Railgun Diaries

Would like to share some knowledge about the weapon i love and use the most, the Railgun.

Its a weapon which is not only reknowned in bb here, but also in other prominent games such as tanki-online and is the only featured weapon in SLTV competitions and esports matches due to its high skill factor and precise aim requirement. (Along with good dps)
In the bay too, its a weapon with similar qualities, and has a rewarding damage too, provided the shot hits at 100% range. (Which is not there in other games)
But in all the games i've played with railgun as a weapon, it always has higher cooldown then all the other weapons, reason being its high damage takedown.
Here in BB its regarded as the weapon with the most or 'ultimate' damage as seen by the weapon info, altough mines and big torpedoes of equivalent rarity have higher damage, along with critical shots of explo surpassing its damage at equivalent rarity.
To be right in words, It is the point damage weapon with ultimate/highest damage here in BB.

Here are some tips for railgun fans and lovers alike -

• Try to get to 100% or further rail range. If not, get away from target and atleast go for 80%+ unless target is on low health and sure of a one hit K.O.

• Use them on shooter as your other weapons will cover reload time easily. (Speeder/enfo too works with stun, as stun covers rail reload time. Fun fact too, speeder is seen wielding railgun in the battle bay loading screen and enfos wielding railguns in the bb trailer)

• Wait for waves to go low, or come down in simple terms as railgun hits in a straight line unlike cannons.

• Be precise, be crisp.
Do not take too much time aiming too as you'll get hit by enemy, (even their rails) also dont take it too easy that you'll hit each shot, precision is the 'key' here.

• Gear lube is good for railguns.

This one's from fellow railgun partner zetton (currently the top rail banger)

I've also come across a good number of crazy railgun fanatics and its a pleasure to work out our railguns together. Special mentions to zet and sober (simon) -


Edit :
We have a lil railgun fanclub and intend to be the best with our railguns.
Railgunning our way through we battles, we love to share our moments each. Here's one of mine getting a quadkill with rails only -

Also If you guys love using railguns and would like to share similar short clips/screens or moments, please feel free to do so and use this thread : )

 

I love the long delay of + 100% hit. Feels like real sniper. And nothing like leading that long shot and getting the hit on a speeder nitroing across the map....

 

Thats one of the best feelings ever!

 

Did I just read Tanki-online? Gosh I spend so many hours playing that game before it became a P2W.

About bb Railgun, as a player that doesn’t use it, I hate when it deals Max damage, but it’s fair . It’s difficult to use and not very useful in close combat UNLIKE SNIPER!

(Sry, every post is a good chance to complain about sniper cannon... it’s also becoming routine)

 

Wasp with rail, best thing

 

Ouch!

 

You guys play/played tanki too?
Its an insanely addicting fps i must admit. Not really p2w since there are lots of players around each rank and you can always grow gradually, also buy kits on super good discounts with your hard-earned crystals, and i worked up m3s of firebird, freeze, thunder and isida in around 2 years without paying a cent.

I've spent years playing that, since 2013 till now.
My IGN is Blood_crusader (blood everywhere), wbu?
Here's an old pic of me -


Was a pretty active player back then (still active) and i remember it was really good with all my friends spamming messages together
Here are random pics of me talking in RU1(heavily flooded) server -


Guess this one was after i ranked up to gismo.

Here's a pic of my last few rankups too (the final ranks which take months) -


From a recruit to a generalissimo in just around one year, i've gone through a lot of matches with ridiculous amount of time spent in one game. It was hell addicting and worth the fun i had every round. From matches lasting 15 minutes to 6 hours and heck sometimes even half of the day, the craze was nerve wrecking taking short intervals to go to the toilet only.

Here's a pic including some of my continuous battle records -

And yes I used to spend lots of time editing and jamming out screenshots and clubbing pics together. Also was an active participator in almost all their contests and made quite a few tanki related stuff.

Here's one pic i drew for 2014 -> 2015's december time new year event - (I was just 15 then)


But my real pride and happiness lied in my team (m2-3 clan), which i created right way back in 2k13, and we were one of the best families ever.

Here's my team's member list - (yep am the leader)

Quite a huge list eh? We were one big happy family and god did we have fun. From well organised clan practices on UTC timings to parkour rounds to clan wars and executing our crazy ideas on our favourite maps, we did it all. We were also a former SLTV squad (5 member railgun XP/BP team) going for the big cash league which was aired on russian telly live.

This is a box viewer pic i made of what our main team used to look at one time -


You can visit our pages for more info and pics of us ( :
Here's the thread link to our clan page in tanki forums (was pretty active there too) :-
http://en.tankiforum.com/index.php?showtopic=227245&page=1
The pages go to 94 (yes we have a looong history) where a community moderator (such as grim here) locked the thread for temporal inactiveness on forums, but its still there to view for all forever.
Here's the 94th page -


We were pretty popular back then and we loved our fans, so we posted clan training pics and other stuff on the forums and other social/discussion platforms.

In fact we even made our own website : (haven't updated in a long while tho)
http://bloodcrusader16.wixsite.com/black-guard

 

Not to mention we had sooo much fun in our clan practices, truly some of the best memories we created in an online environment.

Would like to share a few clubbed pics of those days - (i mostly played on low graphics settings due to high ping thanks to my sweet router)

You can see the stunning christmas event sky i aligned with a picture of me holding a group discussion with 5 of my members for a clan war (happy to have super cooperative clan members).

Here's one celebrating after a clan war in rio - (our official practice map)


We just loved getting on top of each other and we would try to do it by any means, jumping from buildings, ramp sections, using the map like parkour players. (It was so freaking hard to maintain the formation while moving, we often tripped and had to rebuild ourselves after breaking out from an unbalanced tower)

Rest a lot of pictures and memories and hidden and scrambled up in the forum pages, apart from the ones i posted on my forum clan page with spoilers (there are a lot).
Dont want to spam more pics of our team, so if you guys are interested you can check the old page.
Something like this -

Also include honour rank 3D revolving gifs, although not sure all are working correctly. Kinda looks like this -


These are old pics i recollected from dropbox and some from the forums, as well the pics are ones with low graphics settings.
Better graphics look something like this :

Also with the introduction of tanki-x, the game has taken a major leap in quality. (Although it was so good earlier itself too) I intended to continue tanki but coming back to play on pc was time consuming as the old thing got slow too along with the net interface (took 10+ minutes to load first battle with a stable ping) and so thought of playing it on android using softwares but the lag and controls were unbearable and so decided to switch to another fps on android, which is yes, our very own battle bay : )

 

Wow u really like Tanki... I think I played for something like 2 years and 7 months before quitting

 

Wow thats quite a lot of time too. I probably still like it because of its features such as you can play with your style with no restrictions which includes XP/BP duels (especially the 1v1-4v4 in sandbox), also the classic game modes like capture the flag (my favourite, which is non-existent here). The coordination of good teams and the joy which you get after capturing a flag from a good opposing team is like none. Especially in maps like Noise and sandbox, i have had some amazing CTF mode games, including flag captures of upto 200 (that took half a day).
Another reason i suppose is because i've got really far into it (and now into the legend ranks), spending a lot of time and patiently building my now MU'ed M3s.