Top 3 for the game - good idea.

Complaint: When problems are posted on line, Tanki generally ignores them leading people to believe their complaints are NOT being heard. Perhaps they are not. This naturally results in multiple postings since it's not clear which topic will actually result in the issue being addressed... assuming it's addressed at all. A single "complaint" topic with feedback abut what is being done to correct the problem would generally eliminate that issue. So far, Tanki only has half of that - this topic. But I don't see anything for any of the listed problems that says what's being done to correct any of the problems - that is, if anything is being done at all.

So development plans don't even CONSIDER bugs? There's absolutely NO MENTION of bug fixes on the Development Plans page - and I don't know that I've ever heard a V-LOG that said, "We plan to fix the _______ bug." So please, add to the complaint list - THERE IS NO SCHEDULE OR COMMITMENT TO FIX ANY BUGS.

So Tanki has a (partial) list of bugs. How about a SCHEDULE for when those bugs will be fixed? Tanki keeps pumping out CRAP that we don't need (like Match Maker) but won't fix the most basic bugs (like the LONG delays in getting into battle with Match Maker). NOTHING that Tanki has done since Match Maker was created has fixed as many problems as Match Maker CREATED. So here's the complaint: Even when Tanki puts a complaint on the list (instead of just deleting it and pretending it doesn't exist), there's no commitment to fixing the problem. There are a lot of serious bugs on the bug list - show us the priority and WHEN THEY WILL BE FIXED. The complaint is: Tanki (at best) just makes a list of problems - but never fixes them.

So if you're using Magnum with Viking... you get nothing out of this change. In fact, you might as well forget about overdrive on Viking. Waste of time.

So typical that Tanki would get it all backwards. Improve speed? Graphics? Nah! Let's do some goofy noise and graphics stuff first - take 3 years to do it - then we'll think about HTML5. Remove BUGS from the game? Tanki Developer (wearing blindfold with cotton stuffed in ears): "Bugs? Bugs? What bugs? I don't see any bugs! I don't hear any complaints! Pass me another beer, I want to make a light show for Tanki."

Some of the hulls hit the jackpot. Others got screwed. Mostly it seems like a lot more visual noise on the battlefield. Speaking of noise - am I the only one who has noticed that some of the new sound effects sound like really wet juicy farts? Is that how they made the sounds? Sat around eating corned beef and cabbage, drinking beer and recording fart noises? Overall, I'd rather the 25+ known bugs in the game be fixed, but what does Tanki care about fixing bugs? I don't see the new overdrives as nearly as important as getting rid of Match Maker!

They can make the BEST POSSIBLE MatchMaker by GETTING RID of it! MatchMaker: 1) Took away choice of maps, 2) Took away choice of battles, 3) DRAMATICALLY increased the amount of time to get into a battle, 4) Did NOT make battles more balanced, 5) INCREASED the number of people who leave games early, 6) Introduced new bugs (as in the difficulty in joining Assault or Rugby games), 7) Introduced Time-Out errors, and, 8) Encouraged people to leave games on maps they didn't want to play, or 9)Were HOPELESSLY lost, or 10) Only had seconds to play. MatchMaker does NOTHING GOOD. We even have more "mults" as people try to fulfill the ridiculous "finish battle" missions! MatchMaker increases waiting time from about 1% of Tanki time to about 25% of Tanki time. That's right... before, you could spend an hour playing Tanki, and get about 59 minutes of battle time in. With MatchMaker, FIFTEEN MINUTES of the hour are spent just... waiting. Unless you hit a bug. Then you could spend 50% or more of your time waiting. The addition of "overdrive" and "finish battle" missions is PURE DESPERATION on the part of Tanki to prevent people from leaving battles early. This is necessary because MatchMaker puts people in battles THEY DID NOT CHOOSE against (in many cases) VASTLY SUPERIOR FORCES (think 4-star generals versus Lieutenants!), and often just turns you into target practice by making YOU the object of massive spawn kill in a game that only has 2 minutes to go. MATCHMAKER MUST DIE!!!

Actually, something more like 10 seconds is about right. Forget the stupid garage graphics. Give me a pull down menu at the top of the screen for turret, hull, protection and drone that I can make changes on in less than 2 seconds each and then a "change" button. Easy-peasy. No graphics loading wait time. And why should anyone have to wait to change equipment?

