Whatever you did, the lag became much worse than before. Normally I did not have much of a lag but after this update my FPS have dropped significantly and the game is becoming unplayable. I can tell that most of the changes are tested live because there is no way any competent programmer would implement any change without testing it under a real or even simulated load. And you expect me to waste crystals on Pro Battle pass or use real money to purchase item for such crappy game? Tanki used to be one of the best FREE games around but now it is becoming just another buggy piece of software.

My guess is they removed them since now the majority of the players do not buy a Propass they cannot create battles with the mission maps so they are having difficulty completing the daily missions. Somehow the "brilliant" tanki decisions makers thought hat everyone will spend their hard earned crystals to buy Propass and now they are seeing this is not the case. I refuse to spend any money whatsoever for a game that has so many flaws (lag, error messages, lost XP, etc) as long as it is free I will play even though I cannot compete with the buyers who pay the ridiculous price for upgrades. (seriously 50,000 cry for protection modules? charging ridiculous prices to speed up MUs? asking for real dollars in order to get 1,500 supplies? 50,000 cry for the special upgrades of the turrets? I do not think so. I will play as long as it is free and by the looks of it, it seems they are moving to a "pay for play" model. When that happens, it will be thanks for the memories tanki. Do not forget to write!

Hahaaaaa! have you seen Tanki X? It just plainly sucks!

Dr. Saint you bring up an excellent point regarding the tweaks of the equipment. It is like you are purchasing a car with a 3,000cc engine and then the manufacturer comes to your house and takes the engine out and puts in a 1,500cc engine and says, well if you want the 3,000cc engine now you have to buy another one of our cars. I wander if the "brilliant" tanki developers would like something like that if it happened to the products they purchase! Oh, and if the car stalls on the highway, they will not fix the car (see lag and error messages during battles) but they would tell you: well do not drive on this highway, drive on a different highway!(that is play on a different map!) Makes sense right? (only if you do not give a rat's ass about providing a sound product)

Tanki thinks that we are buffoons and feed us misinformation because we do not have access to their server stats. However, I remember peak loads of over 60,000 players in battles and now I see peak loads at well under 60,000. I also noticed that there is a reduction of the battles among high ranking players, at least in the EN servers, although I do not have the stats to prove it. Also, I see that I have missions on maps that I cannot complete unless I buy a ProPass which I refuse to do. This is supposed to be a free game and it looks to me that if you want to accomplish anything you have to buy stuff. Not to mention the fact that the stuff are ridiculous expensive and some missions are downright impossible to complete without spending money. What really did it for me is that they said their stat showed that the majority of the players used the BATTLE button and they decided after 1 week of play that this was the preferred method of entering a battle. Never mind the fact that when they introduced that button many players, including myself, pressed it just to see what it was about. I used it exactly 2 times before I figured out that it dumps me randomly on maps that I have no interests whatsoever and I stopped using it. The true reason behind all these changes is the fact that they are trying to figure out how to generate revenue and they have no clue on how to do it. I would spend some money in this game if I knew that my investment would become obsolete in the next "update". I played hard to accumulate crystals to purchase certain turrets and hulls only to see them become useless! Why is that other than to force us spend more money on buying new stuff? Never mind the fact that the lag is becoming a serious issue which tells me they have reduced their resources quite a bit and the errors are becoming more frequent. Also, I have noticed that it takes longer to enter a battle and quite often I get the notice that I got thrown out of the battle for inactivity without out ever actually entering the battle! Same thing happens when trying to get into the garage during a battle. In other words, if Tanki wants revenue from the players, perhaps they should fix the issues and provide us some assurance that our investment will not become obsolete in the upcoming "update".

Then he should not try to tell us that "there is more involved than we can imagine".

Oh yeah I get this when I play through the browser also! But hey, tanki needs more useless features rather than solving the real problems!

