This is definitely another forced test for the matchmaking system. Anything else is just an excuse! The funny thing is that the kiddie developers at Tanki are in denial that they are killing the game with all these forced changes. I remember back then when on a holiday such as tankers' day and haloween there were over 70,000 players and no lag! Then Hazel Rah declared himself a genius developer and started making these atrocious changes! So we got, lag, and more lag, matchmaking that no one wants, you are forced into whatever battle Hazel Rah thinks you should be playing, and now we have only 30,000 players at the peak of the holiday! And guess what? With half the players than before, the game still suffers from lag and "connection was closed" messages with only half the players! Now that is progress in Russian! Oh, and watch the funny vlog with the Russian who pretends to be a developer trying to explain why the maps will have a max of only 10 players! Very enlightening! Especially when he says that "we think it is the optimum amount of players for a balanced battle!" This is becoming a great joke! I just hope that not too many people have spent their parents money on this crappy game when you buy a product and then all of a sudden the parameters change and make it worthless!

So why don't you mention that we do not have a choice which battle to join and instead we are dumped on a random battle? And while you are at it why do not mention that this is a forced matchmaking? If it is such a problem to DISPLAY all the battles, why don't you just create 2 lists? (1 for pro and 1 for non pro?) What it takes a lot of effort? yeah about 5 - 10 lines of code which I am sure the Russian kiddie programmers will find a way to screw it up like they usually do!

yes you can still do your missions by selecting the appropriate type of battle. (CP, CTF, DM, TDM) unfortunately you cannot select the battle you want to join and you will be dumped in a random battle with higher ranks camping at the the spawn point so you can get destroyed instantly. I am sure you will like that because the INCOMPETENT Tanki programmers said so! Welcome to the forced Matchmaking system that some ***** concocted because he had nothing better to do but screw up the game! These must be the most incompetent programmers that I have ever encountered in my 30 years of managing professional IT developers! Of course running one server out of your garage it will create severe lag for the atrocity they have created and instead of taking the buttons that dump you in a random battle that you do not want, the take away the battle list! Because displaying the full list taxes the server resources to the max and the matchmaking code that the kiddie programmers wrote does not! Go figure!

You are right! But as long as they still let us see the battle list and pick our own battle, I am OK with it. I am sure they will be some people who would love this update. I used one of the buttons and it took me on the first DM battle in the list of course with all legends! Of course I got our of there faster that I got in! These developers seem not to get the fact that most players do not like to have their stupid system pick a battle for them! This is what happens when you grow up in a country where you are conditioned by birth that the government knows best what is good for you! For my taste, it would have been much easier and simple to have the battle list sorted by battle type rather than alphabetically by map.

As my Italian friends would say, whoever was responsible for this fiasco needs uno cazzo duro sul culo !

Well all partook in this test since we were not given a choice to not participate. I made an extensive post why I called this an abomination. And it is an abomination because it takes away our ability to choose which battles to join, who to play against, how long to play, which map to play on, and many more. Since you do not seem to understand this, there is no point of trying even to have a discussion. The overwhelming majority did not like it and our only recourse is to stoop in to strong name calling in hopes that someone will get the picture. It seems that the player community does not have any say on the features and options and we are force-fed changes that no one asked for or liked but they were the brainchild of some self proclaimed "head game designer". Get it?

Well, if you had anything to do with this update then you are part of this abomination!

Do you want to put your money where you mouth is and want to bet on this? Or sticking your foot in your mouth is good enough for you? This abomination will destroy tanki for sure.

Why are you asking questions that make sense? Why does a protection module costs 200,000 crystals? Why an MU speed up takes 7 days or 20,000 crystals? Why do these people call themselves "developers"?Why, oh why indeed!

My bad! so 4 players like it and 30,000 do not! Go figure!

Why? Is that the only game in the world? There are plenty of other games.

I got news for you. Even if most of us leave, your lag problem will still be there. I guess you have not noticed that 2 years ago there were on an average 70,000 players and there was no lag. Now there are only 30,000 players and the lag is getting worse. Why is that? Because all the changes made by incompetent programmers created the lag due to flawed programming. But then again you are too stupid to understand this, so I rest my case.

Seriously? what are the chances that Hazel Rah will be fired? As a lead developer, he has single handed managed to drive the majority of the players away, not to mention 2 community managers in 2 years. Why do you think Semeyon and Cedric have left? They could no longer take the brunt of the backlash of the players and they got tired being the punching bag for Tanki disgruntled players. Have you noticed how silent Hazel Rah has been so far? He knows he cannot defend this atrocity. This is the only game where what you buy does not stay the same and you wind up spending your money for something that becomes useless. I feel sorry for those players who have spent REAL money only to see a good game turn into crap and their money gone. The only way Tanki developers will do what the players are asking is to hit them where it hurts: their wallet. Stop spending REAL money for a month or until they fix this atrocity and you will see how fast they would listen. But as long as there are players like Bozo88 and Guido Fawkes willing to part with their money, this crap will linger while most of us would have moved on.

