Okay, I'll give you an objective: Go battle m4 Generallisimos with protection against your turret, and try to finish first. You are low rank player who lacks enough experience with the game, your opinion will change as you rank up.

Check out EN 3 to 5, RU 3 to 10, and last 2 servers. Never change mission by spending crystals.

Light hulls are bad in drug games. Don't go for full MU, but instead save for m3 kit. So both A and B will hurt in long run, you won't get m3 kit in time.

Don't buy m2 kits, save for 1 m3 kit and then save for MU's. Don't MU isida, don't buy any more medium hulls, don't buy a heavy hull. Now I have isida m2, and it can be a matchwinner, but my experince is that there are too many m1 noobs in my team, and healing them is a waste of charge, and reload is too long. Don't buy m2 modules. You have a good combination for polygon cp no supplies, hammer hunter, so play that mode more often. You might want one long range gun - rail, smoky, thunder. Buy any 1 in June sale, and then save a lot. Don't fully MU any m2, 2 or 3 should be ebough.

You run out of the ammo quickly. In higher ranks a ricochet can easily run out of charge against heavy hulls. It takes long to reload. Plus when I used ricochet, I found it is hard to aim at enemy. When a firebird/freeze/isida approaches, I used to kinda get nervous and spray the first few shots around before finally shooting at them. It is still used in higher ranks because more people go for rail thunder smoky protection than rico.

Completely agree Dante. I have rail viking as my main combo, and I stay away from small maps because rail does not do very well in those due to low dps and long reload. Right now I choose to do my missions on large maps, but this match making system might send me to a small map, where I will have trouble completing (the already harder) missions, and moreover, be a huge burden for my team. So I would strongly recommend against match-making system, even though I'm pretty sure they will still bring it in the coming updates. They just can't let the game remain good. Everything is going well, people aiming for higher ranks, saving for sales, playing with friends etc. and devs need to come up with a plan on how to ruin our fun.

I saw 2 hackers this month. Both in polygon xp/bp. One on fool's day, he took gold. I didn't have much problem with that. The other was this week. We were both in the tunnel, he jumped up each time I shot at him, so my shot never made contact. Since the tunnel is underground, jumping up didn't put him in the self destruct area. This was irritating. His name was goldboxpro... something. Anyways, he left once I spoke up in the public battle chat. Hackers are still very much present in this game. The other day I saw a hammer-mammoth in desert game who, without a speed boost, was going 5 X as fast as wasp m3. And I wasn't lagging, he was a hacker. He also just jumped over the fence, while others need to go around it.

Completely true. With legends on other team, we don't get the battle fund, and this lower crystals probability plus near impossible finish first missions means that we can't save up for good equipment in time. So the gap between the "haves" and "have nots" just keeps increasing.

It can be done. The finish first are most difficult.

Because you already have m3s? For those who don't, we need crystals from missions to get m3s, because we dont get that many from battles as very high rank players with better equipment are present in those.

I need to look extra hard for battles without m3's, because I still have m2s. Not always possible.

The 2 mission updates still need to go. This is no compensation.

Your rank is too low, you don't know what awaits you ahead in non-pro battles.

I needed 10 flags today for mission, I never sabotaged, I got it done in 20 minutes. Nobody sabotaged me. In higher ranks people tend to help each other, even enemy team sometimes. I too often help people in enemy teams for missions if there are fewer people in the battle. You try to sabotage others, others try to sabotage you, thats how it goes.. Anyways, I agree this update needs to be scrapped.

Thanks, it got fixed. Impatient me :( Sorry, but these mission updates have made me a bit upset with tanki and I get angry at the slightest opportunity.

I've tried both client and website, and the game is not opening. The loading screen takes 10 minutes and then then gives this message: Cannot establish connection (host: 37.48.74.137, ports: 15050,14444,15223,15190,15222) My internet is fine, the wiki and forum are opening. There are only 27k players online, so high traffic should not be an issue. I need to complete mission, so please fix it or tell me what I can do. And today is the double funds day, so I'm losing crystals while I'm waiting.

