Now explain how is this update making anything worse? Legit all changes in here are good?

What? I legit said that tho? I mean playing with one gun, two hulls on few maps would get boring fast, no? Maybe it's just me tho. Yes but i am stating Hazel made the change based on stats from all railgun users. Also i am not sure if there are some different stats specifically for xdpp. I don't think there is. But even if there is, this doesn't matter. There is still a weekly cap on XP and Crystals in pro battles, so this wont change if you reach your rank faster or not.

"Many of us" - I counted, xdpp is legit 1% to 2% of the playerbase ? I mean, i don't know why you would not wanna try use other turrets from time to time. Unless you are doing phoenix Yeah and you are in the 1%, maybe 2%. Like you want Hazel to make balance changes based on the 2% of people while ignoring the 95% ?

Perhaps actually... i wonder what happened with supply changes Objectives don't really promote teamplay though since everyone wants score. Of course you will have people being greedy. And randoms in this game are dumb so...

Actually i have a question @Opex-Rah, can there be a change so playing Event Mode ( LTM's ) can get you 4 stars ( or 8 stars with premium ).

Rule 1 is because of how many possible camping turrets there are. We have 5 turrets which are legit designed to Camp - Railgun, Shaft, Magnum, Scorpion and Gauss. This doesn't include turrets which you can turn into Camping Turrets like Striker, Vulcan, Thunder and Smoky. So more than 50% can be used as camping, so when you have two fortified bases which you cannot reach with middle being open...what can you do. Worst feeling in games is a challenge which you feel like you can't overcome at all and there is nothing you can do. Rule 3 is because individuals don't contribute. When there is 12 or above people per team, you feel you contribute less or not at all. In fact its more likely you start insulting your teammates then but. Hence why i would say at most, it should be 12 people per team...and 12 is a big maybe. More than that is just insane and is basically never fun, regardless if you are in group or not.

Then nobody will talk to you lol

But...Score is not equal to XP.... bro

Eh, i cant blame them for trashing their team or leaving maps. Random in Tanki are genuinely beyond stupid. As for maps, a lot of big maps are just....bad. There should be 3 rules when making a big map: 1. Dont make two fortified bases with middle being open 2. Have many lanes of attack, not just a simple 3 lane 3. Dont have 12 players or more per team As you can imagine, basically all of them break at least one rule. Many break 2 rules. Noticeably the one big map which breaks only one rule - Dusseldorf, is also one of the more enjoyable big maps. Hmmmmm ? While, Brest and Massacre, basically the worst maps in the game....break all 3 rules. HMMMMMMMMMM ?

Especially big maps. Holy molly, big maps are just awful.

Current Balance does not allow it, lets be honest. Not talking about augments, but maps too. Until both stuff are resolved, don't expect this to be reverted.

BTW i looked up the difference between Mk3 and Mk8 to verify if the difference will be huge if Legend rank decides to play with a friend who just joined and reached Warrant Officer 1. All i can say is...very interesting. Hopefully augments wont be too hard for people to get when Contracts come ?

So you don't believe in democracy? ?

They do hence why they nerfed groups. Silent majority wanted this

Love how you didn't quote so you can try run away. But truth is that this is just what everyone thinks about xdpp

