2 2 min is about the average. Most of the time, I do not get to play more than 1 min and always in the losing team! Good luck completing missions that way! I think they do it on purpose though to force you to buy Premium account. It is all about making money and not making the game better. They even took away the discounted 100 supplies kit!

Bydo You are correct. I did a little research and it is true that the FTC is looking in to "loot boxes" as gambling. There is a blog on the FTC website dated April 8, 2019 that states you can file an online comment on the subject until Oct 11, 2019. Here is the URL for those interested in further reading: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/business-blog/2019/04/ftc-workshop-looks-loot-boxes Just like anything else "Caveat Emptor" (Buyer beware). I still say regardless whether it is considered gambling, it is a major form of RIP OFF. Tanki must be desperate for money because they certainly make free playing not impossible yet, but certainly more difficult. Take for example this change in missions from "finish so many games in a battle" to "cause so much damage to enemy tanks". On my Brigadier account, I got a mission to "cause 300,000 damage". Out of curiosity I played 5 battles and i barely broke 70,000 hit points, due to the fact that 1. I was dumped into battles that were unbalanced and they ended within 2 minutes from my entrance 2. I was dumped in to battles with Legends which means I was up against opponents that were 7 ranks higher than me with more protection and better combos than me! Good luck causing a lot of damage. It comes out to 14,000 average damage which means that I would have to play 21 battles to complete the mission! Even if I managed to bring my average a bit higher, still it would require a substantial amount of battles. That is not for a casual player like me! And all this for 6 batteries! I just feel sorry for the newbies that get hooked on this sort of thing and spend their parents money! But then again as they say in my village "there is one sucker born every day!"

Marcus said: "There is no gambling in it. All such updated are checked by lawyers, of course." And he is correct about not being gambling. It is not gambling, but plain RIP OFF. Only people dumb enough would buy into this! And I am thankful for those dumb people who buy stuff now for X price and then find out that tomorrow they could have bought it for less than X! It amazes me how many people get taken by such gimmicks! At least their stupidity keeps this game alive!

Me too. As a matter of fact I have not played a single JGR battle yet and I have no intention on doing so now. I just wasted 3,000 cry to change my JGR missions for 5 stinking batteries! I do not even use any drones and I wish there was a way to get rid of my batteries and not get even one in a container. I play this game just for fun, I do not spend any money (I leave that to the little kids who spend their parents money). I used to spend crystals to buy the Pro Pass but even there the players are dwindling and you cannot find any decent battles anymore. Never mind that I use the client and I get very frequent "an error has occurred" no matter how many times I clear the cache. Oh well. Good thing there is WOT which by the way I play for a long time and I have yet to encounter any errors let alone the nebulous "an error has occurred"! Oh, and there is no lag either. Perhaps it may have to do with the fact that the WOT servers are in the US and not in Hazel Rah's garage.

Anyone here willing to bet that 99.99% the containers will contain either Mines or Speedboosts? An only for the price of 10 Tankoins! Them Russians think we might be that dumb! Although there are quite a few buyers here who ARE that dumb!

Not that bad? It was horrible! "minor glitches" like black squares instead of supply icons, I could see everyone else's supplies they had on but not mine! and many other too numerous to list them here. I hope they do not force us this on us before they fix all the "minor glitches"! Oh and the chat was so garbled, I could not read what they were writing! This is another fail and I understand why they made the Pro battles free! It is not even worth playing anymore.

Really? I'd bet 99% of the players would like to have a much bigger mention on when the awful bugs will be fixed rather than a dumb shot effect that the majority of the players wouldn't give even a rat's ass! But we know where Tanki's priorities lie.

Nah, It is just the Tanki developers showing off their incompetence. They have to keep reminding us of that fact very often!

So very true! That's why I do only missions in MM so I can save some crystals to buy the Pro pass where I can create a battle on whatever map I want, or I can join an existing battle that lasts over 15 min or more than 3 flags where most of the times the teams stay the same for multiple games. MM is just useless trash. Most of the time I wait over a minute only to get dumped on a battle that is about to end. It is so frustrating! Sorry, I got bad news for you. I joined tanki about 3 years ago and that error was just as common then as it is now. So, if it has not been fixed by now, do not expect to be fixed anytime soon. However, you can expect another Shop sale where you can waste your money to buy something that tomorrow you will most likely get in a container! In the mean time, enjoy your Peru or Poland paints that you will never use and the color shots for turrets you do not even have because Hazel Rah thinks it should be so.

I do not use Chrome to play Tanki since in Chrome you cannot use Mouse controls and you cannot turn your turret like you can in Firefox and IE 11. I use strictly Firefox ESR 52.1.2 to play Tanki because I can use the mouse controls and the arrow keys along with the mouse to control the movement of the tank and so far it has been working just fine. (of course the occasional lag and the other glitches of Tanki are still present) Sine the post does not mention anything regarding Firefox, can we say that this post does not apply to Firefox or IE 11? Any information will be appreciated.

