I hate it when I see my name pop up from the opposition with Russian all around it....what the hell are they saying? I'd love to see some sort of translation option.

We should be at able to delete unwanted equipment or even better, have some sort of mechanic that hides unwanted equipment. At the very least, we should be able to rearrange the equipment panes in an order to suit our personal needs (all favorite paints moved to the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc. positions).

Get rid of the "Average waiting time" for the queue dialog box since it means nothing anyway. Previously you could click Quick Battle and the wait time might show 1 minute. Exit and click it immediately and it could show 9 seconds. Click again and it might show 30 seconds. Now since some update or other it almost never shows more than a few seconds but it still takes minutes to get into a battle....4 seconds waiting time, but it might take 1 1/2 minutes to get into a battle. Basically there seems to be no connection between "Average waiting time" and the average waiting time, so why have it? It is obviously just an arbitrary number. Get rid of it.

Is that her dancing too? I can't really tell, but it looks like her. If it is her, she seems to be a very good dancer besides playing a mean violin....lotsa talent.

Terakaft playing and singing Alghalem

Over 45 minutes trying to get into a DM battle to complete a mission...and I still can't join. You can not tell me there are no DM battles at my rank with 28000 players online. Have I exited and tried to join again?....yes numerous times. Have I just waited....yes, the longest is in progress right now as I type and is at 11+ minutes. This is ridiculous and shows that something is terribly wrong with MM. The concept of MM is poor to begin with, but if it worked, it would be at least palatable. Please try to fix this broken, poorly coded atrocity you call MatchMaking. ======================================================================================= It put me into a battle at about 12 minutes...with 4 minutes left in the battle. I clicked continue and the screen went to blank. I'm now waiting again after clicking join several times... MM is TRASH and the most awful possible way to generate battles (at least this Tanki defective version of MM) One easy DM mission should not take over an hour to complete.

Over 45 minutes trying to get into a DM battle to complete a mission...and I still can't join. You can not tell me there are no DM battles at my rank with 28000 players online. Have I exited and tried to join again?....yes numerous times. Have I just waited....yes, the longest is in progress right now as I type and is at 11+ minutes. This is ridiculous and shows that something is terribly wrong with MM. The concept of MM is poor to begin with, but if it worked, it would be at least palatable. Please try to fix this broken, poorly coded atrocity you call MatchMaking. ============================= It put me into a battle at about 12 minutes...with 4 minutes left in the battle. I clicked continue and the screen went to blank. I'm now waiting again after clicking join several times... MM is TRASH and the most awful possible way to generate battles (at least this Tanki defective version of MM) One easy DM mission should not take over an hour to complete.

I've been playing since the Hunter-Viking swap when Viking got drift and Hunter lost it, but just in the last couple of weeks, maybe even just one week, it seems that all of a sudden Viking is getting bounced around more badly. Even standing still and not moving forward or back with no one shooting at you, if you give Viking a quarter spin and quickly let go, it keeps sliding for almost another quarter turn. It feels like there is a center pivot point on which it spins around while the center of gravity has been raised. I just have to wonder if there hasn't been an unannounced Viking "balance".

I don't think that was the one they edited. 30 days Prem is a lot of Prem...75000 crystals just for logging in everyday...not bad at all. The best I have found in the MM maps for Vulcan is Bridges, but you have to have an active and somewhat aggressive team. I don't really care for it since it basically makes you a kind of non-hiding sniper....just camp in one spot till you get zonked then go back to the same spot on the bridge and shred the opposition. Repeat this process till the game ends and you get between 2nd and 4th place. Pretty effective but kinda boring.

Gosh...the mods deleted one of my posts. I got this from a spoiler where Wolverine quoted me (thank you)...I think this is the part they took offense too. Maybe a bit too much truth for Tanki? "Who thinks up this asinine stuff for Tanki? The Star Week....gosh. MatchMaking...sooooo trash. Let's make Freeze super OP for a few weeks...Oh 30% was too much, really? OK we'll nerf it back to where it was before we buffed it. And now we'll buff Firebird into the new terror...too much, OK we'll nerf it down. It's like Tanki is trying it's hardest to frustrate and alienate their player base."

