Still wondering why Crash has no supply and crystal drops ever... doesnt make someone want to play this map much though it is really interesting.

+10 thanks for pointing this out, good laugh!

Happy chinese new year of the Snake

this is wrong guys... You win less if you are in the top scorers in favor to the low scorers in your team. Take the example... 5 players 4 crystals to share... so far it would be like 4 crystal fund: 1st - 3 2nd - 1 3rd - 0 4th -0 5th - 0 If you think now the first gets 30... you are wrong cause it will be like: fund 4 x10 = 40 1st - 21 2nd - 9 3rd - 5 4th - 3 5th - 2 So 1st and 2nd lose but the rest wins... It is definitely NOT the same with just a 0 added!

Great now mults even get rewarded for destroying your game, poor players get rewarded and the good ones get less... Sorry folks but this sounds not good at all :(

Nice written indeed but please do not take what he says here as THE TRUTH it is his opinion in the end and based on his experience only... I dont say what he writes is nonsense but I am sure some others (and I) disagree in some points. In fact any hull/gun can be a best choice at the right circumstances. For example... using Hunter, Smokey and Savanna paint leads me to this win: http://i46.tinypic.com/vktoh.jpg The big issue after rebalance for most is imho the unlocking of different hulls/guns at different ranks... where Titan clearly dominates over Mammoth in M1 and M2... until Mammoth becomes M3 at last rank. Dictator is for sure the "new viking" looking at its stats... but as said above its ugly and huge frame has some disadvantages... one which i rarely hear but which bothers me a lot is: If I have a Dictator in my team ... I am unable to shoot over it with thunder, smokey, rico or twins even if I use the big Mammoth... with thunder I even damage only myself. nuff said, nice article but please read it carefully newbs... it is good advice and info but not the overall truth ;)

sorry but this is no news but old stuff now... over a week too late -1 For real NEWS everybody should just use chrome and go to the website where this is taken from: http://news.tankionline.com

by now I have to agree that freeze freezes too fast too strong... (and the effect lasts too long after the freezing is over) Using a M3 Wasp + N2O and picasso paint (20% freeze protection)... you might think you can escape a freeze when you just drive full speed at the tip of the freeze angle... Too bad... it stops you in all tracks and you just die... (unless you get a lucky shot with smokey)

just reporting a weird thing or bug here... One player is in both teams?

I have to take all back... it seems to be back like it used to be before 121... NOT a good job devs... keep working and fix this for once or go home and close this game for good

ok, everything seemed fine... Today loading maps takes forever... like this: I never got into the battle at all but got removed due to inactivity ... Ohh and lags are back.. spinning tanks to reload... :(

Thanks for finally delivering what I started with again... yes it is possible to play tanki again for me (unless they shut it down most of the time to fix bugs ;) ). I wouldnt go for adjectives like said here but... "Right approach, finish what you started yesterday and you did finally a good job!"

just watch this http://news.tankionline.com/blog/2013/01/perexod-na-novuyu-servernuyu-platformu-pryamaya-translyaciya/#more-10460 Moving to a new server platform - Live Stream best in chrome that it direct translates from russian for you ;) I was able to get into the test server yesterday and have to say I am very hopeful this update is worth the day it takes... One day no tanki is fine after 6 months of lagging frustrations... Thumbs up and be patient for this and for the next week because bugs will show that need to be fixed. But if I can play again like I could before last summer... it's all worth it!

It's awesome, isnt it... just like this what happens llike 10 times a day to me: BUT The new server platform will be magical and fix this so after waiting and hoping for 6 months by now it is told to be soon (like next month) there! But right now it seems that they made everything double worse ... maybe to be able to say after the big update "See it's all better now"

I suggest an anti isida paint like Irbis or Rock or Taiga (Electra or Alien as cheap alternatives) and Thunder can kill a bunch of them sitting on each other laps healing each others... In your team... ask them to change or the other 5 leave. Isida has always been a pain in the behind and in the way or just sticking in ones behind... Always kill them first ... Frustrate them as they frustrate you. In 1 on 1 you can beat them with almost any weapon if you have a paint above and they dont have one for your weapon.

