What to buy? Which is better?

[NikmanGT 4,375]

1 minute ago, luckylook500 said:

@nikunj04 

It is not about upgrade only. It is also about battery . The free supply of battery by the tanki  is not enough

The sale on supply is coming soon, you can buy loads of batteries.

[LuckyLuke 111]

@nikunj04 

1 minute ago, nikunj04 said:

The sale on supply is coming soon, you can buy loads of batteries.

If someone wants to "buy' the battery till next big sale, then it requires lots of crystals, right? 

[Incorp 2,084]

5 minutes ago, luckylook500 said:

@nikunj04 

It is not about upgrade only. It is also about battery . The free supply of battery by the tanki  is not enough

I usually only use a drone that consumes batteries when the circumstances are favourable for the drone. Thus I manage to save a lot of batteries.

Edited December 27, 2021 by Incorp

[LuckyLuke 111]

@Incorp 

Just now, Incorp said:

I usually only use a drone that consumes batteries when the situation is favourable for the drone. Thus I manage to save a lot of batteries.

Thats what I have mentioned in my reply earlier. Situation demands which drone to use.

[Incorp 2,084]

Just now, luckylook500 said:

@Incorp 

Thats what I have mentioned in my reply earlier. Situation demands which drone to use.

My point is to use Brutus most times :) 

also no need to ping us after quoting :)

[LuckyLuke 111]

Just now, Incorp said:

My point is to use Brutus most times :) 

also no need to ping us after quoting :)

In my first reply itself, I was mentioning the same.  Nothing different.

[LuckyLuke 111]

@year20 

On 12/25/2021 at 11:05 AM, readyfireaim said:

Thanks! I'll see what happens, but Incendiary Rounds (my second choice) is sounding pretty good now.

Hope this video helps: 

 

[LuckyLuke 111]

@readyfireaim @TheCongoSpider 

On 12/25/2021 at 11:54 AM, TheCongoSpider said:

Adrenaline, Cryo Rounds or High-Precision Aiming System. I'd go with Cryo Rounds. 

I use Smokey in medium range battles and sometimes in close range battles. In some battles, autocannon is very effective, particularly against twinst ,isida,tesla ,firebird or freeze to distract them.  When it does not works,I use high precision aiming which kills effective. Sometimes, I was able to kill mammoth with overdrive too in one or two shots. Now, planning to buy incendiary rounds since I have experienced where my hull was shot by smokey with incendiary rounds. This looks more effective than cyro rounds since my hull got hurd badly with incendiary rounds than cyro rounds. May be the following video could help you

 

 

 

[fghjkl54 1,520]

what better to upgrade in MU sale (beside MK7+ smoky) max my hornet or max my hunter or shaft (to get it free on next rank)

Edited December 27, 2021 by fghjkl54

[Spy 14,736]

5 minutes ago, fghjkl54 said:

what better to upgrade in MU sale (beside MK7+ smoky) max my hornet or max my hunter or shaft (to get it free on next rank)

As I see it, both Hornet and Hunter are worth upgrading. If you want a hull that goes well with Smoky, Hornet is the better option.

[TheCongoSpider 8,954]

3 hours ago, luckylook500 said:

@readyfireaim @TheCongoSpider 

 

Maybe the following video can help you. 

That video is 7 months old and outdated. It will not help. 

 

Autocannon is not good. Supercumulative is not worth its price and never was since the augment update. As for Cryo Rounds, the freezing status has recently been buffed where it will disable any damage enhancers on the enemy (except Viking's Overdrive) allowing you to have an upper hand against your enemy in a 1 v 1 and can counter Booster users. Not saying Incendiary Rounds is bad but it can be countered by a mere Heat Resistance augment. 

[Incorp 2,084]

3 hours ago, luckylook500 said:

@year20 

Hope this video helps: 

 

Dude old wasp bomb makes a crater on flash so nicee

[Incorp 2,084]

Hey guys I am in a crisis right now.  I had planned my spending on this sales carefully. I plan to upgrade railgun, buy death herald, and upgrade striker on incorp. However a friend told me he tried out death herald himself and he said it was rubbish. Well, I don't know what I'm to do now! So can any of you offer assistance? It will be appreiciated, thanks!

Also @nikunj04, since you said it was the most effective augment now, can you give me a few details of how it is in legend tank battles? Thanks a lot!

[DestrotankAI9 1,513]

3 hours ago, TheCongoSpider said:

That video is 7 months old and outdated. It will not help. 

