It was a mistake to make alterations that forced players to need to defend against one turret with two protections.

Ah, no. If I can see you, I am shooting you. I don't care if you are a Legend 99 or Colonel. I get more kills from persistence than from trying to find the week opponents.

In a typical battle, I face at least one Vulcan with incendiary band, a Firebird, a Railgun, a Thunder, a Magnum or a Striker, and a Hammer, and more than one Saboteur drone. Thus, I need at least seven protections to be able to expect to survive a run with a flag. Sure, I can equip mine protection, but with a dozen mines to cross, that does no good. And then, I'm one more short against the heavy guns, which, of course, include Shaft, but they aren't in at least 40% of the battles. I forgot to mention Freeze, which are in most battles, but protection against them is usually ineffective, so why worry about that one? The Saboteur drone was a mistake. Alterations that make a turret require two protections were a mistake. Edit: I saw I had a comment on "Overdrive." I didn't remember. I see I thought I was typing in Alterations, rather than Overdrives.

Distance is fubar for OD. Often, I pull up close to a teammate and activate overdrive, and he doesn't get it. Likewise in reverse. That is, I can be close to a teammate who activiates overdrive and I do not receive the boosts. What is the distance supposed to be? I cannot find it in the wiki.

I did a little research. As of December 2018, Edge, Chrome, and Firefox were considered good and comparable. Each as good as the other, with Firefox being the most compliant for HTML5. So, I installed Firefox. You can see the result above. HTML5 is slow and many graphical features do not function. Totally unplayable in Firefox, much worse than Opera. I'm being redundant, but the HTML version of Tanki will not try to load in IE, and it stalls at the load screen in Edge.

HTML5 is no good. What browser does Tanki recommend? As I said, it won't work on IE or Edge, and it isn't functional for play on Opera. I played a couple more games on Chrome, which is okay, but it is astonishingly slow. Glitches, lags, button clicks that don't take. R-key doesn't work. G-key doesn't work. Entering the garage takes 5 times longer than the client. Sound effects are bad and volume is variable. (What's up with that?) No, HTML5 is a fail. Forcing me to switch to HTML5 would be forcing me to forget Tanki.

I cannot get https://tankionline.com/html5/?resources=https://s.eu.tankionline.com&config=https://c1.eu.tankionline.com/config.xml&locale=en&lang=en to load in IE. It won't get past the loading screen in Edge. It works on Chrome, but it unsatisfying, and some things distort. It loads in Opera, but it is glitchy, slow, and cumbersome. It also makes weird noises. Like the sound effects loaded are different or distorted. Computer is an older i7 laptop with built in graphics, but also a high end graphics card. I'm never sure if the graphic card works with the browsers. Overall, not satisfied.

GS is useless. It CANNOT be used for balance. It has nothing to do with balance. Devs have stated they do not use GS for match making. Using it would be worse than using no criteria at all. When MM started, they explained how entering the waiting pool places you in a pending battle roster. The system looks for players of the same rank, and with time, it widens the rank range. Ricosck as a Field Marshal plays mostly with Legends. Occasionally, with Ricosck, I find myself as the highest rank. Ricosck rarely finishes out of first place in such battles, being full M4. Regarding GS, Ricosck can enter a battle with M4 Rico-Dictator and three protections with a GS of 8010. Without protections, GS drops to 5800. With the three best protections I have in the garage, my best paint, and the drone, GS jumps to 9260. 5800 is almost as effective. 8010 is exactly as effective. GS means nothing! Equipping my lowest equipment in the garage, Ricosck can enter a battle with GS of 1800. Yes, that would not be effective in high-rank battles, but I could drop to the garage and change 1800 to 9260 in ten seconds. I really wish people would quit pretending GS could balance matchmaking.

I fully agree.

I agree with most of what you say. Viking, probably unintentionally, was favored in kits. It was also favored by players because of its stability and its super acceleration rates, that is, before The Great Leveling. I'm sure you remember the massive update that changed the parameters of nearly everything, making things a lot more alike. Shortly after, if I recall, they switched to three basic hulls. As you say, the light hulls are severely disadvantaged as is. I'm not sure what you are seeing with Vikings being able to keep up with Wasp. Maybe hacking. M4 Wasp is 12 speed and 24 acceleration. M4 Viking is 9.5 speed and 14 acceleration. It isn't supposed to be able to keep up. Viking and Hunter have swapped more than once, to many complaints. The last one made the Hunter the best overall hull, but everybody had their Vikings upgraded, and not their Hunters. Hunter is now most stable. We'll see if the new overdrives improve gameplay. I'm not optimistic. The hull speeds are too slow (except Mammoth, which is a little too fast). Wasp should be wicked fast (which I occasionally see, which I usually assume someone is hacking, but it so hard to prove, and so cumbersome to document and submit the documentation). It was nice, so long ago, to have such significant differences between the hulls (and the turrets). I used Viking most, but Wasp, Hornet, and Hunter used to be such sweet rides. Now, the lights are worthless in some matches, and Hunter is always worthless at less than M4. Oh well, and I realize you probably know most of what I've just written, but I don't have better answers, and you know how tightlipped the Devs are. Isida, also, is the single most overpowered turret. The alterations and drones make everything a nightmare to figure out how to play against. Again, oh well.

