No, I didn 't hear "hello Tankers" so it simply can 't be Semyon.

Good luck and come back if you have your RL back on track! :)

Bye!

Just a nice sound:

Good question. With a bunch of micro-upgrades and essentially the possibility to make it M3: it won 't be easy, but why not.

"If you read this post and are just starting with Smoky, don 't bother about using mines and knockback yet. IMO it 's better to first learn proper driving skills and quick aiming at the center of your enemy 's hull and work on perfecting the combination of these two basics. Than learn the essential rocking/tipping technique. If you master these skills than you should have a look at more advanced techniques like the use of those often "last escape mines" and using knockback to your advantage. Good luck! ;)" You can talk to more persons than one in a post, I just did... -_-

@emrakul hope that you at least as keeper last longer than the lifespan of an average product kit... ;)

My fellow Tanki Bro: good luck with your mission! :)

But at least you got a Hornet M2...you are not lost yet... ;) And you made a good choice with Rico, this weapon at M2 with some micro-upgrades can compete with other M3 's: not many turrets can do that. At M3/M4 it 's getting close to unbeatable. You should try it with Hunter when the testservers (if ever) are open. Great combo!

Downvote: not even for this one time?? :P If the advantages it has suit your style than Dictator is a good pick. IMO if you go from long time playing heavy hulls to Dictator you will enjoy, if you go from light hulls to Dictator: you most likely won 't.

Besides an excellent Goldhunting machine, a very tall and huge target that almost can 't be missed?

No, sorry. The Wiki is the closest to the actual figures as you can get afaik.

Do get Hunter M3, it 's very agile, has a very decent and usable speed and at M4 has a very healthy +105 HP compared to a Wasp M4. More over you will no longer be seen as thé primary target, something all light hull users will recognize: another reason why it was ridiculous IMO to give medium and especially heavy hulls even more armour... <_< Mines were the one supply I always ignored, till at higher ranks I often became a victim of "smart poopers" as you call them... :D So I started to use them as well in one to one fights. At first I mostly accidentally activated speed boost, really took some time to imprint it. :P Very effective tactic against close-rangers: if they manage to outmaneouvre the mine they still have to make a little detour giving you more time to get out of their reach. If they take the trap...all the better ofcourse. I don 't really like it when some other Tanker traps on a mine that was outmaneouvred before, but hey that 's a part of the game. Using knockback/impact force is indeed not easy. It 's one of those things that are easily in theory, but it takes a long time to get the hang of (sort of) it. Only one way to improve it: playtime. If you read this post and are just starting with Smoky, don 't bother about using mines and knockback yet. IMO it 's better to first learn proper driving skills and quick aiming at the center of your enemy 's hull and work on perfecting the combination of these two basics. Than learn the essential rocking/tipping technique. If you master these skills than you should have a look at more advanced techniques like the use of those often "last escape mines" and using knockback to your advantage. Good luck! ;)

So whatever I choose, I can 't go wrong? ;)