xdpp*

60K for one silver contract is crazy

...? What does XP have to do with the original argument that F2P can earn good amount of rubies doing these event? How much per match? Because personally it takes like 2 and half to three hours per day to do the roll the dice minigames, which are the most grindy so... I say this because average amount of hours people put in games nowadays is 2 hours. So the time i mentioned is basically a bit over average. And again, you can just wait for the event content to appear in containers. The gap isn't that long nowadays. I saw a post with your points and sigh...time to write a big paragraph. 1. "No More Augments" - Why? Like You are gonna scrap the idea which adds variety instead of balancing them? 2. "No More Trashcans" - What do you mean by this? Hovering Hulls? They did stop adding more of them, and Hazel agrees it was a mistake but it will be a disaster removing them so best thing he can do is nerf them and make them not be that good. I don't know what else you mean by this 3. "No more astronomical scores needed to finish missions, etc" - Okay question is what do you think should be the limit? I do agree with Phoenix since the recent changes on this but rest i actually want numbers. 4. "Prots for lower ranks" - Eh, protections actually make the game obnoxious more than you think. Though if i were to place it somewhere, i would put it at Major Rank. 5. "XP needed to rank up doubled until you reach Marshal" - So why exactly? I can guess you think "oh lets make the finishing the game harder". But the truth is that Legend rank should not be considering the end of the game. It should be considered the Beginning. Look at Clash Royale. For many, getting your deck to Elite Level ( Level 15 ) is considered the end goal, but for good amount of people, its considered the beginning since they can now do other things which they want. This is exactly what we should promote in Tanki. Having Goals After Legend. This actually fixes the problem with game feeling / being Dry and We already have good amount of options. Here are some examples: A) Go to your basement never leave and play Parkour - Sad existence but its your choice. B) Reach so your XP reaches the 32 Bit Integer Limit C) Get into Esports D) Get all the augments and Skins - Probably not possible F2P but E) Complete all Achievements F) Join the Helper Team This is not a Singleplayer game. Its a Live Service. 6. "2X the amount of crystals in battle compared to XP" - Technically already did since they nerfed XP from 4x Original Amount to 2x Original Amount. Unless you mean more now, but getting Augment you want is more of an Issue than Crystals. 7. "No more passive XP. It's killing the game for lower ranks" - The reason is simple, many stay at low to mid ranks just to catch Gold Boxes. Those people have experience at catching compared to true low / mid ranks. Unfair, don't you think? Also combine with what i just said about how we should promote Legend being where the game actually begins. 8. "More score for finishing a battle" - Valid, but don't make it too much 9. "Program bots so they do not block friendly team mates, so annoying" - Another Valid, but people on this game are so bad you might think they are bots. Its probably not easy though 10. "Bots not allowed to become Juggernaut" - I mean i agree but this is not like an Ultra issue which is life or death moment for the game. 11. "Bots not allowed to pick up any supplies, they do naff all when they do, so annoying" - I mean, again not make or break issue. Also while we on topic of Bots. If game is ported to more platforms and Advertised. More people come in and you see less Bots. See why i mention portion as the main Issues? Many of your complaints here get automatically fixed or at least become way less of a problem. 12. "Hire more mods to be battle mods so complaints in battle can be dealt with quicker" - Battle Mods are legit known for being incompetent or worse ( IYKYK ). There needs to be a complete cleanup lol. Indeed a big issue 13. "Increase rank up prize so It's at least 25k, which is still 15k less than what it used to be" - Eh no. Make it few Epic Keys or something actually meaningful. I don't think 25K will make a huge difference for me when i have 8M right now and nothing to spend on 14. "When reaching Legend give players a Legend only mission to complete, something worthwhile doing. Make the prize worthy of the effort for completing the mission" - Technically contracts? Or something you can do with Contracts at least. See why i complain and say they should focus on it. It can fix A TON of issues. 15. "Do something about all the clutter obscuring the field of battle, so annoying" - I am kind of confused on this one. Do you mean walls and stuff? Okay so you wanna promote camping? Not good. Overall, some good points, but most of them are not directed correctly. I legit had M4 combo at Lieutenant General before i started donating. This is more an issue with managing Crystals. Focus on one or two combo's while you are progressing and then later branch out. Its easy then. Sales are also now predictable even so... And yet you have World of Tanks. Game which you literally have to pay currency to even fire in the game. With possibility to pay way more of that currency to fire with shells which have way higher chance at even dealing damage ( If you don't have Premium in that game, you legit cannot afford to do fire with those Premium Shells btw, you will legit get out of Battles and you will LOSE money ) Game in which they did Event with 3 Tier loot boxes, where you can only buy Tier 1 Loot Boxes and there are some exclusive stuff at Tier 3 Loot Boxes. It legit costed 1500 euros to get Everything for JUST ONE EVENT. We genuinely have it good compared to them. Don't get twisted though, i always want TO to improve, but to pretend its all doom and gloom is just false. Average percent in any game of people who spend are 10% Already explained above when it comes to Passive XP. I didn't see what he said but i assume it has to do with the abusers at Low / Mid Ranks When it comes to XP amount...Crystals are not a big issue nowadays, but getting an Augment you want is. Contracts should be able to solve this issue, especially if its similar to how they work in Roll the Dice minigames. I said what i could, but did I? Also as for list of problems: 1. Contracts still being in Beta - Its been teased since 2022 and it can legit solve so many issues. Why keep delaying it 2. Big Maps are Not Fun - I don't see this much talked about but many big maps are just awful. Every time i see big map, i automatically leave. No questions asked. This is because all of them do the following: A) Two fortified bases with middle being open B) 3 Lanes C) Have more than 12 players per team 3. Slow graphical updates - We are just now finishing with turrets and hulls. How long will maps take, or drones, or shot effects. Until 2028? Scary thoughts 4. Rank-up rewards - Agreed with you on this, but instead of crystals, give like 3 or 5 Epic Keys. Or maybe let us choose? ? 5. Porting to Other platforms - I wish there were SOME news on this. It would be stupid to advertise until this is finished so it's something we do need news on. 6. Prices - I mean it's getting better now but prices for Tankoins are still not ideal. I can forgive this one since...well current situation in Russia. 7. LTM's - LTM's feel stale. This is where you can do some goofy stuff like 3 Second Cooldown on Grenades. Something that isn't Arms Race lol. Experiment with even more goofy ideas in here. 8. Phoenix - Phoenix was supposed to introduce as a way to give people something to do, but it's just a burden. Especially for Completionist. People like that feel like they need to have them all but if you get 15K score per day, It will take you 16 YEARS to get them all. This is also funny because in the meantime, New Turrets and Hull will come and They will also get their own Phoenix. Even if they didn't change turret Phoenix, nothing could just justify such grind. Why even need it when its a live service game. New content will come soon enough anyway. Just make it reasonable enough and introduce new turrets and hulls so you have more phoenix to work on. 9. Premium - Premium being 33 euros per month is insane. Sure you can make it cheaper if you buy when 2x resets and there is 50% sale, but it feels outdated as hell. I think the perks you get from Premium need an overhaul. 10. Unity Project - This is more of a technical thing but i really cant wait for option to actually install the game on my PC. Currently the Client is just a glorified Chrome tab. All the assets are loaded from a server. Especially recently but when there is an issue with loading an asset from the server, you just can't play. This would not be an issue if the Client was a Client and not a Chrome Tab. In fact i had an issue of loading just today. Also you could advertise Tanki Classic this way. I mean why not have a launcher from which you can pick to either play TO or TC. Its free advertisement for TC on PC There is possibly more i can think of, but these are my main issues if you ask me. I don't mention stuff like balance because that's always changing.

