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.

I just ranked to Colonel and quickly bought an M3 kit. I had planned to buy the healer kit, but in the light of the upcoming rebalance I passed and switched to the Centaur kit. Now at least I have an M3 combo which I can MU and seriously fight against all the higher ranked tankists which you run into at this rank so often. I feel sorry for all those who are just not able to do this. For them it will be a very long and difficult path from M2 gear to M3, having to fight all those experienced players with M3+ gear. Good luck guys (and girls).

First of all, thank you Cedric for your active participation in the forum. Really nice to see that you listen and response to so many questions. One thing though: every time somebody asks: what about the (M3) kits, it looks like you dodging the question. Is it not decided yet what will happen?

Everybody knows Vladimir P. is Godmode_ON. By the way: happy birthday Vladimir!!

Some tankists say that this is an update for the buyers, well it is not. I am a buyer, but after the 'rebalance' I have no idea on what to spend my money on tanki anymore. I am a lieutenant colonel and after the rebalance I cannot buy M3 kits anymore for a long long long time. Filling up my garage further with M2 stuff has also become a bit useless: - Hulls: they added wasp and titan and there was a LOVELY choice in hulls. You could stand in front of your garage and ask yourself: which one should I use today :). If you ask me, the hulls were perfectly balanced: all hulls appeared in all the battles. Each player had his favorite hull(s) and each hull had his pros and cons. It made the game fun and diverse, a remarkable effort of the tanki developers!!!! After the rebalance there are only 3 different hulls left: no point is spending money anymore on the rest. They even remove the lovely drifting of the hornet: what has that got do with 'rebalancing'?? M3 wasp and hornet for example are so alike that you need a magnifier glass to see the difference. - as for the turrets: as pointed out so many times: Isida is a goner. It will quickly disappear from the battlefield. And it is turrets like isida the make playing so diverse: team up an isida with a short range assault turret and try to get the flag! Great teamplay can be the result, also in the defense part, again resulting in diverse gameplay!. Now that's all gone. Smoky? Nerfed and rendered useless. No idea why: from my experience smoky already didn't appear that often.Firebird and twins get stronger?? I played with both of them (M2) and they were already OP! That's silly! They are noob turrets for noobs like me: don't make them more OP: that is rebalancing the wrong way! And then there is railgun: also nerfed to the ground. It is THE most difficult turret to handle and instead of awarding those players that can handle the rail so fantastically (I cannot, I SUCK with rail), you nerf the gun useless. I agree that turrets need a rebalance (hulls NOT). Isida M3 for example is too OP and available to early: don't nerf it to the ground but REBALANCE it and move it up 1 or two ranks. That is REBALANCING, the upcoming change has nothing to do with REBALANCING. Summing up: as a buyer and a lover of tanki, maybe I will quickly buy an M3 kit before the rebalance because seriously: after the rebalance I have no idea where to spend my money on! Please tanki developers: I want to give my money to you, please make this possible (and off course somewhat usefull!).

I understand. Still there is the question: what about the kits? Do you know what will happen to them, or don't you? Will the M3 kits for example all move up to the minimum rank of Lieutenant General? Or hasn't this been decided yet? Will all kits be available at the current rank before the 'rebalance' takes place? It is quite frustrating to almost reach a rank where you can buy a kit, and then NOT seeing in the garage due to the rotation, and then seeing disappear because it moves to a much higher rank due to the 'rebalance'. Is it possible for ALL kits to appear just once, before the 'rebalance'?

Asked already several times, but still no official answer, please Cedric, answer the question: what will happen to the kits? There are M3 kits available as of Lieutenant Colonel. Will this now chance as well and will they only be available at Lieutenant General or so?

Did you realy thought tanki was free, or meant to be free? Do you think that the people who make tanki and everything around tanki are doing this for free? Are they living from the air? This is just income for them so of course they do everything to try to get money out of you: in the beginning everything is cheap and once you are hooked to the game you need to pay money to get the good stuff. I think this is perfectly normal for a game. Stop whining about the people who do spend money on the game: draw your wallet, spend some money and buy crystals! Games on the xbox/ps aren't free either so if you spend hundreds of hours on this game: pay some money!

I love tanki online, I really do. The tanks handle perfectly and the garage and saving up for better turrets, hulls, kits or paints was perfectly balanced and was a lot of fun. I do say WAS because I think they are loosing it with some of the new 'features'. I cannot image that it will stay this way because it is really crazy. For example: the 'jaguar' paint used to cost 23.000 crystals. You would get a nice looking paint with protection for firebird, freeze and a littly bit against thunder. And now? Now you can by the jaguar paint for a whopping 300.000 crystals!!! And it gives you nada protection. I think the developers have lost their mind. And in the V-log they say that a nice paint is like a rolex: you pay just for the looks :-(( Some paints, like loam foir example, cost around 9000. Now ok, maybe thats a price for getting uhh nothing which just looks nice, but 200.000-400.000? Seriously??? Then there is the fact that paints are part of a kit. For most people, (expensive) paints you wouldn't by directly but you would get them in the kit and then with the discount it was pretty ok, pricewise. But now in the kit, you only get the paint and NOT the protection anymore (at least as far as I can see). This also renders the kits a bit useless. For example: I was saving up for the new Healer-kit. I would get the M3 hornet and M3 isida which are a good bargain in the kit, but now I also get the Irbis paint for an even more whoppping 400.000 crystals and it gives me no protection!?? Maybe I'm nog getting it: please can somebody explain this to me?

Is it really that bad? I'm in the middle of it and I'm just enjoying it. You can play against the big bullies or select a server where you are the big bully. If I need crystals/xp I just play polygon cp and off course I fulfill the daily missions to get the needed crystals. The only thing I find annoying is the big gap until I can buy an M3 kit. Still, just enoying it !!