update Patch Update #725 - Released 26th May 2023

[Marcus 17,295]

 

Patch Update #725 - Released 26th May 2023

 

• A new augment for Thunder has been added to Ultra Containers — «Anvil Shells».

  • (Note) This augment works the same way as the «Sledgehammer Rounds» augment, but it can also deal critical damage, even with splash damage.

• Added a new category of missions — «Entry Bonus».

• Firebird

  • Critical damage decreased from 610-1700 to 560-1600 HP/sec (152.5-425 → 140-400 HP/tick)

  • Critical damage chance decreased from 10% to 5%

• Freeze

  • Critical damage chance decreased from 7% to 5%

• Isida

  • Critical damage chance decreased from 7% to 5%

  • Energy consumption without target decreased from 50 to 40 eng/sec

  • Energy consumption while healing decreased from 80 to 50 eng/sec

• Wasp

  • Overdrive charge per second decreased from 666 to 555 unit/sec

• Modules

  • The rank at which Mk1-Mk6 modules become available increased from Lieutenant Colonel (21) to Lieutenant General (25)

• Players who haven’t entered the game for at least 300 days in a row, get a special bonus upon entering the game.

 

[TheCongoSpider 8,942]

On 5/25/2023 at 9:07 AM, Marcus said:

• A new augment for Thunder has been added to Ultra Containers — «Anvil Shells».

  • (Note) This augment works the same way as the «Sledgehammer Rounds» augment, but it can also deal critical damage, even with splash damage.

The Thunder augment collection is finally completed after a year. 

 

On 5/25/2023 at 9:07 AM, Marcus said:

• Isida

  • Critical damage chance decreased from 7% to 5%

  • Energy consumption without target decreased from 50 to 40 eng/sec

  • Energy consumption while healing decreased from 80 to 50 eng/sec

Much needed improvement to healing. Support Nanobots gets a nice buff (might end up being a repeat of the February 2019 Isida score farming) and offensive Isidas can be less hesitant to heal injured allies before going towards the enemy. 

[PirateSpider 1,489]

On 5/25/2023 at 6:07 AM, Marcus said:

A new augment for Thunder has been added to Ultra Containers — «Anvil Shells».

• (Note) This augment works the same way as the «Sledgehammer Rounds» augment, but it can also deal critical damage, even with splash damage.

So there's two augments that are basically sledgehammer rounds now.

[WieLKo-PoLski 318]

Uhmm... where is "UPDATE" tag?

And of course new augment and rank, in which modules become avalible increased... No words!

On 5/25/2023 at 3:07 PM, Marcus said:

 

Players who haven’t entered the game for at least 300 days in a row, get a special bonus upon entering the game.

Oh, so maybe I'll get back the access to one or few accounts I'm not using for a long time due to forgeting password.

[It_Aint_Too_Late 144]

On 5/25/2023 at 8:38 PM, Polski_Gracz_2 said:

Uhmm... where is "UPDATE" tag?

And of course new augment and rank, in which modules become avalible increased... No words!

Oh, so maybe I'll get back the access to one or few accounts I'm not using for a long time due to forgeting password.

Not much of an update really.

[Chodus 0]

where's the vulcan rotation speedup?

[Cleric 1,385]

On 5/26/2023 at 1:47 AM, Chodus said:

where's the vulcan rotation speedup?

I have been talking about this for every single patch. Who knows. Maybe they decided to play it dirty again by adding that as part of an Exotic aug and sell it for 500 USD

[Me0w_XP 523]

On 5/25/2023 at 9:07 AM, Marcus said:

A new augment for Thunder has been added to Ultra Containers — «Anvil Shells».

• (Note) This augment works the same way as the «Sledgehammer Rounds» augment, but it can also deal critical damage, even with splash damage.

It reduces max and min range by 80%, who's gonna use it. I guess not even an exotic augment can save something as atrocious as Sledgehammer right now.

[Niklas 388]

On 5/25/2023 at 3:07 PM, Marcus said:

• Added a new category of missions — «Entry Bonus».

•  

are older players also able to do them? or just new players?

[Me0w_XP 523]

On 5/25/2023 at 1:49 PM, Warpriest said:

I have been talking about this for every single patch. Who knows. Maybe they decided to play it dirty again by adding that as part of an Exotic aug and sell it for 500 USD

Might take a while. Remember those months when Railgun had a 1.6 sec warmup time and was absolute trash?

[WieLKo-PoLski 318]

On 5/25/2023 at 7:21 PM, It_Aint_Too_Late said:

Not much of an update really.

Previous Patch Update is tagged with "UPDATE" and contain less information than this topic.

[It_Aint_Too_Late 144]

On 5/26/2023 at 12:32 AM, Me0w_XP said:

It reduces max and min range by 80%, who's gonna use it. I guess not even an exotic augment can save something as atrocious as Sledgehammer right now.

Some developer probably really got mad at someone with sledgehammer in battle. That's probbs why they nerfed it to such an extent that it's unusable. 

[CortoMaltese 26]

Is "Entry-Bonus" limited to 7 consecutive days starting  today? Or does it still count if I miss a day or two in between and need, say, 10 days for 7 logins?

There doesn't seem to be a countdown attached to the whole mission category itself, so I'd assume it'll just keep track of the logins even if I don't log in on consecutive days ...

