Exactly! I have been to quite a few battles after the latest update that lasted under 2 minutes because it dumped me into an unbalanced battle. I did not even had a chance to get settled in to the game and it was over! I hope people here read all the comments and then think twice before they dump any real money in to this crap

thanks for understanding! Some of us do not invest too much time in this game anymore because it is not as fun as it used to be. consequently, some of the missions seem unreasonable.

Right you are about the overdrive and good luck if you have a mission like use 50 overdrives in battles! Heck, I had tough time completing a mission to use 5 overdrives because I got in to battles that were just about ending because not only the reduced the time but they also reduced the flags/points etc. SO by the time you enter an unbalanced battle, the game is over!

Yeah, But can anyone explain why someone with 130 points gets 2 Bonus points and the one below with 95 gets 4?

same here. Seriously? Paints? Oh yeah, and the very "reasonable" missions "take the 3 top places in a winning team" in 15 battles for 1 container! I have accounts that the mission is still there for months as I play the game for the fun of it and not to waste effort and supplies to achieve ridiculous missions!

1. Battle time has been reduced to 7 min. So far, since the beginning of the matchmaking crap, I have NEVER entered a battle with more than 7 min left on the game! The average battle time left was 5 min. I take it now we will enter with about 1 min left and we will not even have time to get out of the spawn killing zone. And if you have the wrong combo for the map, because with matchmaking we do not know on what crappy map we will get dumped and 90% of the time we have the wrong combo, good luck getting in to the garage in time. For some reason, it takes over 2 min to get in and change equipment. And don't tell me to get better internet connection! 2. I never understood the need to wait 5 min or even 3 min to change equipment. I think 1 min is more reasonable. Nah, that would make too much sense and we know that the people at Tanki do not know how to spell "sense" let alone comprehend it.

Matchmaking was a failure since the first time they implemented and then they had to pull it in order to "fix" it! (like Tanki devs are capable of fixing things!) I had said back then that this system will not work but do you think the head game designer is going to admit failure? We know it is a failure, the teams are not balanced not only in the number of players but the difference in ranks is what it makes it a bigger failure. The missions are ridiculous also. Seriously? I am going to waste my time to complete a Score 10,000 point in battles for 1 container? or get 5 times top 3 in a winning team for 20 batteries and 20 speedboost? I do not think so! I do not use drones and I have more than enough speed boost and mines to last a lifetime! Yet everytime I get a container, it gives me either speed boost or mines! It never fails! Once upon a time this was a very enjoyable game, now, I have to wait over 1 min to get in a battle that says the avg waiting time is 19s! (I have even waited up to 6 min before I cancled out and I have the screens to prove it) That is if I will ever get in, because most of the time I get "you have been removed for inactivity" even BEFORE I ever got into the battle! Oh, yeah, tell me that I need a faster connection than my Gigabit Internet connection or that I need a better PC than my dual XEON processors with an NVDIA dedicate graphics card. I also found it interesting that when I need to complete a Get 10 points in Control Points battles, i get dumped in to a small map with 2 or 3 control points that are always covered by my team and I can not even get a single point! I think Tanki does this intentionally so we can spent more time playing the game and perhaps get frustrated and spend some money to buy Premium Accounts! (this is of course my opinion) I would welcome anyone from Tanki to explain why we cannot chose the map or at least see it before we enter so we can be better prepared or avoid the map altogether if we so choose. But then again Russian are not used to having or providing free choice!

Mouse controls work only in IE and Firefox. If you use another browser you will not be able to turn your turret using your mouse and I do not think many players like or know how to use the keyboard to turn their turrets