Another utterly ASININE update. Shorter battles means more wasted time WAITING! Why? Because of the excrement that is MatchMaker! MatchMaker takes so goddamn long to get into a battle that it now consumes a VERY significant part of every battle. Compare the numbers: Conditions Battle Length(min) Average Waiting time (sec) Time WASTED waiting Before MM 15 10 1% MM 8 90 15.7% MM 7 90 17.6% But wait! It's actually WORSE that that! Before MatchMaker, you could play the next battle on the same map! So there was no reinitialization time. With MatchMaker, the reinitialization happens with EVERY GAME. So while repeated games BEFORE MatchMaker wasted just 1% AFTER the first game on a map, with MatchMaker, an extra 10 seconds is added to every MatchMaker game. That means with a 7 minute game, MatchMaker is now WASTING 19.3% of your time just WAITING. Of course, it's even worse than that. Anyone who has tried to get into an assault or rugby game knows that you can enter the game - but still be left with the loading screen. It happens to me about 1/5 the time. That means you actually wait MINUTES for a game that never even lets you enter. And there's the "An error occurred" message - which is the same thing. So if one game in 10 fails to start properly and times out, with a three minute timeout, that's an average of an additional 18 seconds per game - which means you're just sitting there - WAITING - for more than a FOURTH of the total time. Or, to put it another way, if you're playing Tanki for 1 hour, you're actually playing for just 45 minutes - and staring at a screen waiting for Tanki to start for 15 minutes! Compare that to 36 SECONDS of waiting time before MatchMaker! And the changes to Massacre? Just more Tanki stupidity. Massacre was a different map. Back before MatchMaker took away your choice of map, you might choose to play it - or choose to avoid it. You had a choice. But it wasn't like all the other maps - and that was good. This is the second time Tanki has RAPED this map. It's not improved. It's "homogenized" - made to look like every other Tanki map. And that's a bad thing. TANKI - Why don't you pull your collective head out and go fix the BUGS!?? MatchMaker Must DIE!

We don't need PC-ism here.

Actually, it's been Obozo-ed. If it had been Trumped, it would be greatly improved!! Besides, aren't you really asking them to Make Tanki Great Again!!??

************************* FIX THIS BUG!!! ************************** Speaking of SCREWING THE GAME UP... What the HELL is going on with the daily/weekly missions? I show 8/10 and 8/20 for weekly missions. Then I complete TWO daily missions. When I check back on the weekly mission, they are STILL 8/10!! This is the THIRD TIME I've seen this happen. ************************* FIX THIS BUG!!! **************************

Here's an idea! FIX THE BUGS! Went to buy a kit tonight and - NO KITS! This has happened over and over and over and over again for more than a year. Instead of screwing up Tanki with putrid, disgusting, crap changes like MatchMaker, why doesn't Tanki... FIX THE BUGS!?

Well, I've tried the "weekly containers" and it's more paint on an outhouse. So you sit there and wait while the graphics cycle. Big whoop! I am SO excited! (NOT!) The part I really liked (because it showed the Tanki dev "special touch") was when the Tanki browser window LOCKED UP and I had to close it and log back in again. Is that a new feature? Or one of the many (many, many) bugs that will never be addressed? Seriously... does anyone at Tanki test ANYTHING?? My vote? Give the players an option to just automatically credit the weekly container. The graphics parade adds NOTHING to the game. It just wastes time, bores the players and risks MORE instability.

That's because your computer isn't plugged in or turned on and all you do is wait.

Here's another example of why MatchMaker SUCKS! Only three members of the blue team were even in the entire game. The rest of us (and others who came and immediately left) were dumped into a lost game by MatchMaker. So you wait two minutes to get into a game, the game starts to load and after another minute of waiting you wind up in a LOST GAME with 4 minutes left and a "team" that mostly just changes every 10 seconds. Good job, Tanki! You cocked it up again! MatchMaker Must DIE!

Well, when you start with 45,000 players and drive away 38,000 of them, what are you going to do if people don't play more battles? You won't have enough to sustain competition - and then more people will leave. So instead, Tanki is doing something else... to make people leave.

Maybe they nerfed it already? Can't save your life anymore - but it can put a bandaid on your stubbed toe! The "use overdrive 50 times" is pretty stupid. It's not something you really have much control over anyway.

Sarcasm. I like it.

