True, gameplay is far better and smarter in PRO. Just wish Tanki would do something about the lack of variety, rather than asking people to create battles on rarer maps and have the hassle of waiting for the battle to fill up, which it normally doesn't. Too much emphasis on a desperate grind for crystals on repetitive maps in this game, TBH, I'd rather if Tanki just got rid of the boring old Poly, Arena, Island grind maps which people use mainly cos of high fund payouts....then just slightly lowered the price of equipment and MU's to compensate for the lower average funds available on the bigger "non-grind" maps.

Played pretty much the same way for most of this year....no-supply PRO is great for non-buyers and/or those trying to save up their drugs cache. I've got 10's of thousands of drugs to use now. Problem with team PRO battles is the same as non-PRO battles though, damn mults. Hence why I play DM drugwars nowadays cos the DM PRO map options are junk.....Just a word to the wise, if that Isida and Viking of yours is M4, that combo is boss in DM now when drugged up, almost guaranteed to be top 3 or 4 on most maps.

Last MU step to get twins and Rico to M4. Maybe a nice new Thunder M3 to work on too.

You have earned 70k crystals in this game....which is surely enough for a good kit? My advice is to stop wasting crystals on buying many equipments that become more and more obsolete the further you rank up. You have 13 turrets and 7 hulls, as a non-buyer you are better off only having 1 good turret and 1 good hull. Settle on the combo you prefer most, master it and stick with it until you unlock the M3's. When I was your rank I settled for Mammoth/Rico as I knew it was a good small/medium point map combo, as well as a good defender in CTF. I upgraded it sensibly until I ranked up enough to unlock my first M3 kit, which I bought with the huge crystal stash I saved up with my Mammy/Rico. Being a non-buyer denies you the equipment variety that buyers have(unless u have multiple accounts with 1 good tank on each)....however, if you concentrate on one combo and master it, you can gain an advantage on buyers that (may) have too many options available to them to master any one combo on the many map, mode and format options on Tanki. BTW, separating buyers and non-buyers is absurd.. the whole point of non-buyers is to provide competition to buyers, encouraging them to buy more to gain an advantage. What Tanki are better off doing is strengthening the non-buyer player base, which in turn gives the buyers even tougher competition that they have to buy to surpass. Which I'm assuming is part of the point of the x3 mission rewards.

Always preferred team battles....but have been playing mostly DM in the last month to get away from mults, noobs, laggers and inactives ruining my battles. So I'm quite happy this event is DM. Nice sales too.

Just had a quick look at the battle list and didn't see any battles on maps that have not been upgraded in this update. So perhaps unchanged maps have been removed temporarily while the devs get feedback on these map changes(would make sense TBH). Hopefully it's temporary (or they haven't been removed at all) cos the more map variety the better IMO.

Would be nice to have an anti-cheat system to benefit the many that actually play a Tank battle game to battle with and against other tanks, rather than prioritizing fixing a hack issue that deals with gold box hackers...but to be fair, given that people spend real cash on GB's, it did need to be fixed. Quite remarkable how quickly the devs moved to fix this after the container event got noobed by cheater clowns, yet it's taken them forever to fix the multing plagues that are exploiting their game constantly everyday....Hmmm! So the “your report has been sent” message after voting has been removed.....This is quite funny TBH, cos that's about the only thing I've EVER seen happening as a result of voting. Now literally nothing will happen after voting. /vote Isacompletewasteofmytime And having too many buddies makes Tanki lag and their servers creak.....LOLx100

Always cracks me up when people say this game is doomed. Get up to the legend ranks and see how much of the buyer packages are being sold....hugely expensive animated paint packages are being sold in their droves. The shop paints, loads of players have them now. Premium, tons of people have permanent premium. Shop tank kits, I'd bet they sell like hot cakes at MU sale time. If you have a a nice amount of crystals, buy a m3 kit and take advantage of the sales with earned crystals and you have an instant M4...Nice!. Gold boxes are big sellers too. The entire currency system seems to ensure that Russians have cheaper access to high-spec equipment. Or a lot of them have been playing for years and have amassed powerful garages. To catch up ASAP the Non-Russians have to buy using their more valuable currencies, which converts into a nice lump of roubles.....Even if this whole currency theory is false, it still costs a heck of a lot of money to play catch up as quickly as possible. Not to mention the drugs kits, Look at this topic.http://en.tankiforum.com/index.php?showtopic=339307 Discounting the guy at the top(looks like a glitch to me)The other 199 highest druggers(no pun) have used around 81 million drugs between them. Divide that by the 7500 drugs that you get in a kit = around 10,800 kits worth of drugs used. Some of those drugs may have been freebie drugs, most were definitely not. 10 thousand kits are worth a tidy amount of roubles, no?.....and that's without the many thousands of other drug kit buyers of all ranks that aren't on that list. It's a lucrative game. If it wasn't they wouldn't be wasting money with continuing development and would have trashed the whole project when they had the chance(Tanki-X launch)....as long as it's lucrative, Tanki will survive.