My alt account has a -2 GS rating....what a joke. It's rank 9 with Rico M1-MU8 Viking M1-MU8 Rail/17 Isida/17 Hammer/16 Protection M1 I do only have green paint and Chainmail that I once used for about 15 minutes and my K/D is 1.97. My kid has an alt acct also with almost the exact same thing...Rico/Viking M1-MU8 and the same Protection, but she has Grasslands paint that she has never used and her K/D is a tad higher 2.08 (what can I say she is a mean kid :) ). Her GS rating is 1654 ! -2 vs 1654 ....oh so very meaningful. :)

Yamaha introduced Vocaloid in 2004. Vocaloid 5 was released a couple of weeks ago and has made leaps and bounds progress over the last fourteen years. The synthetic singing voices have several different male and female sonic avatars along with their visual anime avatars. There are live Vocaloid concerts and a boat load of original music made by folks that bought the software from Yamaha. There are not a lot of great songs yet since it seems that the creators tend to be computer geeks as opposed to musicians. Yamaha introduced an English version a couple of years ago, but Vocaloid is really only popular in Japan and even that market is mostly otaku or weeaboo (animae fans or anime devotees). With a bit of improvement (quite a bit actually) I think we may start hearing more and more synthetic vocalists. Every year we see more and more electronic music falling into the mainstream...look at this thread...tons of music that was never blown out a horn or strummed on a string instrument. Many many tunes that are completely or in a large part computer generated or sampled sounds organized with software into real honest to goodness pop music. What does a real musician do when they can't sing or they sing like me (that would be terrible). Buy the software for a canned voice is an answer for the near future. No fees to the singer, no rehearsal problems, no sickness at gigs,and more that I can't think of at the moment. Vocaloid is the last piece in the synthetic pop music machine. While there are not a lot of great tunes out there now, it has to be just a matter of time before real song-smiths discover and start using Vocaloid voices. Below is one of the better V-tunes. Apparently the Japanese singing is much truer to the Japanese language than the English version is to English language, but the English version has only been on the market for a couple of years...it will improve, especially as demand starts to increase. Not the best song in the world, but it is an acceptable dance tune and is a good example of an English Vocaloid singer.

Matchmaking fixes, changes to PRO-battles now locked and in the Archive section There was a topic that escaped the one MM topic that is stale as stale can be. This was a much better topic and had quite a lively discussion going, but the powers that be suppressed it. Can't allow too much dissent, or players might get the idea MM is trash.

Has anyone noticed that Viking seems to be getting knocked off course/aim more easily? Even Smoky is knocking me around as badly or even worse than Rico used to. A well placed hit from Hammer will turn me almost a full 90 degrees. I've had Smokys following me and shooting my butt and wiggle me around like a Wasp...worse really. Maybe it is just EVERYONE has a MU10 turret since all the crystals from the War containers and weekly rewards. But it sure doesn't seem like the stable hull it used to be. Opinions?

I gave up on Vulcan already...it can be used effectively on certain maps, but why bother, other turrets are even more effective. I did find that if you don't care about K/D at all, you can spawn in and start firing until you explode...this does rack up kills quickly, but you don't make many crys or place very high in the results even though you are a major thorn in the oppositions side. I looked at the GS info at https://en.tankiwiki.com/Gear_Score Get this...PAINT effects the GS rating :)

The GS thing is pointless and another downgrade...it is also almost impossible to see on a moving tank because of poor contrast and small lettering....just silly. The buff for Vulcan made Vulcan even less potent. I used to be absolutely deadly with Vulcan but now, especially after this "buff" it is more useless than Striker. I haven't tried the Alt (probably just a waste of crys at this point) but as an M2-MU10, Vulcan is lame. You are dead before you can get a shot fired...especially in DM and Juggy. It's OK though. I've lived without Vulcan for a long time now so at least there won't be maps packed with the things like it was with Freeze. Who thinks up this asinine stuff for Tanki? The Star Week....gosh. MatchMaking...sooooo trash. Let's make Freeze super OP for a few weeks...Oh 30% was too much, really? OK we'll nerf it back to where it was before we buffed it. And now we'll buff Firebird into the new terror...too much, OK we'll nerf it down. It's like Tani is trying it's hardest to frustrate and alienate their player base.

I saw the 30 stars on my account and thought Tanki wised up, but no. They were for the dicey server restart this morning. If Tanki were wise they would multiply each star earned by 10. So you'd get 30 stars for winning a battle. Even multiplied by ten it is a lot of playing to get a few containers...especially considering 15 containers is the cap! 700 stars is ludicrous...even 70 would be a challenge, but at least do-able.

