How is this possible!?

[artc 1,119]

This shouldnt be able to happen. There should be a gs limit for this guy. The dudes not even a colonel.

[TheCongoSpider 8,955]

3 hours ago, artc said:

This shouldnt be able to happen. There should be a gs limit for this guy. The dudes not even a colonel.

It is thanks to the M -> Mk conversion of early 2020.

 

Product kits in the shop costed real money before Tankoins and would be unlocked in the shop at the same rank as in the garage. Somewhere around late 2018, the Devs reduced the ranks at which you unlock product kits in the shop for real money by ~2 ranks. As an example, the Siberian kit, M2 Freeze + M1 Hunter + Tundra paint unlocked at Sergeant-Major with this change. A player could then fully upgrade the Freeze to that of its M3 stats. Due to the conversion treating fully upgraded turrets as the higher modification, it would be converted to an Mk7 Freeze rather than an Mk6-10 Freeze.

 

That is one of the ways accounts have high modifications of equipment at relatively low ranks. The other way would be to have been playing the game years prior, buying a product kit in the garage, upgrading it and not playing the game for a while until returning to see your equipment favourably upgraded compared to your peers around your rank. 

 

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Have you heard of the joke, "Endgame starts at Lieutenant Colonel" or "Mk7 unlocks at Lieutenant Colonel and not Marshal"? 

 

This comes from the fact that after the modification conversion, the kits in the shop had an even lower unlock rank for Mk7 (read M3) equipment, and that rank Brigadier, reduced to Lieutenant Colonel. So in a battle, you would have Lieutenant Colonels, and you would have "Lieutenant Colonels". The latter being those that purchased and upgraded Mk7 kits at Lieutenant Colonel and thus had a high GS (often in the 8000s and 9000s). The funniest disparity was that at Lieutenant Colonel, there were a few Mk5 crystal kiys available alongside the Mk7 Tankoin kits. Here is a nice example:

 

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Some players like min-maxing in that regard and you will see a few of them with 9999 GS in the low or mid ranks. A good number of them hunt golds during events. 

 

If you see one of those accounts in Parkour or during events with increased gold drop rates, refer to this as your explanation. 

 

[LambSauce 1,891]

I’ve seen a WO5 with 9999 GS before.

 

I finally found it lol

[yellowghetto 3,206]

13 hours ago, LambSauce said:

I’ve seen a WO5 with 9999 GS before.

 

I finally found it lol

Yeah, he must've gotten his hands on a Striker M2 Kit pre M -> Mk update. Fully MUed it to convert to Mk7 -> then MUed it to MAX.

[Marekos1111 3,091]

@artc, did you get your answer? 

[Marekos1111 3,091]

Answered, closed.