damage, x6 with DD 

 

Everything else -  x2.5 damage, x3.5 with DD

 

Bonus damage output from Adrenaline is added to the multipler. If you are at half HP with Adrenaline Railgun, you will have +15%. Adding that to Viking's Overdrive's multiplier would give you x2.65 damage and x3.65 with DD. Works the same with Booster, Camper and Crisis, where with Booster you add 0.3 and Crisis/Camper you add 0.6 (assuming they're maxed of course). 

 

Some augments have their own damage coefficients that are different to the Stock turrets, known ones being:

 

• Support Nanobots -  x6 instead of x5
• Plasma Torch -  x3.3 instead of x2.5
• Blunderbuss - x0.5 instead of x2.5
• Autocannon - x5.5 instead of x2.5 
• Small Calibre Charging Machine -  x3.125 instead of x2.5 
• AP Railgun -  x2.2 instead of x2.5 
• Large Calibre Rounds -  x1.92 instead of x2.5 
• EA"Scout" Railgun - x4.2 instead of x2.5 
• Round Destabilisation - x5 normal damage, x1.98 critical damage instead of x2.5 for both

[Incorp 2,084]

I found a solution to the hover hulls problem: heavyweight!

[TheCongoSpider 8,942]

4 hours ago, Incorp said:

I found a solution to the hover hulls problem: heavyweight!

How so?

[Incorp 2,084]

49 minutes ago, TheCongoSpider said:

How so?

I just don't flip so often, and my  railgun shots do not change my depictions in mid air. Sweet! Got 6 flags in today, 3 for each ctf battle! Funn

[TheCongoSpider 8,942]

17 minutes ago, Incorp said:

I just don't flip so often, and my  railgun shots do not change my depictions in mid air. Sweet! Got 6 flags in today, 3 for each ctf battle! Funn

What maps were you playing on?

[Bydo 20,120]

20 hours ago, wolverine848 said:

Trooper might be more effective - but - it uses up batteries.

Not sure about you but my stockpile keeps getting smaller and there's no relief from containers - I don't think are are ANY batteries in containers.

Best you upgrade Brutus as well - unless you have 1000+ batteries.  They deplete quickly when you use drone regularly.

not sure how many would classify as being stocked piled now a days .

but I do have on my 3 main legend accounts over 30k just battery's alone.

[wolverine848 13,097]

54 minutes ago, Bydo said:

not sure how many would classify as being stocked piled now a days .

but I do have on my 3 main legend accounts over 30k just battery's alone.

So you've not been using them... at all?  Or you bought a bunch?  I never had close to that many - even when I had no drones to use them on.

Guess you can upgrade whichever drone you like if you have that many.  Still good idea to upgrade Brutus every now and then as those 30k will deplete since it appears they only give batteries in the weekly containers.

But whatever you do - get a drone to 20/20 ASAP so your supplies work at full value.

Edited February 4, 2022 by wolverine848

[Bydo 20,120]

6 hours ago, wolverine848 said:

So you've not been using them... at all?  Or you bought a bunch?  I never had close to that many - even when I had no drones to use them on.

Guess you can upgrade whichever drone you like if you have that many.  Still good idea to upgrade Brutus every now and then as those 30k will deplete since it appears they only give batteries in the weekly containers.

But whatever you do - get a drone to 20/20 ASAP so your supplies work at full value.

been updating drones every chance I got. main account 24 carrot only has 3 items left to do now / Paints , Drones up grades , augments //. for the other 2 accounts I plan on having those done later this year. and yea I have been collecting drugs for sometime seeing I received them mainly from free containers / premium pass or contests and other things. I guess most players who have been around from about 2016 and back to 2012 or so have been saving them cause back then no sooner you used them up you ended up with more free items from tanki.

[wolverine848 13,097]

13 minutes ago, Bydo said:

been updating drones every chance I got. main account 24 carrot only has 3 items left to do now / Paints , Drones up grades , augments //. for the other 2 accounts I plan on having those done later this year. and yea I have been collecting drugs for sometime seeing I received them mainly from free containers / premium pass or contests and other things. I guess most players who have been around from about 2016 and back to 2012 or so have been saving them cause back then no sooner you used them up you ended up with more free items from tanki.

are ya sure is 30k batteries though?

We always get a lot less of those than everything else.   I might have 40k mines, but not even 1/10 of that in batteries.  No idea how you accumulated 30k batteries, even if hardly ever using them...

Or did you get a large batch when the paint-to-module conversion happened?  The compensation for having multiple protections...

[Incorp 2,084]

8 hours ago, TheCongoSpider said:

What maps were you playing on?

Forester and highland i think.

[TheCongoSpider 8,942]

6 minutes ago, Incorp said:

Forester and highland i think.

Both of those maps are short cliffs. Having Heavyweight Construction or not mostly doesn't matter there if you're going off of it at full speed. Try it on maps with higher cliffs. 

[Incorp 2,084]

7 minutes ago, TheCongoSpider said:

Both of those maps are short cliffs. Having Heavyweight Construction or not mostly doesn't matter there if you're going off of it at full speed. Try it on maps with higher cliffs. 

I will, but I can’t pick the maps i wanted from MM. you should try it too! ;)

but I use trickster with it tho so idk if that helped

Edited February 4, 2022 by Incorp

[TheCongoSpider 8,942]

8 minutes ago, Incorp said:

I will, but I can’t pick the maps i wanted from MM. you should try it too! ;)

but I use trickster with it tho so idk if that helped

Yes I've tried Heavyweight on the hover hulls, and yes, it is Trickster that it keeping you stable. Hover hulls with Trickster stay up in the air longer than without. 

 

Edited February 4, 2022 by TheCongoSpider