 

Autocannon is not good. Supercumulative is not worth its price and never was since the augment update. As for Cryo Rounds, the freezing status has recently been buffed where it will disable any damage enhancers on the enemy (except Viking's Overdrive) allowing you to have an upper hand against your enemy in a 1 v 1 and can counter Booster users. Not saying Incendiary Rounds is bad but it can be countered by a mere Heat Resistance augment. 

I agree Cryo Rounds is generally the best choice for Smoky, out of the Garage augments. However supercumulative rounds is super nice with Hornet or Dictator overdrive, can output some seriously big damage. Not quite Autocannon level damage with supercharge, but it is better the rest of the time. Nice to use sometimes I think with those hulls.

[DestrotankAI9 1,513]

31 minutes ago, Incorp said:

Hey guys I am in a crisis right now.  I had planned my spending on this sales carefully. I plan to upgrade railgun, buy death herald, and upgrade striker on incorp. However a friend told me he tried out death herald himself and he said it was rubbish. Well, I don't know what I'm to do now! So can any of you offer assistance? It will be appreiciated, thanks!

Also @nikunj04, since you said it was the most effective augment now, can you give me a few details of how it is in legend tank battles? Thanks a lot!

Maybe your friend hasn't mastered death herald yet :P ? Or his Railgun is very weak? In general it is probably better if you have a Railgun that is at least as well upgraded as what your enemies have, if you equipment is under levelled you won't get many killing blows, and then no "instant reloads" with it. I definitely think it is the best Garage augment for Rail, although Adrenaline could also be a backup choice for someone who doesn't like death herald, but wants something for all round use.

[LuckyLuke 111]

3 hours ago, TheCongoSpider said:

That video is 7 months old and outdated. It will not help. 

 

Autocannon is not good. Supercumulative is not worth its price and never was since the augment update. As for Cryo Rounds, the freezing status has recently been buffed where it will disable any damage enhancers on the enemy (except Viking's Overdrive) allowing you to have an upper hand against your enemy in a 1 v 1 and can counter Booster users. Not saying Incendiary Rounds is bad but it can be countered by a mere Heat Resistance augment. 

Even there is a cold resistance augment exists which can counter cyro. Just now I have used autocannon at the end of the game and it gave very good results.

[NikmanGT 4,375]

1 hour ago, Incorp said:

Hey guys I am in a crisis right now.  I had planned my spending on this sales carefully. I plan to upgrade railgun, buy death herald, and upgrade striker on incorp. However a friend told me he tried out death herald himself and he said it was rubbish. Well, I don't know what I'm to do now! So can any of you offer assistance? It will be appreiciated, thanks!

Also @nikunj04, since you said it was the most effective augment now, can you give me a few details of how it is in legend tank battles? Thanks a lot!

See it all depends on a person's Interest to a particular type of gun and its gameplay. Would I give you fake information as it is OP or not? No I won't because That Depends. Depends on one's definition of Overpowered. If you think you would be able to spam kills and score like Tesla Paladin so...... NO, you actually can and cannot. I personally use Death Herald with Hornet, because due to its OD, I can take 4-5 kills in an instant, not by just shooting wherever I like but by actually using tactics and strategy. I have used this combo since a long time, hence I know how to control it in different situations.  This may depend from player to player.

Like this ^^

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This is not Viking railgun or anything , simple rail hornet with shots at different angles and different parts of the map. You will feel like an absolute pro.

 

     

• Here's the thing with Death Herald, due to the current rail nerf, the damage was decreased in its regular as well crit shots. Now only at mk8 Railgun and mk8 Booster combined, you can deal 3013 damage, which is able to one shot both medium and light hulls. Any low modification of either the drone or the turret will only lead you to only successfully handle light hulls, and you can have a problem while facing medium or heavy.
• Due to its current crit rate (Which I would say is good), I get 3k critical when no BA (Booster Armour) equipped by enemy tank and 1.5k critical damage in case of BA. This helps me to take down every medium and light hull without any difficulty. 

This is my combo, Death Herald for railgun and Jammer Immunity for Hornet, so my booster doesn't get disabled at crucial Times.

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Summary: You would not be able to fully enjoy rail in the battle if you don't have both booster and railgun at the highest modification (Special Case of Death Herald). 

And all of this is personally my Opinion, there are many players who would disagree with me because they like to play railgun with different equipments and drone and even at Low modifications, they are able to have fun. Hope this helps ^^

Here are a few Images to back up my support of Death Herald-Railgun, with respect to Legend Ranks to show how cool and powerful it is with The Highest modification. I personally like to get many kills and scores and basically have fun. If you get it, you will personally love it.