Just wait like I do for half a year now since this started and the "constant work" on this did not do any difference yet... strangely this issue wasnt there before august 2012 I could play any map with any amount of players just fine.... it's the sad downside of the game being hosted in russia ... if this gets unplayable for you try to play smaller maps with less players... works better for me

well, since the re-balanced longer being frozen times of freeze it is serious hard to escape with a flag when a freeze is guarding it... if you get caught for just 2 seconds in the freeze you can just hit delete because you die (by the team mates or even re-spawning freeze itself) before you get another 10 m away with the flag... I agree it is a bit annoying to have to wait real long now before being able to play again after having met a freeze in short range... and no paint does not make a big difference here, I have inferno and survive/"beat" the freeze but just wait till their friend comes to finish me off while I am unable to move... Of course it sucks to get caught by a freeze from the backside and you just can die cause you missed it or reacted to late to turn around... but that is how it is meant to be and without that the freeze would be rather ineffective. and what Nick means by his stand alone comment I guess

Wasp/Smokey is serious fun to play at any rank and modification. I got it m3 as my "for fun" combo but it has become so far my favourite and most used one! Besides in real small maps like island or farm where mammoths rule I think it can be a very effective combo in any CTF battle from Sandbox over Tribute and Iran to Kungur and Osa. Even if you die often, the speed of the wasp allows you so much more going into the critical areas and cause trouble for your enemy.... Besides you pick up supplies like no other cause you get them faster where a mammoth doesnt even think to try to get it you have it already ;) Mammoths with Thunder watch out... most use emerald and have no smokey protection... then you suddenly need 5 hits to a emerald wasp and you miss 2 times cause it moved so fast... you are dead before you know it ;) But in general... I really have to say that almost any combo can be a good combo after re-balance (having trouble with wasp/rico myself though).

I think the rank range should be smaller than it is right now for battles (for sure the default setting!) but making battles for only 1 rank is pointless as general rule... you still can do this for any battle you create ... Go ahead and see how this works for you ;)

This is for Windoes users (doesnt matter which version as long after 2000): That's the slow way cause you get a list and have to choose "Task Manager"... it's actuall Crtl + Shift + Esc and Task Manager opens right away

Besides what you ask for wont happen anyway, they do have a logic in their speed/hp relationship here. Wasp is fastest but way harder to maneuver at its speed than hornet ever was (at old 10m/s as well). Wasp is clearly the lightest and weakest and so makes sense to be the fastest yet not easy to control tank. So in this case I even have to agree with the devs doing to make Wasp fastest tank.

Everyone was once a novice at a weapon he uses the first time... imagine that newbie using shaft since this low rank... what will he be skilled with it when he can have shaft m3... Twins were and are and will be the most annoying gun in this game and I hope they weaken them a bit ... else ... I got rock and rico to deal with them

Mines again.... Just wanted to point out that we got our crystal back for everything that got more expensive now but mines which are half price now not... So if you bought 1000 mines and spent 10000 crystals for that.. bad luck they are only 5000 worth now.... Refund only what is more expensive and leave what gets cheaper in our pockets, nice move indeed! Happy new year :fire_r:

nice picture of price of lag:

Sorry Max but you really dont get it here. Of course it is mega annoying to get caught by a freeze from behind and there is little you can do but wait to die... But this happened because the freeze player played his game well, sneaky and got into your back first of all and you missed to watch you back... Python has become quite cheap now at 5050 crys (30% discount in 5 hours so 3535 crys!) (available at 3rd lieutenant) and gives still 32% protection. (There is also as very cheap option with already 23% protection Jaguar for 2300 crys (or at 30% sale 1610!). Best weapon vs freeze if you like mid to short distance is rico or twins.. cause with those you are able to slow down the freeze tank who is approaching you as well and kill before he gets into his short <20m freeze range. In the past a viking with python and rico was the terror of all freeze users who didnt have a serious anti-rico paint. In long distance maps.... kill the freeze from far before he even thinks of attacking you... Sure you wont always succeed but freeze is just one weapon of now 9 different ones. Shaft used to be the evil one, too, cause it could kill most tanks in a single shot unless you had protection paint which also makes a game boring when you get killed the moment you re-spawn... So I got Jade and went after them, having fun every shaft I killed ;) You say flying tanks ... well, if you want a realistic tank game go and play WoT, it is for sure more realistic and maybe for you more fun... But Tanki is how it is and has "no real" weapons like Twins, Ricochet, Freeze, Railgun, Shaft, and even Firebird is nothing you see as Weapon used vs Tanks... While waiting for sale I made a new account after re-balance and played with the newbs on low level with m0 ... cheapest and early to get m1 was firebird so i got it and have a lot of fun... i may not beat all freeze but unless they get me from the back I always get at least a draw... I might die first but they are doomed to die 2 or 3 seconds later ;) But you sound like you are playing Island or Farm where Freeze is one of the strongest weapon and should not be surprised then...