The engineer drone always shares whatever box you pick up with all teammates. It has to recharge. If you roll over two boxes in quick succession, the second one will not share and will not receive the bonus time for your tank. It was a feature they added some time back. It was mentioned in the vlog. Apparently, they forgot to update the wiki until now.

Here is balance for you: My account, Field Marshal Ricosck, a full M4 with a good set of protections, entered a Rugby. Mostly Legends, I didn't look up anyone's profile. Within the first few seconds, Ricosck managed to out battle two enemies for the ball. I made it to the enemy base before being destroyed. Somehow, by the time I respawned and tried to get to the ball, they had scored against us. It seemed most of their team knew how to play Rugby, and they were working together. It looked like we'd lose 7 to 0 in five minutes, but somehow, an Isida worked very effectively with me and the one other player on our team who seemed interested in advancing the ball. The Isida was smart and effective. (I appreciate being able to say that. I normally complain about Isida. Some of you will have noticed.) Somehow, we managed to complete the battle 6 to 1. Amazingly, I scored all six of the goals. I don't know how. I think of myself as good, but with a little help from a Ricochet-Viking, and a lot of help from the Isida-Viking, I managed to score all six of the goals. Mostly, I was lucky. My persistence paid off for a change. (My score was more than the next three players combined.) Though I'm bragging, my real problem is the imbalance. The opponent team seemed to be heavily favored in the matchup, except for me. It really seemed to be three on six the whole battle, and the three of us came out on top six goals to one. How? Match making messed up the balance of the battle bad, but it wasn't imbalanced the way it usually is. Match making cannot work. Match making cannot account for different styles, different objectives, different equipment, different garage change potential, and different skill level. Match making cannot account for an Isida that works synergistically with an overly aggressive Ricochet-Dictator. Match making doesn't work. It needs to be abandoned. I ask the Devs to explain why they keep forcing MM on us. What is the justification for such unbalanced battles? Why keep using such a hopeless system, a system that cannot possibly balance battles more than once in a while? Why?

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I dl'd. Controls are hard. More over, most things won't work. Endless loading of garage, et al. I uninstalled and reinstalled. Result was different features not loading. I've uninstalled. Even if it worked, I don't think I can stand the controls.

I decided I would try for just the last day input. But, no. The puzzle refused me. I simply don't have a half-hour a day to figure out the game for 10 of each supply. Please don't require a busy work puzzle for answer inputs. I simply do not have time. No time for the puzzle (or no patience, if you prefer). The Game was a failure. Total frustration for no gain. I simply did not have time.

Thanks to all providing assistance.

I'm with Viking on this one. The Challenge event has been good overall. It gives good rewards for free players. It is easier and gives more rewards if you are willing to fork out some cash. So, not a pay-to-win event, but paying sure helps, and if you are willing to pay, it is a good return on the expense. I disagree with the stigma on using supplies. There is no honor in being a "nonuser." Everyone has the same opportunity to use supplies. Sure, playing casually, meaning not every day, probably less than four hours total per week, will leave you wanting more supplies than you can earn, but playing about 8 hours per week, at least enough for one mission reward every day, should keep you up enough, especially if you get good and effective with the supplies. As to playing and supply use, I play the same all the time. Supplies are part of the game. Using supplies wisely and effectively enhances every aspect of the game. At present, I'm playing only one account significantly, but I have six, and three of my four lower-rank accounts are always short on supplies. I play hard, and I use the supplies as wisely as I can figure out, but I use them. On the lower-rank accounts, that sometimes means I do without. It is a minor hardship. Lack of supplies on its own is not a detraction. Running out of supplies in a match is a bummer, but knowing you don't have any more repair kits or any more DD, well, you just play a little more carefully. I don't buy supplies. For my current main account, I have bought the Premium (on sale), but I doubt I do so again, but that is related to Tanki decisions, not supplies. (And my low rank accounts don't have drones, so batteries, which are too expensive, are not part of the problem.) The only complaint I have for the Challenges event is Stars. They aren't a very solid indicator of effort expended, and with the 90-point minimum, it is frustrating, even punitive. I think I understand why they use Stars for tracking progress, and I can't think of a better system that would be more justifiable, but the "activity" threshold is simply wrong. It shows very bad judgement on the part of Tanki. It implies contempt for lower-skilled players, and it exacerbates the problems of the match making system. As an example, the other night I participated in an assault battle with a pair of players called Sweetality (spelled with an I for L in the second one). Sweetality spammed the chat for the entire match. Sweetality had two Viking-Isida. Sweetality positioned them in a corner away from the battle and sat there like they were kissing. At the end, both had points, one of the Isida had 85 points, presumably from healing each other. 5 more points and this totally inactive player would have received the Star reward. As it was, neither did. However, other players on both teams received zero Stars despite being active and trying the whole battle. They simply didn't do well enough. Overall, Challenges and Stars increase my per-match award. Don't forget that the point of supplies is using them in battle to increase your share of the crystals. Helping your team win increases your crystals. Being higher ranked increases your crystals. With crystals, you can buy what you want from the garage. Effective use of supplies ends up increasing what you have in your garage. A thumbs up from me.

