it was never fun and games since autocannon has a wieldy, complex working mechanic for smoky standards... and that's what makes autocannon to have a subpar performance regardless of the drone. it becomes even worse when the enemy has dolphin and armadillo prot. module.
Autocannon is pretty good when people dont use Smoky protection. But the augment mainly relies on critical hits. This is a problem though because almost all players have Armadillo and most often have it at 50%. It makes the augment less effective. High Precision aiming would be better for Smoky in the case of people not using Smoky protection because the damage basically deals almost as much as a critical shot every hit. You probably would have to just get used to the slow projectile speed. It's super good to use once you do though.
hmm uranium would be interesting. i think it struggles to hit moving targets though, since it's projectile speed is even slower than stock striker. Scout is pretty weak right now. lcr and round destabilization (if you have them) are the way to go rn
@@rayray29899 It's good, because you basically cannot defend yourself from the snipershot, and it deals lik 3k damage easily. Healing rounds are great, I dont have them, but see them a lot, but I think they are the most useful in Juggernaut
@@ristoforos1651 Correct me if am wrong but doesn't ap round on sniper only take effect after the shot. For example if the base max sniper damage is 1000 and a person is using double armor. The Basic sniper, healing sniper and ap sniper will do 500. But the ap sniper will add armor piercing after the damage is death.
TL;DR Smoky's autoaim, critical hits and current MM based solely on rank need fixing You mentioned 3 things that need fixing in the game rn: 1) Smoky's autoaim, because it's so bad you sometimes miss shots that otherwise would have hit even if the bullets don't hit the target, like sometimes with Scorpion's or Gauss' shots; 2) basing the MM system in GEAR SCORE and not rank, which I mentioned like a year ago somewhere in the forum and I personally don't see how that could be exploited, since even if experienced players played in lower ranks thanks to the GS, they're not going to do much because there would be some modifications to Drone access and maybe augments as well if that were to change; 3) "crit damage is everything is this game", which is the worst sign of unbalance in these types of games, because one it doesn't depend on skill, just on pure luck (the Assorted Ammunition augments now kind of patch that a bit tho) and that is not acceptable, and two that means that a turret is overused and thus everyone runs protection against it, which makes the turret become useless in terms of damage withouth unnecessary buffs (like Railgun's, which I made a whole comment about in the forum on how broken the turret can be with such buffs) or specific augments (EMP or AP for instance) and that's how the crit damage helps in that regard, but as you clearly stated, it's not just "help" that it brings, it's straight up something one depends on to use a turret or not these days. Let's just remember how back in the day we all knew how many shots it took to kill an M3 Viking withouth protection from Railgun with an M3 Railgun and thus acted accordingly to fight against that opponent, but now you can even 1-shot an MK8 Viking with 50% protection from Railgun just by activating Hornet's or Dictator's OD or landing a random critical hit with an MK8 Railgun and the Large Caliber Rounds augment, or Adrenaline at low health... That's the prime situation for camping, not to mention if you add in the booster Drone you're pretty much one shooting everything outside of Heavy Hulls (from full health only)... Just unacceptable.
I still don't like Autocannon even though they buffed it, just too much a % decrease on regular damage, but I know crits happen more but upclose you need higher regular damage especially against deadly melee turrets.. I started using ***Smoky Jammer*** and it is good; especially you can help out team mates in a middle of battle half way across the map...jammed and they win I win...
i got autocannon few days ago, i played with it maybe twice, its very decent with hornet and dictator augment, but since my luck is poopoo, i dont like playing with this augment
I would say that smoky with superacumulative rounds and dictator's or hornet's OD would work amazingly, but anyways both OD's are always a cool combination with smoky
Dragonsbreath for Hammer is pretty good. I use it for a Steam account that I haven't played in months. I don't know if it's just a box augment or if it was rebranded as incendiary rounds, but honestly it's better than IR. I had nothing but critical shots. Also my paladin is insanely fast on Steam but slower than Ares on Tanki platform.
This augment is only good if the enemy has no defence against smoky. If they have protection or a substantial armour buff it's useless. That's my opinion anyway
2:01 "These guys are hiding from me. What babies." *proceeds to duck underneath the ramps for cover* 🙃 The initial release of Autocannon was way better than the current buff, hence its super nerf and drop in usage. But this seems a bit more decent now. Can you do a video on Paralyzing Striker? Thanks!
Yh with this augment I'd say smokey is balanced not meta and not bad just in between. And yes auto aim with smokey rail and a few other turret sucks horribly.
you can't really blame the players.. tanki devs are the ones who continue to introduce camping turrets (gauss/scorpion) shaft was always meant for campers
Can you take back your words of autocannon is good now? cause it's not.... i'm using it and is horrible i'm missing all shoots... and the low damage doesn't help either, regardless of the drone is still by far one if not the worst legendary aug for smoky behind incendiary and cryo shells in comparison with old autocannon in smoky in the old days of tanki... don't get me wrong, i love your videos but this time you did get a bit little too far in praising the buff on autocannon....
