Railgun Augment

[LuckyLuke 111]

In some games, in single attack of railgun my hull gets destroyed. Which is the augment so powerful to destroy the hull? I have defender drone max and railgun protection max

[Helios 718]

I speculate you must be talking about the Railgun <<Excalibur>> augment. It's pretty strong and can 1-shot a lot of tanks especially with booster or crisis drone equipped.

Below I have attached an image containing it's pros and cons as well as what it does.

It is also available as a legendary drop in keys/containers. So if you are lucky enough, you may get it as well.

 

On 10/1/2025 at 12:35 PM, LuckyLuke said:

In some games, in single attack of railgun my hull gets destroyed. Which is the augment so powerful to destroy the hull? I have defender drone max and railgun protection max

 

Edited October 1 by Helios

[TheCongoSpider 8,942]

On 10/1/2025 at 6:35 AM, LuckyLuke said:

In some games, in single attack of railgun my hull gets destroyed. Which is the augment so powerful to destroy the hull? I have defender drone max and railgun protection max

To add to what Helios said, the reason your Defender drone isn't helping you is because of the base damage a maxed Excalibur Rounds Railgun does. 4,350 against a Defender drone is exactly 1,500 damage. So an Excalibur with infinite Boosted Damage supply uptime would be able to one-shot medium hulls with Defender drone and no Armadillo at any time. Your profile is hidden so we cannot see what hulls you use most. You need Armadillo to survive Excalibur, not Railgun module. 

[LuckyLuke 111]

On 10/1/2025 at 4:19 PM, TheCongoSpider said:

To add to what Helios said, the reason your Defender drone isn't helping you is because of the base damage a maxed Excalibur Rounds Railgun does. 4,350 against a Defender drone is exactly 1,500 damage. So an Excalibur with infinite Boosted Damage supply uptime would be able to one-shot medium hulls with Defender drone and no Armadillo at any time. Your profile is hidden so we cannot see what hulls you use most. You need Armadillo to survive Excalibur, not Railgun module. 

Thank you. I tried even with armadillo still same issue. Will crisis drone help?

[TheCongoSpider 8,942]

On 10/2/2025 at 4:15 AM, LuckyLuke said:

Thank you. I tried even with armadillo still same issue. Will crisis drone help?

Crisis' armour is the same as Defender's armour.

 

What upgrade level is your Armadillo and what hull do you use? If you have 50% Armadillo with Defender then a maxed Excalibur can deal 1,500 damage to your hull's HP. 1,687 if they have Booster or Crisis. If your Armadillo is below 34% then your light hull can be killed from full HP. For your medium hull with that %, it will be taking off 67% of your max HP so if you were injured beforehand, it may appear that they "one-shotted" you but in reality they just finished you off. 

And do remember there are random Jammer status applications that can happen via Jammer augments, Pulsar augments, Tsar grenades (rarely) or Hornet/Paladin/Wasp Overdrives. Jammer applications remove the extra armour that your Defender gives you. So there may always be brief periods where you got "one-shotted" with Defender equipped but in actuality you didn't have your extra armour active. 

[LuckyLuke 111]

I have max of armadillo. I use either wasp or titan.  In fact I have max of all the protection , hulls and turrets.

[TheCongoSpider 8,942]

On 10/4/2025 at 9:13 AM, LuckyLuke said:

I have max of armadillo. I use either wasp or titan.  In fact I have max of all the protection , hulls and turrets.

With Wasp, Defender and Armadillo, an Excalibur with Booster/Crisis would be taking off 84% of your HP. Visually that is most of your HP bar so what likely happens is you were slightly injured beforehand and they finished you off. You wouldn't be getting one-shotted from a high HP % with your Titan if you had Defender's extra armour active and Armadillo equipped, even if you were previously under the effect of the Jammer status. If at that point you're still getting one-shotted by a Railgun, the only other augment that can do that is Hyperspace Rounds, which triples the damage of the shot every time it pierces any live tank. 

Edited October 4 by TheCongoSpider

[Dumbledore6969 243]

Answered, closed.