Oh yeah, Firebird is beyond dead now lol. First Heat Immunity, then outclassed by Isida, then outclassed by Tesla, and now outclassed by Freeze and a RANGE NERF. Freeze would've been dead too but what the heck is with its 5x critical damage??? Also, new freezing effect was honestly just done so Cold Immunity would be more worth using in my opinion.

Wanna know what's funny? Gauss never got any crystal Augments. But still, thanks for giving Tesla some crystal augments. You guys partially made my day with that :)

I dunno, Arms Race feels more like a "Deathmatch Campaign Mode where you gradually use all the useable turrets in the game". Not a "Destroy the guy using the special limited equipment" mode. If B0-NK was meant to be a Super (or "Special") turret similar to Terminator, it should be in a gamemode dedicated specifically to it, for example like how the goal in Team Juggernaut is to destroy players using Terminator turrets. Arms-Race does have the spiritual goal to "use B0-NK or whatever the last turret is", but in the end, the real goal is simply get more kills than anyone else. In the Arms-Race, there is a chance that a full 30 minute battle can go by without anyone managing to use B0-NK (or any of the other turrets besides Smoky if people decide not to kill), whereas in Solo and Team Juggernaut, even if no one scores points, the Juggernaut/Terminator combo will still always be present on the battlefield. Actually, I feel like B0-NK has a useful purpose in MM battles, or any battle for instance. Like how Freeze is used to defend game items like flags for instance... Or Isida is used to heal allies... B0-NK's role would be an anti-Heavy Hull turret. It would excel in taking down heavy hulls because... It one-shots them Heavy hulls are slow and will have a difficult time outrunning a B0-NK user. Thus, B0-NK is kinda a "reversed" turret. Whereas every other turret has an easier time taking out light hulls and have a harder time destroying heavy hulls due to the heavy hulls having higher health... B0-NK would have an easier time taking out heavy hulls and have a harder time destroying light hulls due to the light hulls having faster speed. And B0-NK one-shots everyone anyway, so it would be better off prioritizing a heavy hull as they are easier to catch up to. You can help your team get rid of the enemy's heaviest tanks in one hit. Light hulls would be the most troublesome for B0-NK, so adding B0-NK to matchmaking may make light hulls like Wasp popular again in the high leveled MM battles, where they are a rare sight to see.

True, because Isida's "weakness" is its short range, so anything from Tesla to Shaft can destroy it pretty easily if they are skilled enough to keep their distance and prevent the Isida from leeching their health and become undying. Although, it is really annoying that it becomes nearly impossible to kill once it has locked onto you. Vampire Nanobots is mainly just absolutely broken against Firebird, Freeze, other Isidas, and B0-NK if it ever comes because those turrets all have the same or less range than Isida itself :(

I only used it for less than an hour on the test server and I already knew it needed a nerf.

In a proper, enjoyable multiplayer game, no matter the rarity, everything is supposed to be balanced. So therefore even though something is "Legendary", it will never be stronger than something that is "Common". Which is why I think the Rubbery Rounds alts are alright now. They only seem to "suck for a Legendary" because the developers have decided to make Tanki no longer enjoyable to all by making items of rarer rarity be more powerful than common items, a trend that has started with the release of Gauss' EMP Salvo in 2020.

FunFact: If you reversed this and removed the "top 3" requirement instead, then all you have to do is be on the winning team and thus you got a 50% chance each battle to add progress to the mission :)

I feel like this mechanic should be a separate augment/alteration for Ricochet instead. It makes more sense considering that turret's main focus was supposed to be bouncing projectiles. And Rubberized Rounds for Vulcan is used to grant Vulcan, a turret whose projectiles barely bounce at all, the ability for its bullets to reliably bounce. It doesn't need any other buffs to be honest. The augment already did its main job - turn Vulcan into a pseudo-Ricochet so you don't need to buy Ricochet if Vulcan fits your playstyle more.

