Uh what?

I prefer the consistent damage. No lucky shot, but no unlucky ones either. I just don't like its RNG aspect of it. I... don't get it. Should have make it deal 3k damage when scoring Crit hit using mines. And make it possible to reduce its damage by using Spider module.

Oh... I get it now. ?

Gonna be honest here, that used to be me. Heck, the last time I spent ma dollars on this game was in June 2019 for the Centaur kit (which is equivalent to today's Piranha kit). Balancing OP items using paywall as a countermeasure... did not work. And widen the gap between F2P-P2W. *Gulp* So Alternativa only listen to buyers??? Not a good move man. Meanwhile F2Ps are getting clapped repetitively... Another red flag man... Holy crap... *Dumbfounded for 5 seconds* The way you described the scenario is a lot more grave than I thought. This means that buyers have the ultimate power as much as Alternativa do. Jesus man... I seriously need to figure a way to handle this as an ex-buyer.

I still don't understand what are you saying in the beginning, as you mentioned:

Huh???

RN I have approx. 500k of them. Planning to buy Mk7 Orka module on the next sale and get my Spider module upgraded to Mk8. No need for me to focus on Falcon/Grizzly, as they are useless to me even though Railgun/Thunder are annoying.

Well, that's only for pro-battles, not in the old battle lists before matchmaking. Anything would experience its golden age and decline is inevitable. Plus the updates we are getting took the toll even harder. Shaft's laser is needed anyway or it would be real OP. Even with laser, most Shafts learnt to hide them and score a kill in a split second. And what else, protection against it was common back then as well. Its vampirism made a return, but as an Exotic auggy (a diminutive term for me to say "augment") that you have to spam Ultra Containers to get it. Well, Vulcan was balanced until the Heat Immunity +Incendiary Band exploit made it real OP. You have no idea that the old overdrive was far from balanced as well. Just have a whole team with their OD ready, chain-spam them to each other and still cause crazy blowouts on the other team. The current overdrive did alter the gamestyle, as a debatable issue. Good thing though, the current overdrive is accessible to every tankers. Drones in the other hand, they are a lot more controversial and debatable. Some drones like Brutus, Driver, Assault and couple others are balanced, they do alter one's gameplay style but keeps the balance such a thing. Booster, Defender, Crisis and few others in the another hand are the real game-breakers, knocked out game balance as you mentioned. And because the recent nerf to Double Power and Armor, you will need Drones to power them back to pre-nerfed state. That is if you can at least invest 500k crystals for Brutus, which unfortunately will hurt lower-rank players and to those who refuse to touch Drones. Sometime I look back what they done as well. Things moving on... is a tragic yet cannot be avoided. Based on the 100k+ players online as you mentioned to now, I predict Alternativa lost over 50% on their potential income. I mean back then, augments were used to be known as "Alternations". Certain augments are fine, but others needs heavy rebalancing. Shard Container update was the beacon of hope to bridge the F2P-P2W gap. Striker before the recent buff was fine as it is until its Crit hit deals 2x of the normal damage (real OP BTW). And yes, Striker is also one of ma dude with Cyclone/Uranium equipped. I do know someone in this forum have 4 accounts and he is babysitting them very well as a F2P. Mainland Chinese here but my account is EU server based. So based on what I heard from their VLog, developer do claim that they listen to players' feedback. The main issue is: who's feedback they are listening to? Keeping the old and rejecting the new is also not really a smart way to progress through. I mean, old but gold, as the term that we know. Everyone wants their topic to be in the top spot, like no kidding. The definition of "old Tanki" is very hard, if not, impossible to settle. Everyone has their own opinions of what was their "old Tanki". And even if dev is willing to bring back "old Tanki", we will have players bickering to each other of what and which "old Tanki" was the best and should be rejuvenated.

The problem is everyone has their own opinion about the "old Tanki" stuff. If the developer says (even though they won't) "Friends, let's bring back 'Old Tanki' that you wanted." But then... player-bases who wanted such thing themselves will start to bicker each other, which "old Tanki" would be the best in general. Well, to keep the consistency as before (even with the nerfed supplies).

That's for increasing Boosted Damage/Armor's power back to pre-nerfed state.

1st part I strongly disagree with you. I main on Brutus and let me tell you, spending batteries on a balanced drone like this is not logical. I liked its passive 10% bonuses, making a difference between life and death in certain situations. Oh yeah, I would not add the respective bonuses to other drones. This part I agree yes. Gonna park my F2P 1st Lt account. Hopper-Trickster for capping flags. That almost made me quit as well.

I don't think so.

This is why I give this update a fat hard pass. I liked Brutus because the 10% bonuses it gave and that's why I threw ma 500k crystals for it. They should have keep the 10% boost, I mean for a Shaft, using this boi with HC means 9,075 damage with pre-nerfed DP.

Well there are some players who refuse to use manual supplies because it is "zero-skill" kind of thing. Good thing though, they use the supply drops.

I am guessing every rank.

Unfortunately, no. You gonna tell Alternativa to comply with the Dutch/Belgian laws or Tanki won't come back to Netherland/Belgium. As BloodPressure mentioned, you can discuss the issue here:

LOL

Yeah I made a post about that a while ago. Oh god. Still trying to think a better way to bridge the module-turret gap.

Well why are some dudes complaining that Falcon/Grizzly modules rendered Railgun/Thunder obsolete before Critical Damage update?

Bad move Alternativa, bad move. I am speaking this as ex-buyer that balancing items using paywall is not a solution. I mean I get that dev is trying to prevent modules being overpowered but using paywall is ain't going to work.

Had a moment when a Lt Colonel OHKO my 9k GS Mk8 Hornet with their 4k GS Ares-Gauss. Pretty weird.

I... don't get it. Really bad for lower rank tankers and to those who refuse to use Drones. The only part of the update that I like. It would be even better if Brutus keep its current passive 10% damage/protection boost as well. Noticed them when I was testing the changes. Overall, not a good update.

Wait you knew him in real life or what?

Is that... Wasp Isida?

I'm... rather confused.