What paint to buy. I play polygon, noise, sandbox, island. Anything at my rank or lower please. The more expensive it is the less I spend on freeze m3 micros.

I second that opinion. Get rail m1/hornet m1 and forester, a cheap rail paint. Also, be sure to WAIT for the likely 50% SALE in 2 weeks that way you can easily buy both m1 hornet and m1 rail at once!

Hey looking for some quick advice from those players that have ranks above mine if i could. I will rank up this week to Major General and will then contemplate the expected sale in early June. I will have roughly 350k crystals ready for it, and plan to spend them all. What would you suggest I do? I like to play Polygon, Noise, Sandbox, Island, and Serpuhov. My favorite turret and hulls are freeze, viking, and hornet, although my viking is still m1 :( My only paint to date is Tundra. Also, I'm one of those guys who is fine with only using one combo for almost any battle, so MU's are generally favored. What will make me most OP the quickest in these maps with preferably freeze. Thanks

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As detailed above by a couple very high rankers, hunter is in my opinion the better m3. The only thing that kept me from going for it is that it unlocks later for each modification than viking. I would say that viking advantage and disadvantage is that it is so low to the ground. The pro's are that it pairs very well with thunder because it gives a stable shooting platform for easier aiming, and allows you to shoot downward easier. The cons are not being able to catch as many gold boxes and that shooting upwards is at times difficult. If you enjoy a little speed more than a little health, go with hunter, but it will take more ranks to unlock each modification :) Thunder paints for a thunder user are crucial, and although splash damage has decreased, it is still important. If you have a solid pure protection paint, stick with it. If you dont, buy cedar. Don't fall into the trap of buying too many paints though. Once you buy cedar or an equivalently priced paint, wait until about brigadier (my rank) to look at getting a new one, probably emerald. One more point, if you enjoy ricochet STICK WITH IT! This game is all about having fun and enjoying your time on here! Picking the most OP combo may ensure some success, but not necessarily enjoyment. I believe you can make the three turrets/ two hull system work, as I have done the same. So buy them all (thunder, rico, isida, viking, hornet). You will just need to save very carefully and never purchase any un=needed paints. I am doing the same thing now, and have well over 300k ready to spend at the june sale, and get freeze m3, hornet m3, thunder m3, and Emerald paint. Just save and you will be fine! To answer your other question, I enjoy freeze and rail, but sadly freeze is quite under-powered, but I still enjoy it. I love playing friends 1 v 1 with rail/hornet, so it is a must as well. Good luck my man :)

Hello and welcome to Tanki! I'll sort of go through your questions 1 at a time. Hope this helps. 1. Yes, hornet isida will still work on high ranks at CTF, but ultimately a larger hull is needed as hornet continues to be nerfed ever so slightly. If you enjoy capturing the flag, then go for wasp, otherwise I would switch to Viking as you mentioned small/medium maps and it is very powerful at m2/m3. Ricochet will work, but m3 doesn't come out till the last rank in the game and at high ranks with only m2, it will be pretty useless. 2. Twins mammoth is SUPER OP at high ranks, especially in TDM and CP matches in Noise, Polygon, Island, and most all other small maps. Twins recently got buffed up so it is fantastic at m2/m3. 3. Thunder/Viking is a truly versatile combo at all ranks, and simply put will rule alot of battles, especially Polygon CP. At m3 it is fantastic, but many people have thunder protective paints at high ranks, but it is probably the best m0,m1,m2 combo in the game for a variety of maps IMO. 4. I would recommend going with which one you like the best, but I think you would enjoy thunder/Viking alot. You can attack, defend, but especially it is great at mid-field play. Wait to get twins/mammy at m2/m3 or in a kit later on and save lots of crystals because to be honest mammoth costs barely nothing to take to m1 because it really doesnt improve much from m0 to m1. 5. I would say stick with isida/hornet and thunder/viking, and then combine them as well for thunder/hornet, and isida/viking. Then get twins/mammoth later at m3 if they are still OP because the game stats in the garage change quite often to "balance" the game. 6. Buy thunder/viking at bday sale on June 4th, and then save for m2's straight away! Don't wait too long to save, and always wait for 50% sales they will happen about 3 maybe 4 times a year. Good luck and I'm glad to hear you are more skilled moving your turret than the "noobs" you play against :) FYI my combo's I use are freeze/hornet, railgun/hornet, thunder/viking

Me personally I wouldn't recommend Mu's on an m1, or m0, not sure which you have. If its m0 then most definitely no MU's. Get an early m1 and you will do much better than an m0 with micros. I would recommend freeze or thunder because they are both great at m1 and very solid at m2. Hammer is great too, but save for m1 and m2, not micros. Definitely wait for sales for all purchases btw.

I would say Hunter. It got a great speed and turning boost recently, and if you arent going to get hornet/wasp, you will need a faster hull than Viking. Good luck.

Thanks :) And IMO it's the best looking!

Mars, Emerald, Cherry, Irbis. Which is best for poly, noise, sandbox. I use hornet with freeze/rail mainly. Thanks

I'm the same rank as you, and am facing a similar decision. However, I am going to go with freeze m3. I play polygon, noise, sandbox mostly. I think freeze is a great attacking weapon, buy also great at defense. Maybe not as great at defense as it use to be, but still good. There are too many guys with thunder paints from here on up, and all freeze really has to worry about for awhile is inferno paint. Hope this helps.

