In my opinion the game will force a "grind then play for fun" mentality. Play a few mind-numbing matches using MM and then go do whatever you want in PRO. I disagree. Admittedly, Polygon was always popular, but there were still more obscure maps you could find regularly. And if you couldn't find one you could always create one. With the current system, it's the same exact thing, except now the server chooses the maps for you. There are the same 10 maps in the rotation constantly. It gets very, very repetitive, especially given that a good number of these maps were and still are unpopular. Perhaps not all of them are meat grinders. But they aren't particularly fun either. What is true is that the current PRO battle selection is always 90% meat grinders. PRO battles have stayed the same, but custom maps have died.

Non-PRO? I'm going to assume you meant PRO. Things are not the same now, at all. The contingent that plays "custom" (not PRO) battles has changed. It used to be practically everyone. Thus the maps you saw in the battle list were usually community favorites and you could expect certain maps to be "in the rotation" constantly. There was still plenty of variety though, because anyone could create a map easily. PRO battles were usually reserved for things like XP/BP, parkour, very long meatgrinder matches, duels, etc. Currently, PRO battles are used for pretty much the exact same things as before. Rarely do you find a "normal" battle. Why is that you ask? Because the majority of people who played non-PRO before play non-PRO now. Why exactly this is the case I do not know, but since I am one of those people I can offer my own opinion. I do not want to buy a PRO-pass, I do not care about parkour, XP/BP, 999 min matches, etc, and I want to be able to complete missions. The missions part is huge, by the way. The result is that a battle list with maps that the community liked to play on was replaced with a very limited battle list, while PRO battles remained the same. The attitude of players remained the same too. We have lost the freedom of choice, and PRO battles are still not particularly viable. So what was the motive behind the change? The devs wanted to separate "casual" players from "pro" players. The devs seem to think that "casual" players don't care about any sense of freedom of choice. So they will continue to remove it for "casual" players, until there is nothing left - AKA matchmaking. Tanki is going to go through the same thing TF2 has with Meet your Match, except that in TF2 you can actually choose your map even when using the matchmaker.

Old Isida with self-heal did 660 damage per second at M4. Current M4 Isida does 1000 damage per second. As much as I liked self-heal it is much, much easier to kill things now.

I don't know for sure. But this is what I expect from a matchmaker. The test they did was really rough by their own admission. Either way I feel blowouts won't happen as often as they do currently.

I feel there should be more options. On some maps blue team has the advantage, on some maps red. I do not think it is balanced overall.

If you miss a day, you will be back to the first day of week 3. If you miss another day, you will be back to the first day of week 2, and if you miss a third day it will reset completely to week 1.

This is extremely subjective. MM will probably not make battles more interesting. However, it will at least make them fairer. How fair the promised fairness is is another story, but at least MM will offer two things: Matches will be full and have the same number of players on both sides You will be placed into freshly started matches and not ones which are already ongoing with one side losing and the other winning You may argue that joining the losing team can yield and "interesting" battle. That is subjective. But lopsided battles are objectively unfair.

Removing the ability to create your own battles, which a feature for 8 years did not break the game, but it definitely didn't improve it by any stretch of the imagination.

Now he changed it to oldest Portuguese player . . . :ph34r:

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These topics already exist. Ideas for Turrets Ideas for Hulls

Ninja doesn't actually have to pre-approve posts in the entirety of the forum, just certain sections. Not to discredit the work of mods though, who still have to read large portions of the forum regularly.

Is this a rhetorical question?

Don't judge a book by its cover.

Not really.

my mistake, sorry.

Buying both Bumblebee and Medic is a bit of a waste, as both have Hornet and you won't get any discount for owning it.

So basically an alteration but you rent it for one game? Seems gimmicky.

There are plenty of walls for you to use that are easily shot over . . .

Can't really see too much if you're shooting from behind a house.

You already sabotage all the time. No one cares.

Why not?

15-20 degrees is sufficient for pretty much everything honestly.

NERF THE OP ALTERATIONS The Ricochet alt is just stupid. At least every other Rico uses it because everyone knows how OP it is. Remove it from the game or nerf it so that the people who use actually have to think instead of spamming plasma balls across the entire map and killing everything because the hitboxes are totally not broken.

Here's the thing: the devs do not claim the current system to be balanced, so it is alarming when they say MM, which will be the same as it is now, will be balanced. In addition, you can at least somewhat choose what ranks you play against currently.