@@Taspens then thank you for the updated info... i was wondering why alternativa games bothered with buffing a former crystal augment if in the end what it did make stand out was the insta-speed of smoky and the lack of armadillo module in the old tanki era
Besides. the awful low muzzle speed and the effect of slowing down the projectiles after coming out of the barrel, and now with thunder having the same shell speed as smoky plus the splash damage leaves smoky as one of the most unwieldy turrets (if not the worst) now.
Bro I don’t even know why I get matchmaker with heaps of legends. I’m only lutenuit. I’m done. If tanki fixes the matchmaking and completely nerfs scorpion I might come back but for now… CONGRAGULATIONS TANKI U JUST LOST A PLAYER FROM THE GAME. Idiots 😑
it's all fun and games until the entire enemy team has max armadillo
it was never fun and games since autocannon has a wieldy, complex working mechanic for smoky standards... and that's what makes autocannon to have a subpar performance regardless of the drone. it becomes even worse when the enemy has dolphin and armadillo prot. module.
Autocannon is pretty good when people dont use Smoky protection. But the augment mainly relies on critical hits. This is a problem though because almost all players have Armadillo and most often have it at 50%. It makes the augment less effective. High Precision aiming would be better for Smoky in the case of people not using Smoky protection because the damage basically deals almost as much as a critical shot every hit. You probably would have to just get used to the slow projectile speed. It's super good to use once you do though.
Striker uranium is great, and railgun scout has had a buff.
hmm uranium would be interesting. i think it struggles to hit moving targets though, since it's projectile speed is even slower than stock striker. Scout is pretty weak right now. lcr and round destabilization (if you have them) are the way to go rn
I got cyclone augment for striker and for now it feels great to use but I want the uranium or the 2 shot salvo augment for striker
did they buffed scout? nah they dint?
I don't think its really that underrated, but Shaft's armor piercing sight is really strong
How so?
@@rayray29899 You mean how is it strong?
@@ristoforos1651 Yeah, I haven't used ap rounds on sniper before but I strongly believe that healing rounds would be better.
@@rayray29899 It's good, because you basically cannot defend yourself from the snipershot, and it deals lik 3k damage easily. Healing rounds are great, I dont have them, but see them a lot, but I think they are the most useful in Juggernaut
@@ristoforos1651 Correct me if am wrong but doesn't ap round on sniper only take effect after the shot. For example if the base max sniper damage is 1000 and a person is using double armor. The Basic sniper, healing sniper and ap sniper will do 500. But the ap sniper will add armor piercing after the damage is death.
Magnum is one of the only old turrets that only has one skin even though it is used alot
Smoky players are the kind of people that you ask them for the answers to a test and they say no because you have to learn to be successful in life.
To me, smoky rubber rounds is also underrated in juggernaut mode, its kinda good to kill hiding juggernauts
Plasma Turbo Accelerators is good
Plus a nice muzzle speed increase over the obnoxious 350 m/s from most augs.
for shaft heavy capacitors is good with booster drone
TL;DR Smoky's autoaim, critical hits and current MM based solely on rank need fixing
You mentioned 3 things that need fixing in the game rn: 1) Smoky's autoaim, because it's so bad you sometimes miss shots that otherwise would have hit even if the bullets don't hit the target, like sometimes with Scorpion's or Gauss' shots; 2) basing the MM system in GEAR SCORE and not rank, which I mentioned like a year ago somewhere in the forum and I personally don't see how that could be exploited, since even if experienced players played in lower ranks thanks to the GS, they're not going to do much because there would be some modifications to Drone access and maybe augments as well if that were to change; 3) "crit damage is everything is this game", which is the worst sign of unbalance in these types of games, because one it doesn't depend on skill, just on pure luck (the Assorted Ammunition augments now kind of patch that a bit tho) and that is not acceptable, and two that means that a turret is overused and thus everyone runs protection against it, which makes the turret become useless in terms of damage withouth unnecessary buffs (like Railgun's, which I made a whole comment about in the forum on how broken the turret can be with such buffs) or specific augments (EMP or AP for instance) and that's how the crit damage helps in that regard, but as you clearly stated, it's not just "help" that it brings, it's straight up something one depends on to use a turret or not these days. Let's just remember how back in the day we all knew how many shots it took to kill an M3 Viking withouth protection from Railgun with an M3 Railgun and thus acted accordingly to fight against that opponent, but now you can even 1-shot an MK8 Viking with 50% protection from Railgun just by activating Hornet's or Dictator's OD or landing a random critical hit with an MK8 Railgun and the Large Caliber Rounds augment, or Adrenaline at low health... That's the prime situation for camping, not to mention if you add in the booster Drone you're pretty much one shooting everything outside of Heavy Hulls (from full health only)... Just unacceptable.
I still don't like Autocannon even though they buffed it, just too much a % decrease on regular damage, but I know crits happen more but upclose you need higher regular damage especially against deadly melee turrets..
I started using ***Smoky Jammer*** and it is good; especially you can help out team mates in a middle of battle half way across the map...jammed and they win I win...