Ahhaaaahaaa! "but lag is primarily dependent upon your connection to the server, and your connection quality." Typical ignorant response! So, my Gigabit Fios connection and my score of quality line of A on DLSREPORTS tests must be the culprit! not the fact that tanki servers cannot handle the load or that their connection could be problematic! Or the fact that the software is so poorly written that they do not properly tear down invalid TCP/IP connections causing new connections to wait to enter the game! I am not going to block you because I am amused by your ignorant responses. if you read the complaints, you would see that the majority of players complain about the lag which happens to get worse by each "update". As far as the client goes, I am glad you are using it, but again I have a choice not to clutter my PC with game clients when I can play through a browser. By, the way, in pro battles, I rarely have any issue getting in the garage within a reasonable time. It is only on this "wonderful" MM system. And, the issue happens only if I try to get in the garage while in a battle and not from the main screen. So yeah, I think they do it on purpose or they have no clue how to fix it. By the way, I do play WoT and World of Warships and I NEVER had ANY lag issues. But then again, comparing WoT to Tanki is like trying to compare a Porsche to a Yugo (if you do know what that is, Google it!) Nice to meet you KariWolves, but then again in the grand scheme of things your opinion is just as insignificant as mine because the people who make decisions regarding this game are just as clueless.

What evidence do you offer that the lag is not introduced on purpose? Just because you say so? Who the heck are you and why should we believe you anyway? Our evidence is that it used to take mere seconds to get in the garage and now it take minutes if you are lucky and it doesn't time out. Yet, this is not been addressed, therefore it must have been done on purpose. This, the lag, the dumping on a game that ends within seconds after you enter while having waited nearly 2 minutes and other issues that have been introduced with all these "updates" validate the statement that it is done on purpose or else they would have been fixed by now.. Another possible explanation would be that the developers have no clue how to fix these issues. Either one is not good.

Can someone explain why lately it takes so long to enter the Garage? Today I have been waiting over 2 min to get in the Garage. Previously, the issue was present only if I were in the game. Today it happens even before I get in to the game.

Thanks for the info but it does not work for me because I only get the containers through missions so I never have more than 3! So I do not have a choice but to open 1 at a time and 99% it is either Mines or Speedboost of which I have about 15,000 of each. I cannot use them fast enough because the cool downs are so long that it is ridiculous. This game is becoming a joke with the short battles and the long wait. I have waited over 1.5 min only to get dumped on a battle that has only a few second left! But that's OK, the dumb people who pretend to be game designers are busy reworking maps and turrets instead of fixing the serious issues. Thankfully there must be enough dumb buyers to keep this game going. I just play enough to get some crystals so I can buy a Pro pass and play some real long battles without drugs or limited drugs to whatever falls from the sky. As far as this so called MM is just a joke by some clueless people.

It could, but chances are you will still get Speed boost or mines at a rate of 99%.

Whooooohoooo! I am looking forward to getting another useless skin or paint or a color shot for a turret that I do not have! Never mind that the main issues that plague this game, like lag, dumped on a battle with 5 ranks higher, or dumped in a battle that ends within 1-2 minutes from entering while having waited 2 min to enter the battle! And never mind that it takes forever to enter the garage during a game to change combo because you were dumped in the wrong map for your current combo! Other than that, great job Tanki! You prove again how clueless your decision makers are!

Whatever they did to the Fire/Viking combo made it worse now. I can barely kill 1 tank and the fire does not last long nor it does as much damage as it did before. My Rail/viking combo on the other hand is awesome. I usually get 4-5 kills. Also, what's the idea with mammoth OD? It is pretty much indestructible. There is no way you can kill a mammoth with OD turned on. How is that fair to the rest of the players?

But of course! Less stress playing the game, sit back and enjoy using your Viking OD to kill as many noobs trying hectically to get the "nuclear boxes" and let's not forget saving 10,000 crystals. Maybe if you participate you can get lucky and score the 10 gold boxes, but that you just make you break even. For, the amount of time I play this game, it would be stupid for me to spend 10000 crystal for a stupid paint. I'd rather use them to buy Pro pass so I can play in real battles and not in that abomination called MatchMaking. After all I have enough useless paints that I got in containers so I do no need another one. As far as the skins go, well, I leave that to the buyers. Also, as far as I am concerned, skins do not do much for me.

Hahaaaaaa! And when you thought that Tanki screwed this game for good with MM and they cannot make it any worse, here comes Tanki to prove us wrong and screws it some more with this ridiculous overdrives! Different OD for different hulls? seriously? Whoever came up with that idea must have been drunk and whoever approved it was probably drunk and stoned at the same time! Ah, there is no need to complain, though. We all know how well they listen to the players and I am sure they will fix it like they have fixed the more serious issues that plague this game! What? No?

