....if only for intimidation and badassery.

debacle, what pokey said is right. YES, blasters have great cqc DPS.....you dont want to engage tanks at close range....well, maybe on this map, but why would you handicap yourself? the difference in damage for railguns at close range is negligible and having the range is great for more than just AV dealings.....plus....SPLASH......you dont appreciate it until you find out how great it is


sincere help offered here......


take it or leave it, i wont say anything more. id be happy to duke it out with you anytime if your using blasters after all, rather i would chase you down if i saw a blaster turret

if i may tho, make a second railgun fit for different types of situations? i certainly have more than one fitting...

Also.......you should know better dude......

starting a thread titled stop underestimating me is inviting a LOT of trolling and severe damage to your reputation as a driver.......

i try not to judge tho

Absolutely. I have at a minimum 3 different fits for both Surya and Sageris, I tend to favor some over others, but they all get used frequently depending on the situation. Half of tanking is know when to use different tools to accomplish the task at hand, especially if you have multiple tanks coordinating together, you need to change your tactics to compliment one another.

Oh I know. My threads don't ever get this much attention though. It's a great hook

It's really not the damage that I am worried about. It's the turn speed of the railgun that hinders me.

Meh, turn speed has never been an issue for me with the railgun, plus being able to pick swarm and forge snipers off from the other side of the map is really nice.

But really, its personal preference, since there is no "best" weapon or fit, everything has its weakness.

I figured out how to get around the turn speed....any driver worth his salt has.....

regardless, since there is currently only one skirmish map, the amount of applications for each turret type is severely limited and it has become common practice that railguns are the way to go right now...in our one map...

itll change once the environment changes or we get differing maps

See I gank. When you're set up under the pipes near attacker spawn picking people off near A. I stare at the map till your icon shows up.

I know how. But it's nearly impossible to do while moving forward without changing your course.

Why do you think I am unexperienced? I know what I'm doing.

.....not really. I have no issues operating the chassis and the turret completely independently, being able to do that effortlessly is one of the most important skills for a tank driver to have. Also if you're "ganking" someone, that means they're sitting still, which means they have no clue what they're doing, so that's not much of an accomplishment.

.....you'll figure it out.

Im kinda tired so ill leave you with one last bit of advice....

A tanks weakness is its maneuverability, but weaknesses are irrelevant if the tank isnt even involved in the battle.

-_- There's nothing to figure out... I have a totally different playstyle then you guys...

Well when you "gank" me, we'll see how well it goes for ya =)

When I join a game, and you ask if their are any tank drivers out there and I say I drive a Surya, don't call my tank slow and paper thin. Then argue that the blaster turret sucks and that I should not be using it as a turret when you don't even drive a Surya! Stop being rude. And don't even think about destroying that supply depot just because the enemy has it...

Commenter made good point.

I was today in a surya fitted with all blasters and it had one thing which was that with 3 blasters you can fill up the air with so much hot lead that everything near died and died fast .

Worst thing to use against infantry is the small rail gun as it has no explosion radius what so ever and that recharge time ugghh, just impossible to hit anything with it unless it was something large like another tank or a drop ship.
Large rail gun how ever is a beast when moving down infantry with it's OHK splash damage, down side is the charge up time.

Small missiles are good against most targets because they don't miss all that often thanks to large explosion radius, large missile turret however is a very hit and miss as it shares characteristics with swarm launcher when it comes to obstacles and the splash damage for large missile turret is very slow even if the area is quite large.

Also stats wise and from experience it seems that small missile turrets actually do more damage then large turret, likely because hit detection is called in for each of the 4 missiles (ie. one or two missiles always hit on lamp posts, walls, hill et c.) where smalls have only a single missile with near equal dmg potential.