And you m4 guys got cheap product kits on discounts during holidays, so you saved atleast 100k there. Plus you all had higher probaility of getting crystal rewards for missions. Also, in future, there will be m4 Lieutenant Generals battling majors and captains with weak m1's and m2's, and I don't have to tell you what those battles will be like. Increase crystal rewards probability so that these Majors and Captains can atleast get m2 equipment.

I didn't get any crystal missions today, even after a swap. All supplies. I've been saving for an m3 kit for like moths now, I have only 2 m2 turrets, and 2 m2 hulls, and still have less than 200k crystals, while all the good kits cost 450k+ Without crystal missions, how do I save up for m3 kits? They are essential, since most others have them. Some even have m3's before Lieutenant General because they bought it before the update, and after the new update, there will be Lieutenant Generals with m4s battling Majors and Captains who sometimes still have m1's or basic m2's. Luckily I've passed those ranks, but it will difficult for them now. And fewer crystals don't help the cause. In all non-pro battles nowadays, teams are unbalanced. One team has better equipment, and chronic druggers, other has weak players, who don't drug. Please increase probability of crystal missions rewards, and decrease the prices of those product kits. Old players got those kits at almost 100k less than their prices during discount, and they had more crystal rewards from daily missions.

The mission updates still need to be removed. (or remove the finish first mission, and replace by finish in top 3)

You're mostly the "15 minutes a day" kind of player, so since you do not play much, this update won't affect you much.

Then I would tell you that is true, but still unfair on people who have few supplies, or don't like supply usage. More supplies will always beat more skill. For only skill, playing desert dm xp/bp RU1 is usually one option.

I dont think they care about the number of players playing this game. They only care about the number of players from which revenue can be generated. (now, it was not like this earlier)

So many people have quit this game. I look through my friends list, and nearly 40% people my rank have made no xp or crystals since this update. Before these 2 updates, there were always 2 polygon cp battles for m2 xp/bp on RU1. Now there aren't any. I need to play against m3's now. Also saw a few legend accounts which are abandoned. Its really sad to know that people who put in 1000+ hours on this game quit after this update. I feel a bit hollow after seeing so many abandoned accounts. Many old players have left after this update. EN1 is not as full as it used to be. The 40k players you see online are mostly new accounts. I've made a few after this update, and they are mainly use and throw accounts, don't even remember the usernames. The inability to complete missions in battles we like best, plus the reduced crystals reward hurts us more than you devs can imagine. I usually got 1.5k crystal missions everyday, 2 of them if I got lucky with the swap, but nowadays it is at best 1, with 800 or 600 crystals only. Please reconsider your move tanki, we will be forever grateful.

I have a question: m3 rail always 2 shots my m2 hornet in xp/bp If hornet m2 has 24% protection, which makes it 1934 armour. hornet m3 has 1764. So does m3 rail always 2 shot m3 hornet too? Note: 99% of time, hornet m2 is 2 shot for rail m3 from my experience. But ideally it should have more protection than hornet m3, which should imply that hornet m3 is also 99% times 2 shot by rail m3. But that cant be true? or is it? No, rail m2 does not 2 shot hornet m3 80% of the time.

Only Generallisimos and Legends get super missions. The highest rank they can play with is ? Fieldmarshal according to the post? It takes a considerable amount of time to get to Generallisimo and even more time to rank up your alt to Fieldmarshal. Thats atleast 2 years work, so I dont think that happens a lot. If they buy premium for their main / alt, well, tanki should be happy since they earn money. Flimsy excuse given by the developers. Moreover, even if they do it, what is the outcome? They have more crystals and supplies? Well, tanki sells crystals and supplies for money, so if you feel multing somehow unbalances the economy, so does buying. These updates are *only* aimed at increasing revenue. They dislike fire wasp and xp bp because you rank up fast and get loads of crystals, so there premiums and crystals offers don't sell as much. Note that shop kits and premiums are cheaper now, so that there are more takers for them. I think a better way to earn revenue would be to allow short advertisements, instead of bringing in one bad update after another.