I got news for you since it seems you are not playing the game much or else you would know that the game is already stagnant. The few ridiculous changes you have made so far resulted in the deterioration of the game. If you were a bit more technically informed you would know that the lag is a direct issue of infrastructure (server capacity, bandwidth) and good programming. So far it seems that Tanki is lacking in both areas. Perhaps you should look to stopping some of the development since you are not offering any features that are useful such as this one today. What do I care what turret destroyed me when I am already destroyed? What difference would it make? Anyway, if you really want us to spend real money on this game, fix the issues that impact everyone, such as the lag. But do not insult us with statements like "there's a lot more work involved in it that you can imagine". We can imagine more than what you give us credit for since some of us have been in the technology field since the early 80's. (that's right, I am not a 12 year old kid!)

Narrow down to what exactly? Seriously, you want to tell us that you did not know what the reaction of the community would be? Do you live under a rock or something? These are some of the same comments that people who tested this made except now they are more! Perhaps your communication with the developers needs to improve a bit. You should have anticipated the backlash for the pricing alone that is the major sticking point here. Isn't that narrow enough for you? Oh, i forgot, you did not know right? Again, your communication with the developers or whoever runs this circus needs to improve.

Good luck with that! By the time he gets to your thread to reply, half the tanki players will be gone. After all he is the one who told us that he did not know about the prices before hand! So, either he is lying or tanki keeps their community managers in the dark. either one is bad. Selling paints that do nothing and cost 250,000 crystals? Selling protection that no too many can afford? Do you really want us to take these kind of stuff seriously? Tanki is becoming just a joke.

ha ha nice update. Not only we have to spend an exorbitant amount of money for protection and paints that do nothing, now in the middle of the battle I just get a blank screen! The incompetence of the Tanki programmers at its glory! Never mind that the lag is getting worse and I get a 500 ping! All that on a 150 mbps connection with a XEON processor and an NVidia card! Keep up the good work tanki developers. You sure do know how to screw up a good game! Keep on screwing up, never mind the players. What do they know, right?

Why would they do that? They know what the backlash would be before hand and they do not want to deal with it. This is a pure revenue enhancing attempt made by a bunch of amateurs who have no idea how to run a business other than trying to stick it to their customers.

Of course this update is not about the money! That's why they have paints with no protection that cost hundreds of thousands of crystals and protection that only Putin and his thieves can afford! RIP tanki! You did a great job of driving players to other games. There is no point of playing this game without spending real money to either buy protection or a lot of supplies. Never mind that the real problems like the lag and the mystery error "an error has occurred" are not fixed. Sorry to say this game is run by amateurs with no vision not to mention developers with no real programming skills! No wonder why the English Community Manager didn't want to tell us the prices before hand! He didn't know? Seriously? Tanki keeps their community managers in the dark? If that's the truth, then this is another validation that Tanki is run by amateurs. I'd like to know, if Tanki would tell us, in what way does this update improve the game? No matter how you slice it and dice it, the only thing it does is an attempt to improve Tanki's revenue. And a bad one at that!

oh oh! Another "update"! Because the last one worked very well! Also the name is very appropriate as it seems lately every Tanki update "Disintegrates" the game!

I suggest that you also give a special reward for those who complete all 3 missions each day for the Daily Mission Chain.

After a month long absense from tanki due to travel, I came back hoping that the brown screen problem will have been solved as we were told back in September only to find out that it has not been fixed. I use the work around which is to switch my turret to shaft and then after the change to go into the snipping mode and I get the screen back. This of course creates other problems as I get destroyed almost immediately as the laser gives up my position before I can get the screen back not to mention the lost time since sometimes it takes forever to get in an out of the garage. If you really want me to spend any money on tanki here is a simple advise: FIX THE DAMN BROWN SCREEN PROBLEM! I refuse to pay money for something that is not working. Simple as that.

You have to change to SHAFT and then hold the mouse button down until you enter sniping mode and then the screen will come back. I tried and it works. But you still lose valuable time.

No No Firefox and Standalone flash Brown screen happens during respawn. Another member suggested to go to GARAGE, change to SHAFT, go back to the game, hold down the mouse to enter the SNIPING mode the brown screen goes away. I tried it and it works but, in the meantime, I lost valuable time and depending on the map, most likely i get killed almost immediately which sucks.

