Hornet + Firebird = a quick messy way to deal lots of damage to people guarding the flag in Rio. :P

Here's a pro-tip - if you can use Isida well and use it with DD and a score multiplier card you can get up to 50XP just for healing one tank. :D

I get bombarded with invites all the time and the only options are "Accept" or "Decline" It would be nice to have another button that says "I'm in battle right now" In a way this idea is good.

Not all games improve with a newer graphics engine. Unreal Tournament went down the ****ter when they released Unreal Engine 2. They further killed it with Unreal Engine 3. Why? Because they forgot what made the original so great and thought people would buy it because of prettier graphics. The original release in 1999 still ranks as the best of the entire series. Better graphics do not necessarily a better game make.,

The proof that there are fewer players is because there are fewer servers now. Rarely do I ever see one in the red. When I started playing last year battle lists were full and most of the servers were in the red. Now it's like a ghost town much of the time. Trying to find more than one or two Rio battles going on is getting really rare.

Seems rather discriminatory to give new buyers free crystals and not others. Way to show appreciation for others!

Then it's not really infinite is it?

It is the only turret with unlimited ammo. That makes it very OP.

Vulcan is the only turret I do not have in my garage. I find it to be the most annoying one. If one is hitting me the impact force preventing me from turning at all is way OP.

I use Hornet because of speed and it has more armor than Wasp. When coupled with speed boost I can do amazing flips with it (assuming the stupid anti-jump code doesn't cause me to self destruct). Being on top of the buildings in Rio and seeing a flag carrier below and being able to fly off, twist, land, and cook the flag carrier with Firebird makes it very useful. I don't really understand why people use it if they are just going to snipe - I see people using Shaft and Rail with it and all they do is duck and hide. It seems that a person who camps most of the time would want a stronger hull.

Firebird has a very long reload time. During that reload time it is essentially helpless. Short bursts of flame really have no effect on enemies. It needs a full charge to really cook tanks.

I used to think that until I got Firebird. I earn far more with Firebird now than I ever did with Isida. However, I'm still on the fence about getting Isida M3 - I will switch to one or the other depending on the variety of turrets on my team. The lack of a good Isida player on a team is often fatal.

They also claimed that 4 billion crystals were paid out. That's 40,000 per player. Impossible.

Just now was playing this battle: http://tankionline.com/battle-en.html#/server=EN2&battle=fffffff7e4957492 Nobody on red was able to damage fcbali - I think the only loss comes from self destruct. As you can see the player is taking no damage. I attempted to recover our flag and even with Firebird M2 and using DD there was no indication of damage or burning effects. Even the blue team admits the player is a hacker.

Also the burning time increases as one upgrades from M0>M3. Burning time at M3+ is 10x longer than at M0. That's why M3+ is so effective and requires a high rank to obtain.

As someone with a garage full of turrets I never use my best advice is to pick a turret, stick with it, and spend your crystals upgrading it. The two most useful overall for me are Isida and Firebird. The rest just collect dust. Firebird is excellent for small maps where there are clusters of tanks - even if you don't kill someone the burning damage handed out to 5 tanks ensures you get XP when each one is destroyed. Even with M2 I can compete well against even Gismos and their higher level tanks. As you can see a good Firebird user can come out on top - and in large maps such as Serpukhov it is an excellent defensive weapon. (My son has an account too - on it I am learning from the lessons of my own account and will just upgrade Firebird and Hornet - nothing else).

The best thing about Firebird? Waiting that one second or two after someone kills you to hear the "pop" of their tank as they hurry up, run backwards, overheat, and blow up. I always feel a certain sense of satisfaction hearing that pop and seeing "creeperskelly destroyed ----" on the kill board. Also being able to kill enemies who are on the opposite side of the person on your team with the other team's flag is a huge defensive advantage. It's the only turret that kills even after you have been killed. :D

I noticed the same as well. Get 50 speed boosts:1 repair kit. The ratios stink.

You see, it's all a lie: Daily missions are worth less than the amount we used to receive in daily gifts.

Figures. With daily gifts the amount of gifts was the same as the missions. So now we have to spend an hour or so playing just to get what we got as a bonus before this. How is this a good deal? This is just like what happened to the crystal drops. You drop bigger ones, complain it affects game play, then remove them all and claim they are part of the battle funds now. This time you take away daily gifts, replace them with daily missions, release missions with big gifts, nerf those, then make it look like some magnanimous gesture when all we are doing is having to do work now for what was once available anyways by simply logging in. Receiving the same value in missions as once was given in daily gifts - how is this a good thing exactly?

Despite the hate on IE I have found that Tanki reloads much faster in IE than any other browser. Firefox takes almost twice as long to load a battle for some reason. :(

What a predicament. Do I get M3 Hornet or M3 Viking? ;)

The very basics of capitalism. I suppose what I'm saying is that most people I know would feel spending $50 on a game is reasonable. $100 is not. There is no logical justification whatsoever why non-Russians should pay double the price for crystals.

Firebird has short range damage so naturally at close range it is strong. And, yes, reload is an issue.