Cedric, I understand that you have told many of us numerous times that you are doing your best to resolve the payment options issue, but do you have any news on when (if at all?) the gift cards could possibly be back in the shop? I need to know if they will be back at all so that I can plan my future purchases (like for example how much I should MU during this sale). Thanks.

OK thx for keeping us all posted Cedric!

Cedric, a while back (two weeks ago?) there was an announcement on the main page that said that there would be issues with certain payment options over the weekend. I checked my shop then and the method of paying with gift cards was removed from the shop where I live (US). A few days later, I saw a post by a forum moderator under that same "problems with payment options" forum thread that the gift cards would take a little longer to return, but they would be back in about two weeks or so. Now, I understand that this post is likely not any official news, just rumors, but do you know if they will ever return, and when? It is the only way I am able to buy in Tanki right now.

Good article, but the notion that Vulcan is now weak! Pah! Sure, the impact force has been reduced, but it's damage was increased significantly and it's range of max damage was increased to the point where Vulcan has received an overall buff. Also, despite having a slower turning turret, the time it takes for the barrels to stop spinning and start spinning have been significantly reduced, which more than makes up for it. Vulcan is OP. I speak from experience, just bought the M3.

Is my problem related to the browser I am using possibly (Mozilla Firefox)?

Can Cedric, or any other person please explain the following problem and why it is happening: Ever since the rebalance was released, I have been experiencing serious lag issues when playing. The most annoying part of this lag is whenever I am playing in a battle, and new people join, those new people are invisible and I cannot damage them yet these invisible players can kill me. In order to be able to see and fight them, I have to reload my page. This amounts to reloading my page every single time that a new person enters a battle, and this clearly is something that limits my effectiveness on a team or playing in general. Why is this issue happening? I take it that it has something to do with the update because I had no such issues beforehand.

Is anyone else here experiencing a glitch that came with the update where, if you are playing in a battle and new people join, those new people are completely invisible to you and you cannot damage them even though they can kill you?

Same!!! I literally cannot play anymore, the lags are so bad.

I don't know about anyone else, but I play on the Mozilla Firefox browser, and after the update lag issues have just been absolutely horrible for me. When I enter battles, my ping is consistently 600+ and when I try to refresh my page it kicks me out of the battle. Why is this happening? Tanki on Firefox was working perfect two hours ago.

Phew thank goodness. I thought they were gone for good. :D

I would guess that Tanki is doing some maintenance to them, adjusting them in preparation for the balance update. Hopefully.

You forgot the one biggest stereotype: Ricochet-Hornets are incapable of turning their turrets. Otherwise good article :D

Cedric, is Tanki planning to re-add DM tournaments in the future? During the brief period in which they were in-game, many people (myself included) really enjoyed them.

lol watch a ton of people buy the buffed weapons like vulcan and twins after the update, and then tanki will nerf them significantly to address the resulting imbalance.

I don't get some of the parameters on Freeze. First of all, there's the rate of freezing, which as been quadrupled, which I'm assuming means that freeze will now slow its victims down four times as fast. However, the Freezing Level of Hull parameter has been reduced to a third of what it was. Does this mean that Freeze will not slow its opponents down by as much, or that the target tank will unfreeze three times as fast.

Cedric kindly tell us what will happen to our beloved kits :P

My primary question remains how the kits will be affected? Answers? Anyone? Overall, I think this update will be interesting, to say the least... I had my initial reservations, but I am taking a kind of wait-and-see approach now.

New maps would be the kind of update that I think most players here are looking for. Not update after update after update affecting gameplay. Leave it alone for awhile!

And what will happen to kits? For M3 kits, as a general rule of thumb, the kit unlocks two ranks below the rank that the (highest rank piece of) equipment in the kit unlocks. So does this mean that all the M3 kits will now be available from Lieutenant General??? I remember the paint update the devs totally neglected the kits and the resulting unbalance messed up the economy for awhile.

Well for you it's funny because you can clearly afford to waste your crystals, but for me this is not funny at all. I essentially just wasted a ton of crystals micro upgrading a turret that is going to be worthless soon.

This update is ridiculous. Isida is being nerfed so much that it isn't even funny. I've invested a lot of crystals in MU-ing my Isida, I think that they Tanki should give a full refund for turrets and hulls like they did after the first rebalance.

I don't get it. I am below the rank Marshal, but I already have the following M3s: Viking, Isida, Thunder, Shaft, and Hornet. I have a significant amount of MU on my Viking, Thunder, and Isida. Will these be removed from my garage? Or will I be able to keep them?

xD Ok thanks. Hey, it brings back a lot of memories :P. The comics too lol.

Wasn't specified as one of the quote-on-quote "cool" things that would be added in the update, but it was almost certainly intentional.

Question: If, for example, I buy the minus field stabillizer or whatever it's called alteration for my M2 ricochet, and later I buy M3, will I still be able to use the alteration? Or do I have to re-buy it or something?