was using google chrome until yesterday's lags....switched over to IE and there are no issues at the moment although I can only play with mip-mapping and anti-aliasing activated

I bought M2 Shaft in today's sale at 50000 odd crystals and am wondering whether I did the right thing...yes, there is nothing wrong with the turret itself....but, in almost any game that I went to today, be it Kungur, Serpuhov or Highland, there were close combat weapons dominating the scene....I am talking about TDMs alone....at least you get some cover from your team and can still get a score....in CTF, DM and CP, shaft was not at all effective and I had to take out my M2 Fire again to get back in the game...I saw one of my enemy shafts using Inferno paint and he was still getting killed!!! In one game, I think it was Kungur, a firebird killed me three times because I kept re-spawning at the same location....and this is a battle in which my team was on the winning side!!

Happy 5 years Tanki

OK...I dont know if it is a coincidence but there are a lot of lags while playing today and it just turns out a lot of updates were also released into the game. My FPS and ping are off by a couple of digits...also, game keeps getting stuck every few seconds and I see lots of players also lagging...not getting solved even with refreshes, clear cache and all the usual fixes....i am playing with only mip-mapping and anti-aliasing on but still no help...."Connection closed by server" messages is more frequent now....irrespective of whether this is because of the update or anything else, I do hope this is fixed before the Tanki birthday events begin tomorrow....not going to enjoy double funds otherwise

None...in fact....I haven't even met anyone from the english community in tanki so far...and I have been playing since Oct 2013....of course, its probably because I don't login to servers 1 to 5 except occasionally after server restart I was just in a Silence battle with Valetta on my team...he is a great player but the game turned into a drug war and we lost...he wasn't very pleased :P

You know what's a dream come true for a firebird user....a group of tanks sitting together in the open with no place to hide....activate double power alone and you can really cook some tanks....one place usually dominated my Freeze and Twins is Sandbox CP....was in a match today versus a Freeze, a twin, a rail and a ricochet....on my side, alongwith my firebird, there was an isida, a thunder and another ricochet....match results shows complete dominance by firebird...the ric on there team bugged out....I might look forward to the new CP update after all

I am talking about people who use turrets other than firebird and kill steal...that is detrimental to firebird users....

Happy birthday tanki....what a party....in tanki words...its a blast!!!

There is a feeling of pride that you get when you are on top of the winning team's scoreboard in a tough drug war....which can quickly diminish when you see the amount of crystals you won....i wish double funds were permanently activated

If you are taking a pic, please do invite me...I exclusively use M2 Hunter with my M2 Fire

I have had to modify gameplay slightly after rebalance to avoid kill stealing....now you have to deal maximum damage at the first contact rather than wait for the after burn to work since the 5 hp per sec damage, even if it lasts for a very long time is still enough if the other player can find another isida or freeze....more initial contact means more chance that you will get destroyed if you use a light hull which is why Hunter works beautifully for me.... also, kill stealing has increased now to the detrimental effect of firebird users...i sometimes have players just following me around waiting for me to deal the initial damage as well as expose myself to take the initial damage from the other player also

I have M2 Fire and I use it with M2 Hunter...it does fairly well since I have MU'd it about 9 steps so far...damage 54.5...only thing is that there are quite a lot of players at that rank who have Inferno or other fire protection...so, you have to pick your battles....like today, there were 2 Lt.Generals also playing fire and one had Zeus and the other had Inferno!!! I am guessing the Zeus chap must have bought it when the previous Light Tank M3 used to be around

