1. Drug to Win! 2. Wait for Updates! :lol:

Otto_I - you are right about re-balance failing, I keep seeing WO5s playing agains Generalissimos. They now do not have an option to have thunder M3, or any weapon that can really make it possible to be competitive. They get slaughtered using their M1 combos - it is ridiculous. Where is the balance? I also feel sorry for new Rico users that need to wait to shoot, my favorite weapon I used for a full year is crap. Prolonged freeze slowdown is just killing the games pace. Rebalance is not an all around bad idea, it was just executed poorly. Some things are OP, some are crap. I really enjoyed my Viking/Rico/Spark combo, and although I have four M3 weapons and two hulls, I cannot make a combo that I enjoy as much. Whoever said ONE M3 weapon would be enough? And new players will play for what, 2 years to get that one M3 gun/body combo? They will rather quit. Prices rose in rebalance and now fund is cut by half. Do they expect people will pay hundreds of dollars to play crippled tanki? Wrong again.

It is sad what has become of tanki online. I am looking at the alternativa platform website, there is nothing really new going on there, for the last two or three years. Tanki 2.0 launch failed big time, and now it seems mismanagement is catching up with them.

A new battle finding system that would enable a player to browse through all battles on all servers, I am tired of seeing kungur, silence and iran maps everywhere. A system that would enable you to find an actual CP games or no-supplies battle you would want to join. Also, I would like to pick a map first, click on "Join Battle" and THEN be able to pick up hull, gun and paint. I hate it when the spot I wanted is filled while I am changing. Fix lags and bugs. Add new hulls and guns. Stop making the game worse, try doing something clever instead.

Smoky is too luck based I feel, I swear out loud every time when it hits me once with critical and kills me at decent health.

Make it completely random, heck you can add 10s 50s and 100s to fall in all over the map, problem would be solved. Just don't make it get stuck on the top of the building - that would be annoying as hell. Gold is generally a good thing but it does attract gold diggers who will ruin a game by camping in one stupid spot, such as a tunnel in Iran.

So it is gone? You cannot fix it and bring it back?

Not really, people may want to play with their friends who are of different rank. But, a better battles browsing system is needed (it was promised for 2.0) - people should be able to find battles by different criteria, regardless of which servers they are on. For instance, as a Marshal, if I join server 24, I often have a choice of 3-4 battles that are suited for my rank. If I want to play some map that is rarely played, such as 2042 or Industrial Zone, I would have to connect to one server at a time to manually search for it.

I play Kungur a lot, and see very few Dictators there. IMO Hornet + Freeze is very good, also Isida and Twins work well, Twins may require a heavier hull, although it can be used on Kungur with Hornet as well. I have Thunder M3 and never play it on Kungur, it seems less fun than Isida/Hornet, and Rail seems to be more efficient weapon on such a large map. Thunder can work well and serve its purpose, I just don't seem to find my way around Kungur with it... it seems to work best as a flag defender, along with Smoky.

Thunder is not useless, you may be unlucky there, or may need to improve your skills. Emerald is still very popular, that also may change over time.

I have Thunder M3, Isida M3, Hornet M3, Titan M2 and Emerald paint. I want to get one or two more M3 weapons, top candidates are: Twins, Smoky and Rail. Does anybody have first hand experience with them? Maps are almost all - Kungur, Serpuhov, Sandbox...

Well, everything has changed. Thunder is used the most, also freeze, isida, shaft... I dunno why rail is not so popular. Popular paits are anti-thunder obv. so Emerald is a huge hit, maybe you can get Rustle? Mammoth M2 is very good and you can get it as Major. Thunder M2 is very good, you can get Isida, Freeze and Hunter to go with it - it is quite fast. I am not sure about Dictator M2, Viking M2 is better, will soon be available. Maybe Hornet M2 is good to have to go with Isida and Freeze.

It was 119 hrs 59 minutes first time I logged in today. Now, hours after that, counter is showing the same time, approx. 120 hours. So you forgot how to make a flash banner? It worked before...

I have an impression that Smoky has better range than Thunder, I have used Thunder before and after De-balance, its range seems shorter now. I would love to see any official word about this.

What happened to Rico? I see hornet, hunter and viking are 0.1 faster on M3. And Wasp M3 is 10.8!!! Tanki crew did not inform us about this???

