All supplies lit at once

[Nanobot 0]

I've noticed that many tanks seem to have all supplies lit up at once. There's a rack of lights above their tanks. These tanks are nearly indestructible and takes a small army to kill them, meanwhile, the target tank is killing off each attacker one by one with one or two shots. There's no drone attached to the tanks. I know about smart cooldowns, but when you see at least have of the tanks on both sides with all supplies activated, smart cooldown is not the answer. On 3 different occasions, 3 different tanks in 3 different battles I've seen large tanks come towards our base without the supplies lit, but as soon as they come up the ramp the supplies sudden appear above the tanks. When I shoot at a tank their life points bar appears, but when the supplies are lit, the life point bar never shows. 

Wasps have become indestructo tanks, too. With all the supplies lit, they can come into a base, drop a bomb, then take out the rest of the team while being shot at. When they are done, they leave seemingly undamaged. I feel certain I've destroyed more large tanks than I have Wasps.

When a tank attacks me without all the supplies lit, I know I'll have something close to a fair fight. But if the supplies are lit, I know one shot and I'm dead. When the vast majority of the opposing team has the effect activated, I'll quit the battle. I don't have a rack of supplies activated so I'm one of the first ones they come after because I'm easy cannon fodder. If I'm lucky, I might get 1 or 2 kills, but usually no kills.

Can someone please explain to me how all this is possible? 

[kydapoot 570]

The game has evolved a lot since it's earlier days when supplies were something of a luxury. They're now much easier to obtain, but the flipside of this is that you *must* use them in order to keep up in battles. If you aren't using many supplies,  it's not surprising that your tank and turret will be much weaker than the competition.

As for how it's possible, the first reason is that, as I mentioned earlier, supplies are super accessible nowadays, so people have a lot of them at their disposal. The main way you can easily get more of them is by opening containers and weekly containers, which you can get for completing missions. A more recent and less well-known way is by visiting the "Showcase" section of the Shop. There, once a day you can buy 30 of each supply at a 95% discount.

The second reason is drones. Though you mentioned that the effects don't seem to be tied to a drone, keep in mind in most cases, people are in fact wearing a drone, if only just Brutus, which like all drones makes their supplies more powerful than those of people not using a drone. Hyperion in particular is deceptively powerful, because while at any given moment it doesn't look like it's doing anything, it's in fact allowing full supplies to be active on the user's tank nearly all the time. There are other drones with weaker but similar effects, reducing cooldowns or replenishing durations. Also, some drones allow teammates to share supplies with each other, so one person using that drone in a group can deck out the whole bunch with that row of lights.

As for the wasps, best advice I have is:

• Use a hull with an overdrive that can destroy the bomb itself (Hunter, Mammoth,Titan) or one that can prevent or delay their overdrive activation (Hunter, Paladin, Hopper).
• Lead your shots. Most turrets don't have bullets that travel instantly, so a fast and small wasp is going to be much harder to hit than a heavy hull unless you aim a bit in front of where they're going.

[Nanobot 0]

@kydapoot I use my supplies as much as I can, mostly damage and armor. I keep my hulls and turrets upgraded when I have enough crystals. If these tanks have drones, then they must be hidden in some way. 

Yes, my shots are weak compared to all the Legends I'm forced to play against. My best gear score is 4238. How does compare to gear scores of 6000 to 9999? I can't upgrade my turret or hull any more until I rank up. 

I do the missions, open the containers, but I do not buy supplies, I have plenty. 

As far as the Wasps go, I'm not talking about trying to hit them on the run, I'm talking about hitting them point blank well within the range of the turret. It's like I'm shooting blanks. In one battle, a Wasp was entering our base. I started shooting at it and 2 more teammates started shooting at it. It laid a bomb while we were still shooting. When I spawned it was still in our base, killed 2 more teammates with Firebird, then waltzed off like it was a day in the park. As it left the base a Vulcan with boosted damage activated started shooting at it, but didn't destroy it. A few minutes later, it came back and did it all again with the same results. Even some Wasps without the lights above it are nearly indestructible. They seem too OP for being a light hull with light armor. 

I've fought side by side with teammates that had all 5 supplies lit up. They don't disappear, the lights are there throughout the entire battle and they don't group up to share anything. 

[Thankxtu 286]

2 hours ago, Nanobot said:

@kydapoot I use my supplies as much as I can, mostly damage and armor. I keep my hulls and turrets upgraded when I have enough crystals. If these tanks have drones, then they must be hidden in some way. 

Yes, my shots are weak compared to all the Legends I'm forced to play against. My best gear score is 4238. How does compare to gear scores of 6000 to 9999? I can't upgrade my turret or hull any more until I rank up. 

I do the missions, open the containers, but I do not buy supplies, I have plenty. 

As far as the Wasps go, I'm not talking about trying to hit them on the run, I'm talking about hitting them point blank well within the range of the turret. It's like I'm shooting blanks. In one battle, a Wasp was entering our base. I started shooting at it and 2 more teammates started shooting at it. It laid a bomb while we were still shooting. When I spawned it was still in our base, killed 2 more teammates with Firebird, then waltzed off like it was a day in the park. As it left the base a Vulcan with boosted damage activated started shooting at it, but didn't destroy it. A few minutes later, it came back and did it all again with the same results. Even some Wasps without the lights above it are nearly indestructible. They seem too OP for being a light hull with light armor. 

I've fought side by side with teammates that had all 5 supplies lit up. They don't disappear, the lights are there throughout the entire battle and they don't group up to share anything. 

The tankers u met might have been using lifeguard and camper respectively.

[Dopamine 2,161]

On 2/12/2022 at 1:24 PM, Nanobot said:

 

I've fought side by side with teammates that had all 5 supplies lit up. They don't disappear, the lights are there throughout the entire battle and they don't group up to share anything. 

The Hyperion drone at high Microupgrade level allows you to have all supplies active practically always.

Is that a satisfactory answer? @Nanobot

Edited February 15, 2022 by frederik123456

[NikmanGT 4,362]

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