Smart cooldowns are so short that it hardly matters what you activate first.

Defender and Heat Immunity would like a word . . .

Yeah well realistically that is not going to happen.

If you give players their crystals back, they will simply invest in whatever is meta. If you do not invest in what is meta, you will be at a massive disadvantage. Do you really want everyone to be using the most annoying and most powerful combos? And do you really want to be screwed over if you don't want to use any of those combos? A refund will be a disaster. In fact the 2013 rebalance was a disaster from an economic standpoint.

I'm not sure what you mean by "rare items," but do note that once you received a unique item from a container, you can't get it again. So if you got every unique item that you could get from containers (every paint, every augment, every skin, etc) then you would not be able to get any more, because you would have already had them all. So if you "got all the rare items at once" as you claim, there would be no more new items for you to unbox, until some new items were added.

The announcement is a bit misleading. The image resolution setting has no effect on texture quality. Also nice that disabling dynamic shadows disables them in the garage as well.

Yet another instance of someone mistaking randomness for malice.

There are plans to fix this.

They might remaster XTs and Primes, but we have no information about this. Honestly I'm not a fan of XTs, and I doubt my opinion would change much if they were remastered. I think having animal designs on futuristic tanks looks very strange. Wings and gold plating I can tolerate, but eyes, claws, and teeth - no thanks. Viking and Hunter XT look alright though.

The developers want to remaster the default skins. It's much easier to remaster one skin set than it is to remaster all of them, so they've removed all but one.

I think that Hopper, Crisis, EMP Gauss, Defender, and a bunch of other things are OP, though I will clarify that I don't have much of a problem with Hoppers in non-flags/ball modes. More than one thing can be OP at once.

Which makes it all the more annoying. You need not have any game sense or knowledge to dominate - just spend money on whatever is currently meta.

I have found that almost every player which has had a overall positive reaction to the experiment had Firebird + Wasp/Hornet as their most used equipment.

So who should we give the record to? You, or any of the ten other players in the battle?

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Yeah, but the odds are still undoubtedly very low. Suppose the original odds for Legendary items were 0.01%. Multiply that by ten and you get 0.1%, which is still very low.

I mean, given how high the chance of getting common items is, it is not surprising. I estimate that there is a 60-70% chance to get a common item. I don't know how many ultra containers I have opened, but I've never gotten anything better than Uncommon. Here for example someone got 13 commons from ultra containers in a row: https://ru.tankiforum.com/topic/120244/?do=findComment&comment=1004947 They got Crisis from the 15th container, but still.

This is normal.

The issue with Defender is that it makes OP combos even more OP. Hopper, being a light hull, benefits from Defender greatly. Nerfing Defender would also decrease the effectiveness of Hopper - a good thing.

Ultra skins are models, unrelated to any engine.

You can download the Tanki client here: https://tankionline.com/desktop/TankiOnlineSetup.exe

From here: https://alternativa.games/vacancies/fullstack_developer/ Kotlin React + Redux, WebGL / OpenGL Tanki X ran on Unity. I suspect some prototyping and lightmap baking for TO is also done in Unity.

A lot of icons for augments are very similar. Can you easily differentiate the following icons from each other when they are small and displayed on a scoreboard with a bunch of other information? Surely they can be made more distinct.

The link to "Ideas for Augments" in the category topics section is broken.

Tanki X did not bring in enough revenue to justify keeping it running, and will probably never come back.