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[LoSboccacc]

I like them tanks slugging it out. they die so quickly now that nothing matters but gun number.

makes any tactic as flanking useless because by the time you flan everyone is dead.

[motorbitch]

dunno. being fast and hard to hit still makes a huge difference....

[Urist McScoopbeard]

dunno. being fast and hard to hit still makes a huge difference....

as far as fast & light vs. slower & armored I think the balance it pretty even.

[LoSboccacc]

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small and armored. full orange, execpt is few, also, T1

[Funk]

I like them tanks slugging it out. they die so quickly now that nothing matters but gun number.

makes any tactic as flanking useless because by the time you flan everyone is dead.

too true , i hope that we get a second tech tree of heavy amour soon.

[dennislp3]

They need to have each level of armor give some sort of inherent deflect chance or something...5% per level or something...would be a quick fix to help make higher level armors more worthwhile.

[motorbitch]

higher tier armor totally is worth while and actually very underrated if it comes to robot ranking.

[Funk]

But there is a large price jump going from green to orange, and for most tanks space is free and mass is not a problem at low level.
 
Cost wise if you get paid say 300 a match at tier 3 you can buy 3 blocks of green or save up for a single orange block.
3 green block give you 60 armour and 0.09 to rank the one  orange block 30 and 0.05 to rank.

[motorbitch]

well yes. green armor already is a huge improvement above plastic - it will double your survivability.
orange will only add another 33% on top of that.
many higher tier items are way to expensive to buy untill you reach a higher tier, even if its quite possible to unlock them much more early.

[Aklyon]

Winning a T2 match tends to be around 400rp last I checked, or 200 without a win.

[Farce]

So, I strapped three jets to a chair and rocketed off the test map.  It was extremely enjoyable, if completely stupid.

Need to get more dosh for more parts and bigger jets for a jumpjet tank.  Also, armor.  Using bulk white blocks in place of actual, proper armor doesn't seem to be working for me very well.  :[

they balanced weapon so now armor is useless except two tick lvl 5 armor.

This makes me sad. 

Oh well.  Is there any tricks to accumulating dosh besides throwing my wallet at them?  I wish to have a car that can can fly with thrusters for jumpjets and, well, thrust, and helium, but crap's expensive.  I've been avoiding making a T2 car so far, but if I get more cash playing that I should probably make the transition.

Also have four L2 top-guns, which work okay-ish.  Do more guns mean faster dakka?  I've noticed that once you've got maybe three or so on there, the rate of fire doesn't much improve - it just seems like insurance against other guns getting blown off.

If I pile on more wheels, do I go faster, or is that just a bigger base for my car/insurance against stuff getting blown off/stability or whatever?  Same for thrusters and VTOL fans, I suppose.

Are there more parts in the game or planned for the game than what my level 5 self sees?  If there were gimmicky bits like rotators or doors, or a decoupler that I could use to jettison my wheels and turn into a chopper or something, that would be pretty radical.

[motorbitch]

this game is a very early alpha. what you see is whats in game.

armor below tier 5 is NOT useless, far from it. they buffed the top guns by about 50%, less for lower tier weapons. so thats all whats to this "armor being useless".

more wheels dont make you faster. they are supposed to have a weight limit, and when overloades slow down but thats not jet in game.
your slowest motorized wheel will limit your top speed. steering wheels dont have such a limit.
anything airborne will be limited only by the top speed of the largest mounted thruster.

gun fire rate tops out at 5 guns. more will only add reserve guns when one gets destroyed.
less usefull low tiers where every thing blows up so fast. very needed high tier.

[Funk]

Multiple guns do let you shot fast up till 5, then there use back ups.
Remember that  if you mix weapon they cycle in turn.

[beorn080]

I've noticed on my guntank (a vehicle that mounts every single gun you start with, as well as additional wheels and armor plating, enough to take it to tier two), that with all the guns, some seem to double fire. I'm not sure if they actually are or not, though.

[motorbitch]

i now have 6 L5s booster rockets on my hover tank. i could mount 6 more, but i think i will limit myself to 8 because l5 boosters on the roof sucks as they are realy heavy and flip the tank.

with 4 it was already awsome, and now with 6 it starts to get hillarious.
the top speed of these thrusters is just insane (just mount one on nothing but a chair and do a test match...)

now, i zoom around with high speed, approaching one target, turn and do that again. as im so stupidly fast, i take quite little damage, but as the target is almost stands still compared to my movement, its rather easy for me to hit.
of cause... this only works if there is enough space. so, virtually only on the crater map.

but even in more tight places so much thrust is great to have. it almost entirely eliminates the drifting.
one rather big downside tho: if they disable thrusters mounted unbalanced, it becomes almost impossible to fly forward, as it will introduce so much spinning on the bot.
still. totally worth it.