That's one way to try and validate you dodging. Its quite telling when most important points were indeed dodged. But whatever helps you sleep at night Taspens is basically our Version of QuickyBaby This is one point where i will agree on. We need new maps, turrets, hulls but that's not gonna happen anytime soon so... He already replied to this ? And yet the big points i made were dodged. Okay. See problem with your statement is that, they would have to be genuinely stupid to want to milk the game and then shut it down. Alternativa Games only has TO, nothing else. In this economy ( Especially in Russia right now ), if they shut down TO, they would shut down the company few months later. ? Also as for listening to players. People demand nerfs. People get nerfs. People demand more ways to get Rubies. People get more ways to get Rubies ( Invite a Friend Events ). As long as the demands are reasonable and actually work instead of just "oh bring back old Tanki lol". Also, what a shocker....Company wants / needs money. ? Okay i can approach this with two ways: 1. I could mock you and be like "tell me you are bad and don't get too much score without telling me you are bad and don't get too much score"; 2. I could say that's maybe already happening. Office event changed amount of score to 5K, sounds like an increase so you grind more, but i think Hazel is just testing about possibly making contracts be completed by doing something other than getting score. After all, He did say complete system will be like old XT Missions, so i don't think he will miss the opportunity to make one of the possible goals of general contracts be "Get 9999 Kills". There is also the fact that, depending on what your main goal in the game is....this is meaningless and doesn't really matter, but that would be a long reply. Kinda funny you imply there are tons of donators at mid ranks, when basically good portion of them is just gold hunter abusers, staying at mid ranks. Exact thing passive XP is trying to tackle. I mean, how do you even define who is a donator? I ask this because i see people who say that simply being 9999 GS means you are donator which is literally negative IQ. Apparently simply playing the game means you spend money on it ? You can never really be sure someone is a donator nowadays because MOST if not ALL events are now doable f2p. There might be people who are willing to go above and beyond. Even with the roll the dice minigames. You might be like "HAHA, He has Ares RF. He must a be donator!"...But how are you not sure he didn't save those millions of crystals and decided to grind a bit during the Event. Only real way to say nowadays is Premium basically, but if you look in matches, its only really one player per team at best then.

So you are the one who decides what questions are important? ? So, instead of replying to my point and explain why i could be wrong...You are just gonna say that i should get a grip? I know Tanki Community is not smart, but i expected more, at least on Forums Also kinda funny how you didn't reply to my other points

Most people who complain are those who barely put in the time to play and expect everything given to them on a gold plate. They also don't adapt at all. Its either playing without using their turret or just going into enemy base, without any plan, getting killed and doing that over and over again, thinking they will get a different result. Definition of Insanity. Then they later wanna be able to justify their failure so they blame it on pay to win. If you wanna say they are hand picked then that's a blame on Taspens since he was the one giving Hazel the questions lol. But nice try ? If you made 10 gazillion posts about how the earth is flat, would that make it true? Of course not Congrats you turned 14 and realized Companies want money ?. Also Change is what makes a live service game. You are just now given opportunity to go back to simpler version of the game without installing scam copies of the game, which are probably filled with spyware or malware. Same comment as one above... "im 14 and this is deep ahh" vibes.

The people who don't trust you from what i can see also don't understand how games actually work. Basically almost all of them are like that ?. "Oh Game lost 90% of the players because of greedy devs" - Okay so Marvel Rivals added an update which killed the game by that logic? Not to mention, for example Clash Royale, adding most garbage updates in last two years and It's now dominating player count wise. Alternativa could do better when it comes to building trust again, but at least you are trying with Interviews ( pls do more of them lol ). As for imagination, this too. I mean, only now are people complaining about "augments in Classic" now? They could not have guessed ahead that systems like this would exist? If i recall correctly, You did mention augments will be in Classic in the Interview but done differently. Did people just forget? I have no idea. I do have to say y'all made a blunder with the topic being named "augments in Classic". I understand that's how the feature is called nowadays but knowing this Community, I personally would NEVER put Augments and Classic in a same sentence. Its asking for people who don't listen carefully to complain. Also why complain even if Augments will be ON by default, when you can just ask a premium user to make some battles where that is turned OFF?

Sorry everyone ( especially f2p ) but its time to wrap it up with this event because Player named Breathe said so

So uhh, we have quite few bugs eh? ?

I assume Early Access will begin in a week. Vlog will be on May 1st so that's perfect timing to announce that Classic Early Access has begun.