I believe it, I was in a similar battle. Press tab, see and leave. Why would lower ranks have to face legend ranks at all?

After Months not playing at all, recently I started doing a couple of missions again. Now today after this update I have finished a mission picking up 5 speed boxes as follows. After waiting 2 minutes to be allowed to play a random cp game. First game I was able to pickup 4 speed boxes (and get some cp experience for a second mission). The game ended. I could not continue. I was one of the higher ranks, because I refuse to use supplies it is still not easy. I am Lieutenant General. Next game I could enter quick, I was in a team with my kind of rank and lower up to 2 or 3 red stars. We were up against a team with 11 legends and one of them something lower. While I was being killed I spotted a 5th speed box, managed in the last second of being killed to catch it and left. Time in the game maybe 3 seconds. I did not try to get more cp experience. That is it for today.

... What game I am playing? Oh I play druggie online, aaah, ummm .. the shift version. ... If it is any good? I am not going to tell you, try it your self. Yeah these are the controls: shift, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and then you aim approximately at another player and press the space bar. You can also use the mouse, sure. ... Nah in the end you kill other players on an average no matter how hard you try. The more you use 1-5 the higher your average kills. Aiming is not so important that is kind of automatic. You have to get a hang on the lagging and then try to time that is more important. And if the other presses the shift aiming and nothing won't help you anyway. ... Yeah they can press self heal if you almost got them. Sure you can press heal yourself. ... Sure no problem take my spot. Give it a go.

I play zero supplies, pick up supplies only. Check out the profile of my new account stealmytank. It has certainly been in a game where someone pressed overdrive and got me drugged as well, but my count stays zero. Then I have not pressed overdrive myself, I don't know if that makes a difference.

Thanks, never realized profiles are per community.

This profile ll-TonyHawk-ll, I copy pasted the name into profiles, shows only 183 kills and an hour playing time. Do I make a mistake? Or should it be another player?

Look at earlier answers from mods: you can't. It even seems that you have to play out a battle in full, only then it is counted from the end stat. Then I would not know that for sure so be warned and check.

It is much worse. The game it self is not worth playing anymore if you don't use supplies. The only thing left is doing a mission. It is not about what you get, but something to do. I like a fight on equal terms. This means I don't like to be suddenly twice as strong (using DD), or half way a fight I get a chance to recover and continue the fight and you don't (using RK). No matter that in theory you can both use a supply it is just so unnecessary. And unequally as when you spawn you see someone in front of you press 3 and bang there you go. It means I now play zero supplies and I never press shift for overdrive. If I see someone press 3 while I spawn I leave. If someone heals in the middle of a fight I leave. That is, on a couple of new accounts I started (like stealmytank). HIgher ranks are horribly play. Playing tanki is a fight on unequal terms. Imagine playing a board game, if any of you still do, and once in a while you get to do two moves or even four and you opponent still can only do just one. Why bother playing such a game ....? Still some people seem to love how it goes. This Cedric announcement is very true: "You might remember the Overdrive feature (originally called “ZERO Supply”) that we first tested during the May 2017 holidays. By popular demand, Overdrive will now be coming back as a permanent feature of the game." The number of players is about a quarter compared to what it was 2 years ago. From my point of view they have been disappearing with a number of 'game balances' as they were called. But maybe they got bored. Why I am still here reading topics playing only new accounts? Makes you wonder.

I just read the topics nowadays and quit playing a while ago. Just logged in and I have arout 4000 supplies left of each, almost 5k DD. It is no fun to use supplies. I don't understand the fun of driving around in a big hull at terrifying low speed, constantly drugging, hardly getting killed and expecting all other players to be shot by you or something? Or counter 12345? I still play sometimes with new accounts, just create a new one and then I do zero drugging see how long I find it acceptable to play. Just tried a second lieutenant, DM, someone sees me spawn, drives up to me with isida, pressess 3 and I press quit. Game for the braindamaged.