I must agree with Imperial_Armour - there is MUCH more to be balanced. Thunder dominates, M0 is just ridiculous. I am playing on lower ranks with my noob acc so I am still winning with M0 Thunder as WO1, this is 9 ranks after I got Thunder M0. This is no re-balance, this is de-balance! Did anyone find the answer about changes in Thunder range (seems shorter), also range for Smoky? Also Rico re-load, Freeze re-load time and similar questions that were asked here but never answered?

This this and this. I am playing low rank game with Sergeant Majors and WO ranks - the armor difference between Mammoth and lighter tanks makes the latter useless. Overpowered Thunder kills hornets and wasps in two shots. That happens in seconds. Their speed is not enough, they need a ton of luck to do anything useful. Or drugs, in which case Mammoth wins again if he drugs back. Difference before re-balance between heavy and light tank in Hit Points was 2:1 (Titan:wasp, Mammoth:Hornet). Now it is closer to 2.5:1, sometimes 3:1 (Mammoth M1 can be bought on rank 6 with 200HP). This made Tanki Online a Thunder dominated slug match, small tanks are just easy prey. Nobody can resist killing those little buggers with cheap Thunder M0 and Mammoth which can take a beating with a smile. I am using Thunder/Mammoth combo as well, having kill/death ratio close to 3 or 4. Re-balance promised a better variety of tanks and weapons in the field, currently I feel we are headed towards total Thunder domination. You could change the game title to Thunder Online? So yes, re-balance was done too fast, was not thought through enough and we should be looking at a re-re-balance soon. Which makes the whole Tanki Online business a little silly.

wtf you are resurrecting a topic almost 2 years old, now everything has changed, this needs to be locked and stashed away...

I was using Viking/Rico/Spark combo until yesterday and I will not be buying it after rebalance. I havent decided what to do yet, but it seems to me that both have been nerfed too much. Viking is too slow and not that strong and Rico just runs out of steam. And there is that 50% paint vs Rico. I would not recommend either in the long run. They could make sense for noob ranks as a temporary solution. I have been playing with my seargent-major account today, testing a few m0 weapons, and I concluded that Thunder is so brutally overpowered that it is a joke. M1 Mammoth and M0 thunder is owning WOs with such ease that it feels wrong. You can get Thunder so early for just 50 crystals and just dominate. It is not so good in Kungur, because distance can get too great, but in Iran and Highland it is awesome. I am not sure how it looks on higher levels, I like it so far. Isida seems fun too.

rico is good on fort knox 2 and 3, silence, sandbox dont buy nothing yet, try out a few m0 things and wait for discount.

Why on earth would wasp be good for deathmatches??? If you want to be killed bunch of times then yes!

There is good stuff but we need to understand that new maps are unplayable for 99% of the players. Re-balance is turning people away. People are invited to a half ass "lets discuss re-balance" page that is locked for days and does not explain things in a consistent manner. I am betting half of the players have no clue what re-balance is. Maybe devs think they are on the right track with Tanki Online, doing well? I disagree. Get your act together.

I am also considering buying 3 ranks to be able to get Titan, Smoky and Twins. It would cost about 30000 crystals, or 22500 if it is on 25% discount. It will cost as one paint or fully upgraded M3 weapon. I almost feel bad for considering it, buying rank with crystals, but I did not make the system. System that allows you to buy anything. And won't allow you to be able to get a decent hull after playing for over 2 years. I spent some time on test server yesterday, these are my conclusions: low range - Freeze > Firebird > Isida... whats the fuss with Firebird anyway, it makes tanks red? Does a little damage after? Freeze immobilizes the tank! Isn't that more important? medium - Twins > Ricochet... I feel bad for Rico, my favorite weapon for a full year. Twins just go on and on and on and flip Hornets like they are made of paper. long range Smoky > Thunder > Rail > Shaft... Not sure about this one, tried most of this, Rail was disappointing, Thunder is slow. light body - Wasp > Hornet, arguably... Wasp is scary fast medium body - Dictator > Hunter > Viking... I feel bad for Viking now, from battlefield king to a joke heavy body - Mammoth > Titan... Mammoth is super fast and maneuverable when drugged up, I had a hard time escaping it with Dictator! Both on drugs! Titan is very stable, I like it very much, consider buying it.