I voted 10% competitive and 90% blowouts. If I browse through the non-PRO battles now I see a tribute CP battle which is 97-10, an aleksandrovsk TDM which is 31-9, bridges CP 96-35, highways CTF 3-0 with one team having a bunch of players with 0 score.. I could go on. It's very difficult to get a good, balanced battle that isn't in PRO battle mode. Many times I've been in aleksandrovsk CTF and it's gone 10-0. People prefer to join the winning side for the crystal payout, making the weaker team even weaker, then there are supplies which are ridiculously OP and always have been and horribly OP turrets like isida and magnum. Once a group of clan members join a battle I know it is game over in 99% of cases. My favourite map is skyscrapers CTF in PRO battle mode but there only about 7 of us who play that map on a regular basis. For some reason people prefer to be cannon fodder :unsure:

The garage is taking forever to load.

The game balance is heavily skewed in favour of magnum, shaft and isida. The latter is really annoying because there's nothing I can do against an M4 isida on double damage. It can drain all of my HP in a split second and it's the favourite of clan takeovers. Shaft is too OP because it can one shot an M4 Viking, Hunter or dictator. Magnum... yeah that gets on my nerves too depending on the map although it's damage isn't as severe as shaft or isida. The tanker "FlipFlopper" is super annoying.

Just got this bad boy at M3.

Terrible, just terrible. I was looking forward to playing CTF on the halloween map but they are all DM which I don't like :(

Just microupgrade it, buy the alteration (in a 50% sale) and get some double damage supplies... Railgun isn't the only weapon that has been weakened. Smoky is a shadow of it's former self!

What should I get next - Vulcan M3 or Wasp M3? (wasp for BP mode).

Yes there is a lack of variety since the servers were removed. Not everyone has a PRO pass so I think there should be some battles which are always on the list even if they are empty like polygon cp, highland ctf, iran dm etc.

They changed railgun years ago now... not much point arguing about it. Anyway you can get the alteration for 50,000 if you wait patiently for a sale... the question is will tanki still be around by then.

Like this other guy said, I'm also taking a break from the game once this weeks chain is over. There are hardly any battles to choose from.

PRO battles like XP/BP or a 15 minute game on an obscure map like skyscrapers is much more enjoyable than the alternative.

Tanki offered me a 30% personal discount today for titan so I went for it. Last years halloween sale was 31% so I figured there's no point waiting.

If you want to farm crystals then rail is the way to go. This was an average round and the fund was 15k. I've seen it at 30k for 30 minute battles.

Yes to both - I have 5 MUs on twins and the second place was Twins M4.

Test server never loads for me until about 22:00 UK time when all the Russians have gone to bed.

Wow I didn't know this. Last year I asked them to unlock all garage paints but I was told the ranks were in place so players had "something to work towards". I guess nothing is sacred in tanki online.

That's how it is now. Titan M4 Magnum M4 - brutal.

Yeah I'm still considering mammoth since it has the "invincible" alteration but damn it's slow.

The alteration will do a lot more damage and cost less crystals than microupgrading, but there's the reload speed... Tough to say if I should get the alt or give up on smoky and focus on something else.

Viking is more versatile but I need to switch things up because it's getting boring. I think Titan is still quite fast with nitro. Hunter / Dictator are a no go because they have less armor and speed than my viking.

Would it be better to upgrade smoky from 10 to 15/20 or keep it at 10/20 and buy precision targeting? I want to mount it on titan M3 once the sales come around.

When firebird used to be a strong weapon I would use double damage and toast them all.

Why are magnum and isida allowed to be so strong? Every game at legend rank is decided pretty much by these two turrets.

Twins / Viking in 1st and 2nd

Still fun to log in for 15 minute games, depending on the people.