GENERAL GUIDE TO ALL MAPS Start moving when you are still spawning. As soon as you are exposed to enemies, press 2. When you see an enemy press 3 and shoot. Keep killing as many as you can. If your HP bar almost runs out, press 1. Don't forget even if you are in the middle of a battle. Enemies will often grow tired of this and give up. Press 4 as much as you can in between. Speed is much underestimated. If an enemy attacks you from behind press 5, run and don't look back. If your supplies have to recover, hide or attack enemies from behind. Don't bother for gold boxes, they don't help you winning. Find a route through drop points because these boxes are free and can be used at anytime. Rather scoop them up then leave them for others to benefit. If you want to be 1st also don't leave them for your team mates. Try to memorize which boxes have been picked up when, they will drop again in the same order. If enemies use the same tactics, don't waste your time and start or find a new game. You are ready for all maps.

He/she does have missions.

I think tanki is drucked. Players seem to like it, so be it. The only way I can think overdrive could be fun, is if the enemy uses more than a certain amount of drugs, you get an overdrive for free to compensate. If your team uses more than that certain amount then your opponent gets overdrive to compensate.

Quit crying or quit playing, seems you can make a fair choice.

Awesome. This is so much fun you have to have brain damage to still play :-D

After a number of changes I quit half my accounts half a year ago. Now I quit them all. Look at it now, only 13000 people online I have seen 125000. There are hardly playable games. There are about no playable games to get your missions done unless you want to be blown away by legends. Or was there another up-too-late reducing that again? Now only reading a bit here and there. 1.It was nice driving around on these maps. 2. It was fun driving between similar strength players trying to beat each other. 3. It was nice picking up crystal boxes in a game, having to do something else then shoot them up. 4. It was nice saving crystals for a desired combo/kit and reaching that. It was fun.

I am not really getting the joke, I mean I did quit playing so how am I fooled? Comments on last update are locked so nothing to be expected from tanki anymore. Or maybe there has been another update (ha...ha....ha....). Thought maybe something would change to more playable, I looked at 4 servers and 98% games with legends. Clearly nothing in the news paper. No reason to hang around in tanki anymore.

I am not confused and I don't think there is a prank. After the introduction of the battle button I lay to rest a couple of my other accounts. Think it is now time for all. Today was the last day I tried to do a mission and there are legend battles everywhere. I have m3 half upgraded to m4 because that was possible in the past. With this account I could still compete a little bit with legend, but not really. Let alone if you have to enter at m2. Gives me a lot of time to do other things again :-)

About the rank brackets, it looks like it is also in non pro battles? Suppose you are my other account at Major, you want to do your missions, you look for a battle and you can only join battles with legends. You press battle button and are directed to one of these battles filled with legends also. You cannot create a new battle with players around your own rank. My guess is that after a few rounds being the shot duck you quit playing. Or do you really think that mayer m2 wants to be playing legend m4?

Interesting. So what alternative game for Tanki Online did you programm? I want to have a look.

I don't like supplies, they make the game dumb in my opinion. Any testing to improve a different way of using supply I welcome. To be clear, one can buy a pro pass to play without drugs, then there are hardly people joining in. Standard the supplies are on so you have to deliberately turn them off.

I have hammer and liked it. If I wanted to play tanki tennis I would have bought richochet and not hammer. I don't want hammer richochetting silly ping pongs. You get something in tanki and it just gets altered while all changes are called awesome. Does not matter if it is supposed to be good or bad. You know, you buy a car with four doors and 4 wheels and overnight it suddenly has 2 doors and six wheels with reduced speed. That is tanki for you. That is why with every change a lot of players complain. I hate twins. Maybe I am now going to play twins depending on how damaged hammer is going to be. Hopefully you have to buy alterations to get hammer to bounce...

Firebird already has been changed a lot. Less power, less afterburn, tanks can now shield behind others against firebird. Firebird was a lot more powerfull.

A spearing mine will ignite, spear a pin out of the ground right through the tank. There will be skulls on top of the spear. The mines can also be placed on walls.

I suggest to de-activate the timers on supplies. Also de-activate that you cannot use supplies at the same time. If someone wants to drop 60 mines per minute, or only run around double armour and speed and damage, just let them. (shows how stupid it actually is and pro battle if you don't like it). I often leave battles because the 1,2,3,4,5 pressing. I just left a battle because three tanks had double armour and damage turned on at the same time and I don't even want to understand how to do that. With no timer restrictions I can do that too. I also suspect an increase of non drug pro battles if that happens. I would like that and probably buy a pro pass. Now there are hardly interesting no supply battles available. So I won't buy the pass.