What you talking about, it was same before, without double damage, before you could ONLY 1 hit 2 hulls, hornet and wasp. I am talking about m4s. Yea, max damage is down 40 HP, which is huge loss, but so are HP's on tanks - dict 45 hp, mammoth 50 hp. Not really sure how alternator works, but I think that would boost up damage and you basically have 100% same if not better than before rebalance.

I bet most shaft users will be very happy with upcoming update. Since it has been made faster between shots, it will be new overpowered weapon for tankers. Yes, damage has been nerfed a little, but same with hulls. Mammoth, titan, dict will be so much easier to kill :)

Honestly, I would not know if these changes will make game better or worser. Time will tell obviously. For someone who literally got isida and viking to M4, I obviously hate this update. Killed both of them. I mean completly waste of crystal hull and turret. Yes, make twins more powerful, that proper spam weapon, which is used by people who have prick on their space button and do not turn turret - greak f job. Rebalance is obviously a way to get people buy new stuff(which is not bad or good) as different hulls/turrets will be OP now - like hunter. Same with protection modules - don't need isida one anymore. Thank god at least one of my fav turret - shaft, didn't get HUGE decrease in every aspect. Still proper nerf from damage done, but so did hulls, so I am good.

Man, I so regret I didn't get my shaft before I was gen already. Was playing with rail and thunder back then. M3 shaft at that low rank must be so good. Probably can be first in any map and any game mode. Nice! And you can actually play minimal drug use in RIO ctf. Ralfsop is one of these guys, barely ever drugs, always top 3 in Rio. http://ratings.tankionline.com/en/user/ralfsop/ he plays moving shaft, captures flags and moves like crazy.

It's only damage increase in scope mode. And to be completely honest, you actually will make less damage due to very very slow energy stack time. So players who move around with shaft and doesn't sit in scope mode always, it will not work well. I tested it about a hour and gained 30% lesser scores then my normal. So if you like playing active shaft and changing positions, this is definetly alternation to NOT go with. If you like sitting in one place all the time and stay in scope mode - go for it, 25% scope power increase is decent update.

That is a load of crap tho. There are no such thing as international fees. Payment processors do charge per transaction, but the top price for that is 8%, not 50%(paypal, google, visa etc). Yes, VAT for international sales is higher at 25% vs 18% in local. And now we come to point where EVERYTHING you wrote DOES not matter as: And here we go. I have company there aswell, it's tax heaven. 5% dividend tax, no corporate taxes, no VAT - therefor, all that talk about ''economics'' is just a way to get people to pay more. And, let's talk about loophole aswell. If I use Russian ISP I get charged russian prices, not hard to setup qiwi or payeer account for that. This is proper racism by Tanki. But I didn't expect less, this is russian owned company.

Alteration for M4 shaft made it worser. Energy loading time is extremely slow. Yeh, it might be stronger shot in sniping mode, but you have to wait twice as much to get full energy ...I do not recommend it. http://screencast.com/t/Hn2ti53p8R

I choose module according to other tanks turret choices. My most used is eternity legacy one, which is 50 isida, 50 smokey, 50 thunder. Africa legacy one is top notch aswell on DM's because oh hammer vulcan twins thunder protection. But end of day, I always change paints when in battle.

Check your coding on downloadable client, there must be something which gets it AUTO flagged by Norton: http://screencast.com/t/q3FS2gnuUW I did further investigations, public online virus software which detects it aswell: http://screencast.com/t/fvWuqESfW0 I have Nod32 on my test server(win 8 running in virtual mode and original nod32) and it did also notify me about potential threat. And this is not issue because it is new ''software'' as Norton/nod reports, some script/line gets the attention(if you feel like you don't want to search this ''error'', contact antivirus software companies and send them file for investigations, they will white list it, I have had this issue before on my own stuff). PS, feel free to delete my post after mod/admin have read it(to avoid negative feedback). I am not accusing you guys about anything, just letting you know.

Original vlog voice is better than the one in this, in my opinion. Nice updates, can't wait.

