And, I would like to reiterate an earlier post: How about making small maps available to non-Pro battles?

Wow! So, the Play button in Battles now does not just sit there doing nothing ... it's much better!!! As it is loading the game, now it gives me "Server connection closed", very repeatable. How did this version get through QA? There's a joke from Weird Al, not approved by Putin: An auditor goes to the factory and asks a random worker, "Could you do your job if you had one shot of vodka before work"? The answer was "I suppose so ...". Then he asked "How about if you had two shots of vodka"? The worker said "I'm pretty sure, yes". So, the auditor asked: "Three shots? Could you still do your job"? The worker said "Well, I'm here aren't I"? Tanki Testers, please explain how this got through without testing. But, if it's just because you were drunk, I suppose that's OK.

The "Play" button does not work. I cannot join an ongoing battle at all. The Battle! button worked once, but hangs on me now.

The "luxury of not-to-decide"? Right, I like to be a sheep. How about the burden of someone else deciding for me, oh yeah, I forgot, this is Russia. (kidding, 50%). I hope they lose this update and take into account all the feedback for potential, and I mean, very tentatively potential improvements.

They said at the outset of this thread: >>> ... developers might decide to end the test earlier if it causes any kind of undesirable effect on the game. Developers? Yoo hoo!!! Can you say, "undesirable effect" when a vast majority of players are saying it sucks, isn't that undesirable? I'm sure it was a cool programming project to implement this stinking pile of donkey dung, but don't fall in love with your code. Trash this one. Make the right decision and end the test early! Thanks!

And one other thing, when Hazel-Rah introduced this concept he said it takes 20 minutes to find a suitable battle (or something like that), hence the match-making system will "make it better". Seriously, did the developers pilot test this? They are crazy if they think anyone in the tanker player community wanted and was looking forward to this update. Did anyone ask the users? Or, is this one of those innovations purely driven by Engineering without any input from Marketing/Sales? Please ditch this update. This release was a solution looking for a problem, and that problem did not exist. Like I said, I'm sure it was an astounding feat of flash programming mastery. Yay, you did it, you completely broke the game. Now, take it back. You failed the test, bzzzz try again, or not. What was the rationale again? Because it took too long to find a battle? That is simply not my experience. Now, it is impossible to find a suitable battle. Thanks a lot Tanki!

I'm sure the developers are proud of this change, but this is the worst change I have ever seen. Please cancel this test, and consider it a FAIL and go back to the drawing board. Main criticisms are: takes way too long to enter a battle, no predictability what map you will land on, battles I join are 95% legend rank, no real time feedback if you have completed a mission. Also, were missions such as "earn experience on such-and-such map" gone? I cannot choose what map to play on, so I guess that type of mission is gone. If I were director of software there, I would abandon this update. Roll it back, and hold on the release for a good while of improvements in usability and UX. The upside, maybe, is the Friends link can still potentially bring you to specific battles you might want to join. But, it is a bit inconsistent to hide the servers. Hope this helps!

Crazy idea: a new turret named "Jerk Dart". It has no damage, and only works on tankers who use the term "noob" in the chat. It replaces their paint for the remainder of the battle with an embarrassing NOOB/JERK pattern. Accusing players of being "noob" is just so 2015 ...

I echo the sentiment about removing "Create" for non-Pro/non-Premium accounts. Would you please allow us to create a non-PRO battle on a map of our choice? Say, I have some daily mission to complete, but I would like to do that on Hill. Island is fun, but I never can find a non-PRO battle there. Will you include all maps in the pool for non-PRO battles?

I would like to propose a turret, the "jerk dart". It is used to hit tankers who constantly say "noob", and repaints his or her hull with some "jerk" paint.