The idea of having a matchmaking system to have more even, balanced battles with fully filled teams, sounded promising but after testing it I really don't like it for the following reasons: as mentioned by others: you cannot pick a battlefield anymore. Some fields I love but others I hate. After waiting a minute I'm dropped in 'Highways' with my m3-isida, pfft, useless. I exit and wait again and then I'm dropped in 'Brest'! From one sniper heaven to another, no thank you. Once you're in a field you like with nice teams, you are kicked out after the battle ends. You cannot stay in the field. This I don't understand: why? Tankers who are leaving can be filled up again with tankers from the queue, or am I missing something? Playing with friends has become more difficult: not possible to invite friends into an existing battle and Battles are NOT balanced nicely (yet). I'm 'just' a lieutenant general but already I have been dropped several times in battles with mostly legends. Maybe this is just a hickup and will be fixed after the testing period?? You hardly play 15 minute battles anymore: you are dropped in a battle, play for 5-10 minutes, then it ends and the waiting begins again. Waiting time is too long. Maybe it will get better after the testing period, but I doubt it. My biggest problem with the matchmaking is that I cannot decide myself anymore in which field to battle and against/with whom I want. I guess I will only be using it to finish a mission before switching to the good old battle list. If they realy want to make an improvement that everybody likes than why don't they make a battlelist which displays ALL battles of ALL servers instead of having to swim from server to server. After selecting a battle, then redirect to the corresponding server. Shouldn't be to hard for a serious developer??

Why is there only one M3 kit with firebird? For each other turret there are multiple kits to chooze from. I like firebird but I hate hunter.

Currently I'am brigadier. When I rank up twice I can buy an M3 kit again (I was lucky to be able to buy M3 before the rebalance). I currently have the thunder and hornet M3, love them both. Now I'm already saving up crystals for the next M3 kit. But which one to buy? Definately a medium hull: viking, hunter or perhaps dictator and as turret something for close range. I loved the M2 firebird, it was so strong so maybe I should go for prometheus? But then I saw that M3 freeze has almost exactly the same specs as M3 fire: M1 freeze is stronger then M1 fire, M2 freeze is weaker the M2 fire but M3 they are almost completely equal, so maybe I could go for the refrigerator kit: the viking is definately better than the hunter. Any ideas? Does anybody have experience with both M3 turrets?

Couldn't agree with you more. There are even 3 kits for the new striker and a whopping 4 kits with twins. Prometheus comes with hunter which is not my favourite. Would like to see it with Viking.

When I look at the M3 kits, there are 4 kits with twins, 3 with the new striker and multiple kits for each type of turret, except for firebird for which there is only 1 kit (with hunter, which I do not prefer). I would love to see one or more M3 kits with firebird. My favourite would be M3 firebird, Viking and protection agains Rail, Hammer and Twins. Paint: Inferno.

So true. I was lucky to get an M3 kit before the rebalance (now I can't get any M3 anymore because of my rank) and the protection (kodiak T-C-M3) against thunder, twins and rail is so usefull! I think this is the most usefull protection module. My hornet can take several railgun shots.

I like hornet more then wasp. Hornet 'feels' more stable. Stil I would like it when they up the protection or speed so on paper it will be more equal to the wasp.

I'm looking at M3 hulls / turrets for when I grow up (I'm currently a bragidier). When comparing Hunter to Viking, what reason can there be to choose Hunter? Protection of Viking is the same, but viking is considerably faster and a bit lower and more stable then Hunter. Only reason I can see now is when it is offered in a kit you want. Also in the battles I see Viking a lot but I hardly see Hunter. I have used Hunter quite a lot in M2 but I like Viking more (I have Viking M2 in another account). Hunter is quite mediocre. They should make it a bit faster or up the protection a bit to make the M3 interesting. Any thoughts about this?

Hmm, not sure if I agree. It makes the game more complicated but also more diverse and I think more fun. The great number of mixed turrets/hulls/alterations make each fight different which keeps the game interesting. As for the money, its like 21-pilots said: wake up, they need to make money! There is nothing wrong with that. I would say: spend some money on the game because what you get in return is hours of fun. It is the same like spending money on a night out, holiday, etc.: what you get in return is entertainment for a certain amount of time. With tanki you can decide yourself if and how much you want to spend. You can justify it four your kids by bying some crystals for their account as well, at least, that is what I do.

Wow, Riddler, you're very possitive today! But I agree, the new turret and the changes look very promising. I'm just not sure about the friendly fire: it might ruin some games when there is a player who just want to annoy the rest, Time will tell.

Yes, the button makes it so much easier to play: before you had to select a battle and then press play... Oef, the agony, the labour, so much work and so difficult to understand ;) But the create button won't come back, mark my words. This is just about us spending more crystals so we will have to BUY more crystals...

I hope you are right, but usually they don't take any notice of our comments and complaints. For them it is just extra money since everybody now MUST be a PRO pass in order to play on your favourite map.

Wow, what a change. Is it me, or are there much less battles going on. Since I (and so many others) cannot create a battle anymore, there is hardly a battle to choose from anymore. Wow, looks like tanki is committing suicide... My favourite maps: noise and rio are hardly there anymore. Instead of having so many of these maps, now you can hardly find one anymore. I now have to press the 'battle' button and let the system lead me to a crappy map I don't like play on. Seriously, is anybody using that button? Probably I will have to buy a PRO pass to at least be able to have some fun with tanki, but still, what a terrible update. I hope the developers are really monitoring the amount of playing going on...

So many complaints. Personally I love the Halloween map. Wasn't playing tanki already last year so I don't know about last years map , but this one is very nice for my m3 thunder. Finished a 3000k mission yesterday (7200 crystals) and got one today as well. Also many thanks for the 50% sales on turrets!!! That was a surprise. Bought two on my alt account. All in all very happy with the Halloween

Thanks, and I think you are right. I will focus my crystals on the MU of the M3 hornet and the lovely M3 thunder which I got earlier. The shaft I have juts for a change (stick it on a mammoth and defend the base). Perhaps a few MU's on a protection module, although that is horribly expensive.