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[VIC2000 92]

Who knows what is best to buy. When the sale was on in the shop there were no mammoth MK5s, now that the sale has ended, wadda ya know MK5 mammoth for the full price is now available. Devs playing their cheap tricks as usual.  

[TheCongoSpider 8,954]

15 minutes ago, luckylook500 said:

Even there is a cold resistance augment exists which can counter cyro. 

Cryo augments do not depend on damage over time. They have no damage penalty and they still get the damage enhancer disabling ability. Ignition augments rely on their afterburn because they have other penalties applied, usually.

Incendiary Smoky in particular is worse off because it only ignites players to 50% of maximum temperature. That is a relatively short-burst ignition. The other ignition augments ignite players to 100% of maximum temperature and can do so to multiple targets. Heat Resistance was very good back in 2020 and early 2021 because it dealt very well with short burst ignitions. It doesn't help that Smoky's Incendiary augment has at most a coinflip on its critical hits, which has 5o he built up from a negative number. And the rate at which it builds up is slow and has to increase with modifications. It is less of a hassle now that the firing rate has been increased but with that, you might as well use another augment, that gives more direct damage and can give another variety of gameplay. 

 

1 hour ago, luckylook500 said:

Just now I have used autocannon at the end of the game and it gave very good results.

You do you. I would not advise a random player to buy Autocannon in its current state. 

 

1 hour ago, DestrotankAI9 said:

However supercumulative rounds is super nice with Hornet or Dictator overdrive

That's rather restrictive, don't you think? And now that Overdrive recharge times have been more than doubled, you will be outside of it even more than before. Effectiveness outside of an Overdrive matters more now. 

[Incorp 2,084]

1 hour ago, DestrotankAI9 said:

Maybe your friend hasn't mastered death herald yet :P ? Or his Railgun is very weak? In general it is probably better if you have a Railgun that is at least as well upgraded as what your enemies have, if you equipment is under levelled you won't get many killing blows, and then no "instant reloads" with it. I definitely think it is the best Garage augment for Rail, although Adrenaline could also be a backup choice for someone who doesn't like death herald, but wants something for all round use.

Hehe that friend of mine is a now frequent chat contestant, see if u can guess who ;) 

Anyways, I plan on upgrading railgun as I mentioned above. With death herald at half price, I get 563400-122500= 440900 crystals left for upgrading railgun and striker. I got 4 upgrades on railgun currently and 15 upgrades on striker. I have almost 80 containers ready to open at the day of micro upgrade sales, which I would hopefully get atleast a total of 100k crystals. 

28 minutes ago, nikunj04 said:

See it all depends on a person's Interest to a particular type of gun and its gameplay. Would I give you fake information as it is OP or not? No I won't because That Depends. Depends on one's definition of Overpowered. If you think you would be able to spam kills and score like Tesla Paladin so...... NO, you actually can and cannot. I personally use Death Herald with Hornet, because due to its OD, I can take 4-5 kills in an instant, not by just shooting wherever I like but by actually using tactics and strategy. I have used this combo since a long time, hence I know how to control it in different situations.  This may depend from player to player.

Like this ^^

I have already bought death herald on my alt where I can do multiple kills to light hulls and sometimes medium hulls in sight. The great thing is there is a big chance to get critical damage every shot which I love. I can deal 2k critical damage on my alt with boosted damage, and 1k damage with boosted damage, provided that the enemy tanks don't have boosted armour equipped in both cases. I also use hornet more than any other hull with this augment. I am just worried, since my railgun on my main seems very weak right now, with only 2k damage per critical shot. I am worried that the critical shot damage won't be sufficient to rule the battle as I did with my alt. 

Also I want confirmation; does the augment increases the reload and decreases the damage?

33 minutes ago, nikunj04 said:

Summary: You would not be able to fully enjoy rail in the battle if you don't have both booster and railgun at the highest modification (Special Case of Death Herald). 

And all of this is personally my Opinion, there are many players who would disagree with me because they like to play railgun with different equipments and drone and even at Low modifications, they are able to have fun. Hope this helps ^^

Here are a few Images to back up my support of Death Herald-Railgun, with respect to Legend Ranks to show how cool and powerful it is with The Highest modification. I personally like to get many kills and scores and basically have fun. If you get it, you will personally love it.

Yes, my main goal is to have fun, and maybe sometimes have breathtaking moments killing enemies after enemies, making myself climbing up the team. Thing is I'm nòt sure it is as useful as it is in low ranks. I mean, I deal 2k damage on both mk5 and mk7-4 railgun with DA equipped. Is that normal?