This morning about two hours before restart spent 23+ minutes to get into a DM match. It's off hours, but there are still 7000 people online. It is impossible for there to be no one in queue for a DM match that would be acceptable to my rank. I kept getting timed out of the queue...seven times! One time I got placed, but MM stuck me in a CP match somehow...maybe I clicked the wrong button. Twenty-three plus minutes! And when I did get placed it was in a battle with less than five minutes left...why didn't I get placed into the beginning of that battle?...I was in queue or did the new auto removal keep pushing me to the bottom of thee queue every timeso that it took forever just to get into one battle. I never play DM anymore unless I have a Daily Mission just because it takes so long to get into a battle. MatchMaking is just awful. It has ZERO advantages..ZERO...it is trash. Why insist on this vastly inferior system of battle placement?

of course...plus I timed out 7 times...7 times...and then I finally got into a DM game. I've seen this before and when we could just wait in queue, after about seven to ten minutes you would go into a DM battle, but now you time out after three minutes so you then go the bottom of the queue...idiotic. If players want to stay in queue let them. The game mechanics wouldn't let me join because I couldn't stay in the queue for the duration...whatever that time frame might be. It's just stupid to restrict how long you can stay in queue.

I just logged into my acct. OMG *palms forehead in disbelief* ROTFL You guys really thought this Star Hunt was going to do something....ahahahahahahahaha! Seriously? Ahahahahahahahaha... For a second I thought the update zeroed out my crystal balance...gasp, gleep, gulp...but then I saw it was only the star count at 0...close one :)

I just spent 23+ minutes to get into a DM match. It's off hours, but there are still 7000 people online. It is impossible for there to be no one in queue for a DM match that would be acceptable to my rank. I kept getting timed out of the queue...seven times! One time I got placed, but MM stuck me in a CP match somehow...maybe I clicked the wrong button. Twenty-three plus minutes! And when I did get placed it was in a battle with less than five minutes left...why didn't I get placed into the beginning of that battle?...I was in queue or did the new auto removal keep pushing me to the bottom of thee queue every time so that it took forever just to get into one battle. I never play DM anymore unless I have a Daily Mission just because it takes so long to get into a battle. MatchMaking is just awful. It has ZERO advantages..ZERO...it is trash. Why insist on this vastly inferior system of battle placement?

Yep, I will indulge in the rampage since Vulcan was my secondary turret (M2-MU10) on this account before the horrendous nerffing. The "Ice Age"...funny. So does that mean we are entering a period of active eruption with Madam Pele or is this more of a Spock Shock? :)

Oh brother...here it comes, the Vulcan overkill. significantly increased the length of time before overheating starts; slowed down the turning speed for turret and barrels spinning before firing; This translates to "buy the alteration" increased the firing distance; increased damage. Vulcan will now most likely become the newest member of the over the top, WAY too much, unstoppable, OP darling of the battle field for a few weeks while Tanki sells turrets, protection modules, and lots of those expensive upgrades. Then when Vulcan has been milked sufficiently, Tanki will say how it might be a tad OP and nerf it back to pretty much the way it is now (see Freeze for the timetable). Who in their right mind would send money to buy equipment and MUs when your choice of turret might be ruined or overshadowed in one of these constant tumultuous buffs/nerfs? There just has to be a more profitable way to run Tanki.

Of course I will ignore this event while playing as will almost all players. My point is that examples like this demonstrate just how much effort Tanki developers really put into the game...basically very very little. So much is wrong with Tanki now-a-days just because of this lack of attention from the developers of the game. The current iteration of MatchMaking is another glaring example of poorly thought out applications. It's just a shoddily run game with little attention to details...it's almost like the developers don't actually play the game themselves but only create game changes/situations from concepts or theories, not actual gaming experience.

Tanki developers please read: The rewards in this event are the kind of silliness that makes the players question whatever you do or say. There was obviously less thought put into this event than there was in writing the notice for the event. Even with your Star Pass these levels are ridiculously high. Your only chance at saving this fiasco is to claim a typo/mistake and divide the tier levels by a factor of ten. Remember, in the War it was 5 stars for 3 containers, so even as a factor of ten, the posted tiers are still very high. 10 stars — 1 container; (1) 20 stars — 2 containers; (3) 30 stars — 3 containers; (6) 40 stars — 4 containers; (10) 50 stars — 5 containers; (15) 70 stars — paint (15)