Pardon me, but That's a bunch of bull. Golfinray is 100% right. I am also a retired IT professional that has spent a good 35 years as an IT Director and VP managing IT projects worth tens of millions of dollars so I have been in that side of the fence and I know very well the challenges. For your information, I have fired more competent programmers for less reasons than the incompetent Tanki developers seem to give. First of all Tanki seems that are not willing to give their customers what they want. (I am sure, from the comments here, I can conclude with certain amount of confidence that the majority of players do not want the Matchmaking system as it is now). Second, this is the only organization that I know that sells you something and then changes the item and now if you want what you had before you have to pay again. An example of this will be some of the effects the we have to pay for turret features such as the Twins self damage. Initially Twins did not have self damage and then it was changed and no you have to buy a modification in order to get what you had already bought, But the bigger issue is not the prices or the giveaways and the takeways but the fact that the game has some major programming flaws that are not addressed in all the years that I have been playing the game: 1. Lag- never solved. 2. Matchmaking - unacceptable to pair lower rank players with players of 4 or 5 higher level rank. This is either a programming flaw or a deliberate move from Tanki to force the lower level players to spend money to get better equipment. 3. Matchmaking: many times I waited over 1 minute only to get dumped on the losing side of a battle that had 3-4 min left and 8 vs 5 teams! What's the point of playing such a battle? 4. Dumping you on a random map: I am sure that someone gave it a serious thought that it was acceptable to be dumped on a map with the wrong combo against 3-4 higher level opponents. That is a serious design flaw made worse by the fact that you have to wait over 1 1/2 min to get into the garage! By the time you get back in the battle, your team has lost ground and you have not had a chance to get a better score. 5. Waiting for over 1 minute to enter the battle only to get an error message that "you have been removed for inactivity" BEFORE you even had a chance to enter the battle! I could go on with more but you seem like a smart person and you should get the point. As for the projects not been that same, you are correct, but the development process, no matter what the project is, and no matter which development process is used, (SDLC or agile or spiral or whatever the current flavor is) will have a very important step: TESTING. And that is where Tanki seems to be be lacking. Judging by the amount of problems after each change even a minor one, it seems that the system is not tested properly and we are left holding the bag so to speak.

Nooo! Let the buyers buy more useless stuff with their money so we get to play the game, at least for now, for free. It doesn't matter if they buy this useless bundle, we will kill them just as easily but they will die in style!

Strange that these "little issues" creep up right after server restart! hhmmmmmm. makes one wonder what else it's gonna break.

I tried entering any battle and the Avg wait time is 3m!. Actually, I waited up to 6m without entering any battle (Capture the Flag, Deathmatch, Assault). I will not be surprised if they have another server restart when the "developers" recover.

Agreed! and WOT has a true Matchmaking system where you are dumped into a random battle but never outranked by more than 1 rank and their system matches tank combos pretty well. This is something that the kiddie developers of Tanki would not even begin to understand how to code properly! Also, fro the past 2 hours I have been trying to complete a mission to get points in 5 Assault battle and I get the error message "you have removed from the battle due to inactivity" while I never got in to the battle because it never gets me in! And before some ignorant tells me I have a slow connection, know that I NEVER had ANY trouble entering a battle in WOT using the exact same connection! (150 Mbs down/20 up)

Yeah, I had the same mission in this account. I play with Fire/Titan, Rico/Titan mostly and it took me almost 2 months to get rid of this stupid weekly mission. Yay! I got 1 container that gave me 100 mines (like the 15,000 I have are not enough!) I just play the game to relax and I do not give a rat about the missions anymore, I made it to the rank of legend without having to spent ANY real money and dealing with the bad programs that the Tanki "developers" create. What do you expect from someone who thinks that, after waiting over a minute, dumping you to a random map in a 8 vs 5 battle while outranked by at least 6 ranks, is Matchmaking? Of course, now Viking4s will tell us not to use "inappropriate language", but will refrain from addressing the real issues! But hey, luckily there are many suckers born everyday that will keep paying for crap! It amuses me that while they cannot get this game straight, they now sell a Mobil version and yet some 5,000 fools bought it!

