As i'm sure many of you can tell through entering any game type, magnum is responsible for about 30%+ of the kill feed in any given game mode. This turret was added as I understood as a long range option comparable to shaft and railgun. However it is WAY too powerful. It's reload time is comparable to railgun yet it puts out more damage per shot, can kill and light or medium hull in one hit without protection, and can kill many tanks at once due to its absurd blast radius. This turret is more effective at medium and short range than smoky and thunder (where those guns should shine) even though it is a long range gun. One of magnums "drawbacks" is that you cannot move the turret horizontally, but for longer range weapon that is almost hardly necessary. Weapons that have long range capability should not be overpowering any medium range turret at medium range. While they should be competitive at this range, they should by no means be winning the majority of the battles they face at medium range. Magnum also lets the player lob the shell letting them reach enemies they cannot see. While I enjoy this feature and think it should stay, travel time of the shells should increase giving players a chance to avoid the shot if they see it get launched from across the map. Currently a Magnum player can stay safe in their own base and repeatedly launch shells onto spawn locations across the map at enemies they cannot see. This takes almost no skill and is currently impossible to defend against. This makes for dull, repetitive, and frustrating gameplay. I would suggest any one or combination of these changes to make Magnum a more balanced turret. -Decrease damage to only kill light tanks in one shot -Increase air time for shells at least 100% -Increase reload time by at least 30% -Reduce blast radius by at least 20% -Increase self damage

Though this is a good update. People who have had to go through buying each modification of turrets and hulls should get their crystals back. I have spend hundreds of thousands crystals now that new players won't have to spend to get the same garage as me. Not really fair to the long time players in my opinion.

Or you could just bing back crystal boxes. As someone who has played the game for about 3 years i can tell you that the game was more diverse when cry boxes were around. It was simply more fun to play and to always have blue boxes falling from the sky was cool. I know you wanted to discourage crystal campers, but honestly removing cry boxes was not the way to do it. Gameplay is just duller now

at your rank I would go for an m2 turret. But if you can get hammer m2 soon then i would get it. Currently there aren't many tanks with it, so there wont be a lot of tanks with protection from it in the game.

I would get thunder m3 and then MU it. But if you would rather have a short range turret, isisda is very deadly when mued and with viking. I would not suggest freeze, i use it the least out of my turrets and other turrets are way more powerful.

viking for sure. It has way more uses that just about any other tank. Viking m1 is slightly better than hornet m1, but don't get dictator, it is really only useful for golds.

To add another point. Your "Golden Rule" is treat other people as you want to be treated, but you treat most the people in the game like trash and like they aren't allowed to have an opinion. Don't get on other peoples case about being nice to people if you don't do it yourself. I know these things about you from seeing you in the game. I know I'm right about this and I know there is about a 0% chance you will admit I am, because thats the arrogant type of person you are.

You never have been a very pleasant person in the chat. If someone says something to you that you even remotely disagree with, you shut them down, but you so it in "intelligent talk" and it always comes off disrespectful and arrogant. I get you don't like some of the idiots in the chat but to be honest you are one of the ones that fuels them, they feed off you raving on about them, and by doing so you are no better than them. You are just bothering everyone else with your opinion just the way the people you talk about are. Look at yourself and what you say before judging others.

sounds great, there should definitely be an english version

USA USA USA USA USA USA 2-1 over Ghana! Didn't get their paint but still want them to win :D

No people who have already bought the kit will still have their hunter smoky but people will not have the option to buy that kit anymore. just the hunter firebird kit.

Brigadier would never have worked. Players would not only be getting things at half price, but 7-8 ranks earlier than they should have. you would constantly find yourself facing m3 fire, even with your best tank you could not last more than a few seconds. Believe me this change was needed and is much appreciated.

Zeus was in the original light m3 kit with wasp and freeze. Picasso was in the 2nd medium m3 kit with hunter smoky, inferno is in the heavy m2 kit....

TERRIBLE!!!!! STOP GIVING LOW LEVEL PLAYERS M3!!!! These people should have to earn the right to use these weapons and paints!!! and you just hand them out to anyone willing to give you a few dollars!!! Letting people have the m3 1 or 2 ranks before is understandable but now it will be every player from brigadier up will have fire hornet clay or mammy twins!!! these things should be left to be unlocked at the higher ranks!! Kits have always been a bad decision, but at least the first few ones where priced correctly. 50% off at 5 rank or 6 ranks below is just telling players tone only away to get ahead is to buy -_-. Make people earn it to use the best combos, thats how it should be.

BEST POSSIBLE THING WE COULD ASK FOR. Need to catch some of those 5k golds! Great Job Tanki!!!!

Calm down everyone. All garage 50% sales are special and can't happen all the time. Be happy we are getting any sales. Eventually the big ones will come, just save your crystals until then and you can get even more things.

It is very sad to see Deck-9 disappear. At the higher ranks it is waaay more popular that a bunch of other maps, i guess lower ranks never play it though. I still don't get the point of adding extra space to some maps, all it will do is get annoying because we won't be able to go in it -_-. would love to see us be able to go in that space at some point and just have larger versions of the maps while still keeping the current versions. CP looks great though good job on all of that. I do feel like the maps being deleted should go to a vote, players choice, canyon is only unpopular now because of the changes you made to it last time around (ruined ctf mode). I look forward to madness though.

First off, look at my rank. Now that you see I have WAY more experience than you, maybe you will see my opinion is more educated. First of all smoky. Smoky got nerved by this update, you said it was a good thing but now the critical is basically a double hit, and the range has been destroyed, it is useless at long range. Second of all twins. Twins was one of the best turrets before the original rebalance, and has been returned to its former glory. It actually does kill people faster now. I also want to point out that it is very much a noob weapon compared with freeze isida and firebird. All three of those guns take time to reload while twins will shoot on forever. If you have a tank big enough to survive one flu shot from any one of these weapons then twins will always win out. It is time for you to think things through. You expect no one to complain about changes that honestly have killed peoples playing styles. I personally worked very hard to save and buy smoky m3 because it was better than thunder m3 only to have this switched on me. At your rank it is easier to switch what weapon you use, But at higher ranks it cost 250k for a m3 we have every right to complain and you say we shouldn't when half your information isn't even correct. Come on man, use your head.

you obviously aren't playing the same game as everyone else... my hornet m3 with 2 mu's still gets killed in one m3 rail shot with no mu's sometimes

The goal of this was to make all turrets and hulls more even and useable. Hunter will now be a hull that people will buy and use, unlike before when it was next to useless. Turrets like ricochet are also now more balanced, before it was only good at m0 and m3, not it will be feared at all ranks. These changes will take a little getting used to but now the game is more even for all tank turret combo's.

This update is certainly interesting and will take a little getting used to, I know that there will be no refund, so we are stuck with what we have (not a bad thing), but it would be useful to all tankers if the test servers remained open to the public for a month or two so tankers can better understand the things they would be buying. I also know that when big updates such as this one are often accompanied by something to make the tankers happy (ex: cry for ranks). Is there going to be anything like that planned? perhaps a big sale? :D Also about what time will these changes be put into the game?

you have a long long long long way to go before m3 heavy kit.....

Thanks for the great topic, I often wondered about what those battles all where. Now I can enjoy them and not get yelled at by Russians.

When will players be able to see how many gold boxes they have taken? I would love to know my all time total.

for the ten maps with the 2000 gold box from feb 8-10 there is a evil laugh. For other maps it is normal.