Ranked up to Colonel today exactly 15 days after Lt. Col...thanks to M2 Fire M2 Hunter...I wish I had a snap of the rankup...was so busy in an Island TDM that I never realized it was gonna happen I quite liked the way it happened though....in the middle of a drug war with 3 Freezes on one side and a Fire and 2 twins on the other... The best thing was winning against those drugging freezes especially while playing fire....mmm....vengeance!!! Oh and I had just Lava paint to add insult to their injury although I had MU'd it all the way to 23%

signed....i hope you get it back...you are a good chap and the time you spent making those videos with such quality and dedication do not deserve to be disabled like this

couldn't enter at all...tried refreshing...no help...finally got the message "Server is overloaded" Another update is coming and that means players have to adapt and modify game play again....while the dynamic nature of the game is good....i would have preferred to having a particular change and its effect be in effect for sometime so that players can get used to it before another change is applied....right now, you could leave the game for a month and come back and find so many changes...wasn't there supposed to be another change in the way scores are calculated and rewards allocated....i am not sure why there are so many parallel releases...its probable that there are multiple teams working simultaneously on different update projects but to us....the end users...there is only 1 interface...the game and having to adapt to so many changes at once is itself a challenge...remember how all maps were opened up for all players....i am sure that was sometime in the past but I am sure several players have not yet played on many maps.. Silence and Highland are popular amongst players because there is at least some familiarity in the middle of all these changes and now you are going to change that again....I think players would rather spend more time trying to get familiar with the new features of a map which they are aware of rather than trying to explore new maps and new modes of play which means a lot of your resources final results will never end up being used Think about how many people play on Rio now and how many people play on Silence...if you concurrently release a new mode of play (CP) along with new features to a map, from past player behaviour, I believe CP will be popular for the first few days before people slip back to Silence CTF and Highland TDM...

ariking777 - thanks...Garder used to be for the high ranked zone before until they opened it up for everyone...i rarely see this now with high ranks...most people playing this map are WOs

joined a 999 TDM no time limit battle today when the score where around 270 red and 550 blue with no one on the red side and 2 WO4s on the blue side playing freeze and fire....i joined alone on the red side and kept telling these guys not to drug...didn't listen to me...then waited for scores to level around 700 and let the fury unleashed with a drugging MU'd M2 Fire...lol....you rarely get these kind of juicy battles so i had 305 kills and the rest of my team together added 307....M2 Fire M2 Hunter on drugs is sizzling!!! forgot to mention that the 2 WO4s left when the scores levelled at 700 leaving aside all the hard work and drugs they had already put in...if they had hung around they could have at least got 1500 crystals...

Hornet & Viking have already been nerfed in the latest rebalance to give way for Wasp & Hunter but they still lead the polls!!! A lot more hornets on the battlefield means a lot more kills for my firebird

MU'd M2 Firebird's main damage to 7/25...results are good so far

Looks like Ricochet, Thunder and Rail are gonna win...of course, there is a chance that the most popular turrets will get nerfed again in a future rebalance B)

Question for experts who have M3 Firebird: so what did you do with your firebird between Major to Commander? I mean 9 ranks is a huge gap and the XP needed to reach the last rank from Major is massive!! Not to forget the fact that Brigadier onward, everyone else will start having M3 turrets. Did you stop playing with it in between? I am really interested to learn from folks who stuck to firebird as their main weapon all the way through till they bought M3

tried to host a rank up party just now but everyone was busy...even sent out a general invite on server 2 but guess everyone was busy...so I ranked up in battle....and the icing on the cake was that it came when i killed a Generalissimo

i remember seeing microupdate stats for all turrets all the way to the last step...it was like a guide or something and it used to be in the gameplay section....can't find it now even with search....would be helpful if someone could point me to the most up-to-date topic...would be nice to have with the upcoming sale

one of those rare occasions when a major top scores in a battle against a team with 1 major general and 3 brigadiers...thanks to M2 Fire M2 Hunter and some drugs ;-)

I went into a Polygon TDM just now with 20+ players....there were like 8 twins....majority of mammys, few on vikings and other hulls, 5 ricos, 3 freezes, 2 fires,1 izzy and 1 shaft....there were no railguns or smokys or thunders!! Clearly, twins and rico are currently in favor of the developers post the latest rebalance....of course, both turrets will be the first to be nerfed in the next rebalance which will definitely happen sometime in the future all over again Twins and Rico are way too OP now....twins is like a machine gun....completely kills the game for others