Well, if you think it does not suck, and you are OK being dumped in the same map over and over and with a totally unbalanced teams and waiting over 1 min to enter a battle that has 5 min left and the other team is up by 5 flags, then it is fine. But do not call it Matchmaking because certainly it is not. It is hodge-podge of bad code and it is getting worse even getting in to a battle because "you have been removed for inactivity" while you are waiting to get into the battle! Oh and if you have to change equipment during the battle, forget about it. By the time you enter the garage your team is shorthanded and you already lost the battle. And if you like getting killed by 1 shot from someone 3-4 ranks above you with better equipment, than it is OK. All I have to say, is good thing I have not invested any real money on this. I just pity those who have, but then again as we say in the US "there is one born everyday" and they majority wind up becoming Tanki buyers!

I am complaining because there is a great unbalance in everything since they went to MM. Yeah you get tired hearing of the "good old days" but so did the 30,000 or so players that left the game because it is gotten worse not better. I understand the need to change but this is no better. Read the complaints about players been dumped in battles with 3 or 4 higher ranks above them and they cannot even compete their missions because quite e few players are dropping out. Or how about the "you have been remove from battle for inactivity" and you have not even entered a battle! Just a bar forever loading and nothing more. Oh yeah, I know "clear cache, reboot, do this do that" and nothing works. Because we all know it is our slow internet of 300Mbps Up and down and and out pc with quad processors 16gb RAM and a discrete NVIDIA Gforce graphics card and not the proven over time incompetence of Tanki programmers! Oh and forget about changing equipment during battle because it takes so long to enter the garage that the battle is over since they shortened the time to 10 min and I do not know anyone who enters a battle with more than 7 min left! Ah, the good old days, where you could chose your map and your opponents and the better rewards and getting in the garage easier and the ability to create battles without having a pro pass or premium account and so on. But since you seem to consider mediocrity a 'change for the better" then it is fine by me. But stop telling us what to do and "not to open containers". By the way the most expensive item in the supplies are batteries but I seem to get plenty of those even they cost twice as much than RK and I do not even use any drones!

I do not know either. It is very rare that I would get Repair kits in containers. As a matter of fact I have seen a pattern where 99% of the time 1 out of 2 containers will have either Mines or Speedboost. Lately, I have noticed that on my other accounts too.

Hahaa I missed the point? I had quite a few thousands of supplies BEFORE containers were introduced by Tanki! You sound like the idiots who designed this atrocity they call matchmaking! "if you do not want them do not open the containers" Haahhaaaa! That is an idiotic statement. What is the incentive then to play the game and complete the missions if not for the rewards? If the rewards are worthless, then of course we will complain. And why should repair kits be rare? It is just another supply and all supplies should have an equal chance. It is not enough that, even in the weekly containers, you get only a 3rd of the repairs as compared to the other supplies, it is disheartening to work hard to complete missions only to get 2 containers that give you 99% of the time useless stuff. As a matter of fact I just opened up 2 containers that had 125 mines and 1 paint that I will never use. You are a newbie here, but once upon a time there were over 60,000 players daily and over 75,000 during holidays and we used to rank up faster and earn more stuff that we could use and only buyers spent crystals on useless paints and XT skins. I do not need either one to enjoy the game.

Here is why I do not need them Speed boost: 16,002 Mines: 11,202 DD: 9,102 DA 8,589 Repair: 37 As you can see I have enough speed and mines to last a lifetime! Repair on the other hand, not so much. Why is that? Because every other container I open up is either mines or speedboost or a usless paint (that has ZERO value for me) that's it. Believe me I use speedboost quite a bit as my tank is a Titan and I also lay mines every chance I get and still I cannot diminish my supply of them because the containers are so unbalanced. Like I said, 1 out of 2 containers from my daily missions have either mines or speedboost. Never mind the Daily missions "get 1 flag for 20 speed boost and 15 mines" Totally useless.

Obviously there is something wrong with your hearing or at least with your comprehension. We are complaining about the fact that 99% of the time when you open a container, you will get either mines or speedboost. or a useless paint that I have no desire to use. You rarely get any repairs or DD. I do not need any XT skins. Yeah bust your butt to complete 3 daily missions only to get 2 containers that give you 125 mines and 125 speedboost over and over. So, I have over 12,000 mines and speedboost that I cannot use because of the long cool off periods and the fact that you cannot turn on more than 1 supply at a time. So, give the choice between turn on speed boost of DD, DD wins 99% of the time. Consequently the speed boost and the mines go mostly unused. Oh and I have 10 different paints that I have never used because they are uglier than my dog. Oh yeah I am sure you need more speed boost and more mines because you do not have enough! I think not!