Tanki Online 2.0 was not really their mistake. Adobe Flash player Molehill as it was called never became a success. Much too experimental and most likely a bad product. Adobe Flash is actually not that great, and it 's IMO impressive what our Devs now made with it! TO Unity will definitely see the daylight if Alternativa/TO itself is still around. Unity is a tested and well established platform and TO Unity gives all the opportunities to have a bright future. For TO as a company and for us players. We can even have weather, moving elements etc. in the Maps. And all this with relative ease because Unity already contains all these exciting possibilities. The TO Devs won 't longer have to develop everything from scratch. The extensions they need will be available in Unity 's editor and will just need to be adjusted. This will certainly improve the speed of updates and bug repair. Unity will have bugs like any new program, but it 's not a "bugcontainer" like Flash is. TO Flash will in the beginning be the blueprint, but I guess it will soon grow to a much improved and also somewhat changed game. I don 't believe it will ever become a WOT clone like some fear. The arcade-like and fast gameplay is TO 's unique trademark and IMO they won 't change that. quote: "They should have kept quite about it until it was at the Beta test stage" Totally agree. The worst mistake was them promising us a full transfer of our accounts when they first introduced their Unity plans. I don 't believe it was a deliberate lie, but it surely is something which is no longer their intention. Knowing this the latest updates become questionable. Personal discounts that will come soon, the same modification discount, XT equipment, the possibility to skip upgrades and go straight to M3 which will entice high ranked players etc. Is this fair? I don 't know, it 's what all companies do in the end. Selling there product. If TO has a fair compensation (equipment and rankwise) for the most likely loss of our accounts, most players will probably get over it and TO Unity will start with a healthy number and also satisfied players base. If not it has all the potential to backfire at them and in that case I will be the first to applaud that: you reap what you sow. All the postponing of news about account transfer doesn 't really help to look at things in a more positive way, though I haven 't given up all hope. This ungoing uncertaintity is not good for the TO community that 's a sure thing.

Not WOT. Slow and boring.

Let 's face it: it is a business. In that sense I can understand that TO is not giving the advice to stop buying and in that way ruin their own company. Look at it from the other side and you will see people who work every day to earn their income for their daily lives. They sure are milking if you ask me with the latest XT as good example. Almost nobody needs it, most will have the normal equivalent already (partly) MU 'd in the garage, still some are going wild and spend heavily on trying to get a XT Mission. There 's nothing wrong with that till a certain extend...in a way you buy imaginary stuff to have a good and fun experience just like you would do at an adventure park. There is difference though, going to an adventure park is a one day experience and people don 't put lots of money and especially a lot of their time in it. That 's where TO has a moral responsibility in my opinion. They can call TO Unity brand new or whatever other reason they can think of: even they understand how most of the players would feel if we lost our accounts. TO Flash is used as an excuse: if there are enough players left we will keep supporting TO Flash...but that 's unfair. You are having a better produkt, but you say to your customer: don 't use it, otherwise we stop selling the old inferior one! In other words, TO is trying to put the responsibility for TO Flash 's survival in our hands. No, they are. They know very well which produkt has the future so when the time comes I just hope they will do the good thing and don 't leave players at a slowly? dying TO Flash. Come forward and show the community that made you possible to build TO Flash (with it 's flaws but in the core really an awesome game with simple controls but smart gameplay that has a lot to offer) that you don 't see them as just some buyers but as long time customers, may it be in time and/or money, and do the right thing. Transfer our accounts or give a decent compensation. "Goodies" is just not good enough. Be fair.

Agreed, but less OP than it was in those days...

Sad to see you (also) go. :( Like so rightfully said: "I increasingly feel a sense of something slipping" I believe that all who played Tanki for quite a while share the same feeling. Remember your first mod days: "could do better" a teacher would say. ;) You learned quickly though and became one of the best! Wish you all the best in your future endeavours and life! :)

Depends on how you use it. Viking is a bit more a melee hull, Hunter is more "attack and cover". (that 's why I prefer Hunter M3) Yes, it is.

Viking is good, I use it on my alt and IMO it really depends on your type of gameplay which hull suits you the best. :)

Good taste! ;) Tanki on 60 fps, but this configuration is overkill for Tanki.

1. yes 2. yes 3. yes, slow reload is it 's weakness 4. Wasp is good, Dictator better 5. Railgun got it 's formats because it 's the best most popular turret in TO

Your fav hulls are Wasp and Hunter? Agreed, Hunter is the best hull for Smoky. Super-allround combo and Hunter M3 is simply smooth... The 30 HP difference at M4 is almost neglectible given the better handling. (compared to Viking M4) Zeus, Needle, Savanna, Jade, Tiger and Nano: paints created by Lucifer himself if you ask me... Yep, Smoky is annoying. I often get chased by pretty angry opponents. I often try to offer them a mine as a sign of peace: it only makes them even more angry! :o