Nice sales....Junk Halloween map event though IMO. DM is the exact opposite to why I play this game, which is to play in great team battles. It does not interest me and never will. Have a couple of days of team mode battles on Halloween map like last year please.

Truly terrible gameplay....probably the most annoying hour or so of gaming I've ever had. Can't join battles I want to. When I get in battle the teams are lopsided with one team having more inactives than the other. Would make sense to roll back to thursdays version of the game, cos this is seriously off-putting, to the point I feel like quitting this game now.

The game works OK when I play it off-peak times. But it's a complete mess when I play at peak Russian times(like now). I can get in battles eventually and it's fine for me, but I see others in the battlefield stuggling badly. After they join it takes ages for them to start fighting, when they do they lag and are no help to their team. Unless it's sorted by the morning, with a probable surge of players trying to make use of the giveaway and x2 fund, the game will be completely unplayable for all. Potentially, the entire game will be taken offline. That's my prediction anyway, unless the devs are on top of it. The concept is good, the execution of it is quite chaotic IMO.

Not wasting my time giving relevant feedback and ideas on this forum anymore...if you guys are gonna delete and edit stuff posted by users that want to offer feedback, whilst letting clowns write irrelevant good-for-nothing nonsense that I can't even call out as being stupid, then this forum is not for me.

And why has my posts been edited and deleted and the rubbish eyesore post that I quoted is still there??

Could join team of 7 v 8 by clicking play constantly. Tried joining 9 v 10 battle the same way, crash, error message. So I assume joining a battle with one remaining place is an issue. When in battle. FPS and PING is fine for me. Battle button works fine, although a little slow. Strange hopping between selected battle after a while, even when I'm not pressing anything. This used to happen even b4 this update(very rarely). Chat, Train wreck. Needs a lot more relevant channels asap.

Can we have a chat channel for all the angry clowns saying "#removeupdate" please, thanks.

If devs fixed the lag and allowed us to join a battle through clicking play and and not always having to use the battle button, this whole concept is a far better option than matchmaking. And it seems to achieve what was the aim of matchmaking anyway.(no easy missions etc) In other words, optimize this update, scrap matchmaking and introduce a kick system for all types of battle. No need to thank me. YW.

Took forever to load. Can't join battles. Another Tanki Apocalypse???

Well yes, there is merit in the claim, still a trolly way to say it though. From what I remember of ranking up, the overall standard of player and equipment I'd play against increased as I ranked(obviously). The game didn't really get tough until I hit top rank, where I had to face off against other top ranks with a maxed variety of equipment. The calibre of drugs, no-drugs and XpBp format players are just so much higher, especially in full-legend battles. There are noob legends of course, quite often I can be in a battle full of great players and one noob thats so useless they end up deciding who wins the battle, especially in no-supplies battles where my team can't drug to make up for their uselessness. Actually, the crystal earnings are very sub-standard compared to experience....This indicates the player is losing far more than they're winning or leaving battles when they start losing. Probably because they are not using their mission drugs to increase their chances of winning, not choosing battles that suit their equipment and not making use of their friend list. Also, any drugger looking for a battle is likely to see a name like I-hate-druggers as an invitation to jump in on the enemy, knowing that at least one of their opponents is a non-drugger they can steamroll. If I was that rank and had twins-viking M1 and a respectable DL, I'd get myself into a noob clan for a free PRO pass(if possible), then be playing high-fund no-supplies CP battles on small or medium maps. If I prefer CTF battles, just play these battles as mission battles and drug as much as necessary in them, especially in battles with clanmates. See above... Change the drugs activation buttons from 123456 to ASDFGH, cos they're closer to ZX. Then use some other button to drop the flag.

Okay, filters need more specific options IMO, but I'll see if the mode filters are good enough for the task. thx.

Is there finally a decent battle filter coming 2moro....I'm assuming so, surely we're not just gonna be left with the old battle mode filter for this huge battle list?

It's accurate enough to make a judgement. I wouldn't normally do so, but when someone posts a topic practically saying tens of thousands of the Tanki player base have trash skills, I'm inclined to at least look at their profile to see if they're any good. Problem? Yes. As stated above. You have called tens of thousands of players “unskilled”. Looks like trolling on a grand scale to me. But if you think this isn't an intentionally trolly topic, fair enough.

Well if you're passing judgement on the calibre of the rest of the players in this game, I guess it's only fair that I can judge you from your profile. Anyway, what do you expect at that rank? The people you are playing amongst are literally noobs to Tanki. Out of interest....What rank is your highest rank alternative account then?

So you're saying the OP made a junk attempt at trolling....fair enough.