Ah, do not expect any explanation from Tanki. I have been asking the same question since the implementation of what Hazel Rah, the "lead game designer, calls matchmaking. I call it mis-matchmaking for that reason: the teams are not balanced as far as number of players or ranks. In my captain account I was put up against a team that had major generals! Now that is 6 or 7 ranks above mine! Of course, I was getting killed by one shot from those ranks and they were not even drugging! Apparently, someone at Tanki thinks that I should enjoy playing those kind of battles. Also, it is very strange that I wait sometimes over 1 min to get in to a battle that has only 4 or 5 min of playing time left! Now let's see an explanation on that! And of course forget about changing equipment during a battle, it take over 50 sec to get into the garage and by the time you get back in the battle, the battle is almost over because you leave your team short handed! But then again what do I know? I am not as smart as the "lead designer".

I am bottom tier at WoT and I am doing just fine playing the battles that I play with the bottom tier I have. At least, I am not getting killed by players many tiers above me like I do in Tanki. I have a Captain account that was MisMatched against: 1 First Lt, 1 Lt Colonel, 1 Colonel, 2 Brigadiers, 1 Major General 1 Lt General! So If I counted correctly I was pitted against players that were up to 6 ranks higher than me and the teams were 7 vs 8! Something like this will never happen in a true Matchmaking system and it does not happen in WoT. Also, in WoT the battle does not start until both teams are complete. In Tanki, not only I have to wait sometimes over 1 min but also I always enter the battle at the 6 or 7 min mark. Why is that? Let;s face it, Tanki's flaws are there because of INCOMPETENCY and BY DESIGN. (like taking away features that you had before and then making you BUY it as an alteration!) That's why they have lost quite a few player's. There were times in the past where in holiday events like Halloween, Christmas, Tanker's Days etc, there were over 70,000 players on the servers at the same time. And the best part of it..... NO LAG! Let that sink a bit and then tell me why now they barely have 30,000 (less than Half). I only play the game to blow off some steam an pass the time, and I couldn't care less about containers and such. I do not even make any attempts to catch any Gold Boxes. So, after all this Tanki used to be entertaining and fun to play (because I could choose the map and the battles I would play) and now it is not.

Ahahaaaaa! Looking forward to another useless item in the containers! It is not enough that I get some useless paints that I never use or the countless Speed boost or mines that I have quite a few thousands of them! Now I will spend my time completing idiotic missions like Come 15 times in the top 3 of the winning team only to get 1 container that chance are will give you either a useless paint of some speed boost. And now it will give you a useless color shot for a turret that you do not have and probably don't have any desire to acquire! Nice going. Good thing I have not spent a penny on this game. I just play for the fun of it but it seems that they are taking that away too. Newsflash, if I wanted to spend money on a game certainly it would be on a game that works not on Tanki with its perennial problems (lag, etc) that no one seems interested or capable of fixing them.

Ahahhaaa, there must have been another "update" we do not know about because after the restart, I have to wait an average of 1m 30s only to get a green bar that goes across real fast and then before it reaches the end it stops and you wait another 2 min only to get a message the "you have been removed from battle due to inactivity!" Seriously? How can i be removed for inactivity when I never entered the battle in the first place? proves again, that if you give a bunch of monkeys some bananas and you let them pound on a keyboard, you have a better chance that they will develop something more useful than these so called "tanki developers!"

I really do not care whether they undo it or not. I have stopped playing and I just log on a few times a week just to see what creative ways they will find to destroy a once upon a time great game! Their loss and not mine since I play other tank games that do not have these kind of problems and they do not have monkeys pounding on a keyboard as programmers. As far as the Pro battles goes, if you cannot do missions they are not worth the trouble especially now that majority of battles in Pro battles are XP/BP and even those are diminishing.