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i got autocannon few days ago, i played with it maybe twice, its very decent with hornet and dictator augment, but since my luck is poopoo, i dont like playing with this augment
Autocannnon has always been a trolling kind of augment for me 😂
I would say that smoky with superacumulative rounds and dictator's or hornet's OD would work amazingly, but anyways both OD's are always a cool combination with smoky
even better with vulcan though
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Rail's Destabilization augment is superb.
yep crit shot is damn strong
Hammer's extra clip augment is kinda underrated. I've been using it for a while
Compact fuel tanks for firebird is Def one of my top augments because you pretty much are garunteee a kill
Dragonsbreath for Hammer is pretty good. I use it for a Steam account that I haven't played in months. I don't know if it's just a box augment or if it was rebranded as incendiary rounds, but honestly it's better than IR. I had nothing but critical shots. Also my paladin is insanely fast on Steam but slower than Ares on Tanki platform.
Hyper space rounds for railgun or hyperspeed shells for thunder
hyperspace is deadly in the hands of the skilled
This augment is only good if the enemy has no defence against smoky. If they have protection or a substantial armour buff it's useless. That's my opinion anyway
Armor piercing sight on shaft is so good
Not taspens announcing to the world of tanki that they should now have protection on for it damn it time to change main turrent
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2:01 "These guys are hiding from me. What babies." *proceeds to duck underneath the ramps for cover* 🙃
The initial release of Autocannon was way better than the current buff, hence its super nerf and drop in usage. But this seems a bit more decent now.
Can you do a video on Paralyzing Striker? Thanks!
Bro smoky was always great turret
it was, but not longer cause they favour other turrets over the original and first one.
Taspens how do you rotate the camera without using the mouse to show us your entire tank, like you did in the FREEZE LC video?
Hold right click with mouse
Yh with this augment I'd say smokey is balanced not meta and not bad just in between. And yes auto aim with smokey rail and a few other turret sucks horribly.
use shaft rapid fire its awesome. i m a camper and i use it in mobile with auto shoot . every match i get 30-40 kills with 5-6 deaths only
Campers not ashamed, of camping . Damn tanki so ruinned
you can't really blame the players.. tanki devs are the ones who continue to introduce camping turrets (gauss/scorpion)
shaft was always meant for campers
@@everythingsfine1395 I mean campers have existed ever since the old tanki so who's to blame?
@@everythingsfine1395 what do u expect someone with only maxed cobo as titan shaft . go and capture flags ?
@@everythingsfine1395 and capers are part of the game its nothing to be ashamed
As a colonel i use it as my main, very strong in medium map or jug mode (+viking)
But i'm sure you use at least booster or crisis because with any other drone autocannon sucks, i'm alright?
Which drone should I use? Defender/booster/trickster
Depends what you want most: Protection, Damage or Speed?
@@vijaylink90 i want them all
@@jaSoNel Crisis is for you :)
@@jaSoNel You cannot have them all at the same time. Choose one.
@@jaSoNel if u want them all then use Crisis drone
Amour Piercing Missiles for Striker is amazing imo, better than Stunning Missiles.
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Helios for smoky
It would be great
Absurd lol
why not replace autocannon with smoky helios? XD if the purpose of the augment is decrease reload time/increase shooting volume, why not?
Is GS Gear Score?
armadillo= annoying augments immunity
Can you take back your words of autocannon is good now? cause it's not.... i'm using it and is horrible i'm missing all shoots... and the low damage doesn't help either, regardless of the drone is still by far one if not the worst legendary aug for smoky behind incendiary and cryo shells in comparison with old autocannon in smoky in the old days of tanki... don't get me wrong, i love your videos but this time you did get a bit little too far in praising the buff on autocannon....
This video is half a year old lol. But yeah it’s not that good currently
@@Taspens then thank you for the updated info... i was wondering why alternativa games bothered with buffing a former crystal augment if in the end what it did make stand out was the insta-speed of smoky and the lack of armadillo module in the old tanki era
4:54 This the most annoying update for dead tanks ever... so f**kin' annoying when dead tank block everytime.
They should remove s**t
Random guy playing game and trying to kill people. Taspen - " Who's shooting from left, eww cringe " .........That guy *Chokes with tears and dies*
lol
finally, been waiting to use this alteration again.
O nice pro
I really hate smoky just because of accuracy. No matter how good you are u will lose more 50% of your shots
You will miss a lot of shots, yes
Besides. the awful low muzzle speed and the effect of slowing down the projectiles after coming out of the barrel, and now with thunder having the same shell speed as smoky plus the splash damage leaves smoky as one of the most unwieldy turrets (if not the worst) now.
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Bro I don’t even know why I get matchmaker with heaps of legends. I’m only lutenuit. I’m done. If tanki fixes the matchmaking and completely nerfs scorpion I might come back but for now… CONGRAGULATIONS TANKI U JUST LOST A PLAYER FROM THE GAME. Idiots 😑
*remove scorpion
@@Suresh-br2zz YES
Pulsar for smoky is OP
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