If you get to higher rank, this won't work anymore, as people can see your laser in front of them and just stop or back up(and since lot of people have m4's, tanks are quite fast at highest ranks), which might make you miss. Always smarter to aim back of them, even when moving. One of the best tips: Use of R button and knowing MU levels of viking, titan, mammoth in current game is so huge . By knowing your enemies, you can kill them faster. Use of arcade shot once against M4 viking and then full scope mode makes the kill, as people do not heal when only 66 damage has been done :D. Similar with titan and mammoth. isida is abit more difficult as they heal, but not impossible. But nice tips! This is how you dominate and make people really angry.

Rico is stupidly easy to avoid by just moving your hull a little more, as most rico tankers do not even turn turret, even gens. I have M4 hammer, it's definetly one of the best weapons to be first in POLY DM for example. Always loved it for small maps. Can do serious damage, only bad thing, is that people kind of switched their thunder protections to hammer protection nowadays. I always have at least 8/16 who have at least 30+ for hammer in DM.

Best thing about shaft - you can make druggers really really angry. I been called noob hundreds of times, because most people play with viking in max rank. Not everyone have fully MU-d it nor have protection against it - which means 1 hit(even with double armor activated) with double damage fully charged shaft(don't have to be full if you know your enemies MU level). Which means, NO REPAIR for them. I was also thanked, that I made some guy use lesser repairs and save them for tournament ... I have also hornet m4, tried it with shaft, really didnt like it. For weapon you camp and use scope alot, you need to have some armor to survive those hammers, rails. Will get viking m4 when next sale comes, but for now, just titan.

We sure will, had one another shaft doing POLY DM, dominated properly(he requested to block name): Here is final image, I will post, not sure if you can do alot better than this:

Keyboard all the way! After getting full m4 shaft, I started playing with it more. I always loved rail, thunder and hammer, learning shaft was proper challenge. Lack of auto-aim really makes it difficult to get kills in close range battles. Not impossible tho. In my honest opinion, doing research about enemy tank is the key to get proper results in DM or CTF battles. That ''R'' button update makes playing with shaft so much easier, as you know which tank you can 1 hit in scope mode with lesser energy used - so you have possibility to recharge faster and already get another kill. When I started with shaft, I was ALWAYS somewhere middle with score. But after 30 hours of gameplay, I always end up being TOP 3, doesnt matter which map or game type. Biggest challenge have always been POLY dm. As you really need to act fast, mostly in close range. And non scope mode is PERFECT for getting fast kills, can also say kill stealing. I did yesterday best score EVER in poly dm - 72 kills 4 deaths, but was too late to get image from that. But here is somewhat good result aswell:

The all drama has nothing to do with nature of update, it's all about prices going up. Remember when you guys rolled out update about MU-ing? Before we had to separately update different aspects about our hulls/turrets. But after, just one thing to MU. I clearly remember that you stated out fact in post, that MU will be cheaper now(even tho, it wasn't), but people didn't waste their time comparing pricing and they were happy. Well, this update brought huge increase about the amount of crystals you need. I understand, that you guys need to control economy, because more people play, more cystals there will be. And game looses kind of idea, when all gens have garage full of M4s, so all the buy are drugs. You should of rolled out this update by keeping paint prices maximum 200k for most beautiful ones like Zeus and average them around 100k per paint. Same with modules, keep them around 150k(3 module) - so you would have had option to say that end of day prices of modules and paints decreased with current update - there wouln't been that big of drama. And for getting better economy, just behind the scene, increase the price of MU because this is the thing people do not notice. I think currently full MU 3 piece module with speed ups is same like MU-ing top paints - around 1.2-1.4m? But best of luck finding solution, which makes people happier.

Any shafters here who play with keyboard? Do you guys see random rotation of shaft after dying? Feels like button is stuck and without pressing anything yourself it just keeps rotating? You can fix it by pressing button which is ''stuck'' and it will get ''unstuck'' right away? So annoying tho and I am quite sure it should not be like that.