That would be fantastic! Thanks for taking the time to let us know! I appreciate it!

I am sorry Mr. Kirov but am I missing something? The overwhelming majority here have "requested" to REMOVE the caps and not change them! My questions are: 1. Are you sure you are MONITORING the situation? 2. Do you really UNDERSTAND what the majority says? 3. Why so much effort in changing things while the serious bugs continue to hamper the game? (like the brown screens, the spinning of the Shaft turret, the Railgun killing tanks without even seeing them and many more?)

I am with you on this one! I started playing tanki only in the around end of May 2015 or beginning of June not exactly sure, but I am a new player(a noob) and I happened to rank fast although I have not collected that many crystals as I do not hunt for Gold Boxes and normally I like to stay back and defend. I too learned and I am still learning by taking a beating. Still because of the length of the battles, even on the losing team I managed to get 90 crystals per game easily. Now the only time I saw 90 crystal was when I happened to be on a winning team and I had 9 kills and 2 losses! The battle was over in about 5- 6 minutes! I mainly play for fun and this update has ruined the fun. If there was a battle I did not like because it was unbalanced or stuck without opponents for a while sometimes I would choose to leave and lose the crystals or stay if the crystals were significant. However, there were many times where we had no opponents and then suddenly we would find ourselves outnumberd as many players joined perhaps to complete their missions. I am not 16 or even 20 years old, I am much older than this and have 25+ years experience in IT. I have been an IT Director for over 20 years and now I do IT Consulting. I can tell you that if my developers had implemented something like this and forced it on their customers, paid or not, they would be fired on the spot. The same would be true also for me if I had directed them to do such a thing: Management would have fired my ass in a heartbeat, especially if we had the type of feedback that Tanki has here! So knowing what I know I do not blame the developers for this but the decision makers at Tanki who seem to be real amateurs running a business. There are many things in Tanki that are ridiculous like having to pay some serious crystals to reduce the time when you micro upgrade your tank or your weapon. Seriously, I have to to pay 5,000 crystals to upgrade my Rico damage by +0.4 and then I have to wait 5 hours for the upgrade or cough up another 3,000 to do it now? Come on! I wouldn't mind spending some money to buy crystals to upgrade but seeing the glitches that I have seen in this game that are clearly programming issues and not getting fixed and getting instead updates that no one really asks for, makes me very hesitant to hand my money to people who use sneaky methods to force me to pay up. Enough said. The best thing to do is revert back to the way it was and forget about 'tweaking" something that no one wants. If people do not like the long battles, or if the battles become too lopsided they have the option of leaving or staying like me and playing for the fun of it.

The Tanki developers have no clue what this does. Just like they have no answer for the "very clear" error message "en error has occured" or the brown screens when you respawn where you can see who killed who but not the map and then and you have to exit the game and lose your battle fund. I understand it is a free game but this is getting silly.

Whoever thought of this is a total M___ with a capital M. Playing on Kungur CP lasts only 3 minutes and you keep switching sides. nobody was happy there! Not only it interrups the play, you also do not get any crystals! I got just 9 crystals! are you kidding me? Do you guys test this before you roll it out or are you just expirimenting on us? 2 thumbs down all the way and if I had more thumbs I would use them all.

I know, It happens so often and I give up because I lose my scores and my crystals. There is no point playing this game.

You are right. I tried IE, Firefox and Chrome and I get it on all 3. Perhaps I need to try Opera too. It happens mostly on the Rio, Serpukhov maps which I play the most. It is a respawn issue and I have to go to the Garage and reply no to the question "Do you want to stay in the battle" and then come back to the battle. If I say yes it goes to the garage but it brings me back to the brown screen. Of course, exiting the battle you lose your position and your score and you wasted your time since you got no credit for the kills and no crystals. I have tried all the servers and the same things happens. I am located in the USA and I have never had any lag so far. I guess no one is monitoring this forum from Tanki as we have not seen an official reply. Perhaps we have to find a way to contact tech support.