Please fix the damned self-destruct bug. We already know that if you drive over another tank, or a tank drives under you, you will most often explode. But I just had a self-destruct when I was doing nothing, not near another tank, and the legend didn't show I'd been hit - it showed self-destruct. I know Tanki rarely fixes bugs... but come on!

Yes. Yes. So what? Tanki is laughing at you. You can tell because they haven't ROLLED BACK THE SOFTWARE. Tanki has always shown it doesn't care. It's time for us to find another game to play. This one has "jumped the shark".

Someone at Tanki must think it's funny. What other excuse could there be for completely messing up the entire game to the point where people can't join games, can't even sign in, can't complete missions, lose points in games, get kicked out in the middle of games - all the things you would expect from ALPHA version software. It's either that Tanki thinks this is funny - or is just too damned stupid to roll back the code to the old version and abandon this "Battle Unification" nonsense as the truly putrid idea that it is (and has always been).

And of course.... SERVER STILL OVERLOADED

Tanki Motto: If it's not broken, fix it until it is.

There seems no limit to Tanki Dev's Incompetence. Server STILL overloaded.

More Tanki STUPIDITY! Try to log in and get: SERVER IS OVERLOADED Did Tanki think about ANY of this before making the changes?

This Unified Battle List SUCKS! I've just spent the past 5 minutes clicking on battles and NOT BEING ABLE TO JOIN! I tried on over a dozen games. If I can't get into a game, how do I complete missions? Is Tanki just trying to mess up mission chains? It's more Tanki STUPIDITY No. That would help a LITTLE. The whole nature of Tanki is now screwed up. It no longer has any strategy at all. It's just "How fast can you shoot?" That's because every game is crammed full - which is a VERY BAD IDEA. Missions are MUCH more difficult, but the rewards aren't any better. I wonder if Tanki ever thinks about the changes they make? The match-maker change was a disaster. This change is just as bad. The nerfing of repair boxes completely shifted the balance of power.

This is a DISASTER! Why does Tanki insist on creating changes that NOBODY wants instead of FIXING the problems (BUGS!) and doing things people LIKE (like adding new maps)?

On the other hand, the dumbest thing Tanki has done in more than a year was to change the repair boxes so the cycle is interrupted with any kind of hit. That means "continuous fire" weapons like Isida, Firebird, Freeze and to a slightly lesser extent Vulcan now have a HUGE advantage over other turrets. Tanki - how could you be so stupid? (Actually, I didn't think Tanki could be MORE stupid than their elimination of pro games for missions - but they surprised me. Apparently there's no limit to the depths of Tanki foolishness.) I sometimes wonder if the developers get together in a room and say, "What is the coolest thing we can do and what is the absolute dumbest? Then they vote and pick both the coolest (like Magnum) and the dumbest (like the change to the repair boxes). Instead of screwing around with old maps - why not add some new ones?

Now that Tanki has very stupidly screwed up the balance between turrets all over again by totally up the repair boxes, when will the next rebalance be to nerf twins, Inside, ricochet. firebird and freeze? By cutting off the repair cycle the first time someone takes a hit of any kind, these "rapid firing" turrets have gained a HUGE advantage and essentially neutered the slower reloading turrets like rail, magnum, thunder. Of course this result of the ill-considered repair box change was entirely predictable - which raises the question of why Tanki decided to screw up something that was working and instead destabilize the whole damned game. So here's the question: With the inevitable "rebalance to fix Tanki screwups" coming, what's the best turret to buy until the NEXT time Tanki screws it all up?

Tanki is fully embracing a "pay to win" mentality. It started when they eliminated pro battles for daily missions. That means all missions are in drug-using battles. They "compensated" by spreading the range of ranks for each battle. Of course, all that does is ensure that weaker players will be dominated by even HIGHER ranked opponents. Again, if you haven't bought the latest kit and lots of supplies, you get whacked unless you're the top-ranking player for the battle. So it's a little like Tanki saying, "We had to stab you, (so sorry) but to make things better, we're going to shoot you too." I don't think Tanki will fail in a year. It could have new owners, but it will last another year at least. Two years? Maybe. If it keeps going like this though - the third year could be the last.