I truly like the update, more ways to step up your game tactics and just improve general skills. Love the fact, that you can see your opponents MU levels and make decision if you wanna go for the kill or ignore. Managed to get absolute highest score in Poly DM playing with titan/hammer for very long time when playing in Gens - 88 kills 18 deaths in 15 mins. Same in RIO, 738 points playing with Shaft. I do have one complaint, people who bought tier 1 eternity(not very many of them), now that turned out to be total waste of money and there are same modules out there AND there are no more tiers for eternity. Months of playing, I only saw 1 guy have same eternity, yesterday I saw 3 guys wearing it. Most likely cheaper versions of it, but since modules, it doesn't matter anymore. Out of interest, anyone know how much would it cost to MU fully 3 paint module with speed ups?

I like the update, just need more crystals to buy many different modules. Using R button you can actually find so much about your enemy - makes it abit harder but more fun for sure.

http://ratings.tankionline.com/en/user/kubasha/ More kills and more experience than It_Is_TiMe_To_Win

Been using tier 3 Eternity for EVER. Fully MU-d and great paint to use in RIO ctf of Poly DM. Just got Africa due to people starting to use more and more those m4 hammers n Vulcans. Probably will stick with these 2 paints for ever.

I did, 458 italia. Did not like it so much. Currently driving last year Audi RS5 http://screencast.com/t/6yDuYZeP5

With lighter and fast hulls (wasp/hornet) and rail/thunder, it makes no sense to actually turn turret as you can take more time to schedule your shots and improve aim. We did team training few weeks ago and tested this theory. 30 minutes with turning and 30 minutes without - thunder/hornet combo. And we found out that not turning hulls with these turrets actually gained 15.8% more accurate aim and whopping 4% improvement of number of shots fired during DM(this is average per player % in 10 player dm). Inbefore I get flamed hardcore, this test was performed by individual players with individual skills, it does not mean that everyone should do this or this works same way to all of you TO players. There is hole different story with different turrets and hulls and turning turret is MUST for most of them. OT. I have prem paint and I do not use it as I find it useless in most battles in my rank. As I mostly play Rio ctf and Pol DM, there are specific guns people use the most and 15% from all makes this paint useless in higher ranks. As mentioned before in someones calculation, 15% is literally nothing. In lower ranks, this paint is abit OP-d. Now let's talk about the holiday paint called eternity - IMO this paint is completely OP'd. I have it currently MU-d to 45 Thunder, 43 Isida and 45 Smoky - at my level, it is big deal to get such good protection for guns which are mostly used in battles. yes, I know it was 500k paint, compared to Clay, it is expensive as hell, but when you start MU-ing it, it will be similar level as Clay and other paints you can buy in highest rank. Therefore, it is still best paint available at Brig rank and overpowered for atleast next 4 ranks. Bullying premium players is normal thing. it is just not premium users, but mostly all who rank high in battles. Past 300 battles when I played at least 13/15 minute match, I have ranked second just once, only first. I have probably heard every bad word there is. Most common is drugger and time to time I do not drug at all and still people attend to call me drugger. I do not mind being bullied as this is internet and online game which has no effect IRL occasions or path, therefore, I usually just laugh and ignore people, just as every player should do. Because there always will be some players you can't handle loss and NEED to find a reason why they did not win or performed bad. Who else to blame than players who are first, drug or have properly MU-d equipment? For conclusion, Premium gives no advantages and is completely useless upgrade. Devs really need to think out something to people actually wanting to buy it, somekind of unique feature connected to accounts for example sending crystals(scratch this, this would make people start using stolen cards) to other players or ability to hide your profile or ability to spectate games - these would make killer premium without compromising gameplay. For business wise, premium was mastermind plan. As somebody described before, premium players have lesser skills because they rank faster, since they haven't played that much. Now you have IRL money and are already quite high rank, but in every battle, you are average or under average, so what can you do to improve? Obviously buy crystals to get better turrets/hulls - there we go, Tanki Online made money again and people who have IRL money to spend, can be on top. Thanks for reading.