Well, that's just part of the explosion that is MatchMaker. MatchMaker just wastes time, produces unbalanced battles, dumps you into the last few minutes of hopelessly-lost battles on maps you don't want to play. It causes people to leave more often because they don't like a map, or the team is getting slaughtered - or they just park their tank and do nothing because that way they can take their crystals at the end of the game for doing nothing (remember MatchMaker was supposed to end mults?) - which just makes the games even MORE unbalanced - so MatchMaker just jams the next player (victim) into the game so THEY can quit too! Of course, players waited to get into the game, and the game they got stuck in was already over and no chance of winning, so all that time - before the game, during the game, waiting for the next game - was just WASTED. Now these mission changes mean more games and with waiting time on the order of 30% just to get assigned to a game plus the ADDITIONAL waiting time while the game loads (which you never used to have if you played the same map a second or third time) means you're probably wasting more than 1/3 of your total time. That's right - you wait 90 seconds to get the game to start to load, it takes 45 seconds to a minute to load and guess what? You're getting close to waiting 3 minutes to play a game that might be 8 minutes long - but might only last 10 seconds. And as you correctly point out, with shortened games, this means a LOT more wasted time doing nothing but sitting there marveling at the stupidity of Tanki development. Simply choosing not to contribute to your team. Contributing to your teams involves in, killing enemies, capping flags, scoring goals, controlling points, sharing over drives, or just healing your teammates (when using isida). We get a LOT of that with MatchMaker - which is something MatchMaker was supposed to stop. I find myself driving around the map looking for some supply - less concerned about the game. "Oh! The enemy just drove by with a flag. Good thing they didn't take that speed box - I needed it for my mission. We're losing? Big deal. Who cares. Obviously none of the people with tanks parked doing nothing. Why are they here anyway? Oh! They're waiting for the GAME TO END to satisfy the new Tanki missions. You know - the ones where if you sit and do nothing but shift your position every two minutes, you complete the mission." Drones And for the drones.. sorry, I can't give you an unbiased summary here. This you'll have to find out on yourself. The biggest problem with drones is we don't know what they do. Yeah, we have the general description, but if we believe what they say, we'd all buy the one that brings us back to life immediately when we're killed. (The "immortality" drone??) The descriptions are vague and why would anyone blow 100,000 crystals on something that isn't well-described and which Tanki will probably "balance" (nerf) in the future anyway? Tanki seems to be devolving into mush. Eleven gajillion variations, all of which can be changed in a "rebalance" and there's really no point. You find a combination of turret and hull and protection that seems to work, then Tanki pulls the rug out from under your feet. Remember when Isida used to self-heal? A lot of us got it for just that reason! Then Tanki took it away. A big you. I wish like hell they would admit to their mistakes and rework them in a positive way to keep what players are still online. To do that, they would have to... END MATCHMAKER!

Until you get rid of MatchMaker, it's all just lipstick on a pig. While we're trifling with the minutiae, why not have custom colors for barrel tips? And treads? And explosions? And add a spray paint turret to change the color of all the landscapes? No! A paint CANNON that fires huge globs of sticky paint that can immobilize the enemy! And add a dripper, so wherever the tank goes, the color leaks out and leaves a trail? Why not multi-colored exhaust!?? It would look like unicorn farts! You could add little flags to the tanks and people could paint their faces on them. And have a rainbow setting, so the colors change continually. And make it fly through the air, and swirl in patterns... and... and... It's all lipstick on a pig. Until you get rid of MatchMaker, it's all just slopping paint on termite-infested shack that's rotting from the inside out.

It just happened AGAIN! Tanki, PLEASE - GET RID OF MATCHMAKER! IT SUCKS! IT'S RUINING THE GAME.

I've gotten this more than 5 times in the past 24 hours. No, it's not because I'm in a battle and doing nothing. The reason I am getting bounced is because Matchmaker is taking so long to get me into the battle. First I'm given an "average" waiting time of 28 seconds. Then I wait more than a minute and a half - which means the 28 second "average" is totally false unless 15 other players got in an average of 4 seconds BELOW the average. That's right, folks. Matchmaker is LYING to us. Unless your experience is that about half the time you get into a game SOONER than the average, you KNOW the "average time" is a LIE! But I waited. And then... I waited some more, because it took SO LONG to load the battle that Tanki timed out due to "inactivity". Matchmaker is HORRIBLE! It doesn't make balanced battles. It took away our choice of maps. And for every battle, we wait... and wait... and wait. And then - it fails. Get rid of Matchmaker!

Actually, this is incorrect. As someone pointed out to me, it used to take 10 seconds to BE IN THE BATTLE. Now the waiting time is until the GAME STARTS TO LOAD. Sometimes loading is fairly quick. Other times it is minutes - or forever. So again, LONGER delays with MatchMaker. But instead of 5 to 10 times as long, it's more like 6 to 15 times as long. Anyway you slice it, it's a big waste of time for "features" that most people do not want. Make Tanki better... END MATCHMAKER NOW!