The server merging sounds "interesting" ... like the Bubonic Plague, burning at the stake, being eaten alive by ants and root canal surgery on your teeth sounds "interesting". I predict this will be another "feature" nobody wants or needs that will make Tanki worse - while legitimate BUGS go unaddressed. My favorite bug: Go to any server. Pick a type of battle. The display should only show battles of that type, right? See one that is not of the selected type? Yeah. It's a bug. It's why when you have a DM mission and you select ONLY DM missions and click on one you sometimes wind up in CTF or TDM. So Tanki dev are so busy introducing features nobody wants or needs they don't fix glaringly OBVIOUS bugs that have been right in front of them for years. The server merge will mean players won't know WHY they're at a disadvantage in a particular battle. But if you're in the US, and playing a game on a server in Russia, you WILL be slower than the Russians. It's sort of a cheat.

1000% seems a bit low for a change this bad.

I'm betting it's not. Tanki has done some GOOD things (Stryker, magnum) some bad things (50 micro steps) but this falls into the category of abysmally stupid. It does seem so horrifically bad that it must be a joke - but don't be surprised when the change is actually made (like the 50 micro-steps). And like the 50 micro-steps, eventually, after people get disgusted and stop playing, Tanki will waste MORE resources to correct the problem - by undoing the change. Why don't they fix bugs FIRST? Do they have a specical committed that sits around and comes up with STUPID ideas to FRUSTRATE the Tanki community? Why don't they PROPOSE changes and let USERS vote on whether to implement them or not? Put this "daily mission" proposal out, and I'm betting 95% of Tankers would say it's a dumb idea. So why are they doing it? Because - they're TANKI.

If the non-pro missions were what people wanted to play, there'd be no need for a PRO pass. I've seen lots of times when there are NO battles I can join that match my mission. (All regular missions that are open are of the wrong type. All missions of the type I need are full.) So what then? Create a PRO battle? Except that won't work. Push the "Battle" button? And get a battle that doesn't have what I need (sent to a CP battle for a CTF mission? Sent to Polygon for a 'Collect 5 Repair Boxes' mission? That's nuts! The whole "Battle Button" thing is a waste of time. I never use it anyway. The only people who do are people who don't want to pay for the PRO pass.

So Tanki is trying to get people to stop using the PRO pass? Because one of the main reasons to have it is to set up battles that make sense for a particular mission. If I want lots of resources, I might pick Brest. If I want fast flags, Island. But if I'm going to be thrown into a CP battle when i need flags, or sent to Island when I need to collect supplies - what's the point? My PRO pass is useless. And the daily missions are a lot more trouble than they're worth.

You would think that Tanki developers would have enough to do fixing the BUGS in Tanki. But no... they have to waste time making dumb changes to the game. This mucking about with supplies is just one example. Here's how I understand the scenario: You were shot just as you selected "repair" and your tank was destroyed. Now you revivify with a "cool down" that ensures that the guy who just shot you with a double damage round can do it again - and you can't armor up or otherwise defend yourself... so it's TWO kills for the price of one. Of course, when you come back, you're still not out of the cool down, so you get killed AGAIN! What stupidity is this? And be sure NOT to join a game in progress. You'll be defenseless. That's the new "easy kill" under this "experiment". Just enter the game and you die - so don't join a game. Really and truly, Tanki - stop trying to mess up the parts of the game that work - and go fix the parts the do not work. Sorry, but that's simply not true. Here's the counter-example - "Cedric - we want to experiment by cutting your arms off. Now don't say it's a good or bad thing. Reserve your judgement until AFTER you've actually tested the experimental parameters for a few hours." So, Cedric - ready to begin the "experiment"? Point is, some things are so stupid you don't have to "try" them to know they're bad.