I find it quite rude when players complain about killing during gold drops. Please ask the Devs to remind explicitly that fighting while gold is dropping is well within the rules.

I'm mostly venting, but X-O, perhaps this information interests you. As OKDad70 with M4 Titan-Thunder and Engineer Drone (GS 8840 at the time), I lead our TDM team for almost six minutes (in 1st place). Somehow, late in that game, team members were getting score and I wasn't. I ended fourth by 10 points. Missed advancing my 1st-3rd mission. A couple more in that configuration were abismal loses. I tried a couple CTF with Titan-Vulcan (M3.19). One close loss, and one horid loss. Then I switched to my preferred equipment, M4 Viking-Twins. CTF, we totally dominated (7-0 win in five minutes), and again, I missed third place by 5 points. That was with one flag, 7 kills and 1 death, and several kill-assists. Yes, I know how to score points. I'm fairly good at it, but getting that 1-3mission advanced one increment seems to always require five to seven matches, sometimes more. The missions for 1st-3rd on winning team (daily mission) can reasonably be expected to take three days for most players and three weeks on the weekly mission. It is a rather bogus requirement that really doesn't require any programming in Tanki. Just delete it from the missions lists.

Hello elegant and honored mother, yes, Tanki does award Premium, and I think it is an excellent item to have in containers. It awards the daily supplies and grants double Stars during Star events. (That is a new feature added with Challenges.) They gave us a break on buying the Easy Star pass. Though they don't require us to buy the double, they still require us to buy Premium if we want double Stars. I agree the red ribbon addition to the icon is confusing. Hopefully Tanki will change the graphic to keep the two distinct. The battle pass is new. They haven't had anything like it before that I recall. Tanki isn't giving the second row of awards per tier unless we support their bottom line. I paid twice, once for Ricosck, and once for my younger son, who is playing regularly for now. It seems sufficiently valuable, but anyone who can't, or anyone who wants to only play free, the rewards are still significant for the top row. Quoting from the wiki: Tanki is doing a few things I don't like, but Challenges is one thing I do like. (Except the way they are doing Stars.) In closing, I appreciate your posts.

Sweetality didn't get kicked because he kept his two Isida healing each other. Having to post on the Russian forum takes significant extra effort. When I looked, it had no way to enter a new post. It said I couldn't. There are still prohibitions of posting violations in other languages. I assumed that was the reality. Now that you say so, and the referenced (archived) note says so, I figured it out, with difficulty. I had to log in. The login doesn't transfer. Overall, just that much harder to try to help. Hard to fund justification for all the effort.

With the Engineer Drone, when I roll over a box, it extends my time for that supply. It also activates that supply for the rest of the team. Might it be that the Engineer-activated time doesn't put the supply into cool down?

https://en.tankiwiki.com/Challenges The Premium Account has its regular daily rewards, and now with challenges it includes the added feature of doubling Stars earned. The "battle pass" is specifically, and only, for the second row on each tier. If you spend your real money for the battle pass, you get all the rewards earned for the tiers reached. That is, if, for example, you don't want to spend the 5USD unless you achieve 504 Stars, then you can wait to buy the battle pass. It will stick all the prizes for each tier up to 22 (504 Stars) into your garage immediately. It will keep working until 25 January. (As I understand, we will be required to buy a new battle pass for each challenge if we want the extra stuff per tier for the new challenge set.) Of course, Premium only works while you have it, for the number of days you have it for. https://en.tankiwiki.com/Premium_Accounts That is, if you wait to buy a Premium Account, you only start earning double Stars (and daily supplies) when you buy it. The extra Stars are not retroactive.

Thanks, but it wasn't like that earlier. There was no English overdub. I tried at least three different ways and looked for references. The early comments seem to have all been dealing with the Russian language. And, no, I won't try. I have six accounts. Fifteen minutes just for the puzzle for one is too much.

Is there no English video? Honestly, Tanki, you defeated this old man. Nope. Not worth it. The puzzles take much too much time. I concede.