Honestly, B0-NK doesn't count as a "Super Turret" like Terminator is. Because Terminator has massive damage output as well as infinite range. Yeah, even though B0-NK deals 9999 damage per critical hit and has a critical hit chance of 99% (via the wiki), its range, inability to rotate, and melee nature is the turret's biggest "downfall" and keeps it from being overpowered. Literally every other turret in the game outranges it by a large margin. Which is why I think B0-NK should be released into the garage for crystals as a conventional turret like every other turret except Terminator. It's also pretty unique, as it is the first true melee weapon in the game and has a pretty original design, unlike Terminator which is just a photoshopped, overpowered Railgun. Also... If most of (Mk7+) B0-NK's range and reload stats remained the same as it is now... As long as it does between 8000 - 9999 damage, it is balanced, but no module will protect you against it so don't waste crystals in buying anti- B0-NK Protection Modules. You're better off just running. As long as it does between 4000 - 7999 damage, it is balanced but protection modules will nerf the turret slightly. Then again, that's what modules are for so the flow of the game's equipment is maintained. As long as it does below 4000 damage per shot, it is underpowered.

In fact, I feel like the Isida damage buff we got in 2019 was supposed to be this "Assault Nanorobots-type" Alteration, but the developers decided to use it as a balance change for the actual main turret itself. Like literally, the change they made to default Isida in 2019 was a damage buff accompanied by a healing nerf.

Unfortunately, the devs also said they may someday make turrets/hulls unlockable in Containers only. In which case, I predict Tesla will probably remain a Legendary turret of some sort... :( But lets hope stuff like this doesn't happen ?

That's the main problem with a "level" system - (aka, "League" or "Trophy" system in other games) You can manipulate the matchmaking by purposely losing, in order to go down a few levels, in order to be matched against lower players for hopefully, easier matches.

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Quick question: Why were these self-heating/cooling alterations scrapped? I honestly think they are way better and more interesting than stuff like Heat/Cold Immunity lol.

So back in winter 2016 or 2017, I forgot which year it was, there was a several month period in which I could never play Tanki because the game wouldn't load at all. It all begin after a server restart that introduced some update to the game. I tried all the remedies such as clearing cache and stuff like that but nothing worked. Luckily, Tanki finally loaded for me again a few months later when I randomly decided to log on again.

I would've been excited for the new interface but the gameplay itself no longer fits my playstyle nowadays. Every damage-dealing thing seems to have gotten a buff and the introduction of numerous negative status effects causes us to usually die in battles much faster than in comparison to 3 years ago...unless we invest in something like Defender or Lifeguard and the 4th Module slot.

How are the Augments "unique"? We literally have a bunch that simply apply the same status effects. AP Shaft isn't the only AP augment in the game lol.

I mean, its been over a month and my own question still never got answered. Lol Why'd you rework the freezing effect if you wanted to make it "different" from the stunning effect? Wouldn't it be better to just nerf the durations of the stunning effects down to 1 or 2 seconds, considering there is a larger number of players who hate how annoying the long stuns are compared to the number of players who dislike how short 4 seconds of freeze is even though it's been a thing of the freezing effect for many years and most other players had no real problem with it?

True, I actually did consider that. It's just I decided to play it safe cause the cyclone icon looks more similar to the Mammoth OD's icon we have today, but yeah, it could be for a different hull altogether. It most probably is.

It seems more like the "bad decision making" is done on purpose at this point lol. Literally, whenever players complain about problems that are obviously a problem, all the devs, or at least Opex-Rah, just smile weirdly or give a very very vague explanation on why they did such unwanted updates, much of the time, with no real answers and no real closure. And if it was really bad-decision making simply because they lacked the knowledge of the true outcome of their decisions, they should've fixed such problems in a relatively quick manner of time once they found out players despised the change. A few months at the most. Not wait over a year like they did with the Vulcan Incendiary Band + Heat Immunity exploit, just to name a few of their bad decisions.

Sadly, hammers are no longer Meta in that. It's all mostly vertical drum spinners now :(

My best guess. I don't understand why we need to redesign some of the existing icons, but oh well.

Honestly, it feels like the devs are trolling us at this point. Purposely annoying us for their own entertainment.

The design should've been based off an animal, like a Scorpion or a Crab, or a Beetle. Not just have random lightning marks. Otherwise, you guys shouldn't have called it an "XT" skin, but rather just start a new line of skins that incorporates designs based on the turret's attributes, such as lightning for Tesla.