Anyway thanks for advice, I'll consider buying it for a while, will check out wiki for deeper information.

[DestrotankAI9 1,513]

1 hour ago, TheCongoSpider said:

That's rather restrictive, don't you think? And now that Overdrive recharge times have been more than doubled, you will be outside of it even more than before. Effectiveness outside of an Overdrive matters more now. 

True, it is a pretty limited range of usefulness. And yes things have changed since the overdrive charge nerf. I have seen players doing very well with supercumulative, it is definitely inferior to Cryo outside of overdrive, but during supercharge you can get a lot of kills with it - 2400 damage crits every 1.2 seconds is pretty nice. With Hornet overdrive you have that close range AP effect also, so you can do some serious damage usually.

 

57 minutes ago, Incorp said:

Hehe that friend of mine is a now frequent chat contestant, see if u can guess who ;) 

Anyways, I plan on upgrading railgun as I mentioned above. With death herald at half price, I get 563400-122500= 440900 crystals left for upgrading railgun and striker. I got 4 upgrades on railgun currently and 15 upgrades on striker. I have almost 80 containers ready to open at the day of micro upgrade sales, which I would hopefully get atleast a total of 100k crystals. 

I see lol :P Unfortunately I have no idea  You said "now" so they must be recent, Tandem_Friction? I don't know :P

Oh nice, you have worked this out carefully haha :) . I have worked out that I will have enough to get my last 3 mk7 modules tomorrow - finally will have all mk7 modules (aside from Armadillo)! Will be super nice. Probably won't have that much left by Saturday for micro-upgrades though.

Wow, 80 containers =o ?? Well I hope you get more than 100k haha. To be honest personally, I would open them now because, if you got premium from the containers that would help you earn more crystals from matches between now and saturday. I think the best time to open containers on a Legend account (where you don't have to worry about ranking up too fast) is at the start of a 2x funds event, and that is already happening. Unless of course 1) you can't play until Saturday, and you don't want to waste premium or 2) you already have premium, in which case it doesn't matter :P . 

Edited December 27, 2021 by DestrotankAI9

[Incorp 2,084]

8 hours ago, DestrotankAI9 said:

I see lol :P Unfortunately I have no idea  You said "now" so they must be recent, Tandem_Friction? I don't know :P

Nope, CRUSSHHER :)

8 hours ago, DestrotankAI9 said:

Wow, 80 containers =o ?? Well I hope you get more than 100k haha. To be honest personally, I would open them now because, if you got premium from the containers that would help you earn more crystals from matches between now and saturday. I think the best time to open containers on a Legend account (where you don't have to worry about ranking up too fast) is at the start of a 2x funds event, and that is already happening. Unless of course 1) you can't play until Saturday, and you don't want to waste premium or 2) you already have premium, in which case it doesn't matter :P . 

Hm, I'll consider it but I'm actually trying to save as much as possible for a grand opening lol

[LuckyLuke 111]

22 hours ago, TheCongoSpider said:

Cryo augments do not depend on damage over time. They have no damage penalty and they still get the damage enhancer disabling ability. Ignition augments rely on their afterburn because they have other penalties applied, usually.

Incendiary Smoky in particular is worse off because it only ignites players to 50% of maximum temperature. That is a relatively short-burst ignition. The other ignition augments ignite players to 100% of maximum temperature and can do so to multiple targets. Heat Resistance was very good back in 2020 and early 2021 because it dealt very well with short burst ignitions. It doesn't help that Smoky's Incendiary augment has at most a coinflip on its critical hits, which has 5o he built up from a negative number. And the rate at which it builds up is slow and has to increase with modifications. It is less of a hassle now that the firing rate has been increased but with that, you might as well use another augment, that gives more direct damage and can give another variety of gameplay. 

 

You do you. I would not advise a random player to buy Autocannon in its current state. 

 

That's rather restrictive, don't you think? And now that Overdrive recharge times have been more than doubled, you will be outside of it even more than before. Effectiveness outside of an Overdrive matters more now. 

So looks like Adrenaline  seems to be a better choice where most of the people would agree

[readyfireaim 369]

Which one? Magnum Mortar, Twins Adrenaline, Ricochet Berserk, or Striker Cyclone? I use Striker most BTW.

[readyfireaim 369]

7 minutes ago, At_Shin said:

Striker Cyclone is good for TJR and SJR. It is not so useful in other modes. But it is still a great augment. I'd say go for that.

Cool, I'll go for that then. It's the only augment for Striker I've never used. Thanks!