"These ODs make for strategic gameplay". I guess you have missed the part where strategy went out of the door with the implementation of MisMatchmaking! 1. You have no idea on what map you will be dumped so 90% of the time you have the wrong combo. 2. Add the fact that it takes over 2 min to get in the garage to change 3. Add the fact that they took away the English servers and dumped everyone in the same battles where are dominated by either Russians or non-english speaking players so you cannot communicate with your team. 4. Add on top of that the shortening of the battles where you get dumped in battle that is just about to end and there goes your "strategic gameplay". Tanki is becoming a mindless game if not for the Pro battles. Once they take those away, they are going to be left with a few new players, mostly kids, who will soon find out there are better games to spend their parents money. And Cedric keeps repeating the same line about "making the game more enjoyable"! Judging by the comments in the forum, he is either delusional or he just tows the company line so he can keep collecting a paycheck.

Interesting. I had issues with lag and problems getting to the MM system, but I did not have any problems in Pro battles!

So, it seems that we have another "update" that did not go smoothly! Nice going Tanki! Another validation of the incompetence that plagues these game designers.

Like I said, clearly you have no idea how an organization is run. In my 30+ years of running a business, I have seen many organizations that do not listen to their customers die a slow death. You do not believe me, just pickup a copy or Tom Peters book "In Search of Excellence" and see where some of the companies mentioned as "great" are and why they no longer exist or are in the brink of extinction. Companies like Kodak, Kmart, Wang computers, DEC, Data General, and others once they were great and then they stopped listening to their customers. As a customer, i never expect a company to let me decide how it will be run or who will do what. Far from it! However, I do expect them to listen when something is not right and then correct it. It is very arrogant from you and Tanki to ignore the customer's wishes. We do not try to tell you what game engine to use, how to right code, when to update the game, and other things. We are telling you that what you have done is not working and you are not listening. I mentioned the missions and you told me to get a Pro pass if I do not like the missions. That right there is the wrong answer. You know it that it is unreasonable to have players wait for almost 2 min and then to dump them in to a battle that ends within seconds of entering the game. An on top of it to tell them that the change was made to make the game better! That is not telling you HOW to develop the game or who will fix it. All I am pointing out, as a customer, is that your product has a serious flaw and since the majority of your customers are complaining, you should not ignore it. That is just a small sample without going in to lengthy discussion. You and who ever made the decision to go to the present form of MM are in denial of the fact that MM in its present form is not working and players are complaining. Worse yet, it is the fact that you and the likes of you are trying to defend something that you know is wrong and you doing this by antagonizing the players who post the complaints. By the way, if a restaurant changed from French to Italian, guess what would happen to the majority of their customers. They will go to another restaurant and will not go back. So while they have no saying what the menu will be, they will have an impact on the business that could be significant. Because, if me and my friends want to eat French cuisine, certainly will not go to an Italian restaurant! Perhaps there is a reason why so many long time players said "oh well" and abandoned the game! Oh sure, you will get some new customers, but if you lose your long time players just think what will happen to your business. I remember times when there were over 60,000+ players online at the same time and during holidays that number was a lot higher. Nowadays, if you get half of that number you are probably ecstatic.

If I ask for your point of view, then you can give it. Until then, you should do what you are assigned to do: read the complaints and report them and nothing else. And I understand that the "developers are entitled to make any changes to the game without any prior warning or notification" and they should make changes to make the game better. However, when I pay for something and then they change it, I would expect some form of feedback when the changes have a negative effect in the game that we invested time and money. At least they could respect that regardless of any EULA. After all, as I said before, if we do not pay, they do not get paid. Simple as that, but then again this seems too complicated for you and the developers to understand.

Again, since you are not in a position to give us feedback then you should concentrate of doing what you doing: collect the info and pass it along. You obviously have nothing to contribute to the resolution of the complaints so just collect the info and pass it along. Like I said before, the complaints are not answered and whether it is the developers, Putin or Trump that make the stupid decisions that so far have created this mess, I really do not care. However, you are in no position to offer me any advice as to what I will or will not do. Yes, there is a big reason to be upset about many things regarding Tanki. We, the players, invest time and real money in this game and it is that money that pays the salaries of the so called "developers" perhaps yourself to. However, when I purchase something, I expect it to work the same way today, tomorrow and until it dies. I do not expect to have to pay again for features that were already there and then taken away only to show up again as an "alteration". It is not a game really, it is business, something that it is very obvious that you have no idea about. I, as a player, invest time and money for my entertainment. It is not the missions I am displeased. Actually, I couldn't give a rat's ass about the missions. What I am displeased is the fact that I am a paying customer, I have a complaint and it is not addressed. Is that so difficult to understand? So, spare me the lecture and at least respect my time that I spend voicing my complaint.