Excelsior augment

[LuckyLuke 111]

I can see excelsior augment for turrets is so powerful even armadillo  has become useless. I have the augment for the hull but why I am not getting that kind of effect or protection?  

[Cleric 1,386]

On 2/15/2026 at 11:39 PM, LuckyLuke said:

I can see excelsior augment for turrets is so powerful even armadillo  has become useless. I have the augment for the hull but why I am not getting that kind of effect or protection?  

On 2/17/2026 at 9:28 PM, LuckyLuke said:

My question here is with excelsior augment + Armadillo + Defender still does not feel any change of using the excelsior

Unsurprisingly, none of the people above managed to answer the questions at all... Apparently reading is "really hard" 

What you mean you "don't feel it". It is literally a fairly substantial stat boost. With the hull excelsior, you literally have 30% more health, 10% faster, and 15% more agile (i.e. acceleration and power) compared to others. If you can't feel any difference, then sorry, allow me to be blunt, that sounds more like a you problem, and I have nothing else to say to you.

 

On 2/18/2026 at 12:35 AM, Vengeance said:

Luke was talking how Excelsior turret augments are overpowered (and it is if you got no protections), But it's really easy to counter using the stuff I said above.

Bro here is trying to defend an item that is clearly designed to be BIS (for now) and P2W. 

Don't start mentioning protections, as if only you can use protection but not the guy with turret excelsior. That "I can counter this" thing makes absolutely zero sense.

Edited yesterday at 08:36 AM by Cleric

[Vengeance 777]

As you know EXCELSIOR turret augment provide the user with: 

Damage: +30%

Turning speed: +15%

Turning acceleration: +15%

This is a considerable amount of damage increase especially used with booster/crisis.
To protect against this augment you can use EXCELSIOR hull augment (+30% health and other improvements) combined with Defender drone + protection + armadillo module.
But even without EXCELSIOR hull augment just the combination of Defender drone + protection + armadillo module can help you lessen the damage.
Just a side note here, Armadillo module only helps reduce the critical damage by 1/2 if maxed not the normal damage.

Hope I was able to answer your question.


 

[TTpedatelb 1]

by the way, excelsiors do NOT increase critical damage, only normal. if you are annoyed by somebody with those, get a protection module against the turret they have, armadillo is not so practical here.

Edited Tuesday at 11:34 AM by TTpedatelb

[LuckyLuke 111]

On 2/15/2026 at 10:37 PM, Vengeance said:

As you know EXCELSIOR turret augment provide the user with: 

Damage: +30%

Turning speed: +15%

Turning acceleration: +15%

This is a considerable amount of damage increase especially used with booster/crisis.
To protect against this augment you can use EXCELSIOR hull augment (+30% health and other improvements) combined with Defender drone + protection + armadillo module.
But even without EXCELSIOR hull augment just the combination of Defender drone + protection + armadillo module can help you lessen the damage.
Just a side note here, Armadillo module only helps reduce the critical damage by 1/2 if maxed not the normal damage.

Hope I was able to answer your question.


 

My question here is with excelsior augment + Armadillo + Defender still does not feel any change of using the excelsior

[Vengeance 777]

On 2/17/2026 at 12:29 PM, TTpedatelb said:

by the way, excelsiors do NOT increase critical damage, only normal. if you are annoyed by somebody with those, get a protection module against the turret they have, armadillo is not so practical here.

yep Armadillo is simply to reduce the critical from any turret, not excelsior augment in particular. That's why it's best to always have it on

Edited Tuesday at 04:34 PM by Vengeance

[TTpedatelb 1]

On 2/17/2026 at 7:30 PM, Vengeance said:

yep Excelsior is simply to reduce the critical from any turret

hold on, i don't understand you. excels add HEALTH to your hull, not protect from the incoming damage. a heavy hull with excelsior has 4200 hp (without it - 3000), yet, for instance, smoky still deals 700 damage (if the player who is being shot doesn't have DA turned on and if the shooter doesn't have DD). did you mean that the excelsior augment allows to survive more shots?

Edited Tuesday at 03:11 PM by TTpedatelb

[Vengeance 777]

On 2/17/2026 at 4:07 PM, TTpedatelb said:

hold on, i don't understand you. excels add HEALTH to your hull, not protect from the incoming damage. a heavy hull with excelsior has 4200 hp (without it - 3000), yet, for instance, smoky still deals 700 damage (if the player who is being shot doesn't have DA turned on and if the shooter doesn't have DD). did you mean that the excelsior augment allows to survive more shots?

Yep I meant (hull excelsior) it keeps you alive for longer. Also Armadillo (I had a typo before) to just reduce critical damage from every turret (even excelsior for turret)

Luke was talking how Excelsior turret augments are overpowered (and it is if you got no protections), But it's really easy to counter using the stuff I said above.

Edited Tuesday at 04:36 PM by Vengeance

[Vengeance 777]

On 2/19/2026 at 9:31 AM, Cleric said:

Bro here is trying to defend an item that is clearly designed to be BIS (for now) and P2W. 

What does BIS stand for? 
Also yes the Excelsior hulls does provide such advantages, I can understand why he may not feel like it doesn't provide him with the 30% extra health.
(Probably due to multiple people shooting him with different status effect and maybe he doesn't use the defender drone. So him dying regardless of the health boost might make him feel this way)