[Romantically 282]

On 5/25/2023 at 9:02 PM, Me0w_XP said:

It reduces max and min range by 80%, who's gonna use it. I guess not even an exotic augment can save something as atrocious as Sledgehammer right now.

I remember doing 1k then 300 from basically same distance

[Itsumade 73]

I had the misfortune to recieve the new Anvil augment, and it sucks so so so so so so so bad.... This is so frustrating. Last exotic item I got was the useless Isida GT skin, back in January, and now they give me Anvil Shells. And why tf I'm getting anvil shells, and not one of the dozen other augments??? This is a farce.

[Romantically 282]

On 5/26/2023 at 12:47 PM, Alvvays said:

I had the misfortune to recieve the new Anvil augment, and it sucks so so so so so so so bad.... This is so frustrating. Last exotic item I got was the useless Isida GT skin, back in January, and now they give me Anvil Shells ffs. And why tf I'm getting anvil shells, and not one of the dozen other augments??? This is a farce.

Sledgehammer rounds being "Exotic" is a worse scam than Isida GT

[Master_Scope 164]

So instead of just buffing sledgehammer
They make it locked behind a pay wall

[JustBlackWolf 875]

oh wow, finally a buff for my Isida

[Me0w_XP 523]

On 5/25/2023 at 11:48 PM, It_Aint_Too_Late said:

Some developer probably really got mad at someone with sledgehammer in battle. That's probbs why they nerfed it to such an extent that it's unusable. 

Interesting that the 80% debuff really was completely intentional.

[alkyng 3,080]

I don't know why I can't get to TOP-3 in Arms Race. Don't know if it's a skill issue, or the game depends on how lucky are you in stealing the kills and not having your kills stolen. But I suggest this mode to have the main tank as Hornet instead of Viking. Viking is boring and pretty slow to die /or catch other players. Hornet would be more interesting and give more chance of less frustration.

For me the best turrets are: Firebird, Isida, Tesla. As you're guaranteed you will complete the kill.

While the worst are: Railgun, Magnum. Good luck in killing anyone.

Edited May 27, 2023 by firety31

[It_Aint_Too_Late 144]

On 5/27/2023 at 7:50 PM, firety31 said:

I don't know why I can't get to TOP-3 in Arms Race. Don't know if it's a skill issue, or the game depends on how lucky are you in stealing the kills and not having your kills stolen. But I suggest this mode to have the main tank as Hornet instead of Viking. Viking is boring and pretty slow to die /or catch other players. Hornet would be more interesting and give more chance of less frustration.

For me the best turrets are: Firebird, Isida, Tesla. As you're guaranteed you will complete the kill.

While the worst are: Railgun, Magnum. Good luck in killing anyone.

Hornet is too light for this mode. Everyone will die too easily. In this mode everyone will be using mk7 non upgraded tank. So if it's a hornet, it'll only have 1.8k health.

[alkyng 3,080]

On 5/27/2023 at 8:14 PM, It_Aint_Too_Late said:

In this mode everyone will be using mk7 non upgraded tank. So if it's a hornet, it'll only have 1.8k health.

This also as well means every turret has less damage, slower reload. While also means Viking is slower, which clearly show the need of a faster hull at least (Hornet).

[DMR 676]

At this point, Sledgehammer and Anvil augment needs buff by increasing the range of maximal damage, seriously, if you want to max damage someone, you need to be super close to opponent and literally splash damage yourself as you hit the enemy

[It_Aint_Too_Late 144]

On 5/28/2023 at 9:47 PM, Soothing said:

At this point, Sledgehammer and Anvil augment needs buff by increasing the range of maximal damage, seriously, if you want to max damage someone, you need to be super close to opponent and literally splash damage yourself as you hit the enemy

The addition of the new useless augment literally proves there's no hope for the augment. Instead of fixing the augment, they release a "better" version of it, which obviously backfired. I don't even think they'll even try to fix it. The nerf of sledgehammer looked VERY personal, considering how much it got nerfed.

[TheCongoSpider 8,942]

On 5/29/2023 at 10:55 PM, It_Aint_Too_Late said:

The addition of the new useless augment literally proves there's no hope for the augment. Instead of fixing the augment, they release a "better" version of it, which obviously backfired. I don't even think they'll even try to fix it. The nerf of sledgehammer looked VERY personal, considering how much it got nerfed.

It's not uncommon for them to have a few weeks (patches) of something OP or UP. Expect a good chunk of the Thunder augments' effectiveness to get buffed/changed in the near future. Now that they finally released the Sledgehammer upgrade, they can start looking into the garage augments to make them useable compared to Vacuum and Adaptive Reload. 

 

On 5/29/2023 at 10:55 PM, It_Aint_Too_Late said:

The nerf of sledgehammer looked VERY personal, considering how much it got nerfed.

That's the part that confused me. In the patch note of its nerf, it was said to be reduced by 50% but in-game it was 80%, then the Wiki soon changed after to reflect that. 50% would have killed its OPness but at least it would still have some use afterwords. 80% killed it entirely and it stayed like that for a year until now when the last Thunder augment comes. Autocannon during its lengthy time-out period was weak but you could have at least still used it.