Freeze m4, Viking m4, Fully MU Emerald

Yeah I agree with Loackie above. Have any favorite maps or roles on the battle field? With ricochet/viking both m1 at your rank you probably do quite well, however i would look at another turret if i were you to go along with ricochet. Thunder goes quite well with viking and is fantastic at m1. But purchase what suits your skill set. Just keep in mind, its NEVER too early to start saving for m2! Good luck :) I assume you have a cheap pure protection paint, so i wouldn't worry about a new paint until nearly brigadier IMO.

Thanks I was sort of thinking the same thing. Hive is pretty ugly IMO. That might not matter to some people but it does to me. I mean I've got to stare at it all day :) Thanks for the input! I would definitely go that route if I didn't have freeze m2 and viking m1. I should have clarified in my original post. Thanks

Plan 1 Buy "Refrigerator Kit" of Freeze m3, Viking m3, Hive paint Plan 2 Wait for June sale and buy Freeze m3, Hornet m3, Viking m2, Emerald paint, a couple micros on freeze damage I play Polygon CP, Sandbox CTF, and Noise CTF

HEY guys will the sale apply to SMP? I'm assuming no, but figured I'd ask.

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Thanks :) I'm beginning to lean that way as well. A solid paint for 150k just seems like too much for right now. Plus, I might as well let this rebalance shake itself out and then evaluate which turret is most popular/difficult to beat, before I purchase a paint! EDIT : Haha I must have forgotten to quote! Oh well. Anyways this was meant as a comment to Shad0w365, two posts above this.

Well sir it looks like you are extremely uneducated. You do make a valid point and your math is correct, but your attention to detail is not on par. I stated that I ALREADY had the m2's of turrets/hulls that I wish to take to m3. Therefor since I do NOT have to purchase previous modifications, I will save money. Also that way I am not forced to accept the paint in the kit and I choose my own. A win-win!

No, on the contrary I play only one day a week, Sunday, in which I make 12-15k xp about 12k cry. So therefor I look well ahead on purpose. You mentioned a kit, but I have no use for those. At the very best they are 50 percent off, which is exactly what the June sale will be. Plus kits are not economically feasible for me as the turret/hulls I wish to m3, I already have at m2, so it is less expensive to buy them outright. Thank you. Oh and if anyone wants to reply to my above post with an actual constructive comment, it would be greatly appreciated.

Nice, but if I were you I would recommend not buying anything at this sale. Rank up to WO5 by june 4th sale at 50% off most likely, and buy freeze m2, Viking m1, hornet m1, and a solid paint. With freeze's increased damage you will be a boss at WO5 and for about the next 5 ranks after that as well. You'll love it if you enjoy freeze. If not then don't listen to my advice :)

Hey guys I'll be waiting for the June sale which will likely be 50% off, and by then I will have ranked as well. I have been saving for forever, and so I only have 3 m2 turrets/hulls, but 312k crystals, and by sale I will have about 345k, all without buying! I have two options Option 1 Freeze m3 Hornet m3 Emerald Viking m2 Spend about 20 k on freeze micro upgrades of damage and then I will be broke Option 2 Freeze m3 Viking m2 Spend 150k on MU of freeze and get the dps maxed out to 80 and get most of the other parameters about half way. Or save the 150k and wait

Ha. I am not even close to gissimo, and I have been playing for 3.5 years! At that time shaft was still 2 months away from being released, and the best turrets in the game by far were freeze, Rico, and rail. That's all anyone seemed to use. Then rebalance happened and they changed turrets and hulls and gave all cry back to make new purchases. Those were exciting days in tanki. Sadly I have been busy throughout, but plan on beginning to play quite a bit for next 3 months. I'm thinking 8-9 more months for me!

Dev's, here are my thoughts after testing most of the garage in the test server. -Hornet now seems like a slightly useless hull. Wasp and especially hunter were beefed up enough to make hornet that "in between" hull that not many new players will purchase, which used to be hunter's problem. Just an observation -Freeze has seen a modest increase in dps, which is must needed, but I worry about its continued ineffectiveness in the battlefield due too two reasons. 1, the range for damage has decreased, and the speed with which it freezes enemy HULLs has decreased. Now, a freeze will struggle to get what use to be easy kills because it cannot simply freeze from a good distance and then drive forward and kill because the enemy after it had slowed to a crawl. The TURRET however of the enemy is frozen quicker, but this only helps if you catch up to them in the first place. -Smoky's changes in my opinion have been for the better. Larger dps is well worth the decreased critical damage, but to each his own. -Railgun will now be a true force on the battlefield due to decreased reload time where before it was effectively played with mainly in XP battles. A good update I believe. -Ricochet and Hammer continue to be over powered, especially ricochet. Ricochet is my second main gun on this account, so while I am excited that it will now be by far the best gun in the game, I definitely see a problem in balance. -My suggestions are to decrease a parameter or two of ricochet, hammer, titan, and hunter as they seem to be far and away the most powerful. Also, a slight increase in a couple parameters for freeze and shaft would help out the balance.

Is the server just too full right now? Because i cant get on. I'm following the link on the first page. thanks