It seems that the only ones left to play it would be you, the developers and Bozo88. The rest of us will move on to better games.

Ahahaaaaa! Do not expect any reply from the developers! Hazel Rah and his incompetent programmers have passed out next to a few empty bottles of Stoli ( or whatever cheap vodka they drink) after celebrating the success of their wildest dreams: putting tanki out of business!

After this update = 1 (Bozo88 will be here playing by himself)

First of all, I am an adult old enough to be your father probably with a high six figure income and I play tanki for several reasons that I am not going to discuss here. Second I run a pc with 16 MB RAM, dual quad core Xeon processors and a discrete NVIDIA graphics card with 2 Mb memory on an HP Z workstation. I play on the majority of the maps but I tend to avoid the short ones and I certainly despise Polygon and Sandbox. I play Lost Temple, Kungur, Solikamsk, Sepruhov, Brest and such. I am not afraid of change and I am not lazy. Lazy is to be dumped in a random battle not to take your time and find the right one! The dumbest thing you said is that "other games do not give you a choice". Well, again you do you want to be just like the "other games"? Then why should I be playing tanki if it is "just like other games"? I might as well play them and not to have to deal with people like you. Which lag? Where have you been? under a rock? just read the comments if you can comprehend them! My connection is 125 Mb/s down and 12 Mb/s up with a latency of 8 ms - 20 ms. Is this fast enough to play tanki?

Having directed developers for over 25 years, I can tell you that to a developer "undesirable effect" means the server crashed. Anything else is irrelevant! For example, the previous update introduced a major "undesirable effect" for all the players in the form of increased lag. To tanki programmers though that was not the case since they have done nothing to fix it. See, what I mean?

Σκατά πατημένα!

Hazel Rah does not think you should have that choice. Just like the old Soviet Union.

Ahahaaaaa! What a dumb comment! "Have you played other game? They do not have choice of map either." If that's the case, then what makes you different and why should we keep playing Tanki? Just for your info: we were playing tanki because they WERE giving us choices! But your small mind cannot grasp that, so you are excused. Here is another dumb comment: "Anyway, the ranking range is not optimised, you would expect dev to improve it, don't you? I would." Just like they "improved" the lag, right?

I was posting yesterday and I was reading the responses from a dumb ass Press person from Tanki telling us to stop complaining because he liked the system and to offer suggestions instead of gripes. Well, in his small mind gripes are not suggestions since we complain about things that are wrong! Now I understand why Cedric left. I would bet good money that he knew he would have to deal with a huge backlash from the community! My opinion of Hazel Rah is that he is an arrogant, clueless and mediocre developer. He may not care what I think, but the last 2 years, he managed to reduce the active players in Tanki by almost half and if this “upgrade” stays, he will probably lose a significant portion of players. Well, Mr. arrogant here are some issues with this atrocious matchmaking: 1. It takes the option to play the map I WANT! What kind of a dumb ass thought that I should be dumped in any random map? 2. It takes over 2 minutes to get in to a battle only to join at the last few seconds! Well, Mr. clueless, my time IS TOO VALUABLE to waste it waiting to join a battle and at the tail end of it none the less! 3. When the battle is over, I do not have the option to continue playing so I can complete my mission. So, I have to endure another 2 min of wait time only to be dumped again at the tail end of a battle! Go figure that one out! 4. Mr. Clueless thought that it would be very enjoyable to pit Legends vs second lieutenants! Yeap, I really enjoy matching my M1’s and M2’s to fully MUed M3! 5. The lag is increasing instead of decreasing! Seems to be that Tanki does not have enough bandwidth or backend resources to handle the “upgrades” I enjoy seeing ping of 700 and FPS dropping down to 3! After all I am only on a 150 Mbit connection with Dual Xeon processors and a discrete NVDIA graphics card! 6. I cannot see the progress of my missions! Who thought it was a good idea to remove the Mission button from the battles? Probably someone with a very low IQ like a tanki developer. However, I also found One good thing! The new variations of the maps are very good and make the game much more interesting than the atrocious matchmaking. Pardon my sarcasm and name calling, but as a player I had enough of this "features" that no one asked!

Well, sometimes it takes FOREVER to get in the garage from a battle to switch equipment. I often wait and wait until it times out and gives me the message "you have been removed for inactivity" and of course all my crystals and effort for that battle is gone!