I'm just speculating. To be honest, it does make sense to have some kind of small penalty, otherwise people will ruin the whole idea of MM balance by leaving halfway (e.g. right after completing missions) and unbalancing their team. But developers never said anything about a deserter penalty for TO, so I probably shouldn't say that it may be added. :rolleyes:

No. To access MM battles you will have to select one of the buttons in the main lobby menu (if you use the battle list lobby, then click on the "Battle!" button to view the main lobby). You will notice that the buttons are separated by game modes, so you have to specifically click on "Deathmatch" to be sent to a DM battle. That shouldn't happen due to reasons explained above, but if you do accidentally join the wrong game mode, you should be able to instantly leave with no penalties. At the moment it seems like you will instantly be able to join another battle. Perhaps eventually developers will add some kind of "deserter" penalty, but so far they have never mentioned anything about that for Tanki Online. That test back in August 2017 was far from actual matchmaking. It simply put players into random battles, ignoring their rank, skill level, etc. There was no "matchmaking" at all. This time the system should work properly and the issues should be resolved.

This is actually a sensible idea. You don't even need a "free pass". Just allow players to create battles for free like in the old times, only those battles won't have funds or experience, while PRO battles will have funds and experience just like now. The reason a lot of people were looking forward to the PRO pass being removed is so that they could join events, parkour battles, rank-ups, clan trainings etc. without having to buy a PRO pass, which was especially inconvenient if they play only a few times a month. So having this ability would be great.

I'm almost 100% certain that the MUs will be combined, so you will end up with Fire M4, which you can choose to put an XT skin on. And if you have Hornet XT with no MUs and Hornet M3 with 3/20, you will get a Hornet M3 3/20 with an optional XT skin. The XT skin can be equipped or removed in the garage. Tanki X has a completely different approach at this point. There is absolutely no reason to assume that whatever has been done in TX will be also done in TO. I am 100% sure that DM battles will stay, not to mention that another DM mode (Juggernaut) is coming soon. You're basing your opinion heavily on the matchmaking test that happened last summer. What we had back then wasn't matchmaking - it was just an initial test of a system in its early stage. I strongly recommend that you test the upcoming matchmaking without negative expectations, since devs promised that there won't be issues like playing against high ranks, being sent to the losing team with little time left, waiting for a long time, etc. You misunderstood. There will be 14 single protections, which you can arrange into any combination of three protections, making a custom module. Whether or not you will be able to have multiple custom modules at the same time is currently unknown.

Topic merged

Topic merged.

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We don't talk about that. My... acc got hacked. Yeah... Hacked :ph34r:

How about no?

Well, I did say that it's just one of the options. So instead of increasing damage it could be just removal of the random damage, making damage dependent exclusively on the projectile's velocity at time of impact.

I would ban everyone and laugh hysterically I would fix all the issues with existing features and finish everything unfinished and then continue doing what devs are doing now (MM, Mobile, HTML5 etc.)

Pretty sure whatever has been (or will be) posted here has been said and discussed in this topic and many others like it, so I really don't see the point. Oh well, here we go again... One of the reasons for the reduction of player numbers is seasonal change. People go on holidays during summer and spend less time online. Happens every single year to every game and website. Numbers will go back up in September. Yes, the game is less popular now than back in 2014, but this does not mean it's dying. It's becoming outdated and people are leaving, but having hundreds of thousands of active players every month is far from "dying". Developers are actively working to help the game become popular again. The release of Matchmaking, Mobile version and other features is supposed to attract many new players to replace those, who left (while still keeping the old, dedicated audience). Any online MMO game has an expiry date and can't remain relevant forever. The fact that Tanki still has thousands of players online after 9 years is extremely impressive, especially if you consider the fact that it was never meant to be a big MMO in the first place. Devs shouldn't do anything to bring old players back. Normal people don't play the same game for years - they get bored and move on. Instead of doing everything to please the existing audience and make them stay, developers are focusing on refurbishing the game to make it more appealing to new players. Probably not 2014-popular, but it may still gain quite a few new players. A lot of 2000's MMOs already went through this process where they lost popularity, then had a massive update that made a bunch of changes and started becoming popular again.

OK, I agree. My idea is not the best. Actually, I think a better alternative is a similar idea that, instead of making damage proportional to projectile flight time, would make it proportional to power, which is actually a much more sensible feature. That way easy short range shots would get a significant nerf due to being very slow, while more difficult long range shots with higher power would still give out decent damage. And in order to prevent this being abused through 0 degree 100% shots, the minimum angle of magnum should be increased to 10 degrees, so you would have to either use it as proper altillery/mortar, or tilt your hull in order to shoot straight. Both of these methods require more skill than simply launching a 0/100 shot at a nearby enemy. Not only would this make effective use of magnum require more skill, but it also indirectly reduces Magnum's DPS, since to get higher damage the player needs to spend more time charging the shot up to full power. I feel like this is a pretty significant nerf, so in order to compensate for it, Magnum would get an increase to its max damage (something like 15%) and/or the damage range would be removed, so that all shots always deal the amount of damage you'd expect.

You'd be able to change it in settings and set a button that you won't (or less likely to) accidentally press. And if you do press it, pressing it 4 more times to get back to default view doesn't seem too problematic. I think the spec-like UI key is much better than an option in settings, not to mention that it already exists, as opposed to an option that would have to be developed first.

It does work on maps with tight bases, like Wolfenstein, Polygon and Highlands. On those maps there's almost always enemies defending the base, who will take damage feom the shots.

Nope, she just left this community and moved back to the RU forum.

Guess who's back? Back again. Hex is back, tell a friend. :ph34r:

I presume that for those who got eliminated it's game over, so they collect whatever they earned in that battle and move on to the next match. Also to make it more interesting, later rounds would have shorter and shorter respawn times and shorter battle lengths, because it wouldn't be particularly interesting to fight 1v1 for 10 minutes.

But if a bunch of people create these maps, then there will be a lot more maps for Matchmaking to put people into, meaning that maps will take longer to fill up, or some won't fill up at all. This ruins the idea of matchmaking. Also, I'm pretty sure the majority of players prefer to play battles with supplies and find no-supply battles to be less interesting. I mostly agree with them. Playing without supplies is fun only if you have a competent team (preferably in a call) versus another competent team, where you can communicate well and develop more complicated tactics and strategies. In battles with random players (some of who can't even turn their turrets) such tactics are impossible to apply, therefore things like supplies and overdrive exist to make the battles less stale.

Seems too complicated. A lot of players would be confused by that kind of system. I do support the idea of being able to pay crystals or supplies to be able to play standard battles without supplies, but I'm afraid devs won't do that. There's other issues as well. For example, by giving players a new type of battle where they can do missions, the player base gets separated even more, so there will be less people to fill battles, and matchmaking will end up being less effective when there's less people. I doubt there will be any more variety in non-PRO battles, other than different game modes and maps.

The price of creating a battle can always be adjusted and balanced - that's not the issue here. Biggest problem that Hate missed out is the fact that giving players ability to create any kind of standard battle will ruin their purpose. The main reason why these battles cannot be created manually is so that there's always just the right amount of battles on the servers to provide enough empty spaces for the amount of players currently online. If players could create non-PRO battles, then we would have the same issue as PRO battles - people creating a bunch of different maps and very few of them actually filling up. So if your idea is to have standard battles with supplies disabled, then check out this topic: http://en.tankiforum.com/index.php?showtopic=335611 But I can almost guarantee you that it won't happen, since developers expect players to spend supplies in order to complete missions. being able to do missions (relatively) easily without spending supplies would give us a massive economic advantage.

That's actually a logical idea, since Legends do want to get EXP as fast as possible in order to rank up and get the next reward.

I know it's possible, and I support the idea. I do like battles with custom formats - used to play them a lot with my club a few years ago. But I'm just saying that developers don't want to add this due to the fact that it makes Wasp+Fire much easier to organise, and they don't want that due to reasons described above. So if this gets added, such battles would have much lower EXP and battle funds, or all rewards would be disabled completely.

OK. First of all, 95% of the time Wasp+Fire battles are played for one reason - to quickly get crystals, experience and gold boxes. This could be to quickly get a new rank, to complete missions, or any other possible reason. The reason Wasp+Fire is so good for this is because due to the afterburn effect of Fire and the low health of Wasp players die much quicker and therefore the fund grows much faster. Same can be said about some other PRO battle settings, such as Polygon CP XP/BP - it's an EXP/crystals grinder that requires minimal skill or effort. Developers balanced the game's economy around standard battles with supplies. This means battles with heavy hulls, armour supplies, repair kits, Isidas, campers, etc., where the rate of deaths is much lower and players get less crystals per minute spent playing. So by using custom PRO battle settings in which the rate of fund growth is increased, players are exploiting the settings in order to give themselves an economical advantage in the game, by earning more crystals than developers expect them to. More crystals/EXP earned per hour = more crystals owned and faster ranking = less likely to not have enough crystals for upgrades = less likely to purchase crystals/Premium with real money = less revenue for developers. That's the problem. So ideally, PRO battles shouldn't give players any EXP or crystals AT ALL, or give them at a significantly reduced rate in order to offset the advantage. This is how it works in a lot of other multiplayer games - there's a "standard" game type where you have no control over settings and you earn experience and currency, and there's custom battles you play with friends for fun, where you don't earn anything at all. Unfortunately for devs (and fortunately for players), Tanki already started off with a different system and it's impossible for them to completely disable EXP and crystals in PRO battles without seriously upsetting a lot of players. But removal of missions was definitely necessary. When it comes to missions, their goal is to encourage the player to do certain tasks or complete a certain challenge and get a corresponding amount of reward. Missions like "capture flags" and "finish first" are considered to be more difficult, so the reward given for them is greater than that for other missions. All other missions also give a reward that corresponds to their level of difficulty and the time it takes for an average player to complete the mission in a standard battle. So when a player had missions like "capture 3 flags", "get first place 3 times" and "collect two repair kits", they are normally expected to go into a public battle and spend a lot of time (1-3 hours), supplies and effort in order to capture those flags and get those first places. But instead the player could create a 1-flag Island CTF, invite a friend and complete all three missions in literally one minute. Not only does this give the player a massive economical advantage (which is unfair to devs), but it's also unfair to other players, who don't know about this exploit and spend hours in normal battles, trying to complete the same missions. To summarise, missions were removed from PRO so that everyone would be put on an even playing field and so that the amount of time and effort required to complete the missions would justify the significant reward the players can receive for completing them. I know this is